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Eye of the Sky

It sounds just as unremarkable as it looks, but it accurately summarizes what this weapon is all about.

It is an eye of judgment that hovers above the sky of all enemy planets.

From the moment it was born, everyone knew that the true way of war would be rewritten at this moment.

When the Colossus weapon was completed, Shen Yi also obtained a "Earth-shattering Star" and a "Neutron Annihilation" weapon component as promised.

As we all know, the Colossus weapon needs to be equipped with special ammunition when launching a star-destroying attack, and these two weapon components are the ammunition required by the Colossus weapon.

The maintenance cost of the Colossus weapon is 50 gold coins per round. In addition, 30 common materials and 20 precious materials are required.

Shen Yi's current net income from materials per round is 100 common and 50 precious.

Just maintaining a Colossus weapon consumed nearly one-third of it.

So, producing this thing is not scary, using it is scary.

Moreover, the production of ammunition such as the Earth-shattering Star and Neutron annihilation also requires a lot of productivity and materials.

The total cost is 1500 productivity, 100 common materials, and 50 precious materials.

However, after they are built, their maintenance cost per round is only 20 gold coins, and no materials are required, so it is relatively easy to keep them.

Finally, the Colossus weapon is the same as in Stellaris, and it takes time to prepare before firing.

It takes 3 turns to charge and 1 turn to fire.

That is to say, it takes a total of 4 rounds from activating the weapon system to completing the firing.

Of course, Shen Yi can prepare for the charging work in advance by judging the timing, so that the Colossus weapon can be in a "ready to fire" state at any time.

Looking at this colossal weapon quietly orbiting the planet Terra, Shen Yi was like a child who got a new toy and always wanted to jump out and show off.

Oh, I really want to use it on the enemy. Can you give me an enemy to use it on?

Or just randomly pick a planet and blow it up.

No, no, both Earth-shattering Star and Neutron Annihilation require a lot of productivity, it would be a waste to use them like this.

Just as Shen Yi was debating whether to randomly select a planet and send the Colossus weapon to bombard it, the pioneering team that was sent out a few days ago to make a new planet habitable also arrived at the habitable planet after a long voyage.

When Shen Yi saw the prompt pop up in the lower right corner that the pioneering fleet had arrived at the target planet, he immediately cut the camera over.

Now the three cities of the Grammer Empire, as well as Cangcheng and Luofu in Xianzhou are all producing and building wonders. I have nothing important to do during this period of time, so it is a good opportunity to develop a new city.

He slid the mouse, selected the pioneering fleet, and moved it to the habitable planet.

As the animation of the fleet passing through the atmosphere ended, the research ship, mining ship, frigate, and pioneer Xing Baoer successfully arrived at the surface of the habitable planet.

This looks like a green planet with rich ecological vegetation, and the research team named it "Firefly II".

Alas, you Grammers are just like the Iron Cavalry, dull and without much imagination.

There is a significant gap between Firefly II and Terra. Terra can almost be called a one-to-one replica of the Earth, while Firefly II has a larger land area, occupying almost 60% of the entire planet.

And vegetation alone occupies about 40% of the land, more than half.

No wonder this planet looks like a green matcha daifuku.

Shen Yi calculated based on the size of Terra that if the planet were fully mined, the resources on it should be able to support four cities.

However, just like the planet Terra, the planet's resources must be left in redundancy and cannot be fully exploited and developed. Otherwise, resource production and consumption will be out of balance, and the planet will be exhausted.

What's more, a portion must be reserved as a war buffer to prevent the remaining cities from stopping or even being destroyed due to lack of sufficient resources after the cells are contaminated by war.

Shen Yi selected the pioneer Xing Baoer with the mouse, found a Feng Shui treasure land near the river, and pressed the development button.

As Xingbaoer worked hard, a brand new city rose from the ground.

[Achievement: Stranger in a Strange Land]

[Instructions: Build a city on a different planet from the capital]

[Reward: 50 Xingqiong]

Hey, sure enough, developing a new city on a new planet is also an achievement.

Even though it's only 50 Star Qiong points, a fly, no matter how small, is still meat, so don't miss it.

Shen Yi happily accepted the small fortune and began to build a new city.

First, the security issues of the new city need to be addressed.

This planet is still some distance away from the mother star. It takes time for the mother star's fleet to rush over, and it also takes time for the fairy ship with a jump engine to initiate the jump.

So no matter what, you still have to have some self-protection ability.

Shen Yi spent gold coins to buy five Grammer Iron Cavalry.

Afterwards, two sentry turrets were built as a priority.

A military force of this scale is certainly insignificant in a contest between two civilizations, but it should be enough for a habitable planet like this without any danger.

The initial use of the beyond-horizon detector and the four-way telescope provided Shen Yi with a field of view of 2 light years.

Within 2 light years, he saw no obvious hostile civilization.

Therefore, even if there are enemies on such a habitable planet, most of them are probably wild beasts. For the Grammer Iron Cavalry, encountering wild beasts is simply a dish for dinner.

However, Shen Yi still miscalculated.

He only counted enemies, not neutral units.

Just as he was thinking about whether to prioritize building commercial areas or industrial areas, he suddenly noticed that an unknown unit appeared 10 blocks outside the city.

At the same time, a prompt popped up -

[A reconnaissance unit from an unknown city-state is approaching your city]

Chapter 78 Meeting with the City-State, Canned Raw Materials (Fourth Update)

City-state?

It turns out that this "game" has a city-state setting!

I thought we were always fighting against the mainstream civilization, and I thought this "game" didn't have a city-state setting!

Shen Yi showed a happy expression and stared at the screen intently.

He manually shut down the sentry turret that was in martial law, and placed two Grammer cavalry on the enemy's path to contact them first.

If the other party shows hostility, just open fire on him.

If there is no hostility, then it's easy. Just sit down and negotiate slowly.

As the mysterious unit got closer and closer to the city, finally, an exclamation mark appeared above their heads.

Shen Yi clicked on the exclamation mark, and a series of tutorial prompt boxes popped up:

【We encountered a brand new city-state! 】

City-states are an important element of the game. Typically, they have only one home planet and seek the protection of various civilizations, providing various benefits to those civilizations by establishing relationships.

[There are 5 different types of city-states, including military, industrial, commercial, cultural and scientific research city-states]

Each city-state will provide bonuses to its overlord (i.e., the civilization allied with it) in the corresponding areas.

Okay, okay, the settings here can’t be said to be exactly the same as those in Civilization 6, but they are basically similar.

I never expected that a habitable planet I randomly found would have a city-state on it.

Hiss, this is difficult. If this planet is the mother planet of the city-state civilization, then won’t I be able to colonize it?

Then we have to eliminate the opponent!!

Moreover, according to the information, it does not indicate whose home planet this planet is.

Let’s take a look first and then talk.

Shen Yi closed the tutorial prompt box, and the diplomatic interface immediately appeared.

The dialogue of the opposing city-state unit also popped up on the interface:

[Cybertanian Representative: Dear Heavenly Kingdom Messenger, I am a representative from the "Republic of Cybertania". I greet you with the most sincere enthusiasm and highest respect.]

Cybertronia?

As the name suggests, this country is very good at making robots!

It must be a technological city-state!

As the city-state representative finished speaking, three options immediately appeared on the diplomacy interface:

[1. Ignore, you will lose the opportunity to establish diplomatic relations with this city-state]

[2. Attack: You will declare a surprise attack on the city-state]

[3. Negotiation: You will conduct normal diplomacy with the city-state]

Seeing this, Shen Yi was very glad that there was a technology called [Signal Band Decoder] in the previous technology tree.

In fact, the language used by each civilization is different, and the function of the signal band decoder can not only crack unknown signals, but also automatically translate the other party's language.

Among the three options, the [Negotiation] option can only be selected after this technology is unlocked.

Think about it, if this technology had not been unlocked in the first place, when encountering a city-state, the only two options would be to ignore or declare war, which is weird.

But it fits the Dark Forest Law.

A city-state can bring great benefits to the suzerain state. Shen Yi will certainly not ignore the other party, or be so bored as to declare war directly.

It's true that we Paradox players are war criminals, but this hasn't reached the point where we have to "suffer a little bit with the aliens first.JGP"!

Shen Yi clicked on negotiation, and after some insignificant diplomatic rhetoric, a small blue dot was marked on Shen Yi's interstellar map.

He followed the instructions on the map and located the coordinates of the small blue dot, and found the mother planet of the Cybertronian Republic in the corner of the edge of the map two light years away.

It is an asteroid slightly larger than the moon, with a moderate habitability and rich mineral resources. There are four major cities on it.

This information is more useful for players who want to launch a surprise war, but Shen Yi does not care about the opponent's planetary resources, city status, and military deployment.

What he cares more about is the special bonus of this city-state:

[City-State Name: Republic of Cybertronia]

[City-state type: Scientific research city-state]

[Suzerain Bonus: As the suzerain of this city-state, each city with a technology zone will receive an additional 10 technology points.]

[Tribute: Provide 10-100 gold coins to the suzerain every 300 turns]

[Featured Resource: Cybertron Mecha]

[Cybertron Mecha: Can be used as a special commodity, adding 5 technology points and 5 gold coins per turn to the trade route leading to this city-state]

Just as previously speculated, this country is indeed a scientific research city-state!

Each city with a technological zone can gain an additional 10 points of technology value each round. I now have a total of 5 cities, which adds up to 50 points of technology value!

Okay, okay, this bonus is pretty good and worthy of being recruited by me.

In this "game", there are three ways to turn a city-state into your own suzerain:

The first one, needless to say, is conquest by force.

The advantage is high efficiency, but the disadvantage is that it may destroy the output of the planet, resulting in reduced subsequent benefits;

Second, diplomatic level.

The advantage is that the planet's output is kept intact, but the process is relatively slow.

Although city-states do not need to go through three levels to change camps like other civilizations, and can do so with only 3 diplomatic points, it is still too slow compared to conquering by force.

Third, complete special events.

Just like the city-states in Civilization 6, when civilizations meet, the city-state will usually issue a small task to the civilization, and rewards can be obtained as long as the task is completed.

The same setting also exists in this "game".

What a coincidence! The Republic of Cybertronia actually has an extremely urgent matter that requires Shen Yi's help.