Chapter 477 Productivity Competition

Each of these planets has complete mining facilities, providing sufficient resources for the shipbuilding bases of the interstellar trading market, and also providing materials for the production of means of production for the individuals living on the satellites of the gaseous planets in the second orbit.

Originally, the tenth and eleventh planets, the two solid planets, were also well-equipped resource mining planets, but after the defeat in the first battle, the interstellar trading market directly withdrew its defense forces from these two planets and blew up all the infrastructure on the planets that could not be taken away.

This happened when humans arrived at the thirteenth planet for supplies. Therefore, humans had no time to stop it, and had no intention to stop it.

From another perspective, this incident also told humans that the enemy had not failed, or was unwilling to fail. The act of destroying the resource development sites of the two planets showed that the interstellar trading market did not intend to hand over the two planets to humans in their entirety, indicating that they were still accumulating strength in other planetary bases and continued to fight with humans.

In the previous war, the interstellar trading market suffered heavy losses. The warships it deployed on the battlefield, including the nine million pirate-style warships, totaled 33 million. When the battle ended and they evacuated, there were only about 11.33 million warships, nearly two-thirds of which were lost.

On the human side, the three fleets had a total of 17 million ships. Now, the first fleet has only 1.6 million ships left, the second fleet has 3.08 million ships, and the third fleet has 3.5 million ships, leaving only 8.18 million ships.

Many warships are still damaged.

For example, the flagship of the first fleet, the Lyra, and the flagship of the second fleet, the Hanhai, have completely charred armor, with pits and bumps everywhere, and the traces of nano-repair are extremely obvious.

Only the flagship of the third fleet, the Deep Sea, is better, but it will not be able to fight again in a short time.

So after the several battles that took place in different places, although the number of human warships is not inferior to that of the interstellar trading market, it will be difficult to go out again without several years.

Of course, it is still possible to piece together a complete fleet from these warships, and humans have already done so when they are replenishing supplies.

Since the third fleet's flagship, the Deep Sea, suffered the least damage, the Deep Sea was the flagship of this patchwork... oh no, it should be a reorganized fleet. For this reason, the Deep Sea was given priority in the dock repair arrangement.

The fleet reorganized by redrawing intact warships has about 4.2 million ships, and the remaining warships must be repaired with armor.

Yes, that's right, it's armor repair.

During the battle, although these warships repaired the large holes that were blasted open or decomposed by the opponent's nanorobots through nano repair, the places repaired by the nano repair robots were not No. 2 alloy materials, so the armor repair here is to replace these damaged parts with No. 2 alloy materials again in the space dock.

The Lyra also faces such maintenance.

During the maintenance period of these warships, the reorganized Third Fleet will take on the escort work. Protect the 13th planet base of mankind and ensure that mankind can produce, maintain and repair warships here.

Although the interstellar trading market was also crippled, from the intelligence point of view, that was only their apparent strength. They should still have a lot of strength in each base.

However, humans speculated that the reason why they did not come out in full force was because they were afraid that humans would have other fleets to raid their bases.

At least when the third fleet raided their first planet base, it noticed that there was a large fleet on the gas planet in the orbit of the second planet.

Because it was found that the third, fourth, and fifth bases were on the satellite of the gas planet, humans speculated that the fleet should be the fleet guarding the core area of ​​the interstellar trading market.

The spacecraft carrying the neutrino detector tried to approach there several times, but was discovered and killed by the opponent's small ship patrol formation, so humans still know very little about the number of warships in that star field.

However, they also got a definite intelligence, that is, that area is the core area of ​​the interstellar trading market, and most of their life individuals live in those three bases, or on several satellites of the gas planet.

From the analysis of the number of their manned warships, the number of intelligent life individuals there is at least hundreds of billions. Because according to human understanding, without this volume, they absolutely cannot make so many manned warships.

Therefore, the next battle plan of mankind will be carried out with this star field as the core. Well, of course, the battleship maintenance and repair must be completed, and some supplements must be obtained.

Now this stage is the intermission of the war.

According to the progress of the battleship repair, this time will last at least five to ten years. During this period, humans will not just defend blindly, but will still trigger batches of exploration spacecraft to explore the various planets in this galaxy to collect more enemy data.

In addition, after the South China Sea battleship was repaired, the Deep Sea also led some battleships of the Third Fleet to go out and harass the opponent's sixth planet base.

The sixth planet base of the interstellar trading market is a base capable of manufacturing sea-class battleships. It is located on the orbit of the ninth planet. At this point in time, it happens to be the base closest to the location of humans, so it naturally becomes the best target for human harassment.

Similarly, when humans launched a small-scale harassment attack on them, the interstellar trading market also adopted the same strategy, triggering a warship squadron of millions of warships to harass the thirteenth planet of humans.

The main fleets of both sides calmed down, and there was no large-scale war like the previous one in the future, but the battles between the squadrons were always going on.

The exploration ships of both sides fought more than a few times in this star system, but because the human exploration ship was controlled by intelligent programs and the other side was driven by intelligent life, the human side was completely at a disadvantage in the fighting of exploration ships.

It can be said that during the period when both sides maintained the main fleet and produced new warships, this star system with bright yellow dwarf stars as the main sequence stars had ships fighting everywhere.

And these battles between squadrons of warships and exploration ships are the peripheral epitome of the war between the two civilizations.

If a secondary civilization came here because of the interstellar trading market broadcast at this time, then this secondary civilization would most likely be drowned in these peripheral battles.

Now that the first powerful collision between the two sides has ended, it will depend on who has a stronger ability to repair and maintain warships, who has stronger productivity, and who can produce more warships in the shortest time.

After the two sides failed to destroy each other in the first contact, the next competition was productivity.

Of course, the number of planets mastered is also important, because the more planets mastered, the greater the breadth of resource exploitation. Simply put, the input of resources is greater, which can meet the needs of more space docks to start construction at the same time.

Humans do not have an advantage in this regard. After all, so far, humans have only mastered one fully developed planet.

In order to alleviate this gap, humans have also made some strategic measures during this period. For example, engineering ships were dispatched to explore and mine the resources of the twelfth planet.

Such actions naturally attracted harassment from one side of the interstellar trading market, so small-scale squadron battleship operations became more frequent. These battles are equivalent to battles between scouts and special forces on both sides.

During this period, regardless of whether the planet was developed or not, dozens or even hundreds of warships could be seen passing through the nearby starry sky every once in a while. These warship squadrons were either from the interstellar trading market or from humans, and when the two sides met they would fight without saying a word.