Chapter 310: Lost in the Sea of Stars

On June 13, the fifteenth year of the ephemeris, in the command center of Pan Jia, Chen Peilin and his entourage frowned frequently around the star map in front of them. Since www.biquge.info captured the clues of the Galactic Alliance two months ago, the Golden Crow Fleet has sent more than 100,000 exploration teams to roughly scan the surrounding area of 100,000 light-years.

Not only the military is in action, but even the adventure group that went out during this period has temporarily received a mission from the fleet to find the traces of the Galactic Alliance's drifting fleet. The Golden Crow Fleet will stay in the Lefigallo Resource Star Field for six months, which is enough time for the exploration fleet to explore the galaxy-sized star field. Of course, the amount of energy consumed during this period is absolutely astronomical. However, considering the recent energy output of the fleet, such energy consumption is quite affordable.

"This is the star map that we just updated an hour ago, and judging from the star map, our exploration fleet has explored the star field for more than sixty-five thousand light-years. So far, no trace of the Galactic Federation's drifting fleet has been found. By analyzing the wormhole images before the Galactic Alliance left, the opinion from the School of Physics suggests that the Galactic Alliance's drifting fleet may have left this star field far away, and it is impossible to keep up with them with conventional wormhole navigation alone.

The wormhole opening was so large that it could almost obscure a galaxy. This is a very immature new technology for ultra-long-distance navigation, very dangerous, its destination is completely random, and accidents can occur even when navigating in wormholes. In fact, the two years when the drifting fleet was docked were not idle, but non-stop recharging of the fleet.

It took more than two years to recharge a wormhole, and you can imagine how far away its destination would be. When our fleet is on a long-distance voyage, the maximum time for a charge is about two and a half hours. You know, two and a half hours of charging can completely open an ultra-long-distance wormhole of nearly 10,000 light years.

One can imagine how terrifying the energy consumption would be to charge a remote wormhole in two years. Even if our fleet has abundant energy reserves, it can't do this," Zhang Zheng pointed to the star map in front of him while explaining the recent situation of exploration.

"How long will the fleet stay in the Lefigalo Resource Field?" Chen Peilin looked at the star map that was still slowly expanding and asked.

"There are two months left at most. As of yesterday, the vast majority of destroyer-class Willow ships had all been lifted into the air, and all that remained were cruisers, battleships, and giant battleships such as aerospace aircraft carriers, which were still not fully formed. However, it will not take long, judging from the report of the Technical Department of the Academy of Life Sciences received yesterday, the main structure of the battleship has been completely formed, and now the main growth and completion of the internal warship is carried out.

In fact, the current Willow Leaf ship is completely ready to take off, and both the engine system and the weapon system and the energy system have grown completely. It's just that the special functional parts inside are still being perfected, so the combat effectiveness will have a lot of impact. It is expected that in the last month and a half, all the warships will be lifted into the air, and then it will take half a month to a month to reequip, and our new fleet will be armed, and then it will be time for us to leave" Zhuge Wushuang clicked on the plane projection in front of him and announced to everyone present.

"There's no hurry, we still have a lot to do. Energy production, resource replenishment, and recuperation could have been delayed for much longer. The Galactic Alliance has a profound impact on the Golden Crow Fleet, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that we humans have inherited their mantle. So far, our tech tree has been following the path of the Galactic Alliance. If possible, we should do our best to help them.

Another point must also be clarified what caused the Galactic Alliance to flee in the first place. Judging from the glorious empire we have come into contact with and some of the forces around the galaxy, although the Galactic Alliance is in a weak position, it is definitely not powerless.

Until now, I don't believe it at all to say that there was no hidden reason for the migration of the Galactic Alliance at the beginning. Our conventional combat strength is not even one-ten-thousandth of the Galactic Alliance, and we can turn the glorious empire around, let alone the behemoth of the Galactic Alliance. This is very important to us, and we have to get it to the bottom of it so that we don't repeat the mistakes of the Galactic Alliance. Chen Peilin frowned and said what he thought.

In fact, not only Chen Peilin, but everyone present had such questions. It's really weird, especially after coming into contact with the forces around the galaxy, the view that the Galactic Alliance was forced to flee by those pseudo-seventh-level empires is difficult to stand. But from the information left by the Galactic Alliance, there is no useful information to be found, which must be clarified, otherwise Chen Peilin will not be able to sleep steadily.

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In the distant interstellar space 70,000 light-years away from the Lefigaro resource star field, a small five-hundred-meter-long mongoose-class reconnaissance ship quickly flew out of the remote wormhole. After the reconnaissance ship's course stabilized, Captain Duanmu Renhe immediately began to urge the crew to start charging the spare wormhole generator so that they could make the next ultra-long-distance flight as quickly as possible.

The improved version of the Mongoose-2 military reconnaissance ship is equipped with two engine systems, one of which is in working condition and the other is in a cooling state. In this way, the alternating operation of the two sets of engines can reduce the charging time by half, which greatly improves the work efficiency and battlefield survival rate of the reconnaissance ship.

As the energy department began to operate the automaton to add purple biocrystals to the hedron reactor, Detective Yamashita Shufumi on the bridge began to perform the 1085th optical detection and subspace scan in a step-by-step manner. The advantage of optical detection is that it can capture the optical image left by the drifting fleet a long time ago, with low energy consumption, clear image, and can be directly analyzed with the naked eye, but the disadvantage is that the real-time performance is relatively poor, and many effects are even left many years ago.

Compared with the hyperspace detector, the sensitivity of the subspace scanner has been reduced a lot, but the energy consumption has been directly reduced by hundreds of orders of magnitude. Moreover, in terms of space detection, there are no more defects except that the sensitivity is lower and the distance is much closer.

The spatial fluctuations caused by the Galactic Alliance's huge immigrant fleet sailing, even if they are hundreds of light-years apart, can still be observed on the subspace probe. Therefore, the use of low-energy subspace probes can fully meet the requirements of reconnaissance.

......When the optical telescope began to collect optical images from all angles, the subspace probe also began to perform a self-test. As the green light lit up, which marked the complete normalcy of the system, Yamashita Shufu began to control the subspace probe to perform a full-band scan of the surrounding star field with the assistance of a semi-intelligent assistant program.

"Doodoo Doodoo Doo...... is the same as last time, all the observations are clutter, even if some normal signals can be heard occasionally, in the end, it turns out that the surrounding low-level civilizations are long-range communication with each other when they are navigating the galaxy, and there is no connection with the drifting fleet of the Galactic Alliance.

For these low-level civilizations, Yamashita Shuwen was still interested in cracking their communication signals at the beginning, but when the hundredth signal was discovered, even Yamashita Shufumi, who was the most curious in the ship, was not interested in the backward communication of these low-level civilizations.

"Look! Optical signal, look at the optical signal received by the optical telescope" When Shubun was bored at the bottom of the mountain, Yasuko Ohno, who was in charge of the optical telescope, excitedly pointed to the optical image on the optical microscope and screamed.

As Yamashita Shufu turned his gaze to the planar projection connected to the optical microscope, a magnificent scene began to flash in front of Yamashita Shufumi's eyes. In the dark starry sky, a dark blue fleet of countless sizes is like a galaxy with no end in sight. As the picture fluctuated, a huge dark space appeared, and the entire fleet quickly drilled into it and disappeared without a trace.

The image appeared several times in a row, until the last wave image was received by the optical microscope, and the whole galaxy finally completely dimmed.

"Why do images of the same fleet appear several times?" Captain Squadron Leader Ozawa Tsukao asked strangely.

"Because the light rays are deflected by the gravitational pull of the planet during their propagation, the time and angle at which the same light finally arrives shifts, so we can see the same image several times. It's like when you shout at the mouth of the valley that there will be an echo," Yasuko Ohno explained, turning her head.

"Measure how far away from here the incident is?" Duanmu Renhe quickly calmed down from the joy of discovering the drifting fleet and gave the latest orders.

"Six light-years, the light was found to have been emitted six years ago," the crew immediately reported.

"So close? Jump straight to the voyage, let's go to the scene and see the ......" (to be continued.) )