The stars, but they become the gray wind

"A Penrose sphere only requires a single layer of spherical mirror structure made of absolutely reflective material. Scans of this thing reveal it to have at least several hundred layers of spherical structures nested like concentric circles. The outermost layer is a circle of color-nuclear force armor over a thousand kilometers thick. Approximately tens of thousands of kilometers away from the first layer is a second shell of the same thickness and material, followed by a third, a fourth... This thing has been forcibly constructed with at least several hundred layers of color-nuclear force material, thousands of kilometers thick, surrounding a medium-sized black hole at the center of the sphere, equivalent to a mass of 100,000 suns!"

"What... is this? How can there be a Penrose sphere of this style?" Renlong was a little confused by the huge structure in front of her with a very strange internal structure. In her opinion, this kind of concentric spherical structure with layers of inlaid layers is completely unnecessary. If it is just to obtain the gravitational potential energy of the black hole, then a single-layer Penrose sphere is enough. However, the huge structure in front of her is as if the designer is mentally ill. Renlong really feels that she cannot understand it.

"This thing... of this scale couldn't have been built recently, right?"

"Absolutely impossible... A structure of this scale, with layers of color-nuclear force material each thousands of kilometers thick, would take tens of thousands of years to complete. It's impossible to create a structure of this magnitude using only local galactic matter harvested from a black hole's accretion disk. The raw materials for its color-nuclear force must have been transported from other galaxies. And considering the Black Mist Fleet is limited by the speed of light, the possibility of this being built in the last few hundred years is zero."

"And black holes with a mass of 100,000 suns aren't found everywhere.

"So what do we do with this thing?"

"Let's try bombing them first... The FTL long-range strike beacon is in place, center! We've encountered a unique target here. A single long-range strike may not be enough to take it out. We estimate it will take at least... over a hundred long-range strikes to destroy it. For safety's sake, please direct all FTL strike platform firepower toward this system!"

[Received, long-range strike platform No. 270-1055 has been mobilized, long-range strike has been launched, estimated arrival time 14 minutes and 3 seconds]

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During the ten minutes or so it took for hundreds of long-range strikes to arrive, the Salem and the Ultima Thule were also trying to analyze the true purpose of this strange celestial engineering project. Since they had destroyed the outposts located on the outskirts of the star system, it was obviously impossible for the small battle group hundreds of astronomical units away from this giant structure to threaten them. Because of the speed of light limit, it would take at least several hours or even days for the other party to observe them hundreds of astronomical units away. By then, the facility would have been destroyed by the superluminal strike.

But at this moment, when everyone temporarily relaxed their vigilance, something strange happened.

[High energy reaction detected approaching the fleet! Energy reaction type: Hawking radiation]

"What the hell?!!" Before the Ultimatum Light and Salem could react, the directed Hawking radiation that swept across half the galaxy directly hit the fleet. The entire hemisphere within a 175-degree area centered on the megastructure was bombarded with a huge amount of Hawking radiation.

After experiencing this terrifying Hawking radiation jet, the entire fleet led by the Salem and the Ultimatum Light was in a state of disarray. Sparks and small-scale explosions caused by overload appeared in the cabins and corridors of each spacecraft, and the pipes in the spacecraft began to melt under the high temperature. Just before being hit by the Hawking radiation jet, the entire fleet overloaded the spacecraft's reactors and deflection shield devices to more than 750% power, forcibly blocking the Hawking radiation jet that was enough to destroy the entire fleet. Although the fleet was saved in this attack, the shield systems of almost all the spacecraft in the fleet were on the verge of being scrapped, and the reactors began to switch to low-power operation due to damage to various components caused by the overload output.

"Shit! What the hell was that just now?" Renlong cursed after falling down due to the vibration caused by the violent attack on the spacecraft and just came to his senses to stand up with the help of the operating table.

"Hawking radiation jet... But at this distance... It shouldn't be able to see us at all... And how can such a massive black hole produce such a large amount of Hawking radiation? Doesn't Hawking radiation become smaller as the mass of the black hole increases?" Carlisle rubbed her head that hit the ground, looked at the messy bridge with sparks everywhere, and muttered with annoyance.

"This thing... I'm afraid it wasn't aimed at all. The jet of Hawking radiation that just attacked us directly formed a nearly 180-degree cone-shaped fan. If it was really an attack on us, it was completely a blind cat catching a dead mouse, and we just happened to run into it."

"Not aiming? In other words, maybe it wasn't an attack?"

"Most likely... We're a full 200 AU away. From that position, it would take at least 27 hours to see us, unless the device calculated our location 27 hours in advance, which is obviously impossible. So this definitely couldn't be a targeted attack."

"It's not a targeted attack? What the hell is that? And there's no way to explain why such a massive black hole can emit such strong Hawking radiation, right?"

"I don't know... We can only wait for the arrival of the FTL long-range strike to confirm what the hell this giant structure is."

"How long until the long-range strike arrives?"

One minute and five seconds

"If we get hit by an attack of that level again, we might not be able to withstand it." Carlisle anxiously watched the countdown on the screen.

Chapter 169: The True Heavenly Secret Project? (6000 words)

This giant structure is very strange. There are many unreasonable aspects in both its appearance and structure. At the same time, Calisi is also very clear that the Hawking radiation jet that almost caused the annihilation of the entire fleet is itself very abnormal. The scale and intensity of the Hawking radiation jet of a black hole are inversely proportional to the mass of the black hole and the size of the event horizon. The smaller the mass and diameter of the black hole, the more intense its Hawking radiation jet. A black hole with a mass of 100000 times that of the sun should emit very small Hawking radiation, but the energy of the fan-shaped Hawking radiation jet just now has reached at least 10 to the 45th power joules, and its power has even far exceeded the energy released by a supernova explosion.

"A large number of small black holes have been detected in the galaxy!" Yuki saw that the area in front of the fleet that had been bombarded by this wave of Hawking radiation had released excessive energy within a limited range, resulting in an excessively high particle density within the 175-degree fan-shaped area centered on the giant structure in the center of the star system, which directly began to distort the structure of space itself. A large number of micro black holes began to form in the Hawking radiation release area.

[Flying superluminal long-range strike has arrived, fleet battle groups take precautions to evade.]

"Forget it, never mind. If this thing explodes, our fleet won't be able to withstand the damage caused by the aftermath. How's the shield system doing?"

"All the ships' gravitational deflection shield generators have been overloaded, but the jump drives are still functional. We'd better evacuate within 20 hours. Otherwise, with the ships in their current state, staying here will only lead to destruction by the aftermath of the galaxy explosion!"

"As long as the jump drive works, prepare to leave three-dimensional space!"

Carlisle looked at the devastated bridge. Under the Hawking radiation jet just now, the emergency safety procedures of all ships in the fleet were automatically triggered. All energy except for the necessary life support systems was concentrated on the shield, allowing the shield generator to overload with more than 700% power in an instant, and forcibly created a small safe zone in the fierce jet of Hawking radiation. However, due to the overly high power overload operation in such a short period of time, almost no ship in the entire fleet still had a well-functioning gravitational field shield. Even the backup mass-energy conversion force field generator on the Fantasy Light was seriously damaged in the Hawking radiation jet just now. Although the hull itself was still quite intact, it was difficult to withstand the situation.

When a star system is destroyed, the destruction will be no less than that of a supernova explosion, which will be tantamount to seeking death.

At the same time as this small-scale fleet was once again enveloped by the mirror-warped cavitation, more than hundreds of superluminal long-range strikes appeared simultaneously at different positions of this nesting doll-like Penrose sphere. Magnetic monopoles, strange quark matter clusters, red giant super-fusion reaction plasma energy beams, relativistic speed mass warheads weighing tens of trillions of tons, laser-generated graviton rays... Dozens of superluminal long-range strike weapons from different galaxies and different strike platforms hit this celestial giant structure that was like a nesting doll brain. Hundreds of layers of the outer shell made of color nuclear force armor were pierced. Under the action of intensive and concentrated long-range strikes, this The event horizon of the massive black hole contained in the center of the megastructure began to break, and the large-scale distortion of the space-time metric caused by the long-range impact finally exposed the singularity at the center of the black hole. Immediately afterwards, there was a small-scale Big Bang covering the entire galaxy. Less than one Planck time after the singularity was exposed from the black hole's event horizon, it exploded. The small-scale Big Bang caused by the singularity even directly affected the physical laws within the entire galaxy, causing the parameters of the four fundamental forces to return directly to the state at the beginning of the Big Bang. All the matter in the galaxy also turned into a pile of quark magma in this explosion.

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Of course, Carlisle and others who had evacuated in advance could not see this scene. After jumping to a galaxy dozens of light years away, the severely damaged fleet slowly began to repair itself under the action of the von Neumann self-replicator that made up the spacecraft itself.

"The Hawking radiation just now destroyed all the shield generators of all the ships in our entire fleet... And it's not just the shield generators that need repairing, but also a large number of pipes and control systems that were severely overloaded due to instantaneous excessive energy transmission. Tsk... isn't this too frustrating?" Renlong complained dissatisfiedly on the bridge that was still sparking.

"Okay, stop complaining... This ship and the fleet are still intact... We're lucky... If we had been attacked a second time at that level, our entire fleet would have been wiped out. With all of the fleet's shield generators completely destroyed, relying solely on armor to withstand that level of Hawking radiation, we'd be lucky to be left with nothing."

"What's more... the fleet's gravitational deflection shield that helped us block that attack had itself withstood attacks far beyond its design limits... We should be happy, right?"

"What's there to be happy about? Even in a favorable situation, I was beaten and forced to flee in disgrace. It's so frustrating, isn't it?"

"At least we've tested the upper limit of the gravitational field deflection shield for a ship of the Visionary Refraction class, and we've been able to survive attacks with energies hundreds of times greater than a supernova explosion, or even higher. That's something to be happy about."

"I just can't get over this... I got hit by a weapon that nearly killed us all, and then had to flee in disgrace. I can't be happy about that."

"Okay, don't look so sad... It will take a lot of time for the spacecraft to repair itself. Why don't you come with me for a drink?" Yuki pulled Renlong and planned to go to a restaurant near the bridge.

The corridors they passed through were filled with silver nanomachines pouring out from the gaps in damaged and broken pipes and energy pipelines. The silver-gray self-replicating units spread along the walls, ceilings, and floors to the damaged areas, filling and repairing them. Under the action of the nanomachines, the originally damaged parts throughout the ship began to recover rapidly, like wounds that were healing at an accelerated rate.

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Anchored on the Salem, which was only a few hundred kilometers away from the Fantasy Refraction, Kalisi arrived at an ecological zone on the Salem through short-distance teleportation. The device in the ecological zone that completely simulated the natural environment had begun to flicker unsteadily due to the damage suffered by the shield system overload. Like the Fantasy Refraction, the von Neumann self-replicator on the Salem also began to self-repair the damaged equipment and parts, but it was obvious that the lighting device in the ecological zone, which few people would go to at all, was not the first priority of the self-repair system.

"You're here?" The lifelike holographic projection of the red-haired cat girl appeared in front of Kalisi.

"Um... Is your hull... okay?"

"The shield generators were completely destroyed... The ship itself wasn't seriously damaged. The self-repair system is already functioning, but it will take some time to restore to perfect condition."

"What the hell is that megastructure? It's not in my data. I've never recorded a black hole that massive, emitting jets of Hawking radiation of that magnitude?"

"I don't know either. I was completely stunned by that thing. Luckily, our ship managed to hold on. Otherwise, with that level of energy explosion, I'm afraid we would have been blown into a pile of discrete quarks."

"Ah... By the way, what were the results of the FTL attack on that galaxy?"

"It's okay. Before we fled that galaxy, I left a detector there. Before the detector was affected by the aftermath of the galaxy's destruction, it observed that the black hole at the center of that celestial body had ruptured its event horizon, triggering a small-scale Big Bang resulting from a naked singularity. The detector was then destroyed in the aftermath. I guess it has now been transformed into a quark molten magma by this artificial small-scale Big Bang, just like all the matter in that galaxy?"

"Fortunately... If these hundreds of long-range strikes hadn't worked, I'd really have to wonder if Black Mist was planning something big for us."

"Even if the Black Mist wanted to prepare a large one, it couldn't, right? It's too large, and limited by the speed of light, the reaction time it needs is almost measured in years. Its excessive size and slow speed limit its control over all the star systems within its jurisdiction and its resource utilization to a limited level. It also has difficulty integrating the resources of these distant star systems. Even if it wanted to prepare a large one for us, it doesn't have the prerequisites?"

"That's true... maybe I'm just worrying too much..." Carlisle breathed a sigh of relief.

"By the way...where does the other 'me' stand on your ship? I want to ask her about the matter of Yao Ling Yao's wife, Dan Cu Shi Jiu Wan."

"She...Restaurant No. 1, Area A45."

"Thank you..." Carlisle said goodbye to the red-haired cat girl and went to look for her other self from the future.

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"Oh my god, I was scared to death..." Kylias replied with lingering fear, thinking about the Hawking radiation jet that almost blew her and the entire fleet into ashes. If the entire fleet had not burned out all the shield generators as a price to forcibly overload the shield to protect the spacecraft itself, she would not even be able to stand here now.

"Don't worry, that weird megastructure has been completely destroyed by our long-range strikes. As for what happened to us, I have already uploaded it to the Tree of Life. In the future, if another fleet encounters this kind of celestial megastructure made of black fog with a very strange structure, we will only send an unmanned fleet to guide the superluminal long-range strike." The red-haired cat girl comforted Kaelias, who still looked anxious. Her disembodied hands stroked the soft long hair of the pink-haired elf girl, and helped Kaelias adjust the nanomachinery in his body to secrete some chemical components that could calm his anxious emotions and spirit.

"Huh... So, is there any result from the Tree of Life? About that strange-looking celestial project?" Under the effect of the calming chemical components secreted by the nanomachines, Kylias patted his chest.

"No, I'm still analyzing it, but... I don't think it's a Penrose sphere or something like that."

"Isn't it obvious... How could a Penrose sphere be made into a nesting doll-like structure?"

"We may only know the specific use of that thing after the Tree of Life analyzes the results."

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In the restaurant, a purple-haired girl walked to the left carrying two plates of pasta with tomato sauce, and pushed one of the plates in front of another purple-haired girl who looked exactly like her and was sitting opposite her.

"Are you quite free?" Carlisle glanced at the plate of pasta that was pushed in front of her.

"That's right... that really scared me. After all, the energy was far beyond the level of a supernova explosion. No matter how you put it, it exceeded the protection limit of the gravitational field deflection shields of the Salem and Fantasy Light. If the energy output of the Hawking radiation jet released by that thing at that time was just a little bit higher, the entire fleet might have... BOOM!"

"Then how can you still look so relaxed?"

"Of course, that's because I know the maximum energy output it can release in a single burst. Unless it can unleash a second burst of Hawking radiation of this magnitude in a short period of time, our fleet will surely flee before that happens and destroy it with a superluminal long-range strike."

"It looks like you've been through this, too?"

"Yes... My appearance before you means we'll survive unscathed. The outcome is certain. It's just the process that will be different. Furthermore, that jet of Hawking radiation didn't cause us any irreparable damage... While the fleet suffered considerable damage... it's ultimately only damage that can be fully recovered with the help of the automatic repair system, which will take some time."

"Since you know so much about the whole thing... you must also know what that strange giant structure is used for, right?"

"Hmm... I do know a little bit... That megastructure is an experiment of the Black Mist, right?"

"After discovering that the speed of light cannot be exceeded in this universe, we attempt to break through the black hole's event horizon and obtain a naked singularity. We then use the possible superluminal negative energy flow in the naked singularity and the nature of the naked singularity itself that violates the law of causality to solve the problem of the speed of light limit."

"But... judging from the results... this experiment has obviously failed." The purple-haired girl from the future picked up a fork, scooped up a large piece of spaghetti covered in tomato sauce from the plate, and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Do you remember the attempts of the Sky Star civilization to obtain the black hole's naked singularity before you arrived?"

"I remember...but the experiments they use in this category generally use artificial micro black holes, right?"

"Indeed, the Sky Star civilization's experiments in this area were relatively small-scale before our arrival. This was limited by both their own size and the relatively small number of massive black holes in their region of the universe."

"But the Black Mist is different. As a civilization controlling over billions of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, it can be said that it has no regard for cost, scale, or investment in this regard. It can even be said that it is completely pursuing a strategy of making miracles come true with great effort."

"Can't you evaporate the event horizon while preserving the singularity in a small black hole experiment? No problem. Just force it. Use a black hole tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of times the mass of the sun as experimental material. Force it to accelerate the evaporation of the black hole's event horizon and do everything possible to preserve the naked singularity."

"But just like the Sky Star civilization, it simply can't be done. The laws of this universe fundamentally forbid the existence of naked singularities without altering the laws of spacetime and causality. At least within this universe, this is the last and most difficult of all the great filters that civilization must pass through. Once it passes this final filter, the entire civilization can truly and completely move towards the universe and even transcend the limitations of spacetime and causality. But the fact is... within this universe, within the 930 billion light-years of the observable universe, no civilization other than Sky Star and the Glass Eel has passed this final filter. Aside from our two civilizations, all others are firmly constrained by the laws of the universe to below the speed of light. Even if they expend countless time and technological means, they can only approach the speed of light infinitely, but cannot truly surpass it."

"Without FTL technology, interstellar colonization would be limited to sub-light speeds. Colonies within galaxies would be relatively scattered, and a truly unified intergalactic or intergalactic civilization would be impossible. The Black Mist is a prime example. Its sluggish reaction speed, limited to sub-light speed, meant it could only be unilaterally beaten by us in interstellar warfare. Its military mobilization and counterattack time, which took years to complete, were as slow as a tortoise in front of us."

"I see... Civilizations that can travel faster than light and those that don't really are two different things."

"Currently, we are the only two civilizations in the entire observable universe that possess superluminal technology. And we are the only ones who can resolve the collapse of the causal system caused by the superluminal negative energy flow from naked singularities."

"Wait a minute... When we hand over the wormhole-related technology to Riemann, won't they also be able to replicate and perfect it and utilize this technology?"

"Hmm... this... this aspect is a bit hard to explain. Um... anyway... we can understand and fully comprehend this technology... because of Cabot... but for other civilizations... the technology for creating naked singularities and superluminal negative energy flows is a black box they cannot comprehend. Even if you find a civilization on Sky Star that is roughly the same size and level as the one before your contact and explain the principles of the technology, its manufacturing and usage, etc. to them in full, they still won't be able to understand the principles and manufacturing process of this thing."

"We can see and understand this because we are connected to the United Fleet and, in a sense, are subordinates of the United Star Governor. That's why we can use superluminal warp drives and high-dimensional space jumps, technologies that violate the fundamental laws of space and time in this universe."

"And to other civilizations... the faster-than-light technology we use is a complete black box, like a secret engineering project."

"Even if we give them a full set of technical drawings and step-by-step explanations, they probably still won't understand."

"So... you're saying... the three main types of FTL technologies we use... to outsiders unaffiliated with the Alliance... are completely... secret projects?"

"You can understand it this way... For outsiders of our two civilizations, while it's not unusable, they will never understand how we extract the singularity from the black hole and maintain its stable existence. They will never be able to replicate this process. The superluminal technology we use is a completely incomprehensible black box to them."

"I see...but why does this sound like a technology patent?"

"Nonono... this is very different from a patented technology. Patented technology can at least be deciphered to some extent through reverse engineering. The superluminal technology we use is essentially indecipherable to any civilization other than the Sky Star Civilization and the Glass Eels."

"They can use the wormhole network we've laid out across the entire galaxy, and they can also make our spacecraft travel faster than light speeds by simply pressing buttons and operating panels, but they will never be able to understand the specific processes and detailed principles of these technologies, nor how to replicate them."

"So, compared to the inaccurate term "technology patent", it would be more appropriate to call it the enhanced version of Tianji Engineering Acquisition."

"This is also the reason why the Tree of Life, a super artificial intelligence, launched an attack on the Black Mist without any scruples. Even if the Black Mist obtained our complete set of FTL technology, even a super artificial intelligence like the Black Mist would not be able to understand its specific principles and methods."

"This isn't a technology that can be solved with sufficiently advanced and extensive reverse engineering research, so we don't have to worry about the FTL technology we use falling into other civilizations and being reverse-engineered against us."

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"A facility to disintegrate the event horizon of a massive black hole?" Kylias carefully studied the information on the data terminal in his hand, looking at his red-haired catgirl with a puzzled look.

"The Tree of Life's analysis of that bizarre megastructure... It was originally intended as a giant experimental facility designed to attempt to disintegrate the event horizon of a massive black hole while retaining a naked singularity... But the experiment with this facility apparently failed in the end. The black hole at its center should have initially been far more than 100,000 times the mass of our sun. As the event horizon evaporated, its mass gradually shrank to only 100,000 times the mass of our sun. Contrary to what we initially expected, its outer layer, which resembles a nesting doll, wasn't built from the inside out, but from the outside in. The largest outer shell we see was the original construction. As the mass of the central black hole continued to shrink under the influence of Hawking radiation, it built up layers of smaller spherical shells inside, until the entire black hole shrank to only 100,000 solar masses."

"What about that jet of Hawking radiation that nearly evaporated us?"

"It's probably the result of this facility releasing almost all of the Hawking radiation that has accumulated over hundreds of thousands or even millions of years as the black hole's evaporation has been artificially accelerated."

"This facility apparently has some way of storing the collected Hawking radiation. Should we be considered to have been sprayed in the face by the 'exhaust gas' emitted during its operation?"

"It's likely that the total amount of Hawking radiation stored internally was about to reach its limit, so it was released all at once. And by sheer luck, we happened to run into it just as it was emitting a jet of Hawking radiation."

"Fuck!" After listening to Salem's detailed explanation, Kellyas cursed with a gloomy face.

Chapter 170 Mysterious Signals from the Black Hole Event Horizon (6000 words)

After some repairs, the entire fleet led by the two spaceships finally regained its combat capability. On the other hand, during the period when the entire fleet relied on the self-repair system to recover, the Sky Star civilization's siege of the black fog was about to enter its final stage. A large number of superluminal long-range strikes, almost completely disregarding the cost and quantity, wiped out galaxies from the universe on a large scale, and left no resources that could be used by the black fog.

In this interstellar war, which would wipe out one-tenth of the Large Magellanic Cloud's stars, there would be no conventional fleet-wide close-range artillery bombardments within light-seconds. Instead, there would be unilateral superluminal, long-range strikes that would instantly and silently annihilate entire star systems, transforming them into the universe's fundamental particles. In this war, the fleet's presence in the enemy's star system was solely to provide accurate guidance and coordinate information for the superluminal, long-range strike facilities deployed in the rear. With the guidance beacons provided by the fleet, strikes that would normally take dozens of hours to arrive from high-dimensional space would be shortened to mere tens of minutes. Without guidance, such energy or matter delivery from high-dimensional space to a target across hundreds of thousands of light-years would require constant correction of the target's three-dimensional position relative to the target during high-dimensional navigation, consuming a considerable amount of time. However, with the guidance signals and accurate coordinate information provided by the fleet, the energy or matter delivered from the superluminal, long-range strike would require no additional time for coordinate corrections during navigation, and could accurately impact the target in just tens of minutes.

When superluminal long-range strikes are delivered with extreme precision to distant star systems, the role played by the front-line fleet is more like a reconnaissance and strike drone in modern warfare that provides enemy coordinates and close-range guidance to beyond-visual-range strike units in the rear, rather than a large naval vessel that can directly launch long-range beyond-visual-range strikes against the enemy.

Under the requirements of this technical condition, the front-line fleet only needs to jump to a position about 100 to 300 astronomical units away from the enemy star system, and then provide accurate coordinates and guidance for the superluminal long-range strikes in the rear. Due to the limitation of the speed of light, it will take the enemy in the galaxy at least 12 hours and at most 40 hours to observe the fleet that appears at the edge of the star system. By then, the entire galaxy has been destroyed by the superluminal long-range strike. Therefore, the front-line fleet responsible for providing positioning does not need to engage in direct fire with the enemy most of the time, but this does not mean that the protection and firepower of these fleets are weak. In order to observe and confirm the actual effects after the superluminal long-range strike is completed, all ships in the fleet are required to have protection and anti-strike capabilities that can survive close-range supernova explosions.

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"Apparently... the fact that Sky Star's fleet and ships were able to survive a supernova explosion largely intact is at least quite reliable. The energy output of the Hawking radiation jets that hit our fleet was equivalent to at least hundreds of supernova explosions. All of our ships, including ours, only had their shields and some other systems completely destroyed. This, however, proves that our technology is quite reliable."

"Rather than saying it's reliable, it's better to say that this data indicator is a bit too abnormal. After all, who would require every spacecraft manufactured by their civilization to have the protection capability to withstand a supernova explosion at close range?" Yuki complained.

"Okay... stop talking nonsense, the jump is about to end, let's get ready for battle!" Renlong stopped the meaningless complaints of Kalisi and Yuuki and asked them to focus on the current key point first.

Outside the spaceship, a burst of starlight twisted, and a new star system appeared in front of everyone. The difference from the previous one was that the periphery of this star system was covered with densely packed outer periphery warning outposts and early warning satellites, exceeding millions. Carlisle's first reaction was to destroy these satellites as soon as possible. In the absence of superluminal observation means, once these early warning satellites and outer periphery warning outposts were eliminated, the black fog force in the galaxy would no longer be able to effectively and timely know the exact location of the fleet on the edge of the galaxy, and naturally would not be able to launch any effective countermeasures and counterattacks, becoming a living target for superluminal long-range attacks.

As for the Black Mist, the only way to know the exact location of the fleet using high-dimensional space jumps is to increase the number and density of outposts and satellites in the outer reaches of the star system. However, in the final analysis, this method is only a temporary solution, not a fundamental solution...