Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 61: Fighting a Rock with an Egg

"Your Majesty, the Star Shifter has departed."

"Are you sure? Are their gates still open?"

"Confirmed, the main gate is gone too."

"Alright, pass on my order: attack Consciousness Star."

"As ordered."

Some areas of the photosphere of the "Extraordinary Star" become "blackened" (sunspots). In the outermost atmosphere, the corona, several streams suddenly erupt (corona), like the sun sneezing. Several supersonic plasma streams of charged particles from the corona, the solar wind, are rapidly blown into the space surrounding the "Extraordinary Star".

When the solar wind from the "Exotic Planet" reaches its vicinity, it interacts with the planet's magnetic field, causing the magnetic field lines to bend backward. However, the magnetic pressure of the "Exotic Planet's" magnetic field impedes the movement of the solar wind plasma flow, preventing it from penetrating the planet's atmosphere and allowing it to bypass the magnetic field and continue moving forward. This creates a cavity, within which the "Exotic Planet's" magnetic field is contained. At this point, the "Exotic Planet's" geomagnetic field resembles an egg-shaped object, larger at one end than the other.

"Your Majesty, this attack seems to have had no effect. The advance team reports that there seems to be something around 'Ability Star' preventing them from entering it."

"Pass on my order to increase the troop strength tenfold. This time, success is imperative."

"As ordered."

As a result, fifty places in the solar corona of the "Special Star" sneezed again.

A large number of high-energy ions in the solar wind tore through the Earth's magnetic field with lightning speed. Some ions invaded the magnetic pole region of the "extraterrestrial planet" along the magnetic field lines and discharged in the upper atmosphere of the Earth's magnetic poles, producing a magnificent aurora.

The solar wind reached the ozone layer of the "Extraordinary Planet," disrupting its chemical changes and propagating downwards until it reached the surface of the planet.

The planet "Extraordinary Ability" suddenly received a surge in ultraviolet radiation from the sun, causing abnormal climate changes. In some parts of "Extraordinary Ability," volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occurred.

A powerful solar wind attack caused great harm to life on the "Alien Planet," including advanced intelligent life forms such as elves, humans, orcs, and fire dragons. The number of deaths of advanced intelligent life forms rose rapidly, and the consciousness field above the "Alien Planet" instantly intensified.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, the attack was successful."

"Good. We've finally cooperated with our comrades on Consciousness Star. Now we can acquire more consciousness sources."

"The king is wise."

The stealth warships left behind by the Earth Empire's humans near the "Extraordinary Planet" recorded various anomalies related to the planet's sun and the planet itself. The warships' artificial intelligence immediately sent a long-range, quantum-encrypted communication report to the Earth Empire's fleet headquarters.

The Alpha Fleet had been back on Earth from the "Extraordinary Planet" for less than half a month when it received orders from fleet headquarters to handle this matter.

George, Zhou Yuan, Wei Shan, and others had to give up their remaining two-week vacation and set off two days after receiving the order.

The Alpha Fleet quickly stealthily reached the vicinity of the "Extraordinary Star" sun.

At the Alpha Fleet flagship command center, Zhou Yuan watched the observation video left behind on the "Psionic Star" stealth warship several times. The video showed that the "Psionic Star" sun was blowing out "big bubbles".

Has the sun on "Spectral Star" gone mad? This sun seems to be consciously attacking "Spectral Star." Zhou Yuan couldn't help but recall his conversation with the Consciousness Matrix seventeen or eighteen days ago. The Consciousness Matrix had said that everything in the universe, including stars, is conscious. Could it be that its words have come true?

Commander George had already ordered his adjutant Jones to provide emergency medical care to the advanced intelligent beings on "Pseudoplanet." Human warships on "Pseudoplanet" were sending intelligent medical robots to various areas with severe casualties.

To prevent the "Extraordinary Star" from continuing its attacks, George ordered the deployment of one hundred small "super energy exchangers" between the sun and the "Extraordinary Star." These "super energy exchangers" could quickly maneuver and intercept any solar wind or other high-energy particle beams that attacked, extracting and releasing energy.

Zhou Yuan pondered in detail the apparent consciousness of the sun on the "Special Ability Star," recalling his various experiences there. Suddenly, he had an epiphany and found the source of the events.

Before being destroyed by the Star Sniper Ship, the six launch towers on "Alien Planet" had already emitted some kind of signal or stream of consciousness. Humanity moved the sun of "Alien Planet," and after these signals or streams of consciousness reached it, for some unknown reason, something conscious appeared on the sun. Earth Empire scientists currently classify matter into five states: solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and consciousness. Judging from the composition of the solar wind, there is a high probability that a plasma life form exists on the sun of "Alien Planet," somewhat similar to the intelligent energy entities on stars like Tian Shen and Rutan. However, intelligent energy entities are artificial consciousness created through light paths, while this plasma life form on the sun is likely a combination of the soul of an advanced life form on "Alien Planet" and the solar plasma.

"Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! Something terrible has happened!"

"What are you so worried about?"

"The Star Shifters have reappeared."

"What? Where are our comrades on Consciousness Star? Why haven't they sent us consciousness sources yet?"

"Your Majesty, all the comrades on Consciousness Star have disappeared."

"No!"

"Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! Something terrible has happened!"

"What's the matter?"

"The Starshifters are about to attack."

"How much longer?"

"It will probably take another hour."

"That's unreasonable!"

"Your Majesty, please calm your anger."

"How many warships did the Starshifters send this time?"

"There is only one."

"One ship? The Starshifters are going too far. Issue my order: I will conduct a full-scale war mobilization and personally lead the army to meet the enemy."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

In a certain region of the solar chromosphere of the "extraterrestrial planet," six to seven hundred thousand cellular structures have already lined up. The cellular structures are arranged in six large square formations according to their size.

"Soldiers, since the founding of the Plasma Empire, the Empire has longed for the help of our comrades on Consciousness Star to replenish our consciousness source. However, the despicable Star Shifters destroyed the transmission tower, and our comrades on Consciousness Star have vanished. Now, the Star Shifters have dispatched a warship, which will invade the Empire in fifty minutes. Soldiers, what do you say we should do?"

"Ruined it!"

"Yes, that's what we want. Long live the Empire!"

"Long live the Empire! Long live the King!"

The six or seven hundred thousand cellular organisms were excited. Only by destroying the warships and the Starshifters could they hope to obtain more consciousness sources, and only then could the Plasma Empire maintain its racial immortality and eternal prosperity.

The Plasma Empire King immediately launched a comprehensive and detailed battle plan against the warship dispatched by the Starshifters and the potential large number of subsequent warships. Twenty minutes later, the various cellular structures quickly took their positions.

The Alpha Fleet dispatched a sniper ship controlled by a super artificial intelligence, which used superphoton quark cryogenic insulation material. Based on the Earth Empire scientists' sixteen or seventeen years of field experiments on superphoton quark cryogenic insulation material warships in stars, this type of warship might not be able to survive in the high temperatures of a star for the theoretical value of 300,000 years, but 180,000 to 190,000 years would certainly not be a problem.

The superphoton quark cryogenic insulation material sniper ship quickly sailed out of the corona region, which is four million kilometers thick and has a temperature of about one million degrees, and reached the chromosphere, which is about three thousand kilometers thick and has a temperature of tens of thousands of degrees.

The chromosphere is a plasma layer filled with magnetic fields. When the local plasma kinetic energy density and magnetic energy density are comparable, complex interactions between plasma and magnetic fields can be observed.

According to the speculation of Zhou Yuan and other scientists, plasma life may exist in this region. Therefore, the AI ​​sniper ship slowed down and continuously released a large number of drones covered with superphoton quark cryogenic insulation material. These drones carried ultra-strong variable magnetic field plasma coupling detectors and quickly dispersed in the solar chromosphere to detect plasma life.

Scientists in the Earth Empire have already conducted various experiments in normal stars, obtaining information such as radio radiation, high-energy particle streams, and spectral energy spectra emitted after the coupling of chromospheric plasma and ultra-strong variable magnetic fields.

Images and data acquired by a large number of drones are aggregated by the AI-powered Sniper Starship, which then sends them to the Alpha Fleet base.

By comparing plasma detection data and spectral phases of normal stars and the "exotic star" Sun's chromosphere, Zhou Yuan and his colleagues discovered nearly 600,000 abnormal regions in the chromosphere of the "exotic star" Sun. These abnormal regions vary in size, with the largest reaching about 1,000 kilometers.

The plasma cellular structures remained lurking, unfazed by the numerous drones flying overhead, and did not immediately take action.

These drones then entered the Sniper Starship, which continued its movement into the photosphere.

Temperatures in some parts of the photosphere are only around 4,000 degrees Celsius (what "Antia" would see as sunspots), while the rest of the photosphere is around 6,000 degrees Celsius. The photosphere contains numerous large, unstable vortex regions (what "Antia" would see as "granulation tissue"), formed by non-uniform gas turbulence from the bottom of the troposphere to the bottom of the photosphere. These vortex regions are similar to the red spots on Mars during Earth's pre-Earth era.

When the AI-powered sniper ship reached the bottom of the photofluid layer, a large army of plasma cellular organisms that had been lurking there launched a surprise attack.

These massive armies were running at breakneck speed. Due to their incredible speed, they stirred up other normal plasma, causing the normal plasma to also rush forward at breakneck speed, much like a high-speed train that can move the iron blocks next to it through airflow.

These cellular structures braked abruptly, unleashing tens of thousands of beams of normal plasma towards the sniper ship. Although undamaged by the sudden plasma attack, the immense impact of its rapid inertia propelled the sniper ship above the turbulent vortex, like a small boat about to plunge into a massive ocean current. In this critical moment, the sniper ship's artificial intelligence activated its intelligent energy shield, abruptly accelerating in the opposite direction, leaping from the edge of the turbulent vortex to escape the danger.

A large number of cellular structures accelerated rapidly, and a plasma legion crashed violently into the sniper ship. The sniper ship was ultimately unable to dodge and, along with many plasma cellular structures, fell into the turbulent vortex and entered the sun's radiative layer.

When the Sniper Starship detected a large amount of radiation, it immediately accelerated and headed rapidly toward the core region of the sun, where the temperature was at least tens of millions of degrees. With its intelligent energy shield and superphoton quark cryogenic insulation material, the Sniper Starship passed through the other side of the sun at an extremely high speed and then flew back to the Alpha Fleet base.

"Your Majesty, the Starshifter warship has escaped from the other side."

"Useless! All soldiers, listen to my command! Advance! Target: 'Pseudo-Star' and the Starshifter fleet base!"

"Yes!"

"Come on!"

The Great King suddenly accelerated, taking the lead and rushing towards the corona. All the plasma cellular structures followed suit without hesitation. In their rapid advance, all the cellular structures formed nearly 600,000 plasma jets.

When they had just reached the halfway point of the corona, they suddenly felt as if they had been struck on the head, and then their bodies were torn to pieces, completely disappearing from their once glorious journey.

The "superpowered star" Sun was transformed into a white dwarf.

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