"Lighthouse Lighthouse, this is Puff 5, escorting transport ship AZ617 into the Amstar Gate Channel, waiting for instructions."

"Puff 5, this is the lighthouse, you have a 7-minute window, please pass as soon as possible, pay attention to the speed of passing."

"Roger, Lighthouse, we're all right, can the migrants on the transport ship handle it?"

"The carrier has been equipped with the latest anti-G gel capsules, so don't worry."

Bathed in the soft light of the Wisdom Star, the Warhammer Destroyer, which resembles a giant thumbtack, and the transport, which resembles a flounder, begin to accelerate, and in front of them, a fluctuating curtain of light leads to another cosmic space.

The cockpit of the destroyer is in the tail section, the space is like a teardrop, and the maximum diameter is only six or seven meters. At the top of the droplet, three seats are arranged at equal angles, and the three crew members are dressed in lightweight naval space armor, and their faces are also hidden in full-face helmets.

"Every time I report to my home, it's a test to hone my sense of shame, so unscrupulously showing off that I'm a foodie, the squadron leader's consciousness and activity are all trained by shame."

Puff 5's midshipman Li Jingze complained that as an outstanding student of the Class of 2023 of the Starlink Special Service Academy, he is now a warrant officer, but he was assigned to the 03 squadron, known as the "foodie squadron", no matter how great the future is, morale is always not high.

"The seniors are like this", the weapons officer Ostrov sighed: "They think that it is a shame to give the squad and the battleship that kind of hot-blooded and cool names, our squadron's foodie attribute is already the orthodox route, 02 squadron is an arthropod zoo, 04 squadron is a double horse tail control club, 05 squadron's new marine squad code name is a crotch cloth, and they have used up all kinds of underwear titles......"

"Praying mantis, block the front! Ellie, explode its! Boxers, cover flanks! ”

System officer Kono Lin shouted: "Caviar, boom it!" ”

He spread his hands and smiled, "It's exciting, isn't it?" ”

Li Jingze muttered: "Then the puff will take over and give it a heavy blow?" ”

The force of inertia pressed them heavily on their seats, but they continued to laugh and talk unaffected. For them, acceleration of less than 10G is nothing more than a drizzle.

The tail flames of the destroyers and transports were green and blue, bright and indefinite, and soon approached the stargate, and when there was still a third of the distance, they were embedded in the hull, and the engines turned like a ball, and the nozzles were facing forward, spewing out a flame of light that was even brighter than just now, and the speed of the ship was forcibly reduced.

From the destroyer and the transport, two circular spheres with a diameter of less than 2 meters were launched at the same time to pass through the stargate and inform the lighthouse on the other side of the stargate that they were about to pass through the stargate.

The electromagnetic waves inside and outside the stargate are isolated, and only gravitational waves will penetrate, but now human beings are not able to do fine detection of gravitational waves, let alone use gravitational waves for communication, so they can only rely on a lighthouse system to manage the traffic of the stargate, otherwise it is difficult to avoid traffic accidents. The current stargate is at the peak of immigration, whether it is the Amm Star Gate or the Earth Star Gate, several spaceships will enter and exit every hour.

The ship immersed itself in the light curtain, penetrated the stargate, and came to the cosmic space where Amm was located. Compared to the previous inside the stargate, the world here seems to be much thinner than even the darkness, and the small gray and yellow planet standing quietly in the center of space 100 million kilometers away is the only existence in this space. If it weren't for the light of the stargate shining on it, it would be a dark abyss.

A slight vibration was transmitted to the cockpit, which was the movement of the previously launched "contact probe" as it was recovered.

"Kono, do a routine check."

"Oz, you rest first, then Kono, I'll last."

"Puff 5, go to cruise acceleration mode, notify the transport ship, don't lose it."

Li Jingze issued a series of orders as the captain, and the two subordinates changed their previous casual tone and responded very seriously, and then a mechanical voice sounded: "Puff 5 received!" ”

This is the GEI of Puff 5, in a sense, it is the owner of this space destroyer, and Lee Kyung-taek is just the operator.

"Then I'll sleep first, I'm so sleepy, my biological clock is always inaccurate, I really envy those LV3 guys......"

Ostrov muttered as he emerged from his armor and slipped into the hatch under his seat in a close-fitting in-cabin spacesuit, which was his personal rest pod.

"When will we be able to drive a space battleship with a spacious bridge", Kono Lin sighed, "The warhammer is said to be a destroyer, and this little space is no different from a space tank." ”

"It's coming soon," Li Jingze said with a hint of longing: "If there are no accidents on this voyage, we should be able to catch up with the launching ceremony of the Golden Crow." ”

The ship flew towards Amm, and on the transport ship painted with the blue cross logo, a round capsule shrank, revealing a petite and thin human body. It was a little girl who was less than ten years old, her eyes were closed, she was panting, and the violent overload had not yet recovered, but the sign on the bracelet was turning from yellow to green showed that her body was fine.

There were fifty or sixty people in the spacious cabin, and they were staring blankly at the large screen of the bulkhead, on which was the picture of a planet, although gray and yellow, everyone showed a yearning look.

That's Am, their new home, they, the stargate syndrome sufferers, have been abandoned by the entire human race, but they still have a home. Although it looks like a desert, it's always a home.

The little girl had no expression on her face, and her eyes were more like ice. For her, as long as her family is still there, she will be at home wherever she goes, and now, even if she becomes a normal person and returns to Earth, she will never feel at home again.

"Xiaoxiao, you and me, and everyone", a young girl hugged her, and her words were full of pity.

Li Xiaoxiao still didn't speak, just hugged the girl tightly, and waited for a group of boys and girls who were about her age to come over, and the ice in her eyes turned into tears and dripped down.

She choked up and asked, "Sister Xiaoping, are we exiled?" ”

"No, it's not exile", Xiaoping stroked the top of Xiaoxiao's head and said in a firm tone: "We, ah, are going to create a new world, a world better than the earth." ”

The Siyuan space station, which used to be more than 10 kilometers in diameter and empty and large, has been separated from many functional areas and has become a real space station.

There is a research center of the Starlink Academy of Sciences, a training center of the Starlink Special Service, a robot manufacturing center, and a spaceship manufacturing factory. Together with other units, there are a total of more than 100 institutions and 7,000 or 8,000 people.

The space station's spacecraft manufacturing plant has more than a dozen docks, the largest of which is 3 kilometers in diameter, and the first space cruiser of the Star Alliance, the Golden Crow, is doing the final assembly work here.

"Will it take another 10 days to finish? I'm also going to give you two pieces of good news at the Xinghai Festival in a week's time. ”

On the observation platform on the wall of the dock, Xia Ming looked down on the battleship, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited and anxious in his heart, and complained to Lou Xinghai beside him.

Not counting the Siyuan space station, this warship is the largest spaceship ever built by mankind. The long axis is 500 meters, the width is 100 meters, and the height is 70 meters, and the shape resembles a bird with folded wings and swooping.

There is no air in space, and how to design the shape seems to be free to play, as long as the space that meets the function can be reasonable and convenient.

However, unlike the compact Warhammer destroyer, this is the first time in human history that a ship with high maneuverability is required to be designed in a huge size, and even with titanium-based metamaterials, it is difficult to ensure that the G-force bearing of the hull and internal structure is reasonable.

Starlink's scientists had to rely on human experience in the design of atmospheric vehicles, and there is a huge amount of data to learn from in this regard. As a result, the appearance of the Golden Crow looks a lot like a Tomcat fighter with the tail fins removed, the wings shaved off, and the fuselage pressed into a stubby, without a cockpit.

Theoretically, the spherical structure is the most reasonable, but the spherical form is difficult to reasonably configure weapons and power systems, and in order to accommodate three powerful main weapons, it is necessary to have such a long axis.

Lou Xinghai said: "If the test run of the large heavy ion engine is carried out outside the space station, and if the celebration is held in the dock, it can be done now." ”

The heavy ion engine is an improvement of Starlink's ion engine, using helium fuel with a greater mass than hydrogen atoms, so the plasma kinetic energy is stronger, coupled with the further improvement of the intelligent electromagnetic wave emission array technology, the thrust is increased to four times that of the previous generation ion engine.

Such an engine can allow the Golden Crow to go back and forth between the Earth and the stargate in 20 days, and can also make maneuvers close to 10G inertial force in space, which is also close to the current withstand limit of super-titanium materials. It is an unimaginable miracle for a spaceship larger than four Ford-class aircraft carriers to have the ability to maneuver close to that of an atmospheric fighter.

One week away, on May 5th, the Star Sea Festival, a year ago, Younas and the Star Alliance teamed up in the Stargate to defeat the mutated Ammen and seize control of the two Stargate exits.

Now, a year later, the Star Alliance has torn out a clear boundary with mankind, and after turning its energy to Stargate, a series of technological achievements and astronomical sums of money have finally lit up the technology tree of the space cruiser.

The entry into service of the Golden Crow means that mankind has finally gotten rid of the primitive era of space warfare. A year ago, the Golden Crow with a warhammer formation would have been enough to sweep the mutant Borg like a space rat.

Xia Ming was going to announce a major decision related to the Starlink special service at the same time as the completion of the Golden Crow, and now it seems that the ceremony can only be changed to the dock, not the Golden Crow.

"The people of the UNOC Academy of Space Sciences are inquiring about the news of the heavy ion engine, and they have also heard some rumors about the ion cannon being developed, how to respond to them?"

Lou Xinghai talked about the unpleasant topic again, Xia Ming snorted coldly: "Before we put these technologies in the transaction list, any investigation is an act of espionage, and it seems that it is necessary to strengthen the power of counter-espionage." ”

Huaxia finally signed the "Soul Charter" seven months ago, and the United States is still delaying, but the "Soul Charter" has set off the tide of the times, and the Americans are not only powerless to stop it, but also because of this "reaction", the domestic situation has gradually changed.

However, this is not something that Xia Ming and the entire Starlink are concerned about, relying on the "Soul Charter", Starlink has drawn a clear line with the UNOC and various countries, focusing on technology research and development and infrastructure construction, and making various preparations for the uncertain future.

Lou Xinghai said again: "Younas's drone fleet is getting bigger and bigger, and if it goes on like this, it's hard to guarantee that they don't have other ideas." I've always felt that we still have to rely on asteroid resources to support logistics, which is dangerous. ”

Xia Ming frowned slightly, the Star Alliance was expanding its army, and Younas was also rebuilding, and the pace was much faster than the Star Alliance, because they were piling up drones.

Younas has already deployed sixteen drone carriers in the stargate, and these motherships are only one circle smaller than the Golden Crow, and they are also big guys with a long axis of more than 300 meters. Each one carries thousands of unmanned fighters, and the firepower it carries is also very powerful, although it is not enough to compete with the Warhammer destroyers of the Star Alliance, but in Younas's eyes, the Star Alliance, which only has about a hundred destroyers, cannot resist the sea of drones of Younas at all.

Therefore, in the Star Gate, the relationship between the rebuilt Younas and the Star Alliance has somewhat returned to the state it was more than a year ago. Younas still thinks that he is the main force guarding the satellite gate, and the star alliance is just an insignificant auxiliary force. Moreover, Yunas's other mission is also clearer than a year ago, that is, to guard against the Star Alliance, even when necessary......

Xia Ming was not naïve enough not to be wary of Younas, nor did he overreact to list Younas as the combat target of the Star Alliance's special services. In contrast, the fragility of the logistics base is a more real threat than Younas.

At present, most of the supplies in the stargate have come from the production base in the asteroid belt. The water and oxygen needed to sustain life, the hydrogen and helium needed to fuel warships, the metals such as titanium, iron, and aluminum needed to make warships, robots, and equipment, and the emitting elements needed for space reactors are all now provided by the space station, a resource in the asteroid belt.

Although most of the resource space stations are owned by Starlink, they still have to rely on Stargate Transit, and the operation and maintenance rely on components such as Musk and Bezos. After Huaxia signed the "Soul Charter", the resource development progress of the asteroid belt has accelerated a lot, but most of it has been sent to Younas, and Starlink has received a small share.

In addition to these resources, food, organic materials, polymers for metamaterials, chips, and even paper all depend on the earth for transportation. It is still impossible for Starlink to get rid of the earth and be completely autonomous.

It's not that Xia Ming and the Star Alliance want to abandon the human race, but this situation is a big obstacle to the development of the Star Alliance. The logistical costs are too high, and the progress of space construction is too slow. If the materials are sufficient, the Jinwu can be completed two or three months ago, but the production capacity of the asteroid belt is so much, and the transportation line to Siyuan is also so much, and other materials are the most common conditions in the Jinwu manufacturing process.

Xia Ming said: "The Star Gate is still expanding, and it may not be impossible to make new discoveries, and the immigration project of Amstar is also an attempt." ”

Lou Xinghai was stunned, he didn't know much about the situation inside the Star Gate, but Xia Ming pinned some of his hopes on Amstar, which seemed to be a bit contrary to common sense.

"Amstar only has sand and iron", Lou Xinghai carefully pointed out the problem.

"It's still in a low-dimensional state, and this state is not eternal", Xia Ming said, Lou Xinghai's eyes lit up, does it mean that it can still be upgraded?

Of course, it can be ascensed, but it's not that simple.

Xia Ming was about to explain in detail, and a ripple rippled in his consciousness, which was a message from Qianyi.

"The large-scale effect of the chaotic strings was found in the expansion, and it is suspected that the variants of other stargates ......"

Xia Ming's heart was shocked, is it finally here!? (To be continued.) )