Virgo Supercluster is also called Supercluster in the federal database.
It is composed of 100 galaxy groups or clusters, spanning a distance of more than 100 million light years, and together with Kebiniah Supercluster and Lavois Supercluster, it forms Laniakea Supercluster.
The local galaxy group where Milky Way is located is located at the very edge of Virgo Supercluster, and is still moving away from Virgo Supercluster.
It is foreseeable that after hundreds of millions of years, the local galaxy group where Milky Way is located is likely to completely break away from Virgo Supercluster!
Of course, this is not an issue that the federation needs to consider now.
The key now is that Mels Star Cluster is also located at the very edge of Virgo Supercluster, and its orientation is completely opposite to the local supergalaxy group.
This is why Milky Way and Mels Star Cluster belong to the same local galaxy group as Virgo Supercluster, but are separated by more than 100 million light-years.
Now, what Lin Fan plans is to first capture all the 27 galaxy groups between the two galaxy groups, making the territory of the federation a whole, and then spread outwards, until finally completely occupying the entire Virgo Supercluster!
At this moment, the hand of Lin Fan in Virtual Meeting Room points to a red dot in the virtual projection Star Chart in front of him.
"Weisi Star Cluster!"
Weisi Star Cluster?
In Virtual Meeting Room, the basic information of this galaxy group flashed through the minds of everyone present. Suddenly he was stunned.
No one thought that Lin Fan's primary target would be this galaxy group.
This should be the galaxy group that should be least preferred!
Speaking of Weisi Star Cluster, according to intelligence, it is a completely unified galaxy group with a sixth-level technological civilization.
Of course, some big guys feel that this galaxy group should not be chosen as the primary target, not because of this sixth-level technological civilization.
After all, a Level 6 Civilization is really no threat to the federation now.
But the problem is that among the 27 galaxies in Weisi Star Cluster, there are 26 dwarf galaxies
What do dwarf galaxies represent?
Everyone here is a big boss of the Federation, and everyone still understands these basic common sense of the universe.
Dwarf galaxies represent a small number of members, which also means that the possibility of the existence of natural Life Planet is very low.
This is not a good place!
This can be confirmed from the exploration report of Interstellar Fleet.
According to the report of Interstellar Fleet, among the 26 dwarf galaxies, each one is much larger than Milky Way, and is not even inferior to Andromeda Galaxy.
However, the average number of stars it contains is only 10 billion. As for the original Life Planet, it is even more like a rare animal.
You know, even Milky Way, which is much smaller than these galaxies, has more than 100 billion stars, and Andromeda Galaxy, which is similar in size, even has more than 1 trillion Star System.
10 billion?
This is just a satellite galaxy equivalent to Milky Way, right?
Well, the number of Large Magellanic Cloud under federal control is almost 10 billion!
These two items are pretty much the same!
Nonsense, it's pretty much the same thing, Large Magellanic Cloud is just a satellite galaxy of Milky Way, its diameter is less than 10,000 light-years!
And which galaxies are in Weisi Star Cluster?
Each of them starts out at a size of one hundred thousand light-years, and there are even several that directly exceed the size of two hundred thousand light-years, but they only have a few billion to ten billion stars.
What strategic value could such a place have?
Looking at the group of frowning bosses, Lin Fan naturally understood what they were thinking.
To be honest, without the exploration report of Interstellar Fleet, I might not have taken a direct look at this galaxy group, let alone spent a lot of energy to formulate a combat plan and put this galaxy group as the primary target of attack!
"Everyone, I know what you are thinking, but there is a piece of information that was not recorded in the report you have. It was this information that led us to make Weisi Star Cluster our primary target!"
This time, everyone became interested.
What kind of information is so secretive that it is not mentioned at all in public reports?
"Everyone should know that since the Federation entered the Dark Energy era thirteen years ago, the technology related to it has developed rapidly. Interstellar Fleet even built a special fleet based on Dark Energy technology!"
All the big guys nodded, they still have the right to know these things.
But why did the topic come to this?
Shouldn't it be.
Is Weisi Star Cluster's capture plan actually related to Dark Energy?
And it's also related to military technology?
There was not a single idiot among Virtual Meeting Room. He quickly made many associations based on Lin Fan's words, and some of his ideas were even close to the truth.
"Actually, there's one thing you may not know."
"The first Dark Energy fleet built before was only used for testing. To test the warships built with Dark Energy technology as the core, what is the combat effectiveness?"
"And the results are quite encouraging. When faced with five times the number of dreadnought battleships, this experimental fleet actually directly crushed Dauntless Fleet!"
"It is precisely because of this result that we immediately decided to start designing the second-generation warship with Dark Energy technology as the core, Nether Class Warship!"
"However, like the first-generation battleship, many necessary parts of Nether Class Warship must be made of a metal called Ai Luo. However, this metal is very rare in the areas currently controlled by the Federation, and it is simply not enough to support Interstellar Fleet's huge Nether Class Warship mass manufacturing plan!"
"Therefore, in the past ten years, Pioneer Fleet has actually had a third mission in addition to exploring and obtaining intelligence."
"Looking for Ailuo Metal!"
It turned out that this was the case, and all the big guys nodded their heads!
Um?
etc!
If you say so, does Lin Fan mean that the metal named Ai Luo has been found in Weisi Star Cluster?
When I thought about it like this, all the doubts disappeared instantly, and my heart suddenly became enlightened.
"Everyone, according to the preliminary exploration of Pioneer Fleet, in Weisi Star Cluster, there are a large number of Ailuo Metal in almost every galaxy."
"And the reserves initially determined are enough to support Interstellar Fleet's manufacturing plan for Nether Class Warship for a full hundred years!"
Hiss.
Are the reserves so large?
You know, the Federation's warship manufacturing speed is very fast now. The average number of warships manufactured every year is calculated in units of one billion.
A hundred years?
Wouldn't it be possible to build Nether Class Warship with a scale of hundreds of billions?
No wonder Lin Fan insists on calling here first. It turns out that this is the problem.