Chapter 687: Natural Wormhole
Faced with the approaching alien starfleet, Qin Feng quickly made a decision.
Putting the enemy in and fighting again, although you can save a lot of effort, but you will inevitably pay a greater price, and in the end the enemy will be eliminated, and the family will be in shambles, which will inevitably outweigh the losses.
The current empire has not fully recovered to the peak of the old era, and it cannot withstand much toss, so it is the best choice to keep the enemy out of the country.
The original meteorite should have been just a role similar to a scout scout, not the main force of interstellar plundering and colonial fleets, and it almost destroyed human civilization.
"Can you accurately determine the coordinates of the fleet's spatial position?"
"Absolutely, they are currently in the outer region of the Kuiper Asteroid Belt and will be able to approach Pluto's orbit in about a month." Ship Spirit Yu said.
The so-called Kuiper Belt refers to the collection of many asteroids and comets that exist in the marginal region of the solar system, which belongs to the remnants of the primordial solar nebula and is the birthplace of all short-period comets. Strictly speaking, Pluto is also one of the Kuiper Belt objects.
With the level of space technology in the apocalyptic world, the Kuiper Belt has a relatively thorough understanding, there are many solid asteroids here, usually ranging from thousands of meters to thousands of kilometers in diameter, among which the farther, largest planets are not much smaller than the moon, so the empire has also laid some unmanned probes here.
Qin Feng thought thoughtfully: "The speed of travel is quite fast, what I don't understand is where did this group of aliens come from?" It takes a lot of time for a fleet in a sub-luminal state to cross such a distant interstellar space, can it be said that they have been wandering in the starry sky for hundreds of thousands of years? ”
His intuition told him that near the many stars in the solar system, it was unlikely that a vicious and vicious intelligent race of the Rotter-clawed Lizardmen would emerge, and that they could only come from beyond the cantilever of Orion, or even from a distant star field.
If they have already mastered the hyperspace transition technology, then it is easy to break into the interior of the solar system, and there is no need to rush at sub-light speed so slowly.
"This question requires a consultation fee of 10 million yuan." Ship Spirit Yu said with a smile.
Qin Feng was a little speechless: "...... Say it, then. ”
"Because outside the Kuiper Belt, there are natural wormholes in the depths of the Oort Cloud, and these alien meteorite fleets emerged from the wormholes." She was downcast.
"Natural wormhole?!"
Qin Feng's face changed abruptly, this thunderous news made him a little surprised, no wonder human civilization would encounter such a terrible catastrophe, it turned out that for the alien intelligent race, the solar system is simply an undefended region, no matter who masters this convenient and fast interstellar passage, they can easily reach the interior of this star system.
He asked puzzledly: "But I remember that even before the catastrophe, the unmanned probes of human civilization had flown out of the solar system and deep into the interior of the Oort cloud, and this natural wormhole was not found?" ”
"Is this hard to understand? The Oort cloud is a fairly broad concept of space, and the closest distance is at the edge of the solar system, and the farthest is a light-year away. Looking for a needle in a haystack isn't enough, right? ”
"That's the same thing."
Qin Feng sighed, the distance of one light year is roughly equal to ten trillion kilometers, such a vast airspace, and there are many thin nebulae gas substances, asteroids, meteorites, ice comets and other celestial bodies, counting on a few unmanned probes to be able to find the precise location of a natural wormhole like great luck, the probability is much lower than ordinary people winning the lottery jackpot of 100 million yuan, which is basically an impossible delusion.
Even now, if the empire wants to send a formation of star warships deep into the Oort cloud to search for the location of the natural wormhole, it will have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources, plus decades of searching, it will be possible to find something.
Thinking about the Malaysia Airlines 370 passenger plane that had an accident in the main world, the search force composed of satellites and ships of so many countries, and the search for months but finding nothing, it can be seen that finding something is really not as simple as imagined. This is still the case on the blue star, not to mention the vast and vast starry sky.
"In that case, I need the precise spatial coordinates of that natural wormhole, how many origins?"
"Billion Origins."
"Okay, get the coordinate data."
A piece of information that is not too long poured into my mind, the location of the wormhole is indeed relatively hidden, and tens of millions of kilometers of nearby airspace are full of groups of micro-Xiaoice comets, hiding it tightly, especially at a distance of 300,000 kilometers away There is a rocky planet with a diameter of nearly 1,000 kilometers, and the outpost observation base of the rot-clawed lizardman was actually found on it.
It is conceivable that this group of aliens should have been operating here for a short time, but because of the distance and limited technical level, human civilization was unaware of it.
"Is it that in the Star Sea World, there are still many wormholes formed by natural evolution?"
"That's right, but most of the natural wormholes are not stable and are not suitable for interstellar travel, and of course, the few remaining natural wormholes that can be used directly are also quite numerous. This wormhole at the edge of the solar system is exactly that. Ship Spirit Yu Lan explained.
Strictly speaking, wormholes are not a very clever means of long-distance interstellar transportation, at least in the eyes of mature and developed interstellar civilizations. In the case of human civilization, this method is not much more advanced than sailing by canoe.
However, when many intelligent races in the Star Ocean World first stepped out of their home planet, wormholes were still the simplest and least expensive interstellar travel expedition solution, and the same was true for human civilization.
In fact, before the catastrophe, human civilization did not study the wormhole scheme, but with the level of science and technology at that time, if you want to build a pair of wormholes with practical application value, the technical problems that need to be overcome are still too many and too complex, and the cost is an unavoidable problem, so the decision-makers of the major powers quickly gave up this idea.
"It seems that after destroying this group of alien fleets, we must immediately dispatch enough forces to destroy the observation base and establish a forward defense line of human civilization here, so as not to know anything about it after something terrible comes over the wormhole!"
Qin Feng immediately made up his mind that similar incidents would never be allowed to happen again.
A quarter of an hour later, all the important ministers of the Imperial Cabinet received orders to immediately rush to the Council Hall to attend a top-secret meeting presided over by His Majesty the Emperor himself.