Chapter 353: Old Eden
In virtual space, the battleship cannot be turned and cannot be detached in advance. That is to say, once the ship enters the warp speed state, the ship will go to the dark at night, unable to brake or turn along the way. Of course, there is no shortage of daring people in the world, and things like changing the curvature in virtual space, or even artificially stopping the warp engine, have happened more than once in the history of interstellar navigation. They threaten to create a miracle and change the status quo, however, without exception, these people enter the virtual space and never return.
Although in the warp speed state, the spacecraft is not enough to interrupt the jump and get out of virtual space with its own ability. However, if there is an interceptor device in the real universe, it can reverse the warp force field, interfere with the spacecraft's jump, neutralize the space-time bubble, and make it appear in the real universe out of the virtual space.
This kind of external interception behavior will have a certain negative impact on the spacecraft, just like the "hard stun" in some video games, the intercepted ship's ship's electrical system will be impacted and will be offline for a period of time.
One can imagine what a disadvantageous situation it would fall into if it was intercepted by an enemy ship during warp sailing. Therefore, between some important star systems along the border of the national territory, the government will not hesitate to spend a lot of money to establish a warp interception chain.
Of course, it is impossible for the warp interception chain to cover the whole country, and they only exist in some important, controversial, and sensitive areas.
For example, in countries like the Sulu Empire and the Monya Empire, the Aslam star system is 8.7 light-years away from the Rotterdanton star system of the Sulu Empire. In order to show their sincerity, the two sides could not help but drastically reduce the garrisons and warp speed interception equipment on the border line. New trade routes were also opened.
In places like this, where borders are not very tense, governments deploy large quantities of warp probes in uninhabited areas of light-years between star systems. Same as warp speed interceptor devices. The warp probe is also a copycat from Ipsilon Technology. This kind of small unmanned platform does not have the ability to intercept and attack. They have only one function, once a warp speed navigation spacecraft passes its range of effect, it will spend a very small amount of zero element resources, like a needle to pierce the space-time bubble, collect curvature, course, special codes and other numbers, and then send these numbers to the nearest border observation post through the guò quantum communication terminal.
The computer at the observatory uses a certain algorithm to calculate the approximate coordinates of the spacecraft out of virtual space. Just think about it. If your whereabouts are known by the enemy, and then you arrange a fleet of warships to wait for you, what will be the result? Think about it with your ass and know it.
Sum up. Wars between countries, want to play lone army deep, long-range raids, decapitation operations or something. That's just a dream. The most conservative and safe way to invade is to fight hard. Attack the fortification. It's just that because there are a large number of space-based defensive weapon platforms on the national border, and there are heavy guards, if the attacker wants to break through the defender's border defense line, it will inevitably pay several times the battle losses of the opponent.
All of the above not only involves military aspects, but also applies to civilian-level interstellar navigation, so only Grant, Nehmeyah and others will have this tension.
If there is a relay station in the Tianchao Star Area, it is stored in zài. Then a qiē is good to say. If not, you'll have to do something else. Come up with a safe and secure way to smuggle people.
Tang Fang was well aware of the concerns of the two, and smiled: "I just went to the central control room of the ruins because of this matter, there is a relay station in the Tianchao Star Region. ”
"Well, this is the bearing coordinates of the relay station." Tang Fang drew a string of interstellar coordinates on the multifunctional PDA and handed it to Nehmeyah casually.
"Huh......" The two looked at each other and smiled, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief. There is a relay station in the Tianchao Star Region, and the "Zero Prime Particle Spatial Effect Field Generator" can be used to sail at super warp speed, which is fast, convenient, safe and reliable.
"What's the matter, I said yes." Nehemiah looked at Grant, who was entering the coordinates into the star map, and said, "This kid has already made up his mind, but he just didn't tell us in detail. ”
After the old man finished speaking, he waited for a long time and did not respond, and when he looked up, he saw Grant maintaining an input posture, staring at the star map projection in mid-air with a dull expression, as if petrified.
"Huh?" Nehmiah swept up his gaze, and when he looked at the area of the star map where the highlight spot was located, two rays of light suddenly shot out from his dim old eyes, and he was stunned for a moment.
At this time, Tang Fangzheng, who had listened to the work report of the ship's officer Yu Fei, happened to turn his head to look back at the two, and when he saw this scene, he frowned: "Grant, what's wrong, is there something wrong?" ”
"Don ...... Tang Fang, are you sure you gave me the coordinates correctly? Grant swallowed hard and said.
"Absolutely, what, is there a problem?" Not only did he remember the coordinates, but Emma also knew that if she made a mistake, she would definitely remind herself.
"You...... See for yourself. Grant casually pressed the "Rotate" button, and the huge star map projection above his head turned, and the highlighted coordinate points appeared in front of Tang Fang's eyes.
Generally speaking, there is no specific pattern in the distribution of star systems on such local star charts, and most of them are uneven. Curiously, the highlight appears within a gyro-shaped nebula. The gyroscopic nebula acts as a separate celestial system, with an isolation buffer zone from the rest of the celestial nest region.
According to the scale of the star map, the length of this isolation buffer zone is about 30 light-years, and there are no large objects that have zài's 30 light-year buffer zone!
"This ...... Is it the 'Lost Lands'? After looking at the star map for a long time, Tang Fang finally reacted.
The so-called "Lost Land" is actually the name given to this gyro-shaped object by some people in the Hillenbuir region. In addition to this, it has several other names: "Eye of the Storm", "Atlantis", and "Old Eden".
This gyro-shaped object is the most prestigious and special existence in the Celestial Nest region. It's like a few of its names. "Atlantis" - a vanishing civilization; "Old Eden" - the place where ancient civilizations were created; "Eye of the Storm" - a mysterious and dangerous realm; "The Lost Land" - a deserted island in the sea of stars. These appellations fully explain the characteristics of gyrocelestial objects.
The reason why the Tianchao Star Region is a special existence in the Hillembir Region is due to the "Lost Land".
The reason why the "Lost Lands" is "lost". It's not that people are willing to let it become a deserted island, but they are forced to be helpless and have to let it continue to be so "lost".
Throughout the Hillembir region. When it comes to "The Lost Land", who doesn't know? Which one doesn't know? In terms of the cosmic environment, the most special thing about it is that it cannot travel at warp speed within more than 100 light-years of the "Lost Lands", including the buffer zone. In other words, if you want to reach the "Lost Land" from the outer star system, the 30-light-year journey of the isolation zone alone will not be able to survive in a lifetime.
You can't make a warp speed jump, and the speed of light is a moat. With the current technology of human beings, let alone the speed of light, the speed of sublight is far beyond the reach. So. Relying solely on conventional flights, with a buffer belt, the human world and the "Lost Lands" are no different from the end of the world.
Let's talk about the meaning of "Atlantis". Yes, the Lost Lands contains a large number of Epsilon relics. Escape from those "lost lands". Judging from the warships and building wreckage of the long journey, the "Lost Lands" is more magnificent than all the Ipsiloon ruins found by humans so far, and the "Lost Lands" is more like a city than the Ipsilons energy processing plants, observation stations, supply ports, scientific research institutes and other facilities scattered in the universe.
"Old Eden", as its literal meaning, is an uninhabited sanctuary withered and decayed in the long river of history. Totem worship has a long history, and even in today's human society, there are still some people who regard the Epsilon people as gods. Of course. It is not the ethereal "god" of feudal superstition, but the "god" who guided the previous development of human civilization. It is the city of "gods". The name "Eden" is understandable. It's just that, like the ruins of the Epsilon found in the past, this "god" city is also empty and reduced to yesterday's yellow flowers.
As for the point that "people go to empty buildings", although human beings cannot produce conclusive evidence. However, for more than 200 years, there have been no living Ipsilons visiting the objects flying from the direction of the "Lost Lands", except for some warships and building wreckage, which can indirectly support the correctness of the speculation.
As for the "eye of the storm", the so-called "storm" refers to the "nebula matter" on the periphery of the gyroscope core. The "nebulous matter" mentioned here is not a vacuum gas, dust cloud, etc., in the general sense, but a nebula-like object such as a bright nebula or a dark nebula formed with or without a background light source. Rather, it is a large area of dust formed by the fragmentation of stars, planets, comets and other celestial bodies contained in the star system.
The composition of dust masses is very complex, because of the influence of position, core gravity, chemical reactions between substances, etc., it will diffusely reflect light of different colors and brightness. From a distance, it looks like a nebula, hence the name "nebula matter".
These "nebulae matter" act like a rapidly spinning top, orbiting a core with a constant center. Because these "nebula matter" looks like a hurricane from the outside, the gyro core has earned the nickname "eye of the storm".
In the beginning, the scientific community believed that the "eye of the storm" was a black hole, because only in this way could the dust masses formed by the fragmentation of the star system be subjected to a huge gravitational pull and merge with each other to form a storm attitude.
However, after a period of observation, a lot of argumentative work has been carried out in terms of ray information, the orbit of "nebula matter", and the characteristics of massive celestial bodies, and it is concluded that the gyroscopic core is not a black hole, nor is it a celestial body such as a neutron star or a supergiant, but a completely new unknown celestial body.
Still others suspect that it was an Ipsisaurus artifact, an artificial celestial body. But...... This point of view does not make sense, after all, who would be willing to destroy their own city, or even civilization, to build such a ruined celestial body.
The ancient civilization, Bermuda in space, is mysterious and unpredictable, foreshadowing ruin, like a hurricane...... Whether it is "The Lost Lands", or "Old Eden", "Eye of the Storm", "Atlantis" and other names, in short, for the mysterious land on the other side of the world, human beings are both afraid, curious, and yearning.
In fact, the name "eye of the storm" has another meaning today, 200 years later. After nearly 200 years of observation, people have confirmed one thing, not all of the relics of the ancestors escaping from the dust mass were from the ocean, and some of them appeared at the edge of the buffer zone, and there were violent fluctuations in the curvature of time and space, indicating that these relics crossed the buffer zone by way of guò warp jump, or even wormhole travel, more than 30 light years away.
What does a city of Ipsilon represent? It represents a huge scientific and technological deposit. Who doesn't blush? Who doesn't want to get it and be fast? For the average person, a complete relic (such as the Universal Force Field Generator on Lord Lancelot's Silver Wheel) will bring coveted wealth and status. For one side of the force, that is the capital of Star War. And so. In the past 200 years, countless groups, organizations, and individuals have tried their best to cross the buffer zone and reach the golden sand beach on the other side.
However, no matter from which coordinate point and at what curvature the warships entered the virtual space, none of the warships came back safely. About 30 years ago. A cargo ship escaped from the enemy and sailed into the airspace on the edge of the buffer zone, only to find a piece of warship wreckage. According to the number of the ship on the surface of the wreckage, it turned out to be one of the treasure hunting ships that sailed to the "Lost Lands" more than 100 years ago.
This scene reminds people that for 200 years, those "great (SHA) explorers" have not disappeared. All of them are dead. No one knows what they have been through. Among the various speculations, the scientific community is more inclined to one explanation, those people encountered a storm of time and space, and the buffer zone seems to be vast and endless, but in fact, under the calm surface, there are turbulent and dangerous undercurrents.
The word "eye of the storm". also added a touch of murder from the original simple symbolism.
But. Although it represents death and ruin, it still attracts a large number of adventurers and speculators, and the "Lost Land" is like an incomparably sexy, incomparably windy. Sao catwalk catwalk female model, maybe one day on a whim, she will take off her underwear, thong or something or throw it to the audience, which man with normal sexual orientation can resist such a temptation?
On the other hand, the existence of the "Lost Land" also indirectly contributed to the establishment of a free market.
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"Yes, it's the Lost Lands." Grant shook his head helplessly: "It's still Central near the core." ”
At this time, Nehmeyah also came back to his senses from shock, his eyebrows were a little sparse and he said worriedly: "I thought it would be safe to take the relay line, but I didn't expect this to be the case." Tang Fang, what do you think? Do you take a risk, or do you want to find another way? ”
"It's no wonder that when I connected to the relay station of the Tianchao Star Region before, there was a long delay, and it turned out that the other end was located in the 'Lost Land'. In such an area, it makes sense to have such an anomaly. Tang Fang did not rush to answer.
The technological level of the Ipsilons far surpasses that of humans, and they are also very good in the field of security.
Transportation hubs such as relay stations, similar to Earth-age railroad stations, can have incalculable consequences if the slightest negligence on the part of those in charge of dispatching can lead to incalculable consequences. Therefore, a jump request will be sent to the target relay station before the battleship can operate the "Zero-Prime Particle Spatial Effect Field Generator" to perform a super-warp jump. Before receiving the request and sending a response, the relay station will conduct a wormhole pass test at the quantum level, and will only send feedback information if the traffic environment meets the standard.
That is to say, the relay station in the Tianchao Star Region has tested the traffic environment before the azimuth coordinate value of the launch, and the safety is guaranteed.
When you think about it, the super-warp jump is fundamentally different from normal warp sailing. Ordinary warp speed navigation uses the construction of space-time bubbles, distorting the space in front and expanding the space behind, thus forming a virtual space-time, which propels forward faster than the speed of light like a wave. Although the super-warp jump has the name of "warp speed", it is essentially very different from ordinary warp speed sailing. It uses the principle of wormholes to erect a subspace continuum tunnel to achieve the purpose of faster-than-light interstellar travel.
Of course, in the Epsilon civilization, the term "super-warp jump" does not exist. It is a word coined by Tang Fang in order to let Grant, Claire and others more intuitively feel the power of the "Zero Prime Particle Spatial Effect Field Generator".
To sum up, the fact that the Lost Lands may not be able to warp does not mean that it cannot jump beyond warp speed.
Besides, those who stand up to death for the bold starve for the faint-hearted. The relay station is located in the "Lost Lands" Central, a sacred place that many people dream of going to, but can't afford to go.
An Ipsi Dragon City, not to mention how many ancestral technology products such as the Universal Stance Generator are contained in it, the temptation of "unlocking the Protoss Technology Tree" alone is not something that Tang Fang can resist.
"Do you believe me?" After a moment of silence, he suddenly raised his head and swept over the people around him.
"Of course." Grant didn't think about it, and replied casually: "You saved everyone's lives on the Morningstar, even if you sue them that God is gay, I'm afraid that no one will doubt it." ”
"That's good." Tang Fang nodded: "Yiqiē acted according to the original plan. ”
"Okay." Grande nodded, glanced up at the "Lost Land", and asked casually, "Uncle Nehemea, are you afraid?" ”
"Afraid of what?" Nehmeyah glanced at him and snorted angrily, "When did that kid ever do something he wasn't sure of?" What's more, is the 'Lost Lands' a place where ordinary people can go if they want to? I'm an old bone, I can have such an opportunity, it's too late to be happy, how can I be afraid. ”
"Hahaha...... Uncle Nehmeyah was as bold as he was back then. ”
"......" (To be continued......)