In the Federation's database, the Virgo Supercluster was also known as the Local Supercluster.
It was made up of 100 galaxy groups or clusters, spanning a distance of more than 100 million light years. Together with the Kempinia Supercluster and the Lavis Supercluster, they formed the Laniacaia Supercluster.
The Local Galaxy Group where the Milky Way was located was located at the edge of the Virgo Supercluster. It was still moving away from the Virgo Supercluster.
It was foreseeable that in a few hundred million years, the Local Galaxy Group where the Milky Way was located might completely break away from the Virgo Supercluster!
Of course, this was not a problem that the Federation needed to consider at the moment.
The key was that the Myers Galaxy Group was also located at the edge of the Virgo Supercluster, and it was located in the opposite direction of the Local Galaxy Group.
This was also why the Local Galaxy Group where the Milky Way was located and the Myers Galaxy Group belonged to the Virgo Supercluster, but they were more than 100 million light years apart.
Now, Lin Fan's plan was to first take down the 27 galaxy groups in between these two galaxy groups, so that the Federation's territory would become one. After that, they would expand outwards until they finally took over the entire Virgo Supercluster!
At this moment, in the virtual conference room, Lin Fan pointed at a red dot on the virtual star map projection in front of him.
"The Weiss Galaxy Group!"
The Weiss Galaxy Group?
In the virtual conference room, the basic information of this galaxy group quickly flashed through the minds of everyone present. They were instantly stunned.
No one would have thought that Lin Fan's primary target would be this galaxy group.
This was the galaxy group that should not be his primary target!
Speaking of the Weiss Galaxy Group, according to the intelligence, it was a completely unified galaxy group with a level-6 technological civilization.
Of course, the big shots felt that this galaxy group should not be their primary target, not because of this level-6 technological civilization.
After all, a level-6 civilization was not a threat to the Federation.
However, the problem was that among the 27 galaxies in the Weiss Galaxy Group, there were 26 dwarf galaxies …
What did a dwarf galaxy mean?
Everyone present was a big shot in the Federation, so they all knew the basic knowledge of the universe.
A dwarf galaxy meant that there were very few members, and it also meant that the possibility of a planet with natural life was very low.
This was not a good place!
This could be confirmed by the exploration report of the Starfleet.
According to the Starfleet's report, each of these 26 dwarf galaxies was much larger than the Milky Way, and some were even comparable to the Andromeda Galaxy.
However, the average number of stars it contained was only 10 billion. As for primitive life planets, they were even rarer than animals.
Even the Milky Way, which was much smaller than these galaxies, had more than 100 billion stars. The Andromeda Galaxy, which was about the same size, had more than 1 trillion star systems.
10 billion?
This was just a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, okay?
The Large Magellan Galaxy under the control of the Federation had a population of about 10 billion!
These two were more or less the same!
The Large Magellan Galaxy was only a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, with a diameter of less than 10,000 light-years!
What about the galaxies in the Weiss Group?
All of them were at least 100,000 light years in size, and there were even a few that were over 200,000 light years in size. However, all of them only had a few billion to ten billion stars.
What kind of strategic value could this place have?
Looking at the group of big shots who were frowning, Lin Fan naturally knew what they were thinking about.
To be honest, without the exploration report of the Starfleet, he might not even look at this galaxy group, let alone spend a lot of effort to formulate a battle plan and make this galaxy group their primary target!
"Everyone, I know what you're thinking, but there's a piece of information that wasn't recorded in the report in your hands, and it's this information that led us to make the Weiss Group our primary target!"
This time, everyone's interest was piqued.
What kind of information was kept secret to such an extent that it wasn't even mentioned in the public report?
"Everyone should know that since the Federation entered the dark energy era 13 years ago, the technology related to it has developed rapidly. Even the Starfleet used dark energy technology as the foundation to build a special fleet!"
The group of bosses nodded. They had the right to know these things.
However, how did the topic change to this?
Could it be …
The plan to conquer the Weiss Group was actually related to dark energy?
And it was related to military technology?
There were no idiots in the virtual conference room. They quickly made a lot of connections based on Lin Fan's words, and some of their thoughts were even close to the truth.
"Actually, there's one thing that everyone might not know.
"The first dark energy fleet built before was only for testing. To test the combat power of a battleship built with dark energy technology as the core.
"The results were quite encouraging. Facing five times the number of Dreadnoughts, this experimental fleet actually crushed the Dreadnought fleet!
"It was because of this result that we immediately decided to start designing the second generation of battleships with dark energy technology as the core, the Netherworld Class Battleship!
"However, similar to the first generation of battleships, many of the necessary parts of the Netherworld Class Battleship must be built with a metal called Erot. However, this metal is very rare in the area controlled by the Federation, and it's not enough to support the Starfleet's massive mass production plan of the Netherworld Class Battleship!
"Therefore, in the past ten years, other than exploration and intelligence gathering, the exploration fleet actually had a third mission.
"To search for Erot metal!"
So that's how it is. The group of bosses nodded one after another!
Hmm?
Wait a minute!
If that's the case, does Lin Fan mean that he has already found this metal called Erot metal in the Weiss Group?
With this thought in mind, all of their doubts disappeared instantly, and their hearts were suddenly enlightened.
"Everyone, according to the exploration fleet's preliminary exploration, almost every star system in the Weiss Group has a large amount of Erot metal.
"And the preliminary assessment of the reserves is enough to support the Starfleet's Netherworld Class Battleship production plan for a hundred years!"
Hiss …
The reserves were that large?
It should be known that the Federation's production speed of battleships was very fast. On average, the number of battleships built every year was calculated in the billions.
A hundred years?
Wouldn't that mean they could build
a hundred billion Netherworld Class Battleship?
No wonder Lin Fan insisted on attacking here first. So this was the problem …