"...I agree with Mr. Zhang Yuan's point of view."
The speaker was Foreign Minister Yang Fan, "The evidence... of course is not available. But do you still remember the Rehemian civilization that occupied our Dyson Sphere embassy?"
"Of course I remember!" said a deputy captain.
Ever since the Rehemian civilization occupied the New Humanity's embassy, New Humanity diplomats would curse at every joint meeting, but they never did so with words.
As a result, later, because the Rehemian civilization was too well-known, it had a fight with another civilization...
The so-called other civilization is also a third-level civilization called "Blue Eyed Civilization".
Based on the idea that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", the new humans once wanted to make contact with each other.
As a result, the other party revealed a piece of news that was unknown to be true or false: behind the Rehemian civilization was the "Rambler Alliance."
Regarding this information, the new humans will not blindly believe it. At most, it is just a reference. Moreover, the Ramblers Alliance is too powerful. If they want revenge, they don't know how to start. At that time, I had the attitude that doing more is worse than doing less, so I could only forget it.
Lao Yang finally said: "If all this is the rambler's mischief, that is to say, they were already making small moves more than ten years ago, but now they have spared more energy to deal with us again. Listen to Zhang Putting it this way, I also feel that behind the Apollo civilization is the Rambler Alliance."
For a while, many members fell into silence.
Captain Feng sighed and said: "Let's bet that the force behind the opponent is the Ramblers Alliance. If we lose the bet...it doesn't really matter. The situation can't be worse than this. At worst, we can just run away."
She frowned: "Then, even if there are walkers behind them, what should we do? Directly condemn them? Or directly launch an attack? I think neither of these methods is good."
Indeed, facing a behemoth that is more powerful than the Apollo civilization, how to deter the opponent more effectively?
"I have an idea."
At this time, an interstellar diplomat surnamed Chen stood up and spoke: "We can't find evidence for the connection between the Apollo civilization and the Walkers, so let's just treat it as fact... but we rashly attack the Walkers. The affiliated civilization below, or a direct attack on the opponent's battle star, may not be effective, and the hatred caused will be too great, and there is basically no room for turning around."
"Although the Ramblers Alliance is powerful, it also has many enemies. They probably don't want to get involved in local disputes prematurely, so they make small moves underneath..."
"Our purpose is not to attack the other party, but to make the other party understand that the losses after the war will exceed their expectations."
"So, there is another way of deterrence..."
He said word for word: "Planet... Nemesis!"
"Planet Buster", a conceptual war weapon capable of causing significant damage to planetary fortresses! Simply put: it is a combination of an armor-piercing projectile and an anti-matter missile.
A battle star is so strong that even if an anti-matter missile explodes on its surface, it will only create a shallow crater.
Never overestimate the destructive power of antimatter. Its power is only two orders of magnitude greater than that of a hydrogen bomb. In a vacuum environment without shock waves, relying only on thermal radiation and kinetic energy, the lethality is quite limited, and at most it can explode a magma pit.
Most of the energy of antimatter will be dissipated into the universe.
In addition, when building a battle star, each civilization usually lays a thick layer of concrete on the surface of the planet, as well as some special defense materials. These materials will quickly become plasma after being attacked by high-energy weapons.
The temperature of plasma can be increased almost infinitely, which is a good means of defense. The plasmaization of these materials dissipates a large amount of heat energy into the universe to prevent further erosion of the battle stars by various weapons.
This is why the power of weapons such as lasers has never been improved. It is even difficult for a simple laser to destroy a spacecraft. Because there are some special coatings on the surface of the spacecraft, when the laser hits these coatings, they will quickly become plasma and locally form a layer of haze. This layer of haze can absorb laser energy and greatly weaken subsequent attacks.
So, how does "Planet Buster" harm Battle Star?
Military experts predict that if an armor-piercing projectile with sub-light speed kinetic energy is used to penetrate deep into the planet, and then the antimatter stored inside detonates inside the planet, it will be able to cause significant damage to the battle star!
Think about it, a firecracker that explodes on the surface of the sand has completely different effects than one that explodes when buried in the sand.
A military expert shook his head: "But Professor Chen, the theory is beautiful, but the reality is cruel... We don't have such a planet-killing bomb at all!"
The technical requirements of "Planet Busters" are too high. First of all, it is a sub-light speed armor-piercing projectile, which must penetrate at least a few kilometers into the ground. Battle stars are not sand, and humans simply do not have such high-hardness materials.
Secondly, antimatter is not a gentle thing and can only be contained through magnetic confinement. Once the device is defective and comes into contact with positive matter, it will explode immediately! It doesn't care what the positive matter is, whether it is carbon, iron or titanium. Anyway, once it comes into contact with the material composed of positive quarks, it will explode immediately.
During the violent process of drilling into the earth, it is impossible to have such a stable device. The armor-piercing projectile will inevitably deform. As soon as it deforms, the magnetic constraint will be defective, and the antimatter will explode immediately.
Therefore, "Planet Buster" can only be a beautiful fantasy.
The young man said solemnly: "Yes, we do not, but we can 'pretend' that we do! All it takes is a decent military exercise to let the other side observe that we have the ability to destroy battle stars!"
"Pack..."
Zhang Yuan pondered for a while and felt that this method was indeed better than the previous one.
"Our main military exercise target should not be the Apollo civilization, but... the Ramblers Alliance!"
This step is very risky. But it effectively expanded human combat effectiveness.
The captain finally nodded, "I understand, let's execute it!"
After this meeting, another five days passed.
An aircraft carrier-class fleet of the New Humanity entered an emergency state of super-light sailing... In the eyes of other civilizations, it was as if there was internal strife and they ran away.
And the battle stars of Apollo civilization are also moving over bit by bit.
This is also the first time in human history that we have faced planet-level terrifying combat power. It does not stop quietly in space, but gradually sails through curvature, approaching the human air defense identification zone...
This is a naked provocation. Doesn't it mean humans dare to fire the first shot when the opponent crosses the air defense identification zone?
The planet is densely packed with millions of turrets, and a salvo of firepower can cover the area of a planet. In the face of absolute strength, various strategies are completely insufficient.
Even an aircraft carrier-class spacecraft cannot withstand a few salvos from the railgun!
This is the real horror!
The new human civilization adopts the wolf pack tactic, as if ignoring the arrival of the opponent's battle star, it is still executing its own tactics.
More than 10,000 guard-class spacecraft of the new human civilization have also successfully taken off and submerged into the dark space. Each spaceship carries a hundred soldiers and is a standard combat unit with its own combat effectiveness.
In this stealth state, there is no way to communicate with the outside world in real time. As long as a signal is observed on the battlefield, all spaceships will plunge into the brutal war!
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A few days later, the aircraft carrier-class fleet dispatched by humans has arrived near an uninhabited mining area behind the "Rambler Alliance".
This mining area was formed after a white dwarf star was shattered hundreds of thousands of years ago. In the middle is a huge planet 10 times the mass of the Earth. The gravity of this planet is too high, making it very difficult to build heavy industry on it.
Because the trajectory of the surrounding meteorites is too chaotic and collisions occur frequently, civilizations basically do not choose to develop minerals on this big planet. If you are hit by a meteorite, you are asking for trouble.
However, this human fleet came here for its own reasons.
A bugler was shouting on the radio: "Attention, all officers of the Third Army, we are about to reach the designated position! Break away from warp speed! Adjust the fleet sequence!"
"The first phalanx is ready!"
"The second phalanx is ready!"
This aircraft carrier-class fleet has a total of one million soldiers and thousands of large and small spaceships. The commander looked at this chaotic meteorite area with a mixture of anxiety and uneasiness in his heart, and his expression was extremely complicated.
They left the war zone and came here to carry out a force deterrence!
There is no owner in this meteorite area, but the closest one is the "Rambler Alliance".
The purpose of conducting military exercises here is to let the ramblers know: "Look, we have discovered you! You are the force behind the Apollo civilization!"
"...Don't be pretentious, we still have weapons that threaten the battle stars! If you get angry, I will hit your battle stars!"
Attack is always easier than defense!
We must let the other side know that if there is a real fight and risk our lives, the new humans will also attack the other side's base camp and eat a piece of the other side's flesh.
Of course, everything is just a guess. Maybe the rambler was wronged, and there will only be one more enemy for no reason... But if the guess is correct, human beings' ability to deter the opponent will be greatly enhanced!
After arriving at the destination, a large number of excavators were transported down by the transport spacecraft.
"Are there any other civilization's spaceships nearby?"
"Report, nothing found yet!"
"There are no spaceships from other civilizations?"
"Report, no!"
Time passed by minute by minute.
Commander Dai took a deep breath and said loudly in the command chain: "Fellow soldiers, we are conducting high-energy weapons military exercises here in accordance with the requirements of our superiors."
"Planet Buster Missile... Get ready!"
Of course, mankind does not have any planet nemesis. It just dispatched a large number of earth drilling machines in advance, drilled 5 kilometers into the surface of this massive planet, and then buried a super-large-yield anti-matter missile inside...
Therefore, it was nicknamed "Planet Nemesis".
Of course, since there are no spaceships from other civilizations around, the alien civilization will not know whether the missile drilled into the soil by itself or was dug out with an earth drill and put in...
The difference is huge!
"The 78th Engineering Team reports that the Planet Nemesis is ready!"
"Countdown, 10 minutes!"
"Countdown, 1 minute!"
"59, 58, 57..."
"emission!"
In order to make the performance more realistic, the mothership pretended to launch a bright missile.
This missile is extremely fast and accelerates to sub-light speed through electromagnetic ejection. The reason why it is made so bright is to allow other civilizations to observe this thing smoothly.
"Planet Buster", the largest antimatter missile humans can create!
Its destructive power can be understood from its name.
However, the antimatter reserves of the new human civilization are not very large. Only two such super missiles can be manufactured. No matter how many more are wanted to be made, there is no raw material.
And these two "Planet Nemesis" are all on top of the current Third Army!
In other words, if a war really breaks out, there will be no "Planet Nemesis" to use on the frontal battlefield...
But who knows?
Even some soldiers within the new human civilization don't know, and it's even less likely that the enemy knows that humans only have two such super missiles!
This ultra-high-power strategic weapon is most threatening only when it is mounted on the launcher. If we don't take the opportunity to deter the enemy now, can't we actually start a fight and then deter them?
All the soldiers looked at the countdown and their hearts beat faster.
"...5, 4, 3, 2, 1, detonate!"
This large missile is as big as a two-story house and is undoubtedly a product of extremely high cost. When the countdown ended, the hearts of several technicians trembled.
Suddenly, the ground flashed with a bright blue light.
It exploded!
In just a moment, the intense light covered the entire ore pile! Accompanied by violent gamma rays, a huge star rises from the ore pile!
Commander Dai stared at the bright "sun" in awe.
This is the power of "Pseudo·Planet Nemesis"!
There were only two, and one of them was fired by him.
"It would be great if we actually had such a weapon."
Not just him, almost all the soldiers were in a semi-demented state when faced with this. Stimulated by the bright light, their pupils contracted and they kept swallowing their saliva.
This is definitely the largest anti-matter weapon ever exploded in this starry sky!
In the three medium-sized wars that broke out before, this type of super bomb was not used... because it was simply too uneconomical.
Throwing antimatter out as if it were no money is too extravagant, extravagant to the extreme. The new humans are trying to make a fool of themselves. The upper-level commanders know this, but the soldiers don't know it, and neither do the rest of the interstellar civilizations...
After the blue light flashed, the overwhelming mushroom cloud even broke out of the planet's atmosphere and dispersed into space. The area on the ground where the anti-matter missiles were buried has turned into a sea of golden magma.
Immediately afterwards, the ground shook, volcanoes began to erupt, and a strong earthquake of magnitude 9.6 occurred on the planet.
All the soldiers became fanatical in their hearts, worshiping the power of high technology in unison. Immediately afterwards, another loud roar from the command headquarters was heard.
"The Third Legion, expand the warp speed and enter the super-light state!"