Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 277: Got You
"I’ve prepared 500 billion small celestial bodies for you, ready to impact the star.
Once the impact occurs, you probably have a rough idea of how much energy they will release. You also probably have a rough idea of how much worse the star’s environment will become due to these impacts.
Now, I offer you two paths.
One: complete extinction. Two: surrender to me!
Besides these, you have no other path! Now, tell me your choice!"
At this moment, just peaceful coexistence, with neither side disturbing the other, no longer satisfied Tom’s appetite.
Before I dismantled this dwarf planet, if you had only agreed to peaceful coexistence with me, I would have been satisfied.
Now that I’ve dismantled this dwarf planet, if peaceful coexistence still satisfies me, then I would have dismantled this dwarf planet for nothing!
Now, either surrender, or die!
Lyra G16 is a star similar to the sun. For such a massive star, objects located externally possess extremely high gravitational potential energy.
This means that Tom actually doesn’t need to add much speed to these small celestial bodies—such an engineering feat would be too immense, even for Tom to complete.
He only needs to change the orbits of these small celestial bodies, and the subsequent acceleration process will be completed by the star itself.
These small celestial bodies will accelerate faster and faster under the star’s gravity, until they reach a speed of approximately 620 kilometers per second.
And upon impact at this speed, even if only 10% of the kinetic energy is released, 500 billion small celestial bodies will collectively release approximately 30 joules of energy.
Converted to TNT, this is equivalent to the energy released by approximately 23 quintillion tons of TNT explosives detonating simultaneously, which is more than 1,500 times the energy released by Tom’s previous simultaneous detonation of thirty thousand hydrogen bomb spacecraft.
Tom can confirm that with such a high energy release, even if those Electromagnetic Creatures have strong survival capabilities and are good at hiding, they will definitely not be able to survive this celestial body impact.
With the completion of the dwarf planet dismantling mission, the lives of those Electromagnetic Creatures were truly in his hands. With just one command, he could annihilate them all.
Tom certainly hoped that these Electromagnetic Creatures would surrender to him and then become his aid, his reliance for the subsequent fight against the Mechanical Disaster.
The special abilities of Electromagnetic Creatures, when supplemented by the development of technological civilization, allowed Tom to think of many ’playstyles’ with just a brief thought, each of which could prove to be of great use.
But if they still chose to refuse, even though they were of immense value, Tom had no other choice but to destroy them.
Tom slowly waited for the reply from the Electromagnetic Creatures.
Not long after, another electromagnetic wave signal was sent from the star.
"Kill, kill, kill, kill all technological and intelligent civilizations!
Either you are completely annihilated, or we are completely annihilated!
Even if you flee this solar system, we will follow you, wherever you go, we will go, to the death!"
Alas...
Tom sighed softly.
The Havilah Civilization spent a thousand years and still couldn’t domesticate them; what virtue or ability did he possess to make such creatures submit to him?
If that’s the case, then I can only destroy you.
In the vast expanse of space, inside the Honor spacecraft.
Heimerlan stood silently before the porthole, watching the swirling galaxy outside, his expression filled with solemnity.
A secretary hurried over and whispered, "Report, Head of State, the remote observation team just observed an unprecedented energy burst from Lyra G16, its intensity approximately 1,500 times that of the previous burst.
As a result, the star’s brightness temporarily increased by over a thousand times, and its surface temperature rose by nearly ten thousand degrees Celsius.
The observation team cannot confirm the type of this burst, only that it must be due to external influence and not the star’s own activity.
The intelligence analysis team believes this was intentionally triggered by Human Civilization using some external influence method, and the purpose is clearly to clear out the Electromagnetic Creatures entrenched on the star.
Based on our previous understanding of Electromagnetic Creatures, under such a violent stellar outburst, they cannot possibly have a chance of survival.
The intelligence analysis team unanimously believes that Human Civilization has completely resolved its worries and is no longer threatened by Electromagnetic Creatures."
With their worries resolved, Human Civilization could begin to develop with full effort, stockpile resources, and embark on the next interstellar voyage.
And there was a certain probability that they would track and pose a threat to our side.
This was a genuine piece of bad news.
But at this moment, this bad news did not cause any emotional fluctuations in Heimerlan’s heart.
Because at this stage, the threat faced by our fleet far exceeded any potential threat Human Civilization could pose to us.
Compared to that, Human Civilization was not much of a concern.
The fleet of unknown origin was constantly approaching our side. Although our side had employed various evasive maneuvers during this time, such as low-power maneuvering and releasing decoy projectiles, we still hadn’t completely resolved this threat.
As of today, the distance between the opponent and our fleet was less than 300 billion kilometers.
Alas...
Heimerlan sighed, heavy-hearted, and walked into the First Conference Room.
All the high-ranking officials of the civilization were already seated, and each person’s expression was grave.
"Head of State, I once again propose that it is time to consider dispersing the fleet and initiating an escape.
Remaining together as we are now will only lead to being completely wiped out by the enemy. If we disperse and flee, we might still be able to preserve the spark of our civilization!"
Heimerlan remained silent.
Of course, the probability of preserving the spark of civilization is greater with dispersed escape; who doesn’t know that?
Dividing resources and population equally, splitting the fleet into four to six branches, with each fleet escaping independently, and their survival left to fate, seemed to be the only feasible plan for dispersed escape.
However, making this decision was truly too difficult.
Our side had already lost half its population before. Currently, the population is only about 150 billion, and even if divided into four fleets, each fleet would only have about 37 billion people. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢
The fewer the numbers, the lower the ability to resist risks.
Perhaps after dispersing, even if they could escape the enemy’s pursuit, they might silently perish in the vastness of space.
Should they disperse and flee now, or try to find another way to escape as a whole?
How to proceed was truly difficult to decide.
Just as the high-ranking officials of the civilization were arguing endlessly about whether and how to disperse, a secretary, full of panic, burst into the conference room without announcement.
"Head of State, emergency! We received an electromagnetic wave message, and tracing its origin, we found the message was sent from less than 10 million kilometers away.
The message content is, is...
’I’ve caught you.’"
