Chapter 197: Welcome Home
400 billion stars, orbiting 100,000 light-years in diameter.
This is the galaxy we live in......
This is an almost boundless world, and the exploration range of all civilizations and races combined, is less than 1 of the entire galaxy. For the civilizations of the galaxy, those worlds that have not yet been explored are uniformly called "dark space".
However, the world of real total darkness is beyond the galaxy. If you think of the Milky Way as a large plate with halo edges, it is 100,000 light-years in diameter, with a convex center, and about 12,000 light-years at its thickest point. Then the place where the light cannot reach at all along the silver side and outward to infinity is what we call the "total dark world", the real dark space.
Directly above the Milky Way's Silver Surface, perhaps 100,000 light-years deep in darkness. In this world where there is no light at all, there is a dense and endless insect-shaped warship - the Reaper!
Perhaps when the main god "catalyst" said the endless four words, it was enough to make countless people flip the table and roar, "Is your math taught by your physical education teacher?!" ”
However, a review of how the Reaper megaship was built may reveal the answer.
The Leviathan, the giant beast that created the AI "catalyst", is an insect-like creature with a body size of several kilometers. Then the "catalyst" exterminated the Leviathan, and used the corpse of the giant Leviathan to create the first reaper, the "Pioneer" class reaper, commonly known as "Harbinger". A race that has ruled the galaxy for countless years is impossible to estimate, but it will not be less.
After each reincarnation, the reaper (note that it has become a reaper here, no longer a "catalyst" to make zuò himself) used the corpses of the mainstream civilization creatures of the time to squeeze the juice and stir it...... and a series of other means to create the "Overlord" class Reaper battleship.
So, we can roughly calculate that it is about 50 million years old from the first reaper to the present day, and it is harvested every 50,000 years. Then the main god "Catalyst" said that he was good at the manufacturing industry, so even if it was calculated according to the construction of a hundred corpses per race...... Then we only need to calculate a little to know that there are 10 Reaper battleships of the "Overlord" class alone...... Let's say "endless".
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With the order of the main god catalyst, in the dark sleeping world, four thousand "Overlord" class warships, and twenty thousand "ruined miè" were awakened. The dead world suddenly lit up with scarlet lights, like the eyes of a giant beast!
Shadows and shadows longed, countless black shadows with lights, and slowly sailed forward out of the group of sleeping warships as deep as the ocean. They began to activate layer by layer, and their tails flew out with a long orange-red fire, overwhelmingly flying towards the brilliant Milky Way at their feet......
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While the 24,000 Reapers, it is likely that the Dawn will be carried away in waves, but it is of no use - they will still be on the road for years......
Although in the "Arrival" DLC, there is a repeater that can directly teleport the Reaper from outside the galaxy to the territory of the Batalians. But both sides of the "shortcut" know that they didn't take action because the time was not enough, and it is difficult to say whether it is a "shortcut" or a "dead end". But if Lu Yuan would have put that repeater there and did nothing, "Catalyst" and Xing Yan were the first to believe it!
So, let's take it slowly.
On the shuttle, Lu Yuan duang threw a handful of dice, and then pinched his fingers to count!
"Hmm~~~, this is... Let's see what you're talking about... Offensive... Two... In case of three... Four, it's twenty-four! Person... Battleship... Bugger? …… Twenty-four thousand bug warships are going to attack us?! Lu Yuan was stunned, and then slapped his face, "Hahaha!" What~ I'll just say that prophetic spells are all talking in dreams, and they are all unreliable! If I hadn't made up the numbers, I would have almost been fooled......"
Lu Yuan casually swept the dice into the drawer. "Looks like I'm really not gifted in prophecy! Forget it...... "Lu Yuan's current magician level is about to be upgraded to level 15. At this level, he had already begun to study some profound prophetic spells and astrology.
It's just that in Lao Lu's inherent concept, even the main god can't accurately predict what will happen in the future, not to mention that human beings, maybe the world is really like the world he experienced, moving along an inherent trajectory. Then all the "precognition" spells just describe the plot in some way.
So Lu Yuan, who already knew the "plot" of this world in advance, why did he need prophecy? It seems that preconceived notions are starting to become obstacles to his progress......
After a jolt, the shuttle finally flew out of the makeshift zero-mass passage between the Charon repeater and Dawn and reached the Lance Galaxy. Lu Yuan looked out of the porthole, and in the hazy blue light, the Dawn Mothership with its open rotors was already close at hand.
He took Mu Xing's hand, "We're here, Xingxing, welcome home!" ”
The autopilot shuttle shook slightly, passed through the blue light film of the mothership's shield, and flew towards the dock.
The dice in the drawer vibrate, and a few of them rolled, and the numbers facing up changed in a new way. According to the interpretation of prophecy, this literal meaning should ...... "happens five years later."
Actually, Master Lu, don't give up! You're still very talented at prophecy......
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Because of the previous bombardment of the Blue Giant test, the new route of the Dawn was temporarily interrupted. Now that the ionization storm in the Spear system has subsided a little, the route to the geth has been reopened, and a large number of ships have swarmed to land and transit.
The dockyard is now full of people...... Oh, it's supposed to be a geth coming, a geth going, very busy.
"It's better to be in your own home, it's really comfortable!" Look at the geists who are busy and orderly, performing their duties, and working hard. Mu Xing, who had been under a lot of pressure, finally relaxed and stretched his body after returning home, showing a happy smile. In Mu Xing's eyes, even if it is a synthetic geth, it is also our family's geth - much more loving than the sanctimonious guys of the Star Alliance!
At least they don't say I like you, I adore you, and then don't hesitate to go under the knife. At least so far, Mu Xing has been stabbed twice, Miranda and Hackett, both times she was the one she once trusted......
"Welcome to the Dawn!" , "Mu Xing, welcome back", the passing Jie Si flashed electronic flashing lights to the two of them, and rows of welcome subtitles made Mu Xing smile toothless.
Suddenly, someone shouted, "Clear! The geths immediately moved out of the way in an orderly manner, revealing a passage into the interior of the mothership. Lu Yuan and Mu Xing, who had never seen this kind of scene, of course wanted to make do with it and see what was going on. But the two gesers resolutely stopped in front of Lu Yuan and Mu Xing, blocking the two of them behind the passage.
At this time, the Dawn Mothership emitted a huge roar, and even made people feel that this tens of billions of tons of spaceship was vibrating gently at this moment, and a blue aura surrounding the Dawn Mothership suddenly brightened!
Lu Yuan and Mu Xing happily clapped each other, they had already guessed something.
Sure enough, the Dawn, which was running at full strength, was obviously transmitting an extremely massive object! As expected, as the Dawn roared louder and louder, an oval-shaped asteroid suddenly appeared in front of the battleship's side, about an astronomical unit away!
The asteroid has a maximum diameter of about 700 kilometers, is oval, black and inconspicuous! And its surface is covered with honeycomb-shaped holes, which seem to be very lightweight. But the entire Dawn was actually pulled by gravity, and slowly floated forward! It can be seen that what you see is very far from what you actually see......
"There is at least a trillion tons of mass! Oh my God, a hundred times more than ours...... Where did you get the geth! Xueba Mu easily came to a conclusion and began to shout excitedly in Lu Yuan's ear. This asteroid should come from the edge of the galaxy, perhaps formed at the beginning of the birth of the galaxy, this is a gift from gethus!
Layers of shields were erected in the vacated space, protecting all geelth and humans.
"Prepare for shelling!"
A few minutes later, a huge and majestic red torrent roared through the passage, right up and down the asteroid! This time, Lu Yuan watched the scene of the mothership's main gun firing from near zero distance! Each torrent lasted no more than a second, and when you got close, you could only feel the side of the transparent wall flickering and flashing, and then you could see the huge flame lightsaber swinging on the side of the mothership again and again!
Immediately, the asteroid that had just been transported began to split and collapse under the bombardment of the "Doomsday Blade...... Lu Yuan hugged Mu Xing and clearly saw that in the bombardment of the mothership's main gun, the oval-shaped asteroid was first cut into neat squares vertically and horizontally, and then destroyed into dust one by one!
The whole process did not take even five minutes, and an artificial celestial body with a length of 700 kilometers was decomposed into a mass of "smoke and dust" that had swelled to a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers, but was still bound together by gravity!
Hundreds of mining ships flew out. Each of them is a thousand-meter-diameter, round "pot-bellied man". These vessels suck in large quantities of this cosmic dust and precipitate it directly into different layers in a screw separator – a coarse deposit that is even purer than a specially refined deposit.
This is how the Mothership of Dawn gathers resources today...... Rugged beauty.
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