"What do you intend to do?" Sefrans Tann asked coldly.
"Detonate the star," Ling Liang replied flatly.
Sefrans Tann's face immediately filled with mockery, and she burst out laughing. "Detonate the star? Hehehe... Hahahahahaha! Where did all your high-minded morality go? Your compassion for the masses? Hahahahahaha! And now you're telling me you want to detonate a star?"
Then her expression turned stern. "You should know that if we detonate the star, the diplomatic and public-opinion crisis it causes will be a hundred times worse than an Orbital Bombardment, right? If we do this, we won't receive any support anywhere in the entire Milky Way Galaxy afterward. Heh... What? Sending ten thousand people to risk their lives was unacceptable to you, but now you're willing to cause casualties in the billions by detonating a star? And what makes you think Wilhuff Tarkin would be completely unprepared?"
"I don't intend to destroy the star," Ling Liang said. "I only intend to create a massive stellar flare."
Only then did Sefrans Tann truly look at Ling Liang, though she still sneered. "Do you think I haven't considered that? A stellar flare lasts too briefly for us to accomplish much. Besides, we only get one chance at something like this. It might destroy some Republic warships, but it won't achieve anything decisive."
Ling Liang shook her head and projected a holographic screen before them. She rapidly entered a vast number of mathematical formulas and a mathematical model of the Eriadu star. "Yesterday, I had Givin astronomers calculate a mathematical model for me and run several thousand simulations using their Zero-Modal Probability Theory. As beings who live within a Three-Body star system, no one in this galaxy understands stars better than the Givin."
"Go on," Sefrans Tann said, sounding somewhat uninterested.
"The Eriadu star