Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 578: Collision
Putting a star into curvature flight is a completely different concept from putting a planet into curvature flight. On a planet, Xiao Yu can obtain resources on the surface and build all kinds of instruments on the spot, but a star is entirely different. Xiao Yu cannot even approach the surface of a star. The biggest difference is that a star’s mass is far too great and its volume far too large, something no planet can compare to.
It is precisely because of so many difficulties that Xiao Yu, leading the scientists of the Central Research Academy of Science, researched for a very long time without achieving a technological breakthrough.
“In the currently foreseeable future, I do not see any possibility of a breakthrough in the relevant technologies.” Xiao Yu said. “That leaves us with a single method for now. After the planets are transported here, we will rely on my powerful construction capability to build ships continuously to wear down the strength of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance. I just greatly dislike this mode of warfare. I detest leaving the future to fate, or rather, to luck to decide.”
Acting this way is indeed almost the same as leaving destiny to luck. This is a race against time. Xiao Yu has only two hundred years, and within two hundred years too many variables can arise.
But there is no helping it. This is the only feasible plan.
Over the next few years, Xiao Yu remained rather quiet. During this period, there were only a limited number of clashes between the Level 5 Civilization Alliance and Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu waited for the arrival of the planets, while the Alliance was only too happy to have a respite to research technology.
Three years passed, and the first planet was finally transported here. Although this location was as far as three hundred billion kilometers from the primary star of the Death Flower Star System, it still lay within the star’s gravitational control. Xiao Yu operated the planetary engine built on this planet, and after giving it a stable orbit, he began large-scale construction.
Xiao Yu did not intend to build a second Earth. A planetary war star consumes far too much computational power and requires too long a construction cycle, making this an ill-suited place to build one. Xiao Yu only constructed a planetary shield system for this planet to provide it with basic defensive capability, and then he no longer spent effort in that regard.
Under Xiao Yu’s direction, large-scale construction began. To increase speed and efficiency and save computational power, Xiao Yu issued a massive recruitment order to the intelligent-being society. As many as eighty billion intelligent beings answered Xiao Yu’s call and threw themselves into this grand age of construction.
The tremendous energy of intelligent beings revealed itself once more at this moment. So long as one is a person, one has a use. If becoming a scientist or a soldier requires relatively high individual quality from an intelligent being, then becoming a worker has no such requirement. In the simplest terms, even if individual limitations prevent one from becoming a technical worker, one can at least become a laborer. One more laborer lets Xiao Yu save the computational load of one more robot.
The surface of this planet was already crammed with robots and intelligent beings, as well as all kinds of machinery. This was the great rear area that would support Xiao Yu in this war.
Building an industrial system and constructing all kinds of mining bases and foundries requires a period of time. For Xiao Yu, this time was two years. By the time the industrial system on this first planet was completed, the other eight planets had all arrived. Xiao Yu repeated the process, constructing basic defensive systems for these eight planets, and once again launched large-scale construction.
Xiao Yu placed the orbits of these nine planets very close together, which helps the circulation of materials among the planets. However, doing so has a drawback. Under the mutual gravitational perturbations of these few planets, they will gradually lose their current stable orbits and eventually collide and merge into a single large planet, or be driven into the inner star system or into outer space.
The planetary engines solved this problem well. Every time a planetary orbit deviated, the planetary engine would start temporarily to make fine adjustments to the orbit and maintain the balance of the system.
With Xiao Yu’s mobilization and call, the number of intelligent-being workers participating in the rear construction increased further. Now within the Divine Ark Civilization, the number of intelligent beings had reached nearly four hundred billion, of which more than two hundred fifty billion were participating in this construction.
Countless intelligent beings, countless robots, and countless machines, like ants, gathered together under Xiao Yu’s command and unleashed tremendous energy. Through their diligent labor, spaceships were built one after another, and weapons were manufactured piece by piece.
Xiao Yu could be sure that the nearby Level 5 Civilization Alliance could easily detect what he was doing. But Xiao Yu did not care. He never intended to conceal this, and it could not be concealed anyway.
Two more years later, the industrial systems on all nine planets were fully constructed. Trillions of robots and intelligent beings were busy on the planetary surfaces or underground. On these planets, tall factories stood everywhere. Many space docks or orbital factories also appeared in space, and at every moment countless ships were shuttling back and forth among the different planets.
Xiao Yu’s construction plan had fully entered the right track. With the rear now producing a continuous stream of new ships, Xiao Yu operated the existing fleet and began a full-scale fierce offensive against the Death Flower Star System.
A long war of attrition slowly unfolded. From the start of this campaign to the present, more than fifty years had passed without a pause. Xiao Yu’s fleet constantly delivered ferocious attacks against the defensive strength of the Death Flower Star System, while the garrison of the Death Flower Star System fought desperately to defend. Although Xiao Yu’s fleet was smaller in number, it had the advantage of rapid replenishment and an unending stream. No matter how it was consumed, it could not be consumed to exhaustion. In contrast, the Level 5 Civilization Alliance was exactly the opposite.
They had many fleets, but replenishment was relatively slow. They also had a vast rear, with more than one hundred planets serving as natural construction bases. On the basis of these more than one hundred planets, they could obtain nearly unlimited resources. They also had a great population. With twenty civilizations allied together, the total number of intelligent beings exceeded one trillion.
This was wartime, so naturally everything was subordinated to war. In fact, the social focus of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance had now completely tilted toward war. Fully eighty percent of the population served this war. Among these were soldiers, scientists, workers in military factories, logistics personnel, and so on. The remaining twenty percent served the eighty percent.
Whether elderly or children, all were mobilized and all contributed their strength to this war.
But unfortunately, even like this, the rear construction speed of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance still lagged behind Xiao Yu.
“According to the latest statistical report from the Academy of Sciences, our rear construction speed is on average twenty percent behind that of the Divine Ark Civilization.” a scientist reported within the Level 5 Civilization Alliance. “However, thanks to our massive initial stockpile of warships and the continuous replenishment of personnel in the rear, we are not in danger of being overtaken by the Divine Ark Civilization in the short term.” 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
“Moreover, there is one factor very favorable to us.” the scientist continued. “Our development potential is higher than that of the Divine Ark Civilization. Our technology has been advancing rapidly, while the Divine Ark Civilization’s technology has stagnated. During this period we have made major breakthroughs in light computers, the latest spatial broadcast communications method, a new ultra-light yet ultra-tough material manufactured using hydrogen atoms as raw material, research on gravity shielding, curvature flight for massive bodies, curvature flight within strong gravitational fields, and aspects of spatial properties, among others. Driven by technological progress, the comprehensive performance of our new warships is improving, operation is becoming more and more convenient, the energy consumption, size, and mass of our weapons are becoming smaller while their power grows stronger, and our ship loss rate and soldier casualty rate are slowly decreasing, whereas these two data points for the Divine Ark Civilization are slowly rising. This means the situation is tilting in our favor. So long as we can hold on, our position will improve more and more.”
“Our conclusion is that, with the war already having lasted more than fifty years, if we can persist for another one hundred fifty years, although our technological advancement will still not match that of the Divine Ark Civilization, by virtue of our massive number of warships we will, for the first time, change our disadvantaged situation and gain the ability to stand in a stalemate with the Divine Ark Civilization. After the stalemate comes superiority. If all goes well, three hundred years from now the Divine Ark Civilization will have no ability to respond to our offensive.” The scientist finished his report and took his seat.
Meanwhile, aboard the Asia.
“So the critical period is still in the next one hundred fifty years. These one hundred fifty years will decide the fates of our Divine Ark Civilization and the Level 5 Civilization Alliance.” Xiao Yu said. “If after more than one hundred fifty years we still have not taken down the Level 5 Civilization Alliance, we will never be able to take them down. At that time, unless we employ the Sphere of Death, we will have no means at all.”
