Chapter Ninety-One: Tension
The glowing orb isn't very large compared to a planet, but if you just take it out and put it in front of your eyes, it's definitely not a gadget.
Mark looked at the lighthouse's measurements, and its major axis was nearly five kilometers, the minor axis was three kilometers, and the polar radius was about one kilometer, and it was a strangely shaped ellipsoid, which gave the impression of the hijacker's white cube at all, it did not have the feeling of being flawless from any angle. It does not exude the ubiquitous sense of oppression and superiority of high civilization, it is like being pinched out casually, the length, width and height are very arbitrary, and there is no special sense of beauty, this kind of casualness itself is a sense of beauty.
The sphere emits a soft shimmer from the inside, like the light emitted by the horizon at dusk, with a slight bright red light in the orange, and in some small details that cannot be checked, it is constantly changing its color, showing a charming and illusory halo.
"What the hell is that?" Sun Tan really couldn't guess what it was, what was it that was worth the hijackers' painstaking efforts, they had already mastered the Dyson ball technique, and the hyperspace jumping technique was also very mature, what else did they want to get by all means? This thing is housed in such a small ellipsoid...... What's even more strange is that if this thing is so important, why did the civilization that created it have to hide it everywhere?
"There's no time to ask questions, they're coming, it's laid-back, but let's not forget that we're an uninvited group of intruders." Once again, the lighthouse staggered the subject, but it was telling the truth, the owner of this starfield would not allow them to move around as they pleased.
As early as the moment the lunar spacecraft was launched, the Pan-Star Domain Alliance had already set its sights on them, and the alliance was closely following the development of the situation in the hyperspace chase race along the way, and when the lunar spacecraft reached the Aquila Nebula, the alliance confirmed that the prehistoric spacecraft did exist, and it was not some intimidation trick played by humans.
During the time they watched the disintegration of the unfortunate planet, the entire alliance had entered the highest state of emergency, and they had a lot of technology left by the Ascendant civilization in their hands, but because the differences in civilization were too far away, they could not reverse the complete chain of technology system, and most of the legacy left by the Ascendant could not operate normally, and this was the first time they had seen the spaceship of the Ascendant civilization.
In the search for the 'seed', the Coalition's investigators had been to the blue planet, but had not conducted a detailed survey of its satellites, so much so that they had missed out on such important information, and this ship was perhaps the only intact one left by the Ascendants, so well preserved that even the hyperspace engine was still functioning...... If it had been discovered earlier and thoroughly analyzed, the Alliance's scientific and technological level would have been raised by a few more steps.
However, this is all empty talk now, the top priority is how to deal with the current situation, and during this time, the alliance has held three more emergency meetings, which is extremely rare in the entire history of the alliance, and since the end of the war with the hive civilization and the merger of the other party into the alliance, the alliance has not held emergency meetings so frequently. The diehards who insisted on continuing to bring back the "eggs" before regretted it this time, although each "egg" has great significance, but to be honest, the alliance is not indispensable now, there are thousands of spare "eggs" that have not yet been mined, and new "eggs" are constantly being detected, because this incident has attracted the Ascender spaceship, which is obviously doing more harm than good.
Even if a low-level civilization is manipulating it, it is likely to cause serious consequences, and the technology of the Ascended is still too much mystery for the Alliance, and no one knows what kind of weapons they use, and once a war starts, no one knows how much damage it will cause.
There was also a heated discussion within the alliance on how to make the first contact, and those who thought that they should take the initiative to negotiate peace and those who wanted to take the initiative to deter each other were divided into two distinct factions, even if the other party had already broken into the territory of the alliance in a mysterious spaceship, there was still a group of people who thought that these barbarians were just lucky, they didn't have the ability to control this spaceship at all, and it was already very lucky to be able to come here, and they didn't have the ability to fight the alliance at all, in order to prevent them from causing more disturbances, Troops should be sent in time to control them and bring the ship under the control of the Alliance.
The view of the pacifists is simple: they are worried about only one problem, even if it is very unlikely, but even if it is small...... You can't ignore it, what if it's really the Ascendant who has returned? Or they helped this backward race for some reason, and in either case, the consequences of the outbreak of war were something that the Alliance could not afford.
In the end, the conference still took a decision in the fierce confrontation, the top of the alliance decided to send troops, but did not declare war, whether it is peace talks or war, deterrence must exist, there is no completely equal relationship in the world, only relatively equal, the most suitable relationship is deterrence, only when both sides are threatened by the other party, they can sit down patiently and negotiate well.
The alliance is going to establish its own deterrence no matter what, and although the stakes are great, the temptation of this ship is even greater...... It's worth the risk.