Good News
Humanity, with the power of a fleet, successfully reactivated a planet whose crustal movement was about to cease, unleashing its final burst of power and transforming it back into an active planet with volcanic eruptions.
If viewed from the perspective of the ancients, this would be like plucking stars from the sky and seizing the moon; this would be the power to destroy the world.
Countless magma seeped from the outer core, and the immense internal pressure after activation endowed this magma with tremendous power. Thus, at the moment of the first, second, and third volcanic eruptions, the planet seemed to become a spherical fireworks display, spewing out crimson sparks and thick smoke everywhere. Countless complex chemical reactions and physical phenomena unfolded here, and various elements dormant deep within the Earth's core, after this churning and tumbling, merged together on the surface.
Even from space, one can almost feel the intensity of the scene. The flowing, bright, shimmering crimson lava gives the impression of a true hell on earth.
However, from another perspective, such a scene can also be described as creation. The scorching magma, the trembling earth, the rising smoke and dust, and the plasma everywhere make people feel that this is a creation scene. They are like the legendary scenes of Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire emerging, the beginning of heaven and earth, and the separation of yin and yang.
At that moment, the planet began to have an atmosphere. Although the final composition is still unclear, a series of chemical reactions activated by external forces did indeed give birth to gas.
Unfortunately, it is too far from its Main Sequence Star, and the faith in light has already reached its limit here, and it can no longer become the charlatan's words of "God said, let there be light". Otherwise, billions of years later, it may have had a chance to evolve into a living world.
After the three asteroids struck the last remaining Underground Base, the Orbital Bombardment was nearing its end. Because after the three Asteroid Impact, humanity could no longer detect any resistance.
The Land-Based Turret with Polarization Shield and the remaining defensive fortifications were also reduced to ashes by this force, as were the countless Nanobots stored within the base.
Humanity used the most violent means to tell the Interstellar Transaction Market that the Landing Operation on the planets were just wishful thinking on your part, and that the armor and power armor of individual soldiers were useless in interstellar warfare.
Because no one will fight you on the ground, this is why, although humans have Tactical Armor similar to mechs, they only use it for activities on the planet's surface.
The reason humanity knows where Underground Base exist is entirely due to Neutrino Detection. If humanity can detect fleets on the far side of a planet using Neutrino Detection, then naturally it can detect bases hidden deep underground.
The fleet's Orbital Bombardment had indeed destroyed many shallow Underground Base, but for those deeper Underground Base with good earthquake resistance, the warships' shells alone were obviously not enough to truly destroy them. Fortunately, there were asteroids in space, which allowed humanity to eliminate the planet's resistance forces without much effort.
This was an easy battle, but it was also an appetizer for an even bigger battle.
At this moment, looking at the planet filled with billowing smoke and raging lava through the probe's screen, Yue Yuan nodded in satisfaction. This was exactly the result he wanted.
A short while later, Yue Yuan turned back to his seat and said to everyone in the Command Center, "Alright, now we don't have to worry about shells coming out from behind us. We still have some time, so everyone should go back and get some rest, take a nap, and recharge. When we wake up, we'll start the next battle."
"Understood, Commander Yue!"
"Receive!"
"Haha, I guarantee they won't come back alive!"
After a series of responses, the crew at the Lyra Command Center gradually left. They needed to return to their living quarters to get some sleep and ensure they had enough energy to deal with the even more intense battles to come.
That Great Fleet of 24 million warships is about to arrive. Humanity's First Fleet currently only has 6 million ships. After deducting the South Sea, which is used to mine resources on the Planet Thirteen, there are only about 5 million warships left to fight against the enemy fleet.
Yes, as the Planet Thirteen serves as a resource extraction and New Warship manufacturing base for humanity, a squadron must be left behind for defense to prevent the enemy from launching a surprise attack. The South Sea, due to its Strong Artificial Intelligence, also needs to remain there.
Then, the only ships that will actually enter the main battlefield will be the three million ships of the Lyra fleet and the two million ships of the North Sea fleet.
Five million versus twenty-four million—the huge difference in numbers put Yue Yuan in a bad mood, and he didn't even feel like resting. But no matter what, he had to rest, otherwise, if he made a mistake in judgment due to poor mental state, it would be even more serious.
However, just as Yue Yuan was anxiously preparing to go back to rest, and even considering whether to take a sleeping pill, good news came from the Third Fleet.
Previously, the Donghai (East Sea) Warship, carrying five million warships from the Interstellar Transaction Market, successfully arrived at the meeting point and, as planned, together with the Third Fleet, successfully annihilated the Interstellar Transaction Market's squadron.
In the description of the information, Yue Yuan saw all the details of that battle.
It seems that after the Interstellar Transaction Market discovered the human Third Fleet, it immediately adopted an attack posture. At this time, the Donghai (East Sea) Warship pretended not to know anything and even claimed that some Interstellar Pirate had arrived so quickly, which confused the Interstellar Transaction Market.
While they were still confused, the Third Fleet charged forward, and at the same time, the one million warships of the Donghai (East Sea) Warship also attacked the Interstellar Transaction Market fleet from another direction in space.
Amidst the insults hurled at each other by the Interstellar Transaction Market fleet, battle was imminent. Initially, the human fleet was at a disadvantage.
The reason was that neither the human Third Fleet nor the Donghai (East Sea) Warship Fleet had any intelligence about Super Micro Nanobots in the Interstellar Transaction Market. As a result, as soon as the war started, the human fleet relied on its powerful Material No. 2 armor to launch close combat against the enemy.
As a result, they suffered heavy losses from the Nanobots attack in the Interstellar Transaction Market.
After losing over a million warships, the human Third Fleet and the Donghai (East Sea) Warship Fleet finally reacted, and then used nearly a million more warships to cover the rear, thus escaping the close combat situation.
In mid-to-long-range combat, the human fleet achieved an impressive 1:4 kill ratio, ultimately destroying five million warships in the Interstellar Transaction Market at the cost of over one million warships.
Of course, they weren't completely wiped out; some escaped beforehand.
It was at this time that the human Third Fleet and the Donghai (East Sea) Warship Squadron realized that the fleet composition structure of the Interstellar Transaction Market seemed to be different from that of humans.
Logically, if a Strong Artificial Intelligence were placed on a manned warship to control the entire fleet, just like humans do, there shouldn't be any escaped warships. However, Interstellar Transaction Market has emerged.
Such a phenomenon inevitably leads humans to suspect that these are all manned warships.
In fact, this phenomenon also occurred when the Lyra battleship group destroyed the battleships in the orbit of the Twelfth Planet, but the number of those battleships was too small, so humans did not pay much attention to it.
But now news from the Third Fleet says that many warships in that squadron also fled. This is something to be concerned about.
The moment Yue Yuan saw the message, two possibilities flashed through his mind. The first was, as the Third Fleet Commander had guessed, that all the warships on the Interstellar Transaction Market were manned. The second possibility was that the Interstellar Transaction Market lacked Strong Artificial Intelligence!
Whichever possibility it may be, it's fantastic news for humanity.
Now, Yue Yuan can finally fall asleep.
He knew that guessing was useless. Anyway, after waking up from a nap and actually fighting a head-on battle in the Interstellar Transaction Market, he should be able to judge based on the actions and behaviors of the enemy's warships.
It's quite simple. If the enemy fleet is widely distributed and capable of multi-ship battles, able to split into many small squadrons and be very flexible, then it's probably manned.
If a group of warships were to engage in combat in a relatively dense cluster, like humans, it would most likely be due to Strong Artificial Intelligence controlling multiple threads.
The factors that underlie these judgments are the speed of light limit for communication, or communication latency.