Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Every time a batch of warships is built, she will mobilize the glorious-class flagship equipped with a warp speed engine, and transport the completed fleet to the orbit of Jupiter with a super-light speed. Since the total mass of each batch of fleets is bound to be low, the warp speed One voyage can send them a long distance, and the efficiency is surprisingly good.

Then, as a price, the foreign alliance needs to pay a fee equivalent to 5 times the cost of materials and processing required by the battleship like the cat alliance—since this fee can only be settled with cat coins, for them who cannot exchange money directly, Basically, it can be equivalent to paying for materials equivalent to cat coins.

The 4 times premium seems like a rip off, but in fact, anyone with a little common sense knows that in the arms trade, the 4 times premium is completely the price of cabbage.

Picture: "Not this cabbage price", location: "Images/1648591063-100214443-108561607.jpg"

What's more, for a country that is about to face war, someone is willing to manufacture cutting-edge weapons at a price of 5:1, which is a generation more advanced than their own. Most parts are self-repairable and replaceable.

Moreover, this processing cost is really our own internal cost calculation, which only considers the real cost of material cost, loss and working hours, rather than the cost that has been increased through layers of links in capital production.

Even, Maomeng also supports installment payment. Maomeng can start the construction of the warship first, and deliver it after getting the first payment, and the subsequent payment can be made up slowly.

What they don't know is that for Hong, a premium of 1.5 times can make a profit-because her real cost is only the working hours of the dock and factory, and the part of the technology leaked with the sale of the warship, or even the latter. It will be diluted rapidly with the increase in sales volume, and only the former is the real cost.

Therefore, in her opinion, a four-fold premium is already a very profitable business. The more you build, the more you will earn. The efficiency of the fleet will be much higher than that of the other party, and the cost performance is higher than that of producing for yourself.

But what does this have to do with humans?

They don't need to consider how much the other party earns, that's an incorrect way of thinking.

For human beings, they only need to consider how much they have paid. This is the correct way of thinking - how much the other side can earn is their own ability, and they only need to see whether the price they pay is high or not.

For humans, only one sentence is enough to describe their views on prices.

"What a great philanthropist."

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PS: A bug was fixed. There was a mistake when calculating the fleet power ratio. I forgot to divide it by two when calculating the propulsion power, which resulted in a higher power for each ship. After the correction, the fleet power of the Cat League now accounts for the total 1.5% of the power, the target of the third 25-year plan has been revised to 2%, and the data in the previous chapters have also been changed.

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Volume 180 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] Eight Fog of War

The efficiency of the opponent is much slower than human imagination.

Scholars have never thought that the other party is such a backward political system. Even if the technology is more advanced, its mobilization ability and army assembly speed are likely to be much slower than theirs.

But they really didn't. The opponent's assembly efficiency can be slowed down to this point.

Five months have passed since the first contact between the two civilizations. During this period, the batch of 150 foreign trade warships transformed from semi-finished warships have all arrived at Jupiter. In addition, the second batch of 90 foreign trade warships has also been completed. , is expected to arrive at Jupiter by the Glory class in three days.

Even the third batch of warships has already laid the main structure and started construction-the dock under full power operation can build 30 capital ships at the same time, and the construction of each batch of warships only takes 6 months.

At present, 5 of the 3 large shipyards in the Cat League are producing this type of warship. The continuous materials are transported by cargo ships from foreign alliances to the Cat League territory, and then turned into advanced warships and transported back to the place of origin.

In other words, even without counting the first batch of fleets rushed by the five shipyards, the cat alliance can send 6 warships to Jupiter every 90 months-the longer it drags on, the more favorable the form will be to the foreign alliance.

Time is on their side.

The foreign alliance is expanding its armed forces at any cost, but what about the other side?

It has been five months, and the opponent's first batch of reinforcement fleets arrived late, arriving at the opponent's No. 3 planet with two wormholes—even if it is such a backward political system, it is still an interstellar civilization. It can't be so slow, can it?

Due to the lack of information, in the past few months, they have basically not obtained any valuable information except for the curse skills they learned from scolding each other. Therefore, they can only guess that this is probably because the opponent's wormhole and its hinterland Because of the distance.

Otherwise, this build-up speed is really unreasonable.

According to investigations, the total number of warships in this batch is 120, and they also brought about 300 various support ships, cargo ships and other auxiliary ships, which were obviously used to resupply the fleet already here before. .

算上之前就驻扎在3号行星的120艘战舰，以及驻扎在2号行星（通往木星的虫洞所在的行星）的那120艘初接触时撑场面的战舰，该星系目前总共有360艘战舰。

Judging from the estimated mass of the opponent's warship of 50 tons, this means that the total mass of its fleet has reached the level of about 1.8 million tons.

At present, counting the warships that will arrive in three days, Jupiter's fleet consists of 240 Cat League foreign trade warships, 150 old-fashioned warships from the Extinction War period, and 100 new warships (40 newly built by the foreign alliance). About 1.1 million tons.

Of course, having a mass of 1.1 million tons does not mean that these warships can really be on par with the opponent's 1.1 million-ton fleet-now that they don't know the specific performance of the enemy's warships, they can only roughly compare the tonnage/combat power of the opponent's warships. Ratio is set to the same level as Cat League.

In that case, the Cat League's 7200 million tons of foreign trade warships can probably be tied with the opponent's 6000 million tons, and the foreign alliance's 4000 million tons... can also be tied with the opponent's 1000 million tons.

In other words, in the current model, the combat power ratio between the foreign alliance and the opponent is about 1:2.6.

At first glance, this disadvantage can be said to be infinite. Even with the help of the defense platforms gathered from other planets in the past few months, the combat power ratio can be pulled to 1:2 at most.

However, today's foreign alliance is not in a panic at all, and even has the mood to sign a trade agreement with the same terms as the internal alliance. While paying for the goods to the cat alliance, it will also ship some special products to open up the market.

The reason for this is simple.

They can't make it through.

"Currently, the relative distance between planet No. 3 and planet No. 2 is 1.4 million kilometers, and it will continue to expand for a period of time in the future. It will not begin to shrink until it reaches the upper conjunction in 4 months. If you want to save The propellant is expected to enter the meeting window of the enemy planet after 8 months, and then it will take 3 months to reach Planet 2."

On the star map, the positions of the Kion's two planets are highlighted, and in the middle are several transfer trajectories that they estimated based on the performance of the enemy's engines they detected.

"Even if the Chien people are willing to consume a lot of working fluid and force them to sail when the two stars are on each side, it will take at least 6 to 7 months-enough for the Cat League to complete another batch of warships, not to mention that it is so labor-intensive. Substantial navigation will reduce the opponent's combat power a lot, making it impossible to suppress us as it does on paper."

"In short, what do you mean, at least in the past few months, the Chien people basically won't call directly?"

An official from the Ministry of Commerce who did not understand orbital mechanics asked.

"Yes, you can say that." The officer who was explaining in front of him gave an affirmative answer.

"Does that mean that the Kion's fleet will set off and arrive after the meeting window arrives in eight months?"

Trade officials feel that they have understood the meaning of the other side.

"uncertain."

This time, however, the officer gave a negative answer.

"why?"

"Because counting the three months on the road, by that time, Cat League will be able to complete two more batches of warships—although we have reduced the number of each batch of orders from 2 to 90, that is still 60 warships."

The young officer explained.

"In this way, taking into account the production capacity of warships and defense platform networks of our foreign alliances, our combat power ratio will drop to about 1:1.5—we believe that under the circumstance of unclear intelligence, Kion can rely on such a combat power The lack of strength is not enough to make the opponent take the risk and launch an attack directly."

"understood."

Everyone nodded, expressing their understanding.

In fact, the main reason for such a thing to happen is—although the foreign alliance knows that there are only so many foreign alliances today, and most of them are warships sponsored by the cat alliance. As long as the Qien people attack, Then they have a high probability to turn in strategically and fight guerrillas with each other.

However, the Chien people don't know.

In the opposite field of vision, except for the fleet that appears in groups every few months under the leadership of a giant battleship, nothing else is known.

The Chien people didn't know that the large number of fleets that appeared out of thin air were not actually built by the foreign alliance themselves, but were just warships bought by them with loans in installments.

In their view, this is the behavior of the proper rear star field sending the fleet to the front line - originally they saw that the foreign alliance warships being sent were so backward and weak (old-fashioned warships during the Extinction War), they thought that the opposite side was no more than It's just a soft persimmon crushed to death.

Moreover, after the interrogators conducted cruel interrogations on those soldiers, the interrogation results of all the soldiers were very uniform.

The so-called "Solar System Alliance" on the opposite side only has a total of [-] warships, and has just won a war against extinction. There are only three star systems in the star map, and only one of them really belongs to them. able to produce, and the other two are currently occupied by omnics, not their power.

But there are only [-] warships, and they are still such backward warships. Isn't this taken casually?

They thought they had encountered a big fat sheep again, and they didn't think much about it, so they asked the crown prince to bring half of the fleet on planet 3 to come over to intimidate them.

If you don't know what to do, then just destroy it and bring a new colony and slave race to the empire.

Then, after a round of diplomacy, the crown prince who had been scolded was naturally furious, and was about to order the fleet to rush in and take it down—but at least he was persuaded by a group of moderate counselors and decided to send some detectors. Find out the situation in the past and then rush.

After all, if the opposite side planted some nuclear air mines at the entrance of the wormhole, it would still cause some damage to their fleet-it is unacceptable to deal with such a weak civilization, even if it is only slightly larger.

So, after dawdling for a while, they sent some probes into that galaxy called the Solar System to investigate.

Thanks to this reconnaissance, they discovered that although the opponent's technology was backward, it was not as weak as imagined. There were some warships (new human warships) in the fleet that were obviously more advanced than the warships they captured. Very many defensive platforms.

Although it is definitely not very strong, it is still quite difficult to win with the 120 warships in the hands of the crown prince, and it may even result in a disastrous victory.

This is clearly unacceptable.

If the brave and invincible imperial fleet achieves such a battle loss ratio in the face of a weak civilization in a single galaxy, it will definitely shake the empire's battlefield myth to a certain extent, and make those colonial stars and slave races have some ideas that they shouldn't have.

Those damn rebels are enough to annoy the empire, no one dares to touch this bad luck again - so after discussion, the military decided to transfer all 120 warships stationed on another colonial planet, with twice the strength Completely crush this human civilization.

It should be safe this time, right?

Just when the Chien people felt very confident about the infallibility of this plan, the fleet was like a blow to the head, and directly beat their lizard heads into confusion.

Even though several months have passed, they still remember that day clearly.

That day, when the probe was performing a routine scan of the celestial sphere, it suddenly found 4 strong infrared signals in the direction of the opponent's No. 151 planet. The intensity was very high, even higher than the tail flame intensity of the imperial warship.

They were taken aback by this, and thought it was the Extinction omnic from the opposite side, but before they could detect it carefully, the infrared signals disappeared again.

Is there something wrong with the instrument?

Just when they couldn't figure it out, suddenly, those infrared signals appeared again.

It's just that the place where it appeared this time is 1000 million kilometers away from the place where it disappeared.

The invasion plan was immediately stopped, and they began to reorganize the interrogation results of the captured soldiers, hoping to find hidden clues-however, they found nothing.

Apparently, the Chien people at this moment already understood that what the soldiers confessed was all fake, they were colluded in advance, and there was no extermination omnic behind that wormhole, but the rear star field of human civilization.

However, those soldiers have been almost all executed by them-if it weren't for an official's suggestion to keep one just in case, they probably wouldn't even have anyone to prove their idea.

When the interrogators aggressively came to the prisoner's cell, tortured him severely, and questioned his previous statement, the soldier seemed not to care about the pain at all, and laughed out loud.

"Are you in a hurry? Why don't you lie down on the ground and call your father twice? Lizard?" Even though his limbs were broken, he showed no sign of fear. It can really tell you the true strength of human beings."

Just as the distraught Qien people were about to torture him again, the soldier suddenly put away his wild laughter before, and instead showed... an indescribable expression.

"Forget it, there's no point in being tough with you." He showed an indifferent smile, "If you promise to send me on the road without pain after I confess, I will honestly confess."

"Anyway, the others are gone, so I don't have to act like I'm not talking anymore, how about it?"

The Qi Enren, who thought that the other party had really figured it out, was overjoyed, and immediately agreed with him wholeheartedly—anyway, when the time comes, when he confesses, even if they don't keep the promise, what can the other party do to them?

For these lowly alien creatures who have offended the noble Chien, their only way back is the execution platform of the empire.

"What do you want to know?"

The soldier looked down at the ground and asked in a low voice.

However, after hearing the sudden appearance of warships described by the interrogators, the other party suddenly raised his head, and a hint of madness appeared on his blood-stained face again.

"Do you want to know what that is?"

"Yes, tell us quickly, otherwise..." the interrogator urged impatiently.

"It's them!"

"Of course we know it's them." Due to the homophony of "he she" in the standard human language, the Chien people did not recognize the hidden meaning in this sentence, "What we want to know is, who are they? What kind of capability? What is the performance of those warships? Why can they travel at super-light speed?"

"Tell us all!"

"Ok...ok...ok..." He nodded slightly, "I'll tell you all..."

"?"

His painting style suddenly changed; "Do you really think I will explain? You are not really so stupid, are you? Lizard people?"

"presumptuous!"

An interrogator was furious and lashed the human soldier with a whip.

"A lizard that can only be incompetent and furious, is this the only thing left?" He spat at the other party fiercely, "Can you use a little more force? Your father is a little itchy."

"Snapped!"

The whip soaked in salt water hit his body, it was a piercing pain, a severe pain that any normal human being could not bear - however, at this moment, he felt no fear at all.

He even wanted to laugh a little bit.

The reason why he didn't bite his tongue and kill himself, but lied to the other party again, was just curious about how the other party discovered the lie they made up.

Before being captured, after the unanimous approval of all soldiers, they fabricated the set of rhetoric to deceive each other, and cleverly concealed the existence of the Cat League.

The purpose of their doing this is not to make human beings do something - after fighting the opponent, the soldiers have understood that the opponent's technology and strength are far superior to humans, and no matter what the solar system does, it is impossible to be a part of this civilization. combined enemy.

The only hope is the powerful but friendly Cat League.

Only they have the possibility to confront this civilization.

However, they don't think that the Cat League will fight another big expedition for the sake of human beings coming here from thousands of miles away.

On the one hand, after the war of extermination, they are now just ordinary neighboring countries, not even allies. Why should they risk their lives to start a war with such a powerful country?

On the other hand, even if the Cat League is willing to come, they don't think that the Inner and Outer League will allow the Cat League's army to enter - as humans, they know themselves too well.

Therefore, they made a very bold, even betrayal of their own national decision.