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Chapter 191 This Civilization is Too Naive

The Tayya defense system.

A space-based defense system was constructed centered on Taiya, the main sequence star of the star system in which Mulan Star is located.

At the very center of this space base is the star Taiya, which is surrounded by an extremely large number of reflecting satellites. When needed, these satellites deflect star rays and focus them on a specific area, thereby increasing the star's illumination in that area.

It's not very lethal; an ordinary person could easily block it with a wooden board and remain unharmed.

However, the purpose of focusing starlight is not to cause damage, but to change the battlefield environment.

When the Mulan people were thinking about how to wage space warfare, they discovered a problem: the heat buildup of spaceships was an unavoidable issue.

The causes of thermal buildup on spacecraft can be divided into internal and external factors.

Internally, it is the energy consumption of all the mechanical equipment on the spaceship. The energy source drives the machines to operate by delivering specific energy, and the machines consume this specific energy.

But this does not mean that energy is destroyed by machines; rather, energy is transformed from one form to another.

Of these converted forms of energy, the most common output energy is heat, which is the intrinsic factor in the thermal accumulation of a spacecraft.

The external environment consists of various cosmic rays, which carry energy. When these rays come into contact with the spacecraft itself, energy transfer will inevitably occur due to the contact between the matter and the rays.

As a result, the spacecraft's heat input will exceed its heat output, causing its own temperature to rise continuously.

The purpose of focusing stellar rays is to artificially create this external factor of large-scale heat input, using stellar rays to heat up the entire enemy fleet. Once the enemy fleet runs out of coolant, the enemy pilots in the warships will be killed by the heat.

Then there are the cooling fortresses set up on each planet.

Cooling fortresses are strategic fortresses located in the orbits of major planets, always positioned on the dark side of the planetary body.

The initial design purpose was to solve the problem of coolant demand. Because the reflective satellites placed in star orbits reflect starlight, they also retain heat. In order to ensure that these reflective satellites are not damaged by heat accumulation and can work normally, it is necessary to transport and replace coolant regularly.

The replaced coolant is sent to the cooling fortress to be cooled and compressed again.

This cooling and compression process also involves energy transfer. Therefore, the coolant transported from the reflecting satellite and already consumed is also the energy source for the normal operation of the cooling fortress.

In addition to their cooling functions, the cooling fortresses also serve as spaceports, logistics resupply points, and arsenals for the Mulan space fleet. The Mulan fleet only needs to make strategic deployments around these cooling fortresses and does not need to worry about logistics issues at all.

Finally, regarding defense, the cooling fortress was equipped with a large amount of heavy firepower. Since there was no need to consider tonnage and mobility, the Mulan people installed all the heavy firepower they could think of on the cooling fortress and gave it the maximum protection and self-sufficiency design, such as isolation chambers, food chambers, air circulation chambers, etc.

In the outermost Kuiper Belt, there are countless space mines scattered throughout the asteroid belt. These space mines look exactly like meteorites, and it is difficult to distinguish them even when you look closely.

When manufacturing space mines, the Mulan people's engineering ships would first hollow out a meteorite, then install a nuclear bomb inside as an explosive. To increase the lethality of the shrapnel, they would also stuff in a lot of scrap iron pieces and iron beads, and then reseal the meteorite.

These space mines are difficult to trigger because nuclear weapons are not so easy to detonate. Even slight impacts from small spacecraft or meteorites will not cause a space mine to explode. Only when the impact force is large enough to crack the meteorite shell of the space mine will the nuclear weapon inside detonate.

In the outermost Oort cloud, where the light-year scale is too vast, the Mulan people have not set up any defenses or installed any equipment. However, the Mulan people's observation radar monitors the area around the clock. At the slightest sign of trouble, the entire Taiya defense system will immediately go into battle alert.

The entire space base project took three years to complete.

Normally, given the industrial capabilities of the Mulan people, it wouldn't have been possible to achieve this so quickly.

However, they discovered a special type of industrial nanomachines on the alien spaceship that crashed on the northern continent.

By engaging with the highly intelligent AI left behind on the spacecraft, through a question-and-answer format, the structure and principles of industrial nanomachines were deduced, and these nanomachines were successfully replicated.

This is how such rapid space construction was accomplished.

The chief engineer in charge of building the Taiya defense system, and the commander-in-chief of all the fleets of the Mulan civilization, watched from the cooling fortress in the orbit of their home planet the transport fleet heading to Hengxing Taiya to replace the coolant.

"Can we really win?" the chief engineer sighed worriedly.

The commander-in-chief said, "It should be possible. The AI ​​on that spaceship said that the universe destroyers are the common enemy of all civilizations in the universe. We Mulan people will not be the only ones fighting against them. As long as we can unite this force, we Mulan people will win."

Even if we can't stop the enemy's offensive, we still have the Ark.

Upon hearing the commander-in-chief mention the Ark, the chief engineer's confidence naturally increased.

"That's true."

Yes, the Mulan people also have an ark that replicates the faster-than-light engine of that crashed spaceship, enabling them to escape at faster-than-light speeds.

Once the Ark reaches a certain size, even if we can't win, we can all disperse and escape. What's there to be afraid of?

……

Lu Shang, who was directing the battle, frowned slightly. He thought the war would end in 3 days, but it had lasted for 12 days.

It's not that the enemy is particularly difficult to defeat, but rather that the enemy is always using various methods to drag the war into a stalemate.

For example, by changing the curvature of spacetime, one can accelerate the passage of time and then use this method to rapidly mature many new technologies, which can then be applied to the battlefield.

For example, creating vacuum decay, at the cost of altering the physical rules of the universe, is intended to prevent the swarm from conquering strategic points and force planetary life forms that have already occupied them to leave.

Of course, these are all minor actions that the bee colony can easily handle.

The real problem is that the native civilization of this universe seems to have developed the technology to freeze reincarnation during the war.

Fortunately, the planetary creatures of the swarm are all cosmic in nature. What remains in the macrocosm are merely microscopic wormholes. Therefore, what is frozen and imprisoned in the microcosm are only the microscopic wormholes opened by the planetary creatures of the swarm, not their true forms.

However, this approach does indeed severely hinder the strategic advancement of bee colonies.

Because planetary life forms need to use microscopic wormholes to extend their psionic energy into the wider universe, and by throwing their microscopic wormholes to other places, they naturally cannot use psionic energy to influence the spacetime of strategic locations.

"I never imagined that the native civilization of this universe would be so troublesome."

"However, this war should end here."

Lu Shang muttered to himself, then gave orders to all the planetary creatures participating in the battle.

"All planetary life! Through wormholes, forcefully seize strategic points and unleash psionic energy across the entire universe! End this cosmic war!"

The command message spread rapidly throughout the entire swarm network at faster-than-light speed. Upon receiving the command, the planetary creatures immediately opened wormholes and launched offensives against strategic points in the vast universe.

After conquering the area, the first thing to do is to use your psychic energy to stabilize spacetime and make it flat.

This sudden offensive caught the native civilization within the cosmic life form off guard and left it powerless to defend itself, because the scale of the swarm of planetary creatures' attack was simply too enormous.

They have ways to stop one, or even a group, but they can't stop a large number of planetary creatures that cover the entire universe.

The entire cosmic front is on the verge of collapse.

……

The Mulan people screamed in terror on their home planet. When they awoke, they were horrified to find a 'moon' in the sky for some unknown reason.

The 'moon' itself isn't a big deal; after all, it's just a celestial body. They had seen high-tech products like alien spaceships three years ago.

The problem is that this 'moon' is alive.

Standing on the surface of their home planet, the Mulan people looked up at the sky and could see the enormous eye on the 'moon' that was darting around everywhere. Anyone could tell that this celestial body was actually a living thing!

The Mulan people naturally felt extreme fear of such an unknown celestial being.

What shocked and horrified the Mulan people the most was the intelligence provided by the alien spaceship's AI. Upon comparison, they immediately confirmed the other party's identity—this was the universe destroyer, the indescribable entity that had destroyed countless civilizations in the universe.

Therefore, the Mulan people concluded that the other side came to their mother star system with the purpose of destroying them.

All fleets anchored at the cooling fortress and conducting space patrols immediately proceeded to the location of the planetary creatures.

The reflecting satellites orbiting the star Teya also altered their reflective surfaces, focusing the star's light onto the planet's life forms in an attempt to increase its heat.

Meanwhile, at the cooling fortress, the massive-caliber railgun was aimed at the planetary creatures and fired a series of high-momentum projectiles.

If these shells were to land on Mulan Star, they could directly smash the highest mountain peak into a crater.

The Mulan people on their home planet sincerely prayed for their warriors, hoping that they could defeat this unspeakable enemy. Faced with the destruction of their civilization, all the Mulan people put aside their differences and united as one!

However, something unexpected happened to the Mulan people.

The kinetic energy projectiles from the cooling fortress couldn't even create a crater the size of a bowl on the celestial-class "Cosmic Destroyer," and the focused rays from the stars couldn't raise the enemy's overall temperature by even the slightest bit.

The fleet that arrived later immediately launched a saturation bombardment on the planetary creatures, using every means of attack. Unfortunately, these attacks were like a mayfly trying to shake a tree, having no effect whatsoever.

No, it was even more futile than a mayfly trying to shake a tree. At least a mayfly can give a tree some kinetic energy, but the Mulan fleet's attacks were completely ineffective against this indescribable enemy!

(End of this chapter)