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

In this way, it can appear that they have enough sincerity and are "more enlightened" than the vassal states they converted to later.

The reason why the current relatively equal relationship can be maintained is only because Hong wants to do so--all countries in the alliance understand this, otherwise they will not let it go, and even actively cooperate with Hong's assimilation of them.

After all, if you ask yourself, if they were the same race, they would definitely make the decision to "destroy all the population and obtain their star field" when facing a foreign civilization with such empty land but extremely weak.

It is also because of this that the more intelligent people understand the gap between the two sides, the more they can understand that the subtle assimilation that Hong is currently adopting without harming them is already a kind of great kindness-the other party takes care of themselves in this way. If you are emotional, if you don't know what is good or bad, you will really die.

The most important thing for a person is to have self-knowledge.

"This race called humans has 600 million tons of warships." Looking at the circle of embarrassed alliance officials around, Hong sighed, "And we have a total of 500 million tons here."

Although Hong didn't deliberately emphasize certain words, everyone present bowed their heads in shame.

Yes, it adds up to a total of 500 million tons, and red accounts for 500 million—on average, the fleet of each country in the alliance accounts for only 6%.

Originally, they could comfort themselves by saying that organisms were naturally inferior to omnics in the military industry, and accepted the reality that they were a rookie with peace of mind. However, they did not expect that reality not only did not want to be accepted, but also slapped them backhanded.

"Although this is the background of the other party for many years, at least, it can't be so different, right?"

"We will definitely urge industrial upgrading as soon as possible when we go back!"

Looking up at the expression of "hate iron but not steel" on the red face, several cake layers assured each other.

There is no way, this ratio is really too embarrassing, it makes Fox feel ashamed and wants to get under the red bottom.

"Anyway, let's get to 8%." Hong gave a small goal - at least, the three 8% add up to 24%. Give her a little extra and count it as 25%, which is equivalent to one-third of her own. One's military strength.

"We try, try to..."

Although they really want to say "guarantee to complete the task" and not let Hong look down on them-but they ask themselves, when they think of the terrible industry proportion in China, they lose all confidence.

After all, when the number of galaxies is five times that of Hong, the production capacity can still be such a waste, which shows how bad their domestic planning is.

"My side has decided to postpone the next batch of shipbuilding plans."

Seeing this, Hong had no choice but to move out the highlight of the meeting.

"You mean..."

"Yes, I want to free up the capacity and production capacity." This is something Hong has always wanted to do before, but was forced to give up due to the situation.

"It's time for real space development to begin."

As her voice fell, the lights in the conference room dimmed.

Under the bright light of the big screen behind, Hong, who is located in the C position of the conference room, lowered his head slightly, crossed his hands on his chin, a bright light flashed in his eyes, and a classic "behind-the-scenes BOSS" image in Frozen Eel appeared to everyone in front of the eyes.

Of course, the people present were already familiar with this omnic's behavior - just to this extent, they didn't even bother to show symbolic surprise.

In terms of the ability to work, the people in their entire space station are not enough to fight in a single cabinet.

"With the restraint of human beings, I can free up the transport capacity and production capacity for upgrading and transformation." The big screen behind it flickered twice, and began to display the schematic star map made by Hong, "First of all, everyone knows One point, there are still 8 years and 2 months left in this convergence cycle.”

"Yeah." "That's right." "That's right."

Although they didn't know what Hong wanted to say next, they still agreed first.

Anyway, with Hong's powerful computing power, any so-called "loopholes" they thought of were their misunderstandings, and they were basically unfounded—long before they thought of it, Hong must have arranged everything.

Therefore, all they need to do is to listen patiently, and then execute, it is enough.

"In the original plan, due to the limitation of working medium, no matter how many fleets we have sent and how many victories we have achieved, we must rush back at the end of the exchange cycle."

Two track plans marked with DV consumption and time consumption appeared on the screen—only one year later than the end of the intersection window, the original DV consumption of 9 kilometers per second became 12 kilometers per second, increasing A full 33%.

Of course, it can be seen from here that for the hyperbolic track transfer, its intersection window period is more calculated by combining its own engine performance and DV reserve. Like the Hohmann transfer orbit of fuel, the window period is only a narrow few days or even hours.

For example, for a consortium fleet with a standard DV of 28 km/s and a DV of 35 km/s after additional loading, their rendezvous window period is about 29 more than the alliance's DV of 30 km/s after additional loading % grace.

And the working fluid of 35 kilometers per second, the part allocated to a single flight is actually only 15 kilometers per second.

In other words, for Hong, if she is willing to spend more fuel consumption at 6 kilometers per second, her rendezvous window period can actually be extended by an additional 3 years-this is actually just a matter of trade-offs.

It's like, if there is a civilization that relies on chemical engines, electric propulsion or fission propulsion for planetary exploration without nuclear fusion propulsion, by using Hohman transfer, they only need to spend 7 kilometers per second of DV. Moored into the capture orbit of the extinction core, the DV of 10 kilometers per second can reach the red combat target, the satellite named Kasdler.

However, in this way, their intersection window is only less than 2 degrees, that is, less than two months, and the whole process will take about 4 years-of course there is no problem for unmanned scientific research, but for manned spaceflight and even interstellar In terms of combat, it is too unacceptable.

Therefore, it can be said that Hong bought an additional window of 5 years and 8 months with an additional DV consumption of 2 kilometers per second.

"As we all know, for the orbits of the extinction core and the wormhole, as long as the one-way available DV of our fleet is above 26 kilometers per second, the window period can be extended to three quarters of the revolution period; if the one-way available DV is 48 Kilometers per second or more, the transfer time consumption at any point in time can be controlled within two years."

The crowd nodded.

This kind of rough calculation that ignores many influences and simplifies the model to the tangency problem of two circular orbits, not to mention the high-level officials present, but any junior high school student who works hard can easily calculate it mentally.

However, it is another matter to figure it out and how to do it.

"However, due to our technical limitations, it is very difficult to achieve a DV of 52 kilometers per second to meet the minimum requirements for the round-trip voyage, even without considering combat consumption."

"Limited by the inherent problems of deuterium-tritium fusion and the relatively backward fusion propulsion technology, we simply cannot take advantage of the super-high specific impulse of fusion propulsion."

Hong suddenly brought up this commonplace question.

"According to previous calculations, if the DV is increased simply by reducing the load ratio, in order to meet the demand of 52 kilometers per second, the load ratio must be reduced from 65% to 47%, which is equivalent to an additional load of 5 tons. For working medium and fuel, 400 ships are more than 2000 million tons, which is almost unfeasible from an economic point of view.”

Of course, it’s just not feasible from an economic point of view. If you really want to operate it, you can also install so many working fluids and fuels—anyway, for the early chemical rocket spaceflight, let alone 35% load ratio, 5% is enough. It is burning high incense, this ratio is not a big deal at all.

It's just that the production capacity consumed by manufacturing and transporting so many working fluids is too large, and the benefits brought are too small, and it is completely unworthy from an economic or tactical point of view.

For Hong's current space industry and orbiting capabilities, rather than using so much extra consumption just to increase the window period of nine years, it is better to wait for a cycle and fight again after 15 years.

After all, the war against an extinct unit is a long-term project, and it is not something normal people can do to pursue a temporary victory without giving up long-term sustainable development.

They originally thought so—but based on their understanding of Hong, it was impossible for her, who pursued efficiency most in war, to bring up old stories for no reason.

"what do you mean......"

The Confederate Vice President asked tentatively.

"However, if you don't bring return fuel, the DV of 26 kilometers per second can be achieved by your existing standard load."

Red finally showed her fox tail—but, as she was designed like a Catus, she should have a cat tail.

But compared to the amount of information contained in this sentence, such things as a fox's tail and a cat's tail are nothing.

"......what?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and for a while, the meeting room was dead silent.

"This is too..."

Several officers hesitated to speak.

Let the crew wait for a warship that will never return after departure, and order them to stand firm for 20 years in the enemy's base camp, which is a billion kilometers away from the base without supplies?

To be honest, if this order is issued, all the people present, except Hong, may be attacked by meteorites armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades-they are very sure of this.

"I know what you are thinking." Looking at a group of officials who were trying to hold back their words, Hong snapped his fingers, "But what you are thinking is already in the past tense."

"You might as well think about it, why before I thought that the fleet must be withdrawn to prepare for another battle, but now, I say that the fleet can be stationed in place."

Seeing that except for a very few people with flexible heads, many people still looked puzzled, Hong sighed, and chose to speak out.

"If we get the wormhole at the core of extinction and successfully connect directly with human civilization, won't the matter be solved?"

"However, the current fleet of more than 5000 million tons cannot defeat the 6000 million tons of extinct units..."

The general's voice grows quieter, eventually stopping abruptly on the tonnage.

Obviously, he got it.

Volume II Extinction War: Chapter 85 Crusade Extinction Core

Different from the conventional "continuous space-time", for civilizations like Red who rely on wormholes for interstellar spaceflight, their interstellar territory is not continuous, but jumping.

Based on the currently known star map of Hong, starting from the Farsati No. [-] colonial star farthest away from her, the entire star field presents the Farsati No. [-] colonial star—Frasati’s mother star—the imperial mu Star—Federation Mother Star—Federation No. [-] Colonial Star—Catus—Extinction Unit Mother Star—Iron Heart Extinction Mother Star—Human Mother Star.

Of course, there must be some changes in the details. For example, the wormhole leading from Catus to the Extinction Unit is skewed to the asteroid belt, and the wormhole leading to humans from Iron Heart Extinction is opened on Mars instead of Earth, etc., but at least Generally speaking, it presents such a form.

A one-word long snake formation with a purely single-line connection.

And what's more terrible, these wormholes are still "natural".

She doesn't know if it's really natural or not. After all, it's hard for any scientist to see wormholes as a natural phenomenon in the universe after learning about the many weird properties of them.

But at least one thing is very clear - if the wormhole suddenly disappears, with their current technology, it is equivalent to losing contact almost permanently.

Unless they are lucky enough to reopen a new pair of wormholes in the future, or master the ability to control the speed of light after a technological leap or even the technological singularity, for them, the disconnection of the wormhole is equivalent to Farewell.

This is also one of the important reasons why Hong didn't choose to go to the core of extinction to command in person - when the benefits of directing in person are far less than the risks, as a rational omnic, it is already very obvious which side to choose.

Well... at least most of the time, red is quite rational.

"In this universe, there is no saying that you can't use more to bully less."

Hong took half a step back, and said slowly.

"It's better to say that what we are best at is not the number of people?"

"...One thing to say, one thing to say, indeed."

Although they wanted to refute it, after thinking about it carefully, they still had to admit this point—aside from the many acquired "magnificence and righteousness", judging from the results purely, diplomacy is indeed a bullying by the big, The process of using more to bully less.

What's more, strictly speaking, they only made Homo sapiens recognize the revision of the definition of "humanoid species" by bullying more and less a few days ago.

After all, that's the nature of social animals.

"Instead of passively defending and waiting for the two Extinction Omnics to concentrate their forces to encircle any party, why don't we take the initiative to take a bridgehead in the satellite group of the Extinction Core, so that every once in a while a ' The bridgehead and the wormhole are next to each other, but Caster is behind the giant planet' situation."

Accompanied by Hong's explanation, the big screen behind her quickly displayed a simulated picture to explain this intersection that sounds a bit like "cheating love".

There is one thing to say, if the planets are all anthropomorphic, rather than having an affair, it is more likely that they came to find the wormhole to make some dirty deals when Kasdler was powerless on the other side.

Due to the distance limitation, whenever Hong and the others come to drill the wormhole, Caster on the other side can only watch them having fun here, but can't do anything.

"However, the location of this bridgehead must be carefully selected." Hong explained on the big screen the serial numbers of all known extinct core satellites.

The first ones to be excluded are naturally those satellites that are too far away.

Unlike the "original" satellites on the inner side, as asteroids captured by giant planets, their initial orbital period of 300 days and ultra-high orbital inclination alone have given them a death sentence for combat use.

The tactical value of satellites leaving the equatorial plane is very low - it is not difficult to understand that if the inclination is too large, it means that every time the fleet dispatches, it will either wait for a long precession period to slowly correct the inclination, or it will need to consume a lot of DV Come to quickly correct your own inclination in order to attack those "original" satellites located on the equator.

Every round trip consumes thousands of meters per second of DV, and no one will do it this round.

Not to mention, among the "captured" satellites outside, a large part of them are retrograde satellites, which are the real garbage, and Hong doesn't even want to look at it.

With a relative speed of tens of kilometers per second, most of the DV of the battleship will be consumed just by being parked in orbit—at least in the foreseeable future, she will not think this kind of satellite is of any value.

"To put it simply, we have to choose a satellite whose orbit is not so close that it will stimulate the extermination units and force them to dispatch their entire army, and it will not be so far away that the transfer period and consumption are so long that it cannot be combined with the wormhole. The point of efficient traffic."

She snapped her fingers lightly, and all unqualified satellite orbits were marked as "not feasible".

Although both the body and the screen are actually directly controlled by herself and do not need to be triggered by any gestures, but this does not affect her making such meaningless actions.

"In this way, the No. [-], [-], and No. [-] groups are all excluded. No. [-] is located deep in the gravitational well, which is lower than the core No. [-] star field. Regardless, only No. [-] and No. [-] are left."

"The No. 11 satellite cluster has a total of five satellites. Among them, the satellite numbered 170 has a long axis of 30 kilometers, and the remaining four are no longer than [-] kilometers."

Hong zoomed in on the simulated star map so that everyone present could see the five orbits distributed at an altitude of 700 to 800 million kilometers more clearly.

"Will it be too close?" Several conservative officials seemed a little worried, "From here, it will only take less than a month to go to Kasdler along the standard track, and the extermination unit is really willing to let it go." Do we capture the satellite?"

"Of course it's impossible to let it go, it's not those tasteless satellites in the outer circle."

Hong straightforwardly admitted it.

"In fact, the extermination unit also established a base and supporting defense platform on the 11th satellite. There are about 10 capital ships and 15 small ships stationed in it, totaling about 200 million tons."

"That......"

"But we can grab it."

Hong spread her hands, matching her weak and lovely appearance, she looked harmless to humans and animals.

"Of course, you can also call it 'borrowing', the kind that doesn't return." Hong turned around and highlighted the two satellite orbits of the No. [-] satellite cluster on the big screen, "As long as we don't take the initiative to attack With these two near-orbit satellites, it is almost impossible for the extinct units to take the initiative to fight against them."

There is no need to use supercomputers to perform any deduction. Just by looking at the development level of these satellites, you can know the position of the main line of defense of the extinct unit.

Compared with the No. 200 satellite, which only has 11 million tons of warships stationed, the fleet stationed by the No. 8 satellite of the No. 1500 cluster has a full [-] million tons, which is close to a quarter of its total tonnage.

It can be said that apart from the heavily guarded Castel, that is, the No. 7 satellite, this No. 8 satellite is the most heavily defended satellite in the entire Extinction Core—according to Hong's speculation, if they want to attack this satellite, they must It is basically equivalent to starting a decisive battle.

When they hit there, no matter how big the extinction core is, there is no way out.

Caster is behind him!