Chapter 11: Evacuation of Star Clusters
"Forget it, it doesn't matter. "Zhou Xin waved his hand," Zhou Xin waved his hand, "I'll talk about this later, as long as she doesn't make big trouble, it doesn't matter, now let's talk about business."www.biquge.info β
Speaking of this, the two of them fell silent at the same time, glanced at each other, and Zhou Xin asked, "Why didn't you say it, didn't you tell Atlas just now that you had something serious to tell me?" β
"Uh-" Dart was stunned for a moment, "Actually, I just talked to Atlas casually. β
"......" Zhou Xin was speechless for a while, then he thought for a moment and said, "The program just now said that we will stay in this hyperspace for thirty days, and now it is only the eleventh day, and now the Voyager has no way to repair it for the time being, so let's talk about what we can do in the next twenty days." β
Dart thought for a moment and replied, "We don't seem to have any special arrangements here other than the Great Festival, what are you going to do in the next twenty days?" β
Zhou Xin shook his head, "I haven't thought about it yet, I'll go discuss it with those Thunder Star people in a while and see what I can do next." β
Seeing that Zhou Xin mentioned those Thunder Star people, Dart nodded, "Then you go, I will also go to see if the clansmen have any problems, and go by the way to prepare for the big festival." Zhou Xin nodded and left Dart's room......
Back in the command module, Zhou Xin told Spred about the information he had obtained from Atlas, but he only briefly told him about the time of going out and the evacuation of the star cluster, as for Gruns, he didn't feel the need to tell Spred, and he also concealed the existence of Atlas's internal procedures. After listening to Zhou Xin's story, Spred obviously showed a relieved expression, and then spoke: "Now I finally know when we can leave this place," he thought for a moment and continued to ask, "There are still twenty days left, what can we do during this time?" It seems that the repairs of the Voyager are no longer going on, right? β
"Voyager, how many resources are left on the ship now?" Zhou Xin asked.
"There are still more than 80% of the energy, 90% of the water resources in circulation, and the food reserves are normal. There is still 12% of the organic material reserves, and this resource can be slowly replenished from the ecological cabin, so there is no big problem for the time being. The lowest reserves are all kinds of alloys, only about 5% is left, of which titanium alloy consumption is the largest, and now the stock of titanium alloy on the ship is less than 500 tons, which is at an extremely dangerous level and urgently needs to be replenished in large quantities. "It is recommended to halt all titanium-consuming repair works on board the ship to prevent unforeseen circumstances." β
"Are all the shell repairs done?" Zhou Xin thought for a moment and asked.
"Most of the parts have been completed, and only a few cracks have not been repaired." The Voyager replied, "But the damage is mostly only temporarily repaired, and there is a high chance that it will be damaged again." The ship needs to be repaired in more detail on a suitable resource planet. β
"I see." Zhou Xin nodded, "Then the next repair work that requires the use of titanium alloy can be suspended first, and we will find a way when we leave the hyperspace." β
"Understood."
After listening to the Voyager's report, Zhou Xin turned to Spred and spread his hands, "It seemsβas ifβthere really isn't anything important to do." β
"......" Spred was a little speechless, but then he was relieved, he learned from Zhou Xin and spread his hands, "Okay, anyway, it's only ten days, so it's a vacation." β
"Also, I've been busy for so long, it's time to take this opportunity to take a good vacation." Zhou Xin nodded, "However, we still have one more thing to do before the holiday." As he spoke, he pulled his communicator out of his pocket.
Connecting the communicator to the console, Zhou Xin commanded, "Voyager, there is a star map in the communicator, extract this star map." β
A few seconds later, a star map appeared on the big screen in front of Zhou Xin, and at the same time, the star map was accompanied by dense text, but these words were all in Atlantean now.
Zhou Xin asked the Voyager to hide the text for the time being, leaving only the location of the galaxy, and after processing, he and Spred looked at the star map on the big screen seriously.
"That's where we're going, everybody come and see." Zhou Xin looked at the star map and said loudly to everyone in the command cabin.
After the text on the star chart is removed, the stars marked on the star map are clearly visible. Zhou Xin and they saw that there were not many stars depicted on the star map, but there were quite a few for them. Zhou Xin made a preliminary estimate that the position of about 300 to 500 stars marked on this star map is a small open star cluster, and from the star map, the brightness of the stars of this star cluster is generally not high, although the specific data is not known for the time being, but it is estimated that the size of the star will not be too large, basically it should be at the same level as the sun.
After looking at this star map for a long time, Spred frowned and said, "Although there are not many stars in this star cluster, it is still too many for us, isn't there a more accurate destination coordinates?" β
Zhou Xin looked at it carefully for a while and then replied: "Atlas didn't tell me more detailed coordinates, but just said that our destination is this star cluster, maybe there will be destination information in the star map." With that, he asked the Voyager, "Traveler, is there any information about the destination of the hyperspace device or anything like that in the hidden data?" β
"Your Excellency Captain, please wait, there is a lot of information and data, and this ship is in the process of being translated." The Voyager replied, "However, we have not seen any information from the translated materials so far. β
"What is written in that material?" Spred asked.
"It's all data for every star in the cluster." Voyager replied, "It's all basic information about some stars, including star size, mass, orbital period, orbiting planets, and data about these orbiting planets." β
"Do you have data for every star on the star map?" Zhou Xin asked suspiciously.
"Every star has it, and every star has the same amount of detail." The Voyager continued to answer.
This answer surprised Zhou Xin a little, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was also expected, so he said: "It's good to have detailed information, so that even if we don't know which star we are going to, we can still know our specific location by comparing the information of the star after we arrive." β
"There's nothing wrong with that." Spred's tone was a little hesitant, "But if we don't know the exact location of the exit, will there be a problem when we leave hyperspace?" β
"What could go wrong?" Zhou Xin didn't have Spred's worries, "According to the density of stars on the star map, even if we don't happen to appear near the stars, the warp engine will take us over." β
Hearing Zhou Xin's words, Spred wanted to speak and stopped, he had always had a bad premonition about the exit from hyperspace, but he couldn't tell what this bad premonition was. After thinking about it carefully, he also felt that he was too careful, so he did not continue on this topic.
At this time, Voyager had already translated all the information attached to the star map, and under Zhou Xin's instructions, it hid the specific information of each star and retained the overall information of the star cluster.
Zhou Xin and the others saw that the shape of this open star cluster was close to a perfect circle, with a diameter of about ten light years, including 419 stars, and basically there was a star in the range of about one light year on average, and 80% of the stars were surrounded by planets of different sizes. Although the specific information of the planets has not been shown for the time being, this is enough to surprise Zhou Xin, there are so many open star clusters of planets, he has seen it for the first time.
Zhou Xin couldn't help but ask, "Voyager, do we have a star cluster similar to this open star cluster in our database?" β
"Nope." Voyager replied in the negative, "In the ship's database, the data of the most similar star clusters to this star cluster are only less than 50% similar, and the similarity is only on the stars, and the difference on the planets is even greater." β
Suddenly, Zhou Xin felt a little strange, "The size of this star cluster is not very small in the Milky Way, and we haven't found it until now." After thinking about it, he was relieved again, "Forget it, this star cluster may be obscured by something, and it is normal that it is not observed." β
So Zhou Xin paid attention to the star map on the screen, and threw away the components of the data, the depiction of the star map itself was already very detailed. Zhou Xin asked the Voyager to pull the camera to the vicinity of one of the stars, and they saw that the planets near the stars did not stop at a fixed position from the star, but orbited around the star in a specific elliptical orbit, and it seemed that the Atlanteans even calculated the specific orbit of the planet. Zhou Xin asked the Voyager to continue to observe another star, and after looking at a few in a row, Zhou Xin found that it was not only the first star, but all the star systems where there were planets, the planets were all moving, and Zhou Xin even saw something that seemed to be like an asteroid belt in a star system with five planets, which made Zhou Xin a little surprised. However, after looking at the detailed data of this star recorded by the Atlanteans, he realized that the Atlanteans did suspect that there was an asteroid belt in this place, but they were not very sure, and they marked it on the star map just to facilitate better observation in the future.
After looking at a few stars, Zhou Xin turned his head to Spred and said: "It seems that we have no way to rest in the next ten days, I didn't expect the Atlanteans to have such detailed information, although they have already sorted it out, but we still need to sort it out in our own way." β
Spred sighed, "I was hoping to have a good rest for a few days, but it looks like I'm in the soup again." β
"It won't take that long." Zhou Xin comforted, "The main work can be left to the Voyager, you just need to arrange some people to sort out some of the information we need now." β
"I understand." Spred nodded, then continued, "The location of the stars in the cluster, as well as some planets in the habitable zone that may have life, should be enough. β
Zhou Xin thought for a moment, "There are also some obviously potentially dangerous locations, and the methods we can take to deal with them after entering these places, so that we don't get caught off guard when we leave hyperspace." β
"No problem." Spred agreed, and then he continued, "If there are no other questions, then I'll start sorting out these materials, and I want to rest for a few days after finishing them." β
"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded, "That's all for the time being, if there are new questions, I'll talk about it later." β
"I hope there won't be any other problems." Spred shrugged, "That's enough information for me to sort through for a few days." With that, he turned and sat down in his seat.
"Voyager, that's all your work for the past few days, organize the star map and store it in the database, and then this star map should be very useful." Seeing Spred sit down, Zhou Xin also instructed the Voyager.
"Understood."
As soon as the Voyager's voice fell, its voice rang out again, but this time it sounded a warning, "Your Excellency, Captain, a robot that is not part of the sequence has been detected approaching the hibernation pod,
Hearing the Voyager's report, Zhou Xin reacted in an instant, that robot should be Atlas, and he couldn't help but be a little nervous when he heard that she was approaching the hibernation module. Zhou Xin hurriedly asked, "Where is that robot?" β
"It's at the hatch, ready to open the hatch."
"How can it be so fast?" Zhou Xin was surprised, "Isn't there a lot of monitoring on the way to the sleeping cabin?" I didn't see anything. β
"This robot has high permissions, it has forged the surveillance video, if this ship hadn't found that the video transmitted back had an error of less than half a second like when you went to the frozen planet before, then it would not have discovered the abnormality of this robot." The Voyager replied.
Spred apparently heard the anomaly in the hibernation pod, and he spoke, "Don't worry about how that AI bypassed the surveillance system just yet, it's imperative that you stop her actions quickly." β
"Voyager, can you get in touch with that robot?" Zhou Xin hurriedly asked.
"Contact failed, the robot blocked the ship's request for contact, and she's now opened the door to the dormant pod......"