Chapter 512: Radio Waves

On the holographic projection of the Panjia command center, a simulated star map that is perfectly synchronized with the real-time operation of the Giant Galaxy is rotating at high speed around the Evil Eye of the Giant Galaxy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIn the complex star map, nine bright dots flickered on and off, which were drop-shaped battleships that flew into the giant galaxy, and the command center used these light points to locate the positions of the warships in real time.

The ten water drop warships are equipped with a simple version of the dimensional beacon, this dimensional positioning device has no information transmission and reception function, and can only continuously disperse a fixed frequency of dimensional shock waves, and its power is also pitiful, and it is already very weak to transmit to the Golden Crow fleet.

"Haven't heard from the 2nd yet?" Chen Peilin raised his head and asked Elaine beside him.

"No, it's been three days since the 2nd appeared, and the last place where 2 appeared was around 1667" Elaine replied as she marked the last coordinate point where 2 appeared on the star map. Since three days have passed, and SCP-1667 has been a long way from where it was three days ago, the possibility of deducing the actual coordinates of No. 2 from SCP-1667 is slim without reference.

"Will it fall into the horizon?" Zhuge Wushuang's tone was full of worry. No. 2 carried a full 5,000 carrier-based personnel, and all of them were elite, if it was lost, it would definitely cause a lot of turmoil among the people of the Golden Crow fleet. After all, this is just an ordinary reconnaissance and not a large-scale interstellar war, and it is difficult for the group to accept this kind of non-combat attrition.

"I don't rule it out, but it's unlikely. According to our model's calculations, the probability that No. 2 will be locked by 1667 is less than 1 in 50 million, and the probability of falling into the horizon is even smaller. The power of the Teardrop is so powerful that it can get out of the event before it falls out of sight. The most likely reason for losing their track now is that No. 2 has fallen into a distorted space-time bubble that is slower than standard time.

Three days have passed with us, and perhaps less than an hour has passed on the 2nd now," Antonio directly denied Zhuge Wushuang's inference. In fact, as long as it is not locked by a large black hole, even if it falls into the event horizon of a small black hole, the teardrop-shaped battleship will fly out with 100% certainty. Spacecraft built by space technology are not that fragile, especially if they are fully charged.

"Can you get a message from the probe fleet?" Compared with the safety of the No. 2 ship, Chen Peilin is more concerned about whether this operation can achieve the expected goals.

"Hyperspace communication is very difficult, the space inside is very distorted, and there may be space faults, so we can't directly receive information from the inside of the giant galaxy. However, judging from the dimensional beacons they carried, most of the warships had already entered the interior of the galaxy and began to explore the depths.

The space of the star cluster is not large, less than fifteen light-years in diameter, and even with the use of a subspace engine, it can be completely searched in a very short time. Soon one of the exploration fleets will return, and then we will know the details inside," Elaine reported on the actual situation she was encountering.

This situation was taken into account before departure, after all, even when extradimensional communication passed through the giant galaxy, there would be a strange communication delay of three hundred years, not to mention more inferior hyperspace communication. Theoretically, a star field with a diameter of more than ten light-years does not need to use ten dropship warships to explore, and the reason for this is mainly to use the spacecraft as a messenger.

Every once in a while, a warship returns from the interior of the system, carrying the latest information from the Exploration Fleet inside the cluster. Except for one of these warships, which is mainly responsible for exploration, the rest are used as disposable information drifting bottles, in order to pass on the information inside.

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As the space deepened, the bright Silk Scarf Nebula had been left far behind by Worm One. The stability coefficient of space and the curvature of space-time are also beginning to normalize. Two light-years deep into the cluster, Worm-1 attempted to turn on the ship's warp engine.

Surprisingly, when the maximum curvature was maintained at 5.5, the Worm 1 was still able to fly quickly and steadily. This discovery greatly increased the speed of the spacecraft, and in just two days, Wurm-1 arrived at the destination of the trip, a series of very bright small star clusters.

The cluster is made up of more than a dozen small star systems, most of which are single star systems like the solar system, with a binary star system at the very center. However, the size of the two stars is very different, one is a yellow dwarf like the sun, and the other is a much smaller white dwarf. The two-star galaxy also contains five rocky planets and three giant planets, and their orbits are long and elliptical, very different from the traditional near-circular orbits.

It would be very difficult for both carbon-based and silicon-based life to survive in such a star system. In such a binary star system, the planet is frozen for most of the time in a sidereal cycle. For the rest of the period, except for a short period of ten or twenty days of habitable environment, the planet will be hot and burning at other times. If there was life on such a planet, carbon-based organisms would be burned to ashes, and silicon-based organisms would be frozen into broken glass.

Worm first approached the belt of meteorites near the Oort cloud in the marginal star system, where the meteorites were all large, loose blocks of ice that looked like dirty snowballs. In the icy depths of space, these dirty snowballs tumble irregularly, slowly orbiting the star in the center.

Shortly after the arrival of the "signal detected" Worm-1, the communications chief sent such a "good news" to him.

"Did you just find out?" Henry Storf frowned, dissatisfied with the efficiency of the communications department.

"It's the radio signal, and we've stopped paying attention to the radio signal for more than a decade. This kind of signal is generally used by second- and third-level civilizations, and it does not mean much to the fleet. Moreover, the power of the radio signal is too small, and the signal we receive is less than 0.3 watts by the standards of the Earth Age, which is almost negligible," explained the communications officer with a bitter face.

The Golden Crow Fleet has developed to this day, and ordinary fifth-level civilizations no longer enter the eyes of the Golden Crow Fleet, and lower-level civilizations are directly ignored. This time it was possible to detect this weak radio signal, thanks to the fact that the newly arrived trainee staff officer of the Ministry of Communications paid special attention to the radio signal.

"Where did the signal come from? Have you found out? Henry Storf no longer dwelled on the negligence of the communications officer and began to inquire about the source of the signal.

"It's in the chaotic planetary belt ahead," Natasha gave an answer before the communications officer could reply. At the same time, in front of Henry Sdorf, a star map of the target star system was also displayed on the holographic projection. The star system is small, with only seven large planets, five rocky planets, and one giant planet with rings.

There are no living planets in the star system, but there is a planet in the habitable zone that is closer to the star. However, there is no atmosphere and no liquid water, and the planet obviously does not have the conditions for carbon-based organisms to survive. In this way, the presence of radio signals is very strange. The nearest star system is 2.5 light-years away, and no living planets exist there.

That being the case, why do radio signals appear? The level of civilization using radio communication will not exceed level 3. In this case, they do not have the ability to travel interstellarly, which means that the civilization that sends radio waves is in the star system in front of them.

As Natasha positioned, the location of the source was quickly locked. It was an asteroid with a diameter of less than a thousand kilometers. The mass of the planet is not large, barely reaching the hydrostatic equilibrium of the star, which makes the asteroid a slightly flattened ellipsoid. The source of the signal is located in a deep valley near the ellipsoidal equator.

"Send out a scout team and take a look there!" (To be continued.) )