The last human in the universe

Chapter 184 Safe Route
It has to be said that this result is really beyond people's expectations.

Before this, people always subconsciously felt that since the opponent had so many weaknesses and flaws, their own side was well-trained, disciplined, and highly tactical. Other civilizations are at least at the level of the leader of the battle team, no matter what, they all have at least a [-]% winning rate, right?

People at this moment already know that the quality of the front-line fighters of the alien civilization is actually very low when the alien civilization only uses subhumans as front-line fighters and generally regards the front-line fighters as consumables.Basically, they can only do some basic operations learned during training, and they can basically only mechanically execute the orders of their superior commanders. Basically, they don't have any subjective initiative, and they don't have any ability to change on the spot, and they don't even have a high competitive spirit— —For them, participating in combat is just a job to extend their lives.

If it is not supported by harsh laws and brutal discipline, they are often more inclined to flee and retreat rather than implement tactics to fight.

Under such circumstances, it is not overestimated, or even underestimated, for an ordinary human space soldier to be equivalent to a combat team leader of an alien civilization.

However, even if the "software" level exceeds the enemy by so much, is the winning rate still so low?

"The difference in technology level and the gap in equipment advancement are not so easy to rely on the strength of 'software' to smooth it out. Even if the enemy is only an incomplete third-level civilization, they can at least make every combat spaceship use metal hydrogen Or use helium to make the shell? A combat spaceship with a larger equivalent can at least be equipped with a vacuum cannon, right? Even if the vacuum cannon is a little less powerful, it is still a vacuum cannon. Are there miniature antimatter missiles? Are there high-speed electromagnetic guns? ? The deep space survey radar, its detection range and accuracy are higher than ours, right? The spaceship is also more maneuverable than ours, right? "

One thing that is clear is that the enemy has a high probability of thinking that his side is a third-level civilization in a weak stage.But since this is the case, the enemy is still dispatched, which must mean that they have a high expectation and certainty of winning.

Therefore, they must have the equipment listed above.

These equipment may not be anything compared to the authentic third-level civilization, but even so, it is at best the difference between the arquebus and the desert eagle, and there is no difference in technological level between the two.

Compared with humans, it is a full level higher.

It's like holding an arquebus and proficient in three-stage strike against an army of cold weapons holding a fine saber made of refined steel and wearing heavy armor.

Even if it is already at the peak of the cold weapon era, it will not be of any use to fight against the junior army in the hot weapon era.

This is the situation we are facing now.

"In the simulated war, our spaceships are not as fast as others, our weapons are not as powerful as them, and our detection capabilities are not as good as theirs. Before we even see where they are, a devastating attack has already arrived. Such an asymmetric war , we have almost no hope of winning. Even if there was a tie, it was more because the opponent had internal strife and made a major strategic misjudgment. Even so, it is nothing more than a mutual death."

When the cruel and cold reality is placed in front of people, people have to start thinking about another problem.

"Can we escape? Can we hide?"

If this war can be avoided, the situation is also acceptable.

First of all, because the acceleration ability of one's own side is not as good as that of the opponent, it is meaningless to simply escape.Because there is no escape.

The only way is to stop the acceleration. In this way, the interstellar molecular cloud that is excited to become bright, which causes the enemy to confirm its own position, will dim, and the opponent can no longer accurately locate its own position.

After that, in the random collision with the interstellar molecular cloud, the own spacecraft will have a small, random course deviation, and where it will eventually deviate, even I have no way to predict.It is supplemented by a low-power attitude adjustment propulsion pointing in other directions-this kind of power propulsion is not enough to stimulate the interstellar molecular cloud to be bright enough to be observed remotely. If this random offset is amplified again, the enemy will be completely eliminated. Possibility of "find your side by launching a range search with the missing point as the center".

As long as one's own side can hide so that the enemy can't find itself, naturally there is no need to fight this losing war.However, as long as one's own side can hide for a long enough time, even with the help of inertia, under the current speed and heading, one's own side can always leave the coverage of this open star cluster one day in the future and escape from it.

Because according to various intelligence speculations, there is a high probability that the chasing fleet at this moment will not dare to leave this open star cluster.

This proposal made the participants fall into thinking.After a long time, a war commissioner shook his head: "I'm afraid this won't work."

"First of all, if our speed is too low, then the time to leave this open star cluster will be greatly extended, and even extended to 100 years or longer. Not to mention whether such a long time will increase the chance of being found by the enemy Risk, just counting our energy and materials, there will be shortages."

Even if they had stored up so many supplies and energy when they left the Rakai 9352 galaxy, they couldn't afford such a waste.

"We can definitely accelerate for a while, and wait for the speed to be higher before implementing this 'avoidance' strategy. Anyway, the enemy is still more than ten years away from catching up with us."

Such a long time can increase the speed of the fleet by a huge margin.In this way, too much time will not be wasted in this open star cluster.

"No way." An interstellar meteorologist who was invited to participate in the meeting shook his head.

The so-called interstellar meteorology, of course, has a different field of research from those meteorologists who study the surface of the planet and the interior of the atmosphere, such as thunderstorms, lightning, storms, and ocean currents.

What they study is the change and interaction of "weather" in the universe and interstellar space.Meteorology in the universe mainly refers to physical processes such as interstellar dust clouds, molecular clouds, charged clouds, neutral clouds, interstellar radiation, stellar wind, and even neutron star radiation, black hole activities, etc. environmental influences.

This is meaningless for space vehicles in a low-speed motion state, but when the speed is high, its impact cannot be ignored.

"The interstellar dust cloud covering this open star cluster is somewhat charged on the side in the direction we are leaving. This may be caused by a supernova explosion that occurred nearby hundreds of millions of years ago. A lot of charged dust is mixed into this nebula. Well, the main reason is that under the influence of a series of interactions, they have accumulated a certain level of energy. This energy is very small, and usually there will be no Macroscopic effects. But if the speed of the space vehicle passing through them is too fast, hitting too much interstellar dust per unit time, then..."

The interstellar meteorologist paused, as if to organize his words: "There will be an uninterrupted release of energy. It's like, like, in the atmosphere, there will be frequent lightning when there is a thunderstorm. Our spacecraft certainly It can resist this energy release to a certain extent, but if the duration is too long and the energy is too high, it will not be able to bear it. Possible consequences include damage to electrical appliances and components, increased faults, communication interference, computer failure, etc., Many, many. If the situation is more serious, it may even cause the failure of the energy storage system, and the ship will be destroyed."

The human fleet uses antimatter as its main energy source.Antimatter must be stored in an extremely high vacuum, bound by a magnetic field.Once the energy storage system fails, causing a large amount of antimatter to come into contact with positive matter, then the entire spaceship will turn into a giant antimatter bomb, and all existence will be blown into the tiniest space dust.

Zhao Changxing tapped on the table lightly: "Our original route is to pass through the thin part of this interstellar dust cloud. In this way, this energy release phenomenon can be controlled to a low and acceptable level."

Interstellar dust clouds are not uniformly dense.Under the influence of their own gravity and external factors, they also have uneven density.Some places are denser, some places are thinner.The density gap between the two may even be as high as hundreds of times.

For high-speed space vehicles, a thin-density area that can be connected in series, or a higher-density area where there is no danger, is a safe route.Hazardous places are not accessible, or can only be accessed at low speeds.

And... in the direction of the human fleet leaving this open star cluster, there are only a few dozen such "safe routes".

This number seems to be quite a lot, but the key factor is that the acceleration direction of human beings in the early stage will reveal the choice intention of human beings.At that time, even if humans shut down all engines and hide their own coordinates, the enemy can still rush to the front of the selected safe route in advance, and in turn wait there, waiting for the human fleet to fall into the trap.

To sum up, the speed is too slow.Because it will waste too much time, energy and materials.It doesn't work even if the speed is too fast.Because the speed is fast, it is necessary to take a safe route, and the enemy can sit on the sidelines.

"It seems that there is no escape. This battle must be fought."

Zhao Changxing said in a low voice, his expression was calm, without the slightest fluctuation, as if there was no panic in his heart.

　That counts as today's chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)