Luna didn't want to use the Federation's new weapons now.
They were the Federation's trump cards.
Playing those cards so early would alert the Filament civilization.
It was like playing a card game where you always played pairs. Your opponent could see through you—they'd know you had many pairs but lacked single cards. They could break up your pairs with single cards, making you uncomfortable, driving you to ruin.
Civilizational warfare was the same.
But Luna now had to use them. The Filament civilization was far more adept at tactics than she thought, far from the Olive Branch Civilization, which had spent tens of thousands of years isolated.
"I can't know the Filament civilization's past, but now, it must surrender."
...
At that moment, using the dreadnought's on-board tachyon communication device, the other ten fleets received the Heavenly Chain's report. They were stunned.
This shock was so profound that they almost neglected to pay attention to the enemy.
Many soldiers lost sleep over it.
A message spread through the fleet.
"My first reaction upon hearing this news wasn't grief, but envy. My body is trembling. This isn't fear but excitement. I must be crazy!"
This "crazy" statement received a silent 3.22 million upvotes.
Wordless.
All the soldiers were in agreement. They worked furiously on the warships, training whenever they had free time, never allowing themselves a moment of rest.
It was surreal to see hundreds, even thousands of soldiers cleaning the warship's interior.
Comical!
It was rare for them to refrain from littering, let alone clean.
But that's how it was.
They had prepared for death, and this determination was overwhelming, strong enough to rival that of a god. If someone were to investigate, they would find the bio-engineered warships shared the same will.
That wasn't strange. Those ships were also alive, and though they lacked intelligence, they could sense something.
Soon...
The warships were ready.
They began to leave the star system, then turned around. A terrifying beam of invisible energy was fired from the dreadnought. This wasn't conventional energy but dark energy. High-powered dark energy could pierce the star's outer layers and strike its core.
The action inside would then work its way outwards, and the effects of the two would be incompatible in many ways; the star would quickly swell.
After the swelling came… the collapse!
All of this was extremely rapid, driven by external forces, so much so that it could be completed in days.
Immense energy was released, energy that would take the Galactic Federation hundreds of thousands of years to produce.
If they could fully harness a star's energy, the civilization could possess the equivalent energy reserves of a Level 2.5 civilization. Imagine the power that would be.
At that moment, the star exploded.
It ejected most of its matter, with only a small fraction remaining inside to form a newborn white dwarf.
The ejected matter wasn't moving fast, so the Federation warships moved at a low rate of speed. This was just before the ejection, those speeds, for the most part, were able to handle the ejections on the inside.
As they flew, they collected the matter to replenish their energy.
Using this immense energy, the warships sped towards the designated convergence point.
The Filament civilization warships tried to intercept them, but found it impossible. Riding the wave of energy, the Federation dreadnought possessed inexhaustible power. No matter how many attacks struck it, the energy shield would quickly replenish.
Rapid Energy Absorption Device.
This auxiliary technology had been developed by the Galactic Federation, but it wasn't intended for use in combat; it was meant to quickly refuel warships when they set out.
Over time, scholars began to suggest that warships also be able to swiftly replenish their energy during battle.
And this idea birthed this new technology.
Like a gluttonous monster, it utilized gravity to greedily absorb the surrounding energy.
This was a path the Filament civilization had never considered.
While the Filament civilization was stronger than the Galactic Federation, that gap had narrowed over the millennia.
The Filament civilization was at the late stage of Level 2.3.
The Galactic Federation was at the beginning stage of Level 2.3.
They were on the same level.
This convergence took approximately 89 years. Before that, the Galactic Federation had to face the Filament civilization's attack on the three star systems.
As expected, nothing extraordinary happened.
The Filament civilization used stellar-level weapons to destroy the three stars from as close as 0.3 light-years.
Luna, meanwhile, accurately observed the number of Filament civilization warships.
40,000!
Not 40,000 total, but 40,000 outside each of the three star systems—a total of 120,000 Filament civilization warships.
If Lulian's estimate was correct, they had already destroyed approximately 80,000 Filament warships, leaving 270,000. Of those, 120,000 were here, meaning the remaining 10 Federation fleets would face 150,000 Filament civilization warships.
Luna now had much to consider.
What would the Filament civilization do?
Would they still try to destroy the 10 fleets as previously thought, or would they unleash those 120,000 warships around the Federation?
Luna believed the second option was more likely.
"Prepare to face a formidable enemy."
"While this might seem like a devastating blow, it could also be an opportunity."
Luna was now standing inside the Kunlun.
This was only the second time in over 10,000 years that she had boarded her flagship. The ship had undergone numerous modifications; while its exterior remained the same, the interior had been completely revamped.
The Federation border wasn't as weak as the Filament civilization believed.
The Filament civilization dividing their fleet had its benefits and better fit her future plan.
"Activate everything."
"Let's intercept the Filament civilization."
"I've never met them face-to-face; we don't even know what they look like."
Luna intended to lead the charge herself.
This seemed extremely dangerous, but it really wasn't.
...
The Kunlun moved through space like a colossal beast.
Starlight reflecting off its hull created a beautiful rainbow effect.
This wasn't intentional; it was because the Kunlun's surface was covered in numerous protrusions that could scatter high-density energy beams, disrupting enemy laser weapons.
That was just one aspect.
A closer inspection would reveal the complexity of these protrusions. Once particles entered a protrusion, they would enter a pocket; upon detecting their presence, the pocket would generate a gravitational force.
The gravitational force would draw the particles into internal spiral trajectories, similar to the rifling in a gun barrel, accelerating their rotation. This centrifugal force would then be used to eject them through another tunnel.
This wasn't a simple feat.
From theory to practice to fully proving its effectiveness, this single detail took 621 years of research.
As technology advances, solving many problems seems to become simpler, but there will be even more problems that are 10 or 100 times harder, and require more time to solve.
Besides this small detail, the Kunlun, as Luna's flagship, also utilized even more advanced technology.
Luna was now looking at the star chart.
Only the Kunlun was visible. It wasn't because she had forgotten the other ships.
It was because they were all moving in different directions.
Since she had decided to attack, she would do so completely and annihilate the enemy!
"After destroying the three star systems, the Filament civilization won't pause; they'll head to nearby star systems."
"They expect us to think that way!"
"But in reality, it's the opposite. If we recognize the opponent as a master strategist, we need to adopt their perspective and understand how they would maximize the impact of this attack."
Luna had learned to broaden her vision, seeing far beyond the Federation border.
She was now standing in the conference room, her eyes sweeping over it repeatedly.
Why were these three locations called the "three key star systems"?
Because they were three enormous stars, the political, economic, scientific, and cultural centers of this sector.
All these centers converged, and a single word could be used to represent this convergence. - Transportation hub.
Therefore, they provided access not only to star systems on the Federation's border but also to some within the Federation's interior.
As such.
If Luna was the opponent, what would she do?
Would the Filament civilization be willing to abandon these 120,000 warships? If the Filament civilization had meant to destroy these warships, then Luna was even more likely to think their next target was the Federation core. They would prioritize attacking those massive stars.
Therefore, Luna's deployments were based on this assumption.
All the warships moved from the surrounding area to block the Filament civilization's retreat.
The interior was entirely guarded by star system-based weapons, used to intercept the attack.
Why hadn't she done this before?
Because of distance.
The three star systems weren't clustered together; they were separated by over 20 light-years. Even with the fastest speed, reinforcement would take 200 years and be too dispersed.
The Filament civilization's initial battlefield was close by, which meant after getting rid of the three fleets there, those new forces could launch towards the core Federation space within those three systems within 50 years.
With the initial information and lack of solid numbers on the total number of Federation forces the alien civilization actually had, Luna chose caution rather than gambling with the lives of the three key star systems' citizens.
If the Filament civilization warships were to actually enter the Federation's core space, the situation all changed.
Of course, this was just a possibility.
Therefore, Luna's goal was to have those warships move to the perimeter, not directly into the Federation's core.
Regarding the problem of the Filament civilization warships possibly reaching the core before reinforcements, Luna had considered that too.
...
Approximately 140 years later…
The Kunlun reached the designated location.
It was completely empty; there was no sign of any warships.
"It seems my prediction was correct."
"The Filament civilization warships have entered the core."
"Then inform the other warships to begin the plan."
Four chopstick-shaped objects launched from the Kunlun's sides. Each object was 100 kilometers long.
These "chopsticks" dispersed again 5 million kilometers away from the Kunlun, each splitting into 10 smaller cards. These cards then shattered.
Then... there was nothing.
Because it was over.
It was the same for the bio-engineered warships, with the front sprouting antenna-like objects. These antennae didn't shatter but pointed into the void.
The same was true for the remaining fleets in other locations.
Almost simultaneously, similar scenes unfolded within the Federation's star systems, but those objects that exploded did not resemble warships, but the familiar structures of star cities. They targeted not a specific object, but a region of space.
This wasn't a focused weapon but a dispersed "neutrino."
It wasn't offensive, but its effect was unparalleled.
These neutrinos traveled near the speed of light, tightly focused yet widely dispersed.
Their destructive nature didn't come from the neutrinos themselves.
They weren't neutrinos in the traditional sense; they were fundamental particles created by the Galactic Federation.
They were smaller than normal neutrinos but possessed mass. This is why they were said to be both tightly focused and highly dispersed.
They'd achieved this by altering the string's vibration pattern, elevating its energy level.
At the Planck scale, the string had become a series of links connected by lines, each vibrating and resembling a string of pearls.
What would happen when these high-energy "neutrinos" hit their targets?
The strings would break apart.
The energy released from that separation was negligible at a macroscopic level.
But at the microscopic level, it could disrupt all order.
It would disrupt all information.
And it was almost impossible to stop.
The order of fundamental particles was disrupted. Even Luna couldn't predict the exact outcome, but it definitely wouldn't be good. It could even be catastrophic.
Luna named it the "String Pulse Emitter." It was her true secret weapon, one of her trump cards.
The Galactic Federation was still too weak in combat compared to the Filament civilization, so over the past millennia, she not only wanted to improve the number of warships, but she also had to innovate in terms of weapons.
Not low-level, conventional weapons, but weapons that could decisively affect the battlefield.
"Let's see its effectiveness in its first real battle."
...
What exactly are the effects of the special Micrô(µ) particle strings suddenly changing with respect to the macroscopic world?
Within the Galactic Federation, some scholars have been researching this from beginning to end.
But the results are inconclusive.
The first reason is that strings themselves are not directly observable objects; like molecules, they are determined through calculations and the effects of strings on other matter or energy.
The second reason is that strings are actually extremely stable. This contributes to the extreme stability of most fundamental particles in the universe. The String Pulse Emitter destroys this string stability, which is like throwing an absolutely upright stone onto an ice surface. If you can't detect the ice surface information, you have absolutely no way of knowing the exact state of the stone after it falls onto the ice surface.
Does it bounce up, or is it embedded in the ice layer?
Will it nudge to the left, or to the right, forwards, backwards, or to the right several times, to the left several times, is it biased towards the southwest, or the northwest?
These are all uncertain.
Unless you precisely measure the ice layer.
However, with the current strength of the Galactic Federation, there is no way to precisely measure the ice layer (strings).
Although the Galactic Federation's utilization of strings is much better than it was tens of thousands of years ago, this utilization is still crude. Luna believes that more advanced Civilizations possess more powerful string technology, but the Federation is far behind.
After the String Pulse Emitter was fired, Luna ordered all the warships to begin contracting.
Because the enemy's state is unknown, and the extent of the damage they sustained cannot be determined, what must be done is to keep attacking before the enemy has time to repair.
As for why not continue to utilize the String Pulse Emitter...
Because the ammunition is not unlimited.
From here to the interior of the Federation, this trip, though not significantly time-consuming, will still take over a century.
But fortunately, 99% of the resources inside the Federation have long been harvested by the Federation, since this place is the Federation's backyard.
Therefore, the Filament civilization must enter a star system to carry out repairs.
And this is much more difficult than directly destroying a star system. Furthermore, with the Filament civilization fleet heavily damaged, this is even more arduous.
All of this is currently just speculation.
After all, the enemy is too far away.
With distances measured in light-years, the so-called hundred-thousand-meter, million-meter-class warships simply cannot be detected. Moreover, the Filament civilization warships possess cloaking technology.
...
Approximately 115 years later.
Kunlun discovered Filament civilization warships at approximately 0.7 light-years away; those warships had become husks.
They were shattered into pieces, with traces of powerful energy strikes remaining in several places.
The number of these warships reached into the tens of thousands.
Luna ordered some bio-engineered warships to collect those Filament civilization warship remains.
And she led Kunlun to continue onward; after all, time waits for no one.
Over a dozen years ago, she had already observed a star in the Federation flashing. That was the enemy engaging with the Federation. Having not received information from that star system, it was certain that the system had been blockaded.
After about another 21 years, Luna finally obtained a portion of the Filament civilization warship remains for research.
"The energy actually comes from within!"
Luna was extremely surprised.
When she says "within," she doesn't mean inside the warship, but inside the material, inside the molecules, inside the atoms.
The string changes seemed to cause a material transformation, nuclear fusion, fission, and even the transformation of some particles into antimatter. These traces could be clearly observed in the microscopic world.
But this was not the most surprising thing for Luna.
What surprised Luna the most was that a portion of the matter disappeared. The information of these substances left no trace; you couldn't even observe signs of annihilation. These substances seemed to have never existed.
"Can strings be destroyed?" Luna raised this question.
In the existing understanding, strings cannot be destroyed, because string destruction, based on the law of conservation of energy, must produce other things. Was it other strings?
Or smaller things than strings?
This is launching a challenge towards existing string theory.
"Basically, it's impossible," Ayla replied.
"If we follow existing theory, then these strings should have transformed into other forms. Could they have become closed-strings, then gone to another dimension, and therefore disappeared?"
Luna speculated. Although this explanation is equally absurd, compared to the previous one, the probability is estimated to be a hundred million times greater.
What would happen if open strings transformed into closed-strings, and closed-strings transformed into open strings?
Closed-strings are gravitons, the force carrier, and open strings are the remaining fundamental particles that make up all things in the world. Closed-strings transforming into open strings would mean that gravity could be directly converted into energy.
This is a significant discovery.
"If that's the case, then us avoiding the possibility of strings becoming closed-strings has its probability increased by 0.00000000057%. That's a big improvement," Ayla poured cold water on the idea.
A small probability event, one in a billion, can be called impossible.
Right now, this is still in the impossible stage. After all, what they create is chaos, and chaos gives rise to this kind of accidental event.
Accident might become inevitable, but even if this kind of accident is repeated many times, it will not allow the Federation to control strings.
"Then let's solve the Filament civilization fleet first."
Luna didn't want to delve into this matter at this moment. Every moment that passed, the Filament civilization fleet could break through a star system and receive a supply of energy.
"According to probability analysis, the Filament civilization warship damage should be between 774,000 ships."
"That's equivalent to losing more than half of their combat power."
"Moreover, I estimate that their energy reserve situation will not be optimistic, because the string attacks are indiscriminate. Energy storage equipment is very sophisticated, it can't withstand that kind of drastic change," Ayla analyzed.
This gave Luna some reference.
The warship was not far from reaching that star system.
Every Galactic Federation star system is absolutely as solid as a copper wall because it relies on the energy of the entire Federation. After knowing that Star City had surplus energy, Luna had Ayla develop a device that could quickly relocate those energy sources during special periods.
Surplus energy would be directly applied to the star system's defense.
This created some trouble for the Filament civilization fleet.
Moreover, in order to deal with the situation of the Federation's border being breached, Luna had installed AAA cannons in many star systems within the Federation.
This was a wise decision.
However, the number of enemy warships was still nearly 50,000. If those 50,000 warships were to attack a single location simultaneously, how long could a star system hold out?
Another 32 years passed, and Luna finally reached the outside of the attacked star system.
Although she was prepared, she still sighed.
"Prepare to attack the star system!"
It couldn't be stopped.
The Federation dreadnoughts were ultimately too few. Inside a star system there were also some bio-engineered warships and outdated metal warships, the number of which didn't even reach 1000, perhaps not even 500.
And at this moment.
A communication came from inside the star system.
The content of the communication was a video.
There were still many Galactic Federation citizens inside the star system!
Clearly, this was a threat from the Filament civilization...
"Luna, no murderer will give up the hostages in their hands, and no hostage will be rescued under negotiation," Ayla immediately spoke.
Now, Luna faced a difficult decision.
In the past, she could have been without hesitation.
But now, would her decision be worthy of the sacrifices of those soldiers before?
...
Hesitation is a thought that a person should have.
Just like in the beginning when she faced the Olive Branch Civilization.
However, that time it was sympathy for the Olive Branch Civilization, while this time it was sympathy for the lives of the Federation citizens.
She knew that these citizens were destined to die.
Or perhaps, even if they didn't attack, would those citizens live?
The Filament civilization was merely using these citizens to force her to halt the attack, using this to rest and recuperate.
Just as Luna was hesitating, Ayla magnified the video sent by the Filament civilization and discovered a person in front of a row of houses. He was kneeling with his hands behind his back, expressionless.
The other people around him were the same.
They were not being escorted. The Filament civilization didn't care about these things. They had no need to communicate with the star system. So they gathered all the citizens together, creating a scene where they could be killed at any time.
So why would these Galactic Federation citizens put on a show of being imprisoned?
They didn't shout, they didn't yearn for others to come and save them, but silently knelt on the ground.
And in this, what Luna saw was the determination of these kneeling citizens.
They seemed to be using such simple actions to say:
"Come, overcome these enemies at the expense of our lives!"
The Federation brought Luna wave after wave of shock.
"Luna, you haven't deeply understood the Federation for too long."
"The Federation has long ceased to be the Federation it was at the beginning. After 30,000 years of development, every citizen of the Federation, whether in body or mind, has been firmly locked together with the Federation."
"To them, the Federation is no different from home."
Ayla paid close attention to gathering all Federation information every moment. She had absolute authority to speak.
Luna had not been an ordinary member of a collective for a long time. She had even somewhat forgotten that feeling, but her forgetting it did not mean that the four words "national sentiment" would disappear.
The citizens of the Federation clearly harbored a sense of belonging to the Federation like a home.
Therefore, the soldiers were willing to sacrifice their lives, the citizens were willing to sacrifice their lives. What they wanted to maintain was the entire Federation, and not just individual life and death.
All of this selflessness came from the same thing.
That is cognition!
Although the Federation had reduced the number of schools, this did not mean that the Federation itself had a low level of education. In fact, almost any Galactic Federation citizen who had never attended school could pass the entrance exam to Harvard if placed on Earth.
Why?
Constant exposure over time.
Just like ordinary people living in the 21st century, in general, have a broader knowledge base than people living in ancient times. Some knowledge that everyone in the 21st century knows would be secrets that some or other ancient institutions would struggle to uncover even after a lifetime of investigation.
Moreover, Galactic Federation beings themselves have long lifespans and easy knowledge acquisition pathways. With the help of sub-brains, they can even directly download some knowledge into their sub-brains.
The vast knowledge base allows Galactic Federation citizens to not ignorantly believe that the Filament civilization will spare them. They may still have some luck in their hearts, but reason is constantly telling them that it is impossible.
Among the hundreds of billions, even trillions of citizens, even if reason is constantly telling them, some citizens may hope for a miracle to happen, but there are also citizens who won't. They know what the most correct decision the Federation should make now is.
Therefore, they knelt there.
How similar!
So the soldiers, so the citizens!
The Federation fostered a great spirit. It had thoroughly become a Civilization.
What Luna had to do most now was actually be decisive, and not allow the Filament civilization any time to recover.
The citizens were all telling her not to hesitate, yet she was still sighing here over this little thing.
That was the biggest disrespect.
"Give the citizens a magnificent and joyful farewell," Luna said, then turned away.
Ayla knew Luna's meaning.
Kunlun did not use any weapons this time; it only sent out a signal.
The Galactic Federation's development of stars had long been not limited to the surface of the star system, but also the inside of the star system. Inside each star system were large structures that absorbed the star's own energy.
And the signal that Kunlun sent out was to make the internal machinery of the star begin to self-destruct.
Would the Filament civilization intercept the signal?
That was certain.
However, this kind of interception was not effective. The Federation's communication directly passed through Tachyons to the interior. Unless the Filament civilization mastered super-dimensional communication interception technology.
The star exploded!
Luna didn't know which star this was that the Federation had destroyed, but this was definitely one that made her feel sorrowful, both looking forward and looking backward.
Because she would no longer allow herself to be in this kind of situation again.
"The Federation needs to be stronger!"
...
Seeing the destroyed star, all the soldiers were dumbfounded.
Because they could easily discover that the Filament civilization had not conducted a large-scale purge of the star system. Even if they didn't know that the Filament civilization had released the information about using Galactic Federation citizens as hostages, they were clear that there were still a large number of Galactic Federation citizens in the star system.
However.
Gone!
The terrifying explosion was enough to destroy those Star Cities without any omissions.
They felt an intense sense of suffocation.
At this moment, their mood underwent some changes. There was sorrow for the death of those citizens, hatred for the Filament civilization, and also a lack of understanding for Luna's decision.
It was unrealistic to expect every Galactic Federation citizen to understand Luna's decision at this moment.
Even if they knew that Luna could only make such a decision at this time, they still wouldn't understand.
Nothing is more important than life.
At least, Luna couldn't make the decision for the hundreds of billions, even trillions, of citizens inside the star system.
This was a huge collision of thinking between decision-making levels and ordinary people. This collision was unavoidable.
Luna knew this as well, but she wouldn't do any explaining because of this misunderstanding. Because what everyone needed wasn't an explanation. Any explanation was just a plausible excuse.
What she wanted to do was win this war.
"Based on previous observations, the Filament civilization warships should not have equipment to rapidly absorb the matter ejected from the exploded star."
"Their energy sources should not have been completely replenished yet, and the warships themselves have not been completely repaired."
"This is the moment to strike while the iron is hot. We must eliminate all Filament civilization warships."
Luna issued the order.
All warships began to move out.
Carrying the power of tens of billions, even hundreds of billions of lives.
...
One year later.
Luna detected traces of Filament civilization warships.
The enemy's tens of thousands of warships were clustered together, after all, this was inside the Galactic Federation.
The Filament civilization's initial plan was to sacrifice all these warships in exchange for massive losses at the entire Federation border.
However, they did not expect the Federation to have weapons like the String Pulse Emitter that couldn't be stopped, and they didn't expect Luna to have such a huge resolve to destroy a star and hundreds of billions of ordinary lives.
Within a Civilization, this was almost a taboo.
An officer didn't have that much power, or perhaps any officer couldn't accept such a sacrifice.
However, Luna was an exception. She was not "an officer," but the leader with real power of the entire Galactic Federation.
These were also unexpected circumstances for the Filament civilization, leading to their current passive situation.
Federation warships were unable to catch up with the Filament civilization warships.
But Luna already had arrangements.
Several Fleets had not yet converged, mainly to create an encirclement for the Filament civilization fleet.
Now, several Fleets were like a semi-circle encompassing the Filament civilization. The only direction the Filament civilization could escape was towards the more central location of the Federation.
But this was already approaching the core of the Federation's Tau Ceti star region. There, they only had one path: death.
Among Tau Ceti's 170-plus stars, 60% of the energy was concentrated in this area. Unlike ancient warfare, where large numbers of defenses were deployed at the border, interstellar Civilizations deploy most of their defenses at the core.
Why is there this difference?
In ancient times, there were no bows or crossbows that could directly shoot from the border to the imperial city.
But interstellar warfare exists.
To protect the core's safety, the core is the strongest place for defense and offense.
This star region possessed a large number of warships and an astonishing density of defensive measures.
The Filament civilization realized there was no point in half-measures. They went all-in, simply trying to destroy one or even more star systems. They advanced towards the Galactic Federation's interior.
"Just useless struggles."
Luna simply ordered the fleet to tighten the encirclement.
And after advancing for roughly 100 years, the Filament civilization fleet encountered difficulties.
Here, the entire star space was filled with all kinds of interstellar anchor points. These anchor points released large amounts of gravitational waves, forming a defensive belt.
The Filament civilization fleet instantly felt it difficult to move even half a step.
Because there were so, so many.
To attack would consume a large amount of energy. If they passively defended, they would need to consume even more energy. They were currently a stream without a source. Even if there were energy-generating engines in the warships, those engines had long been unable to satisfy even one warship.
One had to know that for each Filament civilization warship to fully store energy, it would require the energy released by a star for at least 20-25 years. What engine could generate such a large output in a small warship?
Normally, a warship needs at least 500 years or more to replenish energy independently.
This is also why the Federation developed such energy replenishment methods.
And the Filament civilization clearly didn't have development in this area, otherwise, they would have completed energy replenishment inside the previous star system long ago.
A Civilization can be very comprehensive, but not every plank will be so long. The more fields a Civilization is involved in developing, the more expertise it has, the more weaknesses it implies.
And this aspect was the Filament civilization's weakness.
Of course, the technologies researched by the Federation were not simple techniques. What seemed like simply increasing the speed of energy replenishment actually involved many, many things. Researching them took an extremely long time; it wasn't something you could develop just by thinking about it.
Cliff in front, tiger behind.
This could be used to describe the state of the Filament civilization fleet at this time.
If the cliff in front was only 1 meter wide, they could jump over it with their eyes closed.
But the cliff in front was endless. These blocking anchor points were used to weaken star system super-long-range weapons, so the deployment thickness reached 2 light-years, and the number was calculated in terms of hundreds of millions, even billions.
The reason there were so many materials to manufacture these anchor points was also a matter of recent millennia.
The destruction and collapse of stars created a large amount of light elements, among which, in addition to fuel elements, some other relatively heavy elements were used to manufacture these defensive devices or to build dreadnoughts.
The Filament civilization simply had no way to break through such a thick layer of defense.
Even if it was just a wall, there would be nothing to be afraid of. The key was that this wall would release energy. So their attacks would inevitably be unable to sweep straight through; the energy would gradually be weakened inside this "Barrier." It was estimated that even terrifying star-level weapons would be unable to traverse a distance of 1 light-year inside this "Barrier."
Even if they destroyed 1 light-year, other anchor points around would converge and close, blocking the path ahead.
This was an endless quagmire.
The Filament civilization could only blindly change direction and choose a direction to break through.
The two sides began their first frontal battle.
Tens of thousands of Galactic Federation bio-engineered warships charged forward continuously, attacking the Filament civilization warships with rage.
Luna didn't want to lose too many warships. She decided to release a weapon, this type of weapon could only be effective at close range because what it could affect was truly terrifying.
"Release it!"
The Galactic Federation bio-engineered warships did not rush to the front of the Filament civilization warships. The Filament civilization warships instead attacked like hungry tigers.
After reaching a certain distance, these warships all underwent terrifying changes.
They instantly shrunk!
As if they had turned into compressed towels.
The photoelectric effect can cause electrons inside matter to be carried out of the atomic nucleus. Borrowing from this easy-to-understand physical effect, a Galactic Federation scholar thought, how could one cause matter to undergo a destructive change without removing electrons?
This weapon was born in this way.
It's called the Strong Electric Nuclear Shrinkage Weapon.
The strong force similarly constrains the atomic nucleus, while electrons are constrained inside the atom. The reason electrons rotate around the atomic nucleus is due to the Coulomb force, or called the Electrostatic Force.
This weapon mainly utilizes the Electrostatic Force to make electrons enter a state of quantum leap. Normally, quantum leaps of electrons are affected by rules and will appear on specific energy level orbits, while this technology makes electrons leap to the surface of the atomic nucleus.
In experiments, this type of quantum leap is extremely unstable. In approximately 0.0004 seconds, the electrons will either run away because they are not on an orbit, or reappear on a specific orbit.
At this time, that scholar chose to use the strong force to constrain the electrons on the surface of the atomic nucleus, so that all the electrons would stand still waiting on the surface of the atomic nucleus. This still required a terrifying external force to complete these things, and this required using dark matter's repulsive force.
If an atom was forcefully shrunk to be extremely small, and all atoms were like that, then the arrangement of atoms inside a material would be disrupted and destroyed, and the distance between the atoms would also shrink.
Therefore, what appeared on the macroscopic level was the shrinking of the warship.
In fact, it was not just shrinking. Even though because the Strong Electric Nuclear Shrinkage weapon was extremely energy-consuming, the actual impact time was only less than 1 minute, the affected material was almost impossible to return to its original shape, which in turn caused permanent damage to the warship.
Not only warships, but also the life inside.
So in that instant, a large number of Filament civilization warships that rushed into the Strong Electric Nuclear Shrinkage weapon's kill zone all instantly lost their combat power. The number was roughly 50,000. This was still because the Filament civilization warships were too fast and the fleet was too solid. If the speed was a little slower, the estimated losses would be smaller.
And the threat of the remaining warships had been drastically reduced.
Luna finally issued the destruction order, not allowing a single Filament civilization warship to survive. She even gave up the opportunity to capture those warships.
After the battlefield ended here.
Another battlefield had just begun.
The strength of that battlefield and this battlefield formed a stark contrast.