Chapter 262: Star Gate Construction
Galactic Calendar 9423.
When the induction signal of a T2 Peregrine Falcon lit up in the Solar System, under the cooperation of the Ministry of Economy and Trade along with the Ministry of Industry and Foreign Affairs Department, Star Gate construction materials procured from the Starfield Market, accompanied by several Giant Elephant Class ships and escorted by nearly a thousand Punishers, were delivered by the Conqueror to the Solar System.
Meanwhile, at a hidden point in the barycenter region of the Alpha Centauri star system, thousands of construction workers and hundreds of various types of ships began the installation work of a one-sided Star Gate under the Fox’s guidance.
The procurement of Star Gate materials consists entirely of modular components; once all materials are fully acquired, they only need to be assembled according to the predetermined process.
In terms of difficulty, not considering manufacturing technology, just the assembly aspect is actually not high.
Several days later.
Solar System, 5000 kilometers from the Jupiter-Mars Hub toward Jupiter, the Star Gate work commenced here at the same time.
At the same time, under Fan Ren’s order, over 100,000 various types of warships from the Azure Dragon Legion, which had been stationed at the galaxy edge responsible for galaxy edge defense, slowly arrived 500 kilometers away from here.
In the long time ahead, they will be responsible for defense, security checks, and other work here.
Actually, during the routine meeting held by the committee when selecting the Star Gate site, intense arguments erupted again.
As a direct passage connecting to the Alpha Centauri star domain, this Star Gate in the Solar System will directly become the arrival point for all ships passing through the Star Gate.
It must be known that passage through the Star Gate has absolutely no technical restrictions.
Generally speaking, substances in nature can freely travel between Star Gates.
Moreover, after the Star Gate is built, due to its involvement in space technology, its defenses cannot be destroyed by weapons at the ordinary material level.
This is why, even after countless great wars, the Star Gate at Alpha Centauri still stands proudly.
It can be said that apart from the Five Great Super Civilizations, none of the many civilizations in the Galactic Alliance currently have the physical capability to destroy it.
With this premise, the issue of the Star Gate site selection in the Solar System naturally led to fierce disputes among various relevant high officials.
The site selection disputes had several levels.
First were the opinions between several departments focused on civilian work.
These departments’ opinion was that as an emerging Tier 2 Civilization, humanity’s current self-preservation means are still in doubt; at this time, placing the Star Gate site deep inside the star system, and at the main industrial hub of human civilization.
Doing it this way carries too much risk.
Once war breaks out, this place will directly become the first battlefield, and the many main industrial facilities of human civilization not far from here are also highly likely to suffer powerful strikes from the enemy fleet.
And once these industrial facilities are lost, human civilization will face supply issues in subsequent combat operations.
In short, their opinion was to place the Star Gate site at the original station of the Azure Dragon Legion, that is, Neptune Orbit.
This way, the over 4 billion kilometers of strategic buffer zone can provide human civilization more opportunities in wartime.
Moreover, as the galaxy edge, if that place becomes the direct battlefield, human civilization can fight without restraint, without worrying about the safety of surrounding industrial structures.
The other side, led by the Ministry of Industry and Space Force, had much more direct opinions.
In the Galactic Alliance, in the case of large-scale war within a star system, intra-system distances are no longer a limiting factor for the combatants.
The warp engine’s faster-than-light intra-system mobility capability renders such traditional strategic depth theories meaningless.
Actually, as long as the Star Gate location is close to super-large building clusters or planets within the star system, any ship equipped with a warp engine can arrive there immediately via warp.
Rather than deviating from the original intent and placing the Star Gate, which facilitates contact between humanity and the Galactic Alliance, at Neptune Orbit 4 billion kilometers away.
It is better to strengthen the defense forces at the Jupiter-Mars Hub.
As the legion with the most ferocious combat style to date, the Azure Dragon Legion became the best choice to undertake this defense task.
While the Black Tortoise Legion has been fully staffed and equipped for some time, as a newly formed legion, although it has Liu Shengzhan as direct leader, it has not yet been tested in actual combat, so it remains stationed for training at the Blue Star Hub base.
This suggestion was the result of considerations based on referencing the Galactic Alliance war development history.
Through analysis of war information from various civilizations in the Galaxy that is publicly available, the Space Force found that in the over 9000-year process of Galactic civilization development.
In all war information between civilizations, cases of expeditionary forces traveling through interstellar space, taking decades or centuries to voyage to a certain star system, are extremely rare.
Generally, such behavior only occurs in cases like the previous Hans Civilization, where after detailed judgment, it was learned that the Solar System Civilization was not registered in the Galactic Alliance and had extremely high demand value, before using such a time-consuming and laborious method for expedition.
While most wars between civilizations mainly rely on Star Gates to span between various star systems.
And the deployment of defense lines is also extremely simple.
The Star Gate is the defense line!
This is the majority form of wars between second- and third-level civilizations in the current publicly available information of the Galactic Alliance.
The reasoning is also very simple.
The Star Gate is the only engagement and blocking point.
If unable to break through this area, subsequent forces cannot enter.
And once this area is breached, the invading fleet’s advantages will be infinitely amplified.
They can leap freely between various planets within the star system to seek suitable fighter opportunities.
This warp capability also allows the invading side to completely seize the initiative in this phase.
In the end, with both sides adamant and unable to reach agreement, after careful consideration, Fan Ren issued the chairman’s order, arranging the Star Gate site at 5000 kilometers from the Jupiter-Mars Hub, to be defended with round-the-clock combat readiness by the entire Azure Dragon Legion force.
The Star Gate construction work progressed very quickly.
At this time, human civilization did not stop.
Venus, Mercury, Io—the transformation work on these three major resource planets was also carried out simultaneously under the leadership of the Ministry of Industry.
Meanwhile, after the routine meeting ended, Fan Ren returned to the Ross 154 planetary system along with the Conqueror.
This was also the Conqueror’s last delivery mission for industrial domain purposes.
After this, the Conqueror will cease its recent active status, dock at the hidden base in the Ross 154 planetary system, and continue to contribute to human civilization’s development in the form of a research facility.
As a super Titan warship left by previous humanity.
The Conqueror spaceship is not only extremely outstanding in combat capability; its design is more oriented toward serving as the flagship of an expeditionary fleet.
The many laboratories on it have performance in various aspects superior to the experimental devices currently used by humanity.
