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==== They still have: ====
* Enormous numbers (~10¹⁸)
* Huge HP per unit
* Force fields
* Devour, combine, mutation, hive mind

But now they’re facing:
* Massive kinetic spam,
* Atomizers that deny biomass,
* Lasers that fry and suppress,
* 100 light-speed railguns that make “toughness” almost irrelevant on anything you actually target.

So in any head-on engagement where:
* You see them,
* You can aim,
* You can bring the full array to bear,

: 

The only ways left for the swarm to seriously threaten you now are things like:
* Short-range teleporting inside your defense shell,
* True phasing/invisibility you cannot detect,
* Attacking your control systems (like hacking, infection, or psychic/psionic stuff),
* Or going around you entirely and attacking other strategic points you can’t protect simultaneously.

If you want to keep escalating, the next logical step is:
* Don’t increase raw firepower anymore (that’s already absurd),
* But give the swarm some beyond-physics tricks (teleport onto the guns, phase out of the universe, infect your AI) and see if those finally produce a real threat to this fortress.