Chapter 788 Blue Star Federation
If the technology of alien spacecraft had not been reversed, the current technology of the Great Xia Empire would not have been able to complete the construction of spacecraft.
Even the Ark-class battleship was based on the backward technology of the Great Xia Empire.
From a true interstellar perspective, the Ark was at most a short-distance aircraft between planets, equipped with backward weapons and a slow round trip.
That is, it was fast and efficient between planets and satellites.
For a true interstellar civilization, this was probably the primary level.
In fact, planet-satellite and planet-planet spacecraft were exactly the same to them.
Although Simon had not come into contact with other civilizations, he could infer that the spacecraft technology of the Great Xia Empire must be quite backward.
Perhaps it could fight one or two with extraordinary technology, but it would definitely not be able to fight with the power of technology alone.
Therefore, he deliberately showed weakness to the enemy.
In war, any means are not excessive, not to mention just putting down face.
Simon, who is experienced in the battlefield, obviously does not care about face.
Because people like him have already paid a bloody price for face.
The experience gained with blood must be impressive.
So, when the armed spacecraft of Maple Leaf Mining found the spacecraft at the end of the route, they were nervous for a while, and then relaxed.
Following the guidance of the star path, they passed through the interstellar channel and came to this distant star field.
The interstellar channel is a special phenomenon formed naturally between stars. Of course, there are also rumors that it is an abandoned channel left by advanced civilizations.
It is somewhat similar to the widely circulated wormhole theory. In the vast starry sky, there are some rare entrances and exits, that is, stable space nodes.
Entering from these entrances and exits, you can enter the folded space.
The distance in narrow physics has lost its metric meaning.
Through this folded space, you can quickly cross a long distance.
As long as you find a stable exit and entrance, you can cross the distant starry sky.
After most civilizations that have entered the interstellar discovered this interstellar channel, they found that most of the entrances and exits are not too far away. The farther the entrance and exit, the farther the distance you need to find in the folded space, although this is not absolute.
Moreover, in the folded space, there are more entrances and exits, which can build an entire transportation network.
Some even have only a single entrance and exit, which is almost worthless.
At least for the Federation where Maple Leaf Mining is located, there is not much research on interstellar channels at present, and most of them are still in the stage of simple utilization.
There are rumors that the Federation is studying the artificial construction of interstellar channels, but everyone thinks it is just a rumor.
Of course, for Maple Leaf Mining at this time, the fleet in front of them is the most important.
The time of sailing through the interstellar channel has exceeded one month. A thousand years ago, this time would have been even longer.
If it weren't for the guidance of the star map, they couldn't believe how the first generation of founders found this exit.
At one point, some people even thought that this was a trap, and someone set up a trap with that worthless interstellar channel entrance.
If the signal hadn't been normal, they would have returned long ago.
Until they passed the exit, they were able to observe the stars not far away.
Although the distance is not close, there are more than ten hours of journey, but for the resources that are about to be obtained, it is worth it.
Perhaps some people think that there are planets everywhere in the interstellar, how can there be a lack of resources.
This idea can only be said to be naive, ignoring the scale of the starry sky.
With the technology of the Blue Star Federation, the time cost of traveling between stars and the additional mining costs brought by planets that are not suitable for mining are enough to bankrupt them.
Resources need to consider costs. Everyone knows that there is a lot of gold in the center of the earth, but no one has ever dug it.
As for transforming planets and even maintaining the ecology of planets, not to mention that there is no such technology, if there is, the cost is too high for them to accept.
Perhaps when technology leaps again, these costs will be low enough to be acceptable, but it is not possible now. Not only the Blue Star Federation cannot do it, but other civilizations they have come into contact with cannot do it either.
Therefore, the Maple Leaf Mining Group is in a happy mood. Now the entire Blue Star Federation has only eleven habitable planets, as well as other planets that can be mined near habitable planets.
Among them is the shabby planet such as Tianma Planet that was discovered by early capital and has been exploited for many years.
For Maple Leaf Mining, this is an opportunity to leap to the top power. They only need to keep it secret and mine for decades first. Even if the ownership of this planet is taken back by the Federation later, they can obtain a lot of privileges and become a behemoth like Tianma Group.
Therefore, as early as when entering the interstellar channel, the fleet's external communications had been fully taken over.
All employees were told that they would work for the group for ten years and would receive a large sum of money at the end of the ten-year confidentiality period.
As for the employees' emotions, they were powerless to resist Maple Leaf Mining in the starry sky far away from the Federation.
What happened a thousand years ago was enough to make them alert.
As for going to the Federation to file a complaint ten years later, if Maple Leaf Mining still couldn't settle it, it could be directly disbanded.
Now, they just want to get a confidentiality contract to deal with possible investigations.
Now, they are full of expectations and are ready to fight with many different emotions.
Lin Jie, the second-generation heir of Maple Leaf Mining, who is over seventy years old, is well aware of the abnormal atmosphere of the fleet.
So after the supercomputer calculated and determined that the level of the opposing fleet was only the level of the Federation that had just stepped out of Blue Star for about a hundred years, he immediately ordered: "Let everyone take turns to go up and fire two shots."
"Director Lin, we cannot rule out the possibility that the other party has set a trap. Sending two Hummingbird-class armed frigates is enough to deal with it." The real commander made a suggestion.
Although Lin Jie has the highest power, there must be professionals to do the specific things.
Lin Jie also believes in the ability of professionals. Maple Leaf Mining can maintain this big stall by relying on the management of professionals.
But the situation is different now, he needs to give everyone a chance to vent.
"I understand that such behavior is definitely reckless.
But I need to consider morale, not just from a military perspective.
And look at these spaceships, the initial flame of the engine is obviously an extremely backward power, not enough to support higher-performance spaceships."
Lin Jie is really not a waste, and he can even be considered erudite. At least he knows the common sense of spaceships.
At the age of seventy, he is actually in his prime, enough to support him to cross the galaxy to fight in a strange star field.
Since he made the decision, the command center obviously had no objection.
So, the latest decision was broadcasted in the communication system: "Director Lin said that each ship can go up and fire a few shots, and no one can take more than one."