Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 74: Unstoppable Momentum

George, Zhou Yuan, Wei Shan, and the others looked at the information about the Star Luo Empire and Swa Star that Fernova had transmitted, and finally understood why the Star Luo Empire was so powerful.

The Star Luo people are complex silicon-carbon based life forms with powerful vitality and reproductive capabilities. Although they possess human bodies and brains, their brains not only have human consciousness but also supercomputer functions, making each individual highly intelligent. Star Luo people are prone to developing two split personalities: a carbon-based personality with human consciousness and a silicon-based personality with mechanical consciousness.

In Xingluo, women always give birth to twins. These twins, upon reaching adulthood, will be dominated by either a carbon-based or silicon-based consciousness. If carbon-based consciousness is dominant, they will exhibit a carbon-based personality; conversely, if silicon-based consciousness is dominant, they will exhibit a silicon-based personality. However, each individual still possesses both personalities; it's just that one personality is dominant. Regardless of whether their personality is carbon-based or silicon-based, the Xingluo people share the same inherent aggressive and expansionist nature.

The predominantly carbon-based and silicon-based personality traits have divided the Star Luo Empire into two major factions. The carbon-based Star Luo people, led by Leidam's sister Leifia, believe that diverse civilizations can exist within their galaxy. They advocate for the Star Luo Empire to lead a coalition of advanced civilizations within the galaxy, such as the Roman civilization, to expand into neighboring dwarf star systems and even the Milky Way. The silicon-based Star Luo people, led by Leidam, the current supreme ruler of the Star Luo Empire, believe that only the Star Luo civilization can exist within their galaxy. They advocate for the complete annihilation of all advanced civilizations within the galaxy before the Star Luo civilization expands into neighboring dwarf star systems and even the Milky Way.

Because of the existence of two personalities among the Star Luo people, each Star Luo person and each faction sometimes suddenly exhibits opposite traits. The Star Luo people have extremely strong vitality; in difficult or harsh environments, they will switch to their silicon-based personality, allowing them to survive for extended periods without consuming food, water, or other resources.

If the Star Luo people exist as carbon-based personalities, their average height is about 1.75 meters. If they exist as silicon-based personalities, their average height is about 1.6 meters, which is similar to the height of the Roman people.

Sva is a terrestrial asteroid with a radius of 300 kilometers. Within a million kilometers of the planet, there are abundant clouds of hydrogen ions. Further outwards, for 100 million kilometers, 1 billion kilometers, and 10 billion kilometers, the warp space is sealed off by the gravitational pull of the Star Luo warships, and the planet is heavily guarded by numerous Star Luo Empire warships—essentially a triple-layered defense. While the Roman Empire and its allies know that Lefia is imprisoned on Sva, they do not know her exact location.

Zhou Yuan and the others naturally knew what the hydrogen ion cloud was for: first, to interfere with enemy detection; and second, so that if the Star Luo Fleet protecting Swa Star discovered that the situation was not good, it could use the hydrogen ion cloud around Swa Star to instantly create a star and destroy Swa Star.

These factors directly made the mission to rescue Lefia extremely difficult.

George, Zhou Yuan, and Wei Shan immediately recalled the Star Luo fleet that was at war with the Earth Empire in the Milky Way. According to the information provided by Fernova, the Star Luo fleet in the Milky Way was likely a fleet led by or supporting Lefia, and these fleets might still be in the Milky Way.

The Alpha Fleet then used the "Mosleyan Modulation Matrix" to report the situation in the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy to the Earth Empire, and warned the Earth Empire to be wary of the Star Luo Empire fleets that were still hidden in the Milky Way.

Commander George of the Combined Fleet issued a series of orders to the other nineteen fleets still hidden in the Klein Bottle space, instructing them to remain secret and act according to the orders. George assigned eight fleets to search for the location of the Star Luo Empire's supreme ruler, Leidam, and his main fleet in this system, instructing them to report immediately upon discovery. He also assigned ten fleets to continue stationing near the Roman Empire's interstellar fortress, constantly monitoring the movements of the Roman Empire and its allies. Additionally, he assigned one fleet to prepare to support the Alpha Fleet.

George and Fernova communicated for nearly an hour, making some arrangements for the attack on Vass.

Warp drive takes significantly longer to travel the same distance compared to portal travel. Portals are very useful within the same star system, but between two galaxies, the portals of the Earth Empire and the Lunar Empire are ineffective. They require a teleportation ring controlled by the "Matrix Civilization" and "Light Child," which utilizes a rotating binary black hole system. Currently, the Earth Empire and the Lunar Empire can only achieve long-distance travel or teleportation through Klein bottle space flips.

In order to temporarily avoid revealing the Klein bottle space flip supersonic navigation capability to the Roman Empire's 67th Fleet, the Alpha Fleet had no choice but to follow the Roman Empire's 67th Fleet into warp space for warp navigation.

A week later, following the joint decision of the two fleet commanders, the Roman Empire's 67th Fleet was the first to jump out of warp space. As soon as Fernova led his fleet out of warp space, the Star Luo Empire fleet patrolling the outermost edge of Sva immediately converged on Fernova's fleet, while other Star Luo Empire fleets were rapidly arriving to provide support. The appearance of Fernova's fleet naturally attracted considerable attention from the Star Luo Empire's escort fleets on the outer perimeter of Sva.

As soon as the Alpha Fleet emerged from the warp space on the other side of Sva Star, it engaged in fierce combat with the outer Star Luo Empire fleet. The large, medium, and small warships of the Alpha Fleet simultaneously emitted thousands, hundreds, and a dozen intelligent energy beams, respectively. In this way, the Alpha Fleet possessed a terrifying nearly one hundred million intelligent energy beams. These beams either shot directly or curved before shooting directly again, concentrating in one direction and fiercely firing at the outer escort fleet of the Star Luo warships.

Under the continuous concentrated attack of the intelligent energy beams, the energy shields of a large number of Star Luo Empire warships were shattered, followed by violent explosions. After destroying the Star Luo Empire warships, these one hundred million intelligent energy beams continued to turn and automatically search for other warships, conducting rapid tracking and long-range strikes to destroy them.

In less than ten minutes, all of the Star Luo Empire's warships near the Alpha Fleet were annihilated.

The Alpha Fleet charged forward, heading straight for the middle layer of the Sva Star Guardian Fleet. When it was still six billion kilometers away from the Star Luo Empire Guardian Fleet in the middle layer of the Sva Star, just as it was within the firing range of the Alpha Fleet's warships, these warships launched intelligent energy beams to conduct a long-range attack on the middle layer of the Sva Star Guardian Fleet. Incidentally, they also carried out a long-range attack and destroyed the inner layer Star Luo Empire Guardian Fleet that was charging towards them and preparing to support the middle layer friendly ships.

After destroying a large number of warships in the middle and inner Star Luo Guardian Fleets, the Hercules-class sniper ship of the Alpha Fleet began releasing a large number of portal modules. These portal modules followed and tracked the partially concentrated beams of intelligent energy, as if consciously hiding under the umbrella of these intelligent energy beams. When the portal modules reached near-Earth orbit of Sva, they rapidly self-assembled, and in the blink of an eye, a large portal was formed, beginning the transfer to the planet Sva. Sva was then received by the receiving fleet that George had already assigned, and this fleet then entered the Klein Bottle space to rendezvous with other friendly ships on the outer perimeter of the Roman Empire's interstellar fortress.

After Sva was teleported out of this space by the receiving fleet through the portal, the Alpha Fleet quickly entered warp drive and immediately joined the battlefield on the other side.

On this battlefield, the Roman Empire's 67th Fleet, led by Fernova, was engaged in fierce combat with a large number of Star Luo Empire fleets. Both sides' warships were emitting intense lasers, and the energy shields on the hulls of the warships in the midst of the battle flickered and rippled with light, like numerous poorly connected light bubbles. In the blink of an eye, many warships were destroyed, and the flames from the explosions obscured the energy shield halos of other warships, engulfing those still engaged in combat into a fiery field of vision.

When the Alpha Fleet emerged from warp space, the fleet led by Fernova was visibly surprised, while the Star Luo Empire fleet was clearly thrown into disarray. Optical and electromagnetic detection from their own warships indicated that the Alpha Fleet was still engaged in battle with the escort fleet on the other side; the explosions and flames from those warships continued—Swastar still existed in that space. This discrepancy arose because neither the Roman Empire nor the Star Luo fleet possessed faster-than-light or longer-range detection capabilities; they relied on the speed of light, such as beams of light or radio waves. The Alpha Fleet's intelligent energy beams, however, were faster-than-light (long-range) attacks. Furthermore, after destroying the Star Luo escort fleet, the Alpha Fleet could perform warp-speed faster-than-light travel, creating an illusion or misperception in the timeline.

When the Alpha Fleet warships unleashed their intelligent energy beams, launching a faster-than-light attack on the Star Luo Empire fleet, both the Roman Empire fleet and the Star Luo Empire fleet, led by Fernova, were momentarily stunned. Fernova's fleet reacted with cheers after the initial shock, while the Star Luo Empire fleet, after its initial shock, prepared to immediately jump into warp space to evade the Alpha Fleet's terrifying long-range straight-line or curved-direction attacks. However, the Alpha Fleet had already deployed numerous black hole bombs in this space, employing both gravitational attacks and warp space containment. Those Star Luo Empire fleet ships attacked by the intelligent energy beams were forced to regroup, ignoring and bypassing the Roman Empire fleet, and engaging the Alpha Fleet warships in direct fire. Surrounded by nearly one hundred million intelligent energy beams, these beams rained down on the Star Luo Empire warships from the outside in.

The outer defense circle formed by the Star Luo Empire's numerous warships rapidly shrank under the attack of the intelligent energy beams, much like the writing on a blackboard by a human being automatically erased circle by circle from the outside in by an invisible eraser.

As Fernova watched this terrifying scene from his command center on his flagship, his heart felt like it was about to jump out of his chest. He immediately sent the battle video of the Alpha Fleet and the Star Luo Empire Fleet directly to the Roman Empire's homeworld base, which was the Roman Empire's interstellar fortress that Zhou Yuan and the others had seen.

Finova checked the time. In less than ten minutes, a large number of Star Luo Empire warships that were besieging his fleet were swiftly destroyed by the terrifying, curved gamma-ray bursts from the Alpha Fleet.

The remaining fleet of the Star Luo Empire, traveling at the speed of light, immediately entered the warp space—a gravitational blockade created by the black hole bombs deployed by the Alpha Fleet—and traveled faster than light. They then jumped out of warp space, preparing to unleash a high-energy laser attack on the massive hydrogen ion cloud spanning a million kilometers, intending to create a blue star and destroy Swa. However, their plan failed; they were astonished to find Swa gone. The remaining fleet quickly re-entered warp space, fleeing away from the Alpha Fleet.

Instead of pursuing the deserters, the Alpha Fleet proactively joined up with the Roman Empire's 67th Fleet, which seemed still in shock and disbelief. The two fleets began their journey into warp drive and soon arrived near the planet Sva, which had been moved away by the portal.