Chapter 120: A Great Victory with Heavy Losses

The climax of internal conflicts is difficult to be intensified under internal conditions.

During the thousands of years that Yan Xia stirred up the storm inside /Star City, Ella would naturally not sit there and stare blankly inside the Civilization Federation.

Plans cannot keep up with changes.

Therefore, the tachyon communication device became necessary, and several contacts were also to confirm each other's progress.

After confirming that Yan Xia had been noticed and Ella's attachment had been manipulated, Ella foresaw that more conflicts would emerge in the future, and even lead to Yan Xia's death.

The rescue plan was proposed.

However, Yan Xia did not want to leave /Star City at this point, otherwise everything he had done before would be in vain.

Later, Yan Xia made a plan to put himself in danger on his own. His life was completely controlled by Zhu during his imprisonment. If it were not for Zhu's kindness, Yan Xia would have died long ago.

Of course, the clone escape plan itself already included letting Zhu identify the imprisoned Yan Xia as a clone, which can be regarded as a kind of protection, but this kind of protection still depends on Zhu's mood.

Yan Xia's plan included the subsequent false starry sky plan, which was not actually used for rescue, but for defense and misleading.

Although they could not determine the malicious intentions of the Olive Branch Civilization at the beginning, they still had to defend against the possible attack of the Olive Branch Civilization. Ella has made a lot of machines to simulate the starry sky in the past few thousand years.

Some of them were used on the Cosmic Silk Road, and the earlier part had actually set off long ago, between /Star City and the Orion Nebula.

The false starry sky was 30 light years away from /Star City and was difficult to detect. Later, this starry sky deceived the second fleet, making it more convinced of the Holy Grail Plan and terrified to destroy the first fleet.

The most critical part was actually the exploration after the return of the second fleet. The reason why the second fleet felt that a long time had passed was actually just a trick.

The half-life of a metal refers to the time it takes for the metal's radiation to decay to half of its original mass. It is not difficult to speed up the half-life of a metal. It only requires the metal to enhance its radiation for a period of time.

Simply put, it makes some atoms unstable at the microscopic level, thereby causing decay.

As for "time control", it is even simpler. The fake starry sky can simulate the changes of the surrounding stars, and through these changes, the Olive Branch Civilization life will think that the passage of time is accelerating. Of course, there is more than that, there is a deeper simulation, which requires another technology.

Simulated Universe

The essence of the Olive Branch Civilization is actually a mechanical civilization, and machines are more easily misled than life forms, especially when the shared consciousness cluster makes the Olive Branch Civilization life under the same consciousness cluster.

Mechanical life perceives the passage of time through data, not through the perception of its own body.

Ella used the fake starry sky in reality to complete a virtual and real universe simulation.

As long as the universe simulation is real enough, the Olive Branch Civilization life will constantly correct itself, rationalize all unreasonable places, and then believe that it has walked for so long.

Coupled with the change of the metal half-life, it is as if the age of the body has changed for the mechanical life.

Analogous to humans, it is equivalent to seeing your body aging, other things around you are also aging, and the starry sky has indeed passed so long, who can doubt it?

It sounds simple.

In fact, it contains many exquisite technologies and is supported by extremely huge energy.

Ella gathered a large number of scholars from the Civilization Federation and vigorously developed the simulated universe. This plan was launched in 11073 AD and took more than 4,000 years to complete. After that, it took more than 3,000 years to arrange the false starry sky on the route of the Second Fleet before the departure of the Second Fleet.

It was already 18762 AD, less than 200 years before the departure of the Second Fleet, or more accurately 185 years. The time was extremely tight, and a little mistake might lead to being too late.

Fate still favors the Civilization Federation and Yan Xia.

All the plans were just right, and Yan Xia also successfully influenced the judgment of the /Star City, which eventually led to the subsequent outcome.

The second false starry sky arranged on the Silk Road of the Universe was to deflect the observation of the Olive Branch Civilization, which was countless times easier than deceiving the Second Fleet.

It does not take too much to deflect light. At this scale, even a distance of 1 micron is enough to cause the weapons of /Star City to deviate.

This false starry sky defense is the first, and the second is related to the content transmitted by Ella through tachyon communication before.

Create the illusion that the main sequence star of the Civilization Federation has been destroyed.

And the fundamental purpose of the illusion is the core of this battle.

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On the battleship.

Ella looked at the message sent back expressionlessly.

"All fleet units are ready."

"The enemy fleet has entered the range of 1000 astronomical units."

"The enemy has not seen through the false starry sky and is approaching at a speed of 30719km/s."

It cannot command this war because it is about 17 light years away from its current position, and there is no help from tachyon communication. After all, the energy consumed by tachyon communication is too huge.

In the tens of thousands of years since Yan Xia left, Ella has been constantly simplifying tachyon communication, but it has only reduced its energy consumption by one-third. After all, the technology it uses is still too advanced for the Civilization Federation.

When Ella was in the Civilization Federation, she released production capacity and began to vigorously manufacture warships, making the scale of the Civilization Federation's warships reach a terrifying level.

In addition to the 60 fleets heading towards the Silk Civilization, they also have 173 fleets.

These fleets almost emptied the Civilization Federation. Now the entire Civilization Federation has not made any progress compared to thousands of years ago, and has even regressed a little. You can imagine the huge consumption of maintaining these fleets.

Raise troops for a thousand days and use them for a moment.

These fleets can finally play a role.

This is a war between 165 fleets and 140 warships.

The number of warships dispatched by the Civilization Federation is 22,110, just to deal with those 140 warships, or in an ambush. In Ella's simulated battle model, their winning rate is only 72.54%. Even if they win, the losses are extremely heavy.

28 years later.

Ella received the news that the war was over.

Our side lost 19,723 warships and suffered 1.115 billion casualties.

The enemy lost 127 warships and the number of casualties is unknown.

The enemy retreated, and our side - a great victory.

Yes, this is a great victory, a great victory of a 2.1-level civilization against one of the more than 50 star cities of a 2.4-level civilization, /Star City, which sent only 140 warships.

And what this war really laid the foundation for was the collapse of /Star City.