The Great Star Voyage
Chapter 373

A Century's Worth of Pent-Up Resentment

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The good news is that the Nair People did not inform the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness of humanity's existence. The Allied Forces Command could exploit this to lure the Artificial Intelligence fleet to the Second Battlefield.

In the days that followed, the Allied Forces Command sent scientists from both civilizations into space to conduct experiments and collect various environmental data, while also beginning to construct various bunkers and fortifications on the three Rocky Planet.

While building artillery turrets on planets might seem like making them easy targets—and they certainly are—hitting a turret on a planet's surface from space is no easy feat.

Since each planet has different parameters such as mass, Gravity force, and rotation, striking a target on a planet from space is equivalent to Orbital Bombardment, and humans have conducted experiments on Orbital Bombardment.

Without a certain amount of experience, you really can't succeed on the first try.

Moreover, due to planetary rotation, Orbital Bombardment is not simply a matter of pointing the warship's guns at the target. Instead, it requires adjusting the firing position, initial velocity, and other parameters of the guns based on the actual situation and parameters.

Even energy-based weapons are subject to the Planetary Gravity, and as the saying goes, a slight error can lead to a huge mistake. If there is even a slight deviation in the initial launch, the difference in distance when hitting the planet could be measured in kilometers.

Therefore, building defensive turrets on the planet is still very necessary, and there is no need to worry about the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness not coming to attack, because it must attack as long as it wants to obtain supplies.

For this reason alone, the construction of the Planet Defense Works requires a huge investment.

Super Large Land-Based Electromagnetic Railgun, Super Large Land-Based Positron Cannon, and Super Large Laser Energy Weapon —all of these will be deployed. Furthermore, Missile Interception System will be built for these turrets to intercept Electromagnetic Railgun shells fired from enemy warships. Magnetic Shield will also be provided to the turrets to defend against Positron Cannon attacks.

Meanwhile, to make the turrets more robust and durable, their bases are all designed to be semi-underground.

From the completed 3D images, these turrets look like fortresses, with only a rotating gun barrel and half a base on the ground.

Unfortunately, none of these three Rocky Planet have atmospheres, which is a drawback; otherwise, the encounter would have been even more impactful. If a planet had a dense atmosphere, the attacking side would have to consider atmospheric density and the damage to various weapons as they passed through it.

For example, there are questions like whether Electromagnetic Railgun projectiles will burn up before even hitting land after passing through the atmosphere.

Furthermore, since it is known that the Artificial Intelligence fleet will inevitably attack planets in order to resupply their fleet, simply building Planet Defense turrets is clearly not enough.

Therefore, human military experts have also proposed drilling holes in the planet's landmass and continental shelves, and then burying landmines—not landmines, but hydrogen bombs.

The larger the equivalent, the better.

Human military requirements should ideally reach 300 million tons of TNT equivalent, or at least greater than 100 million tons of TNT equivalent.

Manufacturing a high-yield hydrogen bomb was not a difficult task for the two Level 2 Civilization, as it did not require advanced technology. Therefore, the Allied Forces Command assigned this task to the Nair Civilization.

They were tasked with producing three million 300 Million Tons TNT Equivalent Hydrogen Bomb, within a specified timeframe, and then burying these bombs on the first planet to be hit before the war began.

When the Planet Defense fail and the Artificial Intelligence fleet lands to mine resources, we can launch a massive earthquake attack to slow down its resource extraction process and maybe even destroy a number of ships.

In their plan, the coalition designated the planet in the second orbit as a key defensive target, partly because it would be within the reach of the Artificial Intelligence fleet in about twenty years. The second reason was that the coalition didn't have enough time to arm all three planets equally.

Moreover, wars are not fought in that way; as the saying goes, being defensive everywhere is the same as being defenseless.

Therefore, the Allied Forces Command concentrated its defensive forces on one planet. Of course, the other two planets were not left unattended; turrets were to be built on them as well, although the quantity and quality were not as critical.

Since the defense plan has been divided into primary defense and secondary defense, the specific tactics must be coordinated with this arrangement.

For example, fleet formations, star-space interception positions, and so on.

And so, under human arrangement, both civilizations became extremely busy.

This busy work, these arrangements, and all the setups were constantly being observed by the Nair Civilization. Looking at all the arrangements made by humanity, the higher-ups of the Nair Civilization held countless internal discussions.

They marveled at humanity's industrial capabilities, and also at humanity's art of warfare.

During this period, the military experts and warship Commander of the Nair People admitted to their Grand Governor more than once that if the Nair Civilization were here, they would never have thought of such a method, nor could they have made such a meticulous arrangement.

Especially that centuries-old escape plan.

Looking back now, they find it incredible, even thinking that humanity may have foreseen this point hundreds of years ago, but simply didn't tell themselves.

At the same time, they also felt very lucky that they had not clashed with Human Civilization, otherwise the grass on the grave of the Nair Civilization might already be three feet high.

Of course, it is precisely because of this awareness and amazement that the Nair People's leadership today has become much more confident in winning the war. They feel that by following humans and listening to their arrangements, they will definitely be able to win this war in which the enemy and themselves are so vastly outnumbered.

If this idea had been put into practice back when we first set foot in the stars, it would have been considered crazy, but not now.

Because most of the current Nair People leaders believe that the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness's fate of failure was sealed when it foolishly insisted on catching up with and destroying the two civilizations.

This is a very interesting shift. The Nair People are now exhibiting this kind of emotion. Instead of being afraid of the Artificial Intelligence fleet as before, they have developed a strong desire to fight it as soon as possible and destroy it.

And this sentiment of the Nair People was also made known to humanity through the Allied Forces Command.

Human military experts believe that this may be a form of release from the pressure of being relentlessly pursued by Artificial Intelligence Consciousness Fleet for hundreds of years, and that starting a war is a way to vent that pressure.

In fact, it wasn't just the Nair People felt this way; the human fleet also shared this sentiment. Everyone had been relentlessly pursued for centuries and felt frustrated, as if a pent-up resentment was building up inside them, and they all wanted to vent their frustrations once the Artificial Intelligence fleet arrived.

Perhaps this is what they mean by "mobilizing morale"!

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