Two years later, in Earth Calendar year 4657.
Over those two years, Human Civilization and the fleet had exchanged fire in several beyond-visual-range battles.
Unfortunately, neither side had inflicted any meaningful damage.
The Unknown Fleet had lost a few inconsequential ordinary warships, while Human Civilization had lost some Carrier-Based Drones and Floating Gun Emplacements.
But that did not mean they had gained nothing.
At the very least, Human Civilization had used these encounters to gauge the enemy's strength.
Inside the Human Federation's micro-universe, aboard the [Earth].
Lü Yongchang carefully analyzed the compiled data in the Holographic Projection.
"So far, the enemy has demonstrated technologies similar to [Spatial Rift] and [Spatial Shield]."
"But they don't seem to have mastered [Spacetime Trap] technology."
"Because they're too far away, we can't accurately assess their understanding of spacetime theory."
"Judging solely by their curvature navigation speed, their understanding of spacetime falls short of ours."
"But that alone isn't a valid benchmark. After all, even the [Kuafu] has a maximum cruising speed of only 800c."
"If the enemy fleet contains a similar megastructure engineering project, then maintaining a fleet speed of 600c would be understandable."
Lü Yongchang considered this for a moment before speaking again.
"Taking all the data into account, I believe their strength should be at the peak of level six."
As his words fell, the atmosphere in the Command Center immediately grew tense.
Since becoming a level six civilization, Human Civilization had never fought a war against another civilization of the same level.
And their very first opponent was a civilization at the peak of level six...
It would have been a lie to say they were not anxious.
"But we have one major advantage."
Lü Yongchang shifted his tone. "In theory, they shouldn't have mastered micro-universe technology."
"On the one