Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1049 Encounter or Interception
After replenishing heavy metal substances, the three civilizations continued to speed through the outer arm of the Milky Way. It was still a long way to go before they could reach the small universe of the Galactic Center Alliance as recorded in the records of the Shenju civilization, probably another seventy or eighty years.

It's only about 15,000 light years away.

The plan of the human and Dyad civilizations is to use this time to complete the basic conventional fleet construction goal, which is 100 million ships.

Since part of it has been completed before, this goal is not difficult to achieve. Of course, this is mainly because the manufacture of conventional ships and conventional warships is not as troublesome as that of flagships.

Take human civilization for example, those warships are not necessarily all sub-civilization-level warships, but also mixed with a large number of Heng-level warships, which constitute the conventional combat power of the Star Alliance.

As for the people who drive them, they are naturally individual lives of the Red Flame Civilization.

Some of them will also be made into unmanned warships driven by strong artificial intelligence, but the cost is much higher than using the Red Flame Civilization. Now time is relatively tight, so the Star Alliance fleet represented by humans still mostly uses individual lives of the Red Flame Civilization as warriors.

As for the elite fleet, it will naturally be driven by humans themselves, and those warships will all be equipped with consciousness linking devices.

During this time, humans plan to increase the number of elite fleets from 30,000 to 100,000. If time permits, there will be more, as humans have no shortage of third-person perspective pilots.

It would be best to build more than 100 million ships before confronting the Reapers head-on.

But some things are often difficult to achieve.

The Reapers have been harvesting in the galaxy for so many years and finally discovered traces of the Shenju civilization. Naturally, they cannot give up just like that. There is actually not much time left to give to the three civilizations.

Just a few years after the three civilizations completed the replenishment of heavy metal substances, they received a report from the fleet's outer exploration spacecraft saying that they had encountered an unknown exploration spacecraft.

This "unknown" was quickly identified by the Shenju civilization as the Reaper's exploration ship. The location of the encounter was not behind the fleet, but in front of the route.

"Not good, we have really been discovered this time." After receiving the information, the person in charge of the Shenju civilization immediately said on the three-party communication channel: "We encountered them before when we came out of the small universe. It should be the exploration spacecraft that escaped at that time that spread the news. As expected, the Reaper fleet should be following our path, and the exploration spacecraft we encountered now should belong to another fleet."

The leader of the Daya civilization thought for a moment and interrupted, "In other words, we are now surrounded by wolves in front and tigers behind, and are blocked from both ends by the Reapers!"

The universe is a three-dimensional space, there is no such thing as blocking both ends. The words of the leader of the Daya civilization are actually a metaphor. This is how it is translated into Chinese. Yue Yuan naturally sees it clearly.

But what he said was also true. The Reapers were speeding up the harvesting process. They had obviously launched an all-round attack, so it was impossible for them to have only one fleet. Perhaps there were Reaper fleets in many spiral arms of the Milky Way.

And the one that appeared in front of the three civilization routes was one of them.

"I hope the electronic warships don't come."

The first mate next to Yue Yuan muttered something, which was translated into the three-way communication in real time by the translation system. Then the man from the Shenju civilization said, "There is nothing to hope for or not hope for. We just need to wait and see what the situation is."

As soon as he finished speaking, the leader next to the Shenju people said, "Dayan civilization, your combat power is not good enough, so I will leave the detection to you. No matter what method you use, you must beat the Reapers in the detection field."

The Shenju civilization spoke to the leadership of the Daya civilization as the leader of the united front. They were frank and directly said that the Daya civilization's combat effectiveness was not good.

In fact, the combat effectiveness of the Daya civilization is still good. If humans were asked to evaluate it, they would definitely be stronger than ordinary level six civilizations.

During the years when humans built the Lyra, the Daya civilization did not stand still. Their consciousness uploading experiment project has been a complete success, and they have mastered the combination of brain and machine.

Now the elite fleets of the Dayan civilization are all of that type of warship, that is, the Dayan brain is used as the warship's sensory center, and all information from the warship's detection system is connected to that brain.

However, the Daya people, like humans, cannot drive a warship by themselves. For this reason, they have also developed a consciousness sensory sharing technology, connecting the consciousness of multiple Daya people to form a common load, which is similar to the multi-person shared vision of human consciousness linking equipment.

But even with such technology, the Shenju civilization still said that its combat effectiveness was not good enough, and the Daya civilization had to admit it because these words came from the mouth of the Shenju civilization, and a neutron battle star could make the Daya civilization shut up.

The Shenju civilization's style of doing things is just that simple.

Sure enough, the next moment, the leadership of the Daya civilization heard the Shenju civilization express a completely different attitude towards humans.

"Well, human civilization, our exploration spacecraft is already engaged in battle with the Reapers at the front. I believe we will have the latest news back soon. Although the Daya civilization's combat capability is not good, their exploration capability should be no problem."

"And now it's obvious that the enemy's exploration spacecraft has appeared behind us. Apparently, they also have a fleet following our warp speed trail. It's very uncomfortable for us to have a tail following us all the time. So now there are two directions. Let's each of our two civilizations choose one. When the battlefield information is clearer, um. Do you choose the front or the back?"

Yue Yuan pondered for a moment and responded, "Go ahead!"

"Okay, then leave the rear to our Neutron Battle Star." Shenju Civilization said readily.

The Shenju civilization could have made all the arrangements directly, but it still sought human opinions and let humans choose for themselves, which made the human leadership feel more comfortable.

It's a feeling of being respected.

Such respect is based on the strong power of human beings.

As the Daya civilization gained momentum, the number of exploration spacecraft on one side of the three civilizations forming a united front increased exponentially, and the battles between the outer exploration spacecraft became more intense.

They are equivalent to scout battles between two armies. They start fighting before the regular army enters the combat state.

Finally, after the Daya civilization paid the price of more than 100,000 exploration spacecraft, the latest information was finally transmitted back to the command center of the three civilizations.

It was about the same size as expected. There was indeed a Reaper fleet in front, with about 1.2 million warships of various types, but the exact number of each type was unknown. There was also a fleet in the back, with a smaller number of about million warships of various types.

This number is not much for the large fleet composed of three civilizations, but everyone knows that the strength of the Reapers does not lie in their conventional fleets, but in their electronic warships.

At the same time, some Reaper reconnaissance ships successfully broke into the vicinity of the large fleet. Although those ships were quickly destroyed, they were able to pass on the news.

The Reaper Fleet also knows the locations and approximate sizes of the fleets of the Shenju Civilization, Human Civilization, and Daya Civilization.

"Oh, by the way, the electronic warship doesn't seem to be here, or it hasn't arrived yet." The leader of the Shenju civilization seemed a little worried, and then said to the human civilization: "To deal with them, you'd better not use special technology to attack them first, so that the electronic warship will not be prepared at that time."

"Don't worry, we know." Yue Yuan replied on behalf of the human interstellar government: "With this little power, we won't use special technology to attack. We are just a little worried now. They won't confront us head-on."

The power disparity is huge, and the Reaper's fleet commander must be no fool.

They might be responsible for keeping an eye on the Shenju civilization, and now they jump out, perhaps to harass the Shenju civilization while waiting for support from electronic warships.

If this is the case, it would be very bad. We haven't found the Galactic Core Alliance to understand the situation, nor have we gathered other level six civilizations in the Milky Way. It's really not the best time to face the Harvesters directly.

(End of this chapter)