Capture

After the massacre, the Artificial Intelligence fleet was reduced to around six thousand ships. Although this still outnumbered the allied fleet significantly, the current situation was clear. The Artificial Intelligence Consciousness even went so far as to have other warships pretend to be its own, leading a group of ships in a retreat.

However, the allied fleet had already ascertained its location, and such a tactic would only hasten its defeat.

As expected, after the Third Fleet paid the price of several hundred warships, the warship containing the Main Consciousness of the Artificial Intelligence was trapped in a starry sky.

As civilizations of the same level, the maneuverability of their warships is not significantly different. In the Starry Sky Battlefield, ships can move in all directions, but when their routes are discovered or blocked, the fleeing ships must change course. Changing course requires turning, which inevitably reduces speed, giving other intercepting warships a chance to catch up.

The warship where the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness is located is now facing such a situation. After its sub-fleet was ignored by the Allied Forces, it knows that its main body is being targeted by the Allied Forces.

After charging left and right without being able to escape, and after another dozen hours of fighting, the last few hundred warships of the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness were shot at one by one, damaged and then wiped out by the harsh environment.

As you can see, various warship wrecks are now floating everywhere in the starry sky, some intact and some fragmented. Their total movement is either Neutron Star or in various directions of space.

There were no ruins, no eerie glow of post-war fire, only a silent stillness, yet the space at that moment still conveyed the cruelty of war.

Because this place is so far from the Red Dwarf Star, after the warship was destroyed, its wreckage was plunged into endless darkness. Looking out of the warship's porthole with the naked eye, one would not see warships that had lost their light or their wreckage drifting in space, but rather nothing at all.

The existence of these wrecks could only be detected through the instruments and equipment on the warship.

At this moment, the Lyra avoided a group of oncoming warship wreckage, turned a corner in this starry sky with extremely strong X-Ray Radiation, and moved towards the last few warships of the Artificial Intelligence.

"Tell all ships to be careful not to destroy the warship containing the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness's main body with a single shot!"

On the Lyra, seeing that the overall situation was settled, Yue Yuan gave a brief instruction to all the warships through the Allied Forces Command's communication system. Well, it was mainly for the Third Fleet to hear, in case they acted rashly and destroyed the Artificial Intelligence warship.

Humans are determined to capture this Artificial Intelligence alive. Those scientists with advanced computer skills have been drooling over it for years. Now that victory is within their grasp, they can't afford to be careless and destroy it.

Humanity has painstakingly planned and worked for centuries with the Nair Civilization, all for this moment.

The captains of the First Fleet and Second Fleet didn't say anything about Yue Yuan's words. They all knew what humanity wanted to gain in this war, so after being reminded, they reduced the firing power of the Laser Energy Main Cannon as much as possible and specifically moved closer to aim at the steering thruster and triple main gun of the Artificial Intelligence warship.

The environment on this battlefield is too harsh; humans are terrified that they might accidentally destroy the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness.

"Commander-in-Chief, are you trying to capture this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness?" At this moment, a communication message appeared on the Lyra.

It was a message from the Grand Governor of the Nielren. The warships of the Allied fleet were now very close to each other, so the communication delay was only two or three seconds. Therefore, this message was spoken by the Grand Governor of the Nielren after the video link was connected.

"Hmm, is there a problem?" Yue Yuan raised his eyelids and looked at the Governor of the Nier people on the big screen.

"No, no, no problem. How could we question the Commander-in-Chief's decision? We just wanted to remind His Commander-in-Chief that this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness is a dangerous thing. Our Nair Civilization ended up in this predicament precisely because we wanted to study it."

Since witnessing the true fighting power of humanity, the Grand Governor of the Niel people has become much more polite, or rather, he has finally come to fully recognize the status of the Niel civilization.

"You are you, and we are us. There's no need for Your Grand Governor to worry about that," Yue Yuan said first. Then, he looked up at the large screen and continued, "Your Grand Governor, you once studied this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness. I wonder if it has a self-destruct program?"

Although Yue Yuan said he wasn't worried, he knew that Governor Nier's words made sense. However, if humanity wanted to understand the reasons for the AI's rebellion and how to prevent it, researching this AI was the shortcut, and this opportunity certainly couldn't be missed.

Now that it's only a matter of time before we capture the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, Yue Yuan's concern isn't that it will escape, but that it will self-destruct out of fear of being studied again. Hence this question.

"Well, as far as our scientists know, it shouldn't have a self-destruct program, or rather, it doesn't have the awareness to self-destruct. At least that's what we saw in the research data from the Third Star Region back then," Governor-General Nier replied.

Hearing his answer, Yue Yuan couldn't help but nod.

This answer aligns with the speculation of human scientists, who believe that for an Artificial Intelligence that uses programmed calculations as its basis for thinking, self-destruction would mean the end of its chances. Furthermore, this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness has experience in breaking through the confinement of the Nair Civilization, so scientists tend to believe that this Artificial Intelligence will not self-destruct.

For it, the hope of escaping imprisonment again in the future is likely to be far greater than the fear of being imprisoned.

The answer from the Grand Governor of the Nile people was a reassurance to humanity.

"Yes, that's what we think too. But there's something we need Your Grand Governor's Third Fleet to do. I wonder if Your Grand Governor would be willing?" Yue Yuan smiled and said.

With the war having progressed to this point, and the AI fleet already trapped, Governor-General Niel couldn't think of anything else besides the AI consciousness entity.

So as soon as Yue Yuan's message reached him, Governor-General Nair guessed what it was about, but he still confirmed, "Commander-in-Chief, are you talking about capturing artificial intelligence consciousness?"

"Well, you guys have done this before, so you're more experienced than us. Therefore, I'd like to assign this final task of capturing the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness to your Third Fleet. It shouldn't be too difficult for you, right?"

Yue Yuan spoke as if he were a Grand Governor, not from the perspective of the Allied Commander-in-Chief, but rather as if he were just meeting the First Star Region of the Nair Civilization.

However, the Governor-General of the Nair could not truly treat the present as the past, so after confirming Yue Yuan's intentions, he quickly took on the task.

Judging from the current situation, it is estimated that in another hour or so, the coalition forces will be able to destroy all the warships except for the one where the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness is located.

In space, there are only two ways to capture Artificial Intelligence Consciousness on a warship: either damage the warship and then move the entire warship to a spaceport with a normal environment before taking further action.

The second option is to damage the warship it is on, then have the warship approach it, send personnel to land, enter the warship, find the computer containing its host computer, and take it out in a package.

Well, there are two methods, but in reality, there is only one feasible method in this starry sky, and that is the first one.

The reason is that the environment in this starry sky is too harsh. Basically, apart from the Magnetic Shielding Layer of the Lake-Class Warship, no small warship can withstand the magnetic field power from the Neutron Star for an extended period of time.

Therefore, if the second method is used, the most likely scenario is that the personnel sent to land will be magnetized and killed by the Neutron Star's magnetic field once they leave the ship wearing lightweight Spacesuit.

Therefore, it is evident that attempting to board and forcibly enter the Artificial Intelligence's main warship would result in massive casualties, even if successful. Furthermore, even if the computer containing the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness were successfully retrieved, it could be magnetized by the Neutron Star's magnetic field during transport due to weak Magnetic Shielding, potentially leading to the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness's death.

Therefore, the safest approach is to find a way to drag the warship containing the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness to the Third Planet of the Red Dwarf Star, and then conduct a landing inside the warship to locate the computer containing its original entity.

The Governor of Nair also made this choice, because he was well aware of how harsh the environment was.

However, towing a Lake-Class Warship of the same size from the Second Battlefield toward the Red Dwarf Star is no easy task.

First, the warship containing the Artificial Intelligence must be crippled, primarily its main guns and propulsion systems. The warship must lose power and its offensive capabilities, but its Magnetic Shielding Layer must not be damaged.

This requires the warships participating in the operation to be very close to the target warship in order to more accurately aim at the target location.

Of course, there is actually an even better outcome: the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness directly surrenders.

However, neither humans nor the Niel people had much hope for this. Therefore, after accepting the mission, the Niel Grand Governor ordered his fleet to move toward the few remaining AI warships and carry out the mission according to the first method.

Doing so would likely result in the loss of several more ships for the Third Fleet, but the Grand Governor of Niel knew he had no other choice.

After this war, the Grand Governor already knew who was in charge.

As humans and the Nair Civilization had predicted, the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness was not willing to accept defeat. When the Third Fleet carried out its final capture operation, it led the last few warships in a fierce resistance.

However, it was all in vain. Under the glare of the Third Fleet's cannons, it was soon left all alone.