"At this stage, we have not yet completed the material collection work, and our material reserves are severely insufficient.
Not only that, we have also invested a large amount of resources in basic industrial construction. Most of these are immovable facilities and cannot be recovered in a short period of time.
This has led to a more serious shortage of our material reserves. If we are forced to set sail, our fleet's speed will only reach 15% of the speed of light, and we will only have one chance for launch-deceleration.
The enemy fleet is large in number, and their target is our non-combat spacecraft. Our fleet has only a few hundred thousand ships left, which is not enough to provide complete protection for non-combat spacecraft.
Based on our more advanced technology and combat power, we are still confident that we can completely annihilate the enemy fleet, provided that they only cause minor damage to our main fleet.
The estimated scale of losses is: 50 to 100 residential spacecraft, with approximately 100 to 200 million masters losing their lives, accounting for approximately to of the total population.
Comprehensive judgment: our best option is to continue to defend this star system, at the cost of to of the population, annihilate the enemy warship fleet or render it incapable of attacking, and then restore our warship reserves and complete the capture of the enemy.
I am eternally loyal to the Black Mountain Civilization. Protecting the masters is my eternal, inviolable, and highest priority mission.
The death of any master is an unacceptable major cost, let alone the lives of 100 to 200 million masters.
The only way to avoid a large number of master deaths is to abandon the existing basic industrial construction, force a launch, and escape the enemy's pursuit at a higher speed.
However, due to the severe shortage of material reserves in our fleet, once we launch, we will not be able to return. The launch-deceleration opportunity is only once, which means that our only option is to travel to another star system at a speed of 15% of the speed of light, and dock there to complete subsequent material collection and strength recovery work.
The nearest star system is light-years away. Including acceleration and deceleration time, traveling at a maximum speed of 15% of the speed of light will take approximately 64 years to reach.
It will take approximately 200 years to carry out large-scale industrial infrastructure construction and restore the fleet's strength in the new star system.
After completing this work, when we return to this star system again, our speed can be restored to a maximum of 73% of the speed of light. Including acceleration and deceleration time, it will take approximately 20 years.
Thus, the total time required is: 284 years.
Launching to another star system at this moment, and returning here after completing strength recovery work, is the only solution that can avoid a large number of master deaths and still retain the plan to capture the intelligent life of this prey civilization. After all, in just under 300 years, even if this prey civilization escapes, it will not be able to escape too far.
Also, the plan implemented by this prey civilization in this star system can only take effect once. The next time we capture this civilization, with preparation, this plan will definitely fail against us.
In that case, launch! Target speed, 15% of the speed of light!
Plan verification in progress... No conflicts with the highest mission were found."
At this moment, Li Qingsong noticed that on the gas giant where the Machine-God Scourge main fleet was located, and on the many satellites around it, countless spaceships took off violently and quickly entered the space carriers.
A large number of hydrogen bombs were quickly dropped, destroying all the industrial bases that were in their initial form and had not yet been officially put into operation.
At the same time, a large number of large spacecraft simultaneously activated their thrusters, spraying high-speed plasma towards the rear with a brightness comparable to that of a star, propelling the huge fleet to accelerate violently before their own fleet approached, and then flying away from the star at a faster acceleration than their own fleet.
At the same time, the Machine-God Scourge warships, which had always surrounded their own fleet like piranhas wandering around a whale, constantly tearing at their flesh and causing heavy casualties, simultaneously stopped their attacks and moved directly away with higher maneuverability, merging into the main fleet.
This huge fleet only stayed in the Pegasus V432 star system for such a short time before setting sail again.
At this moment, Li Qingsong's heart was full of excitement.
Sure enough, just as he had expected, this Machine-God Scourge fleet retreated!
Even things that ordinary strong nuclear civilizations could not do, now, he had done it!
Although his side paid such a heavy price, and in the process, used the right time, right place, and right people to the extreme, using strategy and tactics to the extreme, but in the end, he still could not truly hurt the foundation of this Machine-God Scourge fleet—the nearly two million warships that were destroyed only belonged to the Machine-God Scourge fleet that could be restored with time, he only managed to force them to temporarily retreat, but, for himself, who was still in the electroweak civilization stage, it was still an almost unimaginable major victory.
An electroweak civilization forcing back a strong nuclear civilization, probably no civilization in the entire galaxy would believe it!
But now, he had truly done it!
And he had initially achieved the strategic goal: this forced retreat meant that the Machine-God Scourge fleet would definitely not be able to make a comeback in a short period of time, and he would have the extremely precious time to launch an attack on the Grand Unified Theory!
Now the only thing to worry about is the opponent's speed.
Even if he starts to attack technology with all his strength from this moment on and everything goes smoothly, it will take at least 270 years to become a strong nuclear civilization.
It's at least.
And everything has to go smoothly, without any twists and turns or obstacles.
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Less than 270 years, there is no hope at all.
Originally, it would take at least 300 years, but now that the basic industrial construction has been completed, this part of the time has been saved, so it has become 270 years.
But this is obviously too extreme. Considering the possible obstacles and twists and turns, Li Qingsong believes that about 300 years is more stable.
Li Qingsong calculated that if the Machine-God Scourge fleet's remaining materials were enough to support them to travel at 15% of the speed of light, go to the nearest star system, complete their recuperation and strength recovery work, and then return here, it would only take about 260-280 years.
After all, for the Machine-God Scourge, how long it takes to recuperate in a star system to recover, and how long it takes to come back after recovery, these are all calculable and fixed values.
The only thing that can delay the time is the speed of the outbound journey at this moment.
"A speed of 15% of the speed of light, you will be able to make a comeback in 260-280 years..."
This time is obviously not enough for him.
After all, he can't expect the scientific research process to have no twists and turns.
"If it is a speed of 10% of the speed of light... the time for the Machine-God Scourge fleet to make a comeback will be extended to about 300 years, which is barely enough for me to complete the breakthrough."
