Chapter 21: Strange Galaxies
"More than 30% of the parts of the ship have been damaged to varying degrees, of which about 13% of the parts are seriously damaged and need to be repaired immediately. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Finally, the Voyager concluded.
Hearing the final summary of the Voyager, Zhou Xin looked as usual, as early as when he was in hyperspace, he was ready to find planetary supplies after leaving hyperspace, and this accident only made this matter more urgent.
Zhou Xin assessed the current situation in his heart, and then asked, "How far away is it from that star now?" Has the external footage of the spaceship been restored? Let's see what's going on outside. β
"Now the ship is about a day away from that star." Voyager replied, "Most of the spacecraft's external monitoring probes have been completely damaged due to direct exposure to the stars, and only a few on the left side are still functional. Please wait a moment, the machine is adjusting the attitude of the spacecraft to point the camera in the direction of the star. β
At the same time as the Voyager adjusted the attitude of the spacecraft, Zhou Xin asked Spred and Dart, who had been listening to him for a long time, "What do you think about the current situation?" β
The two of them looked at each other, and then Spred spoke first: "I think the top priority is to find a planet for resource replenishment as Voyager said, and then repair the spaceship, with the current state of Voyager, it is estimated that it will be difficult to maintain a long flight." β
"Hopefully, there will be planets around this star, so that we can directly resupply, if there are no planets around this star, then we will be in trouble." Dart added on the side.
Zhou Xin nodded, and at this time, the Voyager had already completed the adjustment of its posture. However, because the large screen had been completely damaged under the previous strong light, the Voyager could only show the situation outside the spacecraft on the screen of the command platform in front of Zhou Xin, so Spred and Dart, who were standing next to him, took two steps forward and walked to the front of the command platform, leaned over and looked at the screen in front of Zhou Xin with Zhou Xin.
In the very middle of the screen, there is a bright spherical object, which is the culprit that caused such damage to the Voyager - an ordinary star that, from the screen, looks like the Sun and has nothing special. Voyager came to the same conclusion, "Based on our position, and the size of the star in the shot, the star is about 15% larger in diameter than the Sun, and morphologically, the star is an ordinary yellow dwarf in a stable state." Other more detailed information can only be obtained by sending a probe from the ship. β
After glancing at the stars on the screen for a few moments, Zhou Xin opened his mouth and asked, "Can the probe be launched?" Was it destroyed by the accident just now? β
"About a third of the probes lost in the accident just now are stored in the warehouse on the right side near the outer deck, and the rest of the probes are in normal condition and ready to be launched."
"Then let's launch all the probes." Zhou Xin instructed, "Carefully explore this star system to see if there are any planets nearby." β
"Understood."
After launching the probe, all that remained was to wait for them to send a message, and then Zhou Xin paid attention to the situation of the crew on the ship, and found that all the people who were still unconscious had been sent to the medical cabin for proper treatment, and he was a little relieved. After thinking about it, he said: "Voyager, send a robot to clean up the damaged parts of the ship first, and then discharge the repair order according to the urgency of the damaged parts, which is also convenient for future repairs." After explaining the incident, he focused his attention on the accident.
Zhou Xin turned to Dart and asked, "Why do we appear so close to the star when we leave hyperspace, is it a problem that arises in the process of jumping in hyperspace?" β
Dart was also at a loss, "I don't know, it's also the first time I've experienced the process of hyperspace jumping. He then asked the other Atlantean researchers in the command module, "Do you know why?" β
The people all shook their heads, and Tarst replied, "We don't know much about hyperspace, but we only know a little about the basic properties of space, and we don't know very well why this jump is such a problem. β
At this time, Zhou Xin suddenly remembered, "Atlas, are you there?" I have a question for you. β
"Brother Captain, I'm here." Atlas's voice rang out from the command cabin, "What's the matter?" Her tone had completely returned to normal, and her previous crying voice was completely gone.
So Zhou Xin repeated the question just now.
After listening to Zhou Xin's question, Atlas didn't answer this question immediately, and after a pause, she replied in a serious tone: "It should be that when Grandpa Gurans set the target, he set the target range of the jump too big, including the range near this star, and the gravitational force near the star is relatively strong, and the distorted space is just suitable for the opening of the hyperspace door, so it just happened to appear here." β
"Are you sure it's not the hyperspace door that is in the wrong place?" Spred asked, skeptically.
"Unlikely." Atlas replied, "Although I haven't experienced a few hyperspace jumps, the set target point should not deviate, and the first time we made a hyperspace jump, we still appeared directly near Jupiter, and there were no problems." β
However, Spred's suspicion reminded Zhou Xin, "Don't we have a star map left by the Atlanteans?" Traveler, compare the stars around the ship to see where we are now. β
"Aligningβ" the Voyager reported, "an offset adjustment is underway." β
"Gee, you're too slow." Atlas's voice then came out, "First thisβand then thisβ" After a pause, her voice continued, "Look, that's fine. β
Then, Zhou Xin saw that the external camera that was originally on the screen was pushed away by a little girl, and then she reached out and pulled another picture in, which was the star map left by the Atlanteans they had seen before.
The little girl on the screen was pulling the star map with a sigh, and said in her mouth, "Little sister is really stupid, I don't know when I will get the result according to her method." To Zhou Xin's surprise, what came out of her mouth was not Atlantisian, but very authentic Chinese, and there was no jerky feeling at all, as if Zhou Xin said it.
"When did you learn it?" Zhou Xin didn't care to look at the star map and asked in surprise.
"Hehe, they're amazing." Atlas said proudly, "People have already learned it from the database, but they are not very proficient in it before, and for this, they have practiced for two days, and the language you use is really complicated." β
......Seeing that Atlas had mastered the Chinese in only two days, Zhou Xin was a little speechless, but thinking that she was an artificial intelligence, he was only a little surprised and recovered. Seeing the little girl on the screen looking up and begging for praise, Zhou Xin smiled slightly and casually praised Atlas, and the little girl on the screen immediately showed a happy expression. Then, he focused his attention on the star map on the screen.
At first, the screen showed a complete star map, but the screen on the command platform was too small for Zhou Xin to see where the Voyager was now, and it was only under Atlas's guidance that everyone found a red marker at the edge of the cluster.
"Zoom in a little and let's see what's going on around this star." Zhou Xin said to Atlas.
The little girl on the screen moved her finger, and then the star map on the screen began to zoom in, and the scene near the star system where the Voyager was located suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the whole picture of this star system, in the star map left by the Atlanteans, they clearly marked four orbits around this star, which means that there are at least four planets around this star. Among these four orbits, the three inner orbits are similar to the star systems that Zhou Xin saw before, basically on the same plane, but the outermost orbit is very strange, its orbital plane is basically perpendicular to the other three orbits.
Everyone was a little surprised to see this orbital arrangement, and Spred said uncertainly, "The outermost planet - it should be a wandering planet captured by this star-"
Zhou Xin nodded, "It seems that it should be, otherwise it wouldn't have formed such a strange orbit, Voyager, send a probe to explore this planet." After thinking about it, he added, "It's not just this orbit, let the probe focus on the space near these four orbits, and the planets we are looking for should be near these four orbits." β
After receiving a response from the Voyager, Zhou Xin and the others turned their attention to the other three normal orbits. After looking at it for a while, Zhou Xin discovered a strange phenomenon.
He stretched out his hand and pointed to the orbit closest to the star, and asked, "What does the mark on this orbit mean, did you see it when you collected this star map data before?" β
Following the direction of Zhou Xin's finger, Spred and Dart looked and found that there were two obvious dots drawn on the opposite two positions of the track, and there was a mark drawn on the dot, and this kind of dot did not appear in the other three tracks, not even on the anomalous track.
The robot controlled by Atlas was not in the command module, so she couldn't see the place pointed out by Zhou Xin, so she asked repeatedly, "Where and where?" Let me see. The little girl on the screen is constantly jumping anxiously on the screen.
"The orbit closest to the star." Zhou Xin opened his mouth to remind, "What do those two dots on the track mean?" β
"Is that it?" The little girl stretched out her finger and pointed to the dots on the track, and after receiving Zhou Xin's affirmative answer, Atlas spent a few seconds searching the database, and then replied in confusion, "There is no information about these two dots in the database." β
"Don't have it in the database?" Zhou Xin was a little surprised, "Could it be that they marked it wrong when they marked it at the beginning?" Atlas: Did you know? β
"I don't know." The little girl on the screen held her chin with her hands and showed a thoughtful expression, "I don't know when the grandpas drew this star map." β
"Since you don't know, then leave it alone." Spred said beside him, "Anyway, there should be a planet in this location, as for what is abnormal about this planet, we will wait for the report of the probe when the time comes, and we can't think of any results here." β
"Okay." Zhou Xin nodded, and then instructed, "Voyager, let the probe explore the planets in this orbit as well." Since there are such marks on the star chart, there should be something unusual about the planets in this orbit. β
"Understood."
Raising his head, Zhou Xin said to Spred and Dart next to him: "The next thing is to wait for the news of the probe." He sighed slightly and said to himself, "I hope I can find a rocky planet in these four orbits, otherwise it will be bad." Then he went on to say to the two, "Do you want to go and see the others in the living pod?" I'm going to go to the hibernation pod too, and I'm a little uncomfortable if I don't see them with my own eyes. β
Spred and Dart nodded at the same time, and Dart spoke: "I'm going now, I just heard from Atlas that Christy doesn't seem to have woken up yet, and I'm a little worried about her." As he spoke, a worried look appeared on his face.
"I'm going to see how the others are doing, too." Spred continued, "Our people are generally weak, and I don't know what happened to those people in the living pod. β
"Sister Christy has woken up." Atlas interjected, "I'm still a little weak, though. β
"That's good." Dart's expression was relieved, "I'll also go and see the situation of the others." As he spoke, he walked out of the command cabin, and Spred walked out behind him, and seeing this, Zhou Xin also followed.
Coming to the vicinity of the sleeping cabin, Zhou Xin saw two combat robots standing at the door of the sleeping cabin, and walked up to the robots, Zhou Xin opened his mouth and asked, "How is the situation now?" β
"Detectors and engineering robots are inspecting every dormant unit, and now the inspection is halfway done." One of the combat robots replied.
Nodding to the battle robot, Zhou Xin walked into the sleeping pod......