Chapter 478: Crossing the Starry Sky to the Frontier
Through the acceleration of the star orbit, a team of transport creatures was raised to sub-light speed under the action of a strong electric field, and the stars converged into a star rainbow at such a high speed, which also heralded the official start of the sub-light speed interstellar voyage.
The destination of these transporting creatures is a three-star system that has been colonized by the gatherers fourteen light-years away from the departure star.
However, it can also be understood as a stacked double-layer binary star system, which consists of a pair of binary stars and another star that is far away to form a complete star system.
If it was a three-star system of equal mass, it would be an extremely unstable chaotic star system, and the collectors would not be stupid enough to colonize the colony and know when the stars would collide together and have a supernova explosion.
After receiving the high-power signal fed back by the destination star system, the transport creatures led by Chu began to enter the deceleration phase, and the hydrogen gas mass was released, and the antihydrogen gas mass that served as an antimatter shield in the distance was annihilated, releasing high-energy gamma rays to slow down.
From a distance, the sub-light creature in this deceleration process resembles a luminous object moving at high speed.
When the bioradar is no longer interfered by the rainbow phenomenon and can play a normal role in distinguishing directions, the three-star system, which is the destination of sub-light creatures, is only a dozen light hours away from them.
In terms of traveler's subjective time, sub-light sailing is indeed a less time-consuming way of travel.
Crossing the outermost Kuiper Belt and entering the stellar system, just as it was done in the early days of colonizing the star system, this star system, except for the three stars and the Kuiper Belt, the planets and moons have all been dismantled by the collectors.
The gatherers within this star system built the antimatter megastructure on the second layer to form another binary system of massive stars.
The central binary star is a yellow dwarf with a similar mass, and the third is a red dwarf star that surrounds the companion star, the radiation intensity of the red dwarf is not high, but it is mass enough, so it can be brought closer to make up for this shortcoming, and because it is not as 'strong' as other massive stars, this leads to a decrease in the cost of construction, and the antimatter giant that surrounds the orbit of the red dwarf does not need much anti-radiation and cooling ability.
"Welcome to this star system, where are you going?" Upon entering the star system, they soon received radio communications from their peers in the star system, explaining the purpose of their trip.
"We're going to go to the outermost part and join in the colonization of the races."
"Understood, come to the Red Dwarf, where we will replenish your depleted antimatter reserves." The collectors in the star system sent them a parameter route into orbit at the beginning, and it is not once or twice that this star system is used as a transit station, and the collectors in the star system are naturally clear.
However, since it is going to be a long voyage, it is natural to replenish antimatter as navigation fuel, whether it is to build an antimatter shield or as a deceleration fuel, antimatter is an indispensable thing.
It's just that at first, the proposal of the same family in the star system was rejected.
"No, our antimatter reserves are still sufficient, adjust the star orbit, we plan to go directly to the next star system, and replenish the antimatter reserves when the third transit star system is made." At first, they have a high reserve of antimatter, but after the proton lattice is completed, the subluminal creatures no longer need an entire spine as a gamma-ray protective layer, so they can fill up more antimatter reserves.
And the mass of the anti-object carried by the transported creature itself is originally a lot, and this time it is not used for transportation, but is stored for its own use, and the situation is naturally different.
The collectors in the star system don't mean to force it, after all, this is just a proposal, but since you want to use star orbits, you must first know where the destination star system is, so that you can calibrate the orbits.
"Okay, what's your next destination star?"
"Eleven light-years away from this star system, coordinates ......" replied at the beginning, and several transit stars like this would have to arrive in succession before they could reach the most marginal region of the group's territory.
"The star orbit is being adjusted, you first go to the starting point of the star orbit and wait for a while, and the star orbit will be adjusted soon."
"Got it." According to the route provided by the same family, they initially arrived at the beginning of the orbital launch. At this time, these towering cosmic behemoths have not yet been debugged, and the wake of the biological pulse is causing them to change their direction.
It's like dividing a cannon into parts that are equivalent to the radius of a star system, moving them piece by piece to another location, putting them together there, and when the cannon is reassembled, the direction of the cannon changes.
The first to be adjusted is the electrosphere structure closest to them at the beginning, because the electrosphere giant adjustment path at this position is the shortest, so it is completed first.
And the calibration laser released by this giant structure will help the electric circle giant structure behind it to complete the adjustment and speed up the pace of star orbit recombination.
When the orbit combination is completed, it means that they will travel at sub-light speed again, and after learning from their peers in the star system that they can use star orbits, they will once again break free from the gravitational constraints of the star, enter the sub-light speed, and go to the star system 14 light-years away.
Of course, that star system has also been colonized by the collectors, and in order to get in touch with the non-colonized star system, you need to go through several star systems to reach it.
The shrinkage effect compresses the voyage time of fourteen light-years, and it seems to the outside world that it took fourteen years for the sub-light-speed creatures to complete this interstellar voyage, but as far as the sub-light-speed creatures are concerned, it is only a moment's work, and the time has not passed long.
After receiving the high-power feedback signal from the destination star, the sub-light creature begins to decelerate again, using antimatter to slow down, just like the previous star system, and then break away from the sub-light state.
The cosmic rainbow in front of it spreads out, and the stars return to the correct position from 'line' to 'grain', just like the curvature jump in many science fiction works.
Now, these sci-fi are a reality and are taken for granted by collectors.
"Welcome to your kindred, where are you going?"
"Go to the periphery and expand the territory of the tribe." The first one answers the same family in the star system as the previous star system.