Chapter 289: Expedition to the Orion Nebula
Located 600 light-years away from the S1 galaxy, the Orion Nebula is one of the destinations for strategic shifts calibrated by Li Chunfeng.
This nebula is the most observed nebula of the Earth era, because it is the brightest nebula in the entire sky when viewed from Earth, and it is located 1,500 light-years from the solar system.
It is the closest to the Solar System, the birthplace of stars in the Milky Way, and contains thousands of newborn stars and columnar interstellar dust clouds that give birth to stars.
Most of the stars in the Orion Nebula were formed 2 million to 3 million years ago, and their actual age is less than one thousandth of the age of the Sun and Earth.
Since the Hubble Telescope began to observe here in 1993, Li Chunfeng has a lot of information.
Since there is a source of water molecular radiation in this molecular cloud, Li Chunfeng has selected some formed star systems around the nebula as target areas through the derivation of his supercomputer, which are the most likely to give birth to life planets.
After the observation and study of the remote observation system, a galaxy about 80 light-years away from the nebula was identified and calibrated as the S2 galaxy.
With this as the destination, the reconnaissance battleship was transmitted through the space gate, and after reconnaissance, three natural wormholes were found on the periphery of the S2 galaxy.
When the Recon Battleship unleashed a new type of Pathfinder V and traversed three wormholes, one of them, the Pathfinder V, sent back exciting photos.
That galaxy is 25 light-years away from the S2 galaxy, 98 light-years from the edge of the Orion Nebula, and 620 light-years from the S1 galaxy.
Its star is 1.8 times the size of the Sun, and at a distance of 2.8 AU from the star, there is a blue planet 1.6 times the size of Earth.
This galaxy is a large galaxy with 12 planets, and Pathfinder V is at the mouth of the wormhole on the outer part of the galaxy, 50 astronomical units away from the blue planet.
"Pathfinder V" began to send back the photos taken when it flew towards the planet, because judging from the color of the photos, nine out of ten of the planets were living planets.
Since the start of the search for the Living Planet, Intelligence One has been combing through the information transmitted back by the "Pathfinder V" launched by various reconnaissance warships, marking all the star systems that may have living planets, and dividing them into priorities, and then reporting them to Li Chunfeng.
Now that he suddenly received this information, he reported it to Li Chunfeng as soon as possible.
Li Chunfeng was also a little excited when the projection played back the photos of the "Pathfinder V", although the "Pathfinder V" was 50 astronomical units away from the planet, but the photos still reflected enough information.
Li Chunfeng can see that this planet at least covers an area of oceans, similar to the earth, accounting for more than half of the planet, otherwise this kind of water blue would not be visible from the starry sky.
It is said that where there is water, there is life, obviously this planet must be a planet of life, but the speed of "Pathfinder V" is too slow, and Li Chunfeng can't wait.
Immediately arrange a fleet to prepare for the unknown galaxy of the Orion Nebula, considering that the planet is a living planet, it is very likely that the Anemo God Empire will settle there, so Li Chunfeng named it Anemo and the Anemo God Galaxy.
After several years of development, the number of warships in the Aeolian Empire has now exceeded 200,000.
The General Staff redivided the composition of the fleet, and according to the current number of commanders and staff officers of human warships, a sub-fleet was formed with 500 captain-class warships, and the flagship was the new admiral-class warship, and the entire fleet alone had 501 warships.
A fleet of 20 sub-fleets was formed, and the fleet commander was assigned a convoy composed of 500 colonel-class warships, the flagship of which was the new emperor-class battleship, and the entire fleet alone had 10,521 warships.
A large fleet of 10 fleets is formed, the flagship is the new Fengshen-class battleship, and the entire fleet has 105211 warships alone.
The commander of the detachment is a rear admiral, the commander of the fleet is a lieutenant general, and the commander of the large fleet is an admiral. There is no admiral yet, and the only one who can command the Grand Fleet is the Imperial Führer for the time being.
The dispatch this time was the 4th Fleet, and the commander of the fleet was none other than Sun Xiaoyun, who was known as "Mu Guiying in the army." He was known for his strict demeanor and was always able to deal with any emergencies in a timely manner.
In the past few years, although I have not been able to lead the fleet again because of the birth of a child, I have never pulled down any training and competitions that I can participate in, at least the annual fleet simulation offensive and defensive competitions, which can always rank in the top five.
When Sun Xiaoyun received the order, he was on vacation, and immediately began to pack up, say goodbye to Zhang Wenhao and his children, and go to his flagship "Wu Zetian".
According to the regulations, the fleet commander already had his own fixed flagship, and Sun Xiaoyun also used the "Wu Zetian" emperor-class battleship in the missions he once performed, and later all the warships were completely transformed.
The old "Wu Zetian" has been reduced to an ordinary school-class battleship, with only a number and no longer a name.
The new "Wu Zetian" is a new Emperor-class combined warship, its huge force field ring diameter is 60 kilometers, the entire battleship has three layers, the lower two layers are composed of three school-class warships and some military-class warships, and the top layer is a school-class battleship.
Considering the need for space gates in fleet movement operations, the designers of the Battleship Design Center decided to add a level of battleships capable of opening space gates in addition to the new Aeolum class and the new life class.
This is the new Emperor class, and its force field ring and energy module have been moderately enlarged to accommodate the space teleportation device that reaches 50 kilometers at its longest point, and is reasonably arranged in the shape of a six-pointed star.
This standard module soon developed into a Space Gate type warship, and even gradually became independent in the future and became a more widely used type of special warship.
Based on this module, it is embedded and combined into the corresponding school-level warships and military-class warships, so that the various weapon attack and defense systems of the entire battleship can be reasonably arranged, and the overall handling can reach the best state.
This combination method is different from the original Xinfengshen-class battleship, which is to first combine the main part in the middle, and then embed the force field ring and space transmission device, and its energy part is more problematic to integrate.
The new combination not only eliminates this problem, but is also more flexible overall. When the construction of the force field ring, the main energy source, space teleportation and other general modules have not been completed, the school-level battleships that have completed the construction still have the ability to fight at any time.
This is especially suitable for the Aeolian Empire, which is currently in a state of flux.
When Sun Xiaoyun came to the battleship command room, he found that his new partner, Chief of Staff Zhong Yiyang, had arrived.
"General Sun, the whole fleet is ready and waiting for your orders." Zhong Yiyang stepped forward to report to Sun Xiaoyun.
Zhong Yiyang looks very young like most citizens of the empire, but his actual age is 42 years old, which is much older than Sun Xiaoyun.
In the Earth Era, Zhong Yiyang used to be a demobilized soldier, and before he changed jobs, he served as the captain of a Navy frigate, and later returned to the local area for family reasons and worked in the procuratorate.
When the aliens invaded, because his mother-in-law was the financial director of Fengshen Technology's subsidiary, he got the opportunity to move the whole family.
Zhong Yiyang was a family member during the Fengshen Technology period, and there were no job opportunities, but later before and after the founding of the Fengshen Empire, he was selected into the new police department.
did it quietly for a few years, until the Kunpeng battleship attacked, and the Fengshen Empire fled, which touched the blood of Zhong Yiyang's former soldiers, plus he had just used genetic modification agents, and people became younger, and they were more energetic and energetic.
So after layers of assessment, he finally entered the virtual world of the military university staff major and successfully graduated three years ago.
In the past three years, he has served in many small patrol fleets and reconnaissance fleets, gradually grown through hard work, gained a lot of achievements, and finally won a big promotion opportunity, defeated many competitors, and became a fleet-level staff officer.
When he knew that his partner was General Sun Xiaoyun, who was known as "Mu Guiying in the army", Zhong Yiyang was also quite stressed, after all, Sun Xiaoyun was the top five in the fleet offensive and defensive battles for many years. In addition, Sun Xiaoyun is now the wife of Zhang Wenhao, the elder of the empire.
After receiving the mission notice, Zhong Yiyang hurried to the fleet to check all the preparations before the expedition to ensure that there were no omissions.
Sun Xiaoyun quickly checked the checklist provided by the fleet's Zhi Brain, and after confirming that all the preparations were correct, he said: "Very good, since we have completed the preparations for the expedition, then we will call the Führer again to confirm and see if the Führer still has anything to explain." ”
As he spoke, he asked Zhi Brain to call the Führer.
Zhong Yiyang looked at it with some envy, after all, there are not many generals who can talk directly to the Führer.
More than ten seconds later, a figure projected in front of the two of them was none other than the head of state, Li Chunfeng.
"Hello Führer!" Sun Xiaoyun and Zhong Yiyang hurriedly saluted Li Chunfeng.
"Hello. How's it going, is everything ready? The corresponding bioisolate detection spacecraft are all ready, and all the equipment is complete, right? Li Chunfeng asked.
"Yes, Chief of Staff Zhong has already checked it, and I have also read the confirmation list of Zhi Brain, and it is all ready. Please instruct the Führer, should we leave immediately? Sun Xiaoyun asked.
"Well, this time it is specially equipped for your mission, and it is equipped with a space gate special type spaceship, and when you get there, you will use it to stabilize the space gate. I wish you all success! Li Chunfeng explained.
"Yes, guaranteed to complete the mission." Both said at the same time.
Li Chunfeng's figure then disappeared.
In the vicinity of the planet named GS1 in the S1 system, there are many giant spaceport-like spaceships, which are designed to be spaceports for warships and spaceships based on the common force field ring and energy module.
In interstellar space, if a warship or spaceship has all its engines turned off and there is no spaceport to dock, it is possible to drift in some way.
Even if you happen to be in the acceleration sine wave zone sometimes, the battleship or spaceship will drift far away in the blink of an eye.
However, if the engine is always turned on, especially the main engine, this waste of energy is not worth it, so most interstellar civilizations will build spaceports for mooring warships and spaceships in space.
Usually spaceports are built on a planet's high orbit and belong to fixed infrastructure. However, for the Aeolian Empire in a fluid state, this kind of spaceport will not be built.
Since the ships of the Aeolian Empire are equipped with the Thor engine, if the ship is parked in the starry sky, the Thor engine is often used to maintain the ship's attitude.
When the concept of combinatorial became popular in battleship design, a movable spaceport-specific spaceship was born on the universal base module.
In the vicinity of the planet GS1, the Aeolian Empire has been stationary for more than four years, and now the mobile spaceport has stretched for more than 100,000 kilometers.
And it is divided into military ports and civilian ports, civilian ports are dedicated to berthing life-level spaceships, of course, there are also some high-level people in the empire, who have been allowed to have their own private spaceships, and their spaceships are also moored in civilian ports.
In the Aeolus Empire, everyone has a corresponding status level and points, and the points are converted according to the contribution of citizens to the empire, in which the formula is extremely complex, and the zero artificial intelligence is in charge.
From the moment you are born, you will have base points, which are points that have contributed to the number of people in the empire as a citizen of the empire, and there will be various things that will allow you to increase or decrease your points as you grow up throughout your life.
What kind of points correspond to what kind of level, and naturally enjoy the corresponding treatment, the Fengshen Empire is a country with the degree of mastery of science and technology as the core value standard.
This system, coupled with the popularization of learning machines, gave birth to a large number of scientists, so that the Fengshen Empire quickly stepped into the peak of the fourth-level civilization in just over ten years.
At this time, from this stretching military spaceport, a fleet of 10,000 warships is slowly sailing out.
The entire fleet consists of 10,000 captain-class warships, 500 school-class warships, 500 transport ships, 500 spacedock ships, 20 new Admiral-class ships, 5 biological detection ships, 2 space-gate warships and 1 new Emperor-class battleship.
After the fleet sailed 100,000 kilometers, at a location determined by the General Staff, a huge circular spaceship with a simple shape slowly flew out of the fleet, and it looked like this spaceship was the chassis of the new emperor-class.
This ring ship is none other than the Space Gate Special Battleship, which has only one purpose, and will be responsible for opening the space gates to the Aeolus system.
At this moment, after the invisible space energy is output, 100 kilometers in front of the ring spacecraft, a space door with space ripples is displayed on the screen of the space probe.
Subsequently, Sun Xiaoyun immediately commanded the fleet and passed through the space gate at an extremely fast speed, and the whole process took less than 5 minutes.
Because this space gate is opened in one direction, the time lasts for a maximum of 20 minutes, and the fleet crosses as fast as possible for safety.