Chapter 304: Changing Course

In fact, everyone knows that if the conflict is not remembered, the human fleet will definitely not be able to move forward. Their differences of opinion are mainly about when the fleet should change its navigation.

Some people believe that humans should immediately turn according to the prepared targets determined by previous observations. The reason is that the longer it drags on, the closer the distance between the two sides will be, and the closer the human fleet will be to the second star field of the Nair civilization, so it will be more dangerous.

The Nair civilization said that this is their second star field. Although humans don’t know how many star fields the Nair civilization has, if this is not a lie, there are only two.

And the reason why a star field is a star field is that it must be a range composed of multiple star systems.

The Nair civilization has developed to the point where its footprints are spread across two star fields. It is estimated that the power it possesses is not comparable to that of humans. After all, it has not been long since humans reached the level of secondary civilization. It is still a wandering civilization. Most of the time is spent on sailing. To date, the population is only 140 million, which is not the number that a civilization should have.

The same is true for the number of fleets. The technology is there, but the number has not reached the level that a normal secondary civilization should have.

According to various data held by humans, human experts believe that a normal second-level civilization cannot have a population of only 10 billion. If calculated according to human standards, after stepping into the starry sky with the mother star as the support, immigrants in the surrounding star fields, although due to environmental restrictions, immigrants can only live in the bases they built, but it should not be difficult for a galaxy to have one-third of the population of the mother star.

So roughly calculated, the population of the mother star must be at least 20 billion. If it develops to have dozens of star system bases, it will not be less than 200 billion, and this is still a conservative estimate.

If humans have a population of 200 billion, according to the high military-civilian ratio of 1:100, they can have 2 billion soldiers. According to the human's own Lake-class battleship standard, a battleship requires 5,000 crew members, which means 400,000 Lake-class battleships.

Humans now have only 1,200 Lake-class battleships, which is a desperate gap.

So this group of people believes that a civilization that develops normally and steps into the starry sky must have a huge number of individual lives, and therefore will also have a fleet number that is unmatched by humans, so it is best to turn around as soon as possible.

Of course, alien life cannot be measured by the number of humans. The number of people operating warships will also be affected by the intelligence of combat AI, and the strength of the fleet will also be affected by a series of factors such as development time, construction cost, and management difficulty. Therefore, this is only a very rough estimate.

Not only that, because of the vastness of space, people living in various galaxies must have serious information lag problems, especially in places where stars are sparse. Information is transmitted between two star systems at the speed of light, and more than 30 years have passed.

In this case, people with military power will more or less breed ambitions. Therefore, too many fleets, according to human beings’ own understanding of themselves, may eventually develop into countries with different cultures, and even wars will break out between each other.

This is also another factor that limits the number of fleets of civilizations without superluminal communication.

Human beings themselves are not developing normally and are a wandering civilization. Therefore, on this issue, they can only be calculated based on big data models.

In short, this group of people believes that the Nair civilization must have fleets far exceeding the number of humans.

As for the views of another group of people, they believe that humans should ask the star field range of the Nair civilization clearly before taking the next step.

Their reason was that if they didn't ask clearly, the next star system they were heading to might also belong to the domain of the Nair civilization. With the current navigation technology of human beings, it's not a big problem to go around a few times, but they can't stand the problem of wandering around in the starry sky and not finding a star system to dock.

After all, they still have to keep supplies and fuel to prepare for various emergencies. If they make a few more turns and cause fuel shortages, they will really face the same situation as the Kuntai civilization.

People with two different opinions held their own opinions, and for a while the command center was full of people, which was quite like a vegetable market.

"It seems that I have to make my own choice." Yue Yuan supported his chin and weighed the two opinions in his mind.

But before he could speak, a third opinion emerged among the crowd. It was probably because they saw that the two sides were arguing, so this part of the people was straightforward and directly suggested that humans slow down immediately and then return to the previous star system.

It was a compromise.

But there were many supporters of this view. After all, no matter how you look at it, this is the safest way. The most important thing is that humans have just come from there and know clearly that it is safe there and there are no aliens.

However, although it is safe, there is a fatal problem. That is, the previous star system has no rocky planets, only two gaseous planets. Therefore, humans left after collecting hydrogen as fuel.

So it is safe and secure, but there is also a potential threat of material shortage. If the Nair civilization has ulterior motives, it may be blocked there, which is really bad.

As for the saying that the starry sky is so vast that it is impossible to block the road, it is taken for granted that the fleet can sail at will, but in fact it is not possible, at least not at the low-level civilization level.

Low-level civilizations are limited by navigation technology and have to rely on star systems as post stations, so the stars in the starry sky are roads.

This is how routes and star maps come from.

"How many times do we have enough fuel for large accelerations and decelerations?" Yue Yuan thought for a while and looked at a crew member in charge of material and fuel management.

The administrator was silent for a while and then answered: "About eight to ten full-power accelerations and decelerations. If the soil, rocks, water, plants and animals in the biosphere spacecraft are counted, there can be two more times."

Hearing this, Yue Yuan weighed it in his mind for a while, then asked the scientific officer to switch the big screen to the star map, then stood up and pointed to a star in it, and said to everyone: "Without further delay, slow down first, change the route, and let's go here."

The star that Yue Yuan pointed to was the destination that humans had planned to change before, and it was also a star that some people believed might still belong to the Nair civilization.

Yue Yuan continued, "But before that, all departments should hurry up and sort out the information to reply to the Nair civilization. It is now 1:30 pm. Let's go have a meal first and draft the reply before 4 pm.

First, we need to find out as much as possible about the size of the Nair civilization's territory, which are their stars and which are not. Secondly, we should be reserved about the self-information we reveal, and I don't need to say more about this. Finally, the General Staff is responsible for formulating several emergency plans.

Although we have to change the route now, it does not mean that we must go there. The specific situation depends on the results of the communication with the Nair civilization."

After the decision was made, Yue Yuan explained some precautions.