Chapter 104: The Sea of Light (Second Update, Let's Get Some Monthly Passes!) )
After twenty-four hours of acceleration from the Skyhawk A satellite base, the fleet reached a speed of 10,000 kilometers per second.
Compared with village-level spaceships, township-level spaceships are less maneuverable. In addition, this is not an extreme test, but a regular voyage, so the acceleration time is a little longer. In doing so, it helps to extend the life of the engine.
The chaotic meteorites in the Aquila galaxy pose no threat in the face of thousands of starships equipped with high-energy laser cannons, high-energy energy cannons, and energy shields. During the voyage, unless the density of these stones reaches a certain level, Xiao Yu needs to consider the problem of slowing down and avoiding.
Under normal circumstances, it is enough to directly control the fleet and rush over.
After sailing more than 400 million kilometers, Xiao Yu's fleet laid down the first batch of ten transit satellites.
Each of these relay satellites is equipped with over-range communication instruments, some simple meteorite impact protection systems, in addition to an energy shield system and a power system.
These systems help to improve the survivability of transit satellites and can prevent them from accidental damage.
The signal transmission speed of over-distance communication is extremely fast, and only one satellite can afford the data communication of the entire fleet, and the reason why ten of them are placed here is to prevent unexpected situations. After all, during a long voyage of 1.4 light-years, there is no guarantee that there will be a problem with one instrument. If the communication system is arranged in a linear shape, the entire communication line will be paralyzed if it is damaged at all. If you arrange it in the form of a net, you don't have this concern, one line is paralyzed, and there is another.
Xiao Yu's huge fleet is like a seeding machine, every time it passes a distance. Plant the next seed in space.
After four months of sailing, Xiao Yu's fleet reached a distance of 100 billion kilometers from the main base of Sky A. Xiao Yu's fleet once again passed through the heliopause of Aquila I, out of the Shili control of this juvenile star.
Otherwise, it will be the world of interstellar dust. Xiao Yu's fleet was once again wrapped in a reddish nebula.
Thousands of transit satellites have been sown, and more than a dozen village-level spacecraft have emptied their stockpiles. They broke away from the fleet and began to return to the Aquila A base.
In fact, in this fleet of more than a thousand ships. Only the special spacecraft will reach the Aquila II double system, and the rest of the spacecraft will all return to the Space Hawk A base after installing the relay satellites. The reason why he refused to let too many spaceships reach the Aquila II binary star system was Xiao Yu's consideration just in case.
In this case, even if your ship is captured by this unknown existence. It will only get a township-class ship, and it will not make a big difference.
In the middle of a nebula. Every ten hours. A batch of transit satellites will be released, and they will maintain their position under their own power system, maintaining the connection between Xiao Yu and the expeditionary fleet. Every few days, a ship breaks away from the main force and begins to return home.
More than twenty years later. The fleet is already halfway there, about 0.7 light-years. Xiao Yu's fleet has been reduced to less than five hundred spaceships.
Here, is the location of the Apart cloud of Aquila A. But. In places with a high concentration of stars, such as the Aquila Nebula, Oort clouds do not usually have a clear tendency to belong. Some of the material here may belong to two stars at the same time, that is, it may be the Oort cloud of Aquila I and the Oort cloud of another star. Under gravitational disturbances, their orbits are very unstable, and they may still be revolving around star A in one circle, and the next circle will run around star B.
There are even stars that don't have Oort clouds at all. This is usually the case when a passing star captures its Oort cloud.
Time passed slowly, and gradually, Xiao Yu only had five years left to sail from the Aquila II double galaxy, and there was still a distance of about 1.5 trillion kilometers. Above this distance, the brightness of the Aquila II Y has finally increased to the point where it is visible to the naked eye. But the white dwarf Aquila 2X is still not visible.
In fact, Xiao Yu has never watched the Sky Eagle 2X. It was only through the measurement of the orbit of Aquila 2Y, the rate of mass loss, and the gamma rays released by Aquila 2X devouring the material of the companion star, that Xiao Yu determined the structure of the Aquila 2 binary galaxy and confirmed that it had a white dwarf companion star.
This is a common occurrence in the universe. In fact, not to mention the human beings of the earth era, even with Xiao Yu's technology, they have never directly observed the black hole as a star until now, but can only determine the existence of a black hole through the gravitational lensing phenomenon around the black hole, as well as the orbit of the surrounding stars, and the various radiation released by the black hole engulfing matter.
Xiao Yu's fleet, and the distance between the Aquila II binary star system, is getting closer and closer. When there was only a billion kilometers left, Xiao Yu's fleet only had two spaceships left.
One is Xiao Yu's special observation spacecraft, and the other is a transport spacecraft. The transport ship will return to its home after releasing a relay satellite from Zuihou.
During these nearly fifty years of sailing, Xiao Yu accomplished a feat. Xiao Yu laid a communication link connecting the two stars, and between the two stars, Xiao Yu will be able to achieve basically no delay communication.
Above this distance, Xiao Yu unexpectedly saw that there were still planets in the Aquila II binary star system. It was a gas planet about 0.6 times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting the two central stars in a 69-year cycle.
A red dwarf, a white dwarf, a planet, and countless interstellar materials make up this complex and sophisticated binary star system.
The distance between red and white dwarfs is only 10 million kilometers. Such close proximity meant that they had to orbit each other at insane speeds to avoid impact. However, no matter how fast they rotate, there is always a white bond between the two stars.
This white bond, 10 million kilometers long, connects the red dwarf at one end, where it is the thickest, and then it tapers and gradually extends to the white dwarf, and after a few weeks around the white dwarf, it finally connects to the white dwarf.
Through this white link, stellar material from red dwarfs is constantly transferred to white dwarfs, and the rate of material transfer reaches an astonishing 17 million tons per second.
The color of this bond is white, which proves that it has a temperature of about 6,000 degrees Celsius, which is basically the same as the surface of the sun.
At a distance of one billion kilometers, through a telescope, Xiao Yu could perceive every detail of this magical binary star system, and only then did he see this wonder.
Even if it is still a billion kilometers away from this binary star system, the radiation intensity here is already many times higher than that of the sun -- Xiao Yu has detected X-ray and gamma-ray radiation that is at least 10,000 times the intensity of the sun.
But all this is within the limits of what a purpose-built ship can handle. Xiao Yu continued to move forward without hesitation.
Within a billion kilometers, there is basically no matter left, no asteroid belts, no planets, no dust. This is because the stellar winds are so strong that they empty the area.
Xiao Yu's spaceship was still approaching rapidly. When there were only 300 million kilometers left, a transport spacecraft in Zuihou also released its own transit satellite and embarked on the journey back. Only the only township-level spaceship remained, like a lonely boat floating in the sea, persevering towards the target.
Xiao Yu aimed his telescope at this crazy binary star system.
Xiao Yu continued to increase the resolution of the picture and reduce the luminosity at the same time, and finally, a picture of the surface details of the white dwarf star was synthesized by Xiao Yu.
After just one glance, Xiao Yu's eyes couldn't be moved away.
Xiao Yu saw that on this white dwarf star, which was not as large as the earth but had a mass equivalent to the sun, there were many things of different heights that resembled man-made buildings.
Due to extreme gravity, high temperatures and other factors, the stellar material adsorbed to the surface of the white dwarf is in a strange state, and they show the characteristics of fluids, but they cannot be described as liquid. In this state, energy radiates from all moments, including visible light, including heat.
The luminosity of a white dwarf is extremely weak, but this faintness is relative to the star, and its luminosity is still in the stellar order.
It's a sea of light and furious energy. In the middle of the ocean, Xiao Yu saw that there were countless buildings, some similar to tall factories, some similar to huge machines, and countless tiny robots were busy there.
This white dwarf and a red dwarf are both in a state of madness. In this violent dance of cosmic death, there are still technological civilization creations.
From Xiao Yu's point of view, these buildings are beautiful and full of a strange beauty. From these buildings, Xiao Yu sensed the atmosphere of tranquility and tranquility, and it seemed that among these buildings, there were all the most beautiful things in the universe.
"Strange technological civilization, I've been waiting for you here for fifty years, and you're finally here."
There was a message sent to this specially made spacecraft, and then, this message was immediately sent to the transit satellite 400 million kilometers away, and the satellite sent this message to the next one, just like that, one after another, like a relay race, and finally, this message reached Xiao Yu's mind.
Xiao Yu was stunned. (To be continued......)
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