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When the two assault ships and eight Super Banshee starfighters returned, the Skyship was still hidden in the interstellar dust, but one less of the ships escorted by the escort, and the cruiser Darre, along with several ambulance support ships, had left the dust belt of the Hidden Fleet and headed to the location reported by the Phantom Team to search and collect as many metal fragments as possible.

"Risson, how did this trip go? Found what we need? The assault ship had not yet landed on the Archangel, so Yao immediately sent an inquiry via video communication.

"Nope. The Imperial Security Service has already deleted all the relevant data from the computers of the Aragonese Research Station, and we are too late. Risen smiled and shook his head, answering bluntly.

"Really? The look on your face is suspicious? ”

"Of course it's true, Dr. Lippmann can testify, but," Risen smiled mysteriously, "although we didn't get the relevant data, but it wasn't for nothing, the people from the Aragon Research Station pointed out another way, we can start somewhere else, and the specific situation will be detailed when the commando team returns to the Archangel, let's leave the Nightingale system first, I think, we've been in Nightingale for a while." ”

"Well, I see, you guys should come back first, but to leave the Nightingale system, you have to wait for the cruiser Daring to complete its mission before you can set sail."

"I also noticed that there is one cruiser missing from the fleet, it turns out that the Bold was sent by you, what is the mission?"

"On a search and recovery mission, the Elite Phantom Team has discovered something that might interest us. She thinks it's worth sending an ambulance support ship or even a ship to further expand the search and recover as much wreckage and debris as possible, and I agree with her. Yao explained this softly.

"Wreckage? Splinter? Risen scratched his head in disbelief, "Good things come in pairs?" Wouldn't they, but did they really find it? ”

He didn't have any hope at all.

"It's uncertain whether the debris is related to the Sodi Diplomatic Representative ship, and it's difficult to find a slightly larger, complete, discernible piece of wreckage, which has almost all been shattered into metal particles. Even computers are hard to identify. Xiaojing doesn't know, and I don't know, what could cause such terrible consequences. That's why I'm sending out the Bold to collect as much debris as possible from the wreckage, from which Dr. Lippmann's technical team might be able to analyze something that the computer can't figure out. ”

"What do you think," Risen asked, hesitantly, his face grimening, "...... Is it sunset? ”

"Maybe, but. It doesn't seem to be quite like it, the definition of sunset is a planetary-destroying weapon, a huge destructive energy that can destroy a planet, if it is borne by a small ship about a hundred meters in size, this ship may not leave any wreckage, and it is more credible to melt or vaporize it directly. ”

Not necessarily, the definition of planetary destruction. It doesn't necessarily mean causing an entire planet to explode. It could also be the destruction of the entire planetary ecosystem or the destruction of the planet's surface, which can be defined as planetary destruction-level weapons, and. It's also possible that the sunset didn't hit the poor ship directly, but just swept the edge and didn't happen as you said. ”

"Again, the point is that we know too little about Project Omega, and we don't know anything other than that Sunset is a planet-destroying weapon, and we don't even know what kind of 'sexual' weapon it is." The girl patted her forehead in annoyance.

"We'll know," Risen was confident, "we'll know as we investigate, let's start with these fragments, and hopefully it will tell us something behind them." ”

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When the Dardado rejoined the fleet, its hangar was littered with small scraps of metal, like a large garbage heap, and in order to accommodate the pile, the Snow Wolf Starfighter squadron had to be forced to leave the Daring, either on temporary alert duty, or move to other ships to make enough space.

In fact, the space is absolutely sufficient, even if all the collected fragments are added together, the hangar of the Bold is more than enough to accommodate it, but after all, these collected fragments can not be stacked together, only tiled, so the area that needs to be occupied is very large, otherwise it is not only not conducive to the technicians to carefully search and screen the fragments, but also may cause secondary damage to some fragments.

"That's all the wreckage collected? That's all

？ When Risen saw the scene of the daring hangar through the screen, he couldn't help but puff out, the things laid out in the hangar, although it seemed that the entire hangar was full, it seemed to be a lot, but in fact, if all these debris were combined, its size was not even larger than an assault ship.

It would be very appalling if these wreckage fragments really belonged to the missing diplomatic ship, which was hundreds of meters and 20,000 tons in size, and now, there was only such a small amount left?

"Yes, Colonel, we've tried as much as we can to search, and our pilots have worked hard to find most of the ones here, you see, many of the fragments are not much bigger than the palm of a man's hand, and the rest are ......," Lieutenant Commander Phillips, the captain of the Dardacity, shook his head, "They can't be recovered, they're too small and scattered to be worth recycling, and we can't even detect them." ”

"Understood, thank you, Lieutenant Colonel, for your hard work. Is Dr. Lippmann here? "In the hangar of the Daring, a group of technicians in white coats under the Doctor's command are carefully examining each piece one by one.

"Wait a minute, Colonel."

When the gray-haired old man appeared in front of the screen, Risen immediately looked forward to asking about the preliminary findings.

"The analysis and identification work has just begun, not so fast, our work first starts with the easiest to identify, the largest fragments of the wreckage, it is certain that the long object mentioned by Major Zhang Xiaojing is indeed one of the components of the ion engine, the computer is not wrong in the analysis, according to our experience, this object, maybe the M...-800 has a wide range of shiploading, and the preliminary statistics are no less than fifteen ship types using this engine, so, I think, It is too early to say that the wreckage belongs to the Sodi diplomatic representative ship, and we are analysing the other wreckage fragments in the hope of finding more evidence to confirm the ship's true identity. ”

"Is there anything you have found about the reasons for the almost complete crushing and disintegration of this ship?" Risen thought for a moment and asked again.

"There is only one discovery, it should have been destroyed by a powerful energy weapon, and we can confirm this through the regular linear traces distributed on some of the wreckage, but many energy weapons can cause such traces, so it is not clear which type of energy weapon it is."

"Thanks, Doctor, keep you up with any progress, Risson, over."

"Although the doctor says it's not for sure, I'm willing to bet you, Resson, it must be the diplomatic ship, and I didn't expect us to find it." As soon as the call ended, Schneier shouted happily.

Risen looked at the expressions on the faces of the people around him, not only Schneier, most people probably think so, how can there be such a coincidence? Even Risen himself basically believed that this was the missing ship that seemed to disappear into thin air.

"But, Captain," Jessica asked, bewildered, "how could it have strayed so far from its intended course?" No wonder the original joint survey ship could not find it. ”

"I don't know," Risen shook his head.

"Risson," Sonia guessed in thought, "...... Could it be that they also saw the flash of white and wanted to go over to see what was going on, so something happened? ”

"Maybe, it's all speculation, no escape pod was found, and I don't know if there were survivors, what the situation was like at that time, I'm afraid only the one who caused all this will know, maybe, this mystery will never be solved."

"So what are we going to do now? Rissen. Schneier asked.

"Now, don't ask me, ask Philen." Risen turned his gaze to Yao and made an inviting gesture, "We've been here for too long, take us out of here, Commander." ”

The girl smiled slightly, "Inform the fleet, prepare to set sail, course 1-1-0, half-speed, helmsman." ”

"Understood, heading 1-1-0, half-speed."

"Huh? Aren't we going to the New London planet in the New London system? ”

"Stupid, of course not, the New London galaxy is the capital galaxy of the empire, isn't it looking for death to go there......"