Chapter 103: Set Sail for an Expedition
Everyone agreed with Vice Minister Cao Chenggang's words.
No matter how powerful the battleship is, it cannot be taken lightly in future voyages. The galaxy is so big that no one knows where the enemy is hiding in the universe.
Once you are away from the solar system and in a hostile galaxy, or facing an unpredictable space disaster, it is extremely important for your faction to support each other.
In accordance with the request of Vice Minister Cao Chenggang, the teams of the Eye of the Star Project carefully discussed and revised the upcoming expeditionary operation, and finally finalized it after each group confirmed that it was correct.
In the sharing and exchange of everyone's open hearts, Yang Yi and Han Weiwei also benefited a lot. Obviously, these people are worthy of the elite of the Star Alliance's security department, and each of them has their own unique opinions.
Of course, Yang Yi was also happy to communicate with these people, after all, this was the last time everyone would gather to discuss. Once the mission begins, the three starships will depart from different times and different routes, and it is a matter of whether there will be a chance to meet again.
The terrible technology of the Maltese, Yang Yi has been taught, while the human race is constantly progressing, the Maltese are definitely not idle.
Centauri's technology hundreds of years ago was developed to the extent that it could destroy the earth, and now after these years of development, the degree of technological advancement can be imagined.
Therefore, Yang Yi looks relaxed on the surface, but in his heart he still maintains awe and humility for the unknown universe.
Since the moment he took off the somersault for the first time in his life, Yang Yi has deeply understood. In this life, he has formed a fate with the distant starry sky and is willing to give himself to the future journey.
Three days later.
Solar system time, the evening of November 6, 2349.
Pointing Lights: Night in Space City is beginning to fall, and the sun is just setting in the distance.
In the No. 5 military harbor closed in Space City, a 50,000-ton starship is quietly moored to the airport, like a swarthy bat.
If it weren't for the protection of the Covenant Special Forces and anchored in the Covenant military harbor, this starship, which has no markings on its body and looks similar to an ordinary civilian medium-sized spaceship, would have been thought of as a warship.
The starship's mooring line connecting to the port of call has been unfastened, and the bow is facing the exit of the port gate.
Yang Yi was already ready, sat in the captain's position in the starship command center in full gear, and began to order the spaceship's artificial intelligence system to give passwords to the robots at each operation station to perform the final system check.
Next to the captain's position, Han Weiwei, who was wearing a white spacesuit, was sitting in the vice-captain's position, also carefully checking the instruments, looking extremely serious and meticulous.
This battleship has been refitted, the real-time communication distance can reach fifteen light years, and the somersault cloud is equipped with the latest artificial wormhole communication system.
After five years of research by all the elite scientists of the Star Alliance, a few months ago, a solar system version of the wormhole communication system was finally created based on the principle of the Maltese space-time cage wormhole communication system.
Unlike the wormhole monitoring system deployed by the Maltese over the earth, the wormhole system developed by the Star Alliance is only used for long-distance real-time holographic communication and does not have a large-scale monitoring function.
Therefore, not only is the technology much simpler, but the energy consumed to maintain communication is also greatly reduced, and judging from the large amount of antimatter energy reserves of the somersault cloud, maintaining its operation for tens of thousands of years will not cause much burden.
With this system, even if you are a few light-years away from the solar system, you don't have to worry about losing contact with the Covenant.
"The somersault is ready, request to leave the port!"
After confirming that everything was correct, Yang Yi sent a request to the Star Alliance Warship Dispatch Center to set sail.
According to the Starry Sky Eye Intelligence Spying Action Plan, the somersault is the last of the three ships to be dispatched this time.
The two interstellar warships of the Eye of the Starry Sky Interstellar Voyage Program, the Dark Light and the Deep Sea Carp, have left the Beacon Space City two days ago, accelerated into the vast universe from different routes, and galloped away in the direction of the Red Dwarf Galaxy Centauri, the target of the target.
If nothing else, the two starships have already accelerated to full speed, sailing at high speed at a speed of 10,000 kilometers per second.
Although it belongs to the same generation of technology, the Starship Beacon is the lightest of the three starships and has the fewest crew.
The other two starships are 200,000 tons in size, each carrying 5,000 intelligence officers and soldiers disguised as refugees. On the signal, there are only Yang Yi and Han Weiwei, no special forces, no armed mechas, and they seem quiet and empty.
"Execute code XM798 and you can leave the port."
A second after sending the request to the Covenant Battleship Dispatch Center, Yang Yi received approval from the Covenant Battleship Dispatch Center.
"At 8:00:01 a.m. on November 6, 2349, Star Time, the somersault cloud departed."
As the system's artificial intelligence reported the exact time to the Covenant Fleet Dispatch Center, the somersault cloud, which was originally quietly moored at the harbor, suddenly erupted with a blue tail flame from its tail antimatter engine, accelerating into the dark cosmic star sea ahead.
Yang Yi sat in the position of the captain of the Somersault, feeling the slight vibration caused by the acceleration of the antimatter engine, and there was a thrill of excitement in his heart.
At this moment, Yang Yi's excitement is self-evident. After experiencing the failure of mankind's first interstellar expedition, the war in which mankind faced a powerful enemy and was slaughtered by others, and experienced the struggle and struggle of mankind in the river of time for more than 200 years, he finally started a new expedition.
Only this time humanity is no longer weak and no longer arrogant. Humanity has the capital of its own interstellar expedition.
The starship accelerated very quickly, and in just a few seconds, it accelerated from its initial speed to 3,000 kilometers per second, far away from the Indicator Light Space City.
"Goodbye, Earth!
Bye! Beacon Space City! ”
Yang Yi muttered silently in his heart, glanced at the coordinates of the earth on the holographic projection, and saluted the earth on the holographic screen with a standard military salute.
Han Weiwei, who was in the position of deputy captain next to her, also stood up silently and said her final goodbye to the earth and the guiding light like Yang Yi.
She knew very well in her heart that at this time, she followed Yang Yi into the deep universe, and the day of returning to the earth was far away. Even in this life, there may be no return date.
But she has no regrets and is willing to do so. When I thought of meeting Yang Yi more than 300 years ago, I was just a pure machine, and it was a product created by humans like the somersault cloud. And now, he is not only a living person, but also finds his love.
Thinking of this, Hang Weiwei glanced at Yang Yi beside her affectionately. The man in front of her is her master, and she is all her life.
Without his memories of her, she would not have been cloned and resurrected by the Maltese, nor would she have been transformed into a life of true meaning, and if it weren't for him recovering her memories, she would have been just a puppet of a living body that would never have understood the true meaning of life.
From this point of view, she even has to thank the somersault cloud in the first place, and thank the Maltese Biological Center.
During the high-speed voyage of the Somersault Cloud, Yang Yi also felt Han Weiwei's affectionate gaze, and her heart was also full of emotion.
As before, driving the latest Somersault Cloud, everything is different than before.
Different ships, different situations, different people.
Three hundred years ago, I was alone, although I was accompanied by beautiful women, but I was separated by the gap between man and machine, and some were just lonely and lonely.
Now the starship that has embarked on the expedition again has been heart-to-heart, and it flies like wings. If this was fate, he would be willing to accept such an arrangement. Even if he dies in the starry sky ahead, he will not regret it.
The starship was still accelerating, and at the same time as Yang Yi was pondering, the lights of the Blue City on the Lagrange point flashed from the starship's holographic projection area, and the starship had already flown 500,000 kilometers.
At the moment when looking at the blue city, from the peaceful night of the city, Yang Yi blessed the future of the city.
"Weiwei, let's eat something first."
Yang Yi stood up from the captain's position and asked Han Weiwei softly.
"Let's go, Yang Yi, I'm also a little hungry."
Han Weiwei stood up from the position of deputy captain and said gently.
The two walked out of the bridge command center and walked towards the elevator room, apparently they were not worried about the piloting of the somersault cloud, and confidently handed over the piloting rights to the starship artificial intelligence.
After stepping onto the elevator, Yang Yi pressed the floor where the restaurant was located, and the elevator began to move towards the center of the restaurant on the third floor at high speed.
A few seconds later.
The elevator stopped on the third floor, and the two stepped out of the elevator one after another and appeared at the door of the dining room.
After seeing the scale of the restaurant clearly, not only Yang Yi was shocked, but Hang Weiwei couldn't help but cry out in surprise.
The scale of the restaurant and the variety of dishes simply exceeded the expectations of the two. In addition to food from all over the earth, drinks and fruits, as well as specialties from planets in the solar system and space cities. It's dazzling and dizzying.
Obviously, the Star Alliance has done its homework in optimizing the living environment of the warship.
Although there are only two people on the Somersault Cloud, Yang Yi and Han Weiwei, it has not reduced the type and amount of food in the restaurant. In addition to meeting their needs for long-term flights in space, it also leaves enough weight for possible rescue operations in the future.
The rations of the other two starships that wanted to leave early were also quite surplus. In this way, once you encounter the survivors of the nine groups of starships that were discharged before, you can also go all out to rescue them, and you don't have to worry about the tragedy of not being able to save people because of the fear of supplies.
The two glanced at how big the restaurant was and how many seats there were, and they had to admire the Star Alliance's thoughtfulness.
Since there are so many seats in the dining room, there should be a lot of facilities such as bunks for rest on other floors, not only for the captain's and co-captain's positions.
From this point of view, although the somersault cloud currently only has Yang Yi and Han Weiwei, it is completely designed according to a warship carrying thousands of people and can function as a personnel transport ship.
After choosing their favorite dishes and staple foods, Yang Yi and Hang Weiwei sat face-to-face in the special box for the captain and vice captain, and began to enjoy the first dinner on the voyage.