Chapter Seventy-Eight: Leap
The third-party ship's ion thrusters accelerated themselves to one hundredth of the speed of light and flew towards Angel's star.
Now that all the systems on the third-party ship have been tested, this spacecraft built thousands of years ago has finally begun to play its due role after going through many difficulties and dangers.
The destination of this voyage is Angel's star, and the third ship will open a jump wormhole on the surface of the star, and at the other end of the wormhole is the "Schulte" star system seven light years away.
Schulte, located in the Zegi sector of the Zeta sector, is numbered CC9983 and has a magnitude of 5.0 and a total mass similar to that of Angel.
It is the closest to Angel's star system, the former Federation Star Field.
The mission of the third-party ship this time is to confirm the safety and reliability of the ultra-remote star warp, and the second is to see if the colonies in the "Schulte" star system are still well preserved, and whether they can contact the federal star field government through them.
"Catherine, let's get the fleet back to the third ship after this cruise, and we're going to start preparing for the star warp." After Susie has checked all the items, she notifies the fleet to return home.
"Roger, the fleet is approaching."
The No. 01 "Reckless" class battleship began to move closer to the third-party ship with other ships and fighter formations.
The huge hull of the "Reckless Beast" class battleship looks incomparably small when it gets close to the third ship, this is a giant spaceship with a length of more than 1,700 kilometers, and you should even be careful of the gravitational pull generated by it when you get close to it.
The ultra-long-range stellar refraction engine of the third-party ship is so huge that it occupies almost one-tenth of the spacecraft's volume.
Now, in order to activate the reflex engine, the solar furnace is fully energizing the engine.
Upon approaching Angel's star, the Hop Engine will connect to the star's gravity well, opening a wormhole to the target star by drawing energy from the star and using the star's gravity well as a fulcrum.
Even this huge hopping engine on a third-party ship, coupled with the energy from the interior of the overdrawn star, can only open a wormhole with a diameter of less than 5,000 kilometers.
Therefore, the ark and the fleet must remain in a dense formation, and Susie even considered integrating all the fleets into the third ark before making a jump.
However, in order to ensure the safety of the third-party ships, the fleet must always be in a state of combat readiness, and the situation in the "Schulte" system is still unclear, so it is still necessary to be ready for combat at any time.
The third ship has already passed through the asteroid belt formed by the collapse of the first planet, and is only 50 million kilometers away from the star Angel.
The Ark began to correct its flight angle, and it could not plunge headlong into Angel's star.
After orbit correction, it will take about an hour for the third ship to reach the foldable region on the surface of Angel's star, and then the most critical moment will be.
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Tang Hao looked at the third-party boat in the three-dimensional star map, and he was also very nervous.
The ravages of subspace power have led to the complete extinction of subspace navigation technology.
The only way to cross such a long distance between stars is to rely on ultra-long-range stellar hopping technology.
In front of him was the first large-scale ship experiment of this stellar-level navigation technology, to be honest, Tang Hao was not very confident in his heart.
"Adjutant, do you need help with F027? I'm fine anyway, you can go and see it. "Tang Hao can't help himself.
The adjutant replied: "Your Excellency, commander, you don't need to be too nervous, this machine and the F027 adjutant have already simulated many times, and it is impossible for this kind of distance to be unexpected." ”
The corners of Tang Hao's mouth crooked: "Why did I hear what you said so panicked." ”
Soon the ark was moored to the edge of Angel's star's gravity well, and the energy-filled reflex engine began to connect with the stellar gravity well, and then the energy inside the star flowed from high to low to the inside of the fold engine.
Looking at it from a high-dimensional perspective, Tang Hao could see that the inside of the star seemed to have been poked into a hole, and golden molten matter flowed out of it and slowly injected into a huge black hole.
This black hole is a wormhole created by the Folding Engine.
The Fold-Over engine consists of three parts, one is a super energy storage, the second is a large wormhole generator, and the third is an interstellar positioning system.
Energy flows from the memory into the wormhole generator, which then connects two stars that are light-years apart, or even tens of light-years apart, under the guidance of a positioning system.
It seems to be a simple principle, but the ultra-long-range folding technology was the most cutting-edge technology field in the Federation Star Domain thousands of years ago.
If this technology can be popularized at the beginning, then mankind can completely abandon subspace navigation technology, and it can also block the pollution of many subspace forces.
It's a pity that it is only now that the third-party ship has really used ultra-long-range star warping on a large ship, and the Federation Star Domain is nowhere to be found.
Now, the edge of the wormhole was rapidly expanding, and Tang Hao also saw that the originally pitch-black area of the wormhole was now beginning to light up with dots of light.
This is a manifestation of the success of the wormhole connection, and at this point, the flip is basically considered a success.
As the wormhole slowly expands, the entire passage unfolds completely, and the edges of the passage are like rolled up brims, and the light is distorted into an arc as it passes through it.
The third-party boat activated the ion thrusters and began to move towards the interior of the wormhole.
Tang Hao looked at the deep passage in front of him and took a deep breath: "It's finally time to take the first step." ”
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When the magnificent wormhole unfolded in front of the third ship, Angel's star was briefly robbed of its brilliance.
Susie finally checked it, and after confirming that it was correct, she issued an order: "All ships keep in formation, move forward, and enter the wormhole!" ”
Ships and warplanes, large and small, attached themselves to the third party and followed the ark into the wormhole.
After all the ships enter the wormhole, the edge of the wormhole begins to curl inward.
The passage with a diameter of 5,000 kilometers began to slowly close, and the light in the passage gradually extinguished.
As the passage gets smaller and smaller, the cosmic background obscured by the wormhole reappears.
Eventually, the passage disappeared into the light of Angel's star, and everything returned to its usual state.
The stellar energy consumed made Angel's star dim by one hundred thousandths in a short period of time.
Other than that, the Angel system was running as before, as if nothing had happened before.
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Seven light-years away, a huge channel has also appeared on the surface of the Schulte star at the center of the Schulte galaxy.
The huge figure of the third party boat emerged from the passage, and a small black dot could even be seen on the surface of the star.