Chapter 286 Predator

Combat spacecraft, especially large combat spacecraft, is the most important benchmark for measuring the technological strength of a civilization.

Under the premise that the strategic and tactical capabilities are not much different, there are no such ingenious generals who can defeat the strong with the weak alone. Under the current stage of the development of war science, a fleet has become less and less dependent on genius generals, and more dependent on the system.

As long as they have qualified military literacy, then even the captain of a warship or the commander of a squadron are actually similar to the role of screws.

Systematic war science does not require the so-called flash of inspiration and genius talent.

Han Yang knows that even if it is the Fix civilization or the Motan civilization, their commanders and the commanders of human civilization, the level of commanding war is not much different. Both sides are the same.

Under this situation, the victory of mankind in the Beihe Three Military Exercises can be regarded as a real victory in science and technology.

This cannot be faked, nor can it be opportunistic.

Then, a reality is clearly placed in front of the leaders of the other three civilizations in Yuanshan Star Region.

The human civilization, which had been colonized not long ago, completed what the human civilization could not accomplish in thousands of years in just a few hundred years...

When the gap widened to a certain extent, the Motan and Fix civilizations accepted this reality. Knowing that they could never catch up with human civilization, they lost the desire to compete with humans and began to honestly rank at the bottom, competing only for the third and fourth places.

The Yuanshan civilization was not reconciled and was thinking about taking the first place back in the next exercise.

In these years, the Yuanshan civilization has really worked hard. In the absence of major breakthroughs in basic science, it has tried to start from the application and software levels, and has achieved some results.

But in the next exercise, human civilization once again won the first place with a 1.2 point advantage. The next time, it was still defeated by human civilization with a 1.5 point advantage.

The successive failures made the Yuanshan civilization finally recognize the reality and had to admit that human civilization was indeed ahead of them.

"But... the score difference is so small, which proves that there are still some accidental factors. If we can be luckier next time, we may be able to regain the first place.

Also, the exercise is just an exercise after all. Although it can restore the real battlefield environment as much as possible, it is not a real war after all.

Although the exercise results are a little worse than yours, it is hard to say who will win and who will lose in the real fight."

Faced with this result, the senior officials of Yuanshan civilization had no choice but to think so.

Does this idea make sense?

At least Han Yang thinks it makes sense. For ordinary civilizations, this is indeed the case.

The real interstellar war changes rapidly, and the gap in strength is so small that it is hard to say who will win and who will lose.

But...

"Human civilization is not an ordinary civilization."

Han Yang thought secretly in his heart: "In the Beihe III exercise, my two most powerful abilities, first, quantity, and second, the exquisite coordination between warships like machines, were not used. I won the first place by relying solely on human command and tactical abilities.

In the real battlefield environment, I, who could only take fourth place at the beginning, have at least 60% chance of defeating your Yuanshan civilization.

Now I can take the first place by relying solely on human ability. In the real interstellar war, with my ability, even if three Yuanshan civilizations join forces, they can only be defeated by me."

Han Yang knew in his heart that at this moment, the interstellar war ability of human civilization has climbed to the well-deserved first place in the Yuanshan star field. Moreover, it is the first place that can ignore any challenge.

After hundreds of years of continuous iteration, warships involve every aspect of warships, including propulsion, energy, protection, detection, attack, stability, rapid repair, fleet coordination, etc., and almost every aspect has reached the extreme of secondary civilization.

The same is true for civilian technology. Large-scale rapid interstellar transportation capabilities, large-scale mineral collection capabilities, biological resource production capabilities, genetic science and technology, medical technology, communications, data processing, and the most important scientific research, as well as large-scale, systematic industrial capabilities, educational capabilities, and civilization cohesion, have also reached the peak.

Even if the paper performance of warships is compared, they are no worse than the Yuanshan civilization.

The situation in the past where only numbers could be relied on and the weak defeated the strong is no longer necessary for Han Yang.

If there is another interstellar war in the Yuanshan star field, then there will only be one situation where the super strong defeats the weak.

Even under this situation, the Beihe III military exercise is still held at a frequency of once every 50 years.

Human civilization and Yuanshan civilization are fighting for the first and second place with all their strength, and Motan civilization and Fix civilization are fighting for the third and fourth place with all their strength. In total, the four civilizations are divided into two groups, which are clearly divided and do not interfere with each other.

The Motan and Fix civilizations have won and lost, but the battle between the human civilization and the Yuanshan civilization does not seem to have much suspense. The human civilization always wins, but the difference is not big.

Everyone is a second-level civilization, and it is unlikely to widen the gap.

Therefore, none of the four civilizations in the Yuanshan star field dared to relax. They were all tense and developed with all their strength, and were miserable because of the human civilization.

In the past few hundred years, I don’t know how many people secretly cursed human civilization. But in formal diplomatic occasions, people still have to be respectful to the messengers of human civilization.

Time passed slowly. More than 500 years after the first Beihe Three-Army Exercise, one day, an emergency hotline call came to the duty room of the human government.

"Head of State Yuanshan called me?"

Han Yang was a little surprised, but still manipulated Han Liang to answer the call.

"Hello, Mr. Human Leader. I'm taking the liberty to talk to you this time because I have an emergency to report to you.

I just received a notice from the 355th patrol fleet of the Silver Alliance. They found a large number of predators near the Yuanshan star field and are approaching the Yuanshan star field at a very high speed.

Moreover, the predator group has split into four groups, targeting our Yuanshan galaxy, your solar system, the Motan galaxy and the Fix galaxy respectively.

According to the time estimate, in about 146 years, the Motan galaxy will be the first to be attacked by predators. Then it will be our Yuanshan galaxy, and then the Fix galaxy. Your solar system is the last one.

I will send you the information about the predator group later."

It is conceivable how important it is to let the head of the Yuanshan civilization talk to him personally to tell him the news.

Predator group? Attacking the four major galaxies separately?

Han Yang's heart became heavy.

The relevant information of the Yuanshan civilization was sent over quickly. Han Yang browsed through it in an instant, and his heart became more solemn.

"The universe is vast and full of wonders, and it can actually give birth to such life..."

If we follow the broad classification, predators can also be classified as strange life. But they are different from the electromagnetic life that humans have personally fought against.

Predators are physical. Moreover, predators and humans, Yuanshan, and other social intelligent civilizations based on cell structure, characterized by group living, and wisdom as the development path can barely be considered to be of the same origin.

Predators also evolved from primitive and simple single-cell structures. But they embarked on a different evolutionary path from social intelligent civilizations.

They did not evolve wisdom, but evolved increasingly powerful bodies.

Each predator was once a creature at the top of the food chain.

When the predator's strength breaks through a certain threshold, the predator loses any threat in the biosphere to which it belongs, and no life can threaten its existence.

Without balance, the biosphere can only usher in extinction under the almost unlimited food demand of the predator.

After destroying the biosphere to which it belongs, most predators will become extinct. However, according to the data of the Silver Alliance, a small number of predators have mutated due to interstellar radiation, planetary environment, or accidental factors, and have the ability to venture into space.

Their bodies are stronger, enough to withstand the harsh interstellar environment. They have evolved a mechanism similar to hibernation, which can sustain their lives for tens of thousands of years, or even longer.

They have evolved huge but extremely thin and light wings, which can fly between the stars using the light pressure of stars. The huge wings can also serve as a collection net to collect thin interstellar matter.

If there is another planetary biosphere based on cell structure in the galaxy, the predator will obtain another source of food supply, have further development opportunities, and even evolve to the point where it can travel between stars.

In this way, a terrible life that truly stands at the top of the food chain is born. Any other life cannot be the opponent of the predator, and all will become the prey of the predator.

Unless... this life has wisdom and powerful interstellar force.

Predators have a characteristic that allows them to distinguish the breath of life in distant galaxies by distinguishing the spectrum of the planet and analyzing whether there are gases such as hydrogen sulfide in the atmosphere that can only be produced by life activities.

Once the target is determined, the predator group will set out in groups and spend thousands or even tens of thousands of years to reach the galaxy.

After arriving, they will devour all the life in the galaxy, whether it is a huge dinosaur or plankton in the sea water, and use it as a source of nutrition for reproductive activities.

After devouring the life of an entire planet or an entire galaxy, the predator group will look for the next galaxy with the breath of life again, and start interstellar navigation again, never stopping.

Wherever they go, it is like a locust passing through, nothing lives, and the biosphere is completely extinct. (End of this chapter)