In the interstellar age, starships capable of traveling the sea of stars have acquired multiple meanings, functions, and symbolic forms by virtue of their unique navigation capabilities.

Every civilian starship can create great value.

There are only two ways to create value, transportation, and exploration.

The former uses the interstellar transportation business to flow the commodities and goods required by the interstellar interstellar area, and drives the development of related industries in the corresponding interstellar region.

The latter is a different story, with interstellar explorers exploring the vast expanses of deep space, looking for suitable star systems for exploitation or colonization.

The celestial bodies possessed by these star regions must basically meet the following conditions before they are worthy of the human federation forces to invest resources for development.

The first precondition is the presence of an antimatter fountain in the economic voyage, which determines whether the Federation starship can carry out long-term transportation back and forth, but this only determines the economy of interstellar voyage, and the specific development value still depends on the star sector itself.

There is a need to strike a reasonable balance between range and development reporting, such as the proximity to antimatter resources, which can be developed as long as the conditions are not too bad, because the time and fuel costs of warp speed are extremely low.

And the farther the distance, the higher the self-owned resources and star conditions of the star region, until the calculation is deemed to be of no development value.

The starry sky is vast, there are countless stellar objects, and the Human Federation is limited by the population and the number of starships, so it can only give priority to the development of those star regions that are less difficult to develop or have extremely superior conditions in themselves.

The judgment condition is to confirm whether to establish a colonized planet according to whether there are planets in the galaxy that are suitable for human survival, and the most important physical parameters are star gravity, temperature range, and star activity.

Stars with the right parameters can be used as colonized planets to provide human survival after establishing a suitable ecological zone.

Whether normal colonization can be achieved depends on the overall resource abundance of the star area, the difficulty of mining and other indicators.

This is just the theoretical process of interstellar exploration, in the actual human federation star field, due to the extreme lack of population, even the existing star regions have affected the development speed because of the difficulty of population development, and the era of great colonization has long passed, and the current federation is in the era of high development needs of the colonial star region.

Therefore, the main task of the current interstellar adventure is to explore the high-abundance resource galaxy, which is simply to march towards one unexplored stellar object after another within the economic scope of the colonial star region in the vast sea of stars, and then survey the abundance of star resources to determine whether it meets the development requirements of the colonial star region.

And what makes explorers so fanatical about interstellar exploration is naturally a rich reward.

As soon as a suitable resource system is found, the first thing to do is to own the mining stake of that resource system, as well as a massive resource point reward from the ruling officials of the star sector.

Depending on the resource system's indicators, this reward can range from enough resource points to redeem a medium-sized starship, up to a large starship.

In contrast, it is the steady stream of profits from the mining of resource systems that is the main thing.

Explorers also have naming rights over resource systems to honor both social and economic status, and it only takes one successful expedition to earn a jump and be recorded in the annals of the sector.

And the highest honor for the explorers of the entire Interstellar Federation is that it belongs to a special kind of planet.

Natural Life Planet.

A planet of natural life means the opportunity to give birth to a new intelligent civilization, and even small bacteria on the entire planet are precious biological resources for the Federation.

The value of the planet of natural life is immeasurable, and the precious natural life forms that are born mean infinite possibilities.

Therefore, it is called a treasure star by explorers.

In addition to the home planets of the four member civilizations, the fifth star is known to be the fifth star deduced by the Veika civilization, and the location of the sixth is unknown.

There is no shortcut to the exploration of Baoxing, only the exploration of planets on the spot.

The deep space exploration methods of the Human Federation are constantly deducing the possible existence of the treasure star is unknown, but the starship has returned countless times without finding anything.

If the discovery of resource galaxies is the crown of exploration for interstellar explorers, then the exploration of treasure stars is the process of pursuing the jewel of the crown.

Just like its name, the treasure star is the jewel in the crown, how many explorers have spent their lives in hard exploration, and even after their own disappearance, they still pass on the starship they drive to the next generation of explorers with the same ideals, continuing the vision of interstellar exploration.

These inherited starships will be repaired and replenished for free in any star field, and the entire Interstellar Federation is selflessly providing a lot of resources to support this expedition, and every unknown star means bringing endless wealth to the Federation.

Such a legacy starship is also known as the Star Treasure Maze, which means a starship that seeks the answer to the Arcana of the Stars puzzle.

These interstellar explorers who are chasing treasure stars are called Star Treasure Walkers, driving a maze ship in the endless starry sky, walking thousands of light years, just to explore the treasure of the starry sky, the mysterious treasure star.

This is the highest honor in the field of interstellar exploration, and I don't know which lucky person can win it.

Naturally, the development of the Treasure Star Zone is not restricted by any conditions, because the development conditions of the Federation are unconditional, and the Federation scholars firmly believe that there must still be a treasure star in the vast galaxy region that has not yet been explored.

And Su Zhao's parents are exactly like this, after using artificial means to cultivate his embryo, they embarked on a journey of deep space voyage because of the information of the existence of a treasure star.

The coordinates they want to go to are extremely far away, and they even need to sail across the cantilple, and the estimated time for a single voyage is more than a dozen standard years, plus the time required for expedition activities, so that Su Zhao has not seen his genetic parents at the age of forty, and he was raised by the ruling agency when he was a child, and then provided priority arrangements for starship vocational training courses when he became an adult.

If Su Zhao is still in his hometown, he may be able to see his genetic parents with his own eyes when he is close to 50 years old.

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"Sister Luoshen, the vehicle is ready, we can go!"

Little Hela calls out to Roselle through the ship's message, and her Hela Star has been loaded into the spider mech and secured by the transporter.

"Here, have all the relevant equipment been debugged? What length of safety cable was produced? ”

Roselle stepped out of the Sirius, securely attaching the spidertron to it, and inquiring about Hela's reserve of security cables.

"11km! I have produced 11km of safety steel cables, the fixing bolts and supporting optical cables are ready, and the delivery equipment has been erected at the hole in advance."

"Alright, let's go."

The transport plane took off and brought the two spider mechs to the fissure of the dormant volcano with high radiation contamination.

Here, an open field has been opened up in advance by construction machinery for landing.

Before I actually came to the rift, I really felt that this mountain crack was relatively large compared to the huge volcano, and this was already an extremely huge hole in front of Hela and Roselle.

The delivery mechanism of the hole, which was converted from a transport vehicle, has been firmly fixed to the surface, and several thick rolls of alloy cables have been arranged around it.

"Sister Luoshen, these alloy cables I made are super wear-resistant, and they are also equipped with slide rail devices, don't worry, they will definitely not be at the end of the rock. Come, pick up the mech and we'll go down on an expedition! ”

With that, Hela controls the robot to connect the two of them to a safety cable, which can not only prevent disorientation and falling, but also power the mecha and transmit data in real time through fiber optic cables.

"Little Hela, let's go, my sister will show you if there are any surprises under the ground."

Roselle led the way, stepping into the cave without hesitation, followed by the excited and curious little Hela.

The backs of the two drifted apart, gradually swallowed up by the darkness at the entrance of the cave.

Only the constant drop of cables proved that the two of them were going deeper and deeper along the cavern.

After several kilometers of descending on a slope, the cave route ahead begins to become steeper, and finally even almost vertically towards gravity. The interior of the cave had no view, it was pitch black, and you couldn't see your fingers.

The two of them illuminated the route through the spider mech's headlights, and according to the cave environment generated by the sonic detection and feedback device as a navigation map, the two spider mechs continued to eject the foot fixed cone, directly fixed into the rock, and began the journey of vertical downward passage.

The sound of metal and rock crashing echoed through the passage, the sound of cable slides cutting across the rocks behind him, and the turbulence of the spider mech's cooling system broke the terrifying silence of the passage.

Before coming down, Luo Shen had confirmed that there was no trace of water in this underground passage, and it was very dry, which allowed them to enter directly, saving them a lot of unnecessary trouble.

"Hela, pay attention to the energy response, the radiation intensity index of the channel is decreasing, and we should have fallen out of the lower levels of the high-energy radiation of the dormant volcano.

"Communication report that we have used 5012.3 meters of cable, and a fork in the road has been detected in front of us, Hela, turn on echo detection."

"Okay, sister, I deliberately dismantled a shuttle sonic detector, and also modified it to strengthen its function."

Before Hela came to the fork in the road, the telemetry data on the surface was vague and inaccurate, and she had been scanning the detailed underground channel data through laser scanning and sonar detection, and transmitting it to the surface through fiber optic cables, and finally the shuttle served as the data center, and transmitted directly back to the Sirius host system for refined channel model construction.

Hela's spider armor unfolded a massive acoustic capture device to capture the ultrasonic waveforms that bounced off the inner walls of the tunnel, and the main engine system on the Sirius received the transmitted waveform data and showed the internal structure of the tunnel calculated by the system directly through holographic projection on the bridge.

"Sister, two of these four forks in the road are narrow branches, and they are almost closed at the back."

"The other two have plenty of space, but they can't poke their heads, and the bends are too long, sister, should we go our separate ways?"

Roselle thought about Hela's suggestion for a moment and thought it was feasible.

There are basically no artificial traces of these passages along the way, and according to the rock analysis, this passage is also very stable, and it has existed for an extremely long time, and there should be no safety problems for the two of them to act separately.

"Okay, my carrier is more intelligent offline than yours, I'll explore the more complex channel, so that you can freely explore offline after the cable runs out."

"You're in charge of another passage, let's get moving!"