Chapter 489 Space Fleet Separation of Powers in the Human World!

After thinking for a moment, Li Ang also thought that he should contact the Natural Selection as soon as possible and ask them to stop temporarily. There was no need to rush away from the Earth now.

“Send the Hyperion to follow them. Wait until they are far away before intercepting them.”

The Hyperion is considered to be a relatively elite, medium-sized battleship among the giant enterprise warships, and is mainly used to perform interspersed combat missions with its agility and speed.

However, compared with battleships like Natural Selection, Hyperion’s size can definitely be called a behemoth.

The reason why Leon asked people to follow the Natural Selection first was that he didn’t want the rest of the human fleet to come and stop it, lest the situation be messed up.

“Yes!”

David Martinez, who was then the head of the Development Department’s operations group, responded that although the current giant corporate warships can no longer use space jumps, the antimatter engines they use can still travel at sub-light speeds.

It would not be a problem to catch up with these warships which can only reach 15% to 20% of the speed of light.

Up to now, the warship engine devices used by the human fleet still use nuclear fusion technology, and not even heavy nuclear fusion technology, so they can only use hydrogen and helium on Jupiter as fusion fuel.

The energy conversion efficiency is much lower.

Not to mention tinkering with high-energy-consuming components like energy shields, even making these warships run back and forth between Jupiter and the Earth would be a bumpy ride.

If there is no other energy supply to the warship, it will have to run away halfway.

So Leon only needs to send out one Hyperion, which is enough to deal with the Natural Selection and the four warships behind it at the same time.

Following Leon’s order, David Martinez sent out his most elite advance team members to monitor the fleeing warship and wait for the latest instructions from headquarters.

In addition, David also sent an investigation team led by Paul Atreides to go deep into the Earth in the Three-Body Universe to check the latest situation.

They need to understand the current morale state of human civilization and the specific internal situation in order to make new task deployments.

Even as the various departments of the Universal Corporation were taking action, the conversation between the Natural Selection and the Jupiter Orbital Fleet Base continued.

At this moment, the fleet commander was still trying to persuade Zhang Beihai: [Zhang Beihai, even if you think that the human fleet cannot defeat the Trisolaran civilization that has come from afar, your escape now is in vain.]

[The Natural Selection was only filled with one-fifth of fusion fuel when it set sail. Your speed can only reach one percent of the speed of light at most, and you cannot use too much fuel.]

[The spacecraft’s ecological cycle system needs enough energy to maintain operation, which may take decades or even hundreds of years. Even if we don’t catch up with you, you will be waiting to die because of the endless journey.]

The fleet commander’s tone was still calm but with anger that could erupt at any time. Human civilization is a group, and it is meaningless to rely on individual heroism.

He must make Zhang Beihai realize that his cowardly behavior will only cause the other members on the spacecraft to be buried with him in the vast sea of ​​stars.

There is only one way out for human civilization, and that is to defeat the Three-Body Civilization head-on!

[I know, and I am also very clear about the consequences of doing so, but this is the only way to preserve the flame of human civilization. Please forgive my stubbornness. Neither of us can convince the other.]

Zhang Beihai’s words completely annoyed the fleet commander, and he roared at the person on the other end of the communicator:
[Asshole! Do you really want so many people to play a meaningless heroic role with you? No, you are not a hero, you are just a shameful bear! ]

[Do you think we haven’t considered forming a fleet to leave the solar system and spread the last bit of hope of human civilization? We have already tried it. ]

[But every draft that has been carefully calculated tells us a cruel fact, that is, the civilization spread plan is simply impossible to achieve. ]

A civilization whose travel speed is not even half the speed of light has no right to talk about spreading civilization and starting an era of interstellar colonization.

The only way for human civilization to survive is to defeat the Three-Body Civilization in this doomsday battle. Otherwise, there is only one way left: death.

And everything Zhang Beihai is doing now is an abandoned plan written in a scrap manuscript that has long been thrown into the trash can.

If they do not defeat the Trisolaran civilization and force the Trisolarans to lift the blockade of basic physical technology by the Sophons, how can they develop new technology and lead humanity out of the vast solar system?

Caught in a dilemma, both sides fell into silence.

The fleet commander believes that humans can only survive by facing death, but Zhang Beihai still believes that escape is the only way, even if it is slow, it is better than committing death.

Zhang Beihai knew very well that what the commander said was right. They had no supplies and were as lonely in this dark universe as a weak traveler walking in a sea of ​​sand.

The lack of basic supplies alone is enough to kill them.

Not to mention whether we will encounter other interstellar civilizations along the way.

Ugh……

Zhang Beihai let out a heavy and helpless sigh, his eyes revealing fatigue and sadness. In fact, even he was not sure whether the path he had chosen was right.

But there are not so many clear and visible correct paths in the world. Someone has to try a dark and desperate path to find new life.

The fleet commander seemed to have sensed Zhang Beihai’s inner turmoil, and he kindly advised: “Zhang Beihai, it’s not too late to turn back now.”

[The path you have chosen now is no better than the outcome of our total destruction. Now that the outcome is still undecided, who can guarantee that the Trisolarans will win?]

The fleet commander had many deep impressions of Zhang Beihai, the outstanding commander. He usually performed the best, and his personal attitude and beliefs were so strong that he did not need the assistance of ideological stamp.

But why did he relax just when the arrow was on the string?

After a long while, Zhang Beihai finally replied to the commander’s kind words: “I’m sorry, Commander.”

After he finished speaking, Zhang Beihai unilaterally hung up the phone call. He was afraid that if he hesitated any further, it would shake his previous determination.

Since he has chosen this path of no return, he has no choice but to go all the way. Even if the end of the road is a cemetery, he will still walk it for human civilization.

Even in death, their loyalty to human civilization will turn into fireflies in the dark space, telling those who come after them that they have made some foolish but determined attempts.

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On the battleship platform of the War Month, the Hyperion prepared to set sail under the command of Captain Penny Wells.

At this moment, Zhang Beihai’s ship, the Natural Selection, was about seven million kilometers away from the Moon of War, and they could only see a very faint starlight with their naked eyes.

However, with the excellent performance of the Hyperion, even if it can only use the sub-light speed engine of decades ago, it is easy to catch up with the Natural Selection, which is running at only 1% of the speed of light due to insufficient fuel. On the other side, the Earth Survey Team formed by Paul Atreides is ready to take the transforming spacecraft to go deep into the human world.

This transformable spacecraft is also equipped with the shielding system of the Mantle of the World, which can prevent its traces and location from being detected by Earth’s radar.

Paul Atreides was the ace player in the Operations Department. Even though he had reached management level, he still had to take the lead in key missions like this one.

Although he no longer has psychic powers or force powers in the “Three-Body” universe, his skills are still much stronger than humans in the conventional universe.

After being subtly transformed by psychic energy and the Force, Paul’s body structure has long been very different from that of ordinary humans.

At this moment, in addition to the agents of the giant enterprise who are actively taking action, researchers from the Science Hub have also captured mysterious flying objects far away at the edge of the solar system.

That is the probe launched by the Trisolaran civilization – the water droplet.

Because it had to hide its position as much as possible and was unable to use space jumps, the transforming spacecraft took 30 hours to finally reach the Earth’s orbit.

Although the technological development of human civilization in the Three-Body Universe was blocked by the Sophon, they still tried their best to develop a certain level of technology.

The magnificent space cities that can be seen everywhere in the Earth’s orbit are connected to the ground through space elevators that are like the Tower of Babel, and maintain a synchronous orbital motion trajectory with the Earth.

Unlike the array of warships parked at the Jupiter Fleet Base, although there are many space cities in the Earth’s orbit, there are no warships stationed here.

Only civilian spacecraft shuttle back and forth between the space city and the earth. This is a completely undefended planet, and even a proper orbital gun cannot be found.

It is obvious that humans in the Three-Body Universe have already put all their military forces and resources into the orbit of Jupiter in order to resist the fleet of the Three-Body civilization.

Either the armed forces on Jupiter defeat the Trisolarans and the Earth remains safe, or Jupiter’s defenses collapse and the Earth is doomed.

The magnificent array of battleships formed a stark contrast with the weak base in the rear, just like the Maginot Line carefully built by France during World War II.

But this is the only solution.

After all, the resources on Earth and the level of human technology are quite limited. Before the era of interstellar colonization begins, these two thousand frigate-class warships are already the limit of what humans can do.

If the people on Earth in the Three-Body Universe could develop more bases on other planets, then the situation would definitely be much better than it is now.

But they can’t do it now.

“All the fighters have gone to Jupiter, so Earth is just a lamb to be slaughtered.”

Morgan Blackhand looked at the real-time images sent back by the transforming spacecraft and shook his head. This method of allocating resources showed that the humans on Earth in this universe were indeed on the verge of despair.

What else could they hope for if they didn’t put all their hopes on those two thousand warships?

However, Leon saw their power balance model from the distribution of human beings on Earth.

This is obviously the separation of powers system that Western countries most admire.

The space fleet stationed at the Jupiter base does not actually belong to any country or government, but is an international fleet composed of the three major fleets of Asia, Europe, and North America.

They have independent territories, economic systems, and legal systems, and have even become members of the United Nations. Their fleets are governed by their own headquarters, a structure similar to a military government.

But unlike the traditional military dictatorship, the main task of Fleet International is to fight against the Trisolaran Fleet and will not interfere in the internal affairs of Earth International.

Under such circumstances, no country is allowed to have its own interstellar battleship, and the Earth can only rely entirely on the international protection of the fleet at the Jupiter base.

Under this seemingly weird but extremely balanced distribution of power, the wars and chaos inside the earth were completely ended, and a rare sign of human unity appeared in this stormy time.

However, everyone knows that the conflicts among humans have not completely disappeared, but have been transferred to outer space and to the Trisolaran fleet.

Faced with a powerful enemy, humans only temporarily put aside their disputes.

Once the Trisolarans choose to surrender or temporarily give in, humans will forget the pain and start to fight among themselves, doing stupid things that will make their enemies happy and their loved ones sad.

So sometimes Leon really has to doubt that the humans in the Three-Body Universe are the stupid and evil villains.

Especially in the political field, it has always been in an extremely immature state.

For example, choosing the wall-facer itself is a kind of Western savior thinking, which means that we are lucky enough to have a Luo Ji who figured out the basic common sense of advanced civilization.

Otherwise, the Wallfacer Project would be useless.

Later, Cheng Xin, who posed no threat to the Three-Body Civilization, was chosen in the Sword-Bearer election, which was a pure victory for populism.

Humans in the Three-Body Universe are always making mistakes but never learning from them, just like giant cosmic babies spoiled by heroes.

He never learns how to survive independently and always relies on saviors like Luo Ji, Wade, and Zhang Beihai to appear, but never tries to save himself.

But in fact, there has never been any savior, and no gods or emperors can save mankind. The only person mankind can rely on is themselves.

In Earth orbit, after confirming that there were no facilities around that could pose a threat to the transforming spacecraft, Paul officially gave the order to begin landing.

As the command was transmitted, the transforming spacecraft quickly disguised itself as an ordinary airdrop cabin and entered the atmosphere, slowly descending to the Three-Body human world.

The landing site of the transforming spacecraft is in a desert, but judging from the coordinate system of this location, this should have been a primeval forest in the past.

He had never expected that the environment of the Earth in the Three-Body Universe would deteriorate to this extent. The yellow sand and flying stones all over the sky and the scorching sun above his head made Paul wonder if he had come to the wrong place.

This doesn’t look like the Earth inhabited by humans. It’s clearly the planet Tatooine in “Star Wars”.

“No wonder humans here want to build so many space cities in orbit. How can we live in the environment of Earth?”

Paul shook his head, then used the communication device to ask other landing members, and the answers he got were similar: the area they were in was very desolate.

Obviously, the construction of those two thousand space battleships has emptied out everything of humanity, including the normal natural living environment.

If we lose this battle, human civilization will really collapse completely.

(End of this chapter)