The Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agency.
It was the only human intelligence agency.
Since four years ago, when the humans discovered the Glassian's expedition fleet, the department had been expanding like a balloon. From a small department with a few hundred people, it had expanded to a big department with thousands of people.
Even after the war, the department had not been reduced at all. Instead, it was still expanding steadily.
The entire intelligence agency was divided into eight departments, covering star map calculation, astronomical investigation, space signal monitoring, extraterrestrial civilization exploration, technology evaluation, as well as diplomatic negotiations with extraterrestrial civilizations.
Of course, the only extraterrestrial civilization discovered by the humans was the Glassian.
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At this time, in a meeting room of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agency, there were no empty seats.
A remote quantum communication device that was dismantled from the Glassian spaceship and repaired by the humans was placed on the table.
Of course, only large spaceships were equipped with a super high-power remote quantum communication device for interstellar communication. It was impossible for it to be so small. However, such a huge device that was more than 30 meters tall could not be placed in the meeting room. What was placed on the table was only its pickup (a device that collected the sound of the scene and sent it to the backend).
A negotiation expert and his assistant whispered to each other while looking at the draft. Then, he took a deep breath and gestured that they were ready. An electric current quickly flowed into the communication device, and the small lights that represented normal lit up one by one.
The signal channel was quickly opened.
"This is a call from the humans. We are now representing the human civilization to formally request a negotiation with you. If you receive the signal, please reply immediately. Please reply immediately!"
The negotiator spoke a series of Glassian language carefully and fluently. He then repeated it three times.
To many of the older generations, the Glassian language was no stranger. In the past, in order to better absorb the Glassian technology, many humans had tried to learn the language of this foreign civilization. To the Foreign Affairs Department of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agency, it was a must for them to master the language.
Many of the higher-ups were present today. Other than those who could not leave, almost all of them were in the meeting room, paying attention to this historic call. Aside from the Glassian, the human enemy, this was undoubtedly the first time that the humans officially talked to another civilization.
However, as time passed, the communication device remained silent. Other than the noise of interference, there was no other sound.
However, this was to be expected. After all, even if it was quantum communication, there would still be a certain delay over a distance of tens of light-years. He did not expect the delay to be this long.
The group of people waited from morning to noon, and from noon to afternoon.
The original silence turned into whispers, and then into a noisy discussion.
Just when the starving crowd thought that the communication had failed, a string of hurried Glassian language was heard from the loudspeaker. The entire meeting room was silent.
"Human? Are you humans? " The voice that came from almost thirty lightyears away was erratic due to the interference of the universe. It was sometimes light and sometimes heavy, and sometimes it was ear-piercing.
However, even those who did not understand the Glassian language could hear the disbelief, shock, and fear in his voice.
It was a subtle state of mind. As the losing side of the war, they hoped that this loss was just another accident. They hoped that it was an external factor that affected the expedition fleet (which was the truth). Even if the probability was close to zero, they were afraid of the speed of development of the human race.
"I repeat, this is a call from the human race. We are now representing the human civilization to formally request a negotiation with you. No matter who you are, immediately contact your higher-ups. We are here to bring peace."
It was another long wait. This was destined to be the longest negotiation in history.
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While the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agency was carrying out strategic deception to lower the Glassian's vigilance.
Humans also began to have a huge increase in productivity. When technology had developed to the mature era of intelligence, the total amount of productivity had broken away from the shackles of the human population. The size of the productivity was only determined by the will of the higher-ups and the limitation of the destruction of resources and environment.
Although the Barnard's Star was only a star system, it was extremely rich in resources for human development.
The total mass of Planet No.4 was equivalent to the total mass of all the rocky planets in the solar system.
On the surface of Planet No.4, there were huge construction machines that represented the traces of human activities. It was like a virus that was rapidly spreading in all directions. Whether it was the surface layer of the atmosphere that was frozen solid or the underground rocks, they were all destructively mined and separated into various elements. They were turned into factories, machines, and fuel for the nuclear fusion furnace that numbered in the millions.
This kind of large-scale human activities had even affected the temperature of the planet. The temperature of the frozen Planet No.4 continued to rise by 3 degrees Celsius every year. By the third year after the war, the planet already had a thin atmosphere and a certain degree of climate change.
It was also in this year that the humans' first Reactionless Drive spaceship began its test flight.
However, only one of this model of spaceship was built. The original plan of building close to 30 spaceships was rejected.
It was not that this spaceship had obvious flaws. Its design was quite perfect. It had absorbed the Glassian's technology, allowing the human's technology to take a huge leap forward.
The surface of the entire spaceship was absolutely smooth like a mirror. The light reflection rate (the reflection rate of light to vertical incident light) was close to 100%. Even photons that were faster than the speed of light could be effectively resisted.
The highest curvature of the spaceship could reach 4.5 times the speed of light, far exceeding the Glassian spaceship's speed of 3 times the speed of light.
The reason why the subsequent plans to build a spaceship were canceled was because the anti-matter power furnace that had always been in a state of experimentation had also matured in this year. When this special power furnace was born, it had a crushing advantage.
Even if it was just the first prototype, its highest energy output was already more than 300 times the largest fusion furnace that the humans had ever built. Only 10 of them would be enough to supply the original design of the spaceship's energy needs.
In addition to the space saved in terms of fuel, even if it was just a simple replacement, it would still be able to free up 15% of the space.
The energy consumption of this first generation of Reactionless Drive spaceship was simply like a dam that released floodwater. A considerable portion of the space was used to store pure water (nuclear fusion fuel) and to increase the fusion furnace array.
Do not underestimate this 15% of space.
Humans were not in a long period of peace. The Glassians who never had any external enemies had wars going on throughout human history. Compared to the Glassians' attitude towards military affairs, humans were completely nitpicking when it came to military weapons. Their pursuit of weapon performance had reached the limit. In the human's military spaceship, you would not see any space that was left unused.
Not to mention 15% of the space, even 1% of the space was a huge waste.
Not only could it make the spaceship's design more leisurely, but the extra space did not need to expand the size of the spaceship. As long as the anti-matter power furnace was added, it would be able to have more powerful kinetic energy.
Except for one flaw, the anti-matter storage was limited.
In recent years, the preparation technology of anti-matter had improved significantly. Today, the conversion rate of anti-matter energy had reached 1/10,000, which meant that 10,000 parts of energy could be converted into 1 part of anti-matter energy. However, ever since they temporarily resided in the Bardner Star System, the production of anti-matter had always been in a state of small-scale production. Even during wartime, the production scale did not have the slightest bit of expansion.
Firstly, it was a serious waste of energy. Secondly, the demand for anti-matter was not huge. It was useless in interstellar warfare. Facing a long distance, light speed weapons were the most mainstream weapons in interstellar warfare. It was also the most effective weapon.
Because of this, the humans had stayed in this star system for more than 10 years. The total amount of anti-matter storage was only a few thousand tons. A considerable portion of it was harvested from the Glassians' spaceships. However, this amount was far from enough for the Reactionless Drive spaceship to travel close to 30 light years.
Fortunately, this flaw was easily remedied. With the human's current level of technology, simply expanding the production scale was a piece of cake.
In the fourth year, in just one year, the production scale of anti-matter had increased by 10 times, reaching 5000 tons.
In the fifth year, the production of anti-matter had reached 80,000 tons. The price paid was that the temperature of the fourth planet had increased by 10 degrees in the past two years.
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