Chapter 535: Chapter 320: True Superluminal That’s the superluminal weapon! “Two fleets—if neither side has warp weapons and one side possesses superluminal weapons, it’s a crushing blow to the other side!” He Xingzhou said. “Superluminal weapons? How is that possible?” a commander asked, “Isn’t light speed the fastest speed in the universe?” “For macroscopic matter, light speed represents the limit of speed in this universe!” He Xingzhou explained, “But for microscopic matter, it is not.” “For example, neutrinos—they are superluminal particles, and their flying speed is faster than that of photons! Besides them, there are other superluminal particles in the universe, also known as fast particles.” “If we have a superluminal perspective, we can even see a universe composed of superluminal particles, the Fast Particle Universe!” He Xingzhou continued with his thoughts: “In our macroscopic universe, the more energy matter gains, the faster it moves, approaching light speed infinitely!” “But in the Fast Particle Universe, they start with infinite speed! The more energy they gain, the slower they move!” “For instance, in the Solar System, you can think of fast particles reaching any corner of the Solar System instantly!” Upon hearing his description, Luo An exclaimed: “Doesn’t that mean when encountering a local fleet, the enemy won’t even have time to raise an energy shield before being penetrated by fast particle weapons?” He Xingzhou nodded and said, “Exactly.” “Even if the enemy raises an energy shield, it’s faintly effective against fast particle weapons, because fast particles absorb energy, slowing themselves down to approach light speed.” “When they hit the energy shield, they’ll directly absorb the energy; to them, the energy shield equals nothing. Here fast particles impact the target, particle collisions, equally generating immense destructive power!” Xu Zhilan said: “According to this, a second-level civilization leading with fast particle weapons can completely sweep their opponents!” “Yes.” He Xingzhou nodded, “If we possess fast particle weapons, direct combat will always leave us ahead of equivalent-level opponents!” “I plan to start researching fast particles immediately, and until fast particle weapons are produced, we won’t launch proactive attacks.” “Alright, then we’ll wait a bit longer, just enough time to build more warp speed battleships!” The crowd agreed. He Xingzhou immediately began the development of fast particle weapons, and on the Quantum Light Computer, the fast particle technology also has corresponding branches. “Spending one hundred thousand energy points, unlock fast particle sensor technology.” “Spending one hundred fifty thousand energy points, unlock fast particle generation technology.” “Spending two hundred thousand energy points, unlock fast particle directional clustering technology.” Through these technologies, manufacturing and controlling fast particles can design corresponding weapons. For example, upgrading the Particle Light Spear into a Fast Particle Light Spear, it’s still particle beam attacks, within a certain range, possessing near infinite speed, surpassing light speed! On defense, a Fast Particle Shield System can be created, utilizing its superluminal speed advantage to intercept every attack in time. On the Quantum Light Computer, He Xingzhou also saw more advanced fast particle weapons, like Fast Particle Burst Star Grain, which gathers a cluster of fast particles, attacking over distances exceeding the Milky Way’s diameter. It can directly attack the core of stars or planets, destabilizing their cores and causing explosions! Destroying entire star systems! Such weapons, He Xingzhou estimated, can only be created by civilizations above Level 5! With just a bit of thought, it’s incredibly terrifying. Encountering such an attack, you wouldn’t even know where the enemy is located, with countless light years away, the strike only requires an instant! It’s simply a god-like civilization! “Start with fast particle generation and clustering first.” He Xingzhou began creating fast particle sensors and generators. As if aware of the Maoshi Star Union’s power changes, the Blue Star Civilization began halting expansion and focusing on building the major star systems. Humans ventured out from the Solar System, distributed across the surrounding ten star systems. The human population grew from several billion to over three hundred billion. For their now vast territory, this population still wasn’t sufficient, so policies promoting population growth continued and increased. The Blue Star Alliance now even permits humans to intermarry with friendly civilizations. Between humanoid civilizations, offspring can be reproduced. Even if not humanoid civilizations, with humanity’s current biotechnology, offspring can still be born. These new humans are treated equally by the Blue Star Alliance, but they require undergoing the teachings from the Blue Star Civilization, learning its culture and history. Within the civilization, silicon-based life also began increasing. Following the birth of the Blue Star Civilization’s first silicon-based entity, Golden Crow, He Xingzhou proceeded to transform Lu Mi into silicon-based life. Now such transformations are growing, early artificial intelligence like Xuanwu has also become silicon-based, along with some mechanical giant beast modifications. Toward silicon-based life, the Blue Star Alliance remains highly vigilant. If silicon-based life ever betrays, the damage would be enormous, so each silicon-based life must undergo strict scrutiny and regular inspection. Moreover, biochemical modifications have become more commonplace, spreading from biochemical warriors to daily work and life. The current Blue Star Civilization adheres to the “letting a hundred flowers bloom” viewpoint, not deliberately suppressing or oppressing any particular technology, as long as the alliance’s military strength is sufficiently strong, no issues will arise! Sirius Civilization, the most prosperous Space City. The Sirius Civilization has long since ascended to a second-level civilization, and in their contest with the Blue Star Civilization, the Maoshi Star Union realized its unique position, and forged it into a bulwark against the Blue Star Civilization, forming a pincer with the Tianhe Civilization. Thus, the Sirius Civilization’s power rapidly increased, even possessing some warp speed battleships and antimatter weapons that they couldn’t develop on their own. “Blue Star Civilization hasn’t made any moves in recent decades.” a commander from the Maoshi Star Union marveled, “Are they truly afraid of us, not daring to attack?” “Naïve! If they really feared us, they wouldn’t have joined the Star Trading Group!” someone scoffed, who was none other than Dong Zhen, the Maoshi Star Union’s newly appointed military commander, coming straight from the parent civilization, not affiliated with any subordinate civilizations. As a result, everyone adhered to his words. “Master, since they’re not initiating an attack, what shall we do? Just let them grow?” “Of course not!” Everyone was well aware of the Blue Star Civilization’s immense development potential, otherwise, the Orion Royal Court wouldn’t place so much value on them. “Since they’re acting like turtles, we’ll strike first, break their shells!” “Start with one star system!” This text is hosted at novel·fire.net He set the target on the Tiancang Five Star System, located only 11.9 light years away from the Solar System and closer to Sirius, originally a star system intended for Sirius to claim, captured by the Blue Star Civilization forty years ago. Attacking there, fleets can support more easily, and they won’t immediately face the Blue Star Civilization’s main fleet. Several defeats against the Blue Star Civilization have made them more cautious. If Rafael were here, he’d surely remind them that hesitating against the Blue Star Civilization leads to defeat. Sadly, Rafael’s defeat is already centuries-old history, and these commanders have long forgotten it, becoming just as “prudent” as he was back then. Merely a year later, Dong Zhen had assembled the fleet. Deploying pure warp speed battleships, all above Level 3 warp, armed with antimatter weapons, numbering five vessels. With warp speed battleships being scarce, ordinarily, one could hold a star system; deploying five vessels already gave the Blue Star Civilization considerable face. At 38 times light speed in warp speed travel, they headed directly for Tiancang Five. After a dull space journey, Tiancang Five grew increasingly luminous inside the fleet’s sensors. “Report, we’ve entered the range of the Tiancang Five Star System.” A navigator reported the situation. “Is it time?” Commanders, who had been staying in the Virtual Universe, returned to reality upon hearing the news.