Chapter 293: Discussion
Liu Shengzhan clearly knew that the deep meaning behind the words Fan Ren suddenly said to him was something he completely ignored the changes in his own body at this moment, directly entering his role as Vice Chairman of the Human Civilization Committee and Space Force Marshal.
The current state of the Hans Civilization had been roughly understood by them as early as decades ago during the Expeditionary Force’s interception battle, based on the captured Mai Dao’s confession.
In summary, resources were nearly depleted, and advancing into the Centauri Alpha Star Domain was hopeless, leaving them to slowly wait until they had no choice but to join the Sirius Civilization.
However, after Human Civilization joined the Galactic Alliance, there was some cooperation between the two.
No matter what, all these cooperation matters were the result of careful consideration by Fan Ren and numerous high-ranking officials of the committee.
Among them, a very key idea was to extend the Hans Civilization’s life, to prevent them from jumping the wall in desperation and targeting Human Civilization to start a war.
This was not because Human Civilization feared the Hans Civilization declaring war; in fact, after the strategic analysis meeting not long ago, the Space Force led by Liu Shengzhan no longer felt much threat from the Hans Civilization.
After all, Human Civilization still had a hidden force in the Ross 154 planetary system that was not publicly known to exist.
In contrast, the main ships of the Hans Civilization were all composed of missile weapons with relatively outdated firepower.
Before Fan Ren researched electromagnetic railgun long-range ammunition, this might have posed a danger to Human fleets due to the 2000-kilometer range, but now it was obvious that the offense and defense had reversed.
The solemnity when facing this intelligence now mainly came from the source behind this intelligence.
Regarding the Hans Civilization, even if they were about to declare war now, Fan Ren had no worries at all, and Liu Shengzhan was the same.
But what they feared was that there might be other forces behind this, watching everything that would happen here.
Enemies in the shadows were the most terrifying.
“Do you have any guesses?”
Facing Liu Shengzhan’s question, Fan Ren shook his head helplessly and said, “None. Dan Qin’s Intelligence Department also has no clues about this, and based on the results of the calculations from A’dai’s supercomputer, the results can basically be ignored.”
“Tell me, what is the calculation result?”
“The probability is equal for the seven Tier 2 Civilizations in the Centauri Alpha Star Domain, and the Sirius Civilization also has a certain probability of being the force behind this intelligence.”
Fan Ren spread his hands and said helplessly.
Nearby, Li Jian turned his head, glanced at the two who had suddenly fallen silent, and couldn’t help but frown slightly.
“Second Brother, how about we advance our plan?”
As the Legion Commander of the Azure Phoenix Legion, especially now that the main battleships of the Azure Phoenix Legion had completed multiple rounds of upgrades, he had long been impatient with the series of combat plans against the Hans Civilization that Fan Ren had proposed earlier.
Just in time, the Hans Civilization had now actively chosen to start the war, and to avoid Human Civilization being dragged into the war because of this, this was the best time for them to step forward.
“What plan?”
Liu Shengzhan asked doubtfully.
Seeing this, Fan Ren didn’t find it troublesome and slowly explained the plan against the Hans Civilization that he had previously discussed with Jin Qiaoying and Li Jian.
As the Vice Chairman of the committee, he had been receiving reports on the development of the hidden base in the Ross 154 star system at regular intervals.
However, under Fan Ren’s leadership, as the various technologies at the hidden base began to improve, the frequency of reports to him gradually decreased.
On one hand, it was as Fan Ren said, to quickly cut off contact between the two as much as possible.
On the other hand, it was because Liu Shengzhan didn’t have much lifespan left, to avoid worrying him.
And now, since the decision had been made and Liu Shengzhan’s anti-aging medicine treatment was already underway, there was no need to hide any information about the hidden base.
From Fan Ren’s description, Liu Shengzhan learned that the Fox Pirate Group now had the strength to directly confront the Hans Civilization Fleet head-on.
Moreover, in many technology research and development areas, such as warp engines and nuclear fusion reactor conversion rates, they had already caught up to the average level of similar products on the starfield market.
And in some areas like electromagnetic railgun long-range ammunition, these were epoch-making products that had never appeared on the starfield market.
Faced with so many high-tech products, the Fox Pirate Group itself did not have the ability to handle them through regular channels to generate revenue.
In this situation, they could only target the Hans Civilization.
“You mean, before this, you had already decided on the plan to take down the Hans Civilization and control it to exist as a white glove, to find regular channels for the hidden base’s technology products, and through cooperation to transfuse blood to Human Civilization’s main base?”
Facing the interruption, Fan Ren felt no embarrassment. He nodded and continued, “Exactly. Although our previous cooperation projects with them were discussed to extend their life while stabilizing the other side.
But later, the development of the hidden base was smoother than expected. Now, the shipment volume of warp engines there has reached a very sensitive number.”
“For example?” Liu Shengzhan frowned. He was gradually realizing the changes in his body now, but he had no mind to pay attention to it due to the scenes Fan Ren described.
“In all star domains covered by the starfield market of Sirius Prime Star, the number of warp engines has started to see price reductions.”
Fan Ren was a bit helpless. This area had long been without wars and with backward economic conditions, leading to extremely slow development in warship numbers, thus the starfield market here did not have high stocking volumes.
Faced with the phenomenon of warp engines in other star domains being in short supply, previously there was no worry about lack of stock here, but now price reductions were actually starting to appear.
This forced Fan Ren to be cautious, so he had to temporarily stop part of the warp engine production lines.
Liu Shengzhan shook his head helplessly. He had only asked casually; he didn’t understand economy and trade matters, but even so, he knew that a product capable of meeting the needs of hundreds of civilizations, going from a balanced buying and selling state to needing price reductions to sell, must have a terrifying output.
Unexpectedly, in just ten years, the Fox Pirate Group had developed to this extent.
Was this the power of artificial intelligence?
He looked at Fan Ren, somewhat doubting his guess.
But he didn’t think much more and then said, “So, in that case, the battleships inside the current Azure Phoenix Legion, compared to the Hans Civilization’s battleships, already have an absolute generational gap lead?”
Hearing this, Fan Ren and Li Jian proudly nodded without any hesitation.
