Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 125: Star Cluster War

As Zhou Yuan prepared to lead the fleet, the banners of the Wheel Galaxy stopped rotating; the "wheel" had not been rotating for very long.

The Imperial fleet began its hyperspace journey, arriving at a galaxy slightly beyond the Wheel Galaxy. This galaxy, relative to the Wheel Galaxy, had no intergalaxy obstructing its path and was directly opposite it. The fleet established a base in interstellar space within this galaxy. To better observe the Wheel Galaxy, the fleet began constructing a hyperspace "twin eye" in the dark space between the galaxies.

The super-range "Gemini Sky Eye" began scanning the entire Wheel Galaxy. This scan astonished Zhou Yuan and the others.

In the outer starburst ring of the Wheel Galaxy, many stars are very close together. These stars are twinkling regularly, as if transmitting and radiating some information. The fleet base began to analyze the twinkling of some of these stars and concluded that it resembled a "Morse code matrix". However, each star is like a "Morse code matrix".

However, the twinkling of these stars is not entirely a "Morse code matrix," because in addition to twinkling, there are many very difficult-to-observe "light channels" between the stellar rings and the wheel-shaped radial stripes. These "light channels" appear to be clustered together and connected to the super-bright star cluster at the core of the wheel galaxy.

Is the outer ring of the Wheel Galaxy exchanging energy and information with its core star cluster? Was the Wheel Galaxy's earlier rotation a means of acquiring information? Zhou Yuan pondered this.

The scan results of the superluminous star cluster in the core of the Wheel Galaxy confirmed Zhou Yuan's idea.

At the core of this star cluster lies an enormous metallic sphere, ten thousand light-years in diameter, its style closely resembling the metallic sphere of the "Matrix Civilization" previously acquired by the Earth Empire. Everyone in the fleet believes this to be a creation of the "Matrix Civilization." Near this metallic sphere, the long-range "Gemini Eyes" have also detected twelve large fleet bases.

Zhou Yuan began to hesitate. If this metal sphere was a creation of the "Matrix Civilization," it might be difficult to directly verify this wheel-shaped star system.

The fleet base immediately set up a hyperspace communication base station and established communication with the Earth Empire's Milky Way galaxy. The fleet base then sent the scan results of the Twin Eyes' long-range telescope on the Wheel Galaxy, especially the massive metallic sphere at its core and the nearby fleet bases, to the Milky Way Fleet Headquarters.

"Dean Zhou, judging from the scan results, that metal sphere does indeed look very much like the artifacts created by the master that we have seen before. Let's wake up 'Light Child' as soon as possible, contact the master, and ask him."

"Ok."

In less than half a day, Zhou Yuan received a communication from the Milky Way Base.

"Dean Zhou, the master is furious this time."

"Ah, what's wrong?"

"The metal sphere in the Wheel Galaxy is neither an artifact of the master nor an artifact of any other partner in our Great Wall camp. It is a long-range 'eye in the sky' similar to ours, secretly planted by the master's hostile forces to spy on the master's Great Wall information."

"Huh?!" This time, Zhou Yuan was also speechless with surprise.

"The master was furious, because if the master hadn't examined it himself, everyone would have thought that the metal sphere was his creation."

"What instructions does the master have for this Wheel Galaxy?"

"The master has ordered the destruction of this wheel-shaped galaxy."

"Thomas, it would be quite difficult for us to destroy this galaxy directly."

"Yes, Dean Kofi and others have analyzed it and think so too. There are no suitable supermassive black holes around this wheel galaxy so that we can use the 'Sky-Sniping Arrow'. More importantly, the space of this wheel galaxy is too large. To completely absorb this huge wheel galaxy, we would need to build a huge 'Sky-Gathering Bowl'. At present, our 'Sky-Gathering Bowl' is not big enough. Although it can hold the entire Andromeda Galaxy, it is powerless against the wheel galaxy."

"Let's find a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center, install a giant Klein force field generator, and drive this black hole galaxy to the vicinity of the Wheel Galaxy."

"Understood. I'll arrange it right away."

In order not to alert the enemy, Zhou Yuan's fleet did not make any major moves, but simply waited.

Three days later, the fleet base detected a violent hyperspace oscillation. A galaxy suddenly appeared near the Wheel Galaxy, with its disk facing the Wheel Galaxy.

The superluminal star cluster at the core of the Wheel Galaxy is shining ever brighter. The galactic "wheel" is also beginning to spin rapidly.

Suddenly, a powerful, large-diameter energy torrent shot faster than light from the superluminal star cluster at the core of the Wheel Galaxy toward the black hole galaxy that the Earth Empire had just summoned.

The black hole galaxy urgently adjusted its direction and attitude, moving rapidly. The supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy was directly facing the energy torrent. The high-intensity energy torrent emitted by the wheel galaxy was completely absorbed by the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

The Earth Empire, giving the Wheel Galaxy no second chance to attack, began relentlessly ejecting massive amounts of neutron stars and other stars from the "Heavenly Bowl" near the galactic black hole accretion disk. The power of the "Sky-Sniper Arrow" was indeed immense; a gamma-ray burst a hundred times more powerful than the energy torrent of the Wheel Galaxy shot towards the Wheel Galaxy's core superluminal cluster at superluminal speeds. The Wheel Galaxy's core superluminal cluster withstood the first wave of attacks, but wave after wave of "Sky-Sniper Arrow" gamma-ray bursts bombarded it. Under the continuous onslaught, the Wheel Galaxy's core cluster finally disintegrated, and a series of stellar explosions occurred within the cluster. The barely perceptible "light channels" connecting the Wheel Galaxy's radiation bands and the core cluster experienced a series of wheel-like radiation explosions from the inside out. The Wheel Galaxy was like a staged spectacle of stellar explosions.

The "Sky-Sniper Arrow" continued its faster-than-light shooting, clearing away all obstacles in its path until it reached the giant metal sphere. The metal sphere was quickly destroyed by the powerful shockwave, and metal fragments scattered rapidly throughout interstellar space.

Because the Empire had imposed a hyperspace blockade on the Wheel Galaxy, the fleets near the metal spheres could only escape the core cluster of the Wheel Galaxy through warp space, seeking safe havens in the outer umbrella ring of the Wheel Galaxy.

Since the Matrix Civilization claimed it was to destroy the Wheel Galaxy, they carried it out without hesitation. The Imperial Fleet began to gradually adjust the position of the Black Hole Galaxy, aiming the galactic black hole at the outer starburst ring of the Wheel Galaxy, and began firing along the outer ring. The outer star ring of the Wheel Galaxy was quickly destroyed.

Subsequently, a violent hyperspace oscillation occurred, and Zhou Yuan and the others knew that this was the Armenian Cosmic Great Wall, the "Giant Gravitational Source," coming to clean up the entire destroyed Wheel Galaxy.

The black hole galaxy has entered hyperspace and begun traversing the Armenian Cosmic Great Wall, its destination the Sculptor's Wheel Galaxy in the Sculptor Supercluster, which is part of this Cosmic Great Wall. This black hole galaxy carries one hundred fleets of the Earth Empire, along with ten stellar cluster fleets. The Earth Empire calls this black hole galaxy fleet the Celestial Star II Galaxy Fleet; Celestial Star I, of course, refers to the Milky Way. The stellar cluster fleets are called Starlight I, Starlight II, ... Starlight X Fleet.

This time, the Imperial Fleet will first destroy the Wheel Star System in the Sculptor constellation, then occupy the Cosmic Great Wall Fortress in the 28th Star Region, and then reunite with its ally in the Matrix Cosmic Great Wall faction to attack the opposing faction.

The Sculptor Supercluster, along with another star cluster from the Peacock Supercluster, once reached the Andromeda Galaxy within the Great Wall Virgo Cluster of this universe, only to be destroyed by the Earth Empire's Andromeda Fleet and the Pandora Civilization's Virgo Team. The larger star cluster ultimately destroyed by the Pandora Virgo Team originated from the Sculptor Supercluster.

As Tianxing-2 approached the Shoefu Supercluster, it broke out of hyperspace and settled in a nearby galaxy cluster. Subsequently, the two stellar cluster fleets, Starlight-1 and Starlight-2, continued their hyperspace journey toward the wheel-shaped galaxy within the Shoefu Supercluster.

Tianxing-2 detected a series of violent hyperspace oscillations in the Yufu Supercluster. Starlight-1 and Starlight-2 ignored these hyperspace oscillations and continued to advance toward their target.

Starlight One and Starlight Two began to leave hyperspace and enter normal space. They had just landed near the Wheel Galaxy when twelve large star clusters appeared around them, forming a kind of encirclement. These larger star clusters were likely in the same group as the one heading towards the Andromeda Galaxy.

While the Yufu and Xingguang camps were locked in a standoff, Xingguang III and Xingguang IV, reinforcements from Tianxing II, arrived and stopped outside the twelve larger star clusters.

A major war between the two star cluster factions seems inevitable.

Suddenly, forty-seven star clusters emerged from the Sculptor's Wheel Galaxy, forming an encirclement of the star clusters from both camps.

These forty-seven star clusters first launched a surprise attack on the twelve star clusters of the Yufu camp!

Starlight One, Two, Three, and Four took the opportunity to extricate themselves from the melee and, after getting away from the two major camps of Wheel and Yufu, began hyperspace travel and retreated back to Tianxing Two Base.

Detection from Tianxing-2 base revealed a fierce battle between the Wheel and Shofu star clusters. The Wheel faction launched a relentless attack on the Shofu faction with an almost four-to-one ratio, causing three of Shofu's star clusters to disintegrate under the continuous assault. The energy beams emitted by the Wheel faction's star clusters crisscrossed, preventing the Shofu star clusters from escaping via hyperspace travel. Eventually, the two Shofu star clusters collided directly at high speed with each other. The violent collisions caused the star clusters to disintegrate, and numerous stars were ejected and drifted in interstellar space. Due to the density of stars within the star clusters, these collisions involved many stars colliding, with stellar plasma streams scattering like streams upon impact before slowly converging and eventually gathering into the larger, more massive stars.

This great war involving nearly sixty star clusters left a deep impression on the Empire, giving it its first taste of the power and cruelty of star cluster warfare. Compared to the simple fleet group wars of the past, such as the war between the Earth Empire and the Galactic Alliance, the intensity and destructive scope of this star cluster war were incomparable.

This battle of star clusters in the space surrounding the Shomon Wheel system ended with the collapse of the twelve Shomon star clusters, and the Wheel faction also lost six star clusters.

The remaining forty-one star clusters of the Wheel of Fortune formation began hyperspace travel, heading towards Tianxing-2.

After the forty-one star clusters of the Wheel of Fortune entered hyperspace, the galaxy cluster where the Wheel of Fortune Galaxy is located experienced violent hyperspace oscillations. The 'giant gravitational source' in the direction of the Great Wall Serpent-Centaur in this universe began to clear away the clusters of stars that had been scattered across the interstellar space after the star cluster war.