dtnovels Chapter 83: The Destruction of the Light Orb
Chapter 83: The Destruction of the Light Orb
The 79th and 7th Fleets of the Joint Fleet have just completed their rendezvous.
"Joint Fleet, let's destroy that great sun together." Zhou Yuan added, "Fleet commanders, you must obey my orders, or your lives will be in danger."
"Dean Zhou, I am now authorizing you to have command over the entire ship. Even I will have to listen to you."
"Okay. George, thank you." At this moment, Zhou Yuan took on the role of commander-in-chief.
"Fleet commanders, I have just sent you an encrypted communication. Proceed according to plan."
"it is good."
Eighty fleets began to get busy, and with their cooperation, the combined fleet rapidly transported massive stars.
After the stars were transported, the combined fleet surrounded the massive sun, which was protected by concentric rings of light, in a fan-shaped formation. Each fleet was backed by eleven relatively large stars, which aligned in a straight line with the massive sun protected by the rings of light. Naturally, enormous teleportation portals were placed near each of the eleven stars. The protective shield around the massive sun continued to expand.
After the combined fleet was deployed, Zhou Yuan issued the attack order.
Eighty fleets, distributed in a fan shape, each carrying nearly one hundred million intelligent energy beams, totaling eight billion beams, concentrated on a single point on the great sun and began firing. The ultra-high-energy gamma rays fiercely attacked the protective shield of that great sun, like a thin needle piercing a thick ball. The gamma beams slowly advanced, encountering increasing resistance, making it a tug-of-war.
If the fleet did not rely on a massive star for energy, the energy supply for the fleet's intelligent energy beams would probably be exhausted. Only with a continuous power supply from the star can the fleet continuously and concentratedly fire at the solar array shield.
A barrage of beams of intelligent energy, concentrated on a single point, began to pierce a small hole in the outermost shield of the massive sun. This hole extended inwards, slowly penetrating four or five layers of the shield. The further in it went, the faster the advance accelerated, and the more intense the X-rays and ultraviolet radiation emitted from the collisions became. Eventually, the spectacle resembled a fireball with a long tail piercing through a planet's atmosphere. Finally, no amount of replenishment from the sun could stop the powerful, ultra-intelligent energy beams from breaking through. The beams reached the surface of the massive sun and then rapidly advanced. The sun trembled and seemed to shrink slightly before rapidly expanding, emitting even more intense light.
"All fleets, activate the portals and quickly take cover inside the eleventh star!" Zhou Yuan gave the order.
The massive sun emitted an incredibly bright light, followed by a supernova explosion. The powerful gamma-ray burst tore through several layers of the light cluster's protective shield, forcing the outer rings of light clusters to flee at near-light speed to nearby stars. The gamma-ray burst ravaged space, tearing apart and vaporizing many fleeing clusters. Some clusters, using the stars being transported by the combined fleet, intermittently jumped between them to avoid the burst's attack. The gamma-ray burst directly destroyed three stars aligned in front of the combined fleet. The fourth star transformed into a long, fiery dragon, shaped like a comet, which lunged at the fifth star but was absorbed and merged into it. After the powerful gamma-ray burst, X-rays, ultraviolet light, visible light, and various electromagnetic waves appeared in succession. Then, the massive sun transformed into a giant black hole.
The immense tidal forces of this supermassive black hole directly pulled the sixth and seventh stars into its embrace. In moments, the sixth and seventh stars vanished without a trace, devoid of light and heat. The supermassive black hole devoured everything around it. The clusters of light that had desperately fled had just reached the eighth star when, torn apart by the black hole's powerful tidal forces, they fell into the black hole along with the eighth star.
The ball of light was completely annihilated.
The ninth star, under the residual gravitational pull of the black hole, was first slowly pulled along, then accelerated towards the black hole and destroyed. The light emitted by the tenth star was distorted by gravity, forming a bubbly space between the star and the black hole, bright at one end and dark at the other. The eleventh star only emitted intermittent flashes before returning to normal; within the eleventh star, the various fleets remained safe and sound.
Eighty fleets emerged from their respective stars and, after confirming that no luminous clusters or spherical "mini-suns" existed, began to converge on the Alpha Fleet.
"Based on Dean Zhou's suggestion, we are going to conduct an experiment: what happens when a neutron star encounters a black hole?" George announced the experiment to the other fleet commanders.
Everyone knows that neutron stars and black holes are celestial bodies with incredibly massive masses and gravitational forces in the universe, but no one knows what would happen if a neutron star collided with a black hole. Everyone is very curious, and naturally, Lefia is eager to see it.
A neutron star is dropped from the 7th Fleet into a black hole ahead. The neutron star's rotation accelerates, and the rays emitted from its two magnetic poles become increasingly intense. The neutron star, wobbling and spinning, is pulled closer to the black hole. As the neutron star approaches the black hole, its magnetic field becomes increasingly chaotic, the magnetic poles become unstable on its surface, and the time intervals between the ray pulses emitted from the poles shorten. As the neutron star moves further towards the black hole, its dense surface is disrupted by the black hole's gravity, forming undulating folds. This folded material begins to escape from the neutron star, rapidly rushing towards the black hole's accretion disk. Within the accretion disk, neutron star material is continuously drawn in. When the neutron star and black hole are relatively close, the entire neutron star spirals downwards around the black hole. Then, the neutron star and black hole collide violently, emitting a large amount of electrons and light. Slowly, the neutron star's material is consumed, and finally, it is swallowed by the black hole.
After watching the grand "fireworks" display, the combined fleet set sail, leaving the core of the Rich Star Cluster and heading towards the outer reaches of the Tarantula Nebula. After leaving the Tarantula Nebula, the combined fleet began its intergalactic journey through Klein space.
"What are those fast-moving little dots?" Lefia suddenly exclaimed, pointing to the holographic screen.
Zhou Yuan and Wei Shan were resting when they were startled awake by Lefia's scream. The two of them looked at the screen.
"George, have you noticed those fast-moving little dots?"
“I noticed. Those are stars flying at high speed, about three or four thousand of them! These stars are flying towards the Milky Way along the extended hydrogen belt, also known as the Magellanic Stream. We don’t know where these stars came from.”
Zhou Yuan pondered for a moment, "Judging from the direction of these rapidly moving stars, they seem to have a certain direction and purpose. Artificial intelligence, please depict the trajectories of these stars. I need to know what direction they would take if extended from both ends."
"Yes, Master."
The 7th Fleet's artificial intelligence conducted a simulation, and the results came out quickly.
“Master, judging from the direction and speed of these stars, these three or four thousand stars may have come from the Tarantula Nebula and are heading towards the Orion Nebula in the Milky Way.”
"I understand. George, isn't the Orion Nebula the birthplace of the 'Metal Civilization'?"
"Yes, Dean Zhou."
"The fact that the 'Star-Bombing Civilization' launched so many stars to attack the birthplace of the 'Metal Civilization' suggests that the 'Metal Civilization' inflicted considerable damage on the 'Star-Bombing Civilization' before we even reached the Spider Nebula, which is why we might have been able to defeat the 'Star-Bombing Civilization'."
"That should be the case. The Gamma Fleet was once sent by the Empire to Orion Nebula, but later, due to the war with the Galactic Federation, the Empire withdrew all its expedition fleets, including the Gamma Fleet that went to Orion Nebula and the super-large fleet that went to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, namely the AI-piloted expedition fleet that went to the Cygnus X-1 black hole. They were later recalled by the Empire."
"Shall we go check out the Orion Nebula now?"
"it is good."
So the eighty fleets changed course and headed toward the Orion Nebula in hyperspace.
The Orion Nebula, similar to the super-bright blue star cluster in the Triangulum Galaxy, contains not only many young stars but also numerous protostars, such as protostars. To the Combined Fleet's surprise, the Orion Nebula contains over a hundred infant planets. On four of these infant planets, remnants of a 'metal civilization' were discovered, but no evidence of the 'metal civilization' itself was found; they had long since abandoned their home planet. These remnants of the 'metal civilization' held little research value for the Combined Fleet.
Those hundred-odd infant planets, however, were of considerable value to the Earth Empire. After leaving behind some portals, the combined fleet returned to the Earth Empire's fleet headquarters in the Milky Way galaxy.
The Allied Fleet was treated like imperial heroes upon their triumphant return. Leaders of the Empire's three major organizations personally went to greet them, and countless humans and their vassal races from the Earth Empire watched the live broadcast.
The Earth Empire had already relocated six new Earth-like planets to serve as military and scientific research bases for its ever-growing fleet. This brought the Earth Empire's total to twenty-four Earth-like planets, including fifteen new Earths and nine planets belonging to the Lefia Star Luo people. Grand celebrations and festivities were held on all of these planets. The six new home planets of the Lunar Empire in the Triangular Galaxy naturally participated in the event as well. This grand celebration was arguably the most spectacular and magnificent in the history of humankind, greatly boosting morale and uniting the people.
After the grand celebrations and revelry, the Imperial Academy of Sciences held a large-scale, high-level scientific conference, in which scientists from the Lunar Empire fleet also participated.
The scientific conference first discussed the direction of scientific and technological development for the next few decades, especially the technology of remotely delivering stars and neutron stars.
Scientists engaged in a heated discussion regarding the conveyor belt and cluster of light at the core of the Tarantula Nebula's star-rich cluster. This is because they know it holds significant reference value for human projection of stars and neutron stars.
"We must figure out what happened in the Tarantula Nebula, such as the conveyor belts, the energy shield 'mini-sun' collisions creating stars for long-range attacks, and the powerful shield of the giant sun formed by numerous light clusters. Their several rings of light shields resist our nearly eight billion ultra-high-energy intelligent beams. If we obtain these technologies, it can be said that our human technology will receive another major boost. These technologies are equally important as long-range intelligent energy beams." The president of the Academy of Sciences, Kofi, earnestly pointed out the important significance of these technologies to humanity on Earth.
Zhou Yuan understood Coffey's urgency, but the rapid development of science and technology is not something that can be achieved overnight; it requires the accumulation of a large amount of experiments, scientific foundations, engineering technologies, and so on.