But the reality was that humanity had lacked time to develop. Of three thousand years of development, only the last hundred had amounted to anything worth seeing.
What had history been like during the rest of that time? Feudalism and ignorance, with a handful of people monopolizing knowledge, calling everyone else ignorant fools day after day while enslaving and exploiting those very fools.
Fang Tianyi stared at the timetable and asked, "Are you confident about this battle?"
"No." Che Ruwen was already forty. His dark, square face wore an icy expression, and his clipped voice was forceful and utterly decisive, startling the subordinates beside him.
Fang Tianyi turned back calmly and said, "In the simulated battles in [Radiance], built by Star River, you performed the best out of all the imperial fleet commanders."
Fang Tianyi said, "Radiance isn't just a game to us. We also use it to teach our citizens and troops about this new kind of space warfare, and to run simulated combat exercises."
Che Ruwen said coldly, "But the Alliance doesn't have an imperial fleet for me to command right now. All I see are twenty-seven cobbled-together ships."
"Speaker, with all due respect, we cannot win this. Our warships can't even withstand a single five-megaton Helium Bomb, while the enemy can come through without a scratch!"
Che Ruwen met Fang Tianyi's gaze as he delivered those icy words. The staff accompanying him all sat with their backs straight and eyes lowered, staring at their noses.
It wasn't that they refused to stop him. After spending so long with Che Ruwen, both in reality and in the virtual game [Radiance], they knew his temperament all too well.
Fang Tianyi turned his body sideways to ease the strain on his neck as he looked at this lieutenant general of