dtnovels Chapter 91: Eyes of Stars
Chapter 91: Eyes of Stars
"Brother Peak, I remember you mentioned in a previous interview that a spinning binary black hole and a supermassive black hole suddenly appeared in the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud, respectively. What do you think caused this? If it was done by advanced intelligent beings, could these advanced civilizations travel across galaxies, perhaps even within our galaxy?"
"Young friend, it seems you have a great passion for science. Black holes are basically the product of massive star explosions, and this process from star to black hole usually takes a long time. Our gravitational detection observations show that these two black holes formed shortly after the star explosions, indicating the work of an advanced civilization. As for how they did it, I believe it was caused by a sudden attack on the star by a powerful weapon. Even if this advanced civilization can destroy stars and create black holes, traversing such a vast intergalactic distance is no easy feat. I don't believe they could master this technology in such a short time. It's more likely that two advanced civilizations in different galaxies each possessed the ability to destroy stars and create black holes."
"Pike, the Zerg reproduce so quickly, can't we create viruses to infect and attack each other, or cause genetic defects in them?"
"Well, to be frank, we scientists are doing this."
"Emperor of Earth, your technology is certainly more advanced than ours. I would like to ask, can you destroy stars and create black holes?"
"Yes," Zhou Yuan said decisively and without hesitation.
"Huh?!" All the Sand Star people, including Peak and Jamie in the live broadcast room, widened their eyes.
Zhou Yuan turned to Peak, "Peak, you know, once we master the technology of transporting stars, destroying stars and creating black holes is not a difficult task."
Peak lowered his head and remained silent, seemingly deep in thought.
"Then let me ask you another question: are you capable of river navigation? Or, based on your development speed, when will you likely achieve river navigation capability?"
"To put it another way, if we had the ability to travel between galaxies, we wouldn't need to fight the Zerg; we would have already gone on vacation to the neighboring star system. As for when we would be able to achieve that, that's not something we can predict. As Peak has also said, intergalactic travel is not a simple matter."
"There are rumors circulating that you are going to leave us, is that true?"
“My friend, this must be a misunderstanding. We have reached a consensus with your Empire’s high command and the Protoss. Each of the three of us has our own tasks and a clear division of labor. We are not leaving you and the Protoss, but rather establishing some outposts a little further away from your planet’s city. This is necessary to deal with the Zerg.”
"The five major civilizations are all quite powerful, so how do you have such great confidence?"
"Trust us. Anyone who obstructs our extermination of the Zerg, no matter how far away or how powerful this civilization is, please remember these eight words: We will pursue them to the end, no matter how far away or how powerful they are!"
His domineering words, broadcast live, quickly spread throughout the Sand Star Empire and the Divine Race tribes. Zhou Yuan's tall, handsome, and confident image also spread rapidly among the people of Sand Star and across various departments, making him an idol for the young people of Sand Star.
Two days later, the Sandstar Empire fleet and the Protoss provided information and intelligence on the Zerg, including planets, outposts, hives, combat units, and combat methods occupied by the Zerg, as well as the division of labor, capabilities, cooperation, strengths, and weaknesses of various Zerg factions. They also provided information on the locations and situations of other civilizations known to the Sandstar Empire and the Protoss, including many advanced civilizations. Information on the five major civilizations was limited; they only knew their general locations within their respective star systems.
After refining and discussing the plan, the Earth Empire's 110 fleets began departing from the planetary city of the Sand Star Empire, traversing warp space to reach a location three thousand light-years away. The Earth Empire fleets began constructing an interstellar fortress spanning ten light-years, containing fifty stars and ten Earth-like planets.
The Sand Star people and the Protoss were deeply impressed by the Earthlings' efficient actions and formidable strength, and their previous doubts about their power vanished.
After the Star Fortress was established, the Alpha Fleet secretly entered the Klein Space, quickly traveled over long distances, and broadcast a system-wide, multi-channel message to the Andromeda Galaxy. The message was a call from the Sand Star Empire, the Protoss, and the Earth Empire for more civilizations to join the alliance to eliminate the Zerg, and a policy of punishing any civilization that obstructs the elimination of the Zerg, no matter how far away or how powerful.
When the Sand Star people and the Protoss received the broadcast, their feelings towards that domineering declaration seemed to change, whether from fear or relief was unclear. The Sand Star Empire dispatched a large number of warships to patrol the interstellar space, while the Protoss, as planned, began to deploy numerous sentry towers and pursuers throughout the interstellar space.
"Gentlemen, if we rely on the Protoss to deploy interstellar probes, it's impossible to know when they will be spread throughout the Andromeda Galaxy. I believe it is necessary for us to secretly deploy our own intelligent probes in every part of the galaxy and space to detect the activities, movements, and related information of various civilizations and even the Zerg."
"The deputy commander-in-chief is absolutely right. Based on the calculation that each of our detectors can monitor a diameter of 100,000 light-years, we would need approximately 300 million detectors to cover and monitor the entire Andromeda Galaxy."
"Three hundred million probes are no problem for us at all. The deployment of intelligent probes must be stealthy and discreet, so let's put them inside stars and call them 'eyes of the stars'! Oh, and remember, the deployment of probes must avoid those five hundred-plus globular clusters and their surrounding areas."
“Deputy Commander-in-Chief, there’s a problem. If we put intelligent detectors inside stars, the detection diameter of the detectors will probably have to be reduced. Ten thousand light-years should be fine. Based on ten thousand light-years, we would need about 40 billion intelligent detectors.”
"No problem. Let's get to work."
"Yes."
The Alpha Fleet remained at the interstellar fortress, while the other 109 fleets began entering the Klein Hyperspace, rapidly deploying stealth intelligent probes throughout the Andromeda Galaxy. These probes, employing superphoton quark cryogenic insulation materials, could quickly calculate and automatically search for the locations of corresponding stars. These stealth probes swiftly entered the stars to conduct covert operations and subsequent reconnaissance. Besides globular clusters and their vicinity, numerous stars in the Andromeda Galaxy contained advanced intelligent probes belonging to Earth's civilization. These probes formed a vast network, like a three-dimensional "eyes of the stars," each secretly observing all anomalies and civilization activities within a ten-thousand-light-year interstellar radius. It's likely that even the five major civilizations were unaware that they too were being monitored by these "eyes of the stars."
Because this three-dimensional, mesh-like "Eye of the Stars" calculates and processes too much, the Earth Empire uses hyperspace to precisely project the Moon near the planetary base of the interstellar fortress established by the Allied Fleet, allowing the Moon's Gaia to handle the computational burden. Of course, the Moon itself is a super fortress, serving as a powerful defensive weapon system for the interstellar fortress.
Since the joint fleet broadcast its galaxy-wide message, significant changes have occurred in the Andromeda Galaxy. Battles between civilizations within many constellations that were previously observed have ceased immediately, and the amount of electromagnetic waves emitted between stars has noticeably decreased.
Zhou Yuan and the others knew that this was only a temporary deterrent, and things would not be that simple in the future.
Sure enough, four days later, large-scale battles broke out in some constellations again. The interstellar fortresses of the Allied Fleet and the planetary cities of the Sand Star Empire received "greetings" from different civilizations. These "greetings" were nothing more than: "Who are you?", "Who do you think you are?", "I know where the Zerg are, but I'm not telling you", "Why should we listen to you?", "Go home and stop wandering around outside", "Be careful or we'll wipe you out", "The galaxy is so big, I advise you to be quiet and behave yourself.", and so on.
Zhou Yuan and the others were truly at a loss for words, especially Wei Shan and Lefia, who seemed very interested in these vulgarities.
“These civilizations are unaware that this is a seamless, full-frequency broadcast across the entire galaxy. Ignorance is bliss!” Zhou Yuan explained to the Sand Star people and the Protoss at the holographic conference.
"It's ironic that such a powerful technology is being laughed at by the ignorant." Muko was also puzzled. Did most civilizations in this star system share the characteristic of arrogance and hubris?
"Peak, what do you think we should do next?"
"A large part of these civilizations are just jokes, so there's no need to take them seriously. Personally, I think we need to establish an authority, either by making an example of someone to scare others or by presenting a savior image."
Zhou Yuan was secretly surprised. This Peak was really not simple. Besides being smart, he was also a force to be reckoned with in terms of strategy and tactics.
“Yes, Peak is right. We can find a powerful civilization, one that isn’t benevolent.” Starrut’s idea aligns with the Earth Empire’s philosophy. However, a powerful civilization would likely mean the Earth Empire is the one provoking the trouble; the Protoss probably wouldn’t challenge them easily.
"It's a pity we don't know the distinction between good and evil among the five major civilizations." Zhou Yuan shook his head, seemingly feeling regretful.
"What?!" Muko, Peak, Xinglute and the others jumped up from their seats.
“Zhou Yuan, this is no joke.” Peak was the first to come to his senses.
"It's okay, I like to joke around. The atmosphere is a bit dull."
"You really startled us."
"Let's put this aside for now and talk about it later. Let's go attack the Zerg."
"This is acceptable."
"By the way, there's a question. If the Zerg occupy a planet, how do we decide whether to take over the planet or destroy it? You know, it's very easy for us to destroy a planet."
"Hmm, that's a good question." Muko nodded. "Before you joined the Alliance, we humans and Protoss had a limited number of large nuclear bombs to destroy planets, so we tried to conserve them. Our strategy for Zerg hives or large bases was to destroy the planet directly. When the Zerg had just occupied a planet or their numbers were small, we tried our best to take it over, wipe them out, and then clear, move, isolate, and protect the planet. We didn't dare to use the planet. If you want to use a planet that the Zerg once occupied, you must completely eliminate the Zerg."
“Yes, I understand. Muko, Peak, Xinglut, I hope you can provide us with samples of all the Zerg species. We want to study them carefully. Like one audience member said during Jamie’s interview, we might have to use genetic weapons to deal with these Zerg.”
"Actually, our scientists have been studying this for a long time. However, these insects have a very strong reproductive capacity and vitality, and they evolve very quickly. The drugs that were just developed to target their genes will soon become ineffective."
"Oh. It seems we scientists have something to do."
"We will provide samples of all Zerg species; perhaps you can succeed."
Okay, thank you.