Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agency.

As the only external intelligence bureau of mankind today.

Since the human beings detected the expeditionary fleet of the Boxing people four years ago, the establishment of this department has expanded rapidly like a balloon, from a small department of 100 people that was almost unattended, to a large department of 1,000 people.

Even after the war, the department did not cut in the slightest, but continued to expand steadily.

The entire intelligence bureau is divided into eight sub-divisions, covering star map calculation, astronomical reconnaissance, monitoring of cosmic signals, exploration of extraterrestrial civilizations, evaluation of science and technology levels, and diplomatic negotiations with extraterrestrial civilizations.

Of course, the only extraterrestrial civilization discovered by mankind today is such a civilization as Boxing.

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At this time, one of the conference rooms of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agency was full of seats and silent.

A telematics device dismantled from the Bolstar spacecraft and repaired by humans is placed on the table.

Of course, only large spacecraft are equipped with ultra-high-power long-range quantum communication equipment for interstellar communication, and its size is naturally not so small, but this kind of giant equipment that is nearly 30 meters high is obviously impossible to put in the conference room, and now it is only its pickup (a device that collects live sound and then sends it to the back-end equipment)

A negotiator and assistant whispered to each other about the manuscript for a while, then took a deep breath, made a ready gesture, and the current quickly passed into the communication equipment, and the small lights that represented normal turned on one by one.

The signal channel was soon opened.

"This is a call from humans, now on behalf of human civilization, formally asking to negotiate with you, if you receive a signal, please answer immediately, please answer immediately!"

The negotiator carefully and fluently uttered a series of Bosing words, which were then repeated three more times.

For many people of the older generation, the Boxing language is not unfamiliar, in a certain era, in order to better absorb the technology of the Boxing people, many people have worked hard to learn the language of this foreign civilization, and for the diplomatic department of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Bureau, this language must be proficient.

Today, a lot of high-level people came, except for those who really had something to do and couldn't leave, almost all of them went to the conference room, paying attention to this historic call, putting aside Boxing, the blood feud of mankind, this is undoubtedly the first time that mankind has officially had a dialogue with another civilization.

However, as the minutes passed, the communication equipment was silent for a long time, and no sound came from it except for the noisy interference.

However, this is expected, after all, even quantum communication, at a distance of tens of light years, will have a certain delay, but I didn't expect it to be delayed for so long.

A group of people waited from morning to noon, and from noon to midday.

From the original silence, to the whispering later, to the noisy discussion at the end.

Just when the hungry crowd thought that the communication had failed, a string of hurried Boxing words came from the loudspeaker, and the whole conference room was silent.

"Humans? Are you human? "This voice from nearly thirty light-years away, under the heavy cosmic interference, seems to be a little erratic, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, occasionally with a hint of piercing sharpness.

However, even those who no longer understand the language of Boxing can hear the incredible shock and panic in this voice.

It's a subtle state of mind, as the loser of this war, who both hope that this defeat is just another accident, that it is an off-the-field factor that affects the expeditionary fleet (which it is), even if the probability is almost impossible, and they are panicked about the speed of human development.

"I repeat, this is a call from humanity, now on behalf of human civilization, formally asking to negotiate with you, whoever you are, now contact the upper echelons who you can contact you, we are here with peace."

Another long wait, which is destined to be the longest negotiation in history.

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At the same time that the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agency carried out strategic deception and lowered the vigilance of the Bosnian people.

When science and technology have developed to a mature intelligent era, the size of the total productive forces has been freed from the shackles of population, and the size of the productive forces is only determined by the will of the upper echelons and the limits of resource and environmental destruction.

Although the Barnard Galaxy is only a star system, it is an abundant resource for human development.

The total mass of Planet 4 alone is equivalent to the sum of all the rocky planets in the entire solar system.

On the surface of Planet 4, the huge construction machinery that represents the traces of human activities is spreading and expanding rapidly like a virus, whether it is the "ice" of the surface atmosphere after being frozen and solidified, or the underground rocks, all of which are destructively mined and separated into various elements, becoming factories, machines, and millions of nuclear fusion furnace fuels.

This massive human activity has even affected the temperature of the planet, and the ice-covered planet 4 is rising at 3 degrees Celsius per year, and by the third year after the war, the planet already has a thin atmosphere and some climate change.

Also in this year, mankind's first curvature spacecraft began sea trials.

However, the construction of one spacecraft of this type vetoed the original plan of nearly 30 ships.

It's not that this ship has obvious flaws, it's quite perfectly designed, absorbing the technology of the Boxing people, and making a big leap forward in human scientific and technological strength.

The surface of the entire spacecraft is absolutely smooth and mirror-like, and the reflectivity of light (the reflectivity of light perpendicular to the incident light) is close to 100 percent, which can effectively resist even light-faster photons.

Its maximum curvature can reach 4.5 times the speed of light, far exceeding the three times the speed of light of the Bosstar spacecraft.

The reason why the subsequent shipbuilding plan was rejected was that the antimatter power furnace, which had been in an experimental state, also matured in this year, and this special power furnace showed an overwhelming advantage as soon as it was born.

Even if it is only the first prototype, its maximum energy output power has reached more than 300 times the largest fusion furnace ever built by mankind, and only ten units are enough to supply the energy needs of the entire spacecraft originally designed.

Combined with the space savings in terms of fuel, even a simple replacement can free up 15% of the space.

The original curvature spacecraft was like a dam for energy consumption, and a significant portion of the space was used to store pure water (fusion fuel) and increase the array of fusion furnaces.

Don't underestimate this 15 percent space.

Human beings are not always in a long-term peace and never have foreign enemies, war runs through almost the entire history of mankind, compared to the Boxing people's child's play attitude towards the military, human thinking about military weapons is completely nitpicking, the pursuit of weapon performance has reached the limit, in the human military spaceship, you will not see the slightest space idle.

Not to mention 15 percent of the space, even one percent is a huge waste.

It not only allows the design of the spaceship to be more relaxed, but also allows for more space, and can have more powerful kinetic energy by simply adding an antimatter power furnace without expanding the size of the spaceship.

Except for one flaw, antimatter reserves are limited.

In recent years, the preparation technology of antimatter has made significant progress, and now the conversion rate of energy/antimatter has reached 1/10,000, that is, 10,000 parts of energy can be converted into one part of antimatter energy. However, since the temporary settlement of the Badner star system, the production of antimatter by humans has been in a state of small-scale production, even in wartime, the scale of production has not expanded in the slightest.

First, the energy is seriously wasted, and secondly, the demand for antimatter is not large, and the effect on interstellar warfare is weak, and in the face of long distances, lightspeed weapons are the most mainstream weapons in interstellar warfare, and they are also the most effective weapons.

Therefore, human beings have been in this galaxy for more than ten years, and the total antimatter reserves are only thousands of tons, a considerable part of which is still harvested from the Boxing spacecraft, but this amount is far from the energy required by a curvature spacecraft to span nearly thirty light years.

Fortunately, this defect is easy to make up, and with the current level of human science and technology, it is easy to simply expand the scale of production.

In the fourth year, in just one year, the scale of antimatter production was expanded tenfold to five thousand tons.

In the fifth year, the production of antimatter reached 80,000 tons, and the price paid was that the temperature of Planet 4 had risen by another ten degrees in the past two years.

(End of chapter)