Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 793: A War of Interests
The Orange Star Civilization leader’s worries were not without reason, but no matter how worried he was, at this point the arrow had already been drawn and had to be shot.

The closest distance between the warships of both sides has been shortened to 40 astronomical units, which is equivalent to the distance from Pluto to the sun. It takes about 5.5 hours for light to reach the target. If it is below level civilization, it is considered a long-range strike range. After all, it takes more than five hours for the firepower to arrive after firing a shot.

But now, the attack speed of the fourth-level civilization is faster. A warp bomb with a speed of nearly forty times the speed of light only takes about 8.2 minutes to enter the attack range of most warp weapons. Even if the hit rate is not high, we can start fighting.

Of course, humans did not open fire. After all, the number of warships was limited, and the number of enemy ships to be destroyed was too large. If they wanted to destroy them all, the latest warp bombs in human inventory would not be enough.

The Orange Star civilization, which has a large number of warships, does not have such concerns. They directly want to destroy the human warships with a firepower coverage attack.

The Orange Star Civilization, concerned that humans possessed weapons that could result in mutual destruction, made final adjustments while carrying out firepower coverage strikes.

Several of their fleets made emergency brakes and directly exited the warp state, but the firepower did not stop. At such a distance, the first thing to be fired was the warp gravity bomb, which was a bomb equipped with an antimatter warhead, a warp engine, and an irregular force field generator. Its main function was to cause space-time distortion and chaos, thereby destroying the force field shield of the enemy warship.

As the saying goes, magic can defeat magic. A warship equipped with a force field shield can only be destroyed by using force field.

The gravity bomb has the word "gravity" in its name, but actually it does not contain any gravitational technology. It simply uses a grand unified force field to affect space and time, which is the same principle as the warp engine, but it is used in a different way.

Its function is naturally to destroy force field shields, which can directly deflect the most lethal antimatter weapons.

Just from this point of view, we can understand how the fourth-level civilization has used the force field manipulation developed from the principle of the grand unified force field to create new tricks.

The Orange Star Civilization planned to first use gravity bombs to cover the area, and then use antimatter weapons to kill. Of course, at such a distance, all weapons sent out must be at warp speed.

Millions and millions of gravity bombs were pushed by warp engines, like a rain of shells falling from the sky, and fired towards the human fleet.

They all have set detonation times, just like the time fuses of anti-aircraft guns, with some detonating at different times to ensure that they can cover a larger space area.

The Orange Star Civilization must also know that if they attack from such a long distance, the human fleet will dodge in advance as long as they can be detected.

This tactic is very effective against densely concentrated fleets, but the human fleet dispersed early, so the hit rate must have been greatly reduced.

8.2 minutes passed quickly. When countless fuses reached the set time, one gravity bomb after another exploded silently in the space. At this moment, this originally calm space and time suddenly rippled like rain hitting banana leaves.

They are all force fields with randomly set parameters, and the ripples caused by the vibrations are equally chaotic. If they explode directly on the battleship's force field shield, it will definitely cause the force field shield to become turbulent, causing the force field to lose its stability, thus achieving the purpose of breaking the shield.

A force field shield that loses stability due to vibration will temporarily lose its shield effect, allowing other weapons to take advantage of the opportunity and attack the battle array.

However, this kind of attack obviously has no effect on humans, because although so many warp gravity bombs would be difficult to be detected by tachyon detection due to their large number and small size, and precisely because of this, this kind of attack is effective, but humans at this time do not rely on tachyon detection.

These 2,994 warships were all manned and equipped with consciousness link devices. The path of the bombs was detected halfway after they were dropped. All the warships predicted the landing point of the bombs and easily avoided them.

However, because the attack distance was still quite far, this kind of dodge was not obvious. The Orange Star Civilization realized that its attack had no effect and simply thought that humans were too lucky, and happened to escape because of their small numbers and scattered distribution.

After the first wave of warp gravity bombs were fired, the Orange Civilization Fleet also used computer calculations to predict the direction of the human warships and fired a batch of warp antimatter missiles. However, the first wave of attacks had no effect and failed to break the force field shield. The subsequent antimatter missiles would definitely have no effect. "Keep attacking. The 7th, 16th, and 28th squadrons continue to attack. The rest of the squadrons advance and surround them. I don't want to see any human warship escape, because every warship may be carrying the Pioneer's treasure!"

The leader of the Orange Star Civilization observed the effect of the attack and saw that humans did not fight back, so he put his mind at ease about the possibility that humans had some means of mutual destruction.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

"It's no problem, Leader!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

After the squadron commanders responded one by one, communication signals appeared on the public channel between the Orange Star Civilization and the squadron captains.

"Haha, first come, first served. Human civilization only has so many warships. If you're late, there will be no meat to eat!"

"Fuck it, that battleship in front is ours, don't try to snatch it from me!"

"Haha, get lost! Your warship is behind us, just stand back and watch us harvest!"

"That's right, that's right. Just come over and clean up the battlefield and that's it."

"Damn it, you bastards! Engine crew members of the 7765th ship, crank up the engines to maximum and overload them! There are too many wolves and too little meat. We must win the battle this time!"

Countless warriors who received close-range combat were excited. They were eager for military exploits and even more eager to fight. The sparks of destroying enemy ships could make them even more excited.

40个天文单位、30个天文单位、20、10、2、1.5个天文单位……随着距离越来越近，橙星文明各种武器也再次发起了怒吼。

Gravity bombs, antimatter bombs, antimatter warp missiles, and star destroyers all launched attacks together.

1.5 AU is roughly the same as the distance from Mars to the Sun. This distance is very far for humans in the Earth era, but it is very close for today's Level civilization.

We have reached the close combat distance of the battleships.

1.5 astronomical units, the speed of light takes about 12 minutes, but for a warship with superluminal speed and weapons, it is only a dozen seconds.

This is a battlefield that exceeds the speed of light.

(End of this chapter)