Chapter 474: How Do You Choose?
"At 4 o'clock today, an unknown creature invaded the warning range of the Imperial fleet, and the two sides were expelled by the Imperial fleet after a brief exchange of fire.
"The amoeba side declares that according to their information records from the new generation of organisms, the new generation of organisms did not carry out any means of attack on the Empire, and all the losses of the Imperial fleet were caused by their own attack weapons, and they have nothing to do with the amoeba, and the losses suffered by the Imperial fleet in this matter Amoeba will not consider compensation, and hopes that the Empire can give a reasonable explanation for the unilateral attack of its own fleet." The battle between the Imperial Fleet and the Leaping Creature, although it was only the Empire's unilateral pulse attack, was still very large, and the reason was not on the Imperial Fleet's side, but mainly in the antimatter propulsion used by the Leaping Creature, each use would be accompanied by the release of high-energy gamma rays, which was easily captured by the civilian observation radar on the planet.
Although it was not a glorious thing to be beaten unilaterally, it was a unilateral attack by the own fleet, and the other side only relied on its strong propulsion to get close to the fleet, and then performed various incomprehensible maneuvers between the ships to evade, and finally flew away.
However, after the rebellion, the empire changed its previous way of doing things, and considering that it was because of the amoeba, even if it was more embarrassing, they would not hide it from the public.
Of course, it's one thing not to hide it, it's another thing to beautify it verbally, after all, it's really embarrassing to be straight.
…… Time passed, and a few months passed, and the general content of the so-called 'new creatures' was actively revealed by the amoeba's side, and all the people of Seren clearly knew that the amoeba had designed an organic organism that could use antimatter.
All kinds of doubts and disbelief appear among the Selenes, but more people have a skeptical attitude, because antimatter is a widespread thing in science fiction, and many Selenes only know a concept about antimatter, and they don't know what antimatter looks like.
However, what is happening in the orbit of the star cannot be believed by them - there are Serenes, this is a lie deliberately unleashed by amoeba, but how to explain the high-energy gamma-ray bursts?
According to the energy output per unit time, the unit mass of the energy output body can be calculated, which can prove that a military spacecraft with the same volume cannot do this kind of thing at all, and the energy release of nuclear fusion is also an upper limit after all.
After the people of Seline learned about the leaping creatures, they naturally thought about it, why does the amoeba have antimatter?
What are the reserves of antimatter? What is the purpose of the leapfrog creature? And so on. The empire wanted to use this to quietly learn about the Amoeba information, and the Amoeba also wanted the Serens to know about this, so the people of the Serens quickly learned about the Amoeba shocking actions.
Things like sub-light colonization across stars, wanton expansion and development in other star systems, the preparation of millions of tons of antimatter and shipping them back, and so on.
Then, the Serens were completely frightened by the information that these amoebas had deliberately revealed. Antimatter, which is a surreal thing that only appears in science fiction movies and television, suddenly and boldly broke into the world they live in!
There is also a long voyage across the stars, sub-light speed sailing, these are also situations that only appear in science fiction movies and television, when they are still fantasizing, the amoeba has already realized it for them?
! In addition to these, Amoeba also took the initiative to publish the star map, and also marked it very intimately, and the Seren people who knew a little bit of literary knowledge could see at a glance that with the star system they were in, the stable star system with planets within a radius of more than 20 light years was colonized and occupied by Amoeba.
What does this mean? This means that the path of the Serens has been cut off, and although the cosmic environment is very large, even if Amoeba occupies all the star systems within a radius of more than twenty light years, it is impossible to form a forced barrier against the Empire.
But there are some things that can't be seen that way, the risk of transstellar navigation increases with the distance scale, and there will be a lot more free atoms encountered during the voyage, which will erode the outer armor of the battleship, unless more advanced materials can be developed than the electron degenerate state to block these free atoms.
Otherwise, learn sublight-speed creatures and build an antimatter shield in front of you. Free atoms are still a thing, but the danger is the high-energy plasma state of interstellar dust and the wandering meteorites floating among the stars, both of which can be extremely dangerous.
One is like raw meat being thrown into boiling water, and the other is like a bullet hitting the body to form a penetration, no matter which one is not an easy problem to deal with, more importantly, the two will also multiply their power as the speed of the spacecraft increases, and when they are raised to sub-light speed, the power of the two is even more terrifying.
For these reasons, the movement of star systems is the safest interstellar navigation, and if you build a starbase in these stars, if something happens to the ship, it can be repaired in the starbase and then continue on the road.
Therefore, even if there were no habitable planets, these star systems with planets would be the target of the Empire's expansion, and yet - these star systems had already been occupied by the amoeba.
Amoeba deliberately disseminated information in order to let the Serens know about this, which was part of their plan.
After discovering this, the Serens will be afraid, panicked, and confused, because their future development path is blocked by other civilizations, and if they want to develop, they must obtain some star systems, whether they grab or buy, in short, they must find ways to obtain such a 'springboard' for the development of civilization.
However, this is a very troublesome problem, how should they carry out cross-star operations, even if it is a battle within the star system, they can no longer win, the only card that can be considered to be able to get out is the black hole bomb that can cause a supernova explosion, but this is also the last hole card, the hole card that must not be easily played until the last resort, is the civilization fang that drags the enemy to death when the dead race is about to be wiped out.
Therefore, this time the empire was really forced into a dead end by amoeba.