Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 67: Energy Shield

In the year 136 of the Interstellar Era, the entire Moon Empire witnessed the "Earth-Moon Connection Project," jointly implemented by the Alpha Fleet and the 19th Fleet.

The "Earth-Moon Connection Project" was decided upon by scientists of the Lunar Empire based on the successful use of a variable-speed light-based apocalypse star four years prior to rescue the Elven and Mantis races. It was finalized after four years of extensive simulations and refinements using an artificial intelligence supercomputer. The Lunar Empire plans to replace the artificial mini-sun with a massive star, emitting a faster-than-light variable-speed light signal to transmit a signal to the Earth Empire in the Milky Way, in an attempt to establish contact.

The two fleets are two light-years apart, and near each fleet is a large star of similar mass. Near each star is a specially modified "super energy exchanger," containing the light path necessary for intelligent energy entities; scientists call it an "intelligent super energy exchanger." In terms of orientation, the massive star, the "intelligent super energy exchanger," and the vicinity of the new Earth in the Milky Way are essentially aligned.

The Alpha Fleet and the 19th Fleet communicate and control the "intelligent super energy exchanger" via long-distance quantum encrypted communication.

Two fleet-class sniper ships, the Pioneer, simultaneously fired intelligent energy beams at nearby stars of equal mass. Both stars exploded as supernovae, instantly emitting gamma-ray bursts. The two gamma-ray bursts were then time-modulated by the "Intelligent Super Energy Exchanger," instantly becoming time-shifted intelligent energy beams. These two beams were far more powerful than those emitted by the Hercules battleship, and because they were time-shifted, they became a "Gamma-ray Morse code matrix"! The Lunar Empire used two stars to transmit information because the matrix carried far more information than a single star.

These two stars of equal mass, destroyed by the lunar empire, naturally formed a binary black hole system orbiting each other.

The "Gamma-ray Morse code matrix" flew towards the Milky Way at faster-than-light speed. Of course, the information it carried included the location of this binary black hole system in the Triangulum Galaxy, the current state of the Lunar Empire, the "Light Child's" demand that the Lunar Empire become the dominant power in the Triangulum Galaxy, the manufacturing method of the "Intelligent Super Energy Exchanger," suggestions from Zhou Yuan and other scientists on how to allow the Earth Empire to reach the Lunar Empire, and other important information.

According to simulations by artificial intelligence supercomputers, the "gamma-ray Morse code matrix" would take two and a half years to reach the Earth Empire. In other words, even if the Earth Empire receives the message and responds in time, it will take at least five years.

The distance of more than 2.1 billion light-years was traversed by the "gamma-ray Morse code matrix" at a speed exceeding the speed of light in just over two years.

The Lunar Empire, filled with anticipation, kept a close eye on Earth in the Milky Way, awaiting a response from the Earth Empire there. A separation of 136 years—not a long time, not a short time—had never diminished the deep-seated longing in the hearts of humanity on Earth in the Triangular Galaxy.

Six years have passed, and the Lunar Empire has received no response from the Earth Empire, leaving its people heartbroken. A year of preparation time is no problem for the Earth Empire's strength. The Lunar Empire can only surmise that a major upheaval has occurred on Earth's side, and a sense of despondency begins to spread among its people.

Zhou Yuan stepped forward again, and it was only through his charisma and influence that the crowd's emotions were calmed, and people began to return to normal. Seemingly to vent their pent-up emotions, the Lunar Empire prepared to resume its conquest of the Triangular Galaxy.

In the year 144 of the Interstellar Era, the combined fleet of the Alpha Fleet and the 7th Fleet arrived near the star Changwang in the constellation Stonegate of our system via warp drive. Changwang is an important interstellar relay hub for the Alliance.

When the combined fleet emerged from stealth and appeared in Changwang's vicinity, chaos erupted on the planet. The two fleets were virtually invisible. The combined fleet stationed in Changwang's near-Earth orbit immediately dispatched an interception squadron.

"Unknown civilization fleet, you have intruded into the Alliance's airspace. Please detour and leave immediately."

Zhou Yuan and the others felt that this tone seemed familiar, and couldn't help but recall the 19th Fleet's encounter on Tab Star.

The interceptor fleet received only one message, and then was instantly destroyed by the light filament net of a flying saucer from the Alpha Fleet. The Alliance fleet received the message: "The God and Demon Fleet was here." Of course, this was another of Zhou Yuan's pranks.

Upon hearing the news of the reappearance of the "Gods and Demons Fleet," which had been renowned for centuries before disappearing, numerous aircraft suddenly appeared in the skies above Changwang Star, including cargo ships, private spaceships, and tourist ships. They scattered and fled at different speeds. Even the alliance fleet seemed to be afraid and quickly retreated to the Changwang Star's ground-based defense network before raising the energy shield of the Changwang Star planet.

This was the first time Zhou Yuan and the others had ever seen a planet with a transparent energy shield. The energy shield emitted a thin halo around it, enveloping Changwang Star inside.

This energy shield is formed by the movement of ionized matter in the force field around the planet.

The Alpha Fleet swaggered in, and upon reaching near-Earth orbit around Changwang Star, it launched tens of thousands of ion plasma streams from within the star system. These streams pierced through the transparent energy shield and hurtled towards the Alpha Fleet warships. The Alpha Fleet warships accelerated to evade these ion plasma streams.

The attack of the ion plasma stream on Changwang Star has ceased, as it is clearly ineffective against the Alpha Fleet; the creatures inside are only defending themselves with this transparent energy shield.

The Alpha Fleet intercepted a distress signal sent into space by a fleet inside Changwang Star.

An Alpha Fleet warship fired an electromagnetic gun and kinetic energy projectiles, but both were blocked outside the energy shield.

To thoroughly test the effectiveness of Changwang Star's transparent energy shield, the Alpha Fleet dispatched a village-class assault ship to fire a laser beam. The laser beam created a ripple on the transparent energy shield, and then the energy was absorbed by the shield, which seemed to amplify its glow.

County-level cruisers, town-level frigates, and city-level patrol motherships successively conducted laser firing tests. The halo of the energy shield became brighter and brighter, but apart from rippling, it did not pierce the energy shield.

"Interesting. This energy shield absorbs the energy of the assault ship's laser, and the energy shield on this planet seems to be constantly circulating." Zhou Yuan and other scientists were quite curious.

Zhou Yuan really wanted to test the immense power of the Alpha Fleet's sniper ships to see if they could affect the energy shield, but the fleet didn't do so.

The combined fleet used this energy shield as a testing ground for weapons and science, and was in no hurry to destroy it.

At the joint fleet meeting, Zhou Yuan proposed the concept of "energy cycle" as the reason why the energy shield's energy remained constant.

"Energy cycle?"

"Correct."

"Then how does it cycle?"

"Because of the effect of space folding, we know about Möbius strips and Klein bottles, right? The energy of this shield, that is, the ionized matter, circulates along the path of the Möbius strip, so the energy of the shield is inexhaustible."

"So that means the Alliance created a Klein force field on Changwang Star to maintain the folding of space on Changwang Star?"

“Yes. We must acquire this technology!” Zhou Yuan knew that this space folding technology was extremely important for both the Lunar Empire and the Earth Empire.

"clear."

Subsequently, the Joint Fleet placed a portal near Changwang Star to transport scientists from New Home 1 and New Home 2 to begin building testing and experimental platforms to study the Klein force field and space folding technology behind the energy shield.

The Alliance fleet and all life forms on Changwang Star only observed the "Gods and Demons Fleet" continuously constructing devices near Changwang Star, unaware of their intentions, assuming they were equipping superweapons to breach the planet's energy shield. Changwang Star's distress signals were being transmitted at an increasingly rapid pace.

Twenty days later, scientists from the Lunar Empire finally figured out the principle behind the Klein force field and space folding. It turned out that the interplay and reversal of the attraction of dark matter and the repulsion of dark energy created the Klein force field, thus folding the space near Changwang Star. This space folding differed from conventional curvature space folding; it was a space-flipping fold.

Since then, by utilizing the attractive and repulsive effects of dark matter and dark energy, much like the "light-degrading civilization" created various barriers, humanity has also developed a variety of complex applications, but that's another story.

Now, the Moon Empire's primary task is to acquire the technology to obtain large amounts of dark matter and dark energy. Therefore, Changwang Star is a must-win target and a key object of protection for the Moon Empire.

The Lunar Empire dispatched more fleets to the vicinity of the Changwang Star Sun. Just as the Earth Empire was fighting against the twelve nations of the Galactic Alliance, the Lunar Empire moved more than ten stars from interstellar space and placed them near the Changwang Star Sun, establishing a three-dimensional iron triangle system, ready to meet the challenge of this galactic alliance at any time.

Of course, the area around Changwang Star has been completely sealed off by the Lunar Empire fleet to prevent Changwang Star from revealing the fleet's deployment to the Alliance.

The creatures on Changwang Star now finally understand the power of the "Gods and Demons Fleet." They discovered that this "Gods and Demons Fleet" had actually transported more than ten suns! The immense shock caused these creatures to tremble with fear.

The creatures on Changwang Star discovered that the large device built in near-Earth orbit had been dismantled, and the "Gods and Demons Fleet" was becoming increasingly active near Changwang Star. They could clearly sense the tension and unusual calm before the great battle.

On Changwang Planet, all types of warships and weapon systems were on high alert, preparing for a desperate battle against the "Gods and Demons Fleet." However, the various civilizations on Changwang Planet ultimately overestimated their own strength.

A sniper ship from the Alpha Fleet, the Tian Shen, fired a thin beam of intelligent energy that easily pierced through the energy shield of Changwang Star, setting the stage for a war of asymmetric strength.