Chapter 147: The Silk Civilization's Attack

Aquarius I, Mozi Academy.

Yan Xia thought of Chu, a person he had only met a few times, but who had put immense pressure on him.

According to the news from the interstellar Silk Road's quantum communication devices, Chu had launched a counterattack, and the ideology he was advocating was none other than Marxism, a system very familiar to Yan Xia.

This was an extremely advanced social program, and even now, Yan Xia considered it the most successful social model in human history.

However, the Civilized Federation was not currently implementing it because the Federation practiced multi-ethnic integration and was not a single-race civilization.

The concepts of race and ethnicity are vastly different. While ethnicities can merge and become indistinguishable, how can races do the same?

Differences in physique, reproductive isolation, ideology, and intelligence create barriers. These barriers make socialism unfeasible within the Civilized Federation.

However, this model is most suitable for civilizations like the Olive Branch Civilization, which consists of a single species.

This was an irresistible temptation for Chu.

When a backward social model observes an advanced one, how can it not learn, emulate, and accept it?

Unless, of course, it's foolish.

This doesn't mean that this model is useful for the Star City, but it is being offered now because of the current chaos in the Star City, Chu's desperate situation, and the perfect fit when these reasons are combined.

Is Yan Xia raising a tiger?

No, the Star City itself is a giant tiger. How can there be a case of raising a tiger?

Only by lulling this tiger to sleep do they have a chance to survive.

"I heard you were attacked?" Yan Xia said to the air beside him.

Ella appeared promptly.

"Yes."

"The Silk Civilization sent battleships, and they're much faster than we anticipated."

"Their citizens call their ships ghosts because of their speed, exceeding 40,000 km/s."

The Silk Civilization and the Civilized Federation have finally made contact, proving that the Silk Civilization had dispatched battleships tens of thousands of years ago.

As 2.2-level civilizations, and possibly approaching 2.3-level, both the Silk Civilization and the Civilized Federation possess unique technologies, vastly different from each other and the Olive Branch Civilization.

Ella showed Yan Xia a picture with a blurry afterimage.

It was an afterimage that had completely merged with the starry sky, making it impossible to discern its surface. However, its size could be estimated—it was about a ten-thousand-meter-class battleship, not large, but its speed was sufficient.

Their attack methods were also formidable.

"The energy level has reached 28, indicating they possess advanced energy storage technology beyond our imagination."

Ella had defined the energy levels: 1 x 10^1 joules is level 1, 1 x 10^2 joules is level 2, and so on. Level 28 is 28^2, which requires a level 2 civilization to produce at full capacity for 100 seconds.

This energy was stored in a ten-thousand-meter-class battleship, and it was evident that this was not its full capacity.

"The estimated energy storage is between 29 and 29.3 levels."

The decimal part of the number represents the multiple, which is three 29-level, not 1.3 29-level.

"How many battleships have been detected?" Yan Xia asked.

"Nine. This is definitely not all of them. These nine have launched attacks, and we can't detect the rest. Their stealth capabilities are also excellent."

When one civilization uses its technology to explore another civilization of the same level, two situations may arise.

One is to find the other directly. Even if the other's technology is more advanced, you can still trace it.

The other situation is the current one, where you have no idea what technology the other party is using, leaving you completely in the dark.

"Have we tracked these battleships?"

After locking onto these battleships, it's unlikely they can escape our sight.

"The nine battleships are flying in different directions, trying to disrupt our detection system."

"I suspect that the hidden battleships have already entered our star domain and are preparing to attack a star system."

"They don't know we have quantum communication devices, so they're confident. It will take years, even decades, for us to discover such an attack."

"This is our information advantage. I've already issued a warning for the main star systems to prepare for the enemy."

There are currently 23 quantum communication devices in the Civilized Federation. One is on the interstellar Silk Road, and the remaining 22 are installed in 22 star systems, including this one on Aquarius I and 21 others on the star domain side of Mizar Five.

If the Silk Civilization's fleet attacks any of the 21 star systems, they will face a strong counterattack.

However, neither Yan Xia nor Ella was complacent. They carefully analyzed their strategy.

"They mainly appear in this star domain, with a length of about 18 light-years. We can expand it to 25 light-years and put everything here under surveillance."

"Quantum anchor points are very useful for reconnaissance, but we haven't widely distributed them throughout the star domain. We've only placed them around the star systems."

"The other party cannot possibly have information about quantum anchor points, which is an advantage for us."

"Currently, our general strategy is to defend passively, wait for the enemy to show up, and also send battleships to gradually compress the enemy's space, keeping them within our control."

As they were talking, Ella received a message.

"Plans often change. The Silk Civilization has launched a long-range stellar-class weapon, and we didn't set up a fake starry sky in their direction. The enemy has destroyed one of our main stars."

Yan Xia had witnessed the stellar-class weapons of the Silk Civilization, which directly annihilated hundreds of billions of individuals from the Olive Branch Civilization.

However, if the enemy only hit the star, the impact on the Civilized Federation would not be significant. Life within the star system would have time to escape, and although the final escape number might not be ideal, at least most of them could survive.

This is because their weapons are laser weapons, not the gravitational weapons of the Olive Branch Civilization, which is a fundamental difference.

Gravitational weapons can instantly cause gravitational collapse, and for stars with large masses, they can even cause them to collapse into black holes within 0.1 seconds. Laser weapons, on the other hand, only disrupt the stability of stars, similar to gamma-ray bursts.

Of course, there is still a difference between these laser weapons used by civilizations and actual gamma-ray bursts. Their energy can be more concentrated, retaining 80% to 90% of their energy over extremely long distances, rather than scattering and dissipating during the journey.

But the truly terrifying part is not this.

"Bring up the star domain map." Yan Xia and Ella looked at the map together, and the destroyed star was within the area they had delineated.

"It seems their main force is here. Full star domain alert. Dispatch a portion of the fleet to this area, and prepare the surrounding star systems for defense to prevent the enemy from luring us away."

This was a long-distance remote control, and even with quantum communication, there was still a time lag.

However, Ella had already made preparations.

"There's a Machine God over there that can handle unified coordination. Its computing power is not much different from mine, equivalent to what I was 5,000 years ago."

Yan Xia had delegated authority 20,000 years ago, and Ella had also gradually begun to do the same. Unless they can master true superluminal speed, as the Civilized Federation's star domain expands, Ella may make judgment errors due to distance.

This is a necessary process.

The arrival of the Silk Civilization also marks the beginning of the war between the Civilized Federation and the Silk Civilization.