[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-from-the-planetary-governor":3,"chapter-starting-from-the-planetary-governor-starting-from-the-planetary-governor-chapter-1222":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Starting from the Planetary Governor",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1230724,1635,"Chapter 1222 - 1222 682 Tentacles","starting-from-the-planetary-governor-chapter-1222",1222,"\u003Cp>1222: Chapter 682, “Tentacles 1222: Chapter 682, “Tentacles The subsequent developments in the battle closely aligned with the Queen’s estimations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Hang, leading the Alliance Main Fleet, eventually annihilated the reinforcements from the Insect Race fleet descending southward through the Lefu and Jianmen Star Domains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, only two Biological Battleships, accompanied by a few fast ships, managed to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest perished in this starry domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After victory, to prevent the insects from returning to utilize the remnants of these ships and transform them into biomass, the Alliance even spent extra time cleaning the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Small fragments of ships were incinerated; larger biological ship carcasses, especially those of transport ships filled with biomass, were directly propelled into the system’s star to ensure complete and irretrievable destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, Gu Hang also led a divided section of the main fleet to intercept the Insect Swarm Fleet drawn from the Santao campaign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although they had been instructed to flee, they were nevertheless intercepted and eliminated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Santao, Marshal Xi Rui also sent a victory report.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the withdrawal of the Insect Swarm Fleet, he ceased the offensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the mission was accomplished, there was no need for unnecessary loss of life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon receiving Gu Hang’s battle victory report, he decisively began the gradual withdrawal of forces from Santao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The retreat process was relatively smooth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the enemy’s ground forces were incredibly numerous, lacking space support meant that with a stable base ensuring the orbital path above wouldn’t be hit by ground-based counter-orbital biological cannons, the main issue was resolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While continuously retreating troops, he also transported a precious ‘Skyburn Torpedo’ to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Skyburn Torpedo was detonated when few people remained on the planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ultimately, nearly ten thousand people sacrificed themselves on the planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, completely withdrawing everyone before detonating the Skyburn Torpedo was unrealistic; an unforeseen event could lead to disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Detonating alongside allied forces isn’t honorable, but compared to obliterating this planet—once home to 90 billion people and now reduced to a massive biomass—it dealt a severe blow to the Insect Race, and the exchange rate was deemed worthwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why not withdraw all personnel before bombing…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the core reason remained the concern that once withdrawn, without ground support while the Insect Swarm forces on the surface remained strong, if a Skyburn Torpedo dropped and was intercepted by biological cannons or flying insect demons, it would be a huge loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lives of ten thousand soldiers versus a Skyburn Torpedo…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>obviously, the Skyburn Torpedo held much greater value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such is the cold calculation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nonetheless, Santao was destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Truthful speaking, if all this biomass were collected by the Queen, it would equate to nearly half the amount brought by the reinforcement fleet from the south.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another significant loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Hang and Xi Rui regrouped again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They spent about a week resting before setting off once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The original plan was to head west to establish contact with Salius and Matins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon, they realized there was no need to do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Insect Swarm itself withdrew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Queen recalled all available forces she could control and gather.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those capable of hatching transport ships did so, loading them with biomass and soldier bugs, worker bugs, and fleeing; those too late to be taken were left, fully hatched into soldier bugs to trouble humans as much as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was aggressively retracting forces, almost entirely compressing into the Reya Duches Star System.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was clearly an intention to engage humans in a protracted war on Reyadoces, the former ironclad mother star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To wage a war of attrition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what is her leverage in dragging things out?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Initially, Gu Hang had only a guess without concrete evidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But upon arriving at Reyadoces, he quickly realized what it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Peering intensely through the Subspace Shadow, gazing into the far reaches of the physical universe, he saw a massive Insect Nest Fleet approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not through Subspace, not via Star Realm Tunnel, but slowly traveling at sub-light speed from a distant location towards Reya Duches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Insect Nest Fleet, considerably large, was even larger than the Insect Swarm controlled by the Queen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could this be the so-called ‘Duches Tendril’?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Humans refer to the upper structure of the Insect Nest Fleet as ‘Tendrils’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This represents an immense level and is the largest scale Insect Race structure encountered by the Human Empire currently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When a ‘Insect Tendril’ main force enters empire territory, it often results in a super large-scale disaster spanning multiple Cosmos Domains, necessitating the empire to muster an enormous force to potentially end it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout imperial history, ‘Tendrils’ appeared and were successfully resisted only twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each occasion left a deeply profound and painful memory across the empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single ‘Tendril’ may consist of several Queens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are generally equal and of the same rank among each other, but actually there’s a hierarchy based on the scope of the swarm each Queen commands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strongest, likely the most ancient, is termed ‘Mother’—in reality, Queens might have blood relations, although insects do not care for such nuances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the emergence of the ‘Void Wormhole’ hundreds of years ago at Reyadoces, with Insect Nest Fleets continuously appearing, imperial insectologists believed that perhaps a ‘Tendril’ was advancing in this direction, moving from the physical universe layer, gradually nearing empire territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fleets appearing frequently were merely vanguard forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This potentially existent ‘Tendril’ was named ‘Duches Tendril’ based on geographical nomenclature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, after observation, Gu Hang believed that this was not quite the Tendril’s main force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The numbers didn’t quite match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed merely another vanguard departing from the Tendril.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tendril’s main force was still far beyond observable range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, the arrival of this Insect Race Fleet would substantially impact the battle situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Hang observed this Insect Nest Fleet for two consecutive days, largely confirming his assumptions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, he analyzed a piece of information: this Insect Nest Fleet, at its current pace, would need approximately thirteen standard Tera Months to reach the Reya Duches Star System.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that the human side had better resolve the Reyadoces issue in a little over a year to prevent the two sides from converging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time wasn’t abundant; considering the Queen had consolidated so many forces, achieving victory might require protracted efforts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it at least provided some space for maneuvering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An idea gradually formed in Gu Hang’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>————Previous chapter complements yesterday’s; this chapter is indeed for today.\u003C\u002Fp>",1067,"2026-06-05T14:29:31.004Z",1,"novelbin.me","707f7222708d7c74897cfca24d581284b2ff6f87d2f59ceac6a6860d2efaca51","starting-from-the-planetary-governor-chapter-1223","starting-from-the-planetary-governor-chapter-1221",1694,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-from-the-planetary-governor-cover.jpg"]