"Holy, your ship can be invisible! Are there any weapons? them! Such people can't stay, maybe they have the blood of pilots on their hands! ”

Ships can be invisible! This is also too Nima sci-fi, Hong Tao was not only surprised, but also re-evaluated Nuel's net worth. This bearded man doesn't look like a rich man on the surface, but he has a lot of dry goods.

Since the spaceship can be invisible, if it can't be secured, it will be equipped with some self-protection weapons. I haven't seen a real space battle scene yet, so as long as it's not too dangerous, I can't give it a try.

"Aite, this is an exploration spacecraft, which can detect faint signals from a long distance, and some salvage equipment, but no weapons. And we can't move now, and when we move, we lose our invisibility......"

Nuel was a little surprised by the new hire's murderous qualities, but it was only an accident, and he patiently explained why he couldn't strangle the pirates.

“…… I can't move! You're not going to tell me there's a time limit for stealth, are you? ”

"Our capacitance is only enough to maintain the invisibility effect for seven minutes, and there are still five minutes and twenty-one seconds left before the effect is removed......"

From boiling blood to disheartened heart and back chills, it was only one minute in total. After hearing the mastermind's standard answer, Hong Tao would have run away if he knew how to take the escape pod. This Nima is a nerd, tossing and turning for a long time to get a half-crippled invisible effect, and a smile on his face.

"Aite, don't worry, these two pirate ship pilots are too lacking in common sense, this may be the first time they have tried to rob, and it should be the last. Even the fiercest pirates in the New Eden world wouldn't scan other people's ships near the stargates, the only consequence of doing so would be to be labeled criminals and then caught by the Warships of the Unification, who would be the most dangerous job in some edge system. Look, the fleet of the Unification Department is coming! ”

If Nuel knew what Hong Tao was thinking, he would definitely throw him into the escape pod and launch him. Fortunately, at this time, the technology was not yet able to detect other people's thoughts, which saved Hong Tao's life.

It's not technology that really saves lives, but a few points of light that flicker near the stargate. They're like fireflies' butts, just a slight flash, and they don't show too much of a show.

After the light passed, three black battleships appeared out of thin air. The shape of the battleship can only be described in two words, it is too irregular, it does not conform to fluid mechanics at all, all kinds of protrusions, all kinds of windward sides, how to look at how it does not look like an object that can fly around in the sky.

But the movements of the three warships were jaw-dropping, and there was almost no pause between stationary and rapid flight, and they flew towards the vicinity of the stargate with a sharp scurry.

At this time, Hong Tao found that there were actually two little guys in the shape of kowtow insects in the dark sky running quickly, but unfortunately their speed was a little slow compared to the three unified warships, and the light red jump engine suddenly turned off as soon as it started, and it was impossible to jump away, so it was blown up by the three battleships.

Before it was over, two white rays of light suddenly shot out of the battleship, covering an object that had been shot out of the explosive spaceship, sucking it into the cabin like an object from the air, and immediately turned around and flew towards the stargate, turning into three flashes of light again and disappearing......

"This ...... It's too easy, isn't it? What about laser bombardment and mecha fighting? The battle went quickly and calmly, without any fierce battles, so Hong Tao was very disappointed. Of course, he hoped that the pirate would be defeated, and if he did not defeat the pirate, his own life would be in the balance.

However, if pirates are so weak, the world will be too boring. The most important thing is that he has always been thinking about becoming a pirate in the future, driving his own spaceship to fly freely in the vast starry sky, and going up to educate anyone who is not pleasing to the eye. Not only was this battle boring, but it also cut off his own hopes!

"In a high-security system, pirates can only end up like this, and the warships of the Unification Department can use the stargates and gravitational beacons everywhere to make space jumps at any time...... Okay, it's time for us to go, and we still have to go through 28 stargates to get home, half of which are low-security starfields with no security guarantees, and that's a pirate's paradise. Mastermind, the spaceship is handed over to you, carefully scan the movement near the stargate, become invisible immediately after passing through the stargate, and then turn on the jump engine when it is safe! ”

There was that pity in Nuel's eyes again, and he looked at the disappointed Hong Tao like a fool, and gave instructions to the mastermind.

The 28 stargates, in fact, should be 28 pairs, matched by pairs, representing the only fast passage between the two star fields. No, it's not the only one, if you have spare time, you can also skip the stargate, as long as you have the exact coordinates of another star field, no one will stop you when you fly over slowly.

That is, there must be idle time, not ordinary idle time, but special idle time. How idle are you? For example, the jump speed of Noel's spacecraft is 6 AU per second, which is the distance from the sun to Earth in one second, and the jump distance is 3 seconds each, which is 18 AU.

The engine automatically protects after 3 seconds to prevent overheating. In addition, the ship's jump engine can only be used three times in a row, after which it has to be charged for at least eight minutes.

According to this rate, if the distance between the two star fields is 10 light years, one light year is about equal to 63241.0770843 AU, rounded and rounded, even if it is 63000, 10 light years is 630000 AU.

The purpose of a toss of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division is to figure out how much idle time it takes to fly over. If you ignore the charging time, the calculation result is about equal to more than 100,000 seconds, more than a day. If you add the charging time, it will take more than 190 days.

This is still the closest star field to each other, and generally speaking, the distance between two star fields is hundreds of light-years, thousands of light-years, or even tens of thousands of light-years, and then there is no need to calculate separately, add zeros one by one after these more than 190 days.

Noel's spacecraft focuses on the collection and location of anomalous signals in the starry sky, and is not known for its speed or distance. Even if it is replaced by the fastest professional exploration ship in the New Eden world, it can be twice as fast at most, far from the extent of adding or subtracting the last zero.

The principle of the stargate is called an artificial wormhole, and the master of the spaceship has said a lot of specific theories, but there is only so much that Hong Tao can understand, this thing is a special astronomical phenomenon formed between two airspace, through its internal channel, it can achieve rapid communication between two originally distant airspace.

Unexpectedly, the New Edenians could artificially create such a space-time tunnel through technical means, and it was through artificial wormholes or stargates that they shortened the space-time travel calculated in years to seconds, creating the era of interstellar colonization, and this is how the territory of these thousands of galaxies came about.

Hong Tao has never heard of the concept of star field, and according to the interpretation of earthlings, the division of the starry sky is usually based on galaxies and constellations. But the concept of constellations is not three-dimensional, it is a figure drawn by the ancients from a two-dimensional perspective, in fact, the stars in the constellation do not have much physical relationship.

But the New Edenians don't plan the starry sky in this way, they think of galaxies as the smallest unit, such as the solar system. Several similar solar-like galaxies make up the star field.

The star field is their largest unit of measurement of the starry sky, a bit like a city on Earth. A country is a collection of several cities. In the New Eden world, a country is a collection of several star fields.

But this territory is not flat, but three-dimensional. So sailing here, there is no concept of east, west, north and south, only three-dimensional coordinates. It is sometimes used up and down, left and right, but only in normal flight, with the spaceship as the target, and never appears on the navigation or map. No, it's not a map, it's supposed to be called a star map.

I don't know how many star gates he flew over, Hong Tao had lost interest in this huge man-made object, and began to call up the star map by himself under the professor of the mastermind, and then found that this thing could be viewed from a two-dimensional perspective or become three-dimensional, and finally roughly understood the boundaries of the three countries.

Of course, the two-dimensional realm that is only observed from one angle is far from the actual state. It's not that I don't want to learn three-dimensional structures, but I really can't conceive a three-dimensional star map in my head for a while, so take your time.