Chapter 416: Europa's Primal Life

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Across the endless expanse, the expeditionary fleet once again observed an area resembling the Oort cloud of the solar system. A large number of wandering small objects, comets, and interstellar dust began to appear in large numbers, indicating that the star system ahead must not be too mediocre.

"We are now about 1.9 light-years away from this star system! Its Oort cloud radius is nearly twice as large as that of the solar system. Scientific Commander Don Quixote commented.

"So, can it be said that this star system should be considered very rich from the perspective of human evaluation." Military commander Sergei guessed.

"Could this star system also exist some unknown cosmic civilization!?"

The Expeditionary Force is at the edge of the star system, and beyond it, it is truly inside her territory. Tesla, the commander of the engineering department, suddenly became vigilant.

"No, our scout fleet has already figured out her bottom in detail!!" General Sergei patted Tesla on the shoulder quite firmly.

Tesla shook his head and chuckled, not saying anything more.

"Everyone has felt that, in fact, the density of cosmic civilizations is not high, not every star system can give birth to life systems, and even if there is a cosmic civilization in front of them, their technological level will not be too high. Otherwise, we would have discovered their clues a long time ago. ”

Yuan Haochen stood in front of the simulated starry sky of the command ship, glanced at the star fields around the star and said.

"It's really a rich star system." Yuan Haochen also deeply agrees with this point of view.

If this star weren't too far away from the Sunrise Galaxy, human civilization would be willing to expand its territory here.

Through the analysis of the "Oort Cloud" and the overall condition, the scientific team of the Expeditionary Force determined that this is a star in the prime of life. She was massive, nearly twice as large as the Sun and the stars of the Sun.

At this moment, even at this distance scale of the expeditionary fleet, her brightness and the energy radiation that continued to emit could be felt significantly lower.

Within this star system, she rules over a vast amount of interstellar matter, unreservedly throwing blazing light energy across galaxies and the distant, dark and icy cosmic space.

Yuan Haochen silently stared at the star in the sky.

"Leader, the central intelligent navigation system has recalculated the course and fine-tuned it without affecting the overall route, and the expeditionary fleet will pass through this star system accurately in 2.4 months!" Sergei lowered his voice and reported to Hara.

"Okay!"

Yuan Haochen's eyes were still silently staring into the distance.

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This star system has a total of 12 planets and nearly 200 natural satellites, as well as a large number of incompletely undiscovered asteroids and interstellar dust.

Although this is a rich star system, it is a pity that there is not a planet in the habitable zone of the galaxy that can compete with Earth or the planet Gaia.

But even so, Hara decided to let the expeditionary fleet cross the star system.

"Leader, did you really decide to sow primordial life from Europa on that planet?" Don Quixote asked with some hesitation.

"Not bad!" Yuan Haochen nodded.

"But isn't this planet really habitable? I thought you would choose a planet that is habitable and has not yet given birth to life...... Don Quixote added.

"Don Quixote, you don't understand that such an environment is what primitive life from Europa needed." Yuan smiled and waved his hand, "This planet is far away from the star, so the surface of its ocean is all frozen, but its deep sea violent volcanoes, geothermal (the planet has a metallic iron core, geothermal radiation is very strong) and other geological movements have shaped the ocean into a structure quite similar to Europa." In my eyes, this is the best place to sow those primitive lives. ”

"I see, we'll get ready right away!" Don Quixote nodded, then bowed and left.

They were just talking about an icy planet in the star system in front of them.

At this moment, Yuan Haochen remembered some experiences of human exploration of Europa in the Earth era, in the middle of the interstellar migration project.

The phenomena of life in the universe are truly amazing!!

Although they are both nucleic acid/protein organisms that use water as a medium, the cellular structure of Europa is completely different from that on Earth in terms of microscopic structure! This phenomenon proves that Europa's life was born mostly unrelated to the creator, and perhaps Europa's primitive life system was born and evolved over an incomparably long period of time.

When the hapless Europa Earth was attacked by a powerful gamma-ray burst, the already weak life system withered away. Luckily, human civilization managed to preserve some of Europa's spark of life, which it cultivated in Space City, and finally brought it to the planet Gaia.

According to Hara's idea back then, they might be able to be sent back to Europa in the future. And now, the inherent plan has had to make some changes.

As Trunik joked at the time, this time, human civilization has become the savior of Europa!

In Hara's eyes, the environment of this planet is really too similar to Europa in the solar system.

The planet's main composition is also silicate rock, and unlike Europa, which is covered with 100% oceans and ice caps, the planet is half frozen oceans and the other half is frozen permafrost.

Her atmosphere is dense and composed mainly of oxygen. On the planet, in addition to the frozen oceans, the average depth of its oceans reaches more than 8,000 meters.

Although it is far from the star, the planet was first discovered by the scientific team of the Expeditionary Force. Because of the thick ocean ice crust and the frozen land, it is the most reflective and brightest object in the entire star system.

After the exploration of the expeditionary force reconnaissance fleet and the scientific research fleet, it has been basically confirmed that there are no signs of life on the planet. This also avoids the problem of Europa's primitive life becoming an invasive alien species.

"Are you finally looking for a new home for your human neighbors?"

A phantom suddenly appeared beside Yuan Haochen, it was the artificial intelligence Vali who had been added to the expeditionary force and had not appeared for a long time.

"You seem to be interested in these primitive beings, too." Yuan Haochen asked noncommittally.

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