That being said, fleet operations in the interstellar age are certainly not brainless and reckless, and they are directly sudden. After the Second Republic became aware of this "giant beast", it was the scholars in the field of scientific research who were the first to initiate the proposal.

"Biological structures that can withstand 20 million degrees Celsius inside stars, can withstand pressures of more than 10^17 Pa, and can even drive the internal power of more than a gigaton of body to move...... This is a one-of-a-kind sample!"

In an internal virtual meeting, one scholar yelled excitedly in front of the mental projection of many scholars.

What an incredible creature, everything about it is far beyond the imagination and comprehension of interstellar humans, like a mystery, a magical creature from another world.

According to human cognition, it is impossible to have such a huge life, because once such a huge life form exists, its huge mass will form a huge gravitational force, and then spontaneously collapse inward, forming stars, or even collapsing into black holes.

But this life breaks all conventions.

There is no doubt that it is massive, and it has a certain sense of self-consciousness and may even communicate with people, a creature that has never been seen by interstellar humans, not once.

In this universe built by perfect logic, there are no strange forces and gods, and there are no Zerg that can run rampant in space, psionic energy and subspace are the only things that interstellar humans know to break the rules of conventional physics, but now, there is another such thing?

And soon, the pressure on the academics was on all the bureaucrats.

In the Second Republic, which was governed by science, science was considered supreme.

The historical experience of the past has made people extremely wary of people who are not knowledgeable enough to take important positions, "stupid and short-sighted people are not worthy of holding power", and only those who have fully developed their wisdom and knowledge can be among the upper echelons of the entire society.

In the Second Republic, every bureaucrat, no matter how big or small, actually had the background of a researcher or scholar, and even those generals, most of them were cutting-edge scholars who were proficient in experimental physics, because only in this way could they truly understand the performance of the weapons in their hands.

One can imagine what a lofty position scholars have in such a country.

In the face of harsh criticism and aggressive accusations at the academic conference, the consul of the Second Republic bowed his head, sweated all over his head, and constantly nodded yes, which also directly erased the proposal of the fleet commander to send the fleet. A sample so cherished must not be destroyed by violence.

According to the opinion of the academic conference, the Second Republic should try to capture the massive serpent in its best efforts, and only consider violent killing if it is truly impossible to capture it.

The central plan had been drawn up by the academic council, the bureaucrats of the Second Republic had refined it, and finally the order was transmitted to the generals, and the plan they received became a four-step plan.

"First send an unmanned spacecraft to reconnoiter and make detailed data judgments, then send a small unmanned fleet to conduct tests to test the specific attack methods and behaviors of the target, and finally, after the data is perfected, according to the corresponding data report settings including gravity traps/specific drugs/unmanned fleet capture...... and many other means. Violence is not allowed unless all means have completely failed. ”

A detailed plan of tens of millions of words had been issued, and the generals of the Second Republic had to do what they were told.

......

At 1764 in the Galactic calendar in 20149, 13 hours after the discovery of the monster's trace.

In the vicinity of the solar system, an invisible space-time fluctuation was generated, and immediately, the first unmanned reconnaissance spacecraft emerged from the void.

The shuttle-like ship is moving through the void at sub-light speeds, and according to monitoring reports, the target is nearby.

"Scouting...... Information...... Photon...... Gravitational ......"

Ten minutes later, the spacecraft, which was flying at sub-light speeds, received information about the location of the target, which was 2 billion kilometers away, with a reactor.

"Found ......"

However, during the detection, the target is moving very fast, moving at a sub-light speed of about 300,000 kilometers per second. It is close to 99.99......% of the upper limit of the speed of light, which is only a fraction of a centimeter away from that speed.

In this universe, everything changes dramatically as you approach the speed of light, and the flow of time slows down to a near-standstill. And the closer you get to the speed of light, the difference becomes more and more obvious, and at this speed, it is difficult for anything to catch up with it, and this means not just the ship, but "everything".

Whether it's gravity, photons, heat......

Nothing can go faster than the speed of light, and getting closer to the speed of light means that even the simplest detection will be difficult, and even gravitational capture will be difficult to capture something that is moving at nearly the speed of light.

"It's a line, it's a line. ”

In actual space combat, in sub-light combat, even if there is only the slightest difference, you can often beat the opponent in all directions, because in your eyes, the opponent is slow as if he has stopped moving.

For the giant serpent, which was approaching the speed of light at the moment, time had slowed down on it, and a thousand years were only a moment, and the unmanned reconnaissance ship trying to catch up with it seemed to be completely stationary.

No, not even at rest, but flying backwards.

The first dilemma encountered by unmanned reconnaissance was not the expected powerful threat, but the excessive speed.

The first detection, except for the speed of the other party, nothing was known.

“...... The strong space-time effect can only measure the velocity of the other party, but cannot determine the mass volume of the other party......"

In the report of the unmanned spacecraft, it is written.

......

"About 299,792,457 m/s per second?

For this figure, the academic conference was almost unanimously incredulous, suspecting that the unmanned spacecraft had made a mistake.

In this universe, the more you want to get closer to the speed of light, the more difficult it is, even with the ability of interstellar humans, the sub-light speed limit that a standard spacecraft can reach is only about 99.999%, and this is almost infinitely close to the speed of light, what does it mean?

What is the amount of energy required for a thing that is conservatively estimated to have a mass of more than 10,000 terabytes and is moving at nearly the speed of light?

It's ridiculous, even if you add up all the energy that the entire galaxy can release, it's far from it, is it far less, is it possible that the kinetic energy generated by the movement of this huge beast can be comparable to the entire galaxy?

Because in the images recorded by those interstellar passengers, the speed of the giant snake flying away is not very fast, so in the case of an academic conference, it is not difficult to capture a behemoth of this magnitude.

However......

"Measure again!"

The gloomy face of the president of the society ordered.

......

Second...... Third ...... Fourth ......

Each time, there were more unmanned spacecraft going to the measurement than the last time, but the measurement results were all without exception, almost no unmanned spacecraft were able to catch up with the target, at most, the speed measurement was becoming more and more accurate.

299792457.61546 ...... per second m/s per second, about 2.768*10^31 kg (always growing.) Unable to measure accurate mass) ......

The more you measure, the more strange phenomena are found in this huge monster, and in this monster, the conservation of mass seems to have failed, and it grows all the time.

Aside from spending 1000+ galactic hours in vain, scholars still don't know anything about the giant snake soaring in space, except for the constant discovery of more mysteries.

The "Behemoth Capture Project", which excites the scholars, is in trouble from the beginning......

The 7th Annular World Society, formerly a branch of the Supreme Scientific Society of Mankind.

After the dissolution of the Supreme Scientific Society, many small branches of the Scientific Society had to develop on their own, and most of them died out, but one of them survived and expanded wildly after the establishment of the Ring World, eventually becoming one of the largest forces in the entire Second Republic.

And now, the president of the 7th Annular World Society, this scholar who has always been serious, has red eyes at the moment, covers his head, and keeps thinking.

This is a very abnormal phenomenon.

As a cutting-edge scholar, he has experienced far more genetic adjustments than ordinary people, and this physiological phenomenon could not have happened, but now it has happened, which can only prove that the unstable spiritual energy in his own body interferes with his body.

With such a level of psionic instability that even potions could not solve, one can imagine the anxiety in his heart.

The plan to capture the giant beast was initiated by him and signed by his hand, but now he can't even take the first step.

But at the same time, there was something else urging him, and that was that the serpent seemed to be heading towards a nearby galaxy of human settlements. For the sake of the safety of the entire galaxy, the bureaucrats in the human galaxy have been urging countless times to clear the threat as soon as possible, and it really can't be delayed.

After a long time, he gave a new order.

"Agree ......"

Finally, the scholars agreed to the military's proposal, skipping the first step and directly testing the threat with a "small-scale unmanned fleet".