221: Chapter 221 Jupiter Storm

"No, Jupiter itself isn't massive enough to become a star! This time, it's using the pressure from the impact to temporarily generate fusion internally. As time passes and the pressure weakens, the fusion reaction will slowly stop!"

Gao Yuan understood; Jupiter was temporarily becoming a star, but it would soon extinguish and return to being a gas giant.

However, after such a process, it was certainly impossible for life to exist inside Jupiter.

Furthermore, the surrounding moons would also undergo a second baptism of high-energy radiation and solar winds due to this impact. No matter what civilization was there, they would have vanished.

So, he only needed to wait for Jupiter to cool down before going to take over the territory.

"Will Mercury and Venus be heavily affected?"

Gao Yuan asked.

"Heavily? Extremely so. Perhaps the seawater on Earth has already completely evaporated by now, and Earth's atmosphere is likely filled with water vapor; it might take hundreds of years to cool down. Venus and Mercury are slightly further away, but they will also be hit by the impact of this collision! High-energy radiation and high-energy particle streams will destroy their tectonic plates and atmospheres! No matter what preparations they have, they will suffer a devastating blow. Even if the civilizations of Venus and Mercury aren't wiped out, they won't be far from extinction!"

Gao Yuan nodded...

This was the effect he wanted.

With one impact, the four inner planets of the Solar System were dealt with. Once this was over, he would only have to face Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune...

Those regions were cold zones where the birth of life was extremely difficult. Even if there were civilizations, they wouldn't be too strong.

Carrying the momentum of a great victory, unifying the Solar System was a certainty.

During this time, he still needed to hide on the far side of Mars and wait for the high-energy particle stream to pass before he could act!

Over these few days, Gao Yuan accelerated his research into various technologies from the previous Jupiter warships, hoping to reverse-engineer results that could be used on human warships.

A few days later...

The high-energy particle stream, also known as the solar wind... or more appropriately, the jupiter wind, began to pass by Mars.

Gao Yuan had initially thought that Mars could block the jupiter wind just as it had blocked the high-energy radiation before.

But when the jupiter wind actually passed through...

Gao Yuan realized his previous estimates had been too optimistic.

Mars's atmosphere and magnetic field were instantly stripped away by the powerful jupiter wind!

The tectonic plates on the surface of Mars were blown to pieces by the powerful jupiter wind.

Gao Yuan even suspected that if the jupiter wind lasted for a year, Mars might be blown apart entirely.

A massive amount of debris was stripped from Mars, flying away with the jupiter wind...

But as it left Mars, it was pulled back by Mars's gravity...

At this moment...

Mars seemed to have become a comet.

The far side of Mars, where the Human Fleet had originally been hiding, had now become a comet tail.

A massive amount of debris was carried away by the jupiter wind, only to be caught by Mars's gravity on the far side, turning into a meteor belt!

These meteors crashed around randomly within this enormous tail!

This caused the Human Fleet to suffer immense losses.

Mechas were fine; they had high maneuverability and small profiles, allowing them to dodge the meteors.

Warships were a different story; their massive size meant they could only dodge the large meteors, and their hulls were covered in impact craters!

Some unlucky warships were smashed right through by meteors and then exploded.

Even worse off were the massive aerospace carriers...

Their maneuverability was practically non-existent, and they were too large to dodge no matter what. They could only focus entirely on defense—Laser Cannons, Electromagnetic Cannons, and all sorts of weapons were firing constantly, with sensor performance pushed to the limit to destroy incoming meteors!

This caused the consumption of the aerospace carriers to skyrocket, even far exceeding the consumption during actual warfare!

The lucky ones could barely hold on.

For the unlucky ones, the people inside had already begun to escape via ship-borne aircraft and mechas.

In the eyes of all humans, this scene was comparable to the end of the world.

Even so, no one dared to flee from the far side of Mars.

Because here, you might die, but leaving here meant you definitely would...

One warship accidentally drifted away from the far side of Mars and was instantly caught in the jupiter wind, turning into space dust in less than two seconds!

No matter how difficult...

They could only endure.

This jupiter wind lasted for far too long!

So long that Gao Yuan thought humanity wouldn't make it through.

Then, the jupiter wind stopped.

It had finally moved away from Mars, heading toward Earth, Mercury, and Venus in the inner system!

Gao Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and immediately began to tally the losses.

He opened the communication system and began to contact all warships, mechas, and aerospace carriers.

Half an hour later, Mo Yun's statistics came out.

Up to half of the aerospace carriers were missing, along with over a third of the warships... the mecha losses weren't large, with only a few dozen missing.

Under these circumstances, if they were missing, there was a 99% probability they were gone!

Gao Yuan's heart was heavy.

But he had to pull himself together.

He opened the public communication system.

"Hello everyone, I am Gao Yuan. We have just survived an unprecedented stellar storm! Many of us died in this storm, but fortunately, many of us survived! We must carry the hopes of the deceased and continue our mission!"

"In this battle, it was either them or us. Now that we have survived, the Jupiter People... are most likely dead! Now is the time for us to reap the rewards! Now, we must reorganize our spirits and set out for the Jupiter Sector, to Io and Europa, to occupy and to refit!"

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The Human Fleet set out once again...

Gao Yuan looked back at Mars and noticed that its comet tail was slowly dissipating. Under the influence of Mars's gravity, these meteors would slowly become a planetary ring around Mars...

In time, Mars would be like Saturn, a planet with rings, and the only terrestrial planet in the Solar System to have them!

"Goodbye, Mars!"

After Gao Yuan spoke, he continued flying toward the Jupiter Sector.

Fortunately, Antimatter could be manufactured on the warships, so energy wasn't a problem for the time being!

However, the fleet's losses were very real, and many ships were damaged. There weren't enough supplies on the fleet to repair them, and Mars was currently completely unsuitable for landing.

He wondered what the Jupiter Sector was like now.

...

After a month of flight, Gao Yuan finally led the fleet to the Jupiter Sector...

Such a distance would have originally taken only half a month, but now, the closer they got to Jupiter, the more meteors there were, and they were moving extremely fast. Gao Yuan had originally intended to intercept a few large meteors and drag them onto the aerospace carriers for smelting to repair the fleet!

But the speed was too high; the energy consumed to intercept those meteors would be astronomical...

And there was the possibility of being dragged by a meteor and falling into Jupiter, so it wasn't worth the cost!

The fleet carefully dodged the meteors and arrived at the Jupiter Sector. In this sector, the moon with the best natural environment should have been Europa, but when Gao Yuan looked for it, he found that Europa had disappeared!