A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 79 The Galaxy's Broadcast Range is Too Large

It is a black hole located at the end of the constellation Pena, 3740 light-years from the center of the galaxy.

Fifty years ago, this place was a supergiant blue dwarf star with a mass no less than R136a1, 216 times the mass of the Sun. After collapsing, the mass-energy conversion released enormous energy, forming a stellar black hole at its center. Centered on this black hole, a planetary stellar remnant nebula radiates outward, looking from afar like a perfectly spherical light bulb, truly a work of art.

However, this place has now become a battlefield, with the Bahadun Crystal Group led by the Void God on one side and the allied fleet composed of native civilizations of the Mesa Galaxy on the other.

Since Bahadun's military decision-making error led to a reversal of the offensive and defensive positions, the native civilization of the Mesa system has seized the initiative in the war. Therefore, they chose the black hole at the end of the Banana constellation as the decisive battleground.

Everything seems to be affected by gravity simply because of the use of psionic energy.

The essence of psychic energy is to act on spacetime, and then spacetime influences the state of matter's movement.

This means that compressing spacetime can indeed weaken the use of psionic energy. After all, compressing spacetime increases the difficulty of bending spacetime. Previously, one unit of psionic energy could do one thing, but now it takes two or even more units of psionic energy to do the same thing.

The Void God and Bahadun were well aware of the weakening effect of gravity on psionic energy, but they had no choice. The initiative in the war had already changed hands, and neither of them had much military talent, so they could not regain the initiative and could only make the area near the black hole the decisive battleground.

However, the situation isn't too bad for them. Compared to the galactic supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy in the Vorsotis system, where the main battlefield was weakened by the powerful gravity of the galactic supermassive black hole, this star-shaped black hole in the Mesa system, the decisive battleground, is really not worth mentioning.

Compared to the war in the Void God Galaxy, the Void God and Bahadur actually felt somewhat relieved.

Thus, the interstellar war in the Mesa Galaxy began with the Void Gods feeling somewhat relaxed and the galactic native civilizations confident of victory, and a fierce space battle commenced.

The native civilizations of the galaxy are particularly effective against crystals because light-speed attacks are so fast that crystals cannot be deflected immediately. As a result, the allied fleets of the native civilizations of the galaxy mainly use particle beam weapons and lasers.

Bahadun's approach was still very traditional, relying on live ammunition. Although he had learned a lot about the use of psionic energy from the Void God, such as deflecting enemy attacks or using psionic energy to penetrate the armor of warships and kill all the enemies inside.

But now the enemies have learned their lesson and know not to let their warships enter the psionic range of Bahadun's crystals. So they stay outside the range and continue to attack. Apart from using the traditional live ammunition attacks, Bahadun doesn't really have any good ways to deal with the enemy fleet.

Therefore, at the very beginning of the decisive battle, Bahadun's crystal was continuously attacked by the allied fleet of the river system's native civilization, and was utterly defeated.

If it weren't for the Void God's high psychic energy level, allowing it to have a much wider psychic energy range than the crystals like Bahadur, and its ability to wipe out the main force of the galactic civilization's coalition, the crystals of Bahadur would have been completely destroyed.

However, the native civilization of the galaxy was not flustered at all because a portion of its main force had been wiped out. War is inherently cruel, and casualties have long been a series of numbers that inevitably appear after each war. Having foreseen this, how could they not invest more resources in logistics?

It's okay if we clear out a batch; the main coalition fleet still has plenty left.

Just as the Void God was clearly feeling the pressure and considering whether or not to retreat.

A series of gravitational wave signals came from an unknown location.

These gravitational wave signals are repeatedly conveying two messages.

I, Lu Shang, represent the Babel Swarm and engage in dialogue with all civilizations in this galaxy.

[All mass in this galaxy now belongs to the Babel Swarm. All civilizations possessing wormhole and microcosm technology are urged to immediately leave the swarm's galaxy. The Babel Swarm will soon launch a massive cleansing of civilizations across the entire galaxy. At that time, any civilization existing in this galaxy will be considered an enemy of the swarm and will be eliminated. Civilizations with any sense left should leave as soon as possible. Don't say you weren't warned.]

And so... this interstellar war came to an abrupt end.

Knowing about the Babel swarm, the Void God, faced with the current clearly disadvantageous situation and the gravitational wave information from the Babel swarm's interference, completely lost the will to continue fighting.

On the galactic homeworld, despite their desire to pursue and eliminate the threat completely, the gravitational wave phenomenon left them truly bewildered. According to information gathered from various mobile space cities, the gravitational wave seemed to be a broadcast covering the entire Mesa galaxy.

This is truly outrageous and ridiculous.

Even if we combined the technologies of all the civilizations in the Mesa system, we absolutely could not accomplish such a thing at present.

This means that the Babel swarm that broadcast gravitational waves covering the entire Mesa galaxy can be definitively said to be technologically superior to them.

This alone is enough to make the native civilizations of the galaxy extremely wary.

Of course, it was only out of apprehension. The gravitational wave broadcast stated that "the entire mass of the Mesa Galaxy has been attributed to the Babel Swarm," but the native civilization of the galaxy believed that this was still debatable, since they were not without power.

Subsequently, numerous exploration fleets began appearing in various star systems of the Mesa system to search for the source of the gravitational wave broadcast, as well as the mysterious Tower of Babel swarm mentioned in the broadcast.

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"The broadcast took a year, and now it has finally achieved coverage of the entire river system."

Lu Shang lay in a rocking chair with a fire burning beside him, watching the latest TV series from the Star River Alliance, "The Secret Past of the Chief Officer of the Star River Alliance and the Swarm Brain".

Honestly, watching a TV series about aliens from a human perspective has a novel and intriguing feel to it.

In fact, the swarm's gravitational wave broadcast covering the entire galaxy did not use any particularly complicated technology. It was simply that countless planetary beings hid in a microcosm, pulling on microscopic wormholes, and then were neatly and evenly distributed in the Mesa galaxy, which was already enclosed in the microcosm, at intervals of two light-years.

Based on the information from the swarm network, the land entropy collectively used psionic interference to disrupt spacetime and release gravitational wave signals.

These gravitational wave signals spread at the speed of light, naturally taking a year to cover the entire Mesa galaxy.

"There's no need to broadcast. We can just wipe them all out at once, since they're already fenced off anyway," Nanali stated in the swarm network.

Lu Shang said, "You can't say that. There are definitely civilizations in the universe that are more powerful than us. What if their technology is better than the swarm's? Moreover, it would be very difficult for the swarm to wipe out civilizations that have mastered wormhole and microcosm technology. If we don't eliminate them at the root, it will easily become endless."

"Don't become overly arrogant because of your current strength, or you'll easily lead the swarm to destruction," Lu Shang warned in the swarm network.

"Understood," Nanali said.

It thought for a moment, then asked, "Now that the broadcast coverage is complete, should we start cleaning?"

Lu Shang said, "No need. Let's wait ten years. After ten years, those who are able to leave will have left, and there's no point in waiting any longer for those who don't want to leave. We can clean them up then."

"If we can avoid fighting, we should. But if we must fight, we must fight to the point of annihilation, eradicating the threat completely and preventing future troubles," Lu Shang said resolutely.

"I understand," Nanali replied knowingly.

(End of this chapter)