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Chapter 34: Battle for Resources

Chapter 34: Battle for Resources

On the day the Aleman Empire invaded the Republic of Faklu, the Panhua Empire, as the second-ranked country in the Alliance of Cosmic Mutual Helpers, began to declare war on all countries belonging to the Federation of Universal Intelligent Life.

The Panhua Empire first dispatched 2 million warships to directly ally with the Sanma family that was close to it. The Three Horse Family Alliance is a country jointly established by three major families. Their country is a semi-slavery and semi-feudal system and has 2 systems. The offensive originally went smoothly, but suddenly the Fuso Empire sent 800,000 warships to sneak attack the 'Blackwater Corridor' controlled by the Panhua Empire to support the Three Horse Family Alliance.

The "Blackwater Corridor" is a double-flare-shaped passage in the universe, connecting the Panhua Empire and the Sanma Family Alliance. The diameter of the two trumpets is 1 light-year, and the smallest diameter of the corridor is only 0.2 light-years. This is because the Black Pluto galaxy where the Blackwater Corridor is located is a dual-core galaxy.

Most galaxies in the universe are single-core spiral galaxies. The Black Pluto galaxy has a rare dual core. The two super black holes at its core are constantly devouring stars and erupting into terrifying gamma ray bursts. This kind of ray explosion can easily kill all living things within 300,000 light-years, so the Black Pluto Galaxy is a galaxy without any life, and no country can station its troops there. Its powerful gamma ray blast can easily destroy the protective shields of warships of X-class battleships and below.

The Black Pluto Galaxy is the channel linking the Sanma Family Alliance and the Panhua Empire. Usually, the Panhua Empire and the Sanma Family Alliance stationed troops at the trumpet mouth of their own Blackwater Corridor to prevent the other party from invading. The Sanma Family Alliance also relied on this special star field structure to fight against the Panhua Empire.

In order to break through the Blackwater Corridor, the Panhua Empire lost a total of 1.2 million warships.

The remaining 80 warships are simply not enough to compete with the 800,000 warships of the Fuso Empire and the 650,000 warships of the Sanma Family Alliance. They can only occupy and retreat. When they retreat to the black corridor of the Panhua Empire, only 40 warships are left. Thousands of battleships.

The first wave of attacks failed and suffered heavy losses.

The people in the Panhua Empire were excited and demanded an expedition to the Fusang Empire to punish the Fusang Empire for its sneak attack.

The Fuso Empire was once a vassal state of the Panhua Empire. Later, Saxon and Faklu took the lead in establishing the Federation of Intelligent Life in the Universe, which is undisputedly the number one in the universe. The Fuso Empire secretly took the initiative to get closer. Later, when they announced that they would join the Federation of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the Panhua Empire was too late to stop them. Because the Panhua Empire is not strong enough to compete with the Universal Federation of Intelligent Life.

After the Fuso Empire joined the Federation of Intelligent Life in the Universe, it received strong support and its economic strength improved at an alarming rate. Now that the first cosmic war has broken out, it ranks sixth in the universe, second only to the Saxon Kingdom and the Republic of Falklu.

The reason why the Universal Intelligent Life Federation strongly supports it is to use it to contain the Panhua Empire. The Fuso Empire is much closer to the Panhua Empire than the Saxon Kingdom and the Republic of Faklu.

Although the Fuso Empire's strength has risen astonishingly, it still shows enough respect for the Panhua Empire, its former suzerain country, and the diplomatic relations between the two have always been peaceful. The two countries are in two different camps, but privately there is no direct conflict between the two countries.

In the Sanma Family Alliance, the Fusang Empire's sudden sneak attack put the top leaders of the Panhua Empire in a dilemma. The people at the bottom are excited and hope that the Fusang Empire will be established in the distance, but Panhua senior officials do not want to do this.

The Panhua Empire has a large population and abundant resources, but it lacks the three most important resources in the universe, 'tide', 'fluorite', and 'Padra crystal'. These three resources are the most important strategic resources in the universe. ‘Tide’ provides energy for various weapons. ‘Fluorite’ can generate a Yang Abel field to counteract gravity. Many buildings require this material to overcome gravity. When warships and spacecraft fly on non-fixed routes in space, they also need to be equipped with anti-gravity engines to fight against undiscovered black holes that may appear at any time. The fuel for the anti-gravity engine is fluorite. ‘Padra Crystal’ is the fuel for the hyperlight engine. Without the Padra Crystal, a civilization would lose its ability to travel at faster than light speeds.

When intelligent life forms had just discovered the mass-energy formula of nuclear energy: E=MC², there was a period of wishful thinking that mass could be converted into energy at will. Later, with the development of science and technology, they discovered how ridiculous their previous understanding was.

There are two types of nuclear energy release: nuclear fission is when heavy atoms (uranium or plutonium) are bombarded with neutrons under certain conditions to cause a chain reaction and fission into light atoms to release huge energy; nuclear fusion is when lighter atoms (deuterium) ) polymerizes under high temperatures and pressures to form heavier atoms (helium). Whether nuclear fission and nuclear fusion can release energy depends on whether the total mass of the products after fission and fusion becomes more or less. If the total mass increases, not only will no energy be released, but a huge amount of energy will be absorbed. Therefore, although many substances can undergo fusion and fission, not many can be used as energy. Currently, the only commonly used ones are uranium 235, plutonium 239, deuterium, and tritium. The law of conservation of mass and the law of conservation of energy are still valid for the fifth-level civilization. Therefore, although there are many planets in the universe. But there are not many minerals that can actually be used as energy by intelligent life forms. It's also impossible for intelligent life forms to just turn a piece of stone into energy for their machines to use.

The Panhua Empire is facing such a dilemma. The size of the entire empire is second only to the Ross Empire. It has a vast star field and countless planets with various resources. However, it lacks the three most important strategic resources. The reason why the Panhua Empire joined the Alliance of Cosmic Mutual Helpers formed by the Aleman Empire was to seize the opportunity to obtain strategic resource galaxies. It does not pursue the economic market, and its huge internal population and volume are enough to absorb its industrial products.

The three strategic resources in the Fuso Empire are pitiful, but the military strength is very strong. The top leaders of the Panhua Empire did not want to waste precious military strength and time on an expedition to the Fuso Empire, but wanted to take the opportunity to capture other star systems with three strategic resources.

The Panhua Empire dispatched a 1 million-strong fleet to increase the strength of its own side of the Blackwater Corridor's bell-mouth defense zone, and sent an additional 1.5 million fleet to make it look like it was remote from the Fuso Empire. In the end, contrary to everyone's expectations, the Panhua Empire dispatched a terrifying 5 million-strong fleet. It brazenly attacked the Arama Federation, the only satellite state of the United States of Byot, the first empire in the universe. It only took 2 weeks to complete the 17 star systems of the Alamar Federation.

The emperor of the Aleman Empire had some complaints when he found out. The Panhua Empire took the lead in attacking the largest economic power in the universe. As the leader of the Alliance of Mutual Helpers in the Universe, it had to take the lead in declaring war on the United States of Byot, and at the same time asked the Panhua Empire to fight with it. Attack the Ross Empire together.

The Panhua Empire has no choice. In the absence of strategic resources, it must capture the resource galaxy. There are three reasons for choosing the Alamar Federation to start. First, the Alamar Federation is weak. Strictly speaking, it is only a fourth-level civilization and cannot manufacture hyperlight engines at all. Because of the continuous support of the suzerain nation of the United States of Byot, it has been able to occupy a large number of galaxies; secondly, it is rich in 'tidal' and 'padra crystals'; thirdly, the United States of Byot is very far away from it. , even if the fleet jumps at full speed, it will take more than 2 months to arrive to support the Alamar Federation.

Although occupying the Yamala Federation will anger the largest economic power in the universe, the Panhua Empire's own economy is also very strong, and with strategic resources, it is not afraid of the United States of Byot.

The United States of Bute is a strange existence. They evaluate everything entirely based on commercial interests. Therefore, although the economy is strong, the number of warships is pitifully small, with only 1 million warships. The reason why no one dares to attack it is that firstly, its economic strength is indeed terrifying, and secondly, it has an extremely close relationship with the Saxon Kingdom and the Republic of Faklu. Many wealthy people from this old powerful country have immigrated to the United States of Butte.

The Panhua Empire is confident that after annexing the Alamar Federation, it can gradually compete with the United States of Butte by relying on its abundant resources. The terrifying 5 million warships it dispatched were actually to fight against the revenge of the United States of Bute. The Panhua Empire calculated that it would take at least 3 years for the United States of Biute to have enough fleets to fight it, but the Panhua Empire could replenish a fleet of 20 million in these 3 years.

Countries in the universe saw that the Panhua Empire easily occupied weak countries rich in resources, and immediately provoked the leaders of many ambitious countries. Internal strife has occurred within the two largest military and economic alliances in the universe, the Universal Intelligent Life Federation and the Universal Mutual Helpers Alliance. Some smaller resource-rich countries were annexed by relatively powerful countries. The Three Horse Alliance was tragically destroyed by the Fuso Empire.

The leading countries of the two alliances have no time to care about these trivial matters. As long as those countries do not betray the alliance, they will turn a blind eye. In short, it makes sense that whoever has the bigger fist in the universe will win.

After the Panhua Empire stabilized 17 systems in Alama, it followed the agreement with the Aleman Empire and dispatched 3 million warships to the Ross Empire. After a fierce battle, the Panhua Empire lost 1 million battleships, and the Rus Empire lost 1.1 million battleships. Under the attack of Aleman and Panhua Empire, the Rus Empire had to shrink its defense area. The Panhua Empire occupied 11 systems in the Rus Empire. These galaxies are relatively desolate, with few life planets and average resource planets. But it was enough for the Panhua Empire, because it got the precious 'fluorite' mine.

The only relatively powerful country around the Panhua Empire was the Fuso Empire. The other countries were relatively weak and did not have the resources that the Panhua Empire was interested in, so they did not send troops to occupy them.

After the initial madness on all sides, the war entered a stalemate stage.

After shrinking its defense line, the Ross Empire was simply crazy. It reorganized a 21 million fleet, sent 12 million fleets to fight against the Aleman Empire, and 7 million fleets to defend the Panhua Empire. Because the first wave of Aleman and Panhua's fierce attack on it caused heavy losses to the elite fleet of the Ross Empire, its newly formed fleet did not dare to attack despite its huge size, but only defended.

Aleman also showed weakness. He mobilized a fleet of 25 million, 8 million of which faced off in the Ross Empire, and 11 million of which fought fiercely in the Versom system in the Republic of Faklu. Neither side can destroy the other.

The Panhua Empire formed a fleet of 27 million men. 5 million to attack the Rus Empire. 4 million to defend the Fuso Empire. 15 million against the United States of Butte.