novelraw Chapter 433: Moving Planet
Chapter 433: Moving Planet
Amidst flashes caused by one violent explosion after another, a large number of Star Beasts were continuously annihilated by Tom. When the last Star Beast cluster was dispersed, Tom knew that the tide of this war had turned.
Many surviving Star Beasts began to flee for their lives, eventually leaving behind hundreds of thousands of Star Beast lives before completely escaping the battlefield, entering superluminal travel and disappearing.
Still, like the previous wars, Tom did not pursue them. Instead, he gathered his fleet and returned to the gas giant planet.
The victory of this war marked the true completion of the first step of Tom’s plan. However, neither Tom nor the leaders of the Moraise civilization felt any excitement.
Just facing gravity-level Star Beasts, their side had already revealed all their true trump cards and exerted their full strength.
This was only achievable because these Star Beast clusters intentionally held back, did not employ any conspiracies, and simply confronted their side head-on.
Since gravity-level Star Beasts were already so powerful, then... Dark Energy-level Star Beasts, even if, according to the pattern, the next ones to arrive were only early Dark Energy-level Star Beasts, how much more powerful would they be?
How should their side respond?
Comparing the combat power of their side when they had just advanced from Strong Nuclear to gravity and completed a comprehensive upgrade of their weapon systems, with their previous peak Strong Nuclear period, Tom could clearly perceive the gap.
Even if it was only early gravity, it was almost impossible for peak Strong Nuclear to contend with. If so, could this early Dark Energy level... be something he could contend with?
That was the Dark Energy level... Looking at the entire Milky Way, besides the most peak existences such as Destroyers, Red Star Alliance, Space-level Demonic Eye, and Space-level Star Beast, the Dark Energy level was the most powerful.
However, at this moment, all hope for their side to escape the Star Beast Nation was placed on Dark Energy-level Star Beasts.
"According to the pattern, after this war, we will have another ten to twenty years of recovery time. So now, let’s carefully discuss how to face the upcoming Dark Energy-level Star Beasts..."
Numerous intelligent life military strategists, scientists, and the leaders of the Moraise civilization, along with Tom himself, all began a long process of deduction, calculation, and discussion.
Soon, a very clear and definite conclusion emerged.
Their side could not directly confront Dark Energy-level Star Beasts.
Whether it was in terms of hardware like technology level, weapon performance, and spacecraft performance, or software like strategies and tactics, their side lacked any possibility of confrontation.
To force Dark Energy-level Star Beasts to attack the star and detonate it, thereby helping their side escape the Star Beast Nation, special means would be required to have any hope of success.
After synthesizing various pieces of information and conducting a series of discussions and deductions, a plan gradually took shape.
"This is our only hope, and the only plan that might achieve our goal."
Tom sighed softly: "Using gravity-level to contend with Dark Energy level... even if the Dark Energy Star Beasts will inevitably hold back and not go all out, to achieve something that may not have happened in the entire Milky Way, or even the entire universe, we must rely on the power of the environment, and we must reveal all our trump cards and go all out to have any hope.
I order, the star project shall be activated!"
Following Tom’s command, the joint fleet of Human Civilization and Moraise civilization set sail simultaneously, escorting numerous residential spacecraft at the core, carrying all the industrial equipment and resources accumulated over the years, and slowly heading towards the star.
That’s right, Tom had decided to change his Main Base.
Previously, it was the gas giant planet in the outer reaches of the solar system; now, he planned to relocate to the innermost rocky planet closest to the star.
This rocky planet had a mass of about 1.5 times that of Earth and was approximately 110 million kilometers from the star.
Because of its greater gravity and a certain distance from the star, it had a relatively thick atmosphere, sufficient to maintain a certain atmospheric pressure on its surface.
However, there wasn’t much liquid water on it, as its average surface temperature was too high, reaching 160 degrees Celsius. This caused all surface liquid water to vaporize and become water vapor integrated into the atmosphere.
Only underground might there still be some subterranean rivers and lakes.
Overall, the surface environment of this planet was like a large pressure cooker: high pressure, high temperature, and very "humid." Without protection, if a human body arrived on the surface of this planet, it would likely be completely crushed by this pressure cooker within an hour, even the bones would be softened.
In such a hellish environment, Tom and the engineers of the Moraise civilization jointly undertook extremely large-scale industrial operations.
Factories rose from the ground, producing vast quantities of industrial facilities. Some industrial facilities were assembled, gradually converging into giant engines resembling mountains.
These engines were relatively evenly distributed across the surface, numbering in the millions.
That’s right, what Tom was doing at this moment was exactly the same as the civilization that, due to a "sick" star, tried to propel their own planet on an interstellar journey.
He intended to propel this planet!
Although Tom had long been capable of such a feat, even during the Strong Nuclear stage but he had never done it.
Now it was finally time to put it into practice.
Of course, what he wanted to do was not to make this planet break free from the star, but to make it move closer to the star.
This was just the first step in Tom’s overall plan.
In just a few years, these millions of gigantic planetary thrusters were built at a speed that astonished the Moraise civilization, and then immediately activated.