What Are You Doing Here?
The three fleets comprised approximately two thousand warships in total, along with two thousand four hundred other types of spaceships. Judging from the direction from which the other two fleets came, they should also be from the Nair Civilization.
Although they came from the same direction of the starry sky, there was a large gap between them when they entered the White Giant Star. After completing the initial deceleration, the three fleets would inevitably adjust their attitude and head towards the Great White Star where humanity is located. This is beyond doubt.
So, the tension that had just eased for humans has tightened up again.
Based on previous understanding, the Nair Civilization's warships are indeed inferior to those of humans. Although they also possess Alloy No. 1 technology, considering the travel time, the Nair People cannot build many new warships.
Therefore, although the three fleets now appear to have a total of two thousand warships, which is not much different from the two human fleets combined, they are still far inferior to humans who possess Alloy No. 2.
However, given their aggressive approach, the New Government had to be on high alert to avoid being caught off guard.
Now, all we can do is wait.
Waiting for a reply from the Nair Civilization.
Inside the Lyra, Yue Yuan checked the time. More than eight hours had passed since the message was sent by humans to the Nair Civilization. If nothing unexpected happened, they should be able to receive the signal in another five hours.
If you haven't received a reply by then, you can't wait any longer; you must take the initiative to seize control.
Refusing to communicate will be seen as hostile.
Humans dare not gamble with their own destiny.
The New Government officials and the commanders of the warships all understood this, and Yue Yuan, as the leader, was even more aware of it. Therefore, after learning about the general situation of the other two fleets, he sent another message to the Second Fleet led by Man Yuemei.
If things take a turn for the worse, the Second Fleet must immediately launch a surprise attack on the Nair Civilization fleet that came from the direction of the Pot Lid Vastness Star, and try to defeat it as soon as possible.
The First Fleet, led by the Lyra, was tasked with guarding the Residential Spaceship Cluster in orbit around Great White Star and establishing a defensive line there to ensure that Great White Star remained under human control.
As long as the Great White Star remains intact, the foreign fleet will be unable to obtain supplies.
In this way, humanity can Invincible Position. As the saying goes, first make yourself invincible, Awaiting the Enemy's Defeat. Invincibility lies with us, and vulnerability lies with the enemy.
At that point, the initiative will be entirely in their hands. Humanity can choose to attack or continue defending, and the remaining two fleets of the Nair Civilization will undoubtedly be defeated.
Of course, the arrangements were just in case. Humanity did not intend to wage war against the Nair Civilization directly. After all, their previous relationship had been relatively harmonious. However, most humans also felt that encountering a civilization like the Nair Civilization was truly rare.
Due to the limitations of information transmission speed, the Nair People could not see the changes in the tail flames of the human fleet within seven hours. Although the human spacecraft, transport ships, and Work Platform that were already operating in the orbit of the Great White Star also spewed flames as they flew around, their tiny tail flames were easily obscured by the light of the Great White Giant Star, unless the Great Fleet moved together, due to the environmental conditions of the White Giant Star.
At this time, the Second Fleet should have been spotted, but if the Nair People responded immediately after receiving the message, they would have seen the Second Fleet's actions only after replying.
This is how fleet encounters occur in interstellar space. Information delays are common, which is very different from the Earth Era. Therefore, civilizations will speculate and unravel the hidden information based on information delays, various communication contents, and the actual situation on the ground.
Time passed slowly, and five hours later, a message arrived as expected.
As expected, it was indeed the Nair Civilization. The translation system matched the information immediately and then converted it into a language that humans could see and understand.
[Huh? Human Civilization? What are you still doing here? What should we do? There's no time to explain. You all need to get out of here immediately, the sooner the better. We'll resupply here briefly and then leave too. This star system is no longer safe. Don't ask too many questions; just listen to us, you can't go wrong. The pursuers are already on their way, and we don't have much time to waste.]
The message was brief and vague, leaving the New Government personnel on board the Lyra completely bewildered.
What do you mean this star system is no longer safe? What do you mean the pursuers are on their way? What is all this nonsense?
Upon seeing this information, humans immediately felt something was amiss. How could the once-prosperous Nair Civilization, which had only existed for less than two hundred years, seem to have encountered some kind of trouble?
The worst part is that the Nair People don't even say what the reason is.
"With things like this, who would listen to us?" Just as most people were feeling frustrated, a Staff Department officer spoke up, "Commander Yue, if it's not a translation issue, the Nair People seem a bit surprised, and they do know we've been here."
Another Staff Department member chimed in. "That's right. I think that's why they only slowed down at such close range. So I'm inclined to believe they weren't lying and that something really happened. Otherwise, their fleet wouldn't have so many other types of ships besides warships."
"Yes, Commander Yue, look at this picture." The Science Officer of the Lyra uploaded the image taken by the probe to the large screen and used technical means to fill in the frame rate. Then, he pointed to the darker part of the picture with the cursor and said, "Here, here, here, judging from the outline, most of these spaceships are cylindrical in shape, so they should all be Residential Spaceship. The fact that there are so many Residential Spaceship mixed in with the fleet means they are not here to cause trouble."
Cylindrical spaceships are a common design for inhabitants of Low-level Civilization Residential Spaceship because this shape can generate simulated gravity through centrifugal force from rotation, allowing the inhabitants of this civilization to live in Gravity Environment similar to their home planet.
Unless the life forms of that civilization have an extremely high ability to adapt to weightlessness, Residential Spaceship will all look like this.
Humans didn't know much about the individual life forms of the Nair Civilization before, but they learned about them after obtaining a ship Nair People under the guise of a 'Research Team'.
Therefore, those cylindrical spaceships were definitely Residential Spaceship.
Could something have really happened to the Nair People, causing them to set foot in space on such a large scale? Was it an internal rebellion or something else? Yue Yuan pondered for a moment, then silenced the crowd's discussion before speaking to the current Science Officer of the Lyra: "That makes sense, but we can't just do what they say without knowing the reason. Let's send them a reply first, find out why they came here, what the so-called pursuers are, and what exactly happened to their Nair Civilization."
At the same time, we will issue them a warning and draw a boundary Warning Line for them, let's say 10 Astronomical Unit. If they do not explain their reasons and approach within 10 Astronomical Unit of Great White Star, we will consider them an intruder.