Once the mother ship along with the fleet off from the Earth to the universe, Zhao Yu's guess could be tested and verified. If the Empire's scouting system was based on dark matter, they could began on their plan.
Their second stage was going to the edge of the fourth spiral arm of the Milky Way, establish a new secret base, and a started to build their army.
Zhao Yu also had some ideas on the usage of his army.
Either the title of Mysterious Merchant or the King of War, he need to interact with other civilizations.
Zhao Yu plans to send out those army to destroy some military units of other civilizations in order to gain technology points.
Zhao Yu also had a candidate to begin with.
Once his army was established, the Modou civilization was his primary target.
Zhao Yu first stage of plan was to launch an attack on Fire Fury Civilization. by requesting Colonel Chu to destroy at least 60,000 military units as distraction.