CHAPTER 136 P654J – PANDORA
Almighty Cultivation Supreme
Twenty years later.
The star in front of it, in the observation equipment of the Flying Sky, changed three times.
As the distance approached from 10 light-years to 2 light-years, the size of the star remained almost unchanged, and the naked eye could not feel its increase.
The spacecraft began to slow down, from two light-years closer to a light-year distance, and the star that emitted a pale yellow halo suddenly became much larger, like a huge basketball, hanging in the starry sky.
After passing through the Oort Nebula and entering the interior of the P654j star system, the stars that were originally the size of a basketball suddenly shrank and became the size of an egg.
This strange phenomenon is related to the scattering of light.
In addition, in space, light does not always travel in a straight line, and when encountering a massive object, such as through the constancy system, under the influence of gravity, the path of light will be affected, and an arc-shaped bend will be produced.
Not to mention massive black holes, it is said that even light cannot escape, and the starry sky that people see with the naked eye is not necessarily the real starry sky, and there will even be many errors - like a mirage in the desert.
The value of a navigator is here, a good navigator who is able to correct these visual deviations and thus avoid detours.
The Flying did not take a single detour, and the navigator Berekov did a very good job.
With a variety of observation equipment, the Flying soon made significant gains.
"Rich! Rich! We've found a habitable galaxy!"
"Oh my God, God must be on our side, and the first time we left our house, we made such a great discovery...... We're going to make a splash with the whole Federation soon!"
Sugaru, whose eyes were on the large-magnification astronomical telescope, shouted, danced with his hands, looked at the green planet, and muttered in his mouth: "What a beautiful planet, more beautiful than the star of Bula in my hometown!"
"I have discovered another large gas planet with a diameter of more than 50,000 kilometers, which is the ninth spherical planet with a diameter of more than 3,000 kilometers in this galaxy!"
Du Xiaopang was also very excited, the gaseous planet is a very good supply point, the matter reactor is very suitable for supplementing those hydrogen elements as nuclear fuel, the energy block on the Feitian will be used up sooner or later, and the spacecraft itself cannot be synthesized, and the ready-made hydrogen element is the best supplement - after all, stars are also burned by hydrogen element.
"This should be the first life planet discovered since the Blue Star Federation stepped out of its home planet, right? I didn't expect it to be found by our Feitian for the Federation! Everyone is amazing!"
Looking at the clearer and clearer video footage from the detector, Xianglan Meiqin clapped her hands, her face full of pride.
"No, not the first one, it should be the second, the first one is the Roshastar 'Brave' spacecraft and Captain Stanny, discovered more than a hundred years ago, that galaxy is called the 'Six Treasure Star', it is said that in the habitable zone of life, there are six habitable planets, of which the sea of Planet 3 has evolved primitive life. ”
The voice of Yun Xinghe next to her made Xianglan Meiqin's originally delicate and bright smile turn into an incomparable loss and regret.
So we're the second?
More than a hundred years ago?
Xianglan Meiqin turned her head, looked at him and said with a strange expression: "Xinghe-kun, weren't we still asleep more than a hundred years ago, how did you know this?"
"I woke up a little earlier than you and read some news from the Federation, which has added more than 100 habitable systems while we are dormant. ”
Yun Xinghe said, his words are half-true, there is news about the Six Treasure Galaxy, but Yun Xinghe didn't read much of these news, the news of the Six Treasure Galaxy was told to him by the old man in his head.
So he felt a little regretful that he was not the discoverer of the Six Treasure Galaxy, but there was no way, unless he could be born a hundred years earlier, or let the Six Treasure Galaxy run from the mission sector of Rosa to the mission sector of Pyra, he could take off that glory.
However, this does not mean that the value of the P654J galaxy is lower than that of the Six Treasure Galaxy.
It can even be said that the discovery of the P654J star has caused a great sensation, and even in the Federation, it has led to a wave of interstellar exploration, and for a period of time, countless exploration spacecraft have gone into space, in order to find a planet like "Pandora", and then become famous and rich overnight.
Pandora, what's so special about it?
The old man in his head answered this question.
"According to the information I have, the first value of Pandora is the unique plant resources on this planet, these plants, show a kind of magical wisdom, they can form a kind of network through a flexible vine, share knowledge, and form collective wisdom. ”
"And the second value of Pandora is the main reason why this planet was destroyed by the Federation fleet, the so-called death of a few soldiers is just an excuse, the fundamental purpose of the Federation is to exploit a special mineral resource on this planet, which is impossible for other planets to have, and even supernova explosions may not be able to produce. ”
"This element, the scientific name is unbanuim, also known as 'floating stone', this element has superconducting properties at room temperature, this is not unusual, human beings can synthesize more superconducting materials at room temperature, but floating stone also has a property, it can emit a special force field, under the influence of this force field, the weight of the object will magically disappear, as if weightless. ”
"How this element is formed and produced is currently unexplained by science, but it is of great significance to mankind, and may even bring about an unprecedented technological revolution and energy revolution. ”
"To take the simplest example: if the Feitian spacecraft is equipped with about 10,000 kilograms of floating stones, the weight of the spacecraft will be reduced by 70%, and the endurance will be increased by ten times!"
"In addition, those plants on Pandora's planet can generate intelligence, which seems to be related to the floating stone, but the specific principle is unknown, and the planet was destroyed before botanists could crack this secret. ”
The old man in his head said.
Yun Xinghe opened his mouth and said, "So, Pandora, it was destroyed by the greed of humans for the floating stones, not the aggressiveness of those intelligent plants themselves?"
"Not necessarily, if these intelligent plants are easy to deal with, the expedition team that found this planet will not all be killed, and the commander of the Federation Starfleet cannot be completely ignorant and reckless, if it weren't for the anger of shame, how could he order the destruction of this planet?"
"In short, intelligent life on this planet is not easy to deal with, so you must be more careful. ”
The old man in his head reminded.
Yun Xinghe nodded, cheered up, and didn't dare to have the slightest contempt in his heart.
……
A year and a half later.
The Flying Space, which made a thrilling ride through the Kober Matter Belt, dropped to less than 0.1C.
The planet Pandora is getting closer and closer, and it is less than 20 AU (1 AU = 150 million km) from Flyover.
At the speed of the Flying Sky, it can be reached in two days.
However, instead of heading straight for Pandora, the Flying Planet continued to slow down and went to the gas planet No. 5, which was 10 AU away.
This gaseous planet was the first to be discovered by Du Xiaopang, so he named it "Xiaopang One" planet, it has a diameter of 53,000 kilometers, emits an orange light, surrounded by a ring of meteorites, and several small satellites, one of which is 90% composed of water, theoretically, there is a possibility of life on this moon.
In one day, Feitian reached a close orbit less than 1 million kilometers away from the planet "Little Fat One".
Then the replenishment began.
Water, heavy element ores, elemental hydrogen, all these things.
In less than a day, the water tank was filled, the fuel bunker was filled, and the ore warehouse was filled.
As for the "Little Fat One" planets, they didn't fly over, and on the surface of these gaseous planets, near the equator, there were one after another brownish-yellow giant vortices, the largest in diameter, and they could even stuff Pandora directly into it.
Such a huge storm, in the Omar Nebula, everyone who has suffered enough does not want to experience it again, and they don't even have the idea of approaching.
Only one unmanned probe was launched, and it was detected in the past.
But I didn't expect a major discovery.
"On this gaseous planet, there are some creatures, no, there are many creatures!"
Lan Xiulong suddenly pointed to the monitoring screen and said with wide eyes.
How is this possible?
Everyone leaned over with incredulous faces.
It is basic common sense that there can be no life on a planet of light elements or a single planet of elemental species.
Because there are 20 common amino acids that make up proteins, there are more than dozens of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other elements needed for plant growth.
But this gas planet is close to the stratospheric region of the north and south poles, and in the orange atmosphere, the jellyfish-like creatures floating in the air fly around like dandelions, and the number is difficult to count, in short, dense, hundreds of billions.
Under the sunlight, the umbrella covers are constantly retracted and wriggled forward, indicating that it is an "animal".
"I guess these creatures should be 'seeds' ejected from the inside of the planet, and besides, the gas planet is not completely gaseous, and there are some heavy elements inside, perhaps, under the thousands of kilometers of thick clouds, there is a sea of life brewing......"
"In short, this gas planet is very valuable for research. Sugaru said.
"Do you want to stay here for a few days, catch a few 'jellyfish' on the spaceship, and study them carefully?"
"There's not much need, the research value of Pandora is countless times that of this planet, let's go to Pandora first, and then go back to this gaseous planet when I have time." "Yunxing River Road.
"Yes!"
The hearts of all the people began to get excited.
……
Two days later.
The uncomfortable deceleration is finally over.
With the autobiography of the planet, every 28 hours, this heavy element planet with a diameter of about 14,000 kilometers, every corner will be observed clearly by the observation equipment on the Feitian and the 100 nanosatellites launched by the Feitian.
Land accounted for 57 per cent.
The ocean accounts for 43%.
The poles are covered with icebergs.
The terrain is mainly mountainous, plain, and basin, with mostly mountains, and a small number of lakes, swamps, and volcanic eruptions.
On land, the forest coverage rate is more than 90%, and the plant species are conservatively estimated to be more than 1 million species, and the animal species are more than 100,000 species...... This world is full of life.
What's even more exciting is that after the material sampler returned to the spacecraft, Yun Xinghe and they found that this planet, except for the low gravitational constant, is very suitable for human survival.
Such as oxygen content, 25%.
Gravitational constant, 0.5g (5 meters per square second)
Elemental species, 268 species.
More than 350 million square kilometers of land area is enough for tens of billions of humans to survive on it.
In the 30 degrees north latitude area of the Eastern Hemisphere, there are hundreds of huge floating islands, ignoring gravity and quietly suspended in the air, so that Yun Xinghe's partners are stunned, only Yun Xinghe alone knows that those floating islands, each of which contains a large number of "floating stones".
That's priceless.
Everyone will be crazy about it.