Chapter 31 Those Things in the Starry Sky (Second Shift, 4000, Asking for a Monthly Pass~)
"Can you detect them?"
"No, Captain, their psionic jamming system is at least a generation more advanced than our radar, and we can't lock them down at all!"
In the command module, Kotaron, the captain of the Far Wanderer who belonged to the Tallinn Elders, had already fixed himself in the driver's seat with his four claws.
It sat very well, even if the propulsion vent had been damaged several times, causing the ship to shake violently once in a while.
However, compared to the stable sitting posture, at this time, Kotaron's heart was extremely anxious.
Fifteen days ago, after receiving the mission of 'exploring the Forbidden Zone in the Black Domain' from the Council of Elders, Far Wanderer 12 changed his original investigation mission and set out towards the perimeter of the forbidden area at the edge of the river system.
It's not a long time, but it's definitely not easy, if it weren't for the fact that Far Wanderer 12 was originally located around the Black Domain Forbidden Zone, but set off directly from the home planet of Tallinn, then even with the latest generation of jump engines, it might not take two or three years to get to the edge.
Even Far Voyager 12, for the sake of safety, has to enter some planetary systems from time to time, enter their inner ring orbit, and replenish some fuel and material reserves from gas giants or planets. And this will greatly extend the time of exploration.
For the sake of conservatism, Taron believes that it will take at least four months for Voyager 12 to reach the inner side of the Black Forbidden Zone, where there may be a planetary system with a Ω-level psionic civilization.
It's not long, and it's even very fast for interstellar travel.
However, who would have thought that the Far Voyager 12 had only been on its way to the target for ten days before it directly encountered the exploration ship of the hostile forces?
Yes, hostile forces.
Since the beginning of the Silent Age, the original cosmic pattern has been completely erased and shattered, and many of the most powerful and glorious interstellar empires and giants have all died out and completely collapsed due to the disappearance of psionic energy and hyperspace leaps.
Therefore, the civilizations that are now active on the galactic stage are basically reborn civilizations, or original civilizations, that have only been redeveloped in the last few thousand years after the Silent Era.
The reborn civilization, as the name suggests, is a civilization that originated from the home planet of many interstellar forces before the Silent Era, or colonies, and relied on the analysis of those ancient technological relics to enter the starry sky again - the reborn civilization is quite good, and picking up garbage is more realistic.
And the original civilization is the civilization that has developed step by step by itself, just avoiding the biggest turmoil of the Silent Era, and entering the universe in the recent period.
The composition of the Presbyterian Church in Tallinn is half and half.
This arthropod-like race with four clawed limbs was originally a super civilization before the Silent Age, a native planet race within the sphere of influence of the 'Enterprise Alliance', and their entire home planet was a nature reserve set by the Enterprise Alliance, a key observation object of primitive civilization.
However, when the Silent Era came, the Enterprise Alliance was cut off due to the disappearance of psionic energy, the means of communication and transportation were cut off, and the Alliance of Enterprises originally stationed on the home planet of Tallinn was also trapped in the observation post on the satellite of the home planet of Tallinn because of the loss of supplies.
The people of Tallinn have rapidly developed to the age of moon landing by reversely analyzing the research station left by the scientists of the enterprise alliance on their home planet, and then through the observation station technology on the satellite, they have made rapid progress and entered the interstellar stage.
They thought that they could take over the legacy of the corporate alliance in its entirety, and slowly by absorbing the experience of the powerful civilizations of the past, they added their own development to become a higher civilization step by step.
Unfortunately, there is not only one civilization that has emerged from the legacy of corporate alliances.
The Chloe Production Complex is such a civilization.
Born from the former industrial manufacturing planet of the Enterprise Alliance, the 'Joint Directorate of Machine Building and Production', the Crow were originally just an artificial auxiliary race created by the Enterprise Alliance, which was used to carry out various dangerous deep space operations, as well as some dangerous production work in close quarters.
The word cloe, in the language of the business alliance, means 'labor'.
They resemble a dodecahedron, with an unusually strong, multifunctional exoskeleton limb on each side, except for the apex and bottom. This robot-like shape allows them to carry out all kinds of complex maintenance and construction work in all aspects and terrain, and the artificially designed exoskeleton shell can allow the Crow people to survive in space to a certain extent, even if they do not have psionic powers.
With a body far stronger than the normal races in the Corporate Alliance, the Crow survived the catastrophe of the Silent Age, and after losing their master, gradually grew a considerable amount of intelligence, and then formed their own civilization, carrying on the industrial manufacturing legacy of the Corporate Alliance, and entering the cosmic starry sky.
Coincidentally, the Kloe and Tallinn were not far apart.
Twenty-five years ago, they discovered each other, and the result of the exchange was quite unfriendly.
The Chloes, who regard themselves as the legitimate heirs of the Enterprise Alliance, treat the people of Tallinn like seeing a monkey coming out of a zoo and wearing human clothes, and their attitude and actions appear rude and disrespectful...... In a diplomatic exchange, the Chloe even put the Tallinn ambassador in a cage and showed it to the public as an animal, affirming that this was the right place for the Tallinn people.
Since then, relations between the two civilizations have deteriorated dramatically, and there have even been numerous armed conflicts.
And they also have this qualification, because originally born on the industrial planet of the Enterprise Alliance, the Kloe are far stronger than the Tallinns in terms of fleet and production capacity.
However, in the final analysis, they are all new civilizations after the Silent Age, and the Crow do not have the logistical ability to send a fleet to raid the home planet of Tallinn - and the Tallinn people, as a native civilization, are far superior to the Crow who are only designed as laborers, so although the two sides are currently in a semi-war state, there is no trend of violent hot conflict. ,
But if they happen to meet in the universe, whether it is a Kloe or a Tallinn, they will not hesitate to shoot down each other's spaceship.
And in this conflict, the vast majority of them are dominated by the Cloes.
Just like what happened to the Far Wanderer 12 now - because of the technological inferiority, even if the Crow Exploration Ship hidden in the shadows attacked them, they would not be able to lock on to the other side in turn.
"That Crow exploration ship, obviously also heard the warning signal of the spaceship in the black domain forbidden area, so I planned to go over to see the situation......"
At this moment, Far Wanderer 12 was attacked again - it was a beam of psionic particles that could self-direct to another psionic target, which would not be easy to use on the battlefield, but in the empty cosmic environment, it was an artifact that was almost certain to hit.
Rumble! Bright white light shone on the sides of Far Wanderer 12's trapezoidal appearance, creating a small gap that the autonomous maintenance robots were urgently filling, and it wouldn't get to the point where the ship came to a halt - but if it continued like this, it was only a matter of time before they were taken down, and now none of them could lock onto the enemy, and reinforcements from the Tallinn side would never arrive before they were down.
In that case, Captain Kotaron had no choice.
"Show the star map."
Thus the order was issued, and the crew immediately displayed the star map in the light curtain minutes of the command module.
Through the neuroma that has been electronically encephalized, Ke Tarun quickly browses the information of the stars in the star map...... Unfortunately, there were no planetary systems around that could be used to hide, or special celestial bodies that could hinder the search signal, so they had no choice but to escape.
But if you run, where can you escape? Even if the jump engine is activated, the other party can still catch up according to the hyperspace signal - the Cloe people's sensor technology is at least higher than theirs, but Tarun doesn't think the other party can't do this.
But to become the captain of a ship, Tarun still has enough decision-making power in times of crisis.
"Long distance jump, target black domain exclusion zone."
An electronic signal was sent to inform everyone in the crew of the exploration ship, but Tarun's tone was so calm that all the crew members who were a little flustered couldn't help but settle down: "Don't care about the energy source, just jump continuously towards the source of the signal!" ”
Since, in the forbidden area of the Black Domain, there is a spaceship that can send psionic signals, then it proves that the spaceship should still be usable, and even have a little energy.
As a victorious pursuer, the Clowe ship could not have been as desperate as they were, completely ignoring the dangers of being trapped in a strange planetary system, and making a continuous jump that consumed a lot of energy - through the suicidal method of continuous jumping, he got rid of the pursuer, and then used the parts of the ship that sent the signal to repair the Traveler and recharge his energy to leave, which was his plan.
A continuous jump lasting up to a dozen days, with even one failure, will lead to the failure of the plan.
Even if they succeeded, the high-level psionic civilizations that might exist in the forbidden area of the Black Domain might destroy them in the same way that they destroyed the spaceship that sent the signal.
This is a glimmer of life, and it is only a glimmer of life.
But, even at the risk of being wiped out by a Ω psionic civilization, for his own life, and the lives of many other Tallinn crews, Tarun had to do so.
And after hearing the order of his captain, all the Tallinn crew began to work in silence.
Upon landing, among the stars, the trapezoidal spaceship began to change course, and the originally bright propulsion engine began to gradually shut down.
Then, the pale golden psionic radiance, like the morning light that covered the earth, turned into a veil of light and covered the entire ship.
Buzz, a humming sound that took place in the spirit realm, and the jump engine in the center of the ship began to start, and the charge bar advanced rapidly.
In this way, with a hallucinatory change of light and shadow, the entire trapezoidal spaceship disappeared in the light golden psionic light particles flying in the sky.
Earth Calendar, June 8, 2017, 11:23 p.m.
Su Ri took the team of trainees who were physically and mentally exhausted to the location of the large radio telescope matrix located next to the Gobi in the northwest.
The starry sky is bright, the Milky Way is like a waterfall, and in the blue-black canopy without the interference of the city's light, the stars are shining.
"Professor Su is good to you! Not only did I pass the assessment, but I also took you to see the stars! ”
Saying this, Su Yan laughed, and threw Jin Qiong and the others, who were constipated and had all kinds of thoughts in their hearts, in the research institute, and then prepared to go to the green camp not far away to pick up Shao Qiming: "Study hard, members of our New World Exploration Department, even if you can't go to alien planets in the future, it is still very possible to go to a spaceship." ”
And it wasn't until Su Sun took off and left that a certain Miss Divine Bird dared to stomp her feet in annoyance and secretly poke her temper: "What made us assess, it is obvious that our cultivation has achieved remarkable results, and we can withstand lightning strikes!" ”
"It's really tested with thunderstorms, this is abuse at all! It's power! What do you say, 'The ancient immortals all used the thunder tribulation as a test standard', and they actually want to promote the thunder tribulation as an assessment method, and the majority of candidates around the world will hate you to the bone! ”
"You're right."
And just as Jin Qiong complained, the young man's voice came from afar, with the unity of the people, and Su Yan, who could hear his own thoughts within a few kilometers, said: "But it's not a good thing." ”
Suddenly, Jin Qiong, who thought that Su Tian couldn't hear before she dared to speak, suddenly turned pale, and the beautiful girl subconsciously pressed her heart's movements, and even had a little bit of Xizi's heart.
Li Yeyu, who was on the side, held back a smile, she stepped forward, hugged the other party's shoulder, and whispered comforting in the ear of the blonde girl: "Professor Su...... The strength has improved again, and now, it should be the realm of the high-level leader? It shouldn't be difficult to hear you a few kilometers away. ”“
"Anyway, don't talk about him in the future."
And Jin Qiong, whose legs were a little weak, suddenly turned around and hugged back with teary eyes: "Woo woo, you are the best in the night rain!" ”
On the other side, Guan Wanjing, who was full of muscles, was eager to try the radio telescope, and had begun to ask the automated AI in the research institute on the side about visiting, but Li Hanshan was not interested in these.
He is holding his mobile phone, and he is speeding up the code word - 12 o'clock is coming, and if he doesn't press the update, I'm afraid that the full attendance and monthly pass will be gone.
Although the changes in the world brought about by the revival of Reiki seem to have calmed down, whether it is the large-scale tree planting operation in the Gobi Desert of Zhengguo or the land reclamation operation in the northern part of Eurobasi, it is more practical to change the world than the seemingly magnificent changes in the sky.
In the Beast God Realm, Concord City has been built, and the children of many divine beasts have been gifted to them for the first batch of humanized education and training; On the far side of the moon, research on extraterrestrial spacecraft has gradually been put on the right track, and under the leadership of the four permanent members, the reverse cracking project has begun to take shape.
Everything is moving forward, for the better.
In the same way, in that universe that is extremely black, with countless black cracks spreading.
The stars are shining.