War Breaks Across the Heavens
What?
Is this the attitude of the Interstellar Transaction Market? Is this alien so easily fooled? Something seems off.
The Interstellar Transaction Market seemed to imply that we hadn't considered your life forms beforehand, making humans feel a little embarrassed.
If it weren't for the Dog-Headed People's fate, humans would almost have believed it.
However, once the arrow is released, there's no turning back.
Humanity's First Fleet showed no signs of slowing down; on the contrary, it sped toward the target planet at an ever-increasing speed.
The truth eventually came out. After the First Fleet arrived at a predetermined separation point in space, the fleet of six million warships split into two. One, led by the Lyra, headed towards the Twelfth Orbital Planet, while the other, commanded by the North Sea and South Sea, headed straight for the Thirteenth Orbital Planet.
At this point, humanity's intentions were crystal clear; if they couldn't see it in the Interstellar Transaction Market, they would truly be fools.
Sure enough, after the First Fleet of Humanity took such action, an Electromagnetic Wave from the Interstellar Transaction Market was transmitted to the human information receiver.
This time, I've finally seen through the Interstellar Transaction Market, or rather, I've stopped pretending.
Shameless Earth civilization, you fraudulent civilization! Did you plan all this all along? How despicable! You claim to love peace, but you're nothing but Cosmic Parasite. You will pay the price for your actions; we will show you what true fury is!
Following this is a pair of profanities insulting Human Civilization.
From a human perspective, the so-called rage in the Interstellar Transaction Market is not a result of human arbitrariness, but rather a reflection of anger at having been deceived by humans for so long.
At this point, humanity no longer needed to hide anything. With some time still remaining before reaching the two planets, they replied:
"That's right, but you were unrighteous first, so you can't blame us. We didn't deceive you either. We are indeed a peace-loving race. In fact, we came with sincerity. But you went back on your word, sold our goods and then tried to take our home planet. You even staged a double-cross."
"You think we know nothing? Heh, even now you still call yourselves the Interstellar Transaction Market? Merchant Alliance? Interstellar Transaction Market? Pshaw! Hey, speaking of which, we actually have a question: should we call you Interstellar Pirate or the Crimson Flame Civilization?"
The human response silenced the Interstellar Transaction Market for a while, as evidenced by the fact that they hadn't replied for quite some time.
However, humans didn't have to wait long. Soon, a message representing the Interstellar Transaction Market appeared in their information receivers.
"So those creatures with ugly yellow fur were you! You, a supposedly Level 3 Civilization, actually pretended to be a Level 2 Civilization —how shameless! But we've witnessed your shamelessness and learned a lesson. Yes, we should have known better. How could a Level 3 Civilization possibly exist in this remote star system? And you appeared so soon after that disguised Level 2 Civilization's fleet was destroyed. We should have known you must also be from another star system."
But it's not too late now. Enjoy your last moments, savor your final pleasures, for you will soon know what despair truly is!
The party involved in the Interstellar Transaction Market did not admit to being either the Crimson Flame Civilization or Interstellar Pirate.
Although the two sides have already broken off relations, they are still exchanging information. However, this does not mean that their fleets are stationary during the exchanges.
Conversely, while exchanging information, the human fleet continued to approach the twelfth and Thirteenth Orbital Planet, while the Interstellar Transaction Market fleet accelerated from near the orbit of the Eighth Planet towards the human target planet.
There is still a long time before the two sides actually make contact, so both sides still have time to exchange insults.
According to the star chart, the Eighth Planet is currently about 10.5 Astronomical Unit away from the Twelfth Planet, and it would take light more than eighty minutes to travel there.
At the speed of interstellar trade fleets, it would take more than a day to arrive. This time is not the time they would take traveling at high speed, but rather includes their acceleration and deceleration time.
Of course, if the Interstellar Transaction Market side were to recklessly increase the fleet's speed to 50% of the speed of light and then decelerate, they would likely be even faster, since they don't seem to be pushing the thrust to its maximum right now.
Although humans do not know the specific performance of the warships in the Interstellar Transaction Market, they can still make a rough analysis by comparing them with the acceleration capabilities of their own Sea-Class Warship.
The power of Level 3 Civilization's warship is extremely powerful. Take the human Flagship Lyra as an example. Its Magnetic Propulsion can provide a 300G acceleration to a fully loaded Lyra. At this acceleration, humans can accelerate to 50% of the speed of light in just 14 hours.
That's incredibly powerful.
Of course, the human fleet did not fully demonstrate its maximum thrust during its journey to the two planets, but even so, after several communications with the Interstellar Transaction Market fleet, the human fleet was the first to arrive at its destination.
At this time, it would be about a dozen hours before the arrival of the 24 million warships from the Interstellar Transaction Market.
Humanity must conquer these two planets within this limited timeframe.
It's clear that time is of the essence. Therefore, after reaching their respective planetary orbits, humanity had no time to respond to communications from the Interstellar Transaction Market.
The process of conquering the planet seemed easier for the fleet to the North Sea than for the Lyra, because compared to the desolation of the Planet Thirteen, the Twelfth Planet that the Lyra fleet faced was an armed planet.
The Lyra warship cluster encountered some resistance as soon as it arrived near its orbit, but not much, because the Twelfth Planet was Tier 1 Civilization Trading Zone marked in the Interstellar Transaction Market.
There is a defensive force of about a thousand warships near its orbit.
Faced with humanity's massive force of three million warships, the smarter of these thousand warships had already accelerated their escape towards orbits within the Star System, while the braver ones were easily annihilated under the cover of human firepower.
This marked humanity's first clash with the Interstellar Transaction Market, with humanity easily overwhelming the competition due to its numerical superiority. Having resolved the issue of orbital defenses, the Lyra fleet now faces the defensive capabilities of the planets on which they are located.
On the other hand, the North Sea and South Sea did not have this problem, because the Planet Thirteen they were heading to was itself used by the Interstellar Transaction Market as Reception Area for second- and Tier 1 Civilization, and they were allowed to mine resources on it on their own, just like they had done with the Dog-Headed People Fleet.
Therefore, there is no defense force on the planet, and there are only a few symbolic Space Station near its orbit.
The North Sea and South Sea warships completely ignored the situation and began unmanned landings without lifting a finger, then moved on to the resource extraction phase.
As the Planet Thirteen fell, Yue Yuan, aboard the Lyra, looked at the planet before him and said, "There's no time to lose. Clear out the defensive fortresses in orbit immediately, then launch Orbital Bombardment of this planet. The enemy's Great Fleet will arrive soon, and I don't want any more interstellar missiles to fly out from this planet!"
The images transmitted back by the probe show that there are many Space Fortress in the planet's orbit, and the planet is also full of buildings. The tall defensive land-based turrets are particularly eye-catching. Human probes can even see the base-like buildings on the ground from space.
It is likely Interstellar Transaction Market to prevent Sentient Life from living on this planet.
It seems the Interstellar Transaction Market has put a lot of effort into this planet. Come to think of it, they've been here for who knows how many years; it would be strange if they hadn't set it up.