Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 585: Spatial Orientation, Taiyu Civilization!
Xiao Yu knew that the war between himself and the Level 5 Civilization Alliance had, for the moment, reached a pause. The Alliance had detonated the star of the Death Flower Star System under conditions of thorough preparation, resolving this crisis at a relatively minimal cost. The energy released by a stellar explosion does not distinguish between friend and foe. Both the Level 5 Civilization Alliance and Xiao Yu’s Divine Ark Civilization lay within its strike range.
To evade the vast energy of the stellar explosion, Xiao Yu had to enter curvature space and flee outward at faster than light. During the flight, Xiao Yu would make various arrangements, operating one or two planetary bases to stand before him as shields, then hiding the Earth, all warships, all Home ships, the remaining planetary bases that could be preserved, and all commercial, industrial, and transport vessels behind those shield planets. After finishing all these deployments, Xiao Yu would then disengage from curvature space and wait for the immense energy of the stellar explosion to arrive.
A supernova explosion is one of the most violent modes of energy release in the universe, but such release usually lasts a very short time. The shortest is only a few weeks, and the longest generally does not exceed one year. Such a span of time, compared with a star’s long life, is hardly even an instant.
But gains come with losses. Since one obtains the qualification for such a violent energy eruption, naturally one must exchange it for all of one’s remaining lifetime to come. This is in essence a fair conversion.
This meant Xiao Yu only needed to hide behind the planetary bases, quietly wait for a while, and then come out after the stellar explosion subsided.
“By now you should already be fleeing, right? Relying on the planetary war stars’ pitiful maneuverability to slowly escape outward…” Xiao Yu silently calculated, pondering what means he should adopt next to destroy the Level 5 Civilization Alliance, and what countermeasures the Alliance would make thereafter.
The answer was obvious. After the Alliance used those sacrificed ten planetary war stars to block the violent energy of the Death Flower Star System’s stellar explosion and the situation calmed a little, they would accelerate the remaining planetary war stars, then escort them away with all warships and ships, leaving this place.
Xiao Yu did not worry that the Alliance would flee so far he could not find them. The reason was simple. The Alliance’s planetary war stars lacked curvature flight capability, and their conventional acceleration was a meager ten meters per second. The planetary war stars were the Alliance’s ultimate trump card against Xiao Yu, and they could not abandon them. Thus Xiao Yu had nothing to worry about.
Even if Xiao Yu gave them one hundred years to run, they would not get very far.
“Planetary war stars without curvature flight will always be your greatest limitation. So long as your planetary war stars cannot enter curvature flight, they must endure the threat of stellar explosions. Hmph. There are many stars nearby. I can transport ten, even one hundred stars to surround and intercept you everywhere. So long as I reach an effective lethal range, I will detonate the star and use the star’s power to wipe you out. If I adopt this method, the ensuing war will be quite interesting…”
Indeed, while continuously transporting stars to pursue and block the Alliance, Xiao Yu could also dispatch large fleets to harass or even assault the Alliance repeatedly, doing his utmost to delay their flight and wear down their strength.
This was the mode of warfare Xiao Yu planned to adopt next.
The planetary war stars’ maneuverability was extremely poor, which meant Xiao Yu could easily predict their trajectories and directions over the coming period. Xiao Yu could then transport a star from afar to lie in ambush on their route of advance and, when they approached closely enough, detonate the star.
Of course, the Alliance could also change course in advance to avoid the star’s effects. The stars Xiao Yu transported could reach only 0.3 times the speed of light, which was not very fast. The Alliance could issue warning ten or even dozens of years in advance, giving themselves ample time to alter their course.
But do not forget, there are many stars here. So long as it is within Xiao Yu’s computational capacity, he can have as many stars as he wants. If one star cannot block them, then use two, or even ten, one hundred.
The ensuing state of war would be one of unending pursuit, interception, and flight. The two sides would use the entire Milky Way as their stage, playing out a novel game of hide-and-seek. The stake of this game was the life and death of civilizations. The civilization that won would obtain the qualification to continue surviving, and would have at least a ninety-five percent chance to advance to a Level 6 Civilization. The loser would vanish completely into the cosmic void, as if it had never existed.
The Alliance’s technology had been continuously progressing. Presumably, even during flight, they would not relax their research and development. That is to say, even while fleeing, their technology would maintain its current rate of progress, perhaps even exceeding it slightly. At this pace, their technological gap from Xiao Yu amounted to roughly one hundred fifty years.
If after more than one hundred fifty years Xiao Yu still could not find the Alliance, could not use stars to block and annihilate them or inflict severe damage, then the Alliance would gain the upper hand and ultimately seize victory. Conversely, if the Alliance could not hide for that long and was found in advance and blocked by Xiao Yu, they would meet with catastrophic destruction. The enraged stars would devour most of their power, the remnants would be absorbed by Xiao Yu, and their civilization would perish.
What this game would decide was the life and death of two civilizations. Of course, in this game Xiao Yu held absolute initiative. Such is the advantage brought by superior technology.
“Just wait. The war will end soon. I will certainly win this war. The one who steps into the range of a Level 6 Civilization will be me, not you. Whether you are the Pegasus Civilization, the Carina Civilization, or the Sextans Civilization, or even the Level 5 Civilization Alliance, none of you can block my steps.”
Xiao Yu quietly made up his mind.
By now Xiao Yu had completed his defensive arrangements. Two planetary war stars of relatively lower value had been chosen as shields to block the direction from which the stellar explosion’s energy would arrive, while all of Xiao Yu’s other creations were hidden behind these two planets.
Xiao Yu began quietly waiting for that vast energy to arrive. After this disaster passed, the game of hide-and-seek that would decide the life and death of two peak Level 5 Civilizations would begin.
Meanwhile, in another corner of the Milky Way, in a place unknown to Xiao Yu, something exceedingly strange was occurring.
An existence that had length and width but no thickness, like a sheet of paper thinned to the extreme, was drifting here without cease. This existence was, as it happened, the spatial lifeform that had been wounded and fled during the battle with the Sweepers Civilization.
This sector of space was very dark. There were no stars within a light-year in any direction. This meant the place was almost in absolute darkness. The surrounding pinpricks of starlight could not illuminate it and, on the contrary, only added an eerie air out of nothing.
In this pitch-black void, the spatial lifeform was murmuring to itself, “At last I have found the relic of the ancient Taiyu Civilization… As a Level 7 Civilization of the space direction, the Taiyu Civilization had a deeper grasp of spatial technology than I. However, I possess a talent in the spatial aspect, and the Taiyu Civilization has long since disappeared. Thus their relic still cannot escape my perception. Now let me see what good things lie in your relic…”
“Detestable Sweepers Civilization, I did not expect the Neutron War Star to be so formidable… Hm, this Neutron War Star seems to be a creation of a civilization oriented toward the extreme stellar body direction. As for which civilization specifically created it, I do not know. Civilizations that take extreme stellar bodies as their developmental orientation are exceedingly rare and extremely difficult to advance. Since I was born in this universe, I have not encountered a single one.”
“By comparison, civilizations of the space direction find advancement a bit easier and are the most numerous. It is a pity that this Taiyu Civilization never managed to develop spatial technology to the utmost and slowly vanished over the long ages. If I had not obtained certain secret information, I truly would not have known of the Taiyu Civilization’s existence, nor that they had left this relic in the Milky Way.”
“The wounds the Sweepers Civilization inflicted on me are far too severe. My spatial composition is almost torn apart. I hope within the Taiyu Civilization’s relic I can find a method to restore myself and also defeat the Neutron War Star…”
Before the spatial lifeform, a tiny point hovering between existence and nonexistence was drifting wantonly. This drifting was not drifting in the usual sense but followed an irregular pattern of movement. Perhaps in this moment the point was here, and in the next moment it would be dozens of light-years away. Yet the spatial lifeform always trailed closely behind it and had never strayed far from it.
