Chapter 64: Compromise Options

"In the more than 500 years since we lost contact with the other four spacecraft, one of the most basic prerequisites for us to search for friendly forces by exploring special magnetic fields is that we believe that our allies have been using converted matter to generate electricity, and they are constantly emitting special magnetic fields. But is this assumption really correct www.biquge.info ”

"It's possible that the other spacecraft, like the third spacecraft, were completely paralyzed after an attack by an adventitious bug. It is also possible that our allies believe that it is too risky to continue to use converted materials for power generation, so after extracting enough traditional energy at one time, they temporarily abandon the use of converted materials to generate electricity and use traditional energy sources instead. ”

"Of course, I know very well that so far, Hope has not found any stars near the channel that have been mined and have enough original resource reserves to sustain a spaceship for hundreds of years. However, this does not deny the possibility that our allies are mining sporadically, or that the planet that was originally mined is located near the coordinate point where it was after the space jump. ”

"What's more, even if we take the one with the largest magnetic field strength among the four spacecraft that lost contact at the beginning as a benchmark, and assume that it has increased its magnetic field strength by a factor of twenty in these hundreds of years, then if we want to detect it, its farthest distance from us cannot exceed the inertial speed of Hope multiplied by ten years. So, to sum up, the way of magnetic field exploration seems to me to have too many shortcomings. ”

"What about the traditional way of exploring signals? Although I admit that the traditional method of signaling was indeed used by us nearly a thousand years ago, so even if the communication devices on those four spaceships were destroyed, it would be impossible for the friendly forces that took hundreds of years to build such a simple device. However, don't you think that the traditional method of searching for communication signals to find allies has many drawbacks? ”

"Yes, I know it's really stupid to let the USS Hope search for friendly forces in inertial mode using the exploration of traditional contact signals." I already knew that my idea would definitely be opposed by some people, and even the peace of criticism and criticism by some people was still unhurried and calm.

"After all, in the case of the Hope's inertial navigation, the exploration area of the traditional liaison signal is just a sphere area multiplied by hours of inertial speed, which is too small compared to the exploration area of the special magnetic field. But what if this approach is adopted in a fixed-coordinate mode? ”

"It's common knowledge that the longer you stay at a coordinate point, the larger the exploration radius of the traditional liaison signal will become, but it's impossible for us to stop the mothership and use this way of exploring."

"Because, the larger the exploration radius, the greater the energy consumed, and the longer it takes, so it is impossible for us to use so much energy and so much time for Hope to stop here and explore the sphere with the radius of the straight-line distance from the coordinate point to the sixth planet."

"But what if we apply this method to the advance ship? After completing the space jump, as long as the advance ship stays stationary on a coordinate point for ten days, its exploration radius can reach the inertial speed of the mothership for twelve years. ”

"Ten jumps on the fairway, ten days at each coordinate point, and ten spherical exploration areas arranged in a straight line along the fairway and tangent in pairs, will be completely covered, and the section of the mothership that is expected to sail for two hundred and forty years. Subsequently, coupled with the fact that the advance ship is expected to complete in 80 days, the exploration of the interior of the 12 planets in the Karren star system erases this section of the road that also requires the mothership to sail for 24 years, and the distance that the mothership needs to sail is only the inertial speed multiplied by 36 years. ”

"During the six months that the advance ship was dispatched to search and explore, the Hope was able to sail as usual. It was not until half a year later that after receiving the contact signal sent by the advance ship that could carry out coordinate jumping, the Hope used the reverse jet method to offset the inertial navigation speed, and the traditional contact signal exploration of the remaining area could be completed under the condition of fixed coordinates, and then the spatial coordinate jump was carried out. ”

"In this way, the human interstellar alliance, which does not need the mothership to make multiple jumps, or to multiply the speed of inertia by a radius of three hundred years for traditional signal exploration, can use no more than a year to complete the friendly search on the route and finally reach our destination while saving as much energy as possible. The above is my personal superficial opinion. ”

"Well, it's a good idea, and it does have the value of reference and reference." In the silent lecture hall room, Richter, who had listened to Ping'an's speech, nodded approvingly, "When you go back, sort out your thoughts, and submit a written report to me within three days, with the request to be illustrated and written, as specific as possible, simple and clear." ”

"Yes." After giving a military salute in a dignified manner, and then taking a seat at Richter's signal, he listened carefully to the opinions and statements expressed by many comrades-in-arms, which were slightly similar or completely different from hers, during the following meeting.

It wasn't until more than two hours later that the meeting ended, and after taking a lot of meeting notes, I left the lecture hall and walked to the locker room of the Eagle Commando Training Ground with everyone around me who was either asked to write a graphic report on "voting options for the crew over 12 years old on the ship" or a strategic and tactical deployment plan for "the various situations that the advance ship may encounter after the attack and the countermeasures".

"In World A, after the advance ship completed a three-month exploration of the inner range of the twelve planets, it took one hundred and eight years to complete the transformation of the star after jumping to the surface of the sixth row of stars. So according to this time, how can I settle down on the sixth planet one hundred and ten years later? After all, based on the average life expectancy of 150 years at this stage, I should be able to enjoy my old age for a while at the age of 130 after 110 years. ”

While changing out of the combat uniform on her body, she whispered in her heart, but Ping An at this time didn't know that it wouldn't take that long for her to settle on the sixth planet.