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As the only reconnaissance ship of the original R19 fleet and now the Iridium United Empire Space Force in this universe, Shuhei and his crew have been away from the Holy Falcon and Ruyi City and have been sailing in space for almost a month.

InSight's main reconnaissance mission is to reconnoiter in the solar system, and although it has not sent its crew to land on celestial objects, it has a large number of drone scouts that can withstand harsh environments, and InSight has gathered more than enough intelligence. Field expeditions are naturally much stronger than inferences from astronomical observations on Earth, and the intelligence sent back by InSight has overturned many observations on Earth.

InSight's exploration of the planets of the solar system is by no means complete. In fact, a swarm of drones dropped on each planet, and InSight jumped to the next planet. Basically, the more useful information gathered is what useful resources are available on each planet for Iridium.

For the survey of star systems, a month is not a long time, that is, to understand the approximation. After completing the exploration of the asteroids Pluto and Charon, Captain Shuhei turned off the phase jump engine, turned on the warp engine for the first time, and crossed the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Nebula at a speed higher than Wrap 5.4 to the nearest star system to the Centaur Alpha System.

This is the three-body galaxy that countless human beings who look up at the starry sky but are bound to the earth fantasize about!

Long before it set off for Centaur Alpha, InSight had already explored the three-star system with astronomical observations far beyond Earth's. All reconnaissance missions have a few cores: the search for habitable planets and resource planets; discovering anomalies that Iridium has never seen before and are valuable for research; Encounter different cosmic civilizations.

Although the population of Iridium is currently small, after the establishment of the Star Federation, the Star Federation can spread the population of the Earth into other systems and establish new administrative star colonies. For Iridium Führer Bai Zhongqi, finding a habitable planet now outweighs the other two core tasks.

The R19 fleet has not brought all the original technology of Iridium, and it still needs to work hard to make up for the technology tree, even if a new anomaly is found at this time, I am afraid it will be difficult to allocate energy and resources to research. And when it comes to the matter of cosmic civilization, Bai Zhongqi is still more cautious, although he is confident in the combat power of Iridium, but after all, the scale of the empire's fleet is limited, and the earth has not yet been developed.

As far as the ecology of the planet is concerned, it is too much to bear more than 7 billion people. Relying on technological means, there is no theoretical upper limit to the population that can live on a planet, but in the administrative stars of the United Empire of Iridium, there are generally no planets the size of the Earth with a population of more than 2 billion, so as to cause excessive human impact and damage to the planet's ecology. Of course, not all planets are like this, for example, the population of the Iridium parent star is not much less than that of the Earth.

Centaur Alpha is called the three-body system, but it is actually more like a 2+1 system, Centaur Alpha A and B are two stars that are almost the same as the sun, and interact strongly, and the volume and mass are far less than the sun's third little brother planet, Proxima Centauri, which is more than 10,000 astronomical units away from star A and star B, which is larger than the radius of the planetary belt of the solar system. Coupled with its small mass, the impact on stars A and B is not very large.

In this three-body star system, the earth has not been able to determine any planet, and the observation data of the three horizontal stars, except for the approximate light-years from the sun, are basically very incorrect, even very outrageous. Before InSight entered the Centaur Alpha system, the Iridians had identified a total of 6 planets in this star system, five of which were solid planets, one was a large gas planet, and the rest of the asteroids and comets were not counted.

Shuhei and his crew have explored two terrestrial planets in the Centaur Alpha system, and neither solid planet is anything special, at least for the Iridium people. One is a desert planet with a thick atmosphere, too close to Star A, without any signs of life, but because of the density of planets and the movement of the earth's crust, there are some relatively good mineral productions, especially crystals that can be used to produce photons' own calculations and directed energy weapons. The other planet has no atmosphere, is relatively small in size, and has relatively single minerals, so the development value is not very large.

It wasn't until InSight arrived at the third planet of their trip, orbiting B, and a planet in the habitable zone, that Iridium found its biggest takeaway.

It is a planet that glows with blue brilliance, and when you look at it from outer space, there is a vast ocean. Xiuping almost didn't need to send a probe down to be able to judge that this was definitely a planet that could give birth to life. As he thought, a large number of unmanned probes were sent to the planet, and a large amount of intelligence information was quickly gathered.

Xiu Ping looked at the holographic light curtain, and was also slightly surprised. This planet is not only inhabited by life, but also by intelligent life, and is also a primate life similar to the earthlings and Iridium people. It is also strange that intelligent life in human form is the largest race in the universe, and there are various hypotheses and theories to explain this phenomenon. It is generally believed that primates have a common ancestor, and that there is an uncertified "race of elders", that is, the original ancestors of human beings, who brought human genes to all corners of the universe.

The other hypothesis is fatalistic, arguing that only primates are the most suitable of intelligent races that can thrive and breed civilization on habitable planets, so as long as the living planet moves forward, there is a high chance that a civilization created by primates will appear.

Captain Yuan Xin also sighed: "Two galaxies so close to each other have actually given birth to intelligent creatures, and they are both human beings, which makes me have to believe in the hypothesis of the 'Elder Race'. ”

Shuhei is not interested in the content of cosmic archaeology, he said: "The natural environment on this planet is worse than that of the earth, and the level of civilization is much lower. Looking at the social form, I am afraid that it is equivalent to the end of the feudal era, and it is far from entering the industrial age, so the level of productivity here is very low, and the population is not large. It seems that here, like the Earth, has no obvious signs of being interfered with by extraterrestrial civilizations in the process of civilization. ”

Yuan Xin smiled and said, "Captain, as the first Imperial Captain to discover this planet, you have the right to name this planet. ”

Xiuping thought for a while and said, "I'm really not good at naming this kind of thing, but this planet is verdant and rare among habitable planets, so let's call it Emerald Starfish." ”