Chapter 500: A Signal from Three Hundred Years Ago

JN3103's galaxy is very small, and it is still hazy from a distance, but when you get closer, you find that the whole galaxy has become quite chaotic. Even if the www.biquge.info pen is far away, the gravitational pull from the giant galaxy is always affecting it.

With the opening of the space gate, the Golden Crow Fleet, which had been flying in the wormhole for nearly a week, finally arrived at the edge of the JN3103 system. Near the tadpole-shaped tail of the galaxy, the stars are sparse and look like the fog left by a comet as it sweeps past the star through an optical telescope.

As soon as the formation was assembled, the spaceships in the airports of the various carriers flew out in droves. Not only are there a lot of adventure group ships, but they also have a lot of private flying machines. The kind of civilian aircraft equipped only with warp engines do not fly very far, and their range of movement is only within a light or two of the formation. However, these ships are not out for sightseeing, they are out to escape.

The orange-yellow warning lights sounded non-stop before the formation left the wormhole, and although the maintenance robot had reinforced the main body of the spacecraft from the inside of the hull, the main structure of the spacecraft still showed multiple damages. The design of the chopstick-type mothership simply maximizes the harm of gravity, and it can be regarded as the blessing of the star god if it is not broken into several pieces on the spot.

"How's the formation?" Zhuge Wushuang kept pinching his teeth, obviously tired of the non-stop damage siren.

"It's not good, most of the main body of the mothership has been irreparably damaged. A lot of motherships have bent hulls! It would take more resources and energy to repair than to rebuild," Elaine sighed as she displayed the shrunken model of the mothership on a holographic projection.

"Hey, what a headache, why hasn't Chen Peilin's bastard appeared yet" Zhuge Wushuang complained with a headache, and then opened the resource reserve database of the formation to see if it was cost-effective to rebuild or repair the mothership.

"Actually, we don't have to be so troublesome at all," Zhang Zheng, who had long been uninterested in chopstick-type motherships, took the opportunity to say.

"Oh? What are your opinions? There are so many things, where can I put them if the mothership is not repaired? Zhuge Wushuang quickly checked the information and replied without raising his head.

"Didn't the mothership be built on the basis of a generation of ships? It's good to dismantle it, the mothership is broken, and the generation spaceship is not broken! The purpose of assembling the spacecraft was just to hide from the interstellar police fleet, and then see where we are now? The interstellar police fleet has long since lost sight of a shadow.

Another point is that this bloated mothership is not only fragile but also difficult to defend against, and the diameter of a spaceship with a length of nearly 10,000 kilometers is only 400 kilometers, which is not much stronger than a noodle in space. What's even more troublesome is that it is very inconvenient to get in and out. In the past, there were more than a dozen starports on the generation of spaceships, but now it's okay, taking into account the sealing factor, the starports are directly halved, and even emergency evacuation can't be done" Zhang Zheng simply hated this kind of brain-dead design.

"But don't forget, more than half of the mothership's space has been expanded into storage space, and even some mezzanine floors have been developed into ecological parks and ecological farms, and we rely on this bulky mothership to store a large amount of materials to persist to this day" As one of the designers of the mothership, Zhuge Wushuang immediately retorted.

"In fact, there is plenty of space inside the Pan Jia to accommodate these things," Elaine interjected, but retracted her head after seeing Zhuge Wushuang's unkind eyes. As the first generation of artificial intelligence in the formation, Elaine is completely indistinguishable from a real person, and even her expression is very natural.

"Huh? ......" Suddenly, Elaine, who had been natural a moment ago, immediately became serious, and the image composed of holographic projections disappeared directly, and it was not until a long time later that it reappeared.

"What's wrong?" Zhuge Wushuang asked nervously, now is not the time to fight, if a group of alien fleets suddenly appears, it will be a big deal, and the motherships of the formation are still lying in place.

"I received a communication from President Chen Peilin," Elaine replied with a solemn expression.

"Uh...... That's a good thing! Where have they been? When will we be able to join us? Zhuge Wushuang immediately became happy.

"But the receiver showed that the signal was from 300 years ago! Noah and I checked several times, and all the signals showed were from 300 years ago, 307, 11 months and 3 days! ”

"What? How can it be? It's not been three years since we've been separated, have we? Are you sure you didn't make a mistake? Zhuge Wushuang was amazed.

"No" Elaine shook her head fixedly, and at the same time pouted to express dissatisfaction with Zhuge Wushuang's questioning.

"What's going on?" Zhuge Wushuang was a little confused.

"The timing is not wrong, the signal is from Chen, but it is not more than 300 years, you have received the message after passing through the giant galaxy. The black hole swarm of the Giants Galaxy delayed the sending of information. The earliest wave of information should have passed through here days or even months ago.

Extradimensional communication is equivalent to a single broadcast in the universe. The next time I received the information was already an echo reflected back from the three-dimensional cosmic membrane, but at that time, the information had been attenuated to the point of negligibility. We were able to receive this message thanks to the Giant Galaxy," Nina's figure appeared in the command center and explained to Zhuge Wushuang.

During the flight for more than two years, the formation has been under Nina's monitoring, and the first person in the formation to receive the signal is not the artificial intelligence that manages the formation, but Nina, who controls the command center of the Pan Jia. Just before coming here, Nina had already told her the good news at home, and now the little ones were still cheering.

"How so? Isn't this universe in the same space? Zhuge Wushuang was puzzled, and Zhang Zheng on the side also showed strong interest. However, the focus of the two is different, Zhuge Wushuang is purely popularizing science. Even if the information from more than 300 years ago, the current human lifespan is thousands of years, which is not a long time at all.

In comparison, Zhang Zheng's purpose is much clearer. If space-time in the universe is not unique, then does it mean that a war with a time difference can be fought? The clever use of time lag to achieve victory is a rare example in the Earth era.

"You don't know? In fact, the theory that time is different in different regions is common sense in interstellar civilizations," Nina was amazed, as if she had seen primitive people. Although in terms of the degree of technological development, human beings can indeed be regarded as primitive people compared to the legendary Youlan clan.

In fact, there are huge space-time bubbles in the three-dimensional universe, of course, this is just a metaphor for the image point. To take an example that you are familiar with: you should know that time around the pyramids flows slower than the places ten kilometers away from the pyramids, and time on the earth's ground is slower than time in space, right? ”

"That's right! Therefore, space satellites have their own time correction systems, which are generally a set of radioactive atomic clocks," Zhang Zheng affirmed Nina's point of view.

"The reason for this phenomenon is the gravitational field. The reason why time flows slowly near the pyramids is because the mass of the pyramids is too large and concentrated. Compared to the vast space of the solar system, the Earth's gravitational field is much larger than that of space. By analogy, the solar system, the Milky Way, and many more river systems are like islands with high gravitational fields to space, and the speed of time in the islands is much higher than that of the void in interstellar space.

Different galaxies have different gravitational fields and different effects on time because of their different masses. Therefore, interstellar civilizations above level 7 use space-time bubbles to describe this phenomenon. The reason why it starts with the seventh-level civilization is because the sixth-level civilization is often difficult to leave its own river system, and the experience of this phenomenon is not particularly obvious.

In response to the fact that the same fleet appears at different times, interstellar civilizations have come up with proven ways to calibrate each other's time. One way to do this is to unify the output power of the gravity generator coupled to the spacecraft's anti-gravity engine, so that the ships of the same formation have the same gravity field. The output power of each gravity generator in the Golden Crow Formation is all locked under normal circumstances, what do you think this is for?"

"So, all the epochs of the various interstellar civilizations actually represent the same time?" Zhuge Wushuang began to draw inferences. Looking at the information left by the Galactic Alliance before, how many epochs ago something happened to Zhuge Wushuang with relish, and he was surprised by their long history, and dared to feel that their time era and earth civilization are not a concept at all? (To be continued.) )