Chapter 77: Aftermath the Fall (1)

Fall of the Mind Fleet was always a celebrated event across the Cosmos as the Mind Flayers were hated by all, probably even more than Orks or Arachnid Swarm by a great degree. That just affirms how much menace they were to civilized space and civilization, star-faring nations.

Still, the Mind Flayers were a really powerful species that had a certain degree of right to do what they wished because that was like things functioned in the winner Cosmos. The stronger fed on the weak to get even stronger, and there was no mercy.

If someone wasn't powerful, then it ended there, and nothing else could be done.

It was also one of the reasons why all civilizations so desperately tried to cultivate more and more powerhouses to protect their borders, interests, and, in the end, also their very own existence and fundamental right to even exist.

Without power, the person was just an insignificant speck of dust on the tapestry of stars; anyone could fall.

Be it the lofty Beyonders that had the power to influence the entire Star Domain with their powers or High-Level Civilizations that eroded over large parts of galaxies. Even those that ruled several big Galaxies like the Andromeda Galaxy or Milky Way Galaxy could fall to a higher power.

Nothing was set in stone, and nothing was absolute.

For Grandmaster Arsit Byrmellir, this was certainly a weird moment as he stared at the floating corpse of the Elder Brain that was being transported by the Imperial Starships back to the Imperial Capital of Asurya for further research.

Even though the corpse of the Elder Brain was rather heavily damaged and wasn't in a top-notch state, it was still priceless research material that would allow the Eternal Empire of the Asurya to uncover more about the Mind Flayers.

As someone who had wandered into the depths of the Void and traversed through the Cosmos before being crippled, he knew that not many High-Level Civilizations could pride themselves in studying the corpse of the Keter-Class Beyonder, no matter the species or origin.

That one was clear.

Yet the Phoenix Nation achieved that, and they managed to obtain the corpse of the Elder Brain, which was a very, very rare catch that he had to admit.

It would be very possible for the Imperial Scientists and Scholars to come up with new methods of Psionics based on the study of the Elder Brain, that was for sure. Mind Flayers were always the objects of fascination just like they were the objects of dread and fear.

It was understandable because their inherent Psionic Mastery and rate of Psykers among their species was unnatural and really befitting the reputation of the Psionically most advanced race in the known parts of the Cosmos.

Even though the Phoenix Empire achieved a lot in its short centuries of existence, they were clear that in the aspect of Psionics, there were a lot of things that they could perfect and master, and the corpse of the Elder Brain would provide them with a solution to many of their problems.

Soon after the fight against the Elder Brain ended in the death of the Mind Flayer, the Psion-Disruption Field disappeared as Obscurus unmasked itself and joined the side of the Imperial Defense Force in cleaning up the battlefield.

The elderly Highborne Asuryani Beyonder observed all of this from the command point of the Starfort Lycurgos as he stood there with Bashar-General Varathar Medes and several other officers of the Imperial Military.

However, what was more important right now were the holographic projections of several people around them, who were wearing heavily decorated military uniforms of the Imperial Military, be it from the Imperial Army or Imperial Navy.

Few of the people were not wearing military uniforms, but instead, various armor as they were present in the meeting. Though all of them were excited for several reasons; obviously, the first one was the death of Elder Brain and the crushing defeat of the Mind Fleet Leviathan at the hands of the Eternal Imperium of Asurya.

The second reason was to make everyone present and smile from ear to ear.

Lord Padishah-Marshal ordered that because the number of the captured space squids was already huge enough if a few tens of thousands were executed to lessen problems, it wouldn't be much loss.

Most of the Mind Flaers are rather docile, in fact, which was rather surprising, but seeing their Elder Brain, which was worshipped as God in the Mind Fleet, being killed by someone whom they considered a "Lesser Species", their spirit broke, and many were suffering from various alignments.

Still, it was paramount that the Blank Ships were sent to transport them as soon as possible because if the riot erupted, then they could only depend on Grandmaster Byrmellir to annihilate them en masse.

Blank Ships wasn't terminology used for the starships that were used as mobile prisons for Psionics and Psykers, as they were made with materials that had a nullifying effect on the Psionics, and there was tons of technology to render Psionic Energy useless.

They were typically used only by High-Level Civilisation to transport Psionics or Psyker criminals, war captives, and dangerous individuals across their territories because transporting them in ordinary ships was just too dangerous.

The reason why only High-Level Civilizations were using them was not only due to the technological difficulties of building one of such ships but also due to the extraordinary price it required, and many exotic and rare metals and elements were needed to build the ships.

Though many Mid-Level Civilizations were buying these Blank Ships from the High-Level Civilization for outrageous prices, there was nothing they could do because it was the only safe method for transporting powerful Psionics or Psykers without killing them from point A to point B when they were captured.

"Now, onto the next point of the meeting. The Imperial Government already broadcasted the victory of the Empire over the Mind Fleet Leviathan through the Extranet. As we are speaking, several High-Level CIvilizations in the Andromeda Galaxy and surrounding galaxies are mustering their forces to deal with the remnants of the Mind Fleet Leviathan or other allies' smaller Mind Fleets."

This was a grand victory for many of them because with the Mind Fleet Leviathan, which was the dominant Mind Fleet in their sector of Cosmos, was right now dead, the smaller Mind Fleets that were eld by Euclid-Class Elder Brains would now be picked one by one or pushed back to the depths of the Void where they came from.

"Gentlemen, this victory over the entire Mind Fleet will solidify the position of the Empire as a High-Level Civilization and the most powerful military in the entire Andromeda Galaxy. For now, we need to focus on digesting our gains from the invasion because there are a lot of them."

Lord Padishah-Marshal stated that this was indeed a glorious day for the Eternal Empire of the Asurya. The compelôte defeat of the Mind Fleet was proof that the Empire was superior and it also showed its power to the Veren Republic.

Not to mention, Lord Padishah-Marshal knew that this was just a portion of the Imperial war machine, so for a very long time, the Veren Republic wouldn't be acting against the interests of the Empire, and the Empire could safely expand across the Wildstar Star Reguon and Nihilus Star Region which they were right now colonizing.

"The forges of Votann are always ready for more material; we would like to ask for more of the metals obtained to be delivered to our Forge Worlds. Some of our Smith Masters are saying that they are close to cracking the formula for their Alloys that the quids are using in their ships."

Hearing what one of the Votann Smithmasters said, everyone's eyes sparked because the regenerative alloy of the Mind Flayers was something that was envied by even the strongest of the High-Level Civilizations.

"Master Ironrock, how close are we talking about?"

If the Empire could crack the method of making regenerative properties to their alloys, then it would make their ships far more powerful. Their durability would skyrocket to new heights, and at the same time, they would be able to recover from taking more punishment.

Basically, it's an ideal scenario.

"We need more samples, but we are already aware of how their own regenerative alloy works and why it is so durable. If we can conduct more experiments on a large scale, we can finish the research and start working on creating our own branch of regenerative alloys that won't be inferior to that of the squids at all..."

Because the Eternal Imperium had been fighting against the space squids for a long time already, they were studying their technical and invention rather intensely and to a profound degree to counter them properly.

Their particular bioship technology and the regenerative alloy were one of the trump cards of the squids.