What did it mean for a planet to come hurtling at them at high speed? Especially when that planet was now moving at over 500 kilometers per second!
For comparison, a 10mm-caliber bullet had to undergo multistage electromagnetic acceleration to reach a speed of 500,000 meters per second. That was fifty times the velocity of a bullet fired by conventional chemical propellant!
At that speed, even a 10mm-caliber bullet carried enough kinetic energy to easily punch through tank armor!
So what if that bullet were enlarged to 11,000 kilometers? How much kinetic energy would it carry then?
It could only be said that none of the creations of intelligent life could withstand such terrifying power for even a second!
And now, that very thing was happening here, on Yago-Dur!
After receiving the astronomers' warning, Republic fleet commander Admiral Gideon Tarkin had no time to worry about anything else. He immediately ordered the entire fleet to scatter and evade!
Before such a devastating astronomical phenomenon, attack plans and military honor no longer mattered!
The only thing they could do was run! And not an organized retreat, either—they had to flee as far as they possibly could!
Because Yago-Dur was simply too close to them!
The Republic fleet's position had originally been about one million kilometers from Yago-Dur's orbital path. Now that Yago-Dur had suddenly broken away from its orbit and accelerated under the gravitational slingshot effect, it would take less than an hour to reach them!
And the Galactic Republic's mathematicians were not even comparable to elementary school students before Givin mathematicians!
As the saying went, never challenge someone's livelihood with your own hobby.
The Givin civilization had developed to this day through mathematics! Through calculations and predictions of the Three-Body system!
They had absolutely no time to regroup or form