Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 48: The Great Battle Approaches

In the conference room of the Osmei Empire fleet flagship, Felch sat down with eight other people. These eight people were: Tommy, commander of the Osmei Empire, who was ordered to lead a large fleet to assist Felch; Campbell and Babuev, two commanders of the Pegasus Empire; Kunhuo and Qianqiong, two commanders of the Yin-Yang Empire; and Shiplou, Bridge Tower, and Stern Tower, three commanders of the Ship Bottom Empire.

"Brothers, you've traveled a long way and must be exhausted. Thank you for your assistance to the Osmei Empire," Felch said, expressing his gratitude to everyone.

“Brother, no need to be so polite, we’re all family. Even if the Alliance headquarters hadn’t notified us, we would have done our duty without hesitation.” Commander Qian Qiong of the Yin-Yang Star Empire was very familiar with Felch.

"Marshal, what exactly is going on?" Tommy asked Felch.

"Through all-day deep-space dark scene detection, we discovered at least a dozen areas in this space with relatively strong dark energy fluctuations. I suspect that a large number of warships are hidden here."

“We’ve all checked, and that’s definitely the case.” The other seven people also confirmed it.

"Now that our four fleets are joining forces, and your country has sent Commander Tommy to lead the team to provide assistance, are we afraid of them?" Oiro seemed to be straightforward and spoke in a gruff tone.

“We can’t underestimate the enemy. The fact that they’ve hidden their warships so well shows that their technology in electromagnetic waves and materials is more advanced than our empire’s,” Campbell said frankly after making the comparison.

“From the slight fluctuations of their warships in the dark energy sea, we can tell that they seem to be unfamiliar with dark energy. We can take advantage of this weakness.” Felch was, after all, a man of great combat experience.

"Brother is right, know yourself and know your enemy." Qian Qiong had always admired Filch.

"The Empire has sent approximately one hundred million warships this time. Adding the fleets of your three nations, we now have about one hundred and fifty million warships. Hmm, very good." Filch was pleased.

"The other side is still holding back, what should we do?" Wei Lou was quite anxious.

"Don't panic, let's wait a bit longer."

Four days later, there was still no movement.

Ten days later, everything was back to normal.

The eight people couldn't sit still any longer.

“Brother, it’s been ten days already. We can’t just sit here doing nothing. We need to take the initiative,” Qian Qiong said to Filch through the screen.

On the other screens, everyone seemed to have the same impatient expression.

"Please calm down, everyone."

Filch was getting impatient and ordered his men to conduct another deep-space dark scene probe, but the result was the same.

That's strange. Could it be that the dark energy in this space is naturally like this?

"Brother Qianqiong, please use the five coordinates I just sent you to instruct a squad to secretly launch a dark scene enhancement agent at this location."

"it is good."

Ten minutes later, the nine people were astonished to see on the screen that, at the endpoint of the enhancement agent launched by a Qianqiong squadron—near the sun on Tab—the outlines of massive warships appeared in five directions. Each direction contained ten giant warships, each over a thousand kilometers long. Other warships ranged from several hundred to several tens of kilometers in length, scattered across the area. The total number of warships in each direction exceeded 50. Based on this deep-space dark scene detection result, a total of 36 locations showed significant fluctuations in dark energy. This means that, on average, the hidden fleet comprised approximately 1800 million warships, including over 360 giant warships.

Looking at the analysis results, everyone was somewhat bewildered; none of them had anticipated the enemy having so many giant and large warships. In terms of the number of warships, it was approximately eight to one, giving their side a numerical advantage. However, numerical superiority didn't guarantee victory; the enemy could also win through superior quality. The nine men felt a headache coming on.

"Marshal, what should we do?" Tomi asked his superior.

"Gentlemen, this matter needs careful consideration. The enemy has quite a few giant and large warships, and their firepower should not be underestimated. Even if we have a large number of warships and possess dark matter and dark energy weapons, we may not necessarily be able to win."

"What should I do?"

"Gentlemen, let's report this matter to the heads of state of the empires and hope that the heads of the four countries will send reinforcements to double our strength. Only then will we have a chance of winning."

"it is good."

Near this spatial sun, the clandestine Earth Empire fleet detected a faint flicker in the sun of Tabu Star. Zhou Yuan was urgently summoned for a meeting.

"Dean Zhou, we've finally waited for you. The adjutant just reported that the sun experienced a faint flicker, invisible to the human eye. The solar spectrum showed a slight blue shift, but the blue shift lasted only 0.000000001 seconds before quickly returning to normal." When Tie Mu saw Zhou Yuan, the worry on his face disappeared, as if he had seen a savior.

"Blueshift?"

"Correct."

"Commander, please notify the other fleets stationed near the star system to send me the spectral data within half an hour as soon as possible."

"it is good."

A short while later, Zhou Yuan received spectral data from five nearby star fleets. Zhou Yuan carefully compared each data point, reviewing them four times. All the data indicated that the spatial spectra of the other nearby stars had not changed at all during the past half hour.

"Could it be the Osmetic Empire causing trouble?" Iron Curtain asked, seeing Zhou Yuan's puzzled expression.

“It’s possible. Could they control the speed of light? Blueshift is when the wavelength becomes shorter, and a shorter wavelength causes the speed of light to decrease. According to the fleet’s detection results, the speed of light near our fleet has not changed significantly in the past half hour,” Zhou Yuan muttered to himself.

"Are they using this method to demonstrate their power against us, hoping we'll back down?"

"Let me think. According to the law of the speed of light, a decrease in the speed of light means either a decrease in energy or an increase in mass. In the past few days, we haven't detected any large-mass objects entering this space, nor have we seen any obvious signs of energy loss." Zhou Yuan stated the logical relationship in one breath. Iron Curtain waited on the side without disturbing him, knowing that Zhou Yuan was thinking.

“Galaxies in the universe are redshifted, moving away from each other. Blueshift indicates that this sun was once close to us. In other words, something else attracted the sun.” Zhou Yuan pondered. “Wait a minute, could it be that the dark matter in this star system has changed?” Zhou Yuan finally figured out the clue.

Unfortunately, humanity on Earth still doesn't know what dark matter is. If humanity on Earth doesn't know, does the Ottoman Empire's fleet not know? Even if the solar spectrum is blue-shifted by 0.000000001 seconds, the gravitational pull of dark matter is still enormous, which must be due to the effect of dark matter.

"Commander, it seems the enemy has mastered dark matter and dark energy technology. Currently, the weakness of our human technology lies in our ignorance of dark matter and dark energy. Therefore, if war breaks out, we must be extremely cautious in guarding against their use of dark matter and dark energy technology. Based on this 0.000000001-second blue shift in the solar spectrum, I think we can formulate a feasible defense plan. I'll discuss it with the scientists from the other fleets immediately." Seeing Zhou Yuan's serious expression, Iron Curtain knew the matter was quite serious.

"That's good. Thank you for your hard work."

Four days later, Iron Curtain convened a video conference for all ship captains.

"Gentlemen, the enemy fleet does indeed possess dark matter and dark energy technology, so we must guard against the enemy using dark matter and dark energy weapons. Dean Zhou, please continue. I know absolutely nothing about defending against dark matter and dark energy weapons."

"Okay. Now we know that matter, the kind of matter we commonly see, annihilates with antimatter, releasing enormous energy. Dark matter and dark energy also exist in this universe; the gravity of galaxies is maintained by dark matter. Even between stars, there is some unseen dark matter. Four days ago, this sun experienced a very brief blueshift. We believe that changes occurred in the dark matter near the sun, attracting it closer to us, although the blueshift distance was very short. Based on our conjecture, the enemy at least possesses dark matter weapons, and this dark matter has a tremendous gravitational effect. In other words..." If the enemy's ability to manipulate dark matter in this star system is strong enough, even if our warships have anti-gravity, the immense gravity of dark matter could still destroy them. Four days ago, the sun underwent a blueshift, but we didn't detect any damage to our warships; perhaps they haven't yet used a high-intensity dark matter force. Furthermore, we speculate that dark matter also has its corresponding anti-dark matter. If the enemy uses dark energy weapons, they will likely use a matter-antimatter annihilation reaction to attack. This annihilation reaction releases far more energy than a matter-antimatter annihilation reaction.” Zhou Yuan emphasized the last sentence.

"Based on our speculation, the energy released by the annihilation reaction of positive and negative dark matter is in no way inferior to the power of our proud intelligent energy beam, and may even be stronger."

The captains were all taken aback; if that was the case, it would be quite troublesome.

“We know that when two galaxies collide, they form the Bullet Cluster. We can determine the location of the dark matter ring by observing the light bent by the gravity of dark matter. If the enemy uses a dark matter gravitational weapon, there will be a strong gravitational effect. If the enemy uses a positive and negative dark matter annihilation reaction to unleash energy, a certain amount of positive and negative dark matter will definitely be consumed before the reaction. At the place where the positive and negative dark matter is consumed, there will be two changes: one is that the gravity in that place will be weaker, and the other is that the light passing through that place will be bent. The degree of weakening gravity and bending of light depends on the amount of positive and negative dark matter consumed; the greater the consumption, the more powerful it will be. However, the positive and negative dark matter annihilation reaction takes a very short time. If we don't deploy a plan early, we may not have enough time to make an effective response. Based on our four days of research and demonstration, we have finally found a relatively feasible optimal solution.” Everyone listened attentively, not wanting to miss a single technical detail.

"Whether the enemy uses dark matter gravity weapons or positive and negative dark matter annihilation weapons, we can use black hole guided bombs for gravity early warning and gravity control."

"Dean Zhou, are you saying that we're deploying black hole bombs and using black hole-guided missiles throughout this space?"

"Yes. Use black hole bombs and black hole guided missiles to trap their warships. Once their warships are trapped, our warships will hunt them down from the outside, and then send a large number of composite armed robots and replicants into their warships."

"Importantly, once we detect a change in the enemy's situation, such as the use of unconventional weapons, we must preemptively detonate the black hole bomb and launch black hole-guided missiles," Iron Curtain added.

After thinking about it, everyone nodded in agreement.

After the meeting, everyone made various preparations, and a large number of invisible black hole bombs were released into space.