Chapter 481: The Age of Discovery
"Now start the roll call, report the numbers in turn, don't mess around."
At the beginning, he began to name his team.
“1!”
“2!”
“3!”
After counting the numbers and confirming that none of the individuals had left the team, the primordial nerves relaxed and gave orders to the fellow families who had entered the fourth transit star system.
"Docking and replenishment according to the orbital route given by the group, and check the damage by the way."
"Okay."
At first they adjusted their course and traveled at high speed in the direction of the star, and although they were off the sub-light speed, they were still very fast, at least above the third cosmic speed of the star system.
"If the speed is slower, it will be dangerous for you to anchor at the speed now, too fast."
The gatherers stationed in this star system sent out a reminder, and when they received the information, they annihilated the antimatter shield in front of them, and continued to slow down.
After anchoring into orbit, they are initially inspected by their family.
"Where are you going?"
The antimatter giants docking with the sub-light creatures ask where they are at the beginning, and the gatherer who is traveling with them at the beginning answers.
"To open up territory for the Race, the next stop from here is our destination."
It took decades to cross four star systems as a transit, and at first they were about to reach their destination star, where they would stop and seek development, and at the end of their development, move on to the next star system, which would be calculated to be hundreds of light-years away.
The antimatter giant heard the news and reported back what it knew.
"Stable star systems under fifteen light-years are all being colonized, which one are you going to go to?"
"Choose a star system that is fifteen light-years away, we have carried out many interstellar voyages, fifteen light-years is not far, our purpose is to open up territory for the race, not to assist in construction."
The gatherers replied that it was not unacceptable to assist in development, after all, it was all for the development of the race, but they considered going to those star systems that were being colonized, and they could play very little role.
Because during colonization, the gatherers will greatly expand the number of individuals, and at first, they will not be able to play any significant role in the face of large construction bodies, and it is different to go to uncolonized star systems, so that they can maximize their value.
According to their initial needs, the antimatter giant selected a star system from a large number of observed stars, which is seventeen light-years away, and is already approaching eighteen years.
This scale can no longer ensure 100% safety, and the farther away you are, the more dangerous it is, because it is too far away, so you can't accurately observe the risks on the route and avoid them, because it is too far away, there will be many variables, and there may be the next one waiting for you.
The reason why they need stellar transit at first is because it is very dangerous to travel too long distances at one time, so they need to constantly need star systems to transit.
Generally speaking, such a scale requires the selection of a relatively close star system for colonization, and then through the transit of it, and then colonize the star system.
The antimatter giant does not require them to colonize this star system at the beginning, but only picks it out according to the criteria given at the beginning, and if it is not for the necessity of the group, the collectors will let the departing group choose the destination star, which is traditional.
"There's a star system here, a single blue dwarf, twenty planets, and it's very rich in material resources, but it's also dangerous, because it's too far away, you know?"
The introduction of the antimatter megastructure also reminds of the risk of sailing directly from this star to the blue dwarf star.
"Understand, then it's our destination star, and it's a good challenge to travel longer distances across stars."
They chose this star system, knowing that it was dangerous, but it was worth it, and they knew very well what the future of the race was, and if such an adventure was successful, the experience they had accumulated would be a very valuable asset to the race.
With a wealth of experience, the group will be able to cope with more risks on the journey, daring to sail at sub-light speeds at a time to a larger scale.
Just like the Age of Discovery, human civilization did not achieve a global voyage at once, and human beings gradually had to accumulate navigational knowledge to complete the global voyage, and the same is true for gatherers today.
Suddenly, I remembered something and sent a piece of information to my peers in the star system.
"Oh, by the way, this is for you, this is our experience of crossing the nebula, and it will be very helpful for other individuals in the group to sail across the stars."
The knowledge of the group is shared, and after obtaining this empirical knowledge, the gatherers will share it with their peers who are stationed in the star system, and these people will grant knowledge to the individuals who arrive in the star system later, and the knowledge will be passed on to other star systems through sub-light individuals, one to ten, ten to hundred, and so on.
However, even so, it will still cause differences in knowledge between different star systems, because of the speed of light limitation, which is a very helpless thing, unless it can achieve faster than the speed of light, such a problem can never be solved.
"Thank you very hard, Star Rail is debugging the orbit for you, wait a while."
"Hmm."
When the orbits of the stars are adjusted, they enter sub-light speed again and head to their destination star, a star system made up of a single blue dwarf star and twenty planets.
As the orbit accelerates, the speed of the sub-light creatures steadily increases under the effect of the electric field, and when they leave the orbit and escape into the void, all they leave behind is a redshift that requires high-precision radar to observe.
Some time after they left, the collectors stationed in the star system caught multiple sources of gamma rays, and they showed a blueshift, which was slowly decreasing, meaning that other individuals of the same family were about to arrive at the star and were decelerating.
"Welcome to this star system."
After observing the blue shift of these siblings approaching below the level value, the collectors in the star system sent a welcoming radio message.
However, this group of individuals did not have such a good mood to respond, and the welcome of their peers in the star system.
"We need to repair it as soon as possible, our damage is serious and lives are slipping out."
"What happened?"
"We encountered a black hole, there was an unobserved black hole on the course, half of the individuals in the company died, and our course was deflected here due to gravity."