Within two years, Luo An had built a defense system at Stronghold No. 19, and the new space fortress and force field generator had been completed.
During this period, the enemy was not unaware, and the enemy also had reconnaissance ships coming and going.
"The fleet is stationed at Stronghold No. 19 again?" Fulong, the commander under Marquis Yunxiao, noticed this phenomenon.
"Sir, this fleet is not like the fleet of the Ptolemaic civilization. Their ships are lower-level. They are all level four hyperspace battleships."
"You mean, this is the fleet of Blue Star Civilization?" Fulong asked.
"It may be so. Our intelligence shows that this fleet has no strong connection with the fleet of the Ptolemaic civilization. This stronghold 19 has been abandoned by them before, and now it is probably left to the defense of the Blue Star civilization." Analysis below.
"A mere third-level civilization wants to wade into the muddy waters here?" Fulong understood the situation and snorted coldly: "Send a fleet over and wipe them out!"
"yes!"
They immediately mobilized their troops and sent a hyperspace fleet to stronghold No. 19.
Outside Stronghold 19, hyperspace fluctuations appeared, and a fleet jumped quickly.
Their jumps were almost instantaneous, and the hyperspace jammers failed to work.
"Warning, enemy attack! Warning, enemy attack!" the space outpost warned.
"Here we come!" Luo An immediately arranged his fleet to fight.
Information about the enemy fleet has also been obtained by the reconnaissance device. According to the analysis of energy radiation and hyperspace fluctuations, the lowest level of these battleships are all seventh-level hyperspace battleships, and there are also eighth-level hyperspace battleships!
Luo An also contacted Carmen, the commander of the Ptolemaic civilization, and asked him to mobilize a fleet to assist in defense.
The war has begun.
Before the weapons of the Blue Star Civilization's fleet could hit each other, a large number of weapons appeared in front of them, including various gravity bombs, kinetic energy weapons and gravitational wave weapons.
These weapons seemed to appear in front of the battleships instantly, and the Blue Star Civilization fleet was blocked in the stronghold before it was dispatched.
"Defense, defend with all your strength!" Although the captains were mentally prepared, they did not expect that they would be blocked by various weapons before they even left their "home".
"Can we attack?" He Xingzhou, who was also paying attention to the war here, asked.
"There is no way to attack." Luo An said, "The opponent uses hyperspace weapons to attack us instantly."
"Under the interference of the gravitational field, we can't even launch weapons. If we hadn't built defense facilities, we would have been severely damaged in the first round."
"Now the attack can only be carried out by hidden warships arranged in advance outside the stronghold. We should be able to defeat them by dispatching battle stars."
"First try your best to defend and collect enemy intelligence. If you can't stop it, retreat! Wait until the employees of the Ptolemaic Civilization arrive before attacking." He Xingzhou warned. Now he doesn't expect the Blue Star Civilization Fleet to be able to defeat its opponents. Now he just wants them to accumulate experience and collect technological information of the fourth-level civilization.
"Got it!" Luo An ordered, "Defend with all your strength, with the preservation of the warship as your first goal."
"Roger!" Each ship began to execute. Although they couldn't fight out, it was impossible for the enemy to destroy them quickly.
They delayed for a while, and the support fleet of the Ptolemaic civilization also jumped through hyperspace to attack the enemy.
"The support is coming, dispatch the battle stars!" Luo An shouted.
The destroyed and rebuilt Gold Battle Star went into battle. It directly withstood the enemy's firepower and rushed out of the stronghold.
"What a powerful battle star!" Carmen was filled with envy when she saw the battle star. Although the Ptolemaic civilization was a fourth-level civilization, it did not build a battle star.
Because their interstellar construction capabilities are not too high.
"This is the Battle Star? Its defense is really amazing!" Fulong was also observing, "But its maneuverability is still much weaker than ours. As long as we are not trapped by the gravitational field, it will not be able to reach us at all!"
Their warships are moving or leaping rapidly, adjusting their position to attack.
The Gold Battle Star cannot lock its attack target.
"The support of the Ptolemaic civilization is here, withdraw." Fulong has determined that this is the fleet of the Blue Star civilization. The information has been grasped, and there is no need to continue the fight.
They retreated directly and jumped away using hyperspace. The fleet of the Ptolemaic civilization locked the opponent's position and performed jump tracking. They sent the coordinates to Luo An, and the fleet of the Blue Star civilization also performed jump tracking.
Jumped once and did not pursue the enemy.
The fleet of the Ptolemaic civilization continued to jump, but the battleships of the Blue Star civilization had to return.
Because an embarrassing thing happened, the energy on the battleship was insufficient, and the hyperspace jump consumed a huge amount of energy. After two more jumps, the battleship would "run out of gas."
Seeing that the Blue Star Civilization Fleet no longer followed, Carmen also ordered a retreat.
In the first collision between the two sides, there was no loss, but Blue Star Civilization had already exposed its shortcomings in strength.
…
Five years have passed.
Not only was the Blue Star Civilization fleet attacked in the M34 star cluster, but also in the M97 star cluster. The Blue Star civilization fleet was repelled many times, losing more than a dozen hyperspace battleships, and losing its stronghold twice.
The record was very ugly, not a single victory was achieved.
So much so that the Fox Hunting Court did not send its main fleet to fight against them, otherwise they could be eliminated in one go.
"If it weren't for the battle stars, our fleet would have been wiped out long ago." He Hongwei sighed, "The gap is too big!"
"Yeah." He Xingzhou said, "I almost understand."
"The difference between us and the enemy mainly lies in two points."
"The first point is that the enemy has hyperspace weapons, but we don't, so we can only be passively beaten forever!"
"The second point is that the enemy's hyperspace battleship has a more stable jump, a longer jump distance, and a stronger endurance, allowing it to jump multiple times."
"When our warship jumps two or three times, it needs to consume 70-80% of its energy. The enemy also knows this, so when fighting us, it jumps many times to consume our energy, which also results in us being passively beaten!"
"That's it. Does the Ministry of Science have a solution?" He Hongwei asked.
"Give us some more time and we are already thinking of a solution." He Xingzhou said, "We will continue to maintain a defensive posture until our new technology achieves a breakthrough."
…
After years of testing, He Xingzhou was not only not afraid of the Orion Court, but also felt that the other party was not as powerful as he imagined.
In addition to the hyperspace jump capability, the weapons they use have similar performance to the weapons of the Blue Star Civilization.
"Then it's enough to consider only one problem, which is to increase the energy of the reactor, so that the battery life can be improved, and a small one-time hyperspace jump engine can be created for weapons." He Xingzhou believes that all the problems they have encountered so far indicate that Now, the energy output of the antimatter reactor is no longer enough!
"The enemy's warships can jump multiple times and retain a lot of energy for fighting. They are definitely not using antimatter reactors, otherwise how could they store so much antimatter on the warships?" He Xingzhou pondered. There is only one possibility. The enemy uses more advanced energy technology. .
He opened the quantum optical brain and found the answer.
"Vacuum Zero Point Reactor!"
The so-called vacuum zero-point reactor is a reactor that directly draws energy from the vacuum to power weapons and equipment.
This sounds very fantasy, but it is very scientific.
The vacuum is not nothing but a system of rotating wave packets of positrons and negative electrons. The energy associated with this phenomenon is called zero-point energy, which means that this vacuum activity is still maintained even at absolute zero.
Dirac described the vacuum state from the perspective of quantum field theory, comparing the vacuum to an undulating sea of energy.
The vacuum zero-point reactor draws energy from the "sea of energy" of the vacuum!
This is a kind of dynamic energy. Compared with nuclear reactors and antimatter reactors, its biggest advantage is that it can be extracted at any time!
There is no need for nuclear fuel or antimatter. The warship can draw energy from wherever it goes!
As long as there is a vacuum, the battleship can keep moving.
On the surface, this looks a bit like a "perpetual motion machine", but in fact it is not.
After the energy of the positive and negative electrons in the vacuum is absorbed, the vacuum will collapse. The figurative understanding is that the reactor consumes "space" to provide energy for itself.
If it is in a fixed space, doing so will reduce the volume of the space, which is not conducive to long-term development. But they are in a large universe that is expanding, and this shrinking space is nothing compared to the expanding space of the large universe.
"Consume one hundred energy points to unlock the vacuum zero-point reactor technology." He Xingzhou unlocked the technology and began research.
As long as the vacuum zero-point reactor is conquered, their hyperspace battleship can break through level five and reach the standard of a galaxy-class battleship.
At that time, battleships can repeatedly perform hyperspace jumps and battles, and conquer hyperspace weapons.
The Blue Star Civilization can be promoted to the fourth level civilization as a result, which is of great significance!
He Xingzhou's research has begun.
…
The war between the M34 cluster and the M97 cluster continues.
In the decades since the arrival of the Blue Star Civilization's defense fleet, although they have been defeated, the losses have not been much.
As the enemy fully understands their weaknesses, the war becomes more difficult, and the losses increase with each battle.
Even two battle stars were almost exploded and had to be sent back for repair twice!
The Ptolemaic civilization and the Night Owl civilization did not have the energy to take care of them. They themselves were trapped in a quagmire of bitter fighting, and the defense lines around the star cluster were eroded step by step.
The Night Owl civilization is even worse than the Ptolemaic civilization. Half of their external space has been blocked!
Qingfenghou and Mingyuehou have deployed a large number of hyperspace detectors and jammers outside the M97 star cluster, so that now the Night Owl civilization needs to be extremely careful if it wants to communicate with other civilizations or replace resources. If it is discovered and destroyed, they will It's about to be hurt once!
Many members of the Star Trade Group have realized that something is wrong and have begun to surrender to the Orion King's Court.
The power of the Star Trade Group is weakening every day!
In order to prevent allies from failing too quickly, leave room for development for yourself.
Blue Star Civilization decided to dispatch a large number of interstellar engineering teams and transportation teams to build defense measures, energy measures, transportation resources, etc. for allies.
This did relieve their pressure to a certain extent, but the real threat from the enemy was still not eliminated.
…
The M4 star cluster is a starry sky science testing ground.
He Xingzhou is testing the vacuum zero-point reactor he designed and developed.
This reactor is suspended in a vacuum, with nothing around it!
No electricity, solar energy, nuclear energy…
"Start the reactor!" He Xingzhou began to operate.
The vacuum zero-point reactor begins, which begins to draw energy from the electrical particles in the vacuum.
This energy is collected by the device and converted into various energies.
A minute later, the data showed that the vacuum zero-point reactor had collected almost one kilowatt-hour of energy.
This ray of energy is pitifully small, but for researchers, it is a surprise!
The most difficult process of making something from scratch is once it is developed, it is much easier to upgrade and improve it!
"We have absorbed the vacuum zero-point energy!" He Xingzhou said with satisfaction, "The design idea is correct, Lumi, the detection device, analyze the reaction data, and prepare to make improvements!"
"Okay, Master!" Lumi began to analyze the data.
The vacuum zero-point reactor, after more than 150 years of improvement and tens of millions of experiments, finally obtained a vacuum zero-point reactor that can function as a hyperspace battleship.
Because the technology is not yet completely mature, the current vacuum zero-point reactor cannot be said to completely enable "infinite endurance" of battleships and battle stars, so He Xingzhou used it to design a reactor set with an anti-matter reactor.
Let the antimatter reactor and vacuum zero-point reactor supply energy at the same time. Compared with the previous level five hyperspace battleship, the new reactor group's ability to continue fighting is more than a hundred times greater than before!
Hyperspace jumps can also make multiple jumps without having to rush back to replenish energy.
At this point, Blue Star Civilization has naturally broken through to level 4.0 civilization.
After solving the problem of the vacuum zero-point reactor, the Military Research Institute quickly made a breakthrough in hyperspace weapons.
Blue Star Civilization recalled warships operating abroad in batches and upgraded them one by one.
As for the star field-level ultimate weapon, the gravitational wave mid-terminal station, most of it has been built and will be completed in a few years.
…
M34 star cluster.
The modified Blue Star Civilization battleship came here again, and their stronghold has been changed from No. 19 to No. 122.
The previous strongholds have been occupied by the enemy.
Fulong, the commander under Marquis Yunxiao, once again found out the situation of the Blue Star Civilization Fleet.
"The Blue Star Civilization fleet is stationed at Stronghold No. 122. This is our opportunity!" Fulong said, "Compared to the Ptolemaic Civilization fleet, the Blue Star Civilization fleet is weaker and more suitable for our breakthrough attack."
"The Ptolemaic civilization is at its wits end. Let the third-level civilization help defend the stronghold. Isn't this giving us territory?"
"Send the order, and the fleet will attack immediately. Just like before, use a quick blitz to directly flash the rider's face!"
"Copy that!" The subordinates understood it and jumped directly into the opponent's defense area, bombing it. If the fleet of the Ptolemaic civilization came to help defend, they would temporarily evacuate.
The opponent has no ability to pursue. If you repeat this a few times, you can capture a stronghold at a very small cost.
Over the years, the captains have regarded the stronghold defended by Blue Star Civilization as a "welfare". Anyone who can discover it in advance is equivalent to gaining a military exploit for nothing!
