A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 240 These Natives Are Too Disturbing

The world's most magnificent peak—Rohimata.

This mountain is located at the junction of the third and second continents of Reka Star. Due to the compression of the tectonic plates, it rises by one centimeter every ten years, reaching a height of more than 7,000 meters, making it the tallest mountain on the entire Reka Star.

At the summit of Rohimata Peak stands a massive antenna, unmoving amidst the howling winds.

The metal antenna was covered with icicles and snow. If you stood under the antenna and looked up, you would see that the entire sky was covered by the metal mesh.

In the previous era, the powerful nations of the Ska civilization gradually divided the world, and the various closed cultural spheres on Reka were connected.

However, this did not satisfy these great powers. They still longed to conquer more land. The problem was that the remaining land was controlled by other great powers, and none of them had the confidence to seize land from other countries.

Against this backdrop, the various Ska peoples of the previous era turned their attention to the universe above them and began their respective space exploration plans.

The giant antenna on Mount Rohimata is a product of that crazy era of technology, used to transmit high-frequency radio signals into space and to search for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.

At the end of the previous era, due to internal economic problems, the great nation that built this giant antenna disintegrated. The Kingdom of Saint Mona took over a portion of the great nation's technological products and has maintained them ever since.

When the high-ranking officials of the Kingdom of Saint Mona took over this technological legacy, they planned to use the giant antenna to study the stellar band. This would openly help the Ska people achieve scientific progress and enhance the international standing of the Kingdom of Saint Mona. They could also secretly analyze the stellar band to study how to induce and create stellar flares, thus using them as a highly lethal global weapon against electronic devices.

However, this giant antenna has now returned to its old function.

Inside the base located at the summit of Rohimata, the atmosphere is sometimes noisy and sometimes quiet. When it's noisy, you can hear people talking one after another. When it's quiet, you can only hear the buzzing of some electronic instruments. At this time, the Ska people in the base will try to slow down their breathing.

After a moment of silence, a Skaman base executive broke the silence.

"All unit parameters are normal, high-frequency transmission authorization has been confirmed, power supply will overload after twenty beeps!"

"Target number: Z-16, coordinates verified!"

Energy line report: Normal!

"Refrigeration unit report: Normal!"

Overload threshold report: Normal!

"Starband Interference Report: Signal Environment is Good!"

「发射台进入最后十声倒数！10、9、8……5、4、3……」

When the number '1' was announced, the base fell silent once again. All the Skas in the base stared intently at the display screen in front of them, not daring to breathe.

As the short hairs on the bodies of these Scars stood on end, the lights in the base suddenly went out, leaving only the crimson emergency lights and displays to provide the dim base with a little remaining illumination.

The giant antenna at the summit of Rohimata Peak spreads out a huge electric field.

The clouds that linger around Rohimata Peak year-round, closer to the giant antenna, emit a faint blue glow in the pitch-black night. The light is not strong, but it is very noticeable in the dark night without any lighting.

Not long after, another uproar erupted inside the base at the base beneath the giant antenna.

"Energy Line Report: Line number RTP-003 is burned out!"

"Refrigeration unit report: Operating at full power for cooling!"

"Overload threshold report: Threshold gates No. 7 and No. 12 are burnt out!"

……

The reports came one after another, but they did not sound chaotic. Although it was noisy, the listeners could clearly understand the whole situation.

The base's senior management took out paper reports and recorded the entire launch process.

While recording with equipment is possible, its reliability is much lower in the strong magnetic environment of the base. Handwritten paper is actually more reliable than electronic devices.

Just when the executives thought this was the same as previous signal transmissions, a discordant voice intervened.

"External signal monitoring team reports: Received radio waves from the Z-16 direction! Signal encoding is the same as the 7734th transmission!"

The base executives paused, then issued orders in a volume that drowned out all the noise.

"Immediately shut down all electronic systems! Only keep the monitoring equipment operational!"

"The base is now under full monitoring! The external signal monitoring team will remain on alert!"

"Code-breaking team in position..."

Under the command of the senior management, the base was busy in an orderly manner, just like usual. But what was different this time was that the aliens from the Z-16 planet had replied!

The radio waves emitted by the Z-16 satellite used the same encryption method as the radio signal transmitted by the giant antenna for the 7734th time. Therefore, after the radio waves emitted by the Z-16 satellite were imported into the analyzer, the information in the radio waves was deciphered in about three minutes.

Don't you Ska people know what disturbing the peace means?

The Skaians inside the giant antenna base exchanged glances; they hadn't entirely given up hope that aliens would reply to their messages.

However, the alien replies they imagined were either diplomatic language filled with political overtones or cold, brief messages, the kind that were as economical as gold.

Even at the very least, they represent their own civilization and speak to the Ska people.

However, in reality, the messages from the aliens on Z-16 made them feel that something was off about these aliens.

When the Ska people looked further down and read the radio messages that were subsequently deciphered, their expressions changed drastically.

We originally planned to do this later, but since you're in such a hurry, we don't mind doing it a little earlier.

[As the mastermind of the Babel Tower Swarm, representing the swarm I currently lead, I hereby formally declare war on the Ska civilization on Reka Star. From this day forward, all Ska people must unconditionally obey the Babel Tower Swarm.]

……

Space war broke out.

This is the situation that the Ska nations least want to see, because the Ska's space fleet hasn't even been built yet.

Even the most industrialized nations on Planet Reka, with their most complete production chains, would take at least three months to build a launch vehicle.

However, only two and a half months have passed, and the rockets of various countries have not yet been completed, yet they have been declared war on by aliens from the Z-16 planet.

As expected, the Kingdom of Saint Mona became the target of everyone's criticism.

Many Ska people believe that if the Kingdom of Saint Mona hadn't been constantly harassing the Z-16 aliens with its giant antennas and high-frequency radio waves, even if a space war had broken out, it wouldn't have escalated so quickly.

Not only was there widespread condemnation internationally, but there was also widespread condemnation within the Kingdom of Saint Mona, with public resentment boiling over.

The incident only came to an end when the Ska people at the giant antenna base were either persecuted or disappeared.

After this event, the peace-negotiation faction within the Ska civilization completely lost its voice.

After all, the alien civilization on Z-16 has already issued a declaration of war. To still naively believe that the issue can be resolved through negotiation is truly risking the survival of an entire civilization.

However, after the peaceful negotiation faction disappeared, a new school of thought quietly emerged from its corpse—the Civilized Survival Faction.

(End of this chapter)