Chapter 222 Room for resistance
When the crisis comes, it is normal for each civilization to open borders to each other.
When "Galaxy Focus: Unexpected Enemy" was proposed by the Tinder Alliance, "open borders of member civilizations" was one of the incidental requirements of the Focus proposal.
After this proposal is passed, nominally all civilizations will exchange borders, at least the inspection procedures for spacecraft transit will not be so strict.
Among them, the most important use is to improve the efficiency of the use of star gates. Galactic civilizations usually use the "pseudo-megastructure" of star gates when conducting long-distance inter-galaxy voyages.
It does not have high requirements for the technology and resources required for construction. Even civilizations like the Star Alliance can build star gates when they go to the sky. Many researchers do not classify star gates as megastructures.
However, stargates are indispensable in strengthening the connection between galactic civilizations. Basically, every civilization will more or less build stargates in the gateway galaxies within the territory after they gain a firm foothold in the interstellar space.
To get rich, build roads first. This principle is also applicable in Interstellar.
Objectively speaking, the star gate is indeed one of the important foundations for the formation of this interstellar society.
In the past, in order to prevent infiltrators or smugglers from entering, fleets and space stations would be on duty near the star gate. Those who entered the country had to go through a series of inspections and put electronic tags on the spacecraft before they could continue sailing in the civilized territory.
But after the "Galaxy Focus" was determined, this requirement was undoubtedly weakened a lot, and the complicated procedures in the past were simplified, making the linkage of the Stargate network more frequent.
Although this behavior is to facilitate the rapid transfer of materials and fleets of various civilizations, not all civilizations are open and aboveboard at this stage.
Such an opportunity suitable for installing infiltrators has been subconsciously used by the decision makers. Even if the top priority is a natural disaster crisis, planning for the future is something they do subconsciously almost all the time.
But at least in the face of "unexpected enemies", most civilizations will behave in the same hatred.
The "star gate", which is extremely important to the civilization of the galaxy, is the key object of care for the "unexpected enemy".
At this time, nearly half a year has passed since the "Unexpected Enemy" officially took place, and the galaxy has also experienced thousands of "interstellar battles" large and small.
And more than 95% of the battles were between the "Guardian" and the "Unexpected Enemy". For the first time, the galactic civilizations have finally seen what a war between "super civilizations" looks like in a real sense.
It was completely unimaginable that thousands of interstellar fleets could be engaged in firefights in a short period of time, but now only two "civilizations in the galaxy" have caused this situation.
This made the galactic civilizations once again realize their own insignificance, and at the same time see the true horror of this "natural disaster".
A fighter plane with a strange geometric shape is fleeing rapidly in the starry sky. After crossing an asteroid belt, it directly fell into the atmosphere of a gas giant planet.
Not long after, another fleet arrived here and began to scan the entire gas giant planet in space.
This is a fleet from the Vengeful Crusaders of Segulius. They have a total of 24 destroyers, just to chase an "accidental enemy" carrier-based aircraft that broke away from the main battlefield.
It's not that they don't want to reduce the number of warships used, but that only this number of warships can create a firepower network that the "unexpected enemy" carrier-based aircraft cannot evade.
As one of the few civilizations in the galaxy that "completely defeated a civilization", they found sadly that they were completely unable to perform decently in this galactic crisis on their own.
The iron-blooded fleet they are proud of has no room to resist when facing the "unexpected enemy". Even a carrier-based aircraft needs to dispatch a fleet dozens of times the size to take it down.
"...After determining the location, go directly to space strikes. It is the most wrong choice to hide on the gas giant planet..."
He hasn't closed his eyes for half a month. In his civilization, in order to maintain high-intensity and protracted combat in space, basically every space combatant is equipped with corresponding stimulant drugs and fatigue-relieving drugs.
Although he was able to maintain his combat capability to a certain extent, he was also very tired after such a long period of time.
At this moment, he envied those low-level slaves who had undergone special genetic modification like never before.
As far as he knew, those slaves could work for a week without sleeping for only four hours.
Although this method was obtained by overdrawing his lifespan, he is exhausted and now feels that he wants to sleep well even if he loses his lifespan.
But just as he was about to inject stimulant drugs again to lift his spirits, he suddenly received an urgent notification from the headquarters, and it was only for him.
"—The Sixth Guerrilla Detachment! There is an 'unexpected enemy' fleet that has left the main battlefield and is coming towards your position! Please flee as soon as possible!"
The exhausted spirit was reinvigorated in an instant by the reduction of danger. The team leader resolutely gave up the idea of continuing to search for the "unexpected enemy" carrier-based aircraft, and led the team to quickly approach the hyperspace channel in the galaxy.
But the enemy came so fast that it was not long before they received the emergency notification, and a special space fluctuation was detected by them in this galaxy.
He is very clear that this is the "unexpected enemy" using the unknown "teleportation" technology, and in a few minutes, the fleet he leads will be torn apart.
However, the desire to survive will not be extinguished easily. Even if the engine is overloaded and the power of the spaceship is fully activated, he has not given up driving the hyperspace channel.
However, the distance between planets seems so long at this moment, and the once fleeting journey has now become the end of destiny.
A strange-looking geometric warship suddenly appeared in the galaxy, followed by one after another.
They looked about the same size as the destroyer led by the squad leader, roughly in the shape of a triangular pyramid. The moment they appeared, they rushed towards the destroyer fleet like hounds smelling prey.
Coincidentally, they appeared not far from the destroyer fleet, and they were about to catch up with their "prey" as the stars twinkled.
Seeing that it was too late to leave, the team leader was about to lead the team to a duel with the "unexpected enemy" as soon as he got angry.
However, the next moment, another fleet suddenly appeared here. The black ship appearance and the shield emitting purple light all showed the origin of this fleet.
The main gun beams containing terrifying energy came one after another, and the formed firepower instantly tore up the "unexpected enemy" warships that came here.
This overwhelming result did not surprise the destroyer squad leader. During the period of fighting against the "unexpected enemy" side by side with the "Guardian", he could recognize that most of the warships in this fleet were at least as good as the "Battleship" a level.
The "accidental enemy" warships chasing them are in the category of "destroyers", and there is no need to fight battleships at long distances.
After the crisis was over, the squad leader was about to thank the "Guardian" fleet that came here for assistance, when he saw a familiar signal from that fleet.
That is the "fleet logo" dedicated to their civilization, which means that this fleet actually belongs to his civilization.
This unimaginable situation made the captain stunned for a while, not understanding how his civilization suddenly had such a powerful fleet.
The next moment, he received a summons from the headquarters:
"—seems to be catching up, this is the fleet we've 'borrowed' from the Guardians..."
"We managed to free up enough positions in the command system to meet the needs of operating this fleet. In the future, we probably won't have to be so aggrieved on the battlefield..."
(end of this chapter)