Chapter 660: Unusual Movement
Space Reconnaissance Department.
Inside Hill's office, she looked at a piece of information that had just been delivered to her, and her expression involuntarily became solemn.
"Ruoxi, help me make an appointment with the chairman within three days. The reason is S-level intelligence."
Assistant Li Ruoxi nodded: "Yes, Minister."
Looking at the assistant's hurriedly leaving back, Hill lowered his head again and carefully read the information again.
Several years have passed since the abnormal light spot appeared on the six-clawed giant star. The Space Reconnaissance Department has been monitoring the six-clawed giant star over the years.
Until more than a week ago, a monitoring station 0.092 light-years away from the center of the solar system once again detected the unusual movement of the six-clawed giant star.
The other side.
After Sanjibada Layal received the meeting request from the Space Reconnaissance Department and found out that it was S-level intelligence, she did not dare to neglect it.
Li Qingye’s recent schedule was quickly adjusted.
Less than 17 hours.
Li Qingye took the time to meet with Hill through the virtual conference room.
"Mr. Chairman!"
"Hill, where's the intelligence?"
Hill was well prepared and immediately shared the relevant information.
After receiving the information, Li Qingye flipped through it while listening to Hill's briefing.
"Chairman, nine days ago, we detected dense thermal radiation points at the monitoring station in the outer layer of the solar system." Hill pointed to the holographic star map and explained:
"These dense heat radiation points are generated by plasma, and their moving trajectory is the solar system. According to continuous monitoring data, the movement speed of these heat radiation points is getting faster and faster, and has now reached about 752 kilometers per second..."
"Considering that it takes about three years for the light from a six-clawed giant star to reach the solar system, this means that the star set out three years ago."
Li Qingye had also finished reading the intelligence at this time. He turned around and ordered, "Moli, notify Mao Gu and Du Wei to come over."
"Yes, sir." Sangjibada Layal's figure disappeared in the virtual conference room.
After a while, the figures of Mao Gu and Du Wei, who were urgently summoned, appeared in front of Li Qingye.
Mao Gu immediately saluted Li Qingye: "Chairman!"
"Chairman!" Du Wei, who was in charge of the Space Defense Department, also saluted immediately afterwards.
Li Qingye waved his hand and shared the information with the two of them: "Take a look at this information first."
"yes."
Mao Gu and Du Wei quickly looked through the information. After all, Li Qingye summoned them personally, so it was obvious that the information was very important.
The more they looked at each other, the more their brows furrowed.
Mao Gu raised his head solemnly and said, "Chairman, the Six Claws Civilization is not here with good intentions! We can't just wait passively. It's best if we can take the initiative and attack."
"Chairman, I agree with Minister Maunggu's idea." Du Wei clenched his fists.
Li Qingye naturally would not object: "Well, I have no objection to your idea. The solar system is the base camp of human civilization and must not be allowed to become a battlefield. It would be best if we could annihilate these six-clawed people midway."
However, Hill still reminded: "Chairman, my two colleagues, we still have obvious deficiencies in our understanding of the true situation of the six-clawed people. After all, the six-clawed spaceship can only represent the six-clawed civilization 50,000 years ago. Before we go to war, we still have to go all out and be cautious."
Regarding this point, people naturally would not be so arrogant as to think that the six-clawed civilization is vulnerable.
After all, the Six-clawed Civilization is a first-level civilization, much stronger than the free world on Earth.
In order to avoid a setback, Li Qingye thought for a while and said, "How about this! Du Wei!"
"Here!" Du Wei immediately sat up straight.
"Work with Hill to launch a batch of spark ships to the direction of the six-clawed giant star. Quickly capture the dark stars along the way and use the large dark stars along the way as base points to build defensive fortresses."
"yes!"
"no problem."
Li Qingye circled the dark stars on the star map with his finger: "Remember, not only must we occupy the large dark stars, but we must also mine all the small , leaving no stars for the six-clawed people to use."
Du Wei immediately understood Li Qingye's intention.
Although the six- clawed giant star is 3.2 light-years away from the center of the solar system, it is still very close on the scale of the universe.
However, it is still very difficult for an ordinary first-level civilization to cross 3.2 light years.
If there is no material replenishment along the way, the consequence will be that the strength of the interstellar expedition fleet will become weaker and weaker.
Unless the six-clawed people's space navigation technology reaches the level of 30% of the speed of light and can reach the solar system within a dozen years, the fleet will definitely continue to lose personnel.
Among the cosmic civilizations that the Sapiens Company already knows about, only the Hengguang Civilization can achieve a cruising speed of 30% of the speed of light. This civilization is the quasi-second-level civilization that defeated the Intelligent Machinery Civilization.
Obviously, the possibility that the six-clawed civilization can increase the speed of its spacecraft to more than 30% of the speed of light is very small.
This is not because Li Qingye looks down on the six-clawed civilization, but according to the database of the intelligent civilization, if a spacecraft wants to break through 5% of the speed of light, it is impossible to do so with a simple plasma thruster. Only with the gravitational slingshot of a black hole can the speed be increased to 5-10% of the speed of light.
According to the detection data of the Space Reconnaissance Department, there is no black hole around the six-clawed giant star, and a simple plasma thruster cannot even exceed 5% of the speed of light.
Li Qingye estimated that the spacecraft of the six-clawed civilization could only reach 2% of the speed of light at most, or even only 0.5% of the speed of light.
This was not just a random guess on his part, but was determined by resources.
The resources of the hexapod giant are too scarce. Even if the other party mined all the natural satellites and ring asteroids of the hexapod giant, and even collected the surface gas of the giant planet, the resources it has are less than one five thousandth of the solar system.
Even if the solar system does not count the sun, but only counts planets, natural satellites, asteroids and stardust, the resources are still more than ten times more than those of a six-clawed giant.
Lack of resources will severely limit the speed of civilization development and will also lower the upper limit of civilization.
There are many real examples of this in the database of intelligent civilization.
Unless the six-clawed civilization is directly cheating and can utilize vacuum zero-point energy, antimatter, dark matter, etc., it will definitely be difficult to reach a navigation speed of 2% of the speed of light.
For a first-level civilization, the difficulty of expedition to another planetary system lies in the spacecraft's speed, the spacecraft's self-circulation technology, and the supply along the way.
Li Qingye had no way to change the speed of the spacecraft or its self-circulation technology, but he could change the supplies along the way.
This is equivalent to the strategy of clearing the countryside in ancient warfare.
As long as the Sapiens Company takes one step ahead and controls the dark star between the six-clawed giant and the solar system, the six-clawed expedition fleet will lose supplies after approaching the solar system.
However, the space fleet of Sapiens can obtain supplies through these dark stars. As a result, Sapiens can gain the first-mover advantage.