Chapter 124: The Bamboo Spaceship

Sub-light, the state of velocity close to the speed of light, is the maximum speed state known to be achieved by a conventional thrust engine. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Because in conventional navigation, the speed of light cannot be surpassed, even if it reaches the seventh level of civilization, it cannot solve this problem. Whether it's a warp engine, a jump engine, or even a temporary wormhole, all of this is achieved by distorting space to reduce the distance in space by bypassing this limit and achieving faster speed of light.

The speed limit that the third-level civilization that did not invent the warp speed engine can achieve is sub-light speed, after which there will be a light barrier, as for what happens after the light barrier, some civilizations may have experimented, but human civilization has not studied this. Entering sub-light is very simple, just apply a continuous thrust to the ship. There is almost no resistance in the universe, which means that in such a situation, the spacecraft can accelerate under the action of external forces until it enters sub-light speed.

The sudden discovery of a new civilization made all the members of the Bull Squad overjoyed, and they had just missed the civilization they had contacted and encountered a new civilization, which could be regarded as the eastern corner of the Mulberry Elm.

"Ellie, speed over and get in touch with this fleet," Pete said excitedly as he looked at a prominent point of light on the holographic radar.

The bull's warp engine turned into a burst of light, and rushed quickly in the direction where the other party came. Five hours later, the Bull was out of wagging speed and docked far away from the other party's fairway, looking like a passenger car leaning on the side of the road during the Earth period and waiting to pass by at high speed.

"Did they respond to our message?" Pete asked.

"There was no response," Elle replied.

"Could it be that they can't recognize our signals?" Pete thought for a moment and asked.

"The probability is close to zero, and the signal we send out is an interstellar universal signal that even a computer of a Level 3 civilization can parse. Since the other party is able to travel at sub-light speeds, the level of technology must be at the advanced stage of a third-level civilization," Ai Li responded.

"Then why didn't they respond to us?" Vice Captain Evenson asked.

"Analyze the most likely cause," Pete ordered.

"The other party's ship is very primitive and dilapidated, the engine has long stopped working, it must have broken down, and it can't respond to us," Elle analyzed.

"So they'll never stop? Even if it's a planet in front of you, you can only hit it hard? Evenson asked, wiping a cold sweat.

"Yes, the crew's chances of survival are infinitely close to zero," Elle said.

"It's 100 percent now!" Pete snapped his fingers and said "Ellie, find a way to make them stop"

The Bull quickly caught up with the speeding opposing ship, opened its position in front of the opposing fleet, and slowly applied a reverse thrust to the opposing fleet, causing the opponent's speed to slow down. The opposing ship has no external energy shield to protect it, not only that, but not even an electromagnetic shield, I really don't know how lucky they are to be safe and sound during such a long voyage. You know, even a meteorite the size of a fist can destroy a ship that is moving at a high speed, even if their hull is covered with thick external armor more than fifty meters thick.

It took more than a day for the speeding fleet to stop from the sub-light speed, slowly slowing down until it came to a silent stop, and the whole fleet was silent, like a ghost fleet.

It only took five seconds for the general structure of this primitive fleet to be scanned by Ellie, and it was displayed in front of the members of the bull squad one by one. The ships of this fleet are very distinctive, the structure of the ships is double-layered, the outermost layer is separated like bamboo, each section is connected together by connecting cabins, and hundreds of "bamboos" are tightly tied together to form a huge cylindrical structure.

Inside this cylindrical ship is a huge propulsion engine, like a rocket from the Earth era. However, this thing is much more advanced than the rocket, which is a huge two-way ion propulsion engine, which ionizes the gas in the engine room to form ions and eject them backwards at a speed of millions of kilometers per hour, producing a powerful thrust forward. The engines are bidirectional, not only pushing backwards to create thrust to keep the ship forward, but also pushing forward to create drag to stop the ship.

Each "bamboo" is a huge collection of spaceships, and each bamboo node is an independent spaceship. After the spacecraft arrives at the destination planet, these "bamboo joints" can all be detached, and the ring ion engine at the tail of the spacecraft can be activated to form a larger fleet of immigrants and fly to their destination planet.

"Ellie, put the hummingbird detector inside and take a look, why isn't there even a living person, it can't really be a ghost ship," ordered the impatient Pete.

The Bull's missile nest embargo opened, and a five-meter-diameter honeycomb sphere bounced out of the embarrassment and flew swiftly towards the ghost fleet ahead. Upon reaching the fleet, thousands of metal balls with a diameter of five centimeters flew out of the honeycomb-shaped spheres. The metal balls flew out of the hive and dispersed, then continued to explore the depths of the ship along the ship's damaged hull, transmitting real-time images to the Bull. When encountering the inaccessible module, a tiny beam of light shot out of the metal ball directly drilled a small hole with a diameter of five or six centimeters in the alloy wall, and the metal ball entered the next module along these holes and continued to scan and detect.

I saw a large number of spherical alloy chambers placed in the spaceship, and long pipelines were connected behind the cabins, and these pipelines gradually converged to form a larger line that penetrated deep into the alloy walls of the spaceship, leading directly to the central computer of the spaceship.

"What are these metal balls? Can you analyze their function? Pete asked, pointing to the piles of spherical pods.

"These are hibernation pods, dormant devices made to extend the lifespan of intelligent beings when lower civilizations did not develop faster-than-light travel," Elle said.

"I've connected to their central computer through the Bird Detector and are parsing their database, and the database is finished. This civilization is called the Cangyan Civilization, and the civilization creature is an intelligent creature with a carapace, which is somewhat similar to the turtle on the earth, but the image is much better than the turtle. This is what their intelligent creature looks like," Ellie had just finished speaking, and the image of a sapient creature with a carapace was projected on the stereoscopic projection.

It is a tortoise-like creature, but unlike tortoises, their carapace is not very large, all of them are silvery-white and shiny. The carapace is not as bulging as a tortoise, and it sticks flat on its back, as if it were carrying a package on its back. The tortoise man has a pointed head, eyes on either side of the head, no ears, a slender neck, limbs as soft as tentacles, and bifurcated tips to form three finger-like organs. The skin is white and moist, not only not ugly, but also quite beautiful.

"Interestingly, although these intelligent beings have gone into hibernation, their minds are still very active, so to speak, their minds live in a world simulated by a central computer. Now they are living in a virtual world, and many have forgotten the real and the unreal. However, their leader still understands people, knows that the spaceship is out of order, and is organizing people to investigate it with all their might. But it's been a long time, and many people have given up, and there is no way to solve it. They are now driving in the void of space, there is not even an asteroid belt, there is no way to get resources to repair the ship, and more importantly, they all know that the ship cannot slow down at all," Elle said with interest as she watched.

"Voyeurism is a bad habit, and you're not afraid of them finding out, huh?" Doctor Michela said.

"Even if they can find me?" Elle complained disdainfully.

"Then you don't usually spy on us, do you?" Simon asked weakly.

"No, your every move is under my watch," Elle said proudly.

"Alright, Ellie, find a way to find out where they're coming from, how long the fleet has been on sail, and see if there's any chance of coming into contact with their main civilization. You must know that discovering a new civilization is also available by contributing points, and our bull team will not be able to make ends meet on this trip," Pete said with a sad face.

"They came from the star system not far ahead, and they've been sailing for nearly a thousand years," said Ellie, looking up the information.

"It's been more than a thousand years to sail over such a distance? How so? Simon asked, surprised.

"What's so strange about their spacecraft not even reaching twice the speed of light, so it's going to take more than a thousand years? And time is relative, the faster the speed, the slower the time becomes. In other words, in the eyes of these intelligent beings, they have only only been sailing for a few decades," Pete was the first to say.

"Ellie, wake them up, we have to talk to them, whether we can get back the cost depends on how many people there are in their home planet now, if it's good, maybe they can make a lot of money."

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