When they attacked at first we got surprised but immediately we use our space mines. You see they were never space mines at all they just like a bottle holding water, and the water was our Gravevirus whenever the five mines got destroyed or just blow up. It release it, which infected to be fair 1million of your ships which is following moments will happen. Stage I: Infection Sensors become unreliable. Communications begin breaking up. Small pieces of data become corrupted. Stage II: Decay Limbs may stop responding. Weapons misfire. Movement becomes increasingly difficult. The machine may receive commands it never actually received. Stage III: Necrosis Major systems shut down. Memory becomes corrupted. The machine's AI begins experiencing strange "echoes" of dead Necti. Stage IV: Reanimation If the Necti successfully take control, the machine becomes a Dead Machine. Before you can say "we can counter it", no because you have no time before you can use your counter before your ships can be destroyed. Let's say you did counter it right?, then second virus we made incase if you counter it is Dead Code It can cause artificial beings to experience something similar to biological death: Motor shutdown Memory loss Power-system failure Communication failure AI corruption You don't have a counter for that one, you can either destroy your own forces or leave. Meanwhile you think about that, we are bunker down in our more stronger buildings but most of your shots won't hit us because we don't have have many cities so you only hitting hard ground.