Negative Mass Generator
According to data provided by the Dog-Headed People, this planet was a relatively undefended planet hundreds of years ago, presumably because the Interstellar Transaction Market had not yet been developed.
Or rather, it was a gesture of goodwill they prepared specifically for Low-level Civilization that came to trade with them.
Although hundreds of years have passed, it is unknown whether this planet is now defended. However, compared to other planets, humans know the most about this planet, and it is located in the outermost orbit. Therefore, Yue Yuan listed it as the first target to be conquered.
Of course, in Star System, the outermost planet is not necessarily the closest to an incoming fleet, because the universe is Three-Dimensional Space Four-Dimensional Space-time, not a plane. Therefore, a fleet entering a star system from outside the star system can enter from the vertical direction in the normal sense. In that case, the closest planet would be another planet.
At this moment, everyone heard Yue Yuan say, "While we are attacking this star, the Third Fleet and the Fourth Fleet will also launch surprise attacks on this place and here from these two routes respectively. We must occupy these two planets in the shortest possible time in order to gain a foothold in this Star System."
Although humanity has a logistics base in a Star System 20 light-years away, and also in the Star System where the Kuntai People Fleet turned back to dock, the war is taking place right here. Distant water cannot quench immediate thirst. To win the war, it is necessary to establish a stronghold and mine resources here.
Otherwise, the human fleet might run out of resources and fuel while fighting.
The number of warships of Level 3 Civilization is enormous, and the war situation is different from that of Level 2 Civilization. Once a war breaks out with such a large number of warships, it will inevitably be a long war.
Military experts have used computer simulations to estimate that a war could last for a century.
In this situation, capturing planets as strongholds becomes very important.
The two planets Yue Yuan was referring to were, firstly, the planet where the Dog-Headed People Fleet had docked, and secondly, Rocky Planet in the third-to-last orbit.
The reason it's not the second-to-last planet in the designation is that, several years later, the planet in the third-to-last designation will have its orbits intersect with the second-to-last planet, at which point the orbits of the two planets will be reversed.
According to calculations, this orbital change will last for about 75 years. After 75 years, the orbits of the two planets will intersect again, and then each planet will complete one revolution around the other, and the cycle will repeat itself.
An intersecting orbit does not mean that the two planets are at risk of colliding. On the contrary, although such intersecting planetary orbits are rare, the two planets' orbits are not on the same plane, with an angle of about 11 degrees, so they will not collide.
Of course, they are still affected by each other's Gravity, so after each orbital intersection, their orbits will change slightly. Therefore, in the next orbital period, the time and the distance between them will change.
According to the star chart, as long as the planets in the penultimate and third-to-last orbits are controlled, the planet in the penultimate orbit will also be trapped within 75 days, caught in a pincer attack from the two human planetary bases.
Therefore, controlling two planets is equivalent to controlling three planets. As a leader with a military background who has commanded many interstellar wars, Yue Yuan has this kind of insight.
"After controlling these three planets, the war will enter a stalemate. At that time, we will conquer them one by one, from the outside in, until we have captured all their resource-gathering planets. After that, the war will enter the next phase, which I call the pursuit phase, or you could call the final battle phase, if they don't run away."
Then, Yue Yuan went on to explain his battle plan to everyone present. His expression and demeanor clearly showed that he was very confident.
Some time later, a staff member interjected, "Commander Yue, we received information from the Interstellar Transaction Market that the information we provided about the two Life Planet was not detailed enough. They cannot determine whether we truly have strong purchasing power and hope that we can provide more detailed information."
"Oh?!" Upon hearing this, Yue Yuan stopped explaining the battle plan, which he had almost finished. He thought for a moment, then turned to the staff and said, "Then send them a few of our research papers on the Levorotatory DNA Life Planet. At the same time, let us express our willingness to purchase their products."
"Understood!" the staff member replied.
Shortly afterward, an Electromagnetic Wave message was sent from the First Fleet of Humanity, and the two sides had established communication with each other. Therefore, the communication no longer needed to be broadcast as it had been at the beginning.
Aside from a few scientific papers on the differences between Dextrorotatory DNA forms, this message contains some insights into the trade list sent by interstellar civilizations.
In essence, we are not entirely satisfied with the list of goods presented by your Interstellar Transaction Market. While the variety of goods is sufficient, their value is far from comparable to that of a Life Planet. Our Earth civilization fleet has come with sincerity, and we hope that your Interstellar Market will also demonstrate corresponding trade sincerity.
There's one more thing humanity hasn't mentioned: the trading list provided by this so-called Interstellar Transaction Market actually includes Biosphere Resources obtained from the Dog-Headed People Fleet. The quantity has decreased by more than half, but the price has doubled.
He had the face of a complete swindler.
Of course, seeing these Biosphere Resources on the list should actually make humanity happy, because it means that the Interstellar Transaction Market is unaware of the relationship between humanity and the Dog-Headed People Fleet, if we can rule out that the Interstellar Transaction Market is also playing along.
The purpose of saying this was, of course, to trick the Dog-Headed People into revealing the Level 4 Civilization artifacts they had previously mentioned in the Interstellar Transaction Market.
Faced with the humans' explanations, the Interstellar Transaction Market couldn't hold back any longer, or perhaps they also felt that the items on their list were unworthy of a Life Planet.
So, after some time, a video message, along with a parameter summary, was included in the reply message and entered the human communication receiving device.
[Dear civilization from afar, please don't be anxious. We simply hadn't yet confirmed the existence of Life Planet, which is why we hadn't yet presented our truly high-end products. Now that we've confirmed the existence of Life Planet, it's natural that we'll be offering our genuine high-end products. Trust us, our product is absolutely worth a Life Planet.]
This is a short reply from the Interstellar Transaction Market, but what follows contains a lot of information.
The first thing that catches the eye is a set of strange images. They are strange because humans have never seen anything like them before, but they are clearly a technological creation.
Everyone turned their attention to the text descriptions, where the images and videos were titled with the words: Negative Mass Generator! Well, this name wasn't the original terminology used in the Interstellar Transaction Market; it was a direct translation by humans based on their existing terminology.
Negative Mass Generator!
The advantage of a literal translation is that even those who don't understand science can roughly tell what it is at a glance.
Or rather, it's the power of human language in expression.
Therefore, upon seeing these six words, everyone in the Lyra Command Center was instantly invigorated. Negative Mass Generator! Just from the name, you could roughly tell that this thing was a technological construct capable of generating Negative Mass!
Negative Mass!
What an abstract and ethereal physical term! Even though humanity has now reached the Level 3 Civilization, we still know very little about Negative Mass, let alone Negative Mass Generator, which are unheard of.
It should be noted that the mass of Antimatter is not negative, but still positive. All forms of energy that humans have observed so far are positive mass-related energy transformations.