As NASA said about "Shock! There are too many "major discoveries" of this asteroid ......", so the news two years ago did not make much splash.

In addition, for a long time, only people in the southern and northern hemispheres at low latitudes could observe the "Ogon", and the southern hemisphere was much lower than the northern hemisphere in terms of population density and per capita income, so there was not much discussion of this matter even in the circle of astronomy enthusiasts.

"Because of its overly irregular shape, NASA did take an interest in it." David Klein continued: "NASA thinks it's confusing and doesn't look like it's natural. Therefore, in June of the 26th year, the SPHERE (High Resolution Spectral Polarization Exoplanet Search Instrument) of the European Southern Observatory VLT (Very Large Telescope) aimed at this area and obtained the first clear images of 'Ogung'. ”

On that photo, the appearance of "Ogun" became clearly visible.

It looks like a piece of casting, worn and corroded. Yes, it should start out with a silver surface. It's just that under the friction of interstellar matter, cosmic dust, and the collision of various tiny celestial bodies, its surface gradually wears out.

Like a metal surface that has been ground with emery.

Xiang Shan swallowed his spit. He did hear himself swallowing.

No one was surprised when some kind of reflection was first observed on the surface of the Ogon surface. It is all too common for small celestial bodies to have reflective objects such as ice crystals.

But now, no one can deny that it is a personal creation.

"Ogung" is a man-made object.

Humans have discovered an artifact that was not made by humans themselves.

Xiang Shan heard a lot of spitting sounds.

Klein paused for about a minute, seemingly waiting for everyone to digest the news.

Then, he continued: "Due to the high-level decision, the news of 'mankind's discovery of alien civilizations' will cause an unpredictable impact in society. Therefore, they did not make it public at the first time, but secretly formed a special committee, hoping to deal with the matter in the safest way. ”

"At the same time, everybody noticed something. Ogon's is not motivated at the moment. It relied on inertia and flew in space for an unknown amount of time. NASA believes that even if Ogun is an alien spacecraft, it may have run out of fuel for some reason, or it has been wrecked. ”

"In July of the same year, the United States urgently established a Space Force. This was once seen in the international community as a signal of the resumption of the arms race. At the same time, NASA has also embarked on a large number of projects related to Ogun. ”

"NASA's missions at that time included 'establishing contact with Ogon' and 'capturing Ogon'. However, 'Ogun' does not respond to electromagnetic waves in almost all frequency bands, nor does it actively emit any electromagnetic waves. ”

"The following year, that is, in January of 27, NASA believed that 'Ogun' had entered the limit of human space technology, so it activated the SLS-9 rocket in advance, preparing to send the capture system to 'Ogon'."

"It was at this stage that the Russians intervened in events related to 'Ogon' – when they got the news, they thought of an attempt to monopolize 'Ogon' and tried to interfere with NASA's capture program."

"The boring struggle of the United States with the Russian Federation continued for quite some time. A few months ago, the Republic was also involved. Due to some geopolitical relations, NASA's captives did not send 'Ogun' to the North Atlantic, but came here. ”

"The next conflict can be seen in the news, so I won't go into details. All in all, after a series of complications, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) urgently became the 'Rama Special Project' – a name that, by the way, is taken from Sir Arthur C. Clarke's "Meeting Rama". ”

The next thing David Klein said was about ......

The South China Sea Fleet and the Seventh Fleet confronted each other nearby. The Russian Federation of the North is also making a high-profile entry.

Although "Ogon has not yet begun", it has already profoundly changed the situation in the world.

Xiang Shan frowned slightly at this time.

"Indonesian riots...... Was it premeditated? ”

In the wake of the 2021 financial crisis, the country has been plunged into a new round of turmoil, even worse than the financial crisis of the 90s. Xiang Shan vaguely remembers that there was indeed news last month...... Or did your parents talk about it during dinner? Talk about Indonesian things.

There are also reports of killings of civilians by rebels.

But now it seems that the riots in Indonesia have given the United Nations an excuse to send peacekeeping troops.

This inevitably raises doubts about whether there is a shadow of a great power behind this riot.

At the same time, Xiang Shan also realized the strangeness of the welcoming force at the airport.

That's not "one peacekeeping force" at all, but a military force that monitors each other.

Perhaps the unrest in Indonesia not far away is real, and there are real peacekeepers. But the group that appeared at the airport was not a peacekeeping force sent by a certain country.

Although peacekeeping forces have always been criticized for their complex members, cumbersome management systems, weak forces, and insufficient response capabilities, and it is difficult to stop some sudden situations and humanitarian disasters in a timely manner, they will never show vigilance and estrangement among themselves within a small team.

It's like how the South China Sea Fleet behaves with the Seventh Fleet outside. This "defense force" is not defending anything at all. They are just "monitoring each other".

This is basically a temporary organization set up by several major powers, and then the security forces in it are attached to the name of the peacekeeping force.

In addition, due to the late entry of the Republic in this event, they did not have much time to assemble a team of scientists. They need to sift through the list of scholars from across the country who are "likely to be useful," and then make sure that these scholars are "absolutely credible and will not leak out at will."

It is precisely because of this that Xiang Shan joined this super project just by virtue of Liu Zhenghui's request.

At this time, the car had already driven into a brand new park. The park is heavily guarded by warriors wearing blue steel helmets. Inside the wall, there is a huge piece of turf. Many construction machines are moving rapidly. At the same time, several simple but imposing buildings have been erected.

The edge of the lawn is a row of trees. Behind the woodland of tropical trees is a huge white building that looks like a couple of tents in a single unit, with a touch of the Sydney Opera House.

According to David Crane's introduction, the material that made up this "building" was originally a "parachute" that allowed the "Ogon to land" and fix it.

"Ogung" is a kilometer long, with a maximum radius of nearly 100 meters, and can weigh hundreds of thousands of tons. With such a terrible mass, if he was allowed to free fall, it would be a natural disaster—and most importantly, it would not be able to withstand such a terrible impact of its own.

As a result, humans have managed to add dozens of huge parachutes to this thing. The ropes that hold these parachutes are the strongest carbon fiber, and they come from the Republic Academy of Engineering, a technology developed with the goal of "space elevators". It is said that these outputs are piled up by the laboratory regardless of the cost.

Most of the fabric of the parachute comes from the United States.

NASA tried every means to limit the landing site of "Ogun" to shallow waters.

This can not only cushion the force of the fall to the greatest extent, but also prevent such a behemoth from falling into the sea and cannot be recovered.

It is said that on the night of the fall of "Ogon", steam and torrential rain covered the area. Even Indonesians from afar could hear the roar of the beast.

A small part of the parachutes fell off when the "Ogon fell", but most of them remained. Therefore, the "Rama Special Project" committee urgently established under the United Nations Development Programme used these parachute materials to build this "tent"-like structure to prevent unrelated people from prying eyes.

And this park is the work area of the "Rama Special Project".

Upon arriving at the campus, David Klein immediately left and returned to his original job. Other staff members guided many scholars from the Republic to register.

As the campus is still under construction, scholars are currently living in makeshift dormitories. According to United Nations staff, a large apartment is also under construction and is expected to be ready for occupancy next month. In addition, the database and conference center will be built within a few days.

Every scholar was given a key.

After completing their registration, they officially became a member of the United Nations Rama Special Plan.

After that, Officer Hu appeared once. He brought the scholars together and re-emphasized the discipline of secrecy, and in particular, emphasized that scholars were not allowed to communicate with the outside world until approval was granted.

Since the countries were still negotiating on the ownership of the "Ogun" a few days ago, the shelves of the "Rama Special Project" have not yet been erected, so the project team will not be able to assign work to the scholars in a short period of time. At least for the rest of the day, scholars will be able to move freely around the project campus.

"Big guys can communicate more with their foreign counterparts and make more friends." Xiao Hu said with a smile: "This may not be a short-term project. In the project area, we should carry forward the spirit of 'equality, mutual benefit and peaceful coexistence' of the Republic, and work with our counterparts from all over the world to unlock the secret of 'Ogon' and contribute our own strength to the development of human science! ”