As far as Su Zhao could see, around the Simen space station was a dense standby fleet, and he saw that many brand-new combat units that should have just stepped out of the production line directly entered the warp speed navigation state through a floating annular structure at the expansion end of the four-door structure.

This wormhole-like navigation device is the Federation's technical term for an open space warping device, often referred to as the Stargate.

It's just that Kunlun's interstellar gate is definitely ahead of the Federation in technology, and I don't know how high the warp speed level of this Xingxi Straight Gate is.

This device can help interstellar voyage units to increase warp speed, the principle is to open a warp speed space with an extremely high expansion rate in advance, similar to a slingshot effect, and its fixed facility attributes naturally determine that the warp engine warp power is much higher than that of the starship of the same level, with the help of the stargate, the maximum warp speed development level of the Federation has reached the edge of level 9, but the maximum warp speed of conventional navigation is still level 8.

The most puzzling thing Su Zhao had seen now was the crystal folding method that connected him from the surface of the Straw Star to the Simen Space Station.

This technology, like the String Engine technology used in Kunlun's charging, was completely beyond his knowledge.

"Mu, can you explain the principle of the Folding Crystal Phase-Space Teleportation Technology?"

"How the hell was I teleported directly to the space station, with this kind of technology, isn't Kunlun's unit delivery efficiency terrifying?"

"This folding technology involves the comprehensive application of a number of technologies in Kunlun."

"Your prosthetic fuselage has used crystal energy resonance technology, spatial stabilization technology, and spatial feature punctuation reading ability in the transformation process, which can match Kunlun's folding technology to directly complete the space replacement."

"At present, this technology can only be used in the space field where the spatial characteristic parameters are aligned in Kunlun, and the folding crystal is one of the important devices for alignment and refragiling."

"It has wireless energy transmission, space riveting, and fluctuating chord resonance technology."

"The basic principle is to make the two spaces that need to be replaced match and resonate consistently at the level of the cosmic string, and then the two spaces can be regarded as the same existence.

"Then, the corresponding spatial parameter replacement work is carried out to remove the assimilation state of spatial resonance, and the spatial displacement can be completed, which is the theory related to the folding technology you asked."

“……”

"Forget it, I don't need to explain it further, I guess I can't understand it, it's too profound."

Su Zhao really overestimated his knowledge level, Mu explained the basic theory of Kunlun's folding technique for a long time, he just understood that Kunlun used a certain technology to replace the two spaces to achieve the effect of spatial teleportation, but other than that, he didn't understand it at all.

In particular, there are many proper nouns of Kunlun technology at the back, and after being translated into the human language of the Federation that he can understand, it is even more awkward and obscure.

"When can we go to the ZR Galaxy, by the way, Mu, bring up the star map, and I'll see where we are in the Andromeda Galaxy."

Andromeda, as the standard spiral galaxy, is the largest river system in this group of galaxies, and its span is larger than that of the Milky Way, with a terrifying diameter of 220,000 light years, which means that even a nine-level warp would take more than 150 standard years to complete.

However, this is only a simple theoretical calculation of warp speed for interstellar navigation, and interstellar navigation still has to calculate the course, and it is impossible to maintain a full-level warp speed state all the time during the long voyage, and when approaching the gravitational circle of the star, it is necessary to reduce the speed, or even exit the warp speed navigation state to complete the course correction.

Warp speed is only relatively faster than the speed of light by space expansion, and it is still affected by various fundamental forces during navigation, and gravity is the most critical point, which is why the planning of galaxy navigation routes is still very important.

Inside the cabin

The mixed reality scene changes rapidly, turning into a miniature stereoscopic model of the river system, with a cursor on it indicating the location of the straw star.

It was an inconspicuous location on the edge of the river system, and the destination of their trip, the Zr system, ascended slightly along the same rotation into the constellation Andromeda, and the distance from this place was about 37 light-years away.

According to the voyage time information obtained by Su Zhao from Kunlun, the exact time to reach the periphery of the ZR galaxy and enter the effective gravitational range circle of its main sequence star is 2 hours and 43 minutes.

After a simple conversion, Su Zhao was able to calculate the warp speed level of Kunlun's navigation technology, which looked like around the NP4 level.

"It's really, quite fast!"

The formula for calculating the warp speed level is that after entering the 9th level of warp speed, each decimal point is an exponential increase.

Not to mention that the Federation does not yet have the technology to stably carry out a level 9 warp speed, even the existing level 8 warp speed can only be achieved by large special starships.

There is an inherent difficulty in improving the speed of warp.

That is, first of all, it needs to have a sufficiently high energy density as the energy supply facility for the warp engine, otherwise, the overall mass of the starship will be too large, and more energy will be consumed when the warp alignment of the ship is carried out.

Under the condition of fixed energy density and energy, the balance point of the ship's mass and warp speed presents a fixed range, which is the design size during the federal voyage.

And small starships like the Sirius naturally limit their range by reducing the warp speed level, so as to achieve fast short-range navigation within the star field.

The effective range of the Federation star field itself is usually within 100 light years, but the distance between the star fields will have a range limit of thousands of light years, because only the existence of a stable antimatter fountain can be said to determine the basis for the development of a star field.

Such large and stable antimatter fountains are usually spaced thousands of light-years apart.

However, there are some other rarer examples.

Therefore, when Kunlun Civilization came up, it directly showed Su Zhao the speed driving ability of NP4 with a warp speed of 9.9999, which directly stunned him!

NP4 warp speed, without considering energy supply and inter-river navigation technology, only takes about 12 years to cross a distance of 2.5 million light years and reach the galaxy where Su Zhao was born.

In other words, if Kunlun is still powered by technology in the ultra-deep space area between the river systems, Su Zhao is conditioned to return directly to the galaxy.

12 years of sailing time seems like a lot, but for Su Zhao, who has undergone transformation technology to adapt to dormant voyages, it is just a relatively long-term hibernation.

In the era of interstellar exploration, in order to find those antimatter resource points, it was not unheard of for the Federation to drift between the stars at a lower level of warp speed for hundreds of years.

The most amazing thing is that in the past hundred years, there are really some starships of the Federation that rely on higher warp speed levels to catch up with the records of those pioneers who are dormant in the interstellar world.

Su Zhao looked at the changing star map, from the location of the Hope Galaxy, to the periphery, it seems that the star map is still being updated, according to Mu's explanation, this is Kunlun's revision of the Andromeda Galaxy's star map evolution data in the past million years.

Thinking about it, he searched the galaxy.

It's just that in the simulated image of this galaxy's star map, in Su Ming's limited knowledge of star maps, except for a few very obvious cantilever arms, he can't see anything else.

Not to mention finding the area where the Federation civilization is located, it is a lot of small points of light, if he can find it, Su Zhao will suspect that he has become a non-human intelligent machine.

"Pastoral, help me mark some of the characteristic stars of the Milky Way, such as Cepheid variables."

"It's been labeled."

"Sue, are you trying to find your own home in the galaxy's star map?"

"yes, can you help me?"

"I've helped you lock the general area of the cantilever, but the specific star locks, please forgive me for not being able to do anything."

"Kunlun also does not have a fully detailed star map of the Milky Way, and this star map data is the historical data obtained from Kunlun's deep space exploration a long time ago."

"I would like to remind you that the time shift and the distance between the river systems show that the star map you see now has a 3.7 million year time offset from the structural deviation of the real Milky Way."

"So, by the way, Mu, if you want to really sail between river systems, what technical problems need to be solved?"

Yes, it seems that it is basically impossible to obtain actual information about the Milky Way, and since it is definitely impossible to go back for a while, it is also excellent to know how to go back.

"The first point is that there needs to be ultra-deep space energy supply technology."

"Kunlun doesn't have it either?"

"No, Kunlun's existing technology to realize the long-distance voyage of the river system is limited, and it is not the long-distance technology in the actual sense, because it is difficult to replenish energy in ultra-deep space."

"What else?"

"If this indicator can be met for ultra-high energy density energy, then the first requirement can be ignored."

This Su Zhao can understand that as long as the energy density level is high enough, then there is no matter about energy supply.

"Eh, by the way, Mu, I've heard of a theory that the mass of antimatter is also in a negative state, so is it possible to reduce the mass of the starship and reduce the restrictions on long-distance voyages by carrying enough antimatter fuel?"

"I thought this theory was quite interesting at the time, antimatter and the positive mass of the starship itself cancel each other, and even said that if high-density heavy particle antimatter can be used as a storage form, the starship may have the hope of achieving negative mass sailing, in this case, is it a breakthrough in the application of this technology, but also to achieve high warp speed level river system voyages?"

“…… Sue, do you have the impression that the theory of the Federation has come true? ”

"I don't think so."

"This involves a blind spot in your knowledge, the mass of antimatter is a negative mathematical concept, and under macroscopic conditions, after the annihilation reaction between antimatter of absolute mass and positive matter, it is indeed transformed into a pure energy form without mass."

"But in the practical application of the macroscopic universe, the masses of positive and antimatter are superimposed and meet the mathematical theory of value addition conditions."

"The negative mass of antimatter is also affected by the fundamental forces of the universe, which is a necessary prerequisite for its exploitation, transportation and use."

"The storage and transportation of negative matter particles generally uses magnetic confinement technology, which still has various normal mechanical characteristics, and the work of antimatter will be expressed in the form of pure magnetic field energy."

"The more antimatter particles are confined, the power of the confined magnetic field also increases."

"At the same time, warp alignment of antimatter fuels when traveling at warp speeds requires more energy than positive matter of the same mass."

"This series of reasons, that is, the reason why the theory cannot be realistically realized, this theoretical error, can be called the mathematical negative mass paradox."

"I see, I understood, I heard them blow with noses and eyes at the time, I thought it was true."

"But what can be done to increase the density of energy reactions?"

"You just said it, and this is a correct place for this theory."

"High-density heavy particle antimatter?"

"Correct."