Chapter 402: Dark Star (1)

One million million light years, with the ultra-long-range wormhole technology of a seventh-level civilization, it would take ten jumps to reach it, and during this period, including the cooling of the engine and the replenishment of energy, it would take at least two to three days or even longer. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but with the dimensional engines equipped on the Spirit and Challenger, this distance is as easy as navigating the interior of a galaxy with a level 7 civilization.

This is also the reason why the seventh-level civilization has the ability to sail across the river system, while the eighth-level civilization can crisscross the river system. Whether you have the ability is one thing, and whether you can do it easily is another. Traveling across the river system, if the sixth-level civilization adopts the relay method at any cost, it can barely do it after tens of thousands of years of preparation.

But there is no level 6 civilization that does that, why? The cost is too great. To do this, you need to constantly build supply bases along the way, and the further you go, the more expensive it will be to transport supplies, and the smaller the benefits will be, and the gains will outweigh the losses. Even if such a long journey can be successful, it will consume the foundation of the entire civilization, and I am afraid that when the time really arrives at another river system, this sixth-level civilization will be almost finished.

The river system 1.35 million light-years away is a relatively small dwarf galaxy, such a galaxy is small, only billions of times the mass of the Sun, and the luminosity is also very weak, most of the dwarf galaxies are so weak that they are invisible beyond 50,000 parsecs. But the number of dwarf galaxies accounts for the vast majority of known galaxies in the universe. At least most of the galaxies encountered in the nearly twenty years since the Golden Crow Formation set sail are dwarf galaxies.

Dwarf galaxies are very irregular in shape and generally exist as satellite galaxies of large galaxies such as the Milky Way. The parent star of the fifth group is located in a large spiral galaxy with a diameter of more than 100,000 light-years, and there are as many as 200 dwarf galaxies around this galaxy, but only three of the more than 200 galaxies can barely be seen from an uninhabited planet with an optical telescope, and the target galaxy is not one of them.

The space emits slight fluctuations like the surface of a lake in the breeze, and these fluctuations are so slight that you can't even notice them unless you look closely. The movement generated by the space jump is as obvious as if it were an atomic bomb explosion or a rifle activation. Such fluctuations are not much different from the background fluctuations in space, and even the hyperspace probes of the Golden Crow Fleet may be difficult to detect if they are not at an extremely close distance.

It was in such fluctuations that the figures of two small battleships five kilometers long slowly emerged from the empty starry sky. The hull of the battleship is pitch black, and if you don't look closely, you can't even tell it at all, and the material that makes up the half-dimensional battleship comes from a black dwarf, which is not reflective.

The two warships appeared near an asteroid with a diameter of 2,500 kilometers, no atmosphere, and no large gas giants around it, just like the dwarf planet Sedna at the edge of the solar system. This is near the coordinates of X35-Y653-Z116, where the original wave of signals disappeared.

"Activating space stealth" previously issued an order from the temporary captain of the fleet, Lee Kent. Beside him, Eugene and his deputy, Sparrow, were busy checking the latest star map and making a reconnaissance plan.

Although the reconnaissance was mainly based on the 4th Pioneer Regiment, Eugene was not good at such a thing as commanding the fleet to fight. Therefore, the matter of coordinated command of the fleet fell to the commander of the reorganized 3072nd Fleet, the only sixth-class fleet accompanying the army.

It is the consistent style of the military system of the Golden Crow Fleet to perform their own duties, and neither the army commander nor the fleet commander will point fingers in areas that they are not familiar with, even if their own military ranks are higher than each other. Likent's command authority is limited to the reorganization of the 3072 fleet, and half of the decision-making power of the two half-dimensional warships is still in Eugene's hands, and if you want to call it, you have to discuss it with two people.

"The space lens is unfolded, and the concealment index is 35%, 57%, 83%, 92%, 97%, 99%, 100%, and the space stealth is completed!" Tactics Officer reports. The space stealth technology has already begun to be used on the Xingtian III, and the effect is good, so the latest half-dimensional warships are also equipped with this system.

A tactical officer is the military attache in the fleet who is responsible for the execution of tactics, and is generally held by a senior military staff officer. In battle, the commander is responsible for giving orders, the staff is responsible for drawing up plans, and the tactical officer is responsible for the distribution and implementation of plans. The three-in-one command system and the improvement of semi-intelligent auxiliary programs allow the fleet's operations to be carried out smoothly and smoothly.

It is not easy to command a fleet, and it is not easy to have more than 2,000 large warships, tens of thousands of small warships, and individual fighters able to command and prohibit in coordination in the chaotic space battlefield.

Therefore, the tactics of the commander imagined in some science fiction movies and all the warships rushing up at the same time are simply nonsense. In space operations, especially when two formations are close to each other, the most important thing is the coordination between the warships, forming a local firepower advantage in the movement, destroying the enemy and preserving themselves. If you really rush forward, you will definitely not be left with the scum eaten by the enemy.

After the space stealth was turned on, the two warships turned on their conventional drive engines and slowly approached the interior of the star system, scanning the hidden probes in the star system while collecting information about the entire star system.

"Oh! Herillujah! There are more than 50 hyperspace probes in just one star system, and the detection distance of this thing alone is at least tens of thousands of light-years away! Even if he is as cold as Likent, he is constantly breaking out in a cold sweat when he sees this result.

"This is not only the hyperspace probe, the subspace probe responsible for short-range early warning is more than 600! Although it is a short-range early warning, the scanning radius of the subspace radar is also around one or two thousand light years. This inconspicuous galaxy is simply managed like an iron bucket," Eugene kept smacking his mouth. Both of them are from the United States, and they are relatively compatible in terms of culture and way of doing things, and the relationship is still very good.

"So what, we're not coming in!" The sparrows on the side were a little disdainful. The sparrow's real name is Zheng Wantong, but it seems that no one has remembered it except for those close to him, and everyone directly calls him by his nickname, although Zheng Wantong called himself Shanying at the beginning, but this point was obviously ignored by everyone selectively.

"Don't be careless, maybe there's a more sophisticated detector here. Don't look at the Challenger and Courage are very tough, but also beware of ants biting elephants to death, our regular combat power is just a reorganized fleet, which is not enough at all. And you know how strong a civilization can make such a big deal? If it's also an eighth-level civilization, then we'll really have to take a break! Likent's stern reminder.

"Strange!" The radar officer's voice was heard.

"What's wrong? What did you find? ”

"There are no stars in this galaxy!" The radar officer replied.

"What's so strange about that, haven't we encountered a galaxy with only black dwarfs before?" Likent was noncommittal.

"No, you don't understand what I mean. I also thought that the center of the galaxy was a black dwarf. But if you look at the radar results, there are no gravitational waves, no thermal radiation, neutron radiation is actually negative, and the energy reading of the Anse detector is zero...... There is nothing in the center of the galaxy! The radar officer pointed to the flat monitor with a look of disbelief.

"How is this possible?"

"Adjust the course, let's slowly lean over!" (To be continued.) )