This is the shortcoming of artificial intelligence: it cannot see the deeper meaning. Whether the enemy is really retreating or luring them in, computers cannot judge. They can only make a probability analysis based on the battlefield situation. Therefore, warships controlled by artificial intelligence have always operated in a multi-level risk mode.
Level 1 is the lowest and very conservative, and so on. Now it has developed to level 10, which is the highest. It only seeks the result and completely disregards the survival rate of the warship itself.
Hu Yu assigned the task to the academicians of the Computer Science Department, hoping they would develop more autonomous artificial intelligence. According to Hu Yu's estimate, the fleet must enter the Insect Zone Insect Zone within 50,000 years, regardless of the size of the fleet or the development of its weapons. The goal is to learn about the high-level insects as early as possible to avoid being caught off guard in case of unexpected situations.
Everything is proceeding according to plan. Now Hu Yu can only wait, wait for technological advancements, wait for the fleet to grow stronger, and resolve the problem of the Xuan Star Civilization as soon as possible.
In 20000, the fleet population reached 250 billion. After more than 10,000 years of stable life, the population ushered in a small peak of growth. The technology of space cannons had been analyzed thousands of years ago. In order to carry more energy and more space weapons, the Academy of Sciences designed a more advanced and larger warship, the Reaper.
The Reaper are 20 kilometers long. To build these behemoths, the fleet transported tens of thousands of planets and an equal number of stars along the periphery of the galaxy. The Alliance's territory has now expanded from JD6 to several nearby planetary systems. The Reaper equipped with not only two types of weapons: Space Barrier and Rotating Space Shockwave, but also miniaturized space cannons. The space cannons do not have particularly advanced technology; their only characteristic is their size.
Although it's a scaled-down version, the launch port of the space cannon still reaches one kilometer. This huge launch port is located below the bow of the ship, and once the cannon is fired, the entire space becomes deathly silent.
With a sufficient energy supply, the attack power of the other two space weapons also increased somewhat, but not by much. The energy consumption and attack power of the increased portion were disproportionate, which was rather wasteful.
Production of the Grim Slayer has ceased, but the fleet still holds 2 billion Grim Slayer, and the number of Reaper has reached 1.5 billion, with production steadily increasing. The density of machinery on the more than 10,000 planets is far from saturation, with only a very small portion actually in use. All current preparations are for the long term. More than half of the fleet's productivity is still dedicated to building machinery and intelligent robots. Once these conventional equipment are completed, Reaper production will reach two million ships per year, a number previously unimaginable.
Besides the Reaper, the production of Stinger has not stopped. The production of Stinger consumes less material and has a simple process. It only requires a small amount of productivity to achieve the same production rate as the Reaper.
The transported stars were placed near the territory, and their final destination was the Reversed State Armor. Now that the number of warships has increased and the hulls have become larger, there must be sufficient Reversed State Armor.
Seeing humanity's grand gesture, the civilizations in the alliance were both shocked and impressed. Everyone felt even more strongly that joining the Star Ring Alliance was the right move. With the help of human technology, except for the Tree Race, the other six civilizations had already reached the advanced stage of Star System-Level Civilization. As for when they could enter the Small Star Sector Civilization, Hu Yu did not intend to help them. He hoped that they could find their own path, so that the alliance would become even stronger.
During this time, Hu Yu directly dispatched a fleet to Epsilon Eridani. Now that they had officially joined the Galaxy Alliance, they no longer needed to worry about the machinations of the Fish Horse Star Civilization. The Grim Slayer Fleet once again moved up its schedule by ten years, waiting for Luo Zhigao's spaceship to arrive at both Epsilon Eridani and Upsilon1 Hydrae. This time, they waited for a hundred years, but Luo Zhigao still did not appear. It seemed that Luo Zhigao must have some important matter preventing him from keeping the appointment. Since Mr. Daozi also said that Luo Zhigao was safe, Hu Yu was not too worried, and there was no point in waiting any longer.
Even with virtual particle production increased to one ton per day, it's still a drop in the ocean for the war effort. To date, the fleet's Virtual Matter reserves are only a few hundred thousand tons, less than the mass of a single Grim Slayer. To achieve a large-scale attack effect, the amount of Virtual Matter dispersed must be in the hundreds of millions of tons.
In the year 25000 AD, Academician Zhou Xiaohua finally brought good news. The results obtained from analyzing the data of the fifteen stars showed that the part of the Third Reversed State membrane that had disappeared had indeed entered the fourth dimension. It should be that Mr. Daozi once again provided the fleet with a method to enter the fourth dimension.
This time, entering the fourth dimension doesn't require an enormous amount of energy to open a small passage, like in four-dimensional communication; rather, it only requires a relatively small amount of energy.
Academician Zhou used a fleet to transport stars to simulate the orbit of the original fifteen-star conjunction. He used only 10 stars to send a small spaceship into the fourth dimension. However, a problem arose: the small spaceship could not be contacted through the four-dimensional channel after entering the fourth dimension, and the spaceship itself disappeared without a trace.
This is still a question of tracing the origin. It's like if a two-dimensional creature on a piece of paper could jump off the paper and into three-dimensional space, the place it lands in next time might not be the same place as before. It might not even land on this piece of paper at all, but instead drift away to some other place.
Four-dimensional space is far more vast and immense than three-dimensional space. Three-dimensional space is also in motion. If we cannot trace its origins and find a way to locate three-dimensional space in four-dimensional space, even if we enter four-dimensional space, we will only be lost forever.
However, now that a way to enter the fourth dimension has been found, the problem of tracing the source can be solved gradually. With this good start, Academician Zhou is full of confidence. He has overcome so many difficulties before, and now that the fourth dimension is within reach, there is no reason why the positioning problem cannot be solved.
In 28996, a fleet of one million Grim Slayer ships patrolling 500 light-years outside the Star Ring Alliance territory was suddenly surrounded by a swarm of Zerg. This time, it was not a low-level queen Zerg that descended. Preliminary estimates suggest that the highest-level Zerg had reached level 20, and the lowest level was level 16. This was equivalent to the strength of Small Star Sector Advanced Civilization.
Fortunately, the number of Zerg that descended this time was not large. According to the Patrols, one unit of the Zerg swarm is roughly equivalent to the mass of the Earth. There were probably two units of this Zerg swarm, but in terms of quantity, it exceeded one trillion. The individual attacks of the Zerg swarm are not particularly strong; what is strong is their terrifying number. Even ants can kill an elephant if there are enough of them.
The swarm consisted of two units, with only one million Grim Slayer. Although the Grim Slayer were immune to the swarm's attacks thanks to their Second Reversed State Armor, Hu Yu immediately mobilized ten billion Reaper and an equal number of Stinger to clear them out in order to prevent the swarm from spreading. This also served as an opportunity to assess the combat strength of the high-level swarm.