Chapter 788 - 473: Tiger Bro's Seven Days and the Afterglow of the Fortress【6800 Words】_4
Chapter 788: Chapter 473: Tiger Bro’s Seven Days and the Afterglow of the Fortress【6800 Words】_4
From then on, humanity’s core strength was left with only one Shadow Galaxy.
Mr. Green first turned on a video projection.
In the video, the once bustling DF-711 Galaxy returned to a dead silence, leaving only the desolate and broken battlefield ruins.
Within this vast space, countless human or Compound-Eyed Observer wreckage floated about, occasionally bursting into a flash of high-energy reaction light, but no trace of human activity remained.
A miniature star quietly floated there, emitting a dim glow. It was occasionally hit by metal fragments, igniting flares, and casting dark spots.
More debris orbiting the star’s gravitational field would occasionally converge or silently shift direction, seemingly forming a fragmented asteroid belt for Star 001.
In a period ranging from tens of thousands to a hundred thousand years, Star 001 will eventually absorb more debris, gradually increasing its mass and ultimately collapsing into a small neutron star.
The Compound-Eyed Observer’s Prism Ship Array finally completed the encirclement. Although it failed to completely disintegrate the fortress ship, it tore it into countless fragments and restored the “captured” Star 001 to daylight.
Star 001 was “freed,” but became a “dead object” in the universe, destined to perish quickly.
Suddenly, the video stopped abruptly.
Mr. Green introduced, “This is the last piece of intelligence sent back by our artificial intelligence detector. Inside the DF-711 Fortress Starship, a total of 7,134,621,117 people were sacrificed. Let us observe a moment of silence.”
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“Moment of silence is over.”
Martha Owen stood up, glanced at Harrison Clark sitting at the head of the table, and briefly introduced the important information that their compatriots in the fortress starship had exchanged for their lives.
Through years of attempts and several months of fierce battles with the Compound Eye Fleet, the researchers inside the DF-711 Fortress Ship had developed a complete rapid stellar energy development system.
Stellar energy development is different from fossil energy and pure light absorption. Each extraction of stellar energy could cause a strong reaction.
Once the reaction strength exceeds a certain limit, it can trigger a chain of dramatic changes within the star, leading to uncontrollable disasters.
To control the direct development of a star at a sufficiently strong yet secure level requires a vast scientific system and long-term experience accumulation.
Beyond direct confrontation with the Prism Ships, the API development system for Star 001 within the DF-711 Fortress Ship is the most significant achievement.
“We have just completed rapid absorption. This is the academy’s Stellar Deep Development Plan. We plan to use the remaining two months to build the Shadow Sun Development System as quickly as possible. Everyone, please take a look.”
Harrison Clark glanced briefly at the details without understanding much, but the conclusion was clear.
Once the rapid development plan succeeded, the Shadow Sun’s remaining lifespan would quickly shorten from around five billion years to five thousand years, and the energy release speed would accelerate by a million times.
According to the analysis results, if humanity could master this technology 500 years ahead of time, it would be possible to experience rapid production growth within certain star systems. The current scale of humanity’s military strength could at least be expanded tenfold.
It was a good technology, but it had come too late.
Harrison Clark raised an objection, “I looked at the current energy reserves in the Shadow Galaxy, isn’t there a huge amount of biological batteries available? Do we really need to squeeze the Shadow Sun directly for more energy?”
Martha shook her head, “The composition of Shadow Sun is the same as that of the Sun, but it’s very different from Star 001. The Shadow Sun, Star 001, and even almost every star in the Orion Arm are different. Different stars should have different development rules. We have verified one type of star in the fortress starship, and if time permits, we would also like to verify it again in the Shadow Galaxy, so that we can summarize a more general rule. Lord Sage, if you can remember it and take it back, even if we lose this battle, you can still benefit from this technology in your next timeline.”
Harrison was stunned, “Really?”
The war hadn’t started yet, but people like Martha Owens were already preparing for those in the next timeline.
This was indeed consistent with Needham Brown’s criticism of Harrison Clark, causing him to be at a loss for words.
He calmly said, “Well, you can do as you please.”
The meeting continued.
Harrison Clark did not speak anymore but listened quietly.
The commanders on the Shadow side changed their tactical thinking.
Before Harrison’s appearance, their main strategy was to kill the Prism Ships as quickly as possible.
Now the strategy has changed to a strong defense, clearing the field while waiting for Harrison to arrive with the Egyptian tribe’s core.
The first layer of defense will be established outside the ten layers of the Dyson membrane, using a fortress chain formation similar to the Black Turtle Galaxy.
The second line of defense will be deployed around the asteroid belt.
Humanity will deploy a large number of highly mobile forces in the asteroid belt, using asteroids as natural cover to hide some land-based superguns and force field tearing generators.
The third layer of defense will be located outside the orbit of the Shadow of Earth and within the orbit of Mars.
Between the Shadow of Earth and Mars, humans have deployed a total of sixty-four spherical war fortresses, each with a diameter of up to 3,000 kilometers.
These sixty-four fortresses revolve around the Shadow Sun, each with a separate orbit, forming an intricate relative balance, akin to the structure of C60 fullerenes.
The fourth line of defense is the former “Shadow of Mercury,” now a 4,878-kilometer-wide polyhedral prism ship.
Almost 90% or more of the scientific research and administrative resources are concentrated in this giant Prism Ship.
As for the military leadership, it is distributed among the various fleets.
Harrison Clark had no comment on the battle arrangements. Either way, interfering would be unhelpful, so he simply nodded his head.
Time flew by, and more than two months passed in the blink of an eye.
As the first space Trickster Mine was triggered, the first batch of 30,000 Compound-Eyed Prism Ships arrived at the edge of the Shadow Galaxy.
The defense of humanity’s last prosperous galaxy officially began.
Harrison Clark could not participate in the war, but 14,000 of his 50,000 students did.
Fourteen thousand brand new Star Shadow Battle Armors, embodying the vast knowledge and technology of the Morrowind Empire and all its rare materials, but currently lacking the ability to warp, transformed into steel torrents on the battlefield.
They called themselves the Torrent Assault Team.
Harrison’s students began to showcase their military prowess and bloom in the last glorious twilight of humanity.