Chapter 384: Once Upon a Time in the Galaxy (6100 Words 2-in-1)
The all-out general offensive began at this moment.
There were not many Metroidians left in the Sun Theater at this time, and the original snowflake battleships, fortress ships, motherships, double and three-person fighters also suffered heavy casualties, and only some large and medium-sized warships remained.
Take Chen Feng's Cauldron Legion as an example.
All the millions of Metroidians under his command were killed, and only a few hundred thousand of the 39 million ordinary soldiers remained.
Now that the establishment of the Cauldron Legion no longer exists, only Chen Feng's Colossus of Xingfeng represents the full combat power of this once-existent legion.
Other theaters and legions are no better.
But no matter how critical the situation is, no matter how humble its own strength is, the moment after the order to attack is issued, the remaining eight legions in the Sun Theater press forward slightly at the same time, and continue to fire.
Chen Feng has personally gone out to collect a lot of information.
Of course, the fleet will not blindly rush to death, but will first rain weapons at any cost, focusing on bombarding the nearest prismatic battleship and its nearby link grid lines, trying to cut off a grid line to break the energy balance between prismatic warships.
It's difficult, if not hopeful, of course, but what else?
The war of the huge human fleet opened fire almost simultaneously, and tens of millions of fast or slow particle streams or missile tails poured out in space like a huge meteor swarm.
Tens of thousands of starry sky cannons were fired at the same time.
Although the combat units that fired were in different positions, the direction of the strike was basically located at one point.
In addition to this, a large number of string-energy blasting mines and neutron fragmentation barrage shells were also fired.
These deceitful mines and barrage shells did not rush directly to the front of the grid, but were detonated in advance, in order to use the impact and energy turbulence caused by the explosion to destroy the dark black mass and physical toxins in front of the front, and strive to hit more lethal weapons in front of the prismatic battleship, even if it could not hit, it would be good to consume a little white plasma energy linked to the grid.
Or what if a missile breaks through the blockade of the link grid and rushes outside?
Since missiles can rush out, it means that warships and warplanes can too.
You have to try, you can't close your eyes and wait to die.
On the other side of the battlefield, the small number of black hole bombs and particle bombs that the escape fleet has mastered are finally working.
Although the members of the fugitive fleet are old or young, their comprehensive military literacy is almost non-existent, and the weapon systems of the tinder and sprout ships are also very weak, the situation has reached this point, and it is better to fight hard than to completely entrust hope to others.
The solar theater inside the link grid began to bombard indiscriminately, and the Proxima Centauri warzone and Barnard starship theater fleets outside also began to launch coordinated attacks.
Prismatic battleships look like they are not divided into heads, but there are still differences.
The tip of the front of the prismatic ship releases white light energy to form a grid, and the tail end of the rear release is indeed another kind of energy, slightly similar to the filamentous beam of the spherical battleship, but the emission frequency is much higher, and it quickly forms a shield behind it to resist attacks from the rear.
Chen Feng also patrolled around in front of the selected main attack grid, looking for fighters.
At the same time, the high-level and technical personnel of the Sun Theater, Proxima Centauri, and Barnard Theater quickly built an encrypted quantum information channel and were rapidly exchanging intelligence.
Chen Feng personally participated in the battle, and at the same time, he was also distracted to pay attention to the information.
He first identified one thing.
The dome blockade on Proxima Centauri's side is indeed the same as the solar system barrier.
The moment the barrier disappeared, Proxima Centauri was simultaneously blocked.
This is good news, and the fact that Barnard is still safe means that the Compound Eyes only has this one galaxy-level blocker in their hands.
But the bad news is that since the center point of the barrier can span a distance of four light-years in an instant, it can also span forty, four hundred, or even forty thousand light-years.
This means that every region of the galaxy could suddenly be locked down.
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The amount of information exchanged by the technical personnel is even larger, and the exchange of information and science and technology is quickly completed, focusing on the respective development routes of intelligence and science and technology of the three parties.
Once information is exchanged, it is absorbed.
The scientific and technological development paths of the three star regions are slightly different, but the difference is not big, after all, everyone still shares a set of genetic information structure, and there is no reproductive isolation between them, and the angle of thinking about the problem will be slightly different from region to region, but the overall direction of progress is the same.
The two colonial star regions have not been invaded by Z bacteria, and there are no super scientists like Lai Wenming and Sergei, so the two major star regions have not developed Dyson membranes, nor have they focused on the development of individual combat power.
Its combat mode is dominated by standard warships, which are two-wheeled warships and triangular warships.
Its weapon level and warship performance are generally slightly weaker than the solar system theater before Chen Feng arrived, but each has its own merits.
The strength of the Proxima Centauri fleet is in the curvature flight power, which can reach exactly twice the speed of light through continuous acceleration, in a sense, this is already a rudimentary true curvature flight.
It's not that Proxima Centauri's scientists are smarter than scientists in the solar system, it's just that Proxima Centauri has a special small moon with hypervelocity spin.
In the very small vicinity of this satellite is a very unique structural force field.
Proxima Centauri's scientists have deepened their understanding of this natural phenomenon and the nature of the unifying force through years of investigation and research, and the final result is reflected in the two-wheeled warship's ability to fly with rudimentary curvature.
They put the core metal material of the engine into a special force field, and after decades of immersion and modification, the final engine performance has improved by leaps and bounds.
The Barnard Star Fleet has slightly inferior flight power, almost the same as the Sun Fleet, but its energy weapons are more powerful.
Unlike the solar fleet's phase particles and high-energy rays, Barnard's battleship guns release a special energy source called austenitic rays, which are far more penetrating and destructive than high-energy rays and phase particles, and can reach 1.5 times the speed of light.
Barnard scientists were able to develop the Austenite Cannon because of a large meteorite in the Barnard system.
There is a natural deposit in meteorites from which the Austenite isotope 305 can be mined.
Irradiating the austenitic isotope 305 with ordinary high-energy rays can excite austenitic rays.
The earthlings in a remote corner have exhausted their imagination, and they can't imagine that there can be a substance with a relative atomic mass of 305 that can remain stable at room temperature in the universe, nor can they imagine that there will be an asteroid that spins at a terrifying high speed similar to a black hole but does not disintegrate.
The universe is so big that it is full of infinite possibilities.
The stellar blockade dome not only blocks space, but also blocks the opportunity for civilization to go out and see something new, that is, vision.
In the absence of super geniuses, the technological progress of the two colonies can be basically the same as that in the solar system, in addition to being at the starting line of the same scientific and technological background, contact with new planets and seeing new physical rules are also important factors.
Chen Feng saw the progress of Proxima Centauri Colony and Barnard Star, and he was deeply moved.
He only thought that the solar system barrier blocked the space and prevented humans from escaping, but he didn't expect the idea of technology blockade, but now he understands that it is indeed a desperate plan.
Theoretically, it is basically impossible for the level of science and technology of the first level and above civilizations that have been blocked to make explosive progress.
In addition to the scientific and technological things, Chen Feng also briefly flipped through the exploration information of the two colonies in the galaxy, mainly in the Orion Spiral Arm.
After these two groups of wanderers went out and took root, they never relaxed their exploration of the external environment.
In addition, the two colonies not only cut off their ties with the solar system, but also remained independent of each other.
At first, they kept in mind the admonition of "go far away, don't look back", and since they could not contact their home planet, they naturally would not try to contact other colonies that had been successfully established.
The two sides chose completely different directions and began to move forward, constantly establishing scientific research stations and sending more and more advanced scientific research spacecraft.
Although they haven't really gone far until now, the total is only a few hundred light-years away, and the farthest scientific research spacecraft has only advanced less than two hundred light-years, not even one percent of Orion's spiral arm, but through more and more advanced detection equipment, their line of sight is projected farther and farther.
In addition, they can see what is happening in the solar system with relative clarity from a distance of several light years.
Although they did not personally feel the horrors of the mass extinction, they saw it clearly.
The people of the two colonies began to feel a sense of urgency, accelerated the pace of exploration, and came to the conclusive conclusion that there was no second civilization in the Orion spiral arm composed of tens of billions of stars that met Kardashev's level 1 classification.
They discovered some extraterrestrial civilizations, but none of them had the ability to travel across star systems.
They have also had brief and superficial contact with each other, but these civilizations are completely unaware of the existence of compound eyes.
Later, the two colonies each discovered the ruins of a ruined civilization, including destroyed spaceships, torn cities, and even large planets that had been shattered into fragmented asteroid belts.
These destroyed and fallen civilizations have one thing in common.
No matter what development path a fallen civilization takes, at the time of its demise, it is basically on the border of a first-class civilization, maybe a little worse, or a little more than a step forward.
They had just begun, or were about to master the ability to sail across stellar stars, when they were suddenly destroyed.
The Crisis of the Compound Eyed game and movie left behind by the philosopher Chen Feng, as well as the famous book called "Feng Lei", and the mass extinction catastrophe that took place in the solar system, are linked to the intelligence collected by the two growing colonies, forming a sad conclusion.
The compound eye civilization certainly exists.
It's just that all civilizations that have come into contact with the compound eye civilization have perished.
The other low-level civilizations that are completely unaware of this are just not even worth being slaughtered.
Around the beginning of the 30th century, a major discovery was made on a research ship in the Proxima Centauri colony.
They found a small escape ship.
This escape ship does not belong to humans, nor does it belong to any of the low-level civilizations that have been discovered, nor does it fit the characteristics of the estimated compound eye civilization.
The level of science and technology of this civilization is very high, even close to the theoretical value of a third-level civilization.
The escape ship was empty, not even the wreckage of the dead, and there was no data on it.
Scientists tentatively named it the Fan Clan.
After careful discussion, scientists believe that the Mystery Race was likely once the main civilization in the galaxy, but perished at the hands of the compound eye civilization.
Scientists also compared the materials, performance and weapons of the Compound Eyes battleship depicted by Chen Feng in film and television works, and speculated that the Compound Eye Battleship did absorb some of the technology of the Fan Clan.
The Mi Race itself should be a strange mechanical civilization based on metal and combined with a small amount of organic matter.
As for the time of the extinction of the Lost Race, it was between 50 and 1 million years ago.
Such a powerful advanced civilization quietly disappeared within Orion's arm, leaving only a stranded escape ship, and the ferocity and strength of the compound eyes can be seen.
Since then, the two colonies have decided almost simultaneously to break their oath and attempt to contact their home planet.
But something weird happened.
They can see everything in the solar system, but no matter how they send a signal to their home star, they are muddy and cannot reply.
Even if they switch to the quantum network channel of their home planet, the result will be the same.
This left scientists in both colonies puzzled, and could only blame it on the solar system barrier and draw new conclusions.
People and devices in the solar system can't actually see what's going on outside.
The starry sky remains, but the light and signals are distorted by the barrier, and the farther away you go, the greater the distortion.
Therefore, since 2500 years later, the earth civilization has been unable to make a real observation of the universe outside, and all that can be retrieved is the void deep space within two light years, and as for the other cosmic backgrounds, they are all false cosmic environments.
Although they were unable to communicate with their home planet, the colonies managed to make contact with each other, quickly communicating with each other, and continuing to advance technology in the direction in which they excelled.
It's a pity that the distance between the two sides is too far, and although the research ships can come and go, they can't exchange materials in a large area, so their respective warships are still evolving along their main development directions.
The people in the two colonies considered whether to send a research ship back to the vicinity of the solar system to try to communicate with their home planet through the barrier, but they were unable to make the trip due to concerns that the information might be exposed in advance.
The first is that the mother planet has taken another path of scientific and technological development, and it is not lagging behind itself, and it may not be beneficial to absorb these things of its own, and secondly, instead of exposing it in advance, it is better to organize a huge fleet with reckless force, and return to the battlefield in the form of surprise soldiers at the time of war, and the spherical battleship of the Eyecatcher will be caught off guard.
Of course, they knew that if their fleet appeared on the battlefield, it would definitely reveal the location of the colony in an instant.
But so what?
The enemy's fleet is here, and Ben will not return empty-handed.
Instead of waiting for each to die, it is better to go back to his hometown and fight.
After all, the time is only 500 years, and the fact that human beings can do is too little, and it can only be said that they can do a little bit.
In the process of charging into battle, Chen Feng roughly swept through these materials.
He has his own opinions.
The technological routes and life forms of the low-level civilizations that were considered unworthy by the colonies had their own peculiarities.
Although the overall strength of low-level civilizations is low, and the colonies and each other are only in initial contact at the information level, and have not formed a system of commercial and technological communication, Chen Feng believes that with the all-encompassing characteristics of human beings, we should still try to deepen contact with these low-level civilizations, learn from each other's strengths, and as long as we can accept their strengths and incorporate them into our own system, even if it is just an idea, we can get huge benefits.
It's a pity that the colony didn't do well enough this time.
But this is a non-war crime.
The universe is so big that even if it is just a "tiny" galaxy, the radius is 50,000 light-years.
It is only a small part of the Orion arm in the Milky Way, which is also more than 20,000 light-years long.
Even at the speed of light, the journey is too far away.
Five hundred years is really just a flick of a finger, and nothing can be done.
A thousand years is not much better.
At the same time, Chen Feng can also conclusively believe that the compound eye civilization is indeed the current ruler of the galaxy.
Among the tripartite scientists currently being discussed, some people in the Solar Theater believe that the compound eye civilization may be a new civilization rising within the galaxy.
But Chen Feng doesn't see it that way, he firmly believes that the compound eyes must be an invader from the distant Virgo Local Cluster.
After completing the technology incubation, they sent out a fleet, and when they arrived in the galaxy, they started a war and defeated the Mysteries.
Then the Compound Eyes began to rule the galaxy in an extremely iron-blooded style.
The method of domination is simple and brutal, sending spherical warships to patrol, and destroying potential civilizations once they are discovered.
It is possible that the Compound Eyes visited Earth in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, but the earthlings were too weak to be mentioned.
In the 21st century, the 0.7-level Earth civilization should not have entered the category of extermination.
In the first timeline, the civilization of Earth in the 26th century is still a stone's throw away from stable stellar system-level astronautics.
Theoretically, the earthlings at that time should still be safe.
As a result, human civilization is due to the traveler entering the field of vision of the higher civilization in advance, and then the compound eye person drops the solar system barrier to blockade it, and then sends patrols (spherical warships) to destroy it.
This continued for seven timelines, and on the eighth occasion, the Compound Eye civilization realized that the spherical warships might not be enough to deal with the situation, and sent out a fleet of prismatic ships.
Based on the fact that the solar system barrier arrived in Proxima Centauri instantly, Chen Feng deduced that this barrier has the ability to fly across space.
Then the theoretical facts should be like this.
Voyager 2 flew five hundred years in a passage built by a dark energy black hole and arrived in front of an advanced civilization.
This higher civilization may or may not be the creator of the solar barrier.
There is another possibility, the solar barrier and the electronic-grade dark energy black hole are both means that the compound eyes obtained from the hands of higher civilizations.
Then, by analyzing the characteristics of the Voyager Vehicle, and deciphering the information inside, the characteristics of human beings, the trajectory of technological development, and the amazing potential were exposed.
In the next instant, the compound eye civilization activated the highest-level ruling tool, the Sun Barrier, to complete the rapid delivery, and at the same time dispatched military forces in a targeted manner, that is, the ball warships of the previous seven times, as well as the ball ships and prism fleets this time.
If Chen Feng straightened out these ideas in the past, he probably still wanted to lie down on the spot and wait for death, but now he can't remember how much psychological construction he has done, and his nerves have already been so thick that they are breathtaking.
Anyway, if there are more lice, I'm not afraid of itching, and what can I do if I know that the truth is terrifying, and I'm done.
Of course, those who can dream must also learn to face reality.
Chen Feng briefly took a look at the current battle losses of the three human armies.
Fast, outrageously fast.
No matter how frantically the human fleet attacked inside and outside, the prismatic fleet was completely unmoved, only stretched out its shields and continued to compress space at the established speed of half light.
Even Barnard's fleet struggled to keep up with the advance of the prismatic fleet after slowing down.
The situation within the grid link is not much better, the human fleet has not been able to attack for a long time, and can only continue to retreat.
Soon, the human fleet in the Solar Theater stopped advancing and had to begin to retreat.
It seems that the vigorous fleets of the three major theaters of war are raiding at the same time, but in fact, it is better than hitting a stone with an egg.
Only a few minutes had passed, and the slower fortress ships, star cannons, and stellar cannons had been swept through the grid and broken down into elementary particles.
One fighter after another had to run out of these large combat units like ants whose nests had been destroyed.
But at most, these warriors are armed with dragons.
The acceleration performance of the Tamron Armament is still not enough to support a rapid half-light speed.
In addition to these dangers, the dark black masses floating in the solar system, the particle bombs detonated everywhere, and the tens of millions of blade mantis that understate the grid space also pose a great threat to humanity.
On the periphery of the battlefield space, the casualties of the Centauri fleet were better.
But a handful of blade mantis that turned around still posed a huge threat to the 80 million two-wheeled warships.
As for the Barnard Star Fleet, the Prismatic Battleship took a more direct counterattack, once again dropping a large number of enhanced Dragonfly fighters to pounce on the Barnard Star Fleet like a swarm of locusts.