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

Even, due to the obstruction of the Lupus, they can't even see the face here, so why study it?

"So, don't we know the general strength of those bugs?" Xi'er put her chin on the cat pillow, her expression was a little confused, "Why did the Red Society say that we must prepare for the powerful fleet of those Lupus people?" Woolen cloth?"

"Stupid." Hong helplessly tapped Xi'er's little head, "The fleet of these bugs is very strong, at least twice as big as ours, right?"

"Hmm."

Apparently, she still didn't realize the logic behind it.

"So, to be able to fight against the Akachi swarm and the Riga swarm at the same time, and to be able to break into the territory of the Akachi swarm, doesn't this mean that these Lupus fleets must at least fight with this Are the two swarms equal!"

"Oh!"

Xi'er's tail suddenly lifted, with a look of sudden realization.

"So, from this point of view, the Great Lupus Country is the smallest, and it also has a fleet of 70 billion tons of combat power equivalent to the Zerg Swarm. If the groups are consistent, it also means that there are at least 21+27 galaxies, that is, 48 ​​star systems."

Hong continued to explain: "Besides, this is just a guaranteed estimate. In my opinion, there is a high probability that the actual galaxies and actual fleet of the Great Rupert Kingdom will be much larger than this number.

"This, very likely, will be the first war we have fought to be completely suppressed in numbers."

Even though the situation sounds dire, for some reason, hearing Hong's steady voice, Xier doesn't feel the slightest emotion such as fear.

It seems that as long as there is Hong, no matter how big the disadvantage is, it is not a fear.

"So." Xi'er tilted her head, "Hong, what are you going to do?"

Facing Zai Zai's question, the corners of Hong's mouth slightly curved, and he showed her a tablet computer filled with various data.

"It's time to assemble the fleet again."

Volume 246 Industry and Power: Chapter [-] Fox False Tiger Power

Somewhat counterintuitively, Red didn't order the Cat League to shift toward a wartime economy.

In fact, the cat alliance not only did not start to build a large fleet, but let all the shipyards run at full power. On the contrary, they also lowered the number of constructions per cycle, and originally built 6 ships every 1.5 months (240 catus years). The plan is to reduce it to 120 ships, which is equivalent to cutting the production speed of warships directly in half.

Could it be that Maomeng completely gave up treatment?

Obviously, no one would have such an idea.

If each civilization is to vote for a civilization that is least likely to fail, and least likely to submit, the cat alliance will definitely be the civilization that is passed by a unanimous vote.

Although the people of the Cat League now seem very peaceful, and there is no trend of thought such as the expansion of foreign force in the mainstream thought, and they seem to have no martial arts morality, but they all understand that this is actually just an illusion—— So it didn't appear offensive, simply because it didn't need to be.

The big cats sleeping soundly in their dens also look very peaceful and docile, but when someone tries to show hostility or threat to them, all they get is a paw.

And today's Maomeng is the big cat who is about to get up.

Although Red ordered to halve the construction quantity of the shipyard in each cycle, she also issued another important order at the same time - to transfer all the saved capacity and engineering share to the expansion of the space industry, and at the same time change the production policy Adjusted to "Rapid Expansion".

Obviously, the purpose of doing this is already obvious.

With the current industrial production capacity of Maomeng, even if it takes two or three years of preparation time to transform into a complete military focus with a desperate attitude, it can at most maintain the production of 4 ships with 360 tons every 30 months The level of a human-level single pusher-this quantity seems to be a lot, with an annual output of 1 million tons, which is equivalent to adding a human civilization fleet every 3 years.

But then what?

This complete military focus is at the cost of greatly reducing the rate of increase in industrial production capacity. Maybe they can produce 1 million tons a year now, but after 20 years, they may only become 1.2 million tons a year.

This is obtained under the ideal situation without considering the maintenance cost of warships. In fact, if this condition is added, it is very likely that the number of constructions will become lower and lower after 20 years.

After all, when the growth rate of the industry and maintenance system cannot keep up with the growth rate of warships, problems are almost inevitable.

This is also one of the main reasons why the cat alliance pays attention to the data of "warship power ratio" in peacetime-red must ensure that the warships produced will not affect the growth rate of the industry too much, and ensure that the logistics and maintenance system can keep up .

Therefore, after conducting a lot of detailed research and discussions with relevant people in the Cat League, they finally determined that the "I want it all" model of steadily developing industries while exploding battleships like before is not suitable for the situation they are currently facing. .

This time, what they need is explosive industry.

And it just so happened that in the hands of the Cat League, there happened to be a very perfect thing that was very suitable for the characteristics of the "explosive industry"-that is, the "Star Cat's Tail" space elevator that had just been delivered.

Unlike skyhooks, space elevators are fixed on the ground because of their near-earth end, which means that cargo transportation no longer needs to be driven into suborbital orbits with space planes/reusable rockets, and it is different from one or two hundred kilometers away from the ground. The skyhook flying at a high speed of several kilometers per second is docked near the ground.

The cost of transporting the same weight of cargo to a designated location on the ground and transporting it to an orbiting object flying at a speed of several kilometers per second is obviously very different, and the carrying capacity of the two is even worse At least ten times more, and only a lot more.

Moreover, the space elevator is not just a cheap, efficient, and exaggerated transportation facility, it is also a complex industrial station. With the help of the huge and cheap material supply on the ground, the industrial network centered on the space elevator synchronous orbit space station Unprecedented terror potential will be brought into play.

After all, there is nothing better than a well-developed industrial planet in terms of "logistics".

The tail of the star cat will become the top priority of the cat alliance's industrial expansion, and become the well-deserved core of the productivity explosion.

The behemoth named Industry has awakened.

...

"Mr. President, according to my information, the Cat League has already cut more than half of its warship production capacity, and invested all of its productivity in the direction of industrial development." Crimson handed the report to the President of the Federation of People at the table, " What do you think about this?"

The president took the report card, looked at the summary roughly, and said, "We have to buy time for the Cat League."

"It seems that we have the same idea." Crimson nodded, "Whether it is for the cat alliance or for us humans, we have to find a way to delay the footsteps of the Great Rupert Kingdom, so that they will not dare to attack."

"Yes."

The president pushed his glasses: "Since you came to me specifically to talk about this matter, you must have some ideas already—tell me, do you have any good ideas?"

"Sure enough, nothing can hide from you."

After a symbolic compliment, Crimson controlled the display on the desktop to rise so that the other party could clearly see the plan she had designed: "After carefully studying the battleships of these two insect swarms provided by Pan-Asia, After the data, combined with some information about the Great Rupert Kingdom, I think it is a bad idea to hide in the solar system and passively defend.

"Intelligence cannot be hidden forever. Judging from the performance of those Lupers diplomats, Hong Hong and I believe that there must be a large number of fleets coming here-by then, if the other side tears down the peace negotiations mask, use force to forcibly break into the solar system for investigation, no matter what tricks you come up with, it will be too late.”

"Instead of passively waiting for the camouflage to be torn off, we should take the initiative."

"However, with the level of our human fleet, how do we take the initiative to attack?"

The President asked with some doubts.

"Of course it's not us humans." Crimson waved his hand, "At our level, there is no way to have any sense of deterrence against those civilizations—let alone a galaxy, it is divided into three forces and five countries. It’s nice to make people laugh.”

"So, you've got the idea of ​​the Cat League?"

The president crossed his fingers and seemed a little interested.

"The current fleet of the Cat League is just 12 billion, which is less than half of the weakest Riga swarm. It may not be realistic to want this fleet to deter them—so, our dear Miss Scarlet, you What kind of bad idea did you come up with this time?"

"It's not a bad idea. He's an innocent and good boy. How could he have any bad ideas?" Crimson first casually defended her character design that no one believed in for a long time, then raised an index finger, and the corner of her mouth slightly Outlined an arc, "We just invite them to come to the solar system for a more in-depth friendly exchange-by the way, visit 'our' military exercises."

"Are you trying to pretend to be a tiger?"

As expected of the president who studied a master's degree in history in college, he almost instantly thought of the ancient idiom used to describe this plan, and expressed the secret in just a few words.

"It's better to call someone to pretend to be a cat." Crimson spread her hands, "After all, those little foxes really got involved with Hong. If a fox pretends to be a tiger or something, it will easily lead to diplomatic problems."

"Cattle."

In this regard, he can only use a thumb to describe his mood - sure enough, AI's associative ability is very powerful, and they can all be connected together.

"However, if military exercises are used, the possibility of mistakes is not small." After thinking carefully for a while, he questioned, "First of all, we have to confirm the act of showing them force by means of military exercises." Don’t provoke them, or it will backfire and that would be bad.”

"Don't worry about this." Crimson made an 'ok' gesture, "In fact, those Lupers have expressed their desire to visit our military exercises many times-although this 'visit' is obviously just I just want to collect intelligence, but it is enough to prove that the other party has little resistance to the form of military exercises."

"That's good." The president nodded, "Then, the question comes back to the military exercise itself—what exactly do you plan to do for the Cat League to show a civilization with a fleet of 12 billion tons that rivals those with a fleet of 40 billion tons? What about the 'strength' that is used as a scepter, is it just a simple range advantage?"

"The main thing is to show the range advantage. After all, it seems that only the range of our warships can ensure a deterrent effect-in any case, it is impossible for the opponent's warships to catch up with our range. This is currently rare. The certainty of intelligence, who can use it without it.”

Crimson turned the electronic document on the screen, so that the president could see the follow-up more detailed introduction: "However, the range alone is not enough. After all, although the cat alliance's laser cannon has a long range, its power is relatively small. The opponent had the illusion that 'as long as you just rush into the range of the plasma cannon, you can decide the outcome'.

"Besides, since we don't know whether the other party has a warp drive that can drive an entire fleet, after discussions with the research team, we all believe that if the situation becomes very tense, then instead of It’s better to reveal all the hole cards at once instead of hiding them there.”

Crimson raised an index finger: "You may wish to think about it, when these people who use electromagnetic guns and plasma cannons and have always been fighting on the battlefield with a range of thousands of kilometers, suddenly saw a group of people with random ranges. It can be anywhere from [-] to [-] kilometers, with a warp speed on the left hand to open the distance, and a warp speed interruption on the right hand to prevent others from riding the battleship on the face. At the same time, who knows how many civilizations of galaxies are hidden behind.

"They, will they be so optimistic that this is all our troops, and this is all our cards?"

"There is indeed some truth." The president casually flipped through a few pages of the report, "It seems that the empty city plan will never go out of style."

"Of course, it's impossible to cheat forever by doing this." Crimson spread her hands, "But it doesn't matter, we were just trying to delay time—every day we fight for Maomeng, they can transform the empty city into The chances of a true fortress are a little bit more."

"Okay, then I will be in charge of negotiating with Fanya to see if this plan can be carried out." The president pressed the erected display screen back to the desktop, "As for the negotiation with Hong, I will leave it to you gone."

"it is good."

...

Not surprisingly, this plan was not implemented immediately, but was opposed by both internal and external alliances at the same time.

After all, compared to the plan of relying on diplomats to be riddlers to delay time, this is a real "swollen face and fat man"-of course, the benefits will be high if it succeeds, at least it can keep them at ease for several years, But at the same time, the price of failure is to be directly discovered the essence of their strong outside but capable inside.

It’s okay for the Cat League to say that relying on its 12 billion-ton fleet, coupled with those heavy fortresses and defense platforms on the orbit of Catus, it still has some confidence to speak, but the pitiful fleet of human beings is really Can't sleep well.

However, Fanya also admitted that the Riddler's plan is definitely impossible to continue forever. Therefore, after many discussions, they finally reached a consensus-if the other party has no signs of trying to break into the wormhole, then they Just continue with the current plan; but if there is evidence that the other party has begun to have some crooked thoughts, then they will put all their eggs in one basket and come up with a wave of interstellar version of "empty city plan".

As for Hong, she definitely has no objection—they are grasshoppers in a line when it comes to facing Lupers, and it is absolutely impossible not to help each other. After all, once the solar system is violently bombarded, let these Lupers Si got the wreckage of their battleship, and the opponent would soon discover that their range advantage was not as great as expected.

Therefore, after reaching a consensus, Hong sent two-thirds of his fleet to the Dawn 2 galaxy, which is the galaxy where the former Iron Heart parent star was located, and was once called G139-[-].

It is only a hole away from the solar system. It can be said that turning left at the door is Mars, which can ensure that it will appear in time when needed to the greatest extent. It will take about a month for the other party to transfer between the two wormholes. , and they only need to spend a few ten minutes to pass through the hole, and they can let the opponent find that thousands of warships are rushing over here.

Considering that human diplomats can still drag and delay for a while, there is basically no need to worry about the situation where Lupers' fleet can't hold back and violently blasts into the solar system when one's own fleet is not in place.

Of course, after all, this is just a helpless move to delay the time. The real solution to the problem has to fall on the cat alliance's industrial expansion policy.

Will time be on their side?

Volume IV Industry and Power: Chapter 247 War is Peace

After about three months, finally, the first reinforcement fleet of the Great Rupert Kingdom arrived at this remote message.

With the help of the strategic early warning ship, human beings discovered these battleships drilled out of the No. [-] planetary wormhole in this galaxy almost immediately.

Compared with the warships of the Lupers who were still talking to each other, the warships of this fleet were obviously much larger and more regular, and the identity of its main fleet could be seen at a glance.

This point was also confirmed in subsequent negotiations with the other party. According to the other party, this fleet is the third division of the Ninth Fleet of the Great Rupert Kingdom, and the Ninth Fleet has always been responsible for this direction. The Riga Swarm is the main force of the defense.

Yes, a few years ago, this was the territory of the Riga Swarm - even at that time, a large area of ​​​​the territory around here actually belonged to Riga, and they not only occupied the two galaxies connected to their borders in the Great Rupus , and rushed in along the galaxy over there, bringing the six galaxies of the Akachi swarm into the territory.

Although its scientific research ability is very poor and its head is not bright, but for a long time before, the martial arts of the Riga swarm were actually very abundant. With the help of the strong productivity of the gestalt, the fleet of Riga at its peak It is more than twice as much as it is now, which is equivalent to more than four times the size of the cat alliance fleet.

The reason why it looks so hip now is because of the big battle a few years ago.

According to some information provided by Lupers, combined with the research and analysis of scholars, human beings quickly restored the process of that battle - on a dark and stormy night, the Lupers suddenly provoked the recovery on the other side The war took down the two star systems that had been occupied by the Riga swarm for a long time, and effectively cut off the connection between these Riga-occupied areas and the mainland.

Immediately afterwards, under some indescribable "tacit agreement", the Akachi swarm also suddenly turned the table, gathering a large number of fleets to launch a general attack on this star field, intending to take back the six galaxies that belonged to them.

Obviously, after losing the local support and part of the fleet was damaged in Lupers' previous attack, Riga is not an opponent of the Akachi swarm that relies on the local supply chain to fight. One earth year later, the last Riga fleet was wiped out over the planet where humans are currently located, marking the complete disappearance of the Riga swarm's influence in this star area, and the star field pattern has returned to what it was decades ago .

Although Lupers did not provide so much information, he even categorically denied the possibility of "tacit cooperation" between them and the Akachi swarm.

However, anyone with a bit of a brain, seeing the synchronous attacks of the two civilizations, combined with the fact that the current team has almost never fought, swaggered into the two areas that should have been retaken by the Akachi swarm. Starfield's fleet already has some B numbers in mind.

When the interests are large enough, even killing bee swarms can be the object of cooperation-it has to be said that at this point, the Lupers played very well.

But after thinking about it, the cause of this incident has to be traced back to decades ago when the Riga swarm first occupied the Lupers star field. Since they were able to send troops to occupy Lupers' territory, it is obviously no wonder that Rupers Si backhanded and Akachi had a "tacit understanding" - even if Lupers took the benefits of Akachi's two galaxies by the way after regaining the two star regions, it still couldn't change the fact that Riga did it first.

Of course, if we want to dig deeper, humans believe that they will definitely be able to dig out more origins. Maybe in the end, they will find that Riga is the most "just" party?

After all, in this star field where many parties are fighting each other, everything is possible.

According to the information obtained by Pan Asia, after winning the "win-win" battle against Riga and the Akachi swarm, he is currently responsible for the B direction under the new territory, that is, the one farther away from the solar system. At the same time, the fleets defending in the direction bordering the two civilizations of Riga and the Akachi swarm are the sixth and seventh fleets of the Great Rupert Kingdom, and the one in charge of the direction A that is closer to the solar system is the Great Rupert China's Ninth Fleet.

Although the Lupers are unwilling to disclose how many star fields and fleets they have in total, let alone tell them detailed fleet combat data, it doesn't matter, intelligence scientists were born for this situation.

It is known that in the fleet composition of the Great Rupert Kingdom, a main fleet is usually divided into three to four squadrons, and the current fleet that is heading towards the fourth planet happens to be a part of the Ninth Fleet Complete squad.

Then as long as the general combat power of this unit can be studied, humans can immediately know the general combat capability of the opponent's main fleet, and calculate how many warships are needed to compete with the opponent's main fleet.

Although they don't know the total fleet of the Great Rupert Kingdom, it is obviously impossible for the Great Rupert Kingdom to send all the fleets to attack them-they have many enemies to guard against.

Whether it is the two gestalt insect swarms in this general direction, or the alien civilizations located in other directions of the Great Rupert that have only heard of their names, it is impossible to allow the Great Rupert to mobilize too many fleets used to attack them.

Judging from the deployment of these two insect swarms by the Great Rupert Kingdom, the fleet that Pan Asia will face is probably just a complete main fleet—although there may be more than a dozen of them in this fleet. 30 million, or even a terrifying tonnage of 40 billion, after all, judging from the fact that a main fleet can achieve the effect of confronting an entire swarm civilization with a fleet of [-] billion, even if the level of technology is higher, it can be used with less tonnage. With greater combat power, the tonnage of this main fleet cannot be much less.

But how to put it, compared to being allined by the opponent's army when they meet, this must be considered good news. At least, the estimated number of fleets required can be reduced from a minimum of 30 billion to [-] billion or something. Bring a little comfort to the battered human beings.

Although for human territory and production capacity, no matter which number is astronomical, it is completely impossible to reach-but, they have fathers... and cats!

Whether it is for the profits earned from trade with humans, or for the very perfect strategic buffer zone of the solar system, it is impossible for Red to let Lupers invade the solar system-no military commitments are made to prevent the human fantasy cat alliance from becoming It is one thing to take advantage of them and unconditionally help them with national defense.

For the safety of the cat alliance and the friendly order of their own star field, it is another matter to take the initiative to send troops to confront the alien civilization that will seriously threaten them.

Clearly, Lupers has potential for the role.

"Man, this is really big enough."

Looking at the third squadron, which was captured by the telescope on the screen, and was preparing to join the Lupers' advance fleet, a Pan-Asian scholar whistled: "These battleships must be at least 100 million tons, right?"