Chapter 153: Lin Sen and Feng Zi Awaken_1

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The establishment of the Earth Alliance also heralded that Earth and Moon were officially taking opposing stances, with conflicts and even wars between them seemingly becoming an unavoidable momentum.

Currently, the Earth Alliance has essentially no space capabilities, and the Earth Alliance Planetary Defense Council has been reconstituted, referred to simply as PDC. Internal top-secret documents direct that the defensive target is not Trisolaris but the Moon.

During this period, the Earth Alliance vigorously developed the space industry, and the Earth Starport project, after 40 years of stagnation, was restarted.

At the same time, the design work for Earth's space battleships was also proceeding intensely, and the dockyards at the Earth Starport were being constructed at the fastest possible speed.

The Earth Alliance excelled at finding possibilities in the impossible. Now that the Moon Base had essentially cut off the supply of helium-3, Earth Alliance scientists had developed a new type of battleship power engine using second-generation controlled nuclear fusion.

Theoretically, Earth's space battleships could match, if not surpass, the fourth or even fifth generation of space battleships from the Moon Base.

Considering the strategic goal was the Moon Base, the weapon systems were intended for close-range combat (a single astronomical unit is about 400 times the distance from Earth to Moon; the current battleships of the Moon can strike at 10 astronomical units, making Earth-Moon warfare close-range).

The majority of the weapon systems on most of the Earth Alliance's battleships still primarily utilized kinetic weapons and space missiles.

Taking into account the Moon Base had expanded to Mars and undertaken massive construction projects there, including erecting the Mars Space Elevator, some of Earth Alliance's space battleships were also equipped with long-range directed energy weapons.

The Mars Space Elevator was much simpler than Earth's, with Mars' rotation also being about 24 hours and its gravity only a third of Earth's. The orbital height for geostationarity was only about 17,000 kilometers. However, due to Mars' significant perturbations, the requirements for space elevator adjustments were high.

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Year 78 of the Crisis Era.

In eight years of development, the Earth Alliance had developed a super Spaceport, extending along the geostationary orbit with a length reaching 2000 kilometers.

They now possessed 32 space battleships, with another 22 being constructed in the dockyards, expected to be delivered to the Earth Space Force by the end of the year.

The Moon Base had over 80 service space battleships in its fleet, with 30 old-model battleships deployed in the lunar defense ring and 8 battleships of the 10th and successive generations. The rest of the battleships were deployed around Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter.

The reason there were only just over 80 battleships in nearly 50 years for the Moon's space fleet was that the battleships from before the 5th generation had been almost entirely retired. The theory of space warfare had developed rapidly, and the pre-5th generation battleships could no longer meet the latest warfare theoretical models.

Additionally, the Moon also built a large number of Space Particle Accelerator Ships in the past 40 years, and now there were 60 such ships – a number that had reached the construction limit estimated by the Trisolaran Sophons 12 years into the Crisis Era.

But over the span of more than half a century, Trisolaran technology also had a major breakthrough. Moreover, the construction of Space Particle Accelerator Ships had stopped for 20 years, while the production of Trisolaran Sophons had not ceased.

At the current construction pace, to break through the Trisolaran Sophon blockade, the limit number of Space Particle Accelerator Ships needed would be 120, and it would be achieved by the year 110 of the Crisis Era.

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The Lunar Space Strategy Research Office believed that once all of the 22 space battleships currently under construction by the Earth Alliance became operational, conflict between Earth and Moon would be inevitable.

The Moon and Earth both belong to human civilization, and it is the Trisolaran civilization that should be their true adversary. If the Moon were to launch a sudden attack now, it could indeed catch Earth by surprise.

But such an act would truly split the civilization in two, and there would likely be no chance of reuniting in the future – only the fate of one side being eradicated. It is clear that the Moon Base is neither likely nor able to go to such an insane extent.

If Earth's development were left unchecked, the speed at which the Earth Alliance's space capabilities were expanding was alarmingly fast, fueled by half a century of technological breakthroughs. This allowed their development to surge forward like a tempest.

Earth is the main body of human civilization; the entire Earth Alliance could be said to have coalesced into a coalition to jointly resist the Moon. It was inevitable for the Earth Alliance to fire the first shot at the Moon coalition.

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Even if the Moon urgently recalled the more than 40 battleships deployed in its periphery, this only postponed the Earth Alliance's commencement of war, and essentially did not change anything.

The current person in charge at the Moon Base, Mamytjan Munis (who succeeded Ramon, the former Moon in-charge who is now retired), thought deeply and believed that the moment had come to awaken Mr. Lin Sen and Mr. Xiang Gaofeng.

With the vigorous development of human genetic engineering, human lifespans had been greatly extended, and people could usually live to around 130 years of age. Even at the age of one hundred, with the aid of various drugs, their thinking did not decline too much.

The last aspect of the Isolation Plan was the condition for awakening Lin Sen and Feng Zi, and the Moon Base had successfully completed all contents of Lin Sen's Isolation Plan.

One day, Lin Sen and Feng Zi woke up from the endless darkness, and the Moon side did not notify the Earth Alliance or the PDC of Lin Sen's awakening.

Three days later, Lin Sen and Feng Zi exited the hibernation center, and during this period, Lin Sen also learned about nearly half a century of Earth and Moon development history.

What was gratifying was that the Isolation Plan had succeeded, humanity had phoenix-like rebirth from a major downturn, and humans had also initiated a new cycle of cultural rebirth.

The new humans of today were the kind of new humans Lin Sen had envisioned, forged through hardship, struggle, and combat, not the "new humans" with broken spines from the original timeline.

In the following days, Lin Sen and Feng Zi delved deep into the Lunar Space Strategy Research Office, carefully examining the military strength comparison between Earth and the Moon.

The Moon had much stronger quality battleships compared to the Earth Alliance, but because battles between Earth and Moon constituted mainly close-range combat, this advantage was not utilized fully.

In fact, the outcome of the war did not entirely depend on the superiority of space battleships. The Earth Alliance had numerous spaceports, which could serve as weapon launching platforms, directly attacking the Moon Base.

In the naval battles of the last century, seizing the "T-position" was very crucial, and now the Earth Spaceports undoubtedly represented that horizontal "T-position".

The Moon's space base was located at the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point, with one side facing Earth, and the other on the far side of the Moon.

The space base at the Earth-facing Earth-Moon Lagrange Point had almost become a live target for the Earth Spaceports.

Feng Zi: "Half a century ago, I actually predicted today's situation.

"For this reason, I oversaw the construction of the 'Authority' class space battleships, and against the opposition of many, I built a total of 16 ships.

"The initial construction of space battleships was like groping stones to cross the river; building too many of the same class was not appropriate. But these battleships were actually decoy ships."

Lin Sen: "Decoy battleships? You want the Earth Fleet to attack these battleships first, to find an excuse to start the war."

Mamytjan Munis: "In close-range combat between Earth and Moon, both sides are very vulnerable in defense; whoever fires the first shot would seize an immense advantage.

"We do not have the qualification to fire first unless we plan to replace Earth civilization.

"I must say, I do not think the Moon has a chance to replace Earth. It's not a problem of population or the rate of development of Earth, but an issue with the Moon itself.

"Regarding the population problem, we control the Moon and Mars, and after over half a century of colonization development, our population has reached 200 million.

"But now at the Moon Base, people are gradually becoming satisfied with their own achievements and are far less than Earth in both science and technology and the spirit of exploration.

"The Moon has also become accustomed to seeking Earth's help when encountering technological bottlenecks, thus losing its own capacity for innovation and inquiry."