Chapter 133: Solar System Defense System

In the 100th year of the New Earth Calendar, after the unremitting efforts of five generations, the strength accumulated by Earth Civilization had reached a qualitative change from quantitative accumulation.

The spaceships used by Earth nowadays were all manufactured by humans, and various basic industries had completely shaken off their dependence on the Fifth-grade Civilization Morentz.

The resource strategy proposed by Lin Xin many years ago had already yielded significant results. Earth Civilization now possessed two thousand third-generation interstellar warships.

These warships showed a remarkable leap in performance, with their maximum Curvature reaching 500 and their continuous Warp Flight time increased to one year.

The improvements in their weapon equipment were also extremely obvious. At present, an energy cannon of a warship could shatter an asteroid with a diameter of one thousand kilometers into cosmic dust within ten seconds.

These were not the most crucial points. What truly caused a qualitative change in the combat effectiveness of third-generation warships was the Digital Life carried on each warship.

The standard crew complement of a warship was: two humans and one Digital Life. Ordinary combat would be completed by the Digital Life, but for some strategic decisions and battles requiring particularly flexible reaction strategies, humans needed to take the lead.

Simulated warship confrontations showed that a fleet composed purely of Digital Life could not compete with a fleet combining humans and Digital Life, with the battle situation almost being a walkover.

The first Digital Life Source on Earth had now become an important support for the normal operation of Earth Civilization. Its resident hardware platform consisted of a computer loop made up of five super optical quantum computers independently developed and designed by Earthlings.

After Source, humans developed the Digital Lives “Luo” and “Zhan”. These three Digital Lives became the ancestors of Earth’s Digital Lives, managing different functions of Earth.

Source was responsible for the distribution of Earth’s social resources, Luo was responsible for people’s livelihood, and Zhan, as the name suggested, was completely responsible for war.

Since then, humans no longer intervened in the affairs of Digital Life. Instead, they, together with all intelligent life on Earth, formulated the “Earth Citizenship Law”, which narrated in great detail the rights and obligations of every citizen, whether human or Digital Life.

This was a sign that the Earth New Federation had completely become mature.

Under this surging social wave, humanity’s century-long accumulation was finally released, and a brand new, very bold plan was proposed, which was the construction of the “Pan-Solar System Defense System”.

The current humans had established bases on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and even the farthest Pluto, but most of these bases were only used for scientific exploration and were not true military bases in a real sense.

The older generation of pioneers on Earth had passed away many years ago, and many statues were erected in the central square of City of Hope.

These statues, whether in contemplation, looking forward, whispering, or shouting, were those recognized as having played a key role in promoting the development of civilization.

These people included Xiao Boru, Mu Zhe, Lu Daolin, Li Yi, and so on, and even the statue of Lin Lei White was among them.

But among these statues, Lin Xin was conspicuously missing. Twenty years earlier, she had left Earth for unknown reasons and settled on Apocalypse Star.

This caused a severe shock in human society at the time. Most people did not understand Lin Xin’s actions, and even extremists called her a defector.

These external remarks had no effect on Lin Xin, because she had relatives on Apocalypse, and not only her mother, but also that father she worshipped!

Regardless, humans still needed to move forward. Once the Pan-Solar System Defense System was proposed, it received the maximum recognition from human society.

The main planets of the current Solar System basically ran on the ecliptic plane, including the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the Kuiper Belt on the periphery of the Solar System.

But this was a law of nature, not a law of intelligent life. The Layite People would not methodically arrive at Earth along the ecliptic plane; they would certainly adopt the most direct method to attack Earth directly from outside the ecliptic plane.

In this way, Earth’s defense system had only one military base on the Moon. Once a battle occurred, it would be difficult not to affect the mother planet Earth.

“To intercept the enemy beyond the Oort Cloud! To set the battlefield in true space!” This was the central idea of this defense system.

This proposal was put forward by a native-born human, and Lin Lei did not intervene in any way.

Lin Lei had changed his body. When this body was still in the womb, he had already installed his sub-consciousness into it, which can be considered a proper reincarnation.

Nowadays, Lin Lei held a high position in the Earth Government. He was known for his wise mind and far-sighted vision. As soon as this proposal reached his hands, it was immediately put on the highest agenda.

His current name was Lu Yuan. He was the great-grandson of Lu Daolin, which was also one of the reasons why he could climb to a high position quickly.

The approval of this proposal was beyond doubt. The key was the details of the implementation, which needed serious discussion.

The formulation of this specific defense plan took a full year. After a year, a perfect implementation scheme was produced, and then the Earth Government poured most of its energy into the construction of the defense system.

Humans would push two asteroids with diameters of 100 kilometers to the two sides of the ecliptic plane as super military bases in the upper and lower directions of the Solar System in the future five years.

The distance between these two asteroids and the Sun was 10,000 Astronomical Units. They were symmetrical relative to the Sun, and their positions were fixed relative to the Solar System.

These two asteroids would be constructed as Interstellar Fortresses, equipped with super-large power interstellar fortress cannons, whose energy was sufficient to pierce the Moon.

Of course, this was not the most important. The key point was that large-range space interferers would be installed on both Fortress Stars. The result of their simultaneous operation was that, except for the specially reserved Warp Flight channels, ordinary flight could only be conducted elsewhere in the entire Solar System.

This was to prevent the Layite People from launching surprise attacks. These Warp Flight channels were controlled by humans. In peacetime, they changed once a month, and in wartime, they might change once a day or even once an hour.

Previous humans found it difficult to achieve such precise control, but now, with the support of powerful Digital Life, doing so was a piece of cake, and the probability of error was almost non-existent.

The fortress itself was also set with a complete defense mechanism. The strength of the Protective Force Field on it allowed it to stay safely on the surface of the Sun for 500 hours.

Each Fortress Star was also equipped with a large number of mobile forces, with five hundred third-generation interstellar warships permanently stationed there.

The construction of these two Fortress Stars consumed nearly a century’s worth of resource reserves of humanity and took twenty-five years.

But this was not the end. The purpose of the entire defense system was to make the Solar System wrapped by the Oort Cloud as solid as a fortress, with no loopholes.

In the last fifty years, the entire human society was dominated by an almost crazy emotion. Humans and Digital Lives were developing Earth’s military strength regardless of the cost.

Newborn humans were instilled with concepts of war, strength, and race from the time they could remember, and underwent military training from an early age. Any potential and talent was maximized.

If you do not strengthen yourself, your race will be destroyed! The Layite People were true aliens. The first attempt to destroy humanity failed. The second time, they would definitely not show mercy; instead, they would learn from their mistakes, and their methods would certainly be extremely cruel and thorough.

In the 131st year of the New Calendar, the construction of the Northern and Southern Interstellar Fortresses was completed, and the entire Solar System began to be under human monitoring.

By this time, the Solar System was no longer the primitive scene of the past, but was full of traces of civilization everywhere. Venus, the planet most like Earth, also began to be transformed by humans, hoping to become a second habitable Life Planet.

At this time, there were only 19 years left until the deadline of 150 years. After being appraised by the Star Alliance, Earth’s civilization level had truly reached the height that a Fifth-grade Civilization should have.

When the result of this appraisal was announced, it caused widespread attention in the Galaxy. In 131, Earthlings went from having nothing to becoming a true Fifth-grade Civilization. This development speed could only be described as crazy.

The Layite People were shocked. They never expected that in such a short time, the former little bugs had already grown into beings who could stand up to them.

Under such circumstances, even if the Layite People won in a battle between two civilizations of the same level, it would be a pyrrhic victory!

Another consequence of Earth becoming a Fifth-grade Civilization was that the 150-year protection period promised by the Star Alliance to Earth had become vague and elusive in the last 19 years.

Layite People spaceships began to appear frequently in the outer periphery of the Oort Cloud, often showing hostility to Earth’s spaceships.

The Layite People’s provocations, using every means possible, were only to force the Earthlings to make the first move, so that they would not have to worry about the star Alliance arbitration order, which existed in name only.

The Earthlings were enduring, striving for as much development time as possible.

Now, there was only one layer of membrane left between the two civilizations. As soon as a misfire incident occurred between the fleets of both sides one day, full-scale war would begin immediately!