After a communication delay of several minutes, the command from Sedna was finally transmitted to these five interstellar missiles.
The last batch of fuel stored in its last stage immediately began to burn, and fierce and hot airflow was sprayed from behind it again, pushing its forward speed to increase again.
"We have entered the coverage of the deep space planetary defense system!"
At this time, Zhao Changxing believed that if there were no accidents, these five missiles should have appeared on the radar screen of the Deep Space Star. Or... people from the Deep Space Civilization might have discovered it earlier.
.
The reason is very simple. There is no way to ensure that there are no spy satellites of deep space civilization in the interstellar space around Sedna at this moment. The previous clearance operations only confirmed that there are no spy satellites in a part of the range.
Even if all the spy satellites have been swept away, the sweeping operation itself also means that some big actions are about to be carried out. If the deep space civilization is not a fool, they should be able to smell some kind of dangerous omen from the operation itself, thereby improving the
One's own defensive capabilities.
At this moment, the spy satellites deployed by human civilization around the Deep Sky Star sent back relatively clear pictures of five interstellar missiles rushing towards the Deep Sky Star.
In the picture, five bright spots roughly appear in the shape of a trapezoid, charging towards the huge planet ahead.
In the combat readiness and defense room of the Human Government Building in Sun City, all high-level civilized officials were nervously watching the screen, always paying attention to the latest developments of the situation.
In the vast space, five missiles trailing long tail flames were like meteors in the sky, like divine punishment from the Nine Heavens, rushing towards the earth below at an incredible high speed. At this moment, dozens of missiles were extremely condensed, even
If you face it head-on, you won't be able to see it at all. Lasers that can't detect its existence are emitted from all over the surface of the deep space star and from all over the orbit.
They chased these five missiles, but perhaps because of the accuracy of the steering gear or the accuracy of radar observation, they were always with the last one. Their bodies were no longer huge and slender, but short and fat.
, the round missile bodies are just a millimeter apart, and they are never in contact.
There was an occasional contact, but because the irradiation time was too short, it only left a slight burn mark on the missile shell and failed to penetrate it.
After a while, while the laser cannon continued to irradiate, countless projectiles with tiny masses rushed over at extremely high speeds like a wave.
There are too many of them, which means that they do not need to have too high accuracy because they can cover all suspected directions.
An interstellar missile exploded.
This was an explosion of chemical fuel, not a hydrogen bomb. The damage-to-destroy device on it did not work.
"Leader, Missile No. 1 has been destroyed."
Zhao Changxing nodded: "As expected."
The violent acceleration continues.
High enough speed itself is one of the excellent means to create errors for deep space radar. Another extremely effective means is the process of accelerating to extremely high speeds.
Because the distance between the two parties is far enough, and the signal propagating at the speed of light also has a delay that cannot be ignored, the target targeted by the electromagnetic gun must have a certain advance. However, the calculation of the advance requires stable speed or acceleration.
The calculation is accurate.
The acceleration itself destroys this stability - because the acceleration process cannot be absolutely smooth. This will lead to errors in the advance data calculated by the electromagnetic gun, thereby avoiding their aim.
This is why both the original deep space civilization and the current human civilization will start the last level of acceleration when they are about to enter the coverage of the opponent's planet's defense system.
The purpose is to speed up the action itself to increase the probability of breakthrough.
The best way to combat this tactic is to increase the coverage area of the electromagnetic gun. As long as I fire enough electromagnetic gun projectiles and cover a large enough area, I can always hit the invading enemy.
The relationship between the two parties is that of spear and shield. There is no absolutely sharp spear and no absolutely tough shield.
Under the overwhelming bombardment of electromagnetic artillery projectiles, the second interstellar missile exploded, leaving a small flash of light in the lens of the deep space spy satellite.
This kind of flash has completely different spectral characteristics from that of interstellar missile thrusters. In the combat readiness and defense room of the Human Government Building in Sun City, Zhao Changxing and other officials can easily distinguish it.
"Missile No. 3 was destroyed."
"The current speed is 28.45 kilometers per second and is about to reach the maximum speed. It is estimated that there are still 3 minutes left before impact."
These three minutes are crucial three minutes.
Another new picture was sent back.
In this picture, there is a very bright and dazzling light spot. Under the cover of this light spot, billions of stars in the universe are eclipsed. Even the deep sky stars themselves cannot be seen.
"Nuclear explosion!"
"The damage-to-destruct device has been triggered! Unfortunately, the explosion point is still 5,000 kilometers away from the Deep Sky Star, and it basically has no impact on the Deep Sky Star."
Every second that passes, the distance between the missile body and the deep space star will shorten by nearly 30 kilometers.
Time passed quietly in silence.
"The sub-warhead was released successfully!"
Everyone was in high spirits.
Different from the interstellar missiles of deep space civilization, the warhead of the interstellar missile launched by human civilization is not a large-yield hydrogen bomb, but more than twenty small and medium-sized missiles each with the equivalent of 500,000 tons of TNT.
Nuclear bomb.
Now, the target has changed from one large target to 20 small targets, plus there is metal foil with a mass of hundreds of kilograms, and the metal foil can cause an effect similar to that of an interstellar missile on the radar echo.
, which greatly interferes with the radar scanning effect.
I am afraid that on the radar screen of deep space civilization, there are not only 40 interstellar missile targets, but hundreds!
At this point, there is only one step away from final success.
"If the interstellar missiles launched by the deep space civilization towards us were designed with separate warheads and false targets, we might not be able to intercept them."
A member of the war committee said with some fear.
"I can't figure out why they didn't use this method." Another committee member said: "Isn't this a very simple thing?"
This really has no technical content. It requires less investment and yields high results. According to common sense, there is no reason not to use them.
Zhao Changxing smiled and shook his head.
"The inheritance of deep space civilizations is likely to have epochs. They probably don't have a database that records all the technical information of the entire civilization like us. But don't be happy too early. If we don't destroy them this time, then wait.
The next time they retaliate against us, they should learn this method. Everyone should be prepared in advance."
Everyone nodded together.
These small nuclear bombs themselves do not have much power - this is why people did not release them too early, but it doesn't matter, the previous acceleration process has given them a high enough speed.
After the sub-warheads and false targets were released, the overwhelming electromagnetic gun projectiles obviously caused considerable confusion. Many projectiles were all heading towards the direction of the false targets, and the pressure on the real targets was less.
A lot.
Under such circumstances, it has become inevitable that the Deep Sky Star will be hit.
People's hearts are raised at the same time.
Such a long period of preparation, such a long period of patience and anger will soon come to fruition.
Can this attack destroy deep space civilization? What kind of results can be achieved? How should the policies and development direction of human civilization be determined in the future?
All this depends on this attack.
At this moment, the spy satellites lurking around the deep space star even directly received signals from the deep space civilization. These signals were not encrypted or otherwise concealed, but were directly received by the spy satellites. This was obviously a deep space civilization.
People broadcast it directly in panic.
"Emergency! Cover! Cover!"
"Help!"
"Help! The missiles are coming!"
The two surviving interstellar missiles dispersed a total of 40 sub-warheads. Of these, only three were intercepted and destroyed. The remaining 37 all escaped the dragnet-like interception.
The next moment, they crashed to the ground and hit their target.
They did not specifically select targets to attack, but were quite random. Because people believed that as long as they hit the Deep Sky Star, they would be victorious, and there was no need to select targets at all.
The next moment, pictures from spy satellites arrived again. People could clearly see the bright flowers blooming on the vast land of the deep space star.
A total of 37 hydrogen bombs with the equivalent of 500,000 tons of TNT, as long as they come into contact with the deep space star, will be enough to cause a violent impact on the entire deep space star no matter where they explode. Because the deep space star is too small.
Without further detection, Zhao Changxing can know what will happen on the deep space star.
The explosion of each sub-warhead will sweep across all man-made or non-man-made objects within a radius of dozens of kilometers. The violent shock waves caused by the explosion will sweep across the entire planet, creating strong earthquakes everywhere on the planet.
.And this earthquake will destroy most of the ground and underground buildings.
Countless tholins will be sublimated and melted, even allowing the dwarf planet to temporarily have an atmosphere in a macro sense.
The radiation contaminants thrown all over the planet along with the explosion will completely destroy the planet's environment. No matter what you want to do next, whether you want to rebuild civilization or move around on the surface of the planet, you will all be affected by radiation pollution.
This situation was originally going to happen on the Sedna star. But now, it happened on the Deep Sky star.
Zhao Changxing shook his head gently.
"It's a pity that we didn't exterminate them this time. But it doesn't matter. Even if the ground and underground buildings of the deep space civilization were not completely destroyed, they were almost damaged. If we want to restore them to the current level, there is no way under normal circumstances.
It won’t be possible for decades to come. Besides…how can we allow them to develop peacefully?”
Under this retaliation, technological and development advantages have been unshakably established.
Zhao Changxing slowly stood up and sent a message that had been edited long ago to the planet that was ravaged by hydrogen bombs.
"Dear Deep Space Civilization, hello. As you said, peace can only exist between civilizations of equal strength. Before this, our human civilization has passed your test, and now, our civilization has also done the same to you.
There was a small test, wouldn't you be angry about it? After all, this is the universal code of civilization. But now it seems that your civilization has failed our test..."
"On behalf of human civilization, I sincerely wish that your civilization can quickly improve its strength and gain equal status with our civilization as soon as possible. Before that, according to the universal civilization rules you said, your civilization will temporarily be unable to compete with ours.
We have equal status here."
After sending this message, Zhao Changxing looked at the members of the War Committee and the military industry experts.
"The so-called killing him while he is sick. Has a new interstellar missile been built?"