Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1065: The decisive battle before we are ready

One year, two years, three years, and ten years passed quietly.

The major civilizations of the United Front, who always felt that it was not advisable to stay here for long, had already set off again. At this moment, they were two thousand light years away from where they encountered the Silicon-based Federation fleet.

However, because the route this time is roughly towards the direction of the galactic core, the star density in the starry sky has not decreased much, but has become denser, and has not left the shield arm.

Born and raised in the Milky Way, this is the first time that human civilization has come so close to the galactic core.

There are many stars here, and the distance between them is much closer than that on the Orion spiral arm. The average distance is only 2.3 light years. No matter which direction you look, you can see shining stars.

Looking toward the center of the Milky Way, it is even more stunning.

That is the area covered by light. It is the brightest place in the Milky Way and conventional optical detectors cannot see its true situation at all.

Of course, the center of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole, and black holes do not emit light, so the light seen at this location is actually the accretion disk of the supermassive black hole.

After billions of years, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is still very active.

The huge might made the humans far away in the Shield Arm feel that their fleets were very small. The same was true for the entire United Front fleet compared to the might of the supermassive black hole, just like a few small boats drifting in the vast ocean.

Even though we have reached level six civilization, we still seem insignificant in the face of the mighty power of nature.

Just as Yue Yuan was looking at the starry sky through the large screen, a message from the public channel brought him back to reality. It was a message from the Silver Heart Alliance, and it seemed very urgent.

"There is a situation!"

Turning his head, he saw the Galaxy Core Alliance continuing the message that had not yet been finished: "Something big has happened. It's the Reaper Fleet. Our probe ships encountered the Reaper Fleet and have been destroyed by them. They seem to have deliberately reduced the detection radius of their probe ships. Our probe ships directly met their fleet. The last information sent back showed that they came from the direction of the Silver Core, 189 light years away, and the number of warships is unknown. No trace of electronic warships was found."

Then, another exploration fleet of the Galactic Heart Alliance brought another message to the United Front: "Calling the headquarters, an unknown fleet has been discovered at the direction coordinates XXXX. It is not the Reaper fleet. It is 176 light years away. At present, our civilization's exploration spacecraft has already engaged in a firefight with it!"

The information brought by the Silver Heart Alliance was immediately synchronized to the systems of the various civilizations in the United Front, and then a three-dimensional star map of the galaxy appeared in the command center of each civilization. The star map, which originally only had the starry sky, also showed the information of the Reaper Fleet after a refresh.

Yue Yuan took a look.

The Reapers had two fleets, both heading for the United Front fleet. The distance was less than 200 light years, so a Level 6 civilization could reach there in less than a year.

The first mate of the Tianqin looked at Yue Yuan and said, "General Yue, something is wrong. The Reaper Fleet seems to have a clear purpose, and they are heading for us. I would never believe that they didn't find us."

"Prepare for battle, consciousness link drivers are in place!" Yue Yuan also realized that something was wrong, so he immediately announced that human civilization had entered a state of war.

After thinking about it, he issued several orders to each fleet.

The content of the order was very simple. All the conventional fleets followed the Lyra to prepare for battle. The remaining 30,000 elite consciousness-linked warships, 20,000 were left to protect the main civilization's residential spaceship cluster, and the remaining 10,000 were mixed in the conventional fleet, acting as command ships for the conventional warships according to their organization.

Use consciousness to link the battleship as a command ship to fight with conventional battleships!
When it was level five civilization, humans once used this model to defeat the Level Five Civilization Alliance with fewer troops. This is the best way to improve the combat effectiveness of the entire civilization when the number of consciousness-linked warships is insufficient.

The human fleet started moving at once, and other civilizations did not stand still, and also made their own arrangements. Those with residential spaceship clusters, such as the Shenju Civilization, the Daya Civilization, and the Yinxin Alliance, reacted similarly to humans, all of them separated a part of the fleet to protect the residential spaceship cluster, and then immediately released batches of exploration spaceships from the fleet.

The main battle fleet is also preparing quickly.

The war came so suddenly that the united front camp was not ready yet and the reapers arrived.

The appearance of the Reaper fleet made the major civilizations realize that the aberration they had felt before was real. But they still felt that it was not a problem with the Silicon Federation fleet, but as human civilization said, the actions of the united front were gambled by the Reapers.

The Reapers should have deployed a fleet in the Shield Arm, trying to wait for the enemy to tire themselves out, but the starry sky is too vast, and they cannot accurately ambush the large fleet of the United Front Organization, so they have never met before.

And now, it should be that they have discovered the warp traces of the United Front Organization's fleet. After all, since getting rid of the Reapers' tracking, the major civilizations have stopped erasing the warp traces.

It's not that the major civilizations are unwilling to do so, but the work of erasing warp traces requires sacrificing part of the fleet. This is easy to understand, because the spacecraft or creation that goes to erase the warp traces will also leave warp traces, so the tools can only be disposable.

Having said that, the major civilizations have all experienced wars and did not fall into chaos due to such sudden situations.

However, no civilization is selfless. Even if they form a united front, they will still put the interests of their own civilization first.

This can be seen from the actions of various civilizations in protecting their own residential spaceship clusters.

It is certain that if the electronic warships had not been discovered yet, the residential spaceship clusters of several civilizations would have already fled away from the Reaper fleet.

The reason why I haven't run away yet is simply because I don't know from which direction the electronic warfare ship might appear.

If I really choose a direction at random, what should I do if I happen to encounter an electronic warfare ship? It would be better to wait until the situation becomes clear before making a decision.

"The latest intelligence is that both fleets are elite Reaper fleets, with a total number of approximately 5 billion. It is still unknown whether there are fully transformable warships of the Silicon-based Federation." Soon, more intelligence came from the Galactic Heart Alliance.

Then the leader of the Silver Heart Alliance said on the command center channel: "Leaders of all civilizations, we cannot sit still and wait for death. This is definitely not an encounter. The previous judgment of human civilization was correct. The Reapers bet on our intentions, and this war is inevitable. Now we can only pray that the electronic warships are not here, or we must destroy the two elite fleets of the Reapers before the electronic warships appear, otherwise none of us can escape."

Hearing that the Silver Heart Alliance still wanted to run, the leader of the Divine Matrix Civilization couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Run?! I'm afraid it's too late. If it's true as human civilization said, then the electronic warships must be in this star field, and the Reapers have already sent out their elite troops. It will be difficult for us to destroy these two fleets before the electronic warships arrive."

"The only option now is to fight, because if we run away, we will never have the chance to reorganize again. I believe everyone knows this! It's a pity that we are not ready for the decisive battle, but it doesn't matter. As long as we can capture the electronic battleship, the Reaper will not be a problem."

"In my opinion, we should fight according to the deployment of the decisive battle. Our Neutron Battle Star, the human Lyra, Gaia, and your Galaxy Alliance's Galaxy. Once the electronic battleship appears, we must face it and defeat it. Only in this way can we have a chance. Otherwise, if the electronic battleship rushes into our regular fleet formation, we will be finished."

"And the conventional fleets of our technological civilizations will work with the Awakeners to destroy the conventional fleets of the Reapers as quickly as possible. Kill them all, and then go to their microcosmic headquarters and destroy them all! Everyone must understand that we have no way out."

The Milky Way is so vast, but there is no way out.

It was indeed as the Divine Principle Civilization had said. Since the Reapers had dispatched their elite fleet, they would definitely pursue them relentlessly. Similarly, since they had made the right bet, the electronic warships would definitely be here as well.

(End of this chapter)