Chapter 154 - 154: Exposing the Solar System
“Captain, we can’t…”
“If our mothership explodes, Planet Tai won’t know about our achievements. We won’t make it to the Hall of Heroes…”
Others started to voice their concerns.
In matters of life and death, no one wants to remain uncredited for their deeds.
After much persuasion, Moro finally calmed down.
“Captain, why don’t we wake Lord Auda and ask his opinion?”
“Auda?”
Moro was intrigued. He had promised Auda that the next time he woke up, he would be on the home planet, in a new body.
But things had come to this point, and there was no room for consideration.
“I’m going now!”
Moro quickly got up and headed to the medical room.
At first, the medical staff tried to stop him, warning him that waking Auda could be too risky and potentially fatal.
But once they heard Moro’s previous idea about blowing up the mothership, no one tried to stop him anymore.
“Ugh…!”
Auda woke up amidst a splitting headache.
“Are we on the home planet?”
His first words after opening his eyes were this. But when he saw the familiar ceiling, his heart sank. Looking down, he was indeed still on the mothership.
Moro looked apologetic. “I’m sorry, 1 couldn’t do it. We are still in the solar system…”
Auda’s heartbeat quickened, causing the medical alarm system to beep erratically.
The medical staff rushed to stabilize his vital signs.
After calming down, Auda asked in a deep voice, “What has happened?!”
“The rest of the fleet…is gone!”
Moro sighed. “1 followed your plan strictly, but unfortunately, we still failed…”
Auda frowned, not understanding. He quickly asked for details.
“When you made the plan, the enemy had only shown the technology level of a late-stage Level 1 civilization. But not long after you fell asleep, they brought out particle black hole propulsion systems, their spaceship speed equaled ours…”
Hearing Moro’s explanation, Auda was somewhat skeptical, “If it’s only that, my plan should still have been successful?!”
Moro thought for a moment, then explained how the enemy sent seventy thousand warships to break away from the defensive line for a counterattack, forcing them to use the robot source code prematurely.
After hearing this, Auda twitched at the corner of his mouth, “Revealing this method too early naturally led the enemy to find other countermeasures…”
“You should have blown up Jupiter immediately when the enemy broke away from the defense line and entered through the Inferno Point…”
Moro felt helpless, “If you, the strategist, had been there, we surely could have won, but at that time, who could have thought of all that?!”
Auda sighed deeply, feeling that perhaps this was fate.
A great task is destined for great men. This important task of destroying a civilization could only be his.
“Auda, 1 want to blow up the Mothership now and destroy the entire solar system. What do you think?!”
Even though Moro had given up on the idea of blowing up the mothership, he still voiced his thoughts.
Upon hearing this, Auda shook his head, “Blowing up the mothership can’t destroy the entire solar system…”
” Doing so won’t destroy a civilization. It can only destroy their home…”
Moro pursed his lips, and asked, “Do you have any other strategies, strategist?!”
Auda narrowed his eyes slightly, and after a moment, he said, “As it stands now, it’s hard for us alone to destroy this civilization. The only way is to ‘lead the trouble elsewhere’ and expose the solar system to the universe!!”
“What do you mean?!”
“Destroying Pluto and Neptune, the annihilation of these two planets will inevitably send gravitational waves that all civilizations within a 1000 light-year radius will detect…”
Each planet seems to have a faint connection with dimensions, just like the instant disturbance of gravitational waves in our solar system when half of Jupiter was destroyed.
The gravitational wave effects produced by the destruction of two planets in our solar system would be instantly captured by civilizations 1000 light-years away.
According to scientists, this phenomenon, although beyond human understanding of cosmic laws, is related to dimensions.
Just like two-dimensional creatures can only see dots and lines, but that doesn’t mean the third dimension doesn’t exist.
The universe as it is now is merely the universe as seen by three-dimensional creatures. All the universal laws are only what three-dimensional creatures can see.
95% of the universe that humans can’t observe with the naked eye is dark matter, and the remaining 5% is the known universe observed by humans.
According to scientists, that 95% dark matter is likely the fourth dimension that humans can’t see or understand.
Both parties are in the same universe but cannot interact, communicate, or even understand each other.
Destroying two planets, causing gravitational waves to instantly spread to a radius of 1000 light-years, is a law that humans can’t understand but genuinely exists.
To explain it, you can only barely understand it with the concept of spatial folding.
“How many civilizations can there be within a radius of 1000 light-years centered on our solar system?!” Moro was somewhat puzzled.
“I don’t know!”
Auda shook his head slightly and said, “However, within this range, there are probably 5 billion star systems. Even if we don’t encounter other civilizations, as long as our other fleets receive the signal, that’s enough…”
Moro understood the meaning of his words and quickly opened the star map.
Only he knows the position of the Planet Tai.
Using a special method, he quickly found the star system where Planet Tai is located, exactly 1000 light-years away from our solar system.
Auda had been observing Moro’s expression and quickly noticed that Planet Tai was within a 1000 light-year radius of the solar system.
He nodded to himself and then said, “The unnatural destruction of two planets will inevitably attract the attention of all civilizations within a radius of 1000 light-years…”
“Do you think, knowing that there’s a civilization war here, would our Planet Tai send a fleet to investigate?!”
“Of course!”
Moro nodded. There had been cases before where a planet in a star system was destroyed, and a fleet was sent to investigate, but unfortunately, it always turned out to be a dead end.
It wasn’t that there were no civilizations in that star system, but the civilizations that existed had been destroyed by other civilizations, leaving only ruins behind.
But then, Moro started to worry, “What if we attract a higher-level civilization that happens to meet our fleet, what do we do?!”
“The diameter of the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years, according to scientists, the closer to the galactic center, the more likely it is to spawn higher-level civilizations…”
“This solar system is 27,000 light-years from the galactic center, located on the third spiral arm of the four major arms of the Milky Way, which is an outer position, so the possibility of having a high-level civilization within this range is not great…”
Auda shook his head and continued, “Even if there is a high-level civilization, it would be the solar system’s disaster, not ours!”
After thinking for a while, Moro agreed. All their outbound fleets had strict confidentiality mechanisms, with every action prioritizing the non-exposure of Planet Tai.
Moreover, even if a higher-level civilization found Planet Tai through their fleet, sowhat?!
Planet Tai is merely the military planet from which the Glenn civilization launches wars, not the home planet. And on Planet Tai, maybe some people know the location of the home planet, maybe not.
“I’m going to charge the star destroyer cannon now and destroy Pluto and Neptune…” Moro was impassioned and ready to act.
Auda stopped him and added, “Remember, don’t destroy more than necessary, only two planets. If three planets blow up simultaneously, the gravitational wave mapping range will exceed 1000 light-years, easily attracting existences even we can’t afford to provoke…”
“I understand!”
“Also, after the destruction, the mothership should immediately leave the solar system and hide in the nearby star system just a few light-years away. In this range, gravitational wave detectors should be able to see the dynamics of large spacecraft in the solar system…”
“Don’t we want to watch the civilization of this solar system get wiped out with our own eyes?!”