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Matters involving 'unknown forces' and 'imminent territorial aggression'.

All departments responded quickly.

On the Department of Defense side,

The three double bonus sticks who were already on standby at the headquarters immediately sent their avatars to the head of state's office.

The three giants of the scientific research department, who were still busy with various derived technology projects, also quickly sent clones.

According to Su Wen's order, an instant FTL communication connection with the front line was temporarily established.

After a while,

Hipper's holographic projection appeared in the room.

Due to the vast distance of hundreds of light years, the projection appears somewhat choppy and distorted.

"Uh...Commander, I think there is no need to send out the main force..."

Amid everyone's surprised gazes, she said hesitantly.

"how?"

Su Wen wondered.

"They, I mean these two fleets of strange civilizations, they started fighting."

Hipper's tone was very strange.

It was as if I had seen something funny and couldn't laugh out loud.

He was holding back some of his emotions.

"There was an exchange of fire? Does that mean we are sure they are not the same group?

How intense is the fighting? Isn't it from a performance? "

Su Wen was a little surprised at first, but then he had more thoughts.

"I can't say...I don't particularly understand the behavioral logic of carbon-based organisms, but...

Please take a look with your own eyes, Commander,"

Hipper's holographic image fluctuated again. Judging from his movements, it seemed that he was groping to open a certain panel.

She is trying to transmit all the images observed by the ship's detector over there through the FTL communication channel.

"At the very least, based on what I saw, this group seems to be much less threatening than we imagined..."

With the engineering department providing support at the receiving end, even extremely high-resolution optical images were broadcast in real time across nearly two hundred light years.

The only difficulty is the environmental problem - they are in hyperspace, and many scenes in that space do not comply with the traditional optical laws of the material universe, so a series of graphic enhancements are required before they can be correctly distinguished.

But not long after, a giant projection was successfully put aside.

Judging from the angle, it should be a ship in Hipper's exploration fleet, maintaining surveillance at an angle diagonally above.

It displays the situation on the entire battlefield in front of everyone at a glance.

And this 'battle is going on'...

"...hell, where did this primitive man come from?"

Su Wen said in shock.

"They used...artillery?"

Akashi on the side was even more surprised than him, both of them had the same incomprehensible look on their faces.

"Oh my God, there are actually people installing real cannons on starships these days!"

...saying so.

They are all capable of hyperspace navigation, so why are they still using such inefficient primitive weapons? "

Just took a look,

Su Wen understood why Hipper was acting so difficult:

Because the level of these two unfamiliar civilization fleets was countless times lower than he imagined...

——They even fought in hyperspace using the most primitive 'gas kinetic energy naval gun'!

and...

It's not just that.

Although their ships are quite numerous, they don't even have the most basic deflection shields.

It's not that one or two ships don't have it, but all the warships don't have it.

During the battle between the two fleets, the most primitive defense method of 'armored resistance' was used throughout the battle.

The artillery armor-piercing bullets cut into the flesh, and the carbide armor shrapnel flew.

Various large and small battleships with sharp edges, tough lines, and the hard-core style of the pre-industrial era are engaged in an encounter in a very powerful way against the ever-changing rose-purple background of hyperspace.

Large-caliber main guns fired barrages, bombarding the armor of enemy ships in salvos;

Carrier-based aircraft penetrated the defenses at high speed and rained down deadly fire on the enemy ships.

If such a scene had been seen on the Pacific battlefield during World War II, it might have become a lifelong conversation piece for war historians.

It can provide a large number of creative themes for countless military enthusiasts in future generations.

But if it is placed in an environment like 'hyperspace', the danger level is even much higher than that of normal space. Unless a civilization that truly masters super-light navigation technology can reach it...

...That would seem a bit ridiculous.

"This, this is really unexpected..."

Su Wen said helplessly.

It is not that gas kinetic energy artillery cannot be used in interstellar space.

As long as the internal sealing of the gun barrel is done well, such as designing a more appropriate bullet holder, it can still work in a vacuum environment.

And since there is no air in a vacuum, there is no gravity - at least when it is not near certain celestial bodies or in a star system, there is basically no gravitational influence.

Therefore, after the artillery warhead comes out of the chamber, it will move according to inertia and follow a straight trajectory that is completely different from the parabola in the gravity well.

In addition, there is no air resistance.

The firing range is also greatly extended due to extremely low resistance and extremely slow decrease in projectile speed.

As for power... there are no ways to improve it.

Is it very simple?

Just keep increasing the caliber, chamber pressure, and warhead charge equivalent.

...This gives it the essential elements required for an 'Interstellar Age Naval Engagement Weapon'.

But if you have it, you have it. In fact, very few civilizations will still use artillery after entering the interstellar era.

After all, no matter how you think about it, the latter is inferior to the railgun.

They are also kinetic naval guns, and the positioning of the two sides conflicts.

No one would choose something far away when the gap in cost, effect, and performance is so huge.

So much so.

This was the first time Su Wen saw with his own eyes that someone equipped a battleship with such a thing, and it was used in actual combat.

"The feeling of dissonance is really strong."

He was somewhat dumbfounded, watching this somewhat nonsensical 'space naval battle' from the perspective of Hipper's flagship.

All I can say is that the more I look at it, the more amazing it becomes.

The number of warring parties is indeed very large.

Both the offensive and defensive sides have at least three hundred ships of various types.

This was also the fundamental reason why Hipper was so nervous when he scanned them in the first place that he immediately sent the intelligence to the head of state's office:

As in the pre-interstellar era, the more precise the detector, the closer the scanning distance.

Hipper's First Perseus Exploration Fleet, engineering ships and exploration ships are equipped with extremely precise quantum detection matrices.

But this thing's scanning range is very close, and it is used to scan the mineral composition and distribution range of the planet's subsurface through the atmosphere while sailing in low-Earth orbit.

Mineral radar?

This kind of thing is notoriously short-handed in interstellar space...

——How far is it from low-Earth orbit to the planet’s surface?

It’s tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

This distance in interstellar space would be considered pure visual range.

As for the anti-ship quantum detectors carried on the fleet, these are still very early models.

After all, when they set sail, the Empire had just captured the Lunar Corridor.

As the result of the first batch of shipbuilding plans, the ships led by Hipper did not have a series of subsequent advanced technologies at all.

Scanning the farthest detector, you can only see the number, direction, and speed.

However, their specific parameters and the composition of the hull components could not be scanned.

therefore.

At first, I saw two such large fleets approaching in a mighty manner.

Only then did she hurriedly raise the alarm.

As a result, when I took a closer look... I immediately made a joke:

I didn’t expect these people to be so nonsensical!

The quantity is indeed large.

But this scene in front of me...

Taken together, there are almost more than 600 ships of various types on both sides;

Using the simple and crude method of 'old artillery', 'chemical propellant', and 'shieldless pure armor';

At an average distance of less than a hundred kilometers, which can be called a 'close combat' by the standards of the interstellar era;

It was spread out into a pile of scattered sand, and everyone was fighting in an extremely chaotic manner.

...To be honest, it looks like some old Hong Kong movies, where a dozen gangs of young and Dangerous guys crowded into a crossroads and started fighting randomly.

It stands out like a chicken and a dog, without any structure.

It seems low at first glance.

But when you think about these guys, almost everyone is equipped with a hyperspace engine with extremely high performance that far exceeds their average technological level.

This has to make people feel confused.

The reason why Su Wen felt that there was a strong sense of violation was for this reason:

An all-round ship outfit that is almost at the pre-interstellar level,

By imperial standards, it can hold up to t1, but can barely reach t1.5;

However, there is an advanced hyperspace engine with high performance that is "enough to engage in fierce battles in hyperspace".

To know.

In the ten minutes after Hipper broadcast the scene.

Su Wen saw with his own eyes that the total number of ships that were severely damaged or even sunk was no less than thirty.

However, these big broken battleships did not fall out of hyperspace.

Even the remains of many sunken ships were floating on the battlefield.

So much so that it caused some minor troubles for the other surviving battleships on both sides...

It can be seen that their hyperspace engine is still quite stable even when the hull is severely damaged.

This level of technology is definitely not low.

It’s hard to say how high it is specifically, since I haven’t seen the real thing.

But judging from the current observation results.

At least there should be levels t4 and t5.

So...

"How do two things with such huge differences coexist on the same ship?"

Su Wen couldn't help pinching his eyebrows and fell into deep thought.

Very puzzling!