The So-Called Pursuers
As requested by Yue Yuan, the communications officer translated his words into written form and sent it to the Nair Civilization fleet.
At the same time, the sensor door of the Lyra Command Center opened, and a woman in uniform floated in. It was Yue Yuan's assistant Long Xiaolin. After landing next to Yue Yuan, she said, "Commander Yue, scientists from all fields have returned to the Research Ship in the fleet cluster. Non-combat personnel who are not permanently stationed on the Lyra have returned to their respective office ships. All personnel on Great White Star have also been evacuated to the Space Station. The Residential Spaceship Cluster is ready to perform large-scale evasive maneuvers at any time."
"Okay, what about Zhu Pete?" Yue Yuan nodded and asked.
Long Xiaolin replied directly, "Minister Zhu has already started working on the Residential Spaceship Cluster in accordance with the yellow alert system, and everything is going smoothly so far."
"Okay." Yue Yuan responded, then raised his hand to indicate that Long Xiaolin could go to her seat.
However, Long Xiaolin didn't turn around immediately. Instead, she hesitated for a moment, then said somewhat haltingly, "Commander Yue, there's something about business on the Hope 21 Residential Spaceship that might require your attention."
"We'll talk about this later." Yue Yuan looked at Long Xiaolin, somewhat puzzled as to why she would bring up such a matter at such an inappropriate time. He felt that business matters should be handled by the relevant departments.
Furthermore, the purpose of the Nair Civilization fleet's arrival here is currently unclear, so military matters should be the top priority, and other matters can be postponed unless absolutely necessary.
"Yes!" After looking around at everyone in the Command Center, Long Xiaolin realized that the situation seemed quite serious, so she responded and floated to her seat to listen quietly.
Because the Lyra was about to maneuver with the First Fleet, everyone had already secured themselves firmly to their seats.
After the human body was enhanced and modified, humans no longer needed Acceleration Buffer Fluid and could withstand the extremely high G-forces caused by the acceleration and deceleration of the warship. Therefore, while the Lyra was maneuvering, the people in the Command Center were also discussing the Nair Civilization fleet.
At the same time, staff at various posts were also reporting various warship operating parameters and the actual movements of the Nair Civilization fleet through the internal channel.
At this moment, the Lyra and its First Fleet began to adjust their attitude and accelerate toward the approaching direction of the other two fleets of the Nair Civilization.
The First Fleet's 1,200 Lake-Class Warship were divided into four squadrons according to tactical arrangements. The main fleet, to which the Lyra belonged, was in the center, while the other three squadrons were positioned slightly ahead and around the main fleet. Each squadron formed a triangle in space, and thus slowly broke away from the Gravity pull of Great White Star, heading towards their target location eight Astronomical Unit away.
The path that humanity has drawn for the Nair Civilization is ten Astronomical Unit away from the Great White Star. Now the fleet is moving forward eight Astronomical Unit, leaving two Astronomical Unit as a buffer.
One Astronomical Unit) is 149.6 million kilometers, which is the average distance from the Sun to the Earth. At this distance, even the fastest light would take about eight minutes to travel.
If the Nair Civilization's fleet really recklessly charges in, the distance of two Astronomical Unit is enough for the human fleet to make various responses.
All of humanity's actions are preparations for possible conflict. As the saying goes, "If you are prepared, you will succeed; if you are not prepared, you will fail." Even though we know that the Nair Civilization is likely to get into trouble, we cannot just let them approach our Residential Spaceship Cluster.
With such a large fleet accelerating, its whereabouts will definitely become impossible to conceal. Not only the Second Fleet, but the First Fleet will also be clearly detected by the Nair Civilization.
Sure enough, this was revealed in the reply from the Nair Civilization several hours later. However, the content of the reply was both surprising and as expected.
[Oh my God, my great Human Civilization, it's incredible that your power has nearly doubled in such a short time. But even you cannot deal with the approaching pursuers.]
The reply begins with this sentence, and the following part answers the questions posed by humans.
[Leaders of Human Civilization, I am the Grand Governor of the First Star Region. I know that you are not some kind of Cosmic Exploration Fleet, but a civilization. I don't know what kind of past you have that has led you to become the Wandering Civilization you are today, and I don't want to know.]
It's not that we're not curious, but we're experiencing your unknown past right now. Yes, we believe your probes have already seen it; our Nair Civilization brought not only warships, but also many Residential Spaceship.
Actually, we have more than just these three fleets here. There are six more fleets that will enter a deceleration state a day later. But don't worry, only the rearguard fleet is a warship fleet; the rest are Residential Spaceship clusters.
As you can see, we are on an interstellar escape, and this White Giant Star is the closest to our Nair Civilization's first and Second Star Region Star System. Therefore, we have chosen this place to resupply and then set sail again.
As for the pursuers you asked about, it seems you won't let us resupply here if I don't tell you now. Well, the so-called pursuers are a large fleet consisting of 48,000 Lake-Class Warship.
Those fleets once belonged to the Third Star Region, but now they've spiraled out of control and become everyone's enemy. We suspect, judging from the current situation, that the entire Third Star Region has fallen. Our Second Star Region fleet also suffered defeats in battle against them, which is why we chose to flee.
Human Civilization, we must apologize to you here. In fact, our Nair Civilization does not occupy a territory as large as 27 Star System. Our First Star Region only has two stars, and the same is true for the Second Star Region. Only the Third Star Region controls Three Stars systems, including our home planet.
And the pursuers now, without a doubt, are those from the Third Star Region who succumbed to temptation, broke our agreement, and touched that Unknown Civilization Ruins, releasing that Virtual Consciousness that didn't belong to our Nair Civilization.
The fleet that has caught up now must be controlled by the Virtual Consciousness of that Unknown Civilization Ruins, because we know that in the Third Star Region, their warships would never be so Fearless of Death, nor would they coordinate so well with each other.
As it turned out, we were right. During the battle, we specifically sent warships to investigate the warships we had sunk in the Third Star Region, and there were indeed no Nair People on board.