The Virgo Supercluster is also called the Local Supercluster in the federal database.
It is composed of 100 galaxy groups or clusters, spanning a distance of more than 100 million light-years, and together with the Kempinian Supercluster and the Lavis Supercluster, form the Laniakea Supercluster
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The Local Group of galaxies in which the Milky Way is located is located at the very edge of the Virgo Supercluster, and is constantly moving away from the Virgo Supercluster.
It is foreseeable that in hundreds of millions of years, the Local Galaxy Group, where the Milky Way is located, is likely to completely break away from the Virgo Supercluster!
Of course, this is not an issue that the federation needs to consider now.
The key now is that the Myers galaxy group is also located at the very edge of the Virgo supercluster, and its orientation is completely opposite to that of the local supercluster.
This is also the reason why the Local Group of galaxies in which the Milky Way is located and the Myers Group of galaxies belong to the Virgo Supercluster, but are separated by more than 100 million light-years.
Now, what Lin Fan plans is to first capture all the 27 galaxy groups between the two galaxy groups, making the territory of the federation a whole, and then spread outwards, until finally completely occupying the entire Virgo Super
Galaxy cluster!
At this moment, in the virtual conference room, Lin Fan pointed at a red dot in the virtual projected star map in front of him.
"Ves Galaxy Group!"
Weiss galaxy group?
In the virtual conference room, the basic information of this galaxy group flashed through the minds of everyone present. They were stunned for a moment.
No one thought that Lin Fan's first target would be this galaxy group.
This should be the galaxy group that should be least preferred!
Speaking of the Weiss galaxy group, according to intelligence, it is a completely unified galaxy group with a sixth-level technological civilization.
Of course, some big guys feel that this galaxy group should not be chosen as the primary target, not because of this level-6 technological civilization.
After all, a sixth-level civilization currently poses no threat to the Federation.
But the problem is that among the 27 galaxies in the Weiss Galaxy Group, there are 26 dwarf galaxies...
What do dwarf galaxies represent?
Everyone here is a big boss of the Federation, and everyone still understands these basic common sense of the universe.
Dwarf galaxies represent a small number of members, and also represent a very low possibility of having planets with natural life.
This is not a good place!
This can be confirmed from Starfleet's exploration reports.
According to the Star Fleet report, each of these 26 dwarf galaxies is much larger than the Milky Way, and is not even much smaller than the Andromeda Galaxy.
However, the average number of stars it contains is only 10 billion. As for the original life planet, it is even more like a rare animal.
You know, even the Milky Way, which is much smaller than these galaxies, has more than 100 billion stars, and the Andromeda Galaxy, which is about the same size, even has more than 1 trillion stars.
10 billion?
This is just a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, right?
Well, the number of the Large Magellanic Cloud under the control of the Federation is almost 10 billion!
These two items are pretty much the same!
Nonsense, it’s pretty much the same thing. The Large Magellanic Cloud is just a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Its diameter is less than 10,000 light-years!
And which galaxies are in the Wyss Group?
Each of them started out as being 100,000 light-years in size, and there were even several that directly exceeded 200,000 light-years in size, but they only had a few billion to 10 billion stars.
What strategic value could such a place have?
Looking at the group of frowning bosses, Lin Fan naturally understood what they were thinking.
To be honest, if there were no exploration reports from Starfleet, I might not even take a direct look at this galaxy group, let alone spend a lot of energy to formulate a combat plan and put this galaxy group as the primary target of attack!
"Everyone, I know what you are thinking, but there is a piece of information that was not recorded in the report in your hands, and it was this information that led us to make the Weiss Galaxy Group our primary target!"
This time, everyone became interested.
What kind of information is so secretive that it is not mentioned at all in public reports?
"Everyone should know that since the Federation entered the dark energy era thirteen years ago, the technology related to it has developed rapidly. Even the Star Fleet has built a special fleet based on dark energy technology!"
All the big guys nodded, they still have the right to know these things.
But why did the topic come to this?
Shouldn't...
Is the plan to capture the Wyss Galaxy Group actually related to dark energy?
And is it also related to military technology?
There was not a single idiot in the virtual meeting room. He quickly made many associations based on Lin Fan's words, and some of his ideas were even close to the truth.
"Actually, there's one thing you may not know."
"The first dark energy fleet built before was just for testing. To test the combat effectiveness of the warships built with dark energy technology as the core?"
"And the results are quite encouraging. When faced with five times the number of dreadnought battleships, this experimental fleet actually directly crushed the dreadnought fleet!"
"It is precisely because of this result that we immediately decided to start designing the second-generation warship with dark energy technology as the core, the Nether-class warship!"
"However, like the first-generation battleship, many necessary parts of the Nether-class battleship must be made of a metal called Ai Luo. However, this metal is very rare in the areas currently controlled by the Federation and is simply not enough to support it.
Starfleet’s massive Nether-class battleship mass production plan!”
"Therefore, in the past ten years, in addition to exploring and obtaining intelligence, the pioneer fleet has actually had a third mission."
"Search for Aero Metal!"
It turned out that this was the case, and all the big guys nodded their heads!
Um?
etc!
If he said that, did Lin Fan mean that he had found this metal called Ai Luo in the Weiss Galaxy Group?
When I think about it this way, all doubts disappear instantly and my heart suddenly becomes enlightened.
"Everyone, according to the preliminary exploration of the pioneer fleet, there is a large amount of Ai Luo metal in almost every galaxy in the Weiss galaxy group."
"And the reserves initially determined are enough to support the Starfleet's Nether-class battleship manufacturing plan for a full hundred years!"
hiss...
Are the reserves so large?
You know, the Federation's warship manufacturing speed is very fast now. The average number of warships manufactured every year is calculated in units of one billion.
One hundred years?
Wouldn’t it be possible to build a Nether-class battleship with a scale of hundreds of billions?
No wonder Lin Fan insisted on attacking here first. It turns out that this is the problem...