Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 494: Xiao Yu’s Plan

The war had fully ended. Xiao Yu conducted a tally and obtained the loss ratio. Among the 230,000 ships lost by the biological army, no Nation-Class ships were destroyed; five Province-Class ships were lost; and more than two hundred City-Class ships were lost. The remainder were medium and small sized County, Town, and Village-Class ships. Along with these ships perished nearly nine million warriors of various races.

In fact, relying on his own strength alone, Xiao Yu was fully capable of annihilating this Predator Civilizations without the participation of the biological army. Merely for the sake of Xiao Yu’s goal of training his troops, so many soldiers died. But Xiao Yu did not consider this inappropriate.

Now that nine million have died, in future wars, thanks to gained combat experience, an additional ninety million might survive. As the leader of a civilization, Xiao Yu could only judge whether something was beneficial from the overall perspective, rather than getting entangled in certain details.

From this aspect, one can indirectly see the astonishing attrition rate of interstellar war. To sustain such a war, without a sufficiently large population base and sufficient resources, it is impossible. A civilization’s comprehensive strength is vividly revealed in such wars. Losing 230,000 ships and nine million intelligent beings is something Xiao Yu could shrug off without concern. If this happened on Earth, regardless of equipment losses, just nine million soldiers alone would likely drag even the strongest nation into collapse.

“As you can see, this Predator Civilizations has been completely eliminated by us. You are safe now.” Stationed within the star system, the Asia, beside the Purple Civilization’s homeworld, sent a message to the Purple Civilization’s flagship.

This war took Xiao Yu nearly ten days in total. If Xiao Yu had waged it entirely by himself, he could have shortened that time by at least a factor of three.

During these ten days, the Purple Civilization fully mobilized. But what they mobilized was not military power, but scientific research power. In this period, all of the civilization’s scientists, both in science and technology and in social psychology, gathered together. From Xiao Yu’s performance in this war, they attempted to infer every aspect of the Divine Ark Civilization’s technological level, combat strength, morality, preferences, and more.

The conclusions they reached did not make them optimistic. The first thing they confirmed was Xiao Yu’s terrifying technological might. Because they did not fully understand the classification of civilization levels, they did not know the difference between Level 5 and Level 6 Civilizations, so they did not know whether Xiao Yu belonged to a Level 5 Civilization or a Level 6 Civilization. But this did not matter, because whether Xiao Yu was Level 5 or Level 6, he was not someone they could oppose.

Xiao Yu’s strength was not in itself a bad thing, but another matter aroused their concern.

“We judge that the Divine Ark Civilization had ample strength to suppress the Predator Civilizations. They could have captured the Predator Civilizations’ ships, but they did not. They chose to destroy most of the Predator Civilizations’ ships. The small portion of Predator ships preserved, we believe, was only because they did not wish to see the materials inside destroyed along with the vessels. We do not know whether this implies that the Divine Ark Civilization is a violent civilization, but we believe this point should alert us.” a scientist responsible for the psychological and social systems said with deep concern.

“We do not know what the Divine Ark Civilization will do next. But we believe the most likely thing is that, after making certain demands of us, they will depart. They are unlikely to annihilate us. Therefore, I think we should prepare a budget in advance to respond to the Divine Ark Civilization’s extortion. We should set a bottom line. If their demands do not exceed our bottom line, we will satisfy them. If they exceed it, we will choose to resist.” another scientist said.

During this period, a great many research materials were submitted to the leader. The vast staff team worked day and night, studying response plans.

The war had finally ended, and what exactly the Divine Ark Civilization intended to do should also be revealed. At this moment, the Purple Civilization’s leader was anything but calm. He knew that his civilization’s fate would be revealed in the period to come.

He greatly disliked this feeling of having his destiny in another’s hands, but there was nothing he could do.

After hearing the message Xiao Yu sent, the Purple Civilization’s leader fell silent for a while and then cautiously replied, “All the people of the Purple Civilization thank you for your generous support. We will remember your kindness forever.”

Xiao Yu knew that his existence would certainly leave the Purple Civilization sleepless and uneasy, and he understood their urgent desire to know their fate. Therefore, he expressed a measure of appreciation for the Purple Civilization’s leader choosing, under such circumstances, not to take the initiative to ask what he intended to do, but instead waiting for him to speak first.

“You need not worry. Our Divine Ark Civilization is a people who distinguish clearly between love and hate. For cosmic bandits like the Predator Civilizations, we will eliminate them without mercy. At the same time, toward benevolent civilizations in the universe, we will pursue a benevolent diplomatic policy. We will not demand anything from you, nor will we require anything of you, and still less will we abduct your population or destroy your planet. We have come here only to carry out some exchanges with you, to obtain your technology and specimens of various non-intelligent life. Of course, in exchange, we will provide some equivalent Level 5 civilization technologies to you. So, simply put, we are here to trade with you, and it will be an equivalent exchange. We are not bandits. You need not worry.”

As Xiao Yu spoke these high-sounding words, he sneered inwardly. “So many intelligent beings. What a vast fortune. How could I leave without bringing you all into my Divine Ark Civilization? Rest assured, I have ways to make you willingly join the Divine Ark Civilization, weeping and begging to be taken in…”

In his mind, Xiao Yu had already laid out many schemes. He did not believe that a mere Level 4 Civilization could possibly escape the palm of his hand.

Hearing Xiao Yu’s statement, the Purple Civilization’s leader let out a great sigh of relief. What he feared most was that Xiao Yu’s Divine Ark Civilization would seize his race’s intelligent beings and enslave them. Now that Xiao Yu had taken special care to emphasize the phrase ‘specimens of various non-intelligent life.’ this truly put him at ease. He knew very well that given the Divine Ark Civilization’s might, they had no need to mince words before them. Since they said so, there was a high probability it was true. Even if it were not true, there would still be some room for maneuver. At worst, they would pay a higher price. At least their civilization was no longer in danger of annihilation.

“We are very willing to exchange our technology or resources such as specimens of non-intelligent life for certain items from you. In fact, all the people of our Purple Civilization know clearly in their hearts that it was you who saved our civilization. Therefore, any request you make that we are able to fulfill, we can satisfy.” the Purple Civilization’s leader replied respectfully.

“Very well. In the period to come, we will build various bases on the third moon of this gas giant, mine minerals, repair our damaged ships, and resupply our fleet. During our period of refit, our civilization will dispatch various scientific expeditions to explore your homeworld, and our team of scientists will exchange with you regarding the technology tree. When all of this work is complete, we will depart and continue our journey.”

“Understood. Our Star of Light welcomes your arrival.” the Purple Civilization’s leader responded deferentially. After several minutes passed without receiving a reply from Xiao Yu, the Purple Civilization’s leader let out a quiet sigh of relief.

“Disperse all ships. Whether or not the Divine Ark Civilization harbors ill will toward us, we have no need to adopt a defensive posture against them. They are too powerful, so powerful they can ignore our fleet. Our fleet has no use other than provoking the Divine Ark Civilization’s displeasure. Inform the populace that we have resolved this crisis, and begin promoting the Divine Ark Civilization among the people. We must present the Divine Ark Civilization as a great savior and great hero. We must clearly tell the populace that it was the Divine Ark Civilization that saved our civilization. Our ability to continue living on the Star of Light is entirely thanks to the Divine Ark Civilization’s help.” the leader said wearily.

“Blindly propagating worship of the Divine Ark Civilization may cause negative consequences within our civilization.” his aide said with concern. “I believe the government should not intervene in such guidance of public opinion.”

“You must understand that any display of hostility from our civilization may arouse the Divine Ark Civilization’s displeasure. As things stand, with our lives in the Divine Ark Civilization’s hands, we can only act this way. Do not question my decision. You may go.” the Purple Civilization’s leader waved a hand and closed his eyes in exhaustion.

“Even if you harbor certain evil thoughts in your hearts, at least you have not shown them openly. This proves that you at least possess a basic sense of good and evil. You are not like the Predator Civilization. Facing the Predator Civilization, the outcome would inevitably be death, whether we surrendered or not. I hope you will not be like the Predator Civilization…” the Purple Civilization’s leader murmured.