Plan Before Acting

Before Yue Yuan could even respond, a military staff officer reached out and moved the star map at the control panel, saying, "No, I don't think so. Science Officer, you only see the intentions of the Nair People, but you haven't seen the true state of our combat strength and the Nair Civilization's combat strength."

"Indeed, as you said, if the Nair Civilization is determined not to engage in a direct confrontation with us, but instead focuses on stalling us and Delaying Time, it is theoretically possible that they could drag us out until their pursuers catch up and then achieve mutual destruction."

"But don't forget, that's just in theory. Many things, well, at least in military terms, aren't always right in theory. The competition between two civilizations isn't just about the data on various equipment; it's also about strategic planning. That's why our human military strategy is still relevant in the interstellar age. No victory is achieved in one step; it's built up step by step along the way."

After rattling off a string of words, the staff officer pointed to the dots on the star map that represented the Nair People fleet and said, "Gentlemen, look, here, here, here... these are all Nair People fleets. The detection data shows that their total number is even greater than what we encountered at the White Giant Star."

A little thought reveals that it must have been composed of other fleeing Nair Civilization warships that came after we left the White Giant Star. The current estimated number is around four thousand. Other Residential Spaceship and engineering ships were probably deliberately placed at the back.

This might be one of the reasons they dared to pressure us, but what I want to say now is that the Nair Civilization is thinking too simply.

Even a weakened camel is bigger than a horse. The Nair Civilization, which once possessed three star systems, was swept aside by an Artificial Intelligence fleet, but the number of its fleeing warships still exceeded that of humans.

At this moment, the officer paused, seemingly organizing his thoughts. After a couple of breaths, he stared at the star map, pointing to an empty space on it, and continued, "Look at this star map. The Nair Civilization fleet is here, here, here. They probably think we're too afraid to head towards the White Giant Star. In that case, we'll go and show them."

"I don't believe that with their limited fuel, they would dare to immediately slow down and then accelerate in the opposite direction to catch up with us. You must know that the Nair Civilization came in a hurry. As Commander Yue said, they may not have resupplyed themselves with living supplies. Even if they did resupply their fuel, it was probably just naturally available Heavy Nuclear Fusion material. So their Cold Nuclear Fusion fuel is either from their stockpile or produced during their voyage using their stockpile resources. And their stockpile is already short because they didn't receive supplies from the White Giant Star, so it's impossible for it to be plentiful."

"So, although the Nair Civilization is not showing any signs of fuel shortage, I think that's just on the surface. In reality, they might be even more nervous than we are, because their military strength is not as abundant as it appears. That's one reason!"

"Secondly, there is a generational gap in equipment. After four years of continuous production, all the warships in our fleet equipped with Electromagnetic Railgun are now fully equipped with Armor-Piercing Shells. Even though the Nair Civilization has acquired our No. 1 Alloy Material technology and has built a batch of New Warship in the past hundred years, they can still be easily and severely damaged by our Electromagnetic Railgun."

At this moment, a member of the Think Tank nodded and said, "Staff Officer Xian said makes sense. Moreover, with our industrial production capacity, we have only built a thousand new Lake-Class Warship in this period of time. There is no reason why the Nair Civilization is stronger than us. No, perhaps they built even fewer, because they encountered the Artificial Intelligence disaster not long after."

"That's right!" The Staff Officer Xian, who was speaking, was not annoyed when he was interrupted. Instead, he nodded to the person who interrupted him and then continued, "The Nair Civilization came from afar, just like the Kun-Tai Civilization back then. They are nothing but empty shells. In my opinion, they are not even paper tigers. At most, they are just stray dogs."

Staff Officer Xian expressed his firm stance, and then said, "Thirdly, why don't you all think about how much combat power a civilization that is being chased into space by an Artificial Intelligence fleet has? If you ask me, the four thousand warships of the Nair Civilization may not even be carrying soldiers. There may be many ordinary Nair People who are unable to Residential Spaceship or Residential Spaceship cannot accommodate them."

While having ordinary people on board might not necessarily affect the warship's combat effectiveness, it would certainly increase the ship's resource consumption. Unless they froze all the ordinary Nair People, where would a fleeing civilization find so many supplies?

Hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement. It was true that the Nair People could hibernate under naturally low temperatures, but that kind of natural hibernation could only last for a maximum of three years; any longer and they would never wake up again.

Therefore, Nair People were to truly hibernate, they would need some auxiliary equipment. Obviously, a civilization fleeing from disaster could not possibly load a massive amount of hibernation aids onto its warships all at once.

At this moment, Staff Officer Xian spoke up again, "Even if their warships don't have ordinary Nair People, it's impossible for them to really stop us from leaving."

After saying this, Staff Officer Xian deactivated his Magnetic Boots, then pushed off with his toes, floating to a control panel in front of him, where he stretched out his hands and danced around.

As he moved, bright spots gradually appeared on the star map on the big screen, along with solid and dotted lines. Before long, a dynamic tactical simulation diagram was generated from his mind and displayed on the big screen.

After this, Staff Officer Xian returned to his original position and pointed to the tactics he had devised on the large screen, continuing to explain to everyone in the Lyra Command Center: "Fourth, tactics! The Nair Civilization wants to drag us down with them. Their reliance is nothing more than harassing or threatening our Residential Spaceship Cluster, preventing us from leaving here in a short time, and delaying until the arrival of the Artificial Intelligence fleet, in order to achieve their deterrent purpose."

First, since their target is our Residential Spaceship Cluster, we should have the Residential Spaceship Cluster rapidly accelerate towards a point in Void, with the First and Second Fleet providing full escort. I believe that with our superior armor and armor-piercing Electromagnetic Railgun, we can easily overwhelm them despite being outnumbered.

Not only that, we also need to make the Residential Spaceship Cluster perform multiple full-G changes of direction during this process. They missed one resupply, and their supplies are already quite limited. If they follow our full-G speed and direction changes, they will face a final fuel shortage problem. If they don't follow our speed and direction changes, then it's goodbye.