Chapter 140: The Maltese Envoy Arrives at the Beacon Space City
The energy wave of the explosion was far more powerful than Yang Yi had estimated, although it was not the first time he had experienced such a scene, Yang Yi did not dare to be careless, accelerated the shuttle engine to a limit speed of 3,000 kilometers per second, and quickly broke away from the radiation circle of the explosion. In a crackling sound, the white shuttle dragged the blue flame for hundreds of thousands of kilometers before it got out of the affected range. The body is riddled with holes and serious damage in many places.
After arriving at the relatively safe airspace, Yang Yi drove the shuttle to wander in the nearby space, observing the battle between the two sides through the airborne hologram.
"Almost, it's time to reconnect with the gravitational fleet, otherwise if the King Kongs don't find themselves and speed away, everything will be wasted."
Half an hour later, Yang Yi squinted at the blue light emitted by the gravitational fleet engine in the night sky in the distance, and a burst of blue light flowed around his body, reforming into the appearance of the captain of the King Kong Captain Miyakiichi again, calling for help from the gravitational fleet through holographic communication, and driving the shuttle to fly towards the fleet's assembly airspace.
Forty minutes after the flight, Yang Yi passed through the wreckage and dust of the combat zone, and the shuttle on the verge of scrapping finally reached the airspace where the Sirius fleet was assembled.
"Report to the commander, our surviving captain Miyakiichi has requested to board the ship." After discovering Yang Yi, the gravitational battleship reported to the commander of the mothership, Tong Feng.
"Oh, I didn't think there were any survivors in the battleship, so quickly pick up Captain Miyakoichi. In this case, I can barely explain to Colonel Mu Qing. When the fleet commander Tong Feng heard that there were still survivors in the battleship carrying the earth's creatures, he immediately perked up and hurriedly ordered Yang Yi to be picked up on the ship.
"Captain Miyakiichi, please submit me a detailed report on the casualties of your ship in the war, as well as the situation of life on the earth, and I will make a detailed report to Colonel Mu Qing on this." After seeing Yang Yi, the fleet commander Tong Feng did not greet him, and ordered directly to Yang Yi.
"Yes, Commander, my subordinates will submit a detailed report to you immediately!" Yang Yi gave Tong Feng a military salute unique to Sirius.
"Miyakoichi, you go down, according to Colonel Muqing's orders. You will follow the fleet back to the headquarters of the Intelligence Bureau and report the details of the incident to Colonel Mu Qing in person. After receiving Yang Yi's accurate reply, Fleet Commander Tong Feng's face softened and waved his hand.
In the following time, Yang Yi, under the questioning of two agents of the Intelligence Bureau, according to Miyakoichi's memory, intercepted the Maltese starship, obtained information on the earth's creatures, and was killed after the heroic performance of the ship's personnel after being surrounded by a large scale, and the process of the destruction of the earth's creatures and their warships was described in detail.
The two agents asked Yang Yi if he had seen the heavy silver metal box in the arsenal, and Yang Yi just shook his head in a row as if he didn't know it, saying that he had never seen such equipment in the battleship.
However, the two agents still did not give up, and after sending a dozen small ships to search the airspace near the explosion of the battleship, it was determined that the creatures from Earth and their ships had been destroyed along with the gravitational warship. Fleet Commander Tong Feng could only truthfully report the situation to Colonel Mu Qing of the Intelligence Bureau. At the same time, it was ordered to clean up the battlefield and begin to search and rescue its own survivors.
Three hours later, the gravitational fleet group barely made much of a stay, and the surviving 4,500 warships accelerated into space one after another, flying at full speed in the direction of Sirius' main fleet assembly, and soon disappeared into the dark universe.
Space has returned to silence, leaving only wandering corpses and the wreckage of a starship.
A few days later.
Centauri and Sirius intelligence bureau leaders have received reports of their own failure to intercept solar system spacecraft, resulting in a conflict between the fleets of the two sides. Through diplomatic channels, they condemn each other for violating the principle of crisis management in a neutral region and triggering new tensions, without mentioning their own losses and casualties.
Of course, neither Sirius nor Centauri sent a large fleet to retaliate against each other for this. After a fierce war of words, although neither side gave in, there were no further large-scale engagements. The two systems are still maintaining large fleets in their respective areas of control to deter each other, creating a new standoff.
Yang Yi followed the King Kong gravitational battleship to the Sirius galaxy, which was far away six light years, and soon hibernated inside the starship. If there are no special circumstances, it will awaken after reaching the airspace near the mainland of Sirius.
At the same time, the fleets sent by the two galaxies to the solar system passed through the control area of the Covenant fleet in three years, entered the universe 2.5 light-years away from the Earth, and accelerated towards the direction of the Earth accompanied by the Covenant fleet.
Twenty-five years passed quickly, and the calendar turned to the year 2427 of the solar system.
In the past few decades, without being involved in any galaxy war vortex, the Covenant has once again grown by leaps and bounds, with the fleet rapidly expanding in size and a breakthrough in the way it advances. The speed of the newly equipped high-powered antimatter slingshot engine has been greatly increased, allowing the starship to reach one-tenth the speed of light, which is comparable to the Centauri and Sirius fleets.
The largest mothership of the Star Covenant fleet, a single ship has covered 1,000 square kilometers of airspace and weighs hundreds of millions of tons. Both the materials and the people carried have reached an unprecedented scale. There are as many as 50,000 stellar-class warships that can carry out expeditions, and they can carry millions of fighters and tens of millions of heavily armed soldiers on interstellar expeditions as far away as ten light-years. After more than 300 years of post-war development, the Covenant fleet has developed into a galactic force that neither Sirius nor Centauri dare to ignore. The expeditionary fleet has advanced into space 2.8 light-years from Earth.
In the absence of external threats, human technology has exploded. Breakthroughs have been made in research in all disciplines. Under the mandate of Star Alliance, research in longevity gene science is particularly compelling. New anti-aging drugs can modify the structure of human cells, so that frequently dead cells can be reborn, and human life expectancy has exceeded 300 years. The short- and medium-term goal of longevity science is to exceed the 500-year-old average human life expectancy, and the long-term goal is to exceed 1,000 years of life.
And a long life expectancy does not mean a decline in the quality of life, and the level of material abundance has reached an unprecedented level. As a result of the implementation of a general genetic improvement programme, various geriatric diseases have been curbed. Even if you are close to 300 years old, you will not behave old, and you will still maintain the strong physique and youthful appearance of an adult. The most obvious change has been a massive increase in the population, while the birth rate has remained at a reasonable level. In the context of widespread longevity, the birth rate is no longer the only measure of population quality.
Almost all of the planets in the solar system have been exploited, and even the most hostile planets are commonly exploited. Various large-scale planetary cities have been built one after another. The number of space cities has exploded, almost all over the planets in the system.
Although the Earth is still the undisputed center of the solar system, the customs of the planets in the system have already changed to varying degrees. Due to the large number of inhabited planets, many planets have lived to be more than two hundred years old without ever visiting Earth. The meeting of the Council of the Star Alliance, held in Beijing, the capital of the Star Alliance, every summer, is a major political event that ordinary residents in the solar system are most concerned about.
During the ten days of the council meeting, all planetary cities and major space cities will hold activities.
Every year on August 16, the anniversary of the establishment of the Covenant, a large-scale expeditionary fleet parade is held in the airspace of Space City, a beacon light over the earth, to commemorate the ancestors who died in the Maltese invasion. Executives from the planets, Covenant Secretaries, Covenant Fleet Commanders and other high-level officials will attend, and the current Covenant Secretaries will also give short speeches.
The number of people who took various luxury civilian interstellar flights to the Beacon Space City and watched the fleet parade was as high as tens of millions, covering an airspace of as far as 50,000 kilometers. In fact, such an event has become one of the great festivals of the Star Alliance.
June 7, 2427 solar system time.
This is a relatively peaceful day above the earth, and the large-scale Guiding Light Space City is lit up in the night sky, like a dazzling planet near the earth. While revolving around the earth, it forms a wonderful triangle with the blue earth 1 million kilometers away and the moon 680,000 kilometers away, which has a different kind of beauty.
At this time, the headquarters of the Star Alliance Fleet, located in the center of the Guiding Light Space City, was busy. The city is lit up and ready to welcome guests from afar in the constellation Centaur.
"General Peng, the visiting starship of the Centaur has entered the airspace of the Beacon Space City, and the Maltese envoy Clone Thousand Three has asked for a meeting with you." In the hall of the Star Alliance headquarters, Rear Admiral Gao Hu, commander of the department's vigilant warship, reported to Fleet Commander Peng Shanghui.
"Captain Gao, allow me to berth at the first berthing station, open the protective shield of the space city with the indication light, and welcome the Maltese envoy into the city. At the same time, the planetary fleets in each system were notified to increase patrols. Peng Shanghui, the commander of the Star Covenant Fleet, who looked young and handsome and had a bit of Confucian demeanor, received the report and gave orders with a straight face.
Judging from the preparation of the Beacon Space City, the Covenant took this meeting with the Centauri envoy very seriously, and despite the fact that the Centaur had invaded Earth, the Covenant took a friendly attitude towards it.
"Received, please rest assured that the fleet within the department will guarantee the completion of the mission and ensure the smooth progress of the meeting." Fleet Commander Gao Hujing raised his right hand and saluted a standard military salute.
In the evening, two 100,000-ton black pentagonal warships from the Centauri, escorted by ten 500,000-ton Star Alliance flying wing fleets, slowly sailed into the first berthing station of Space City.
"Welcome guests from Centaur, welcome the visit of the Envoy of the One Thousand and Three Cloning ......"
The moment the ugly-looking Maltese clone Thousand Three stepped down from the pentagonal starship, he was warmly welcomed by the residents of the Pointing Light Space City, who had been waiting nearby, and the boys and girls cheered and asked for a group photo, and the scene was extremely hot.
The media of the whole solar system broadcast this grand occasion live, and the planetary cities and space cities were like a grand festival, and they were full of lights and joy. Both the official media and non-governmental organizations have taken the opportunity to hype up the hype, and a new wave of consumption spree has swept the entire solar system.
For the new generation of ordinary people, they don't know about the life of aliens who are 4.3 light-years away, let alone the cruel war years hundreds of years ago. The excitement and curiosity of the first contact with the aliens are indescribable, and many girls even express their willingness to marry a Maltese.
The strange thing is that after personally meeting the Maltese envoy who walked down from the battleship, many girls who swore immediately changed their attitudes towards each other, and many children did not dare to compliment the appearance of the Maltese.
"On behalf of the Interstellar Alliance Fleet of the Solar System, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Special Envoy for coming from four light-years away, and extend my best wishes to the people of your system!" In the reception hall of the Star Alliance Fleet Headquarters, Admiral Peng Shanghui, the commander of the fleet, was full of spring breeze and stretched out his right hand to the Maltese envoy.
"General Peng, I am very grateful for your warm reception, but I am here on behalf of the Centauri, not to sue for peace. Diplomatic relations with the solar system, Centauri, is conditional on you being in alliance with us, sending Starfleet as part of the alliance to participate in our war with Sirius, and fully handing over the command of the fleet to us. Otherwise, with the strength of our Alpha Centauri galaxy, there is no need to establish diplomatic relations with a weak galaxy like the solar system. Surprisingly, the Maltese envoy did not shake hands politely, but waved his scaly paws, opened and closed his fanged mouth, and said in a very arrogant tone.
"Mr. Special Envoy's attitude, there is not much sincerity with the solar system at all, if this represents the attitude of the Centauri galaxy, the solar system may not be able to meet the requirements of your galaxy." After the interpreter finished translating the Maltese words, Peng Shanghui's smile on his face stopped awkwardly, and his face instantly became solemn, obviously the Maltese envoy did not bring good news.