Chapter 180: Captain Luliang

The Tianlian is a dwarf planet-class warship, with a total length of over 900 kilometres, slightly larger than the Kunlun.

Since 34547 CE, the Civil Federation has officially entered the era of warship dominance, with over 10 warships in total.

Over 2,000 years have passed since then, and the Civil Federation has mass-produced warships, increasing their number to 22. The Tianlian is one of the younger ones, having only been in service for 800 years.

As a new-generation warship, the Tianlian's speed has been increased to 30,278 km/s. After receiving orders from the front-line star system, it is currently located in a star system approximately 7 light-years outside the federal border.

The original plan was to launch an attack on the Silk Civilization's fleet from this location, but they did not anticipate the Silk Civilization's extremely advanced reconnaissance technology, which discovered them several months earlier than expected.

The Tianlian had no time to react before it was attacked by the enemy.

Fortunately, the attack was only a probe, and the Tianlian had always been deploying a large-scale shield to prevent such incidents.

A white light extended from the front of the Tianlian to the rear, making the entire ship look like an eggshell. Captain Luliang, sitting inside, saw a white screen.

The captain is the highest-ranking officer on a warship, distinct from a regular warship's captain.

"Continue advancing, no need to counterattack the enemy at this distance."

"We will advance into the star system, which is our main battlefield."

"The position of this star system is the most suitable, right on the enemy's advance route. They cannot ignore this location and will definitely want to remove this point."

However, occupying this position means that all of the Silk Civilization's fleets attacking the Civil Federation will face the threat of being attacked from both front and rear. With the help of the star's energy, this location can be considered a fortress with a billion-year energy supply.

This place is extremely unpleasant for the Silk Civilization.

At the same time, the Silk Civilization cannot directly destroy this star system because it is meaningless. The star in this star system is a red dwarf, and the explosion will produce very little power, posing no substantial threat to the warship.

Even if there is, the warship can also escape the threat by relying on its speed.

Therefore, the tactic is that the Silk Civilization will definitely advance into the star system to engage in battle with the Tianlian fleet led by the Tianlian.

About four hours later, the Tianlian entered the stellar wind layer of the star system.

Twelve days later, the Tianlian arrived at its designated station. Numerous ships flew out from the Tianlian and landed on various asteroids. These ships are called engineering ships, and their interiors contain only energy devices and thrusters, as well as a factory.

These engineering ship factories can mass-produce and repair weapons while collecting all usable resources.

Luliang has been observing the enemy's movements and found that, as expected, the Silk Civilization's fleet is heading in this direction.

Currently, the distance between the Silk Civilization's fleet and them is 21,000 astronomical units. According to the speed of the Silk Civilization's warships at 42,000 km/s, it will take approximately 28 months for them to advance into the star system.

This is the time they have to prepare and must use to stockpile a large number of troops.

"Deploy the Zerg nests, at least 1 million nests must be constructed. We need a continuous supply of Zerg as harassment units."

"The enemy's weapon systems are very advanced, with improvements since the last battle. Most of them are area-of-effect attacks. While the Zerg are effective, their impact is not as significant as before."

"Therefore, we must still confront them on the front battlefield."

"This war will affect the lives of over 100 billion citizens in more than 20 star systems on the federal edge."

Luliang bears a heavy burden. Others believe he is a long-serving captain in the military system, but only he knows that he is just a small reincarnator.

He travels through space, moving between the virtual and the real, carrying out assigned tasks.

This is his 20,893rd task. In that space, he is known as the strongest reincarnator, but even he cannot help but feel nervous at this moment. He is certain that this is the real world, and the civilization he faces is as powerful as the Civil Federation.

The real war unfolds here, and everything is in his hands.

"The task provides some information and memories of the military's cultivation, but it is not enough."

"The largest battle I have participated in was the Falling Star, which was a simulated battle in a virtual world, reaching a scale of 100 million. However, compared to this real battle, it is as simple as a children's puzzle game."

"The time limit for this task is 1,000 years, which is ridiculous. From the time of my birth to my wandering in various worlds, the total time is not even that long."

He can feel his body trembling.

This trembling is both fear and excitement.

The fate of the Civil Federation is in my hands!

At this moment, the Tianlian's main computer receives a message.

[The Civil Federation's highest military command requests a call via tachyon communication equipment.]

Tachyon communication equipment has finally made progress over the past 10,000 years. To be precise, after 30,000 years of continuous research and exploration, it has finally achieved a breakthrough, enabling faster and more information transmission.

At this point, it is already capable of transmitting complex information, allowing direct communication, and increasing the overall speed to 2,600 times the speed of light. Even with a 7-light-year distance, the delay is only one day.

The realisation of this technology primarily relies on the Civil Federation's exploration of dimensions. By influencing other dimensions through strings, it can affect more tachyons and use the vibration frequency of the closed strings to transmit information.

To be precise, in this dimensional space, some closed strings are compiled, which then penetrate the cosmic membrane to reach a higher dimension. In the higher dimension, they attach to tachyons, and these closed strings are given a specific frequency and energy. This energy can generate a weak gravitational pull on tachyons, but this frequency will decay over time. Once the frequency decays, the closed strings will detach from the tachyons and escape from the higher dimension, returning to this dimension.

According to theory, the speed of tachyons is constant. Why can the speed of tachyon communication be increased?

Because this transmission mode is more accurate, and the original tachyon transmission mode requires a very long signal transmission cycle due to its inaccuracy. For example, to transmit a single digit, it is not transmitted once and received by the other side. Instead, it is continuously transmitted thousands or tens of thousands of times in one direction, and the other side will continuously receive several dozen times before the information's accuracy can be confirmed. Therefore, the speed of tachyon communication was initially only 1,900 times the speed of light.

When Luliang saw this message, he was startled.

The Civil Federation's highest military command—what kind of position is this?

It should be at least first-class, and for him, it is so high that it seems boundless. Such a high-level federal official is contacting him...

He took a full minute to prepare himself mentally before agreeing to the communication.

A very young voice came from the other side: "Captain Luliang, this should be our first call."

"For the upcoming battle, we can use this method to communicate and exchange information. We hope you will be completely open with us so that we can achieve victory in the war."

"Nice to meet you. My name is Yan Xia!"