January 8, 2506. Fourth Field, Heavy Karma, Beta-4 C27· F590, unknown planetary designation F590-E279.

The planet's imperial designation is F590-E279.

"F590" is the star region in which it is located, "E" refers to the civilization of the planet with the development stage of "E", and "279" is followed by the letter to indicate that it is the 279th planet in the star region to discover civilization.

Field stood in the bridge, looking at the holographic projection of the magnificent blue and green planet. I can't help but sigh in my heart - what a beautiful planet! me, I'm looking for it!

The planet is located about 0.21 light-years from Antigar in the F591 region next door. This is a distance that would take 0.41 years to reach even at the speed of light at the upper limit of the universe.

The vastness of the interstellar universe makes any planet measured in meters or kilometers seem as small as dust. Without knowing the exact coordinates of the planets, the ship can only jump to an approximate position. Then even if the two points on the map seem to coincide, the actual distance may still need to be used up in annual amounts.

The fourth star field is the largest of the four universes, with a radius of nearly 50 billion light-years. The star map is to shrink such a vast universe to a holographic projection with a radius of only two or three meters.

It is conceivable that even the fine particulate matter PM2.5, assuming that dust with a radius of one micron falls on the star map, it will envelop a space with a radius of 25,000 light years. (The Sun is about 27,000 light-years away from the center of the Milky Way.) ）

Just to store this star map, the storage technology required is enough to stop most civilizations in the universe. There is no need for Tomoko to lock it up at all.

The universe is vast and terrifying.

If it weren't for the civilization itself that developed the transition technology and sent the jump signal. Then even empires will have a hard time finding these civilizations. Leap technology is the ticket for civilization to enter the interstellar society.

E279, on the other hand, did not follow this set, but chose a set of paths to death. The Empire tracked the signals from the alien creations in the low Earth orbit of the planet Antiga, and only then did they track down the culprit, planet E279.

The empire found video data in that alien creation. The data records that they wantonly manipulated the fate of others through demagoguery, mental intervention, coercion and inducement, etc., indirectly causing the death of a large number of innocent people, and using this to entertain the public.

The Imperial Arbitration Court for Civilization made a first-instance verdict - the crime of anti-civilization was convicted, and the sentence was limited genocide.

Limited extinction is a punishment for civilization. Unlike genocide orders for indiscriminate genocide, it is not so much a sentence as a surgical operation to remove the lesion for civilization.

Punish all those in civilization who are responsible for this incident, and all put to death. And the resulting chaos, the breakdown of order, is a punishment for others. Therefore, the sanction of those persons should be subject to the discretion of the executor.

This task was entrusted to nearby Field. In order to ensure justice, the executioners did not abuse the power granted by the Empire. The Court of Civilized Arbitration sent an ombudsman to oversee the enforcement of the limited extermination order.

The Ombudsman was an old man in his prime, with gray hair combed and energetic, and a gray beard that looked much more casual. Such an old man, if he wears the clothes of a Confucian student, he will also have a little "Yin'an one word, twisting a few stems and whiskers." The charm.

It's just that at first Field did feel so. But when he learned the old man's name, he no longer felt that the old man had any scholarly temperament.

"Little baby, I haven't seen you for a few years, and you have become a general staff? The afterlife is terrifying! ”

"Dare to ask the seniors their names?"

"Speaking of which, your grandfather has to call me uncle! My surname is Yao. ”

Field groaned repeatedly in his heart, Yao, Yao, Yao! Blaze the sky!

"Skyfire Knight! Blaze the sky! Field was shocked, and after blurting out the horror in his heart, he realized that it was rude for him to call the elder by his name. After reacting, he immediately apologized.

"Forgive the juniors for being rude!"

Yao Tianhuo saw Field apologize, and his gloomy face was a little better. With a wave of his hand, Bright Sky walked towards the bridge. Field cautiously followed.

Looking back on the scene a few days ago, the horror is really hard to put into words. Bright Sky Fire is one of the few people in the empire who can give the title of knight after himself. This is not something that can be obtained by a certain Luo with the strength to just care about fighting.

This is the highest recognition of knights in the Empire, and it is a lifetime achievement award for knights.

And this kind of knight is called a crown knight! Most of them were legendary figures, and now Field had seen them alive. It's a miracle to be alive!

"Yao...... Yao Lao. We've been monitoring them for a long time, detecting that they're sending multiple signals to the universe. Antigia should have been just one of the victims. What do we do now? ”

Yao Tianhuo's face turned cold, and he seemed to be very dissatisfied with such an inquiry! The cold gaze made Field tremble.

"Ahh I, for the first time, didn't have much experience. ”

"Humph! Don't use this kind of misleading statement. Also, I'm not that scary, and I don't eat people. ”

As he spoke, Bright Sky Fire tried to smile kindly. It's just that no matter how much Field looks at it, he also thinks that this is a threat and intimidation! At this time, Field realized that Yao Lao might be an expression disorder.

"Little baby, how many things in the world, if you want to know, you have to be respectful. You don't know how to know that those people are guilty of the most heinous crimes and those people who are not guilty of death outside the star system? ”

"Yes, yes! Yao Lao means. ”

"Let's go through it together, see it with our own eyes, see it with our own eyes."

So no one likes to enforce this limited extermination order, and the judicial cost is too high. But what's the solution? I can only move forward with a load.

Field and Bright Sky got aboard the USS Pelican and took off from the Iron Dome-class heavy cruiser. There were other personnel accompanying them, and more than a dozen troop carriers formed a formation and sailed towards line E279 under the escort of attack aircraft.

The bodies of this formation turned on the optical camouflage, turned on the full-band masking, and quietly sailed towards the planet. Once you enter the star system, you can see all kinds of ships shuttling between several planets. Unlike Antigia, E279 is already developing on other planets in the star system in which it is located.

Mining deposits, or colonization. Some planets that are far away from each other can also see many transit starports on the way. Although the transit starport is not large, it has eye-catching neon lights flashing. It looks like an interstellar civilization.

The troop carrier formation did not rush in, but reacted in the outer canteens. After confirming that they really couldn't spot the formation, they slowly drove in.

After a brief acceleration to the expected speed, the formation shuts down its engines and continues its previous voyage by catching inertia as it is about to enter the range of E279.

In space, there is almost no matter in space, and therefore almost no resistance. The speed of the formation can be maintained for a long time with the engine turned off. Correct the attitude with the release of compressed gas, so that there is almost no possibility of detection.

Let's not talk about optical camouflage, in terms of nature, the troop carrier in its current state is no different from a comet meteorite. In this way, the formation glided all the way by inertia, passing through several transit starports and avoiding several huge transport ships of 100 meters. Finally, they arrived at their home planet, E279.

At this point, the entire formation had to turn on the engines to slow down. This is also a high-risk period for detection, and the fleet on standby on the periphery is also watching the situation here. If the situation changes, take immediate action. Prioritize the safety of our personnel.

Luckily, it seems that E279 never expected such a day to be on its own. Sneaked in? All anti-submarine technologies are a little behind. There may simply be no preparation at all.

The formation of the Pelicans crossed the network of artificial satellites and slowly cut into the atmosphere at extremely low speeds and at very small angles. Field and Blazing Flame see the satellite outside through the porthole, and it is indeed in the same style as the alien creation discovered by Antigia.

Judgment, belonging to the same civilization, should not be wrong.

Generally speaking, civilizations that have entered near-star development should have a very high degree of development of their home planet. However, this does not appear to be the case with E279, which can be seen only from the air, with large areas covered in vegetation. Or simply the bare desert Gobi.

The side of the planet that falls into darkness can probably see some clues. The lights are concentrated in the coastal areas, and those cities are lit up all night. In the hinterland, it was utter darkness.

Field also felt very strange, although he had several conjectures in his mind, but the lack of information was not suitable for making a hasty conclusion. In this way, the formation chose the inland without lights. Slightly inland to the coast, it is convenient to extend the survey to both areas.