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==== Near your fortress: ====
* You still win.
* Nothing getting into range lives if your AI is even halfway competent.
* Black hole cannons + atomizers mean some fraction of the attackers really are gone forever.

At the universal scale:

With:
* 10²⁴ units,
* Multiplication from microscopic remnants,
* Gigantic HP + regen,

and without some fundamental rule-change, then:

: 

No matter how many you kill near you:
* Elsewhere, hair-strands of matter spawn more,
* Far-flung regions you never touch slowly fill with them,
* Any missed contamination eventually grows into a new swarm node.

You don’t get true victory anymore. You get:
* Infinite defense,
* Infinite war,
* And a very small zone of “we’re safe in here”—while the rest of reality is Swarm Land.

If you want to keep going from here, the next step really isn’t “more guns” or “more HP” – we’re past that. It’s:
* Giving you some kind of global rule-editing power (like turning off their replication everywhere at once),

or
* Giving them some absurd trick like: - Surviving black hole interiors, - Eating singularities, - Or invading higher dimensions—

and seeing what happens when even black hole cannons and atomizers aren’t enough.