Chapter 252: Destroying Oneself

"Has the war begun?"

In the past 500 years, Finelli has asked this question every time he wakes up from his slumber.

The minds of Finelli and the other officials and scholars were tense, afraid that the Star City might suddenly invade one day, as the Star City is still quite strong, and they would have to use all their strength to repel an attack.

But...

"There's no movement from the Star City."

After 500 years of the same response, Finelli didn't know what to say.

"What about the messages we sent? Are there any replies?"

Over the years, Finelli has been trying to establish contact with the Star City, naturally to determine the current state of the Star City, but all attempts were rejected.

This time was no different.

He couldn't understand the situation with the Star City.

If it's under control, why isn't it launching an attack?

If it's not under control, why isn't there a reply?

"It's true that the Star City has entered a state of war readiness, and the entire Star City has even been divided into hundreds of giant battleships, unprecedented."

Previously, the Federation thought that the Star City couldn't be disassembled into battleships, and this was indeed the case.

After disassembling into battleships, the main body of the Star City is still retained, and the disassembled parts account for less than 0.4% of the total volume of the Star City. Even so, these battleships are far larger than ordinary planetary-class battleships.

According to the Federation's classification of giant ships, these battleships should be classified as stellar-class.

The classification of giant ships is based on size: dwarf planet, planet, giant planet, supergiant planet, star... These ships are classified as stellar-class based on their size.

The standard for giant planets is Neptune's diameter, the standard for supergiant planets is Jupiter's diameter, and the standard for stellar-class is Proxima Centauri's diameter, which is 50,000 kilometers, 130,000 kilometers, and 200,000 kilometers, respectively.

The Silk Civilization's battleships exceeded 2 million kilometers, even surpassing the standard of ordinary stellar-class giant ships, leading the Federation to consider whether to further subdivide the stellar-class giant ships. However, the size range of stars is too large; for example, a red dwarf is 200,000 kilometers, while a blue dwarf can reach over 5 million kilometers.

This is not even considering subdwarfs, let alone supergiants, which can easily reach hundreds of thousands of kilometers or even hundreds of millions of kilometers, with diameters measured in astronomical units.

Therefore, there is no such standard yet, and giant ships larger than 200,000 kilometers are uniformly referred to as stellar-class giant ships.

"Yes, these giant ships may be targeting us, but whether they are also targeting other Star Cities of the Olive Branch Civilization is unknown."

Previously, when facing the Olive Branch Civilization, Chu also chose not to respond, which is the main reason for their current dilemma.

As they were discussing, a voice interrupted them.

"No need to guess anymore!"

A holographic screen appeared in front of them, showing a fleet of more than 200,000 battleships. These battleships belonged to the Olive Branch Civilization and had a very distinctive feature—modularity.

In a nicer term, it's a long coffin, or a coffin in a less flattering term.

"These battleships have just passed by the Star City."

It was clear that these battleships were heading towards them.

The Star City was probably already under the control of the Olive Branch Civilization.

"Alas, prepare for battle!"

Finelli sighed, never expecting that his efforts to save the Star City would ultimately be in vain.

At this moment, the probes detected another fleet of the Olive Branch Civilization approaching from another direction, with a similar number of over 200,000.

Although it seemed insignificant compared to the millions of battleships on the Silk Civilization battlefield, these battleships could easily sweep through the Silk Civilization.

"The Olive Branch Civilization seems to attach great importance to the Federation, and they are here to eliminate the Federation."

Finelli and his companions were unaware of Chu's plan. The Civilized Federation had become as massive as the Olive Branch Civilization, so the Olive Branch Civilization took this action very seriously and sent a large-scale force.

These battleships were not a small group even within the Olive Branch Civilization.

Three years later, the Federation was ready. This time, they had seven giant ships transferred through super-offset material, which they might not have been able to provide if the threat from the Silk Civilization had not temporarily subsided.

However, after everything was prepared, the federal officials and scholars were surprised to find that the two fleets of the Olive Branch Civilization were fighting each other?

...

Indeed.

The two fleets were fighting fiercely, and in the first year of engagement, each had lost more than 5,000 battleships.

This was magical.

But it was also inevitable.

All of this was due to the information from 8672804.

The Shared Consciousness Cluster revealed to it that the Federation had obtained the core technology of the Olive Branch Civilization, and the Federation's battleships looked no different from those of the Olive Branch Civilization.

Then, the Shared Consciousness Cluster deliberately blocked information about the other fleet from 8672804.

This led 8672804 to believe that there was only one fleet of support from other Star Cities, and the other fleet was the enemy.

So, it sent a message to the first fleet that arrived, directing them to shift their focus to the other fleet.

Since the two fleets came from different Star Cities, they belonged to different Glory of Gais and were independent as they had not fully merged.

This led to the outbreak of war.

One fleet considered the other fleet as the enemy, and the other fleet was suddenly attacked and also considered the first fleet as the enemy, leading to a back-and-forth battle.

The two fleets were evenly matched, with one fleet losing 5,198 battleships and the other losing 5,221.

"Hmph, the enemy has indeed stolen our core technology, and their strength is as strong as ours."

8672804 was furious.

He had initially become the manager of the new fleet, and later, he planned to merge the shared consciousness cluster of the new fleet with that of the Star City, allowing both fleets to share information.

But this move completely prevented the end of this civil war.

The difference in scale between the shared consciousness cluster of the fleet and that of the Star City was not small; the fleet's consciousness clusters were almost instantly overwhelmed by the Star City's shared consciousness.

The first step of Chu's plan was thus successful.

If Chu still had a sense of self, he would probably use a strategy to absorb the second fleet. Unfortunately, he is now just a drop in the ocean, and the Star City's shared consciousness is acting this way solely because of the false concepts he implanted earlier.

In fact, it's not that the Star City's shared consciousness cluster deceived 8672804; everything the Star City's shared consciousness cluster said was what they currently believed.

This is the core of the matter, and precisely because of this, even if 8672804 investigates, he probably won't find anything unusual.

Thus, under the watchful eyes of Finelli and the federal officials and scholars, the two fleets of the Olive Branch Civilization began to fight each other, and they even named this war.

"Destroying Oneself!"

This was very bizarre.

Even if the uncontaminated parts of the Star City, not influenced by the Glory of Gais, were brought into the equation, it couldn't explain the situation of two supporting fleets engaging in civil war.

The true reason for this civil war was only revealed by Chu much later, and Finelli and the other officials and scholars never learned the truth.