LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 807 - 480: Problems Arise One After Another_2
Chapter 807: Chapter 480: Problems Arise One After Another_2
At this time, the flight speed of human ships relative to the original three-dimensional space was 20 times the speed of light.
Currently, the theoretical upper limit value of the second layer of curvature space is calculated by humans to be 500 times the speed of light, which is mastered by the Compound Eye Prism Ship.
Perhaps there are deeper levels, where flight speed will continue to multiply.
But warp space is completely different from both the original three-dimensional space and curvature space.
To give an example in a two-dimensional world, two points are marked on a piece of paper.
In the plane of the paper, the distance between points A and B is the line segment AB.
The time it takes for a spaceship to travel from point A to point B remains constant.
But now humans can fold the paper, making points A and B direcly coincide.
Then the distance between points A and B becomes infinitely close to 0, or even exactly 0.
The essence of warp space is the “nonexistent” another space between points A and B, where the absolute length is actually 0.
Just as a three-dimensional paper is compared to a two-dimensional paper, warp space has one more dimension compared to the other two spaces.
In theory, this dimension represents “time”.
In fact, before humans came into contact with the core of the Egyptian tribe, they had already encountered the concept of warp space.
It was the Quantum Warp Stargate, but Freddy believed that the “warp space” within the Stargate was not real, but rather that humans happened to touch the deeper layer of curvature space.
The two can almost create the effect of instantaneous traversal through extremely long distances, and the difference in speed seems insignificant, but the multiple should be 1 divided by a number infinitely close to 0.
Although Freddy’s summary of things seems simple, and the ancients had thought about it early on, it was still the first time for humans to see and use it so profoundly and personally.
Harrison Clark knew he was very tired, but he couldn’t persuade him otherwise.
After Nora Camp took over, she decisively adjusted the battle strategy and implemented an offensive strategy instead of a defensive one.
The human fleet showcased an aggressive attack, frequently launching proactive strikes to clear the battlefield, killing as many of the other combat units that emerged from the Prism Ships as possible, and nearly trapping some individual Prism Ships several times, completing a large number of tests in a very short time.
Nora Camp turned the huge asteroid belt battle line into a giant chessboard, where every move made was crucial for the entire operation.
On the tactical level, Nora Camp pushed the use of Star’s artificial intelligence assist to the extreme.
Strategically, the way humans deployed their forces became more elusive and unpredictable, no longer prioritizing the preservation of combat power as the highest objective, but instead showing a ready-to-win attitude, as if capturing just one enemy ship would be enough to guarantee victory.
Humans exhibited a stronger desire to capture a Prism Ship.
This, on the contrary, made the Compound-Eyed Observer more cautious and reluctant to try to break through the asteroid belt defense line, moving its formation back by two hundred million kilometers and spreading it out even more, simply to maintain the minimum blockade of the Shadow Galaxy.
As time went on, more and more scattered Prism Ships arrived at the battlefield, and the number of ships in the Compound-Eyed Observer’s fleet began to steadily rise, eventually exceeding 40,000.
The military strength increased by more than 30%, but the Compound-Eyed Observer did not intensify its offensive. Instead, these Prismatic Ships began to form a grid at fixed distances in space.
This was the grid connection that Harrison Clark had dealt with before.
Due to the loose distribution of Prism Ships, the internal plasma density of the grid connection was low, and most of the military ships in the Shadow Galaxy could easily pass through, but its purpose was enough to stop the Carrier Fleet from entering the Shadow Galaxy and prevent the people inside from receiving supplies.
The Compound-Eyed Observer also specifically allocated a 3,000-ship mobile squadron of Prism Ships to lurk within the gravitational curve subspace near the Shadow Galaxy, preventing anyone from escaping the Shadow Galaxy.
This once again reduced the firepower of the Compound-Eyed Observer’s assault on the human defense line.
Obviously, the Compound-Eyed Observer changed its battle strategy.Before the fleet size exceeded a certain number, the Compound-Eyed Observers would rather engage in a tacit “tug of war” with humans near the Shadow Galaxy than launch a full-scale attack.
According to the headquarters’ and Harrison Clark’s prediction, the lower limit of this number should be 100,000 ships.
It would take another year and more than seven months to achieve this.
In any case, under Nora Camp’s seemingly risky new strategy, humans managed to achieve a lower casualty rate and solidly hold their position in the asteroid belt.
As the saying goes, soldiers can never be too cunning.
Unbeknownst to them, 176 days had passed since Harrison Clark and Freddy began their warp journey.
The Shadow Defense Battle had been going on for 39 days.
Harrison Clark still needs 36 more warp jumps and one more day to reach the black hole.
According to the predetermined plan, the 35th warp jump of Morrowind No. 2 would free it from the gravitational pull of the black hole, accurately placing it in the Oort Cloud of the Shadow Galaxy, behind theCompound Eye Prism Ship Array.
It’s time to face a new problem.
How to smoothly receive Harrison Clark in the inner part of the Shadow Galaxy and let him join the main force.
Although Harrison Clark has unparalleled control over the battle armor and also possesses a warp armor, it cannot be denied that Morrowind No. 2 is essentially just a pile of outdated garbage pieced together.
Even though the core components of Morrowind No.2 are extremely advanced, not inferior to the main warships in the Shadow Galaxy, it is because of Freddy’s excellent design, but the strength of the ship’s main framework is probably inferior to those fragile carrier ships.
Moreover, Harrison Clark’s warp armor, aside from the warp engine, has only mediocre performance in other components, with the Coronal Hand Cannon being the only top-tier military equipment.
When Harrison Clark broke through the Spherical Warship single-handedly, the impact it had on the citizens of the Morrowind Empire was primarily due to the bizarre contrast between the equipment quality and the terrifying combat power.
Harrison Clark’s emergence was like that of an ancient general suddenly appearing on a 21st-century battlefield, wielding a halberd and clad in golden armor, taking down an armored vehicle while his comrades-in-arms looked on in awe.
But now, there were tens of thousands of modified Type 99 tanks blocking the path of this ancient general.
If he stubbornly pushes on, it will be giving the enemy an easy win.
In order to ensure successful rendezvous, Harrison Clark, Freddy, the headquarters, and numerous scientific researchers devised thousands of meticulous plans, trying to find a foolproof solution.
Regrettably, there wasn’t one.
The only seemingly feasible way was for Morrowind No. 2 to pass through the battle lines directly without leaving Curvature Space and appear within the galaxy.
But this was very difficult.
It was already hard enough to safely break away from the black hole’s gravitational pull and come to a stop at the predetermined location, rather than plunging headfirst into the black hole.
Compound-Eyed Observers had already tied countless Space Freezing threads outside the galaxy, greatly affecting Curvature Subspace and causing turbulence everywhere that could easily tear ships apart.
Moreover, Prism Ships and Blade Mantises patrolled subspace constantly, and it was not absolutely safe.
Furthermore, Morrowind No. 2 was not capable of curving in and out of orbit. Should it engage in Supercurved Motion and plunge directly into the galaxy, the possibility of crashing into a star is greater than stopping safely.
“The safest way is still to forcibly break through the Prism Ship blockade, open a safe passage in the original three-dimensional space, and then have our special forces escort the Morrowind No. 2 that had stopped outside.”
Nora Camp said this.
The question was, how to open this passage?
According to Star’s simulation calculations, to create an absolutely safe path for Morrowind No. 2, at least 8,000 Prism Ships needed to be simultaneously subjected to absolute firepower suppression, which was simply impossible to achieve.