Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 317: The Power of Blowing Ash

Miracles do not violate the laws of nature, but rather they violate the nature as we currently know it. —Saint Augustine

The Earth Empire's miraculous 20-minute display of power sent shivers down the spines of almost every human being. People seemed to hear their own hearts pounding, and the pale blue light that filled their surroundings seemed to create a symphony of light and shadow, a dance between man and god.

Ye Wangzhou seemed to be "ruling the world" and "looking down on all living beings," his piercing eyes scanning everyone as if his eyes possessed an irresistible magic.

"Gentlemen, I just received orders from the Commander-in-Chief to broadcast the war between the Imperial Fleet and the Perseus Civilization Fleet, followed by a live broadcast of the war between the Imperial Fleet and the faster-than-light intelligent civilization of Auriga de la Moss. With nine minutes and thirty seconds remaining, let me first introduce the Perseus Civilization, capable of light-speed travel. The Perseus Civilization's home planet is 250 million light-years from Earth. Through over a thousand years of colonial expansion, the Perseus Civilization has amassed 252 subordinate civilizations, and its sphere of influence extends nearly 10,000 light-years. The Perseus Civilization's specialty is particle attack, which involves directly destroying the enemy's home star. Through particle attacks, the Perseus Civilization has destroyed more than thirty civilizations of comparable strength." The next topic is the Auriga de la Mos superluminal civilization. Their original home planet is 26 billion light-years from Earth. The Auriga de la Mos civilization achieved light-speed travel 5,000 years ago and superluminal travel 1,600 years ago. Currently, they can continuously travel across galaxies, covering 3 million light-years in ten years—roughly from your Milky Way galaxy to the Andromeda Galaxy. A being in this civilization can travel approximately 90 million light-years in their lifetime. The Auriga de la Mos superluminal civilization's sphere of influence is approximately 200 million light-years. It can be said that just over two months ago, this civilization would have ranked among the top 20 most advanced civilizations in the universe.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the battle between the Imperial Fleet and the Perseus Civilization Fleet will be broadcast live next."

As soon as Ye Wangzhou finished speaking, countless stars appeared on the spherical 3D holographic screen. At the same time, Ye Wangzhou's holographic display shrank, like a picture-in-picture television. These stars magnified, each almost representing a galaxy cluster. The galaxy clusters expanded further, revealing many galaxies. Then the image froze on a giant spiral galaxy, which magnified again to the fourth arm. Many large fireballs appeared on the fourth arm, each a star.

The image zoomed in further, revealing a single star in the sky. This star possessed four planets, and between these planets lay over a hundred large warship docks, with numerous warships and spaceships moving in and out. Around each of the four planets were numerous satellites and space-based orbital cannons. The camera focused on the fourth planet, creating an effect like looking down at Earth from space. Zooming in further, forests and oceans became visible. Zooming down even further, towering buildings reached into the clouds, and the sky was filled with rapidly flying spacecraft, startling the viewers on the 3D holographic spherical screen. Some of these spacecraft flew right past humans on Earth. Viewers noticed a giant tower on the planet's surface, taller than all the surrounding buildings, its spire gleaming with light and electricity.

People watching the 3D holographic spherical giant screen couldn't help but reach out and touch the buildings around them.

Suddenly, a beam of intense light illuminated the sky, shooting directly into the tower's spire. The camera rapidly ascended, following the beam of light, which emanated from a massive, long, ring-shaped spaceship orbiting the planet. This ring-shaped spaceship was surrounded by enormous solar sails, and the beam of light originated from its central axis. This was clearly a spaceship collecting solar energy and transmitting it to the giant tower. This kind of solar energy transmission was not present on the first three planets; perhaps the fourth planet is simply farther from its sun.

Just when people thought this was the Perseus civilization, a beam of light traveled along the side of this star and gradually expanded, heading towards the sun.

From the four planetary space docks, a large number of warships took off and flew towards the sun. The warships were flying so fast that against the backdrop of the starry sky, they looked like a series of meteors shooting towards the light particle that was about to strike the sun. At the same time, countless spaceships on the four planets set off and moved away from the sun.

The warships intercepting the light particles quickly encountered them. In space, two clusters of light flashed and collided, bursting forth with intense light. Soon, one cluster disappeared, while the remaining cluster of light continued its journey, striking the sun. The sun seemed to sneeze repeatedly, its surface bursting with light. The sun violently expanded and then contracted, filling the world with intense light. The sun exploded. The first planet fell directly into the sun, while the other three planets were destroyed by the light, leaving not even dust. The power of the solar explosion directly destroyed the alien spaceships that were fleeing away from the sun.

The camera begins to zoom in, showing the exploding sun gradually shrinking, its expanding light also rapidly contracting until it becomes a large, flickering orb. In a certain location within this flickering orb, a fleet of three to four thousand warships is rapidly advancing, quickly reaching near the speed of light.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the intelligent civilization of the Moli civilization, capable of traveling at 60% of the speed of light, in the fourth arm of the Saints system of the Natalie Perseus star cluster, was destroyed by the Perseus civilization's fleet by bombarding its parent star with light particles."

The giant 3D holographic spherical screen displayed the same massive spiral galaxy as before. On the third arm of the Saint Si star system, approximately 20,000 light-years from the parent star of the recently destroyed Moli civilization, a very bright star cluster appeared. This enormous star cluster, about 100 light-years in diameter, contained over 7,000 stars. Within this cluster, numerous giant warships were moving in and out. Incredibly, several planets had suddenly appeared between some of the stars in this star cluster; the intelligent civilization within it was actually transporting these planets.

"Everyone, this is the main base of the Perseus civilization in the Perseus constellation." Ye Wangzhou's voice rang in everyone's ears.

A bright cluster of stars occupied almost a third of the giant screen. Near the bright cluster of stars, ten warships, each about the size of the moon, appeared. At the edge of the star cluster, ten clusters of light attacked these ten warships. The Perseus civilization began to launch a light particle attack on these warships.

The Empire's ten sniper warships, each emitting over a hundred beams of intelligent energy, one of which directly swept away the impact particles. After evading the particle attack at faster-than-light speed, the intelligent energy beams and the others began striking the stars within the star cluster. Before the more than a thousand stars could explode, the intelligent energy beams again changed course at faster-than-light speed to strike other stars. This faster-than-light attack caused the star cluster, containing over seven thousand stars, to explode as if from within. The intense gamma-ray burst destroyed everything in its path, and the Perseus civilization fleet traveling at the speed of light was instantly annihilated. The Perseus civilization's main base in the star cluster a hundred light-years away was destroyed by the Empire's fleet using sniper warships to obliterate a large number of stars, much like the Perseus civilization's attack on the enemy's parent star.

The image of the exploding star cluster shrank and then disappeared. In the giant 3D holographic spherical screen, the remnants of the Perseus civilization fleet, traveling in interstellar space, were suddenly attacked by the intelligent energy beams of the Imperial sniper ships. The attack scene kept changing, switching about fifty times, before finally freezing against a background of stars.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Perseus civilization, an intelligent civilization capable of traveling at the speed of light, was completely destroyed by the Imperial fleet. The weapon used by the Imperial fleet was an intelligent energy beam capable of faster-than-light and cornering attacks. This beam was launched by the sniper ships. The most powerful feature of the intelligent energy beam was its gamma-ray burst. The beam you see is only the visible light portion derived from it."

"In fact, the Imperial Fleet rarely uses intelligent energy beams in its battles against advanced intelligent civilizations in the universe anymore. The use of intelligent energy beams in today's attack on the Perseus Civilization was simply to achieve a visually stunning effect that you can directly perceive. The Imperial Fleet can also use interstellar catapults and intelligent black holes to attack the star clusters at the Perseus Civilization's headquarters. The interstellar catapult is a vivid metaphor; the Imperial Fleet can project a large number of stars and neutron stars into the enemy's camp. As for the intelligent black hole, as its name suggests, it devours everything, and this black hole is intelligent, capable of tracking, locating, and quickly striking and destroying."

"In the upcoming second battle, the war against the faster-than-light intelligent civilization of Auriga de la Moss, the Imperial fleet may utilize the interstellar catapults and intelligent black holes I just mentioned. Let's wait and see. One point needs to be emphasized: the faster-than-light travel I'm referring to is actually long-distance travel. The speed of light in this universe is currently constant. To achieve true faster-than-light travel, according to the three laws of the speed of light, a certain energy-mass ratio threshold must be exceeded, meaning the density wave must be extremely high. The Empire can currently manipulate the speed of light at will, increasing or decreasing it, primarily using super-intelligent energy exchangers. The intelligent energy beams previously fired by the Sniper Starship were able to travel faster than light and make cornering maneuvers mainly due to the quark-photon engines."

"Faster-than-light travel of massive matter is actually long-distance travel, or hyperspace travel. This kind of hyperspace travel, warp drive, and warp speed travel are only low-level hyperspace travel. We can proudly say that it only takes Imperial warships five days to travel from the edge of your universe to your galaxy. The hyperspace travel of the Imperial fleet is mainly due to the powerful Klein force field generator module."

"For intelligent civilizations capable of faster-than-light travel, which is actually hyperspace travel, the Imperial Fleet's general strategy for attacking and destroying them is to first blockade the hyperspace they use, just like closing off all convenient passages, preventing them from quickly reaching their destination through these passages, and forcing them to fall back into normal space for travel. The fastest speed in normal space is the speed of light. For intelligent civilizations that travel at the speed of light, the Imperial Fleet has many methods to exterminate them."

"Some may ask, how can we completely destroy intelligent civilizations that can travel faster than light, whose fleets are spread across such a vast area of ​​space? To address this question, Imperial scientists have developed a dimensional reduction weapon called 'Zero Degree Technique.' This weapon can instantly erase matter with a diameter of billions of light-years. The four giant cosmic voids in the constellations Canes Venatici, Eridanus, Boötes, and Capricornus were cleared by the Empire more than ten thousand years ago using 'Zero Degree Technique' to exterminate intelligent civilizations that could travel faster than light."

Ye Wangzhou spoke eloquently, like a patient superhero telling his admirers about his prowess and great achievements. However, these "children" were already immersed in the glorious aura of the Earth Empire's invincible power.