Blackrock Fortress

Since the last dream hammock, there has been no news from Anchorage, and Bai Yi didn't ask much about it.

Because there are other things now that require his full attention.

He is now preparing for his most ambitious campaign yet.

Tens of thousands of acceleration coils were placed at regular intervals in space. Each of these coils was equipped with a control engine for adjusting the attitude and a space anchor.

In this way, they can anchor themselves in space, maintain this state for a long time, and withstand a certain amount of impact without being disrupted.

Because the density of matter in the Fermi bubbles is thin enough, these coils do not need to be closely connected to each other.

The universe itself is the best vacuum chamber.

Together, these coils form a huge ring structure that can fit two Earths.

At first glance, this massive ring looks like one of the giant particle accelerators used to conduct scientific theory in other regions of the Milky Way.

But in fact it is a giant artillery battery.

To be precise, this is just a gun muzzle. The real gun turret is an O-type star, also known as a blue giant.

O-type stars are the largest, most intensely burning, brightest, and most energy-releasing stars known.

They are able to emit strong ultraviolet light and appear bluish-white in the visible spectrum, hence the name blue giant.

For centuries, the Galactic Alliance has been trying to control a blue giant star to use as a weapon.

It wasn't until a few years ago that the project was finally declared a success.

This weapon is called a Dyson beam.

Although both names contain the word Dyson, the Dyson beam and the Dyson sphere are two completely different things.

Dyson beams wrap around stars and use the light and heat radiated by the stars to generate electricity.

The Dyson beam can be simply understood as a magnifying glass on a cosmic scale, which uses the lens principle to focus the energy of a star into a beam of destructive rays.

At the same time, in order to improve timeliness and reduce the damage attenuation of the light beam during propagation.

Before using it, the Galactic Alliance will first build a huge portal in the area to be fired as a muzzle, and then connect the gate at the target location with the portal in the galaxy where the Dyson beam is located.

The portal used by the Dyson beam is different from the star gate. Although there is no way to transport materials safely, its speed of traveling through space is much faster than that of an ordinary star gate.

Therefore, it only takes a dozen hours for the destructive ray to cross tens of thousands of light years and reach the other end of the portal.

Now everything is ready and the plan officially begins.

The entire plan was code-named "Da Ji".

The Daji Plan is divided into three parts.

The first part is the longest phase of the entire project.

First, find an open area of ​​air within the heavily defended area of ​​Upper Blackstone Fortress.

This is not difficult to find. After all, the universe is so big that the thing it has the most is space.

Secondly, a portal that can be used by Dyson beams is built at the edge of the airspace.

It is necessary to ensure that the portal is facing away from the Blackstone Fortress base, and there are no buildings within at least 100 light years of the muzzle.

Then, build 16 storm beacons within the designated area and deploy a large number of warp disruption devices around these beacons.

The latter, as the name suggests, is a device that can disrupt jumps. It can prevent ships within range from performing first and second jumps, preventing them from escaping.

During wars across the galaxy, people discovered that the device was also applicable to Crystal Storm, which meant that the enemy had something in common with them, at least in principle.

The Storm Beacon is the Alliance's latest invention.

After finding a way to avoid Crystal Storm interception when connecting star gates, the Alliance did not stop analyzing Crystal Storm.

They eventually found a way to pass on false intelligence.

By decompiling the communication codes used by Crystal Storm teams, a new device combining a phase-space interceptor and a misdirection signal was created.

This device can mislead the crystal storm in the subspace, making the opponent mistakenly believe that a new star gate has been connected and move into the corresponding range.

Then, before Crystal Storm realized something was wrong, they were pulled out of the warp using a phase-space interceptor.

However, this storm inducer has not been tested because it is a one-time product.

In order to attract crystal spaceships of sufficient size, the Storm Beacon also embedded a secret code in the tachyon band that can attract the crystals to gather spontaneously.

This code also originated from the decompilation of Crystal Storm's internal communications.

Crystal Storm regularly changes the communication codes used internally, and the current coding format used by the Alliance will soon become obsolete.

At the same time, once the key is discovered to be leaked, the crystal is very likely to immediately change the code currently in use.

Therefore, the Alliance decided not to take the risk of testing the Storm Beacon, but to conduct actual combat drills directly after making all preparations.

The current mainstream view is that the Crystal Storm population should adopt some kind of hive thinking. Their sub-individuals cooperate with each other very efficiently, and the lower-level crystals will unconditionally obey the orders of the higher-level ones.

Once the hardware facilities such as beacons and portals are almost ready, it is time to deploy the firepower.

A large number of defense platforms and fleets will be mobilized to the periphery of the designated area, and these firepower will mainly serve to delay time and make up the enemy.

After all, the Dyson beam needs to be prepared for several hours before it is launched, not to mention the time it takes to travel at the speed of light and the communication delay between the two locations.

The defending fleet needed to delay the anticipated main enemy force for at least twenty-four hours.

This is also one of the reasons why the plan was implemented at Upper Blackstone Fortress.

Since the entire Great Wall defense line was not yet complete when the war broke out, the two Blackstone Fortresses, the most powerful ones besides the core defense circle, were the Upper and Lower Blackstone Fortresses.

Among them, Upper Black Stone Fortress has the most complete facilities.

After all, this is a defense unit directly under the United Nations on Earth. Unlike Lower Black Rock, it needs to constantly report progress to the representatives on the Galactic Council during the construction process and modify its construction direction according to their feedback.

Of course this is only the main reason.

The direct reason is that the latest subspace scan shows that a huge crystal storm fleet is lurking near the subspace coordinates corresponding to the Upper Blackstone Fortress.

Because the other party was disguised, the intelligence department was unable to have a clear understanding of the number and configuration of the fleet.

But one thing is certain: this is definitely a huge fleet.

It is even possible that it is not a fleet, but a stronghold or gathering place of Crystal Storm.

They could be sending troops from here to attack various regions of the galaxy. Similarly, they could be gathering here to launch a vertical assault on the galaxy from Upper Blackstone Fortress.

In short, no matter which possibility occurs, the Galactic Alliance will not sit idly by.

Instead of waiting for the other party to come to you, it is better to take the initiative.