Chapter 388: The Wandering Planet

Darkness, emptiness, loneliness...... Almost all the words used to describe "terrible" in the language of intelligent civilizations can be applied here. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThis is an empty void between the cosmic river systems, a vacuum area, so empty that you can even count how many atoms there are per cubic meter. If the river system in the universe is compared to an oasis of civilization, the void in front of you is definitely an endless desert.

In this barren interstellar space, a rocky planet with a diameter of more than 20,000 kilometers is quietly suspended. In fact, the planet is not stationary, but follows a fixed course and flies forward quickly, even if there is nothing ahead. This is a common wandering planet, an unlucky one thrown out during the rotation of galaxies.

Unlike most rocky planets, there is no light visible on the surface of this planet, and it is completely pitch black. Only when you look closely with the help of an optical telescope can you see a galaxy in the distant starry sky. Without stars, the planet cannot absorb any heat, and it stands to reason that even the air on such a planet should be frozen into ice crystals, but the reality is completely opposite to what was expected.

It's a planet full of warm atmosphere, and although the main components of the atmosphere are irritating gases and dust such as sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide, this planet is still a miracle for any astronomer. There are hundreds of active volcanoes at the junction of the planet's continents, and volcanoes erupt all the time to heat the planet's atmosphere, and then form a perfect atmospheric cycle.

In the edge of the ice sheet near the polar regions, some plants and microorganisms that metabolize sulfides are proliferating, and small herbivores loom among the shrubs from time to time. Because of the darkness and lack of light, these creatures did not evolve a visual system, or that they once existed but slowly degenerated. Correspondingly, these creatures have a very developed sense of hearing and touch, and even have evolved infrared detection capabilities.

The planet's lonely interstellar space flew for millions of years, until two days ago, a group of uninvited guests rushed over, becoming the first wave of alien intelligent life to set foot on the surface of the planet in hundreds or even tens of millions of years. It was a small fleet of only five ships, two huge engineering ships with thick heads, two huge cargo ships, and a medium destroyer with strong defense capabilities.

After the fleet jumped out of the remote wormhole, it was stranded in the high orbit of the wandering planet. In the giant tome cargo spaceship, one by one the curved metal parts with a length of thousands of meters were pulled out by the small towed spaceship, temporarily assembled in the starport inside the engineering ship, and then dragged out again, and assembled in the assembly factory in the planet's high-altitude orbit. Finally, a huge ring with a diameter of more than 500 kilometers floated silently in interstellar space.

There is no metal part in the center of the ring, on the contrary, each arc part that makes up the ring is completely free, and is connected to each other by gravity to ensure that it will not be scattered by force, and at the edge of each arc fitting, there will be a metal needle hundreds of meters long pierced into the surrounding space, and the tip of the needle is looming, as if inserted into the water of chopsticks.

At the root of the tip of the needle, large shield generators flickered with lilac light from time to time, and when fully opened, these shield generators would cross-link with each other, eventually forming a large space shield covering more than 500 kilometers of interstellar space. This huge ring is the ultra-long-range stargate created by the Golden Crow Formation.

In order to achieve a long-term and stable connection, this ultra-long-range stargate was built in the high orbit of this wandering planet. It relies on the stable space formed by the planet's gravitational field to ensure that there will be no catastrophic consequences such as space collapse due to violent fluctuations in space during the opening of the stargate.

There is not just one such giant stargate, which extends outward from the Southern Tianyao galaxy, then arrives here, and then continues to the Southern Tianost-1231 river system five million light-years away, and more than 100 stargates have been built at a very long distance. These gates form a massive network of interstellar highways, connecting the 1208 and 1231 galaxies of the Southern Tenross.

The reason why so many stargates were built was entirely because they were worried that those sixth-level civilizations would not be able to maintain the destroyed stargates after the fleet left. If the stargates were closer to each other, these sixth-level civilizations might be able to reconnect the two stargates in the distance by erecting a close-range stargate.

According to the simulation calculations of the fleet's artificial intelligence, using such a stargate network, it only takes three months to reach the 1231 river system from the Nantianost-1208 river system. That's a distance of more than 15 million light-years, and if you use a conventional jump, I'm afraid that the spacecraft will run out of energy before it has even reached a hundredth of the time.

Such a ghost fleet, as the supervisor of this Stargate Project, Huo Xinhe has met more than one batch. In the beginning, the engineering fleet will also be in high spirits to conduct one or two interstellar treasure hunts. But after a few times, Huo Xinhe didn't even have a basic interest.

A fleet running out of energy, the ship is forced to drift, and the crew is slowly dying in despair, and the fleet is really not to be seen. Especially in the last days when he saw the drifting fleet in the main engine of a ghost fleet, after the crazy video recording of the crew, as long as he thought of such a scene, Huo Xinhe would shudder.

"Please note that the fourth commissioning is about to begin, and all personnel who have been out of work are requested to return to the engineering ship immediately; Please note that the fourth debugging is about to begin, please return to the ......" engineering ship immediately, the prompt sound of the ship's main engine brought Huo Xinhe back to his senses from the terrifying scene in the previous ghost fleet, and looked at the internal announcement, Huo Xinhe decided that it would be safer to return to the battleship.

The ultra-long-range stargate uses a purple energy crystal, and once the overload explodes, I am afraid that the rocky planet in front of me can be blown to pieces. Such accidents have not happened before, in fact, during the first construction, such tragedies occurred, even on a much smaller scale.

After the second ambassadorial-level meeting between the Golden Crow Formation and the Sixth-level Civilization Alliance of the Nantianweng-1208 River System began, the agreement on the Golden Crow Formation to help the Sixth-Level Alliance build a long-distance stargate system was decided, and the Engineering Department of the Golden Crow Formation also took over such an arduous task.

The construction of stargates between rivers has never been done by the Golden Crow Formation, and even today, when wormhole generators are commonly installed on every expedition ship, such a thing has never happened. It's not that the technology can't reach it, it's that it doesn't make sense at all. The Golden Crow Formation never thought that they would return the same way at all, so it was a waste to build the Stargate System, and Chen Peilin and the others were not generous enough to spend a lot of precious resources to build roads for others.

As a result, the engineering department is not very familiar with the construction of ultra-long-range stargates. This is not the kind of short-distance stargate built by a sixth-level civilization. There are countless problems encountered in the construction process of ultra-long-distance stargates, and it took more than half a month for the Institute of Mechanical Engineering to perfect the technology of long-range stargates.

But when it was actually built, there was an accident, and the first stargate had a big explosion during the third commissioning, causing the space to collapse, and the unmanned test spacecraft was directly destroyed by the space turbulence into palm-sized pieces. Fortunately, there were no casualties, otherwise, this would definitely be the worst space accident in recent years.

"It's amazing, isn't it, before we know it, we can all build a stargate that spans such a distance, communicate the two river systems, even if it is the two closest river systems, it will take a few days for the formation to arrive" In the C-117-1047 destroyer, the captain of the ship, Major Sabine, looked at the slowly activated stargate in front of him through the hologram, and sighed with emotion at the Huo Xin River that had just arrived.

"That's right, but for the sake of these hundreds of star gates, we have a lot of consumption. The precious alloys used these days can almost be used to build a state-of-the-art battleship," Huo Xinhe, who was born in the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, knew the cost of the project well, and said in pain.

"But we have gained a lot, I heard from my family, the transport ships that are transporting resources to the formation have almost filled the starry sky recently, and we have made a profit," Sabein said with a smile.

"It's nothing, if we give it time, five months at most, we can mine it ourselves. It's all bad street goods, just dig up a few galaxies and it's full" Huo Xinhe disdainful.

"Old Huo, what is the new ship you built, I heard that it can fight with the water drop battleship of the original interstellar police fleet, is it true" Sabine's curiosity came up, and he went to Huo Xinhe's side to gossip.

"I don't know...... After all that's done, the fleet is leaving again, right? I heard that I still go to the Giant Galaxy, but recently I have searched through the star map, and I was stunned that I didn't find the shadow of the Giant Galaxy, so I can't imagine that we are also drifting" Huo Xinhe cleverly changed the topic.

"That's right, it'll be over in two months at the earliest. I hope I can meet the president's fleet in the Giant Galaxy, my girl was still serving in the First Fleet, and she has not been in touch since the dimensional war, and I don't know how she is doing now" Speaking of leaving, Sabine's thoughts drifted out again.

"Dut...... Node 74 is successfully connected to node 73 and 75, and the debugging result is normal. At the end of the operation, please note that the 17th Engineering Fleet will be on its way to Site 87 in two hours, so please be ready to ......" (To be continued.) )