Chapter 1312 Asteroid Belt Engineering Base
When Shandora opened her mouth, people were startled. She mentioned the fallen apostles at this time, but I soon discovered that what Shandora said was true: First of all, this route is brand new. We have never sent a ship to this area, and the fragment cannot come from an Imperial starship. Secondly, the metal fragment that Little Crow found in the void was obviously created not long ago: perhaps it was a component of a complete spaceship not long ago. After the spacecraft collapsed, the order field disintegrated, and this fragment drifted to the In the void, otherwise there is no way to explain why such a piece of matter can persist in the void environment for such a long time. In addition to the imperial spaceship, now only the fallen apostles are possible.
"Fleet alert," Sandora immediately issued an order to increase vigilance. "The order field will enter a hidden state, and the jump speed will drop to the silent threshold. The early warning formation will release espionage probes and keep the probes farther away from the formation."
The fleet commander immediately responded to the order and took countermeasures, while I stared at the piece of metal, as if I wanted to see from it which "old friend" was behind it, and at the same time I felt a burst of surprise: "It stands to reason that it shouldn't be the case - —Lin Xue’s prediction should not be wrong.”
"Lin Xue just said that we won't encounter enemies on this trip," Sandora had her own opinion, "but she didn't say that there are no traces of fallen apostles in this generation. Maybe they have really been active in this place, but they just don't know Is it still there now? According to the prophecy, perhaps the most dangerous situation is when the imperial army and the fallen apostle pass by each other."
As she said that, Sandora stretched out her hand and wiped the corroded metal plate, her brows not relaxing at all: "I can't feel the abyss breath on it, it has probably been purified by the void. But Within the known void range, the only two forces using the Xiling starship are the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles. Since this is not our spaceship, it must be the enemy's."
"Anyway, put this thing in the warehouse first," I glanced at the metal plate. "There will be an engineering laboratory at the destination, and Tavel's clone is also there. Let her analyze this thing carefully. origin."
In fact, I think this metal plate reveals a good news, that is, the spaceship it originally belonged to must have been destroyed: once the order field is damaged, there is no way to save it. A spaceship sailing in the void, even if its There is just a pinhead-sized hole in the barrier, unless a universe of order can be found to dock within a short period of time. Otherwise, it will quickly suffer the impact of the void and be finished. What we are now in is a "desolate zone" in the void. There is no orderly universe in this frequency band, so this fragment means an irreversible void disaster. You see, no matter what the reason is, at least one wave of fallen apostles died...
The opposition between the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles has reached a point where no matter what, as long as the other side does not do good things, it will be a festival for itself.
"The chance of an accident happening to an imperial starship during normal navigation in the void is almost zero, even as rare as a fish choking on water." After the metal fragment was delivered to the warehouse, Sandora breathed out, "That spaceship must be It has been attacked nearby, or it may have been severely damaged when it came here. We have never been to this place, and the engineering team may have made omissions in detecting the new route... Be careful and avoid information collapse points and World Fragments, I don’t want the Imperial ships to suffer the same fate.”
I thought about it. He began to educate the group of eager children behind him: "No one is allowed to run out anymore. Fortunately, little bird, you didn't hit anything just now..."
After the fleet strengthened its vigilance and slowed down its speed, it took nearly twice as long to arrive at its destination. A full day had passed since our departure. But just as Lin Xue predicted before, the fleet did not encounter any danger along the way. No matter it was the fallen apostles, nor the world fragments or information collapse points that might have destroyed the fallen apostles' spaceship, it was quite peaceful along the way. The spy probes sent out by Sandora continued to cruise until they were overloaded and self-destructed. The only result was to draw a rather detailed void navigation map and return it - it would be much easier the next time they take this route. .
The day after departure, it was evening in the capital standard time - of course, this time was meaningless to us. Converting it to Shandora's timetable, the fleet arrived safely in the target universe one and a half hours before dinner.
Because of the unexpected situation that Xiaoniao discovered before, Sandora decided to continue to be on high alert. She ordered some frigates to anchor at the critical point of order in the world barrier. A large number of early warning radars and warning drones are deployed on the spot: these may not necessarily pose much fire threat to the enemy, but they can effectively prevent us from being caught off guard. Although Lin Xue's prophecy was there to protect him, in this remote frontier where the situation was unknown, it was always better to be more careful.
The Royal Cruiser and the remaining frigate formation safely sank to the Order Universe. After two space jumps, we arrived at the so-called "excavation site", a desolate asteroid belt.
It is located on the edge of a middle-aged star system, and the entire star system orbits a small orange sun. There are only two massive solid planets in the galaxy, which are made of barren ice-rock mixture. Both planets are orbiting far away from their sun, cold and dead. The asteroid belt where the home material was discovered is located in a more remote area. In its orbit, it is quite large and roughly ellipsoidally distributed. According to calculations, it takes one hundred and ninety-seven years for this asteroid belt to orbit the local star.
Further out, there is the cold deep space, and the nearest celestial body is six light-years away.
As I said at the beginning, this place is extremely desolate, and the unique meteorites found in the asteroid belt are the only reason to attract us. This is really not a good place for a vacation.
But the little girls still rushed out without hesitation and happily ran to the edge of the excavation site, pushing the fragmented meteorites and started bumping them around, just like playing giant billiards...
Forget it, high-energy naughty kids naturally have high-energy ways to play. They usually still throw grenades around at home all day long.
The first batch of engineering teams to arrive here have established outpost laboratories and engineering bases. This base is located in the center of the asteroid belt. Like all temporary space bases, it uses the most time-saving, labor-saving and efficient construction method. Relying on several large asteroids as the vertices and using high-strength interstellar alloys as the skeleton, it looks like an irregular scaffolding from space. Various important facilities are fixed on the nodes of these high-strength skeletons, and the experiment The room is the only large-scale facility in the entire base that looks quite impressive. It is a hemispheric building with a polygonal dome, fixed on the central platform, and surrounded by eight support beams to connect it to other facilities in the base. Blue identification lights mark several take-off and landing platforms around the laboratory. As the lights flashed, engineering drones were constantly coming and going on the take-off and landing platform: the entire base was in a busy working state.
At the end of one of the main support beams of the base, there is a docking port for small and medium-sized spacecraft. After the little girls ran off to play, we landed near the connection. It is said to be a support beam, but we all know that "big is beautiful" thinking of Xi Ling's construction of buildings. This support beam is actually a giant alloy structure with a width and height of 100 meters. It has long surpassed the concept of "big beam" , its interior is a closed passage leading directly to the laboratory. And bring your own comfortable artificial gravity. Tavel's mass projection was waiting for us at the entrance of the passage. Behind her were several senior assistants, as well as Phyllis, who looked inexplicably excited.
"Your Majesty, did you encounter any problems on the way?" Tavel was wondering why we were a few hours later than expected.
"For some minor reasons, this route may not be as 'clean' as initially expected, but you don't have to worry about it," Sandora said nonchalantly. Tavel is a scientist, and the presence of traces of fallen apostles' activities near the shipping route is a matter for the military department. It is useless to tell Tavel, "You are moving very quickly. This base is good."
"Yes, Your Majesty," Tavel accepted the compliment calmly. She looked at the transparent window next to her: There are many observation windows on both sides of this closed corridor located inside the main support beam. After all, this is not a military fortress, no. Issues of overall protection and lighting control need to be considered. These observation windows help you peek at the expansion of the base from anywhere. "We brought a mass-produced host with us when we set off, which greatly accelerated the construction progress of the base. The No. 4 extension platform was ready in about two hours. If it can be completed, then we can set up large-scale subspace analysis equipment."
Follow Tavel's line of sight and look over. I found what she was referring to as "Extended Platform Four."
It is an unfinished building located on the back side of the base. It is directly connected to the central laboratory by two parallel supports. It is about one or two kilometers away from us. Compared with the rest of the brightly lit base, the four buildings under construction are The extension platform looked quite dim, with only the light effect of the builder running on the huge metal platform. Through that little light, the shadowy semi-finished buildings on the platform could be seen. The builders working on it are undoubtedly the mass-produced hosts brought by Tavel that have just been built in the past two days. Under their busy work, a large-scale facility is rapidly taking shape in the unpredictable optical network, just like a crazily growing Like a giant plant: No matter how many times I see it, the builders’ miraculous field filling and information materialization technology is amazing. Tavel was able to build such a large and well-equipped asteroid base in forty-eight hours, all because of These are magical "construction workers".
Phyllis, who had been watching the mass-produced host building a house here for two days, was of course even more amazed. When she saw that the conversation between us and Tavel finally came to an end, she immediately jumped over and expressed her opinion in a loud voice: " I watched it for two days and still didn’t understand it - what kind of technology is this?! Is this how all your buildings come from? Do your building materials... do you have any building materials?"
I understand her excitement now: not long ago, she had not given up selling ore to the empire, but now, this dream has obviously been beaten to the ground by the empire's engineering technology.
"How should I put it? It's too early for you to come into contact with this technology." I glanced at Phyllis, whose eyes were so bright that she could almost stand up to two LCD light sources. If she didn't pour some cold water on her in time, this guy would She will definitely sneak into the base to pry parts: This is not the first time she has done this. "You are not short-sighted. Just think about it and you will know what this technology of creating matter out of thin air can crush your existing social order into." Sample."
Phyllis immediately figured it out and nodded in agreement, but there was still surprise on her face: "You are really creating matter out of thin air? But this... doesn't this violate the laws of science? Where does matter come from? Energy comes from? Where does it come from? Has your technology advanced to the point where it doesn’t need to follow objective laws?"
"Of course there are scientific laws," Sandora replied calmly, "It's just that we usually write those laws ourselves. Because the natural cosmological constants are often not easy to use. You Fialili people are actually about to come into contact with this now. Outside the universe, you can easily understand many mysteries that were originally impossible to guess. In about thirty years, your entire knowledge system and worldview will be destroyed. Refresh, you have to re-understand the world and yourself, and rewrite more than half of the technical classics. From now on, all your scientific laws involving the basic world view will be subject to the restriction of 'within this universe'. This will be a new era worth looking forward to. .”
Phyllis listened blankly to this high-powered declaration, and was finally convinced that such a profound thing was of no concern to her for the time being. So I ran and chatted with Qianqian.
"By the way, Tavel, I have something I want to analyze for you." After Phyllis walked away, I suddenly remembered that there was a metal lump picked up by a little crow in the cargo hold of the spaceship, so I quickly asked someone to take that piece away. The armor fragments were brought over.
As soon as he saw the strange thing, Tavel showed a surprised expression: "Is this found in the void environment? It has a serious tendency to chaos. The physical parameters of the matter itself are already between measurable and unmeasurable. It’s time.”
Professionals are professionals. I think Tavel's whole person is probably composed of scanning equipment and processors. She can see the origin of this thing at a glance.
"Let's put it this way, it was because of this thing that we were delayed for several hours..."
At that moment, I told Tavel about the near misses I encountered on the way, including Sandora’s guess about the origin of the metal fragment. certainly. We don’t expect Tavel, who is a scientist, to help formulate an early warning plan or anything like that. We give the fragment to her. We mainly hope that she can use her own technical analysis to analyze whether this thing fell off the fallen apostle’s spaceship. , and the possible reasons for the destruction of that spacecraft.
The fallen apostles have been active in this area, and they also lost a spaceship. This matter cannot be taken lightly in any case. Just now Sandora has connected to the Shadow City and asked Sivis to prepare a scout fleet to thoroughly investigate this far-flung area, and I want Tavel to also help: anyway, she has enough threads.
"Yes, Your Majesty. I will send the samples to the newly built analysis room now." Tavel heard what I said and immediately realized that this situation was unusual, so she immediately gave us a military salute. Then a mass projection split from the body and teleported away with the armor fragment.
I was stunned as I watched a brand new Tavel disappear before my eyes. I deeply realized that the crazy female scientist in front of me had finally cultivated schizophrenia into an active skill...
"Now let's talk about your findings." Shandora watched Tavel finish splitting with an indifferent expression and took the lead to move forward. "We'll talk as we walk."
Tavel followed Sandora and reported in detail what the engineering team had discovered in the past two days. Some of them were already known to us, while more details were heard for the first time.
"First of all, it can be determined that the formation process of this asteroid belt is related to the leakage of material from the home world to this world. After calculations, we found that there should have been a massive planet in this orbit, right where the meteorite group is now. On the planet, it is very likely that this planet hit the fault zone where a sudden space flash occurred, and was instantly crushed into the scattered fragments by space phenomena, forming this asteroid belt. The overall distribution shape and material composition of the asteroid cluster It also supports this conjecture: they come from a large planet. Now this torn-to-piece planetary remnant is reuniting into celestial bodies at an extremely slow speed, so it looks denser than the usual asteroid belt, and most of it has become There is a dense group of meteorites, and near the center, small stars with greater mass have already formed - you can see those big guys gathered together at this location, which is as huge as a continental shelf."
"According to the remaining warping traces in space, this large area has been subject to periodic space flashes for a long time in the past. Generally speaking, space flashes are a rare space wonder that lasts The time is short, and it is impossible to reappear in one area. I estimate that the instability or some kind of mutation in the home world caused the continuous flashes during this period. The calculated flash zone is ellipsoidal, covering exactly This asteroid belt - or the planetary orbit back then, not only tore up the planet, but also ejected a large amount of material from the home world. These material fragments were suspended on the path that the asteroid belt must pass through. When the latter As it passed by, it collided head-on with the asteroid like a cannonball. After multiple collisions and fusions, the sample we got for the first time was formed, the 'core specimen' wrapped in the meteorite, but there is more here. There are many more wonderful things. Some of the hometown matter was captured by gravity and did not encounter collision, so it became one of the asteroids here. Some of the hometown matter was huge and in turn enveloped the small rocks here, and some of the hometown matter The substances are extremely reactive and have experienced high temperatures. They fuse with the local substances here and react to form brand new products."
Tavel paused, raised his hand and pointed forward: "Please follow your subordinates to the laboratory. There are a large number of samples there. Many samples reveal a lot of... wonderful information." (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome Please come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go and read.)