Yana Gus fell asleep, entering "preservation + hibernation" mode. She instructed No. 1777 to wake her when the war against the outside forces began.
No. 1777 could alter magnetic fields to reduce the activity of "time" inside the control room, greatly slowing the aging of Yana Gus's cells. It could also manipulate matter through magnetic fields to replenish her cells directly.
The lights in the control room dimmed, but the starship's internal factories kept working. Wave after wave of manufactured goods continued to be sent into deep space. When evenly matched opponents went to war, beyond competing in technology, all that remained was a contest of material resources.
No. 1777's AI had scanned those Anomalous Lifeforms. Every "Tentacle Planet" possessed an immensely powerful magnetic field. They were not defenseless natural celestial bodies that others could bombard at will.
A controllable magnetic field could confine even high-energy plasma at hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius. It could even keep matter-antimatter annihilation energy under control.
The strength of a controllable magnetic field determined whether it held absolute control over energy!
A Faster-than-Light Torpedo might seem capable of detonating inside an ordinary planet, but the energy shield surrounding a Tentacle Planet distorted that region of the conventional universe.
In No. 1777's simulations, a Faster-than-Light Torpedo underwent a spatial distortion the instant it returned to the conventional universe, dropping in energy as it transitioned out of high-energy cosmic space. In that split second, the Tentacle Planet's powerful magnetic field would deflect it.
One or two matter-antimatter torpedoes would struggle to destroy such a monstrous planet outright.
On another front, the Droplet in Three-Body could wipe out humanity's entire fleet.
The starship's onboard scouts used the same kind of atomic-nucleus-level technology, yet they would be even more vulnerable in this war. A Tentacle Planet would