Department of Space Scouting. In Ciel's office, she looked at the piece of information she had just delivered, and her face couldn't help but become solemn.

"Ruoxi, help me make an appointment to meet with Mr. Chairman, within three days, the reason is S-level intelligence." Assistant Li Ruoxi nodded: "Yes, minister." Looking at the back of the assistant leaving in a hurry, Hill lowered his head again and carefully reviewed the information again.

It has been several years since the anomalous light spot appeared on the six-clawed giant, and the Space Reconnaissance Department has been monitoring the six-clawed giant for all these years.

It wasn't until more than a week ago that a monitoring station 0.092 light-years away from the center of the solar system once again detected the movement of the six-clawed giant.

The other side. After Sanchi Badaliyar received the request for a meeting from the Space Reconnaissance Department, she found out that it was S-class intelligence, and she didn't dare to slack off.

quickly adjusted Li Qingye's recent itinerary. Less than 17 hours. Li Qingye took the time to meet with Hill through the virtual conference room.

"Mr. Chairman!"

"Ciel, where's the intelligence?" Hill was prepared and immediately shared the relevant information. After receiving the information, Li Qingye listened to Hill's briefing while flipping through it.

"Chairman, nine days ago, we were at a monitoring station in the outer solar system and monitored dense thermal radiation points." "These dense radiants are generated by plasma, and their trajectory is the solar system, and according to the data of continuous monitoring, these thermal radiants are moving faster and faster, and have now reached about 752 kilometers per second......"

"Considering that it takes about 3 years for the light of the six-clawed giant to be transmitted to the solar system, this means that the other party set off 3 years ago." Li Qingye also finished reading the information at this time, he turned his head and ordered: "Jasmine, notify Maung Gu and Du Wei to come over." ”

"Yes, sir." Sanchibal's figure disappeared into the virtual conference room. After a while, the figures of Maung Gu and Du Wei, who were urgently summoned, appeared in front of Li Qingye.

Maung Gu immediately saluted Li Qingye: "Chairman! ”

"Chairman!" Du Wei, who was in charge of the Department of Cosmosic Defense, also followed suit and saluted. Li Qingye waved his hand and shared the information with the two of them: "Look at this information first." ”

"Yes." Maung Gu and Du Wei hurriedly browsed the information, after all, it was Li Qingye who personally summoned them, obviously this information was very important.

The more they looked at them, the more their brows furrowed. Maung Gu raised his head solemnly: "Chairman, the six-claw civilization is not good!" We can't afford to wait, it's better to be proactive. ”

"Chairman, I agree with Minister Maunggu's idea." Du Wei clenched his fists. Li Qingye naturally did not object: "Well, what you think, I have no opinion, the solar system, as the base camp of human civilization, is absolutely not allowed to become a battlefield, and it is best to annihilate these six-clawed people in the middle." However, Hill still reminded: "Chairman, two colleagues, now we still have obvious deficiencies in the real situation of the six-clawed people, after all, the previous six-claw spaceship can only represent the six-claw civilization fifty thousand years ago, we still have to go all out and be cautious before going to war." "For this, everyone will naturally not be arrogant enough to think that the six-claw civilization is vulnerable.

After all, the six-claw civilization is a first-class civilization, which is much stronger than the free world on the earth.

In order to avoid capsizing in the gutter, Li Qingye thought for a while: "That's it! Dewey! ”

"In!" Du Wei immediately sat upright.

"You work with Ciel to launch a batch of Tinder ships in the direction of the six-clawed giant, quickly capture the dark stars along the way, and build defensive fortresses based on the large dark stars along the way."

"Yes!"

"No problem." Li Qingye circled those dark stars on the star map with his fingers: "Remember, not only to occupy the large dark stars, but also to empty all the small dark stars around the large dark stars, so as not to leave the stars that the six-clawed people can use." Du Wei immediately understood Li Qingye's intentions.

Don't look at the distance between the six-clawed giant and the center of the solar system at a distance of 3.2 light years, which is close on a cosmic scale.

However, it is still very difficult for an ordinary first-class civilization to cross 3.2 light years. If material replenishment is not obtained along the way, the consequence is that the strength of the interstellar expeditionary fleet is getting weaker and weaker.

Unless the Hexapus' astronautship technology reaches the level of 30% of the speed of light and can reach the solar system in more than ten years, the fleet will definitely continue to shrink.

And the speed of 30% of the speed of light, among the cosmic civilizations that Homo sapiens already knows, only the constant light civilization can do, and this civilization is the quasi-second-level civilization that defeats the intelligent machine civilization.

Obviously, the possibility that the six-clawed civilization can increase the speed of the spaceship to more than 30% of the speed of light is very small.

It's not that Li Qingye looks down on the six-clawed civilization, but according to the database of the intelligent machine civilization, if the spaceship wants to break through the speed of light by 5%, it can't be done with a simple plasma thruster, and with the gravitational slingshot of the black hole, it is possible to increase the speed to 5~10% of the speed of light.

According to the detection data of the Department of Space Reconnaissance, there is no black hole around the six-clawed giant, and a simple plasma thruster cannot even break through the speed of light at 5%.

Li Qingye estimated that the spaceship of the Six-Clawed Civilization could only reach 2% of the speed of light at most, or even only 0.5%.

It's not his speculation, it's the resources. The resources of the six-clawed giant are too poor, even if the other party mines all the natural satellites and ring asteroids of the six-clawed giant, and even collects the surface gas of the giant planet, the resources it has are less than one-fifth of the solar system.

Even if the solar system does not count the sun, but only counts planets, natural satellites, asteroids and stardust, the resources are still more than ten times more than that of the six-clawed giant.

The lack of resources can severely limit the speed at which civilization can develop, and it will also make the ceiling of civilization even lower.

There are many living examples of this in the database of intelligent machine civilization. Unless the six-clawed civilization is directly opened, it can use vacuum zero-point energy, antimatter, dark matter, and the like, otherwise it will definitely be difficult to reach the speed of light at 2%.

For a first-level civilization, the difficulty of an expedition to another planetary system lies in the speed of the ship, the self-circulation technology of the ship, and the replenishment along the way.

The speed of the spaceship and the self-circulation technology of the spaceship, Li Qingye has no way to change it, but he can change the supplies along the way.

This is equivalent to the fortified wall in the ancient war. As long as Homo sapiens is one step ahead and controls the dark stars between the hexapus giant star and the solar system, the expeditionary fleet of the Hexapus will be dehydrated after getting close to the solar system.

However, Homo sapiens' space fleet can be replenished through these dark stars, and under the trade-off, Homo sapiens can gain a first-mover advantage.