Choosing to send a battleship to find a habitable star at this time was not a whim of Xu Shijie, but a decision made based on several factors.

The first is that the Republic has an unreasonable location for the habitable star.

At present, the Republic has four habitable planets, including the Earth, and if the location of Yunzhou Star, the Solar System, the Blue Star, and the Base Star is connected in a straight line on the star map, then you will find that they are roughly in the vicinity of the same straight line!

Among the four habitable stars, Yunzhou Star is too close to the Yaren and Saucer Clans, and there are currently no civilians living except for the garrison, and it is basically in a state of abandonment.

The solar system has experienced the invasion of subhumans and Shang tribes, and the earth has been devastated, except for some primitive tribes in the deep mountains and old forests, most countries have moved away from the earth. Since the location of the solar system has long been not a secret, the Republic has so far still cordoned off the solar system, not allowing civilians to return to habitation, and only a small number of people are stationed on the moon to monitor the situation on Earth like a housekeeper.

Not to mention the Blue Light Star, although it will take more than ten or twenty years for the shock wave to reach the Blue Light Star, the top management has decided to abandon the Blue Light Star, and now only a small number of engineering troops are left to manage the army of robots who are carrying out destructive mining.

Three of the four habitable stars were abandoned, and this is the situation in the republic.

Although the population of the base planet is still far from saturation, based on the principle that all eggs cannot be put in the same basket, the search for a new colony is imminent!

In addition, the communication and transmission failures of Betelgeuse and the explosion of the three habitable stars almost separated them from the base star, which was also an important factor in prompting the high-level to make up their minds

With the current state of human technology. It's still unclear what interferes with quantum communication and portals, and now no one can say when the influence of supernova will end, since it has long been decided to develop the base star as the capital star of the republic, it is necessary to find suitable colony stars in all directions, and make a reasonable development layout for the future, rather than a single-line abnormal development.

The second is that the timing is more opportune.

For some time, the military fought either against the Sub-people or the Shang people, and there was little time to spare, although the war had spurred the potential of the entire country. Both the level of science and technology and the combat effectiveness of the fleet have made great progress. However, the large attrition of the warships slowed down the overall strength of the fleet.

At present, the Ya and Shang clans closest to the human star field have all died down, the Zhen clan has also carefully kept their distance from the humans, and the crab clan has suffered heavy losses under the continuous blows of the Blue Light Star Fleet. It is precisely a good time for the military to draw some strength for a new round of expansion.

Now the headache for the top management is that the base star is too safe. Even if you find a new habitable star. The question is how many people will be willing to emigrate.

On May 28, 2223, Ye Fei, who had returned to the base star, only hurriedly returned home for a day, and then set off again with the unwashed dust.

The Xinyuan was accompanied by four flagship-class warships drawn from other fleets. However, the mission direction of these four warships is different from that of the Xinyuan.

It seems to be a copy of the Deep Space Project.

Several warships chose different places of departure according to their different situations

Since the mission targets are on the other side of the Orion Nebula, most of the battleships participating in the mission can save a considerable distance by directly departing from the base star, but in order to protect the coordinates of the base star, the battleship that receives the mission can only travel more than 600 light years and depart from the temporary teleportation point.

However, there are no absolutes, because Ye Fei already knew the coordinates of the base star, so Xu Shijie authorized the Xinyuan to set off directly from the base star, but it must be controlled by Ye Fei himself.

When the Xinyuan departed, Ye Fei was the only one in the bridge, and all the others stayed in the dormitory and were not allowed to come out, until the battleship escaped into the vast nebula, and the bridge officers who received the notice did not return to the bridge.

Looking at the fog on the screen, Yi Qi asked curiously, "Boss, where are we flying here?" "Counting the experience of crossing the outer nebula of Betelgeuse, this is the second time she has made a flight within the nebula.

She hated the feeling of being obscured by the clouds.

The others also looked at Ye Fei with curiosity.

Ye Fei smiled and said, "Our target is Black Hole No. 1. "Black Hole No. 1 is the neutron star that became a black hole, and it was named Black Hole No. 1 because it was the first black hole that humans had ever come into close contact with.

After hearing Ye Fei's answer, before the others could figure out what was going on, Yi Qi showed a look of sudden realization: "Boss, do you want to use the black hole corridor?" ”

The black hole corridor refers to the passage opened up by the No. 1 black hole in the process of passing through the Orion Nebula, before the discovery of the neutron galaxy, human beings did not know what the starry sky behind the nebula looked like, and it was through this passage that human astronomers obtained the starry sky information behind the Orion Nebula.

"Clever!" Ye Fei praised with a smile.

The target of the mission is the M67 star cluster, an open cluster of more than 500 stars located 2,700 light-years from the solar system in the direction of the constellation Cancer.

Those who are familiar with the constellations know that Orion and Cancer are only separated by one or two constellations in the starry sky of the earth, almost neighbors, although the distance between M67 and the solar system is 2,700 light years, but directly from the Orion Nebula, which is more than 1,500 light years away from the solar system, the actual distance is only 1,200 light years.

The Orion Nebula is not small in size, and direct penetration must pass through unexplored airspace, which has certain dangers; It's too cumbersome to go around from the outside, and Black Hole No. 1 enters the nebula from the other side of the nebula, carving out a thoroughfare in the nebula, which is just right to take advantage of.

Until now, Black Hole 1 is still on a journey through the nebula, and at the current rate, it will completely penetrate the Orion Nebula in 700,000 to 800,000 years.

Moreover, Nebula No. 1 absorbs the material in the nebula while walking, and the large amount of nebula material absorbed by it constantly pushes its mass up, and when it penetrates the nebula, the mass will increase to at least eight to ten times the current one!

According to astronomers' calculations, the predecessor of Black Hole 1 traveled in the nebula for at least a million years, and it was likely to be just a white dwarf before entering the nebula.

Ye Fei's praise made Yi Qi's mood bloom like a flower, causing Ji Xiaotong's eyes to quietly glance at her. (To be continued......)