Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 543: Rebuilding Civilization

At this moment, Xiao Yu was in curvature flight at thirty five times the speed of light. After a great war with the Pegasus Civilization, Xiao Yu’s vast warship group, which had originally reached 11,500,000 ships, had now been reduced to fewer than 4,000,000. The biological army had likewise suffered heavy losses. Of its 1,500,000 ships, nearly 800,000 were destroyed, and as many as 150,000,000 warriors had fallen.

Such losses were extremely grave even for Xiao Yu, who possessed limitless regeneration. Xiao Yu estimated that he would need at least 500 years of rest and recovery to fully restore himself. Of course, this time also included digesting the various technologies. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Fortunately, thanks to Xiao Yu’s special attention, all habitation-type Continent-Class ships suffered no losses. At most they were grazed by stray fire during the war, which was nothing serious.

During this period, aside from the newly surrendered Purple Civilization, the Home ships were shrouded in grief. One hundred fifty million warriors had died. This number was almost one thousandth of the total population of intelligent beings under the Divine Ark Civilization. During this time, many official or spontaneous memorial activities were everywhere. Under Luka Two’s direction, many Halls of Heroes had been established for people to pay their respects.

“Phew… whatever the case, this great war ultimately ended with my victory. The Pegasus Civilization has been destroyed by me, and the other Level 5 Civilizations are certainly in contact with the Pegasus Civilization, which means they will soon learn this result and know the name of the Divine Ark Civilization. Deterrence by force has been established. I believe that after I have finished resting and recovering, contact with the next civilization will go much more smoothly, without the need to launch such a vast war.”

“However… there is still a concern. Under my powerful military deterrence, one possibility is that the other Level 5 Civilizations will trade with me. Another possibility is that, under my pressure, they will completely unite. After all, in my battle with the Pegasus Civilization, I displayed a rather ruthless way of doing things, such as destroying a star. If nearly twenty Level 5 Civilizations join hands, that really would be troublesome for me.”

“Even if those twenty civilizations vary in strength, once united they would have at least nearly 200,000,000 warships. As a fellow Level 5 Civilization, while my technology is somewhat stronger than theirs, it does not confer an overwhelming advantage. Two hundred million warships… hiss…”

That number gave Xiao Yu a headache just thinking about it. Two hundred million warships. Xiao Yu could at most control only 10,000,000 ships now. Even after digesting the Pegasus Civilization’s technology and increasing that number again, at most it would rise to 15,000,000. The disparity in numbers would still be huge.

“We will see the situation before deciding… If it will not work, I will spend one or several thousand years to manufacture two or three hundred million reserve warships. When the ones in front are destroyed, I will immediately send in reserve ships to replace them. A war of attrition. That is what I least fear.” Xiao Yu pondered and reached this conclusion.

Curvature flight had already lasted more than five years. There were about fifteen years left before arrival. At this moment, Xiao Yu was more than one hundred light years from the Pegasus Civilization’s capital star system. Meanwhile, within that capital star system, an unusual change was taking place.

When he left the Pegasus System, Xiao Yu had not carried out anything like genocide, nor had he destroyed the capital star system’s star, although this would have been easy for him. As Xiao Yu had said, “I did not exterminate your civilization… You may yet rebuild this planet… After I leave I will not return.”

In the end, Xiao Yu still hoped the Milky Way Galaxy would be livelier, with more intelligent beings. The galaxy was simply too empty. Among over one hundred billion stars, only so few Level 5 Civilizations had emerged, and Level 6 Civilizations were even rarer. Xiao Yu even thought that the reason breaking through to Level 7 Civilization was so difficult might be that the number of Level 6 Civilizations was too small. Without a sufficient base, how could a higher level existence be nurtured.

Five years earlier, when Xiao Yu broke through the Pegasus Civilization’s defenses, the capital planet had fallen into extreme chaos and completely lost order. All kinds of crimes ran rampant, as mobs burned, killed, and plundered, committing every evil. Yet, surprisingly, as the Pegasus populace gradually calmed down from their fear of death and confusion about their unknown fate, they actually discovered that they were still alive, that no strange alien invaders had appeared around them, and they even received an announcement from the Divine Ark Civilization stating that it had already left the star system.

Under these circumstances, the people finally began to settle down. Governmental systems that had previously ceased functioning began to operate again. Police began to sweep up the remaining mobs. Many distinguished and respected figures stepped forward to call everyone to calm down and begin post-disaster reconstruction, and to reflect upon and summarize their previous behavior.

As the situation stabilized, the wandering ships in other systems began to tentatively return. After discovering that order on the capital planet had indeed been restored, the number of returning ships increased. Of course, some ships did not return.

During this prior period, these wandering ships had already shown the budding signs of a wandering civilization, and a wandering civilization generally went hand in hand with terms like interstellar pirates. Most regretfully, these wandering ships did not form a unified wandering civilization but instead formed many large or small wandering civilizations, or rather interstellar pirate organizations.

To compete for power and expand influence, different pirate organizations frequently clashed, and even atrocities of torturing and killing their own kind occurred. Once the capital planet stabilized, it quickly began to recruit the wandering ships. In this effort, the temporary government on the capital planet clearly announced that certain crimes would not be pursued, while explicitly stating that crimes such as torturing and killing their own kind were not included. As a result, large numbers of wandering ships that had committed no crimes or only minor ones began to return, while ships that had committed grave crimes, knowing they had no hope of returning home, became even more reckless and not only refused to return but confronted the temporary government’s fleet.

In this situation, within the Pegasus Civilization, an extremely outstanding leader with the ability to turn the tide emerged. After coming to power, this leader took thunderous measures to comprehensively rectify internal order. Those compatriots who committed crimes during the chaotic period were all dealt with harshly and swiftly. Then rest and recovery were organized and production restored. First, three years were spent repairing the capital planet’s planetary shield system and planetary engine system. Next, industry was comprehensively developed. On the foundation of the old era’s industry, a large number of ships were built, soldiers recruited, and fleets formed. By powerful means, all interstellar pirates were wiped out, and all pirate leaders who had committed serious crimes were executed. From then on, the Pegasus Civilization once again regained peace and tranquility.

With the great war over and myriad tasks awaiting attention, the painful experience of defeat still spurred them on. The entire Pegasus Civilization entered a mighty era of grand construction.

“After review by the civilization’s Supreme Tribunal, the former leader and all those who fled with the Galloping Pegasus spaceship fleet are judged guilty of crimes against civilization. When our civilization stood on the brink of life and death and could be destroyed at any moment, the former leader and all those who fled failed in their duty to defend the civilization. Instead, for the sake of their own lives, they chose a shameful escape, disregarding all the soldiers who continued fighting here and the innocent populace. They are the greatest disgrace of our Pegasus Civilization. The Supreme Tribunal has broadcast this judgment in the direction of the Galloping Pegasus spaceship formation’s flight, ordering them to immediately cease their flight and return to the capital planet to accept the judgment of all the people. If they refuse, the Pegasus Civilization’s fleet will one day find them and impose the harshest punishment.”

“This decision takes effect as of its promulgation. All evils will eventually be brought to justice. The dignity of our civilization must be upheld.” This was the new leader’s speech on the third anniversary of the defeat.

With this speech, the various construction efforts within the Pegasus Civilization once again reached a climax. Every citizen and soldier etched the humiliation of being defeated by the Divine Ark Civilization into their hearts and transformed it into motivation for struggle. A new stratum of scientists began to emerge. Perhaps stimulated by war, many new technologies began to appear. For a time, the entire Pegasus Civilization displayed a thriving momentum.

Just then, a long-range research ship belonging to the Pegasus Civilization discovered a strange phenomenon. On their tachyon detector appeared an unidentified existence of extremely vast size, like a planet, racing toward their capital star system at a speed exceeding one hundred times light speed. Behind this unidentified existence was another thing whose form could not be seen, also at this speed, in hot pursuit of the one in front.

Two existences, one pursuing and one fleeing, drew ever closer to their capital star system…