Finding a Battlefield
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It was another morning, but there was no morning sunlight on the Lyra, only the clock striking the hour. Yue Yuan woke up as usual.
After a quick brushing of his teeth and washing of his face, he went to the cafeteria, grabbed a simple fried dough stick and soy milk combo, and began his workday.
The raw materials for making fried dough sticks and soy milk include flour, Baking Powder, and soybeans, all of which are available to humans. The seeds of these crops were inherited from the original Callisto Base.
Like other Space Vegetables and crops grown by humans, these were cultivated on special spaceships and transported to various warships via transport ships. The Lyra also carried other food items, such as animal meat obtained from and modified from the Dog-Headed People Planet.
These are all necessities for human life, not only for the personnel on the warships, but also for the humans Residential Spaceship.
Therefore, humans now have many spaceships specifically designed for growing crops and raising animals.
After finishing breakfast, Yue Yuan arrived at the junction of the rest area and the office area. He could not walk directly from the rest area to the office area; he had to wait for the elevator.
It is not a traditional vertical elevator, but a rotating elevator used to transport people on the warship from the rest area to the office area, or from the office area back to the rest area.
The reason is that the rest area is a large, built-in circular ring that rotates, with inertial forces simulating Gravity, so people traveling between the two areas need to take an elevator to pass through.
Just like Yue Yuan now, after he stepped into the elevator, the elevator, which was originally rotating in sync with the rest area, began to slow down. During this process, Yue Yuan felt his body become lighter until he felt that he was no longer being Gravity downwards.
At that moment, the restraints holding him inside the elevator released, and the elevator doors opened.
After that, Yue Yuan lightly touched the ground with his toes and floated towards his office along the guide bar in front of the elevator.
After handling some routine matters in his office, Yue Yuan got up and headed to the Command Center of the Lyra, because he had just checked the time and it was time for the pre-battle meeting he had scheduled yesterday.
"Commander Yue, we have now completed four steps according to plan. Shouldn't it be time for a real battle?!"
Yue Yuan had just finished his daily work in the office and arrived at the bridge of the Lyra when he heard a voice coming towards him. He looked up and saw a man in military uniform standing not far away, looking at him.
This is the captain of the Poyang Lake-Class!
At a glance, Yue Yuan knew who this person was.
Normally, the captains of each ship would be on their own ships, but recently, everyone knows that the real battle has begun, so some captains took some time to come to the Lyra to attend the pre-battle mobilization meeting, which is also a meeting to formulate specific tactics.
Those who don't have much time will also participate in the meeting via video.
So the captain of the Poyang Lake-Class arrived at the Lyra ahead of schedule.
The four-step strategy has now been completed. After completing the final step, humanity has selected a nearby star from the star map for the final journey. Both the Human Civilization and Nair Civilization civilizations have now entered a deceleration phase and are about to reach their destination.
Oh, perhaps this isn't the last time we'll make this journey. If we're not satisfied with the situation in this star system, humanity might resupply here before setting sail again.
As for why there are opinions of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, it's naturally because humanity is now searching for battlefields.
When fighting against such a powerful enemy as Artificial Intelligence Consciousness Fleet, one cannot simply stop and engage in combat. Utilizing terrain that is advantageous for defense will undoubtedly increase the chances of victory.
Therefore, after the four-step plan was completed, the Human Command Department, together with a team of astronomers, began searching for stars in the sky, with the aim of finding a suitable star to serve as a battlefield.
The choice of battlefield is indeed an advantage for both humans and the Nair People. After all, the Artificial Intelligence fleet is in hot pursuit, and their resupply speeds are similar. Therefore, the two sides will start fighting wherever the allied fleet stops.
It must be said that by using tactics to confuse and escape, humanity has already gained the strategic initiative for the allied forces ahead of time.
So what kind of Star System would be a satisfactory battlefield for humanity?
This fact was already documented in the Human Command Department's archives. When the concept of warfare in Level 2 Civilization was updated, the Human Command Department added many reference terrain features to the database based on changes in weaponry and warships.
For example, terrain with a dense Asteroid Belt, like the one where we encountered the Kun-Tai Civilization, or Star System with relatively few Rocky Planet.
Star System without Rocky Planet were ruled out first, because an interstellar war could not be fought all at once. Therefore, the coalition needed a base for resupply and even to build new warships while fighting.
It would be even better if there were Meteorite Belt and a few Rocky Planet, so that the Allied forces that arrived early could set up various defensive facilities for the war, such as various defensive turrets.
"We're going to fight, but we need to see if this Star System is suitable first." Yue Yuan responded, then floated towards the crowd that had been waiting in the Command Center for a long time.
The entire Allied fleet, including the human fleet alone, consisted of 2,500 Lake-Class Warship. Naturally, it was impossible for all the captains to be present. Therefore, the so-called crowd, including the personnel stationed on the Lyra, numbered only a little over two hundred.
The Lyra Command Center is large enough to accommodate more than two hundred people.
When Yue Yuan arrived, everyone had already settled into the seats that had been temporarily added for them. Except for those who were talking to him, everyone else had their eyes on the big screen, as it was now showing an overview of the Star System ahead.
The large screen displays a binary Binary Star System, consisting of a Neutron Star and a Red Dwarf Star, with the two stars orbiting a common center of mass.
Images transmitted back by the probe show that the Neutron Star in the Binary Star System has no planets, but there are three planets in the orbit of the Red Dwarf Star. However, none of these three Rocky Planet have moons in their orbits.
These planets are all Rocky Planet; there are no Giant Gas Planet in the entire Binary Star System.
Astronomers speculate that long ago, the orbits of the Neutron Star in this Binary Star System likely contained Gaseous Planet and Rocky Planet, and more than one at that time, though the Neutron Star were not yet Neutron Star.
This Binary Star System must have undergone a Supernova Explosion, in which one of the stars became a neutron Neutron Star.
However, the Supernova Explosion must have occurred hundreds of millions or even billions of years ago, because the space region within the current Binary Star System is already quite clear, with no trace of the Supernova Explosion.
If there are no traces, then the long passage of time must have erased them.
There is a Neutron Star, a Red Dwarf Star, and three Rocky Planet in the Red Dwarf Star's orbit, but no Meteorite Belt or Asteroid Belt as expected.
However, after looking at the data of several planets for a while, many people thought that this place would be very suitable as a battlefield.