After Aishara's awakening, a larger voyage was initiated under the concept of 'arrive first anyway'.

Countless spaceships of all sizes have set off from the existing bases and spent eight years spilling their footprints over the entire sub-star cluster, and even more than 100 spacecraft have crossed the boundary of the 'current star cluster' in one fell swoop and arrived in outer space, where the material density is even rarer.

As a result, these scientific pioneers kept looking forward and looking back at the gaps, and continued to explore in depth in one star system after another;

Among them, the former began to seek to observe the world from a larger scale;

The latter continues to fill the existing gaps in the field of massive stars.

During this period, countless knowledge was gathered and exchanged in the virtual realm, and countless inspirations were generated from the thinking of a famous scholar, and the Republic entered into a decade-long accumulation.

In the process, cognition is changing, knowledge is precipitating, technology is brewing, and when all this takes shape little by little over the years, everything has changed very differently from the past.

At this time, the 821 systems composed of a total of 1,624 stars of different stages could already be directly or indirectly seen in the traces of the Republic, and after several boundary expansions, this star field development plan that lasted for decades finally came to fruition.

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It turns out that the star system itself is dominated by binary stars, followed by a complex multi-star system, and orphans like the mother star are a minority of them, which is not only the conclusion of the exploration of the 'current group', but also in line with the results of the periscope of the wider universe.

Of all the star systems that the voyage took, the presence of planets seems to be a modest proportion

There are quite a few systems in which only motes are accompanied by meteorite material clouds and stars, and this condition accounts for almost 45% of the total, and most of them are multi-star systems, but there are still scientific research ships of the Republic holding their posts in this 'barrenness';

secondly, there are 'not rich' systems with less than one-third of the parent star system in addition to the stars, and such systems account for 35% of the total, and there are elven research ships, mining spacecraft, and surface smelting centers for small stars.

Again, the remaining 20% is known as the 'bonanza'

In addition to the above-mentioned general projects as standard, it is also equipped with an immigration base and a construction center that is busy all year round, and there are large and small spaceships that start or end here, and they seem to be moving back and forth like a phantom in the busy interstellar route.

As of 507 Rune Calendar, the Republic has discovered 8 super-immigrant stars, 26 second-level immigrant stars, and 96 final immigrant stars in the 'rich mineral' area that has been explored

Among them, 'supergrade' refers to rock-based stars that happen to be in their respective habitable zones, have qualified magnetic fields, and are of appropriate size and mass, so that they will not allow element 1 to escape at high speed;

However, without exception, they are only in the habitable zone, and there is no natural formation of a livable environment in the narrow sense, let alone any trace of life;

However, for the Republic, this part of the astral body will be relatively easier to modify, and after the completion of large-scale planetary climate modification, there are still conditions to maintain the new system on its own;

Therefore, whether it is during or after the transformation, the energy, material and energy required will be less.

The "secondary migration star" refers to rock-based stars that are in the habitable zone but have defects in themselves, such as the lack of magnetic field due to the cooling of the star core, too large or too small mass, etc., although the transformation process will be a little troublesome, but in general, it still shows a trend of making steady profits and not losses;

The last 'final migration star' refers to rock-based stars located outside the traditional habitable zone, which are either extremely hot, extremely cold, or the moons of giant planets, whether it is the process of transformation or the maintenance of the environment afterwards, it will be quite troublesome, time-consuming, labor-intensive and energy-intensive;

For them, for the time being, depending on the situation, it will be decided which method to use.

First, it will be specially designed to move the orbit to the habitable zone, and eventually be built as a 'secondary';

second, to maintain only the necessary small biosphere, and then open it to the sect and city-state as a resource star;

Third, it only maintains the original environment while maintaining the virtual corridor, making it a fully automatic mining and smelting base maintained by a few projections;

Fourth, if it is not developed, it may also become an adaptive training ground for elves to promote the genetic awakening of underage individuals.

In terms of the proportion of selection, from more to less, it is roughly presented as a sort of 4, 3, 2, and 1, and only 2 stars are finally executed due to the excellent size ratio and mineral composition.

However, when pulling one of the stars with a mass of one-half of the parent star, it triggers a chain reaction of the orbits of the stars in the galaxy except for the stars, resulting in many orbits in it will be in an unstable adaptive transition process for a long time.

Since then, the elves have become more cautious about the migration of large stars, and have decided not to interfere with their natural orbits unless necessary, anyway, there are now so many special and secondary choices, which are enough to transform more than thirty stars with beautiful scenery and comfortable environment like the mother star;

Not only will this amount be sufficient for a long time, but it will be far more than needed, and there will certainly be more similar, if not better, stars in the future, so there is no need to go to the thankless task of disrupting the orbits of those fragile planets at the risk of causing an even greater catastrophe.

In addition, since we talk about habitable stars, the corresponding life is also a related matter that has to be mentioned

Because of the precedent on the four guardians, and the environmental adaptability of the elves themselves also gave rise to more associations, the Republic's vision was not limited to the habitable zone of each star system, but broadened the exploration goal to all regions including rock-based planets, rock-based moons, ice stars, gas stars, and even star itself.

However, the results of this series of explorations seem to only illustrate the scarcity of civilization and even life itself, and there is no third exception to the home planet and Guardian in so many targets;

Suddenly, there was a faint sense of loneliness, which lingered in the hearts of some sensitive individuals.

And on this .

"It's an idle egg, right? At least we can be sure that no one will compete with us for resources in more than 100 light-years, and if we calculate the speed of information transmission of electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves, then at least 500 light-years of resources are exclusively owned by us, shouldn't this be a good thing? ”

"As for the farther area, this is now only less than a hundred light-years away, and only the river system where the parent star is located has stars that need to be counted in trillions; And a structure like a river system is also measured in trillions of the observable universe, let alone the unknown observed outer universe? ”

"From now on, it's not necessary to lament the loneliness of life now."

On the Black Hole Exploration Ship, the somatic consciousness dominated by fangs made this comment in a tone that didn't care much.

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As the years passed, the date had been gradually turned to the year 523 of the rune calendar.

After the accumulation of technology precipitated over time, the Black Hole Exploration Ship is now sailing forward with a newly replaced, near-bottlenecked engine group, with a dynamic speed of 0.9 times that of light, a refraction increase of 67 times, and a total of roughly 60 times the speed of light.

In the past 15-fold, 21-fold, and 37-fold times, the time required to accelerate the fortress to the maximum has long been compressed to the extent of more than a month, a dozen days, and several days, but now it can complete the entire acceleration process in 3 days;

Therefore, the exploration fortress has long been qualified to complete multi-party observation all the way through stop-and-go

And they did exactly that, deliberately patronizing many valuable targets along the way, carrying out long or short resupply rest and construction, and extending the Republic's observation in this direction for more than 650 light-years away.

For example, at the moment, the fortress has just ended a half-year period of stranded construction and supply, and left behind it a small and medium-sized research ship used to support the Void Corridor, and there are also some high-level spellcasters, as well as several new molecular level spellcasters.

Then, after only three days of acceleration, the fortress, which was replenished with some fusion fuel, increased its own main speed to the highest level, and directly entered the maximum power of the fold range, and continued to move towards the goal.

In the fortress at this time, only three of the original dozens of spellcasters remained;

One is Nesta's doppelganger on this side;

The other is the combined body of more than twenty high-level spellcasters;

On the other hand, it is the combined body of several cutting-edge spellcasters, and because there are not many efficient tonic methods for them to transform along the way, even the combined body is somewhat 'malnourished', obviously not as big and heavy as Nesta and Azhara.

And because the casters of these two levels merged along the way, there were countless doppelgangers, so in order to keep the inner vision of the rear to be maintained, the crews except Nesta had to maintain a deep merger state all the time;

That is to say, in terms of consciousness alone, there are only 3 minds in the present world, and the rest of the minds are all receiving complex disturbance information from hundreds of strongholds at the same time in the inner perspective, and sometimes rotate to dominate the body of the present world and carry out corresponding analysis.

About a month later, the fort came to a halt after about 5 light years of travel, and set off again after three months of inspection and rough construction at the new base

However, because the casters on board were already a little impatient, the new voyage lasted two full years, traveled a distance of 120 light years, and set off again after more than a month of engine refurbishment and towing target screening.

After 24 months without a word, the fortress finally reached a position about 5 light-years away from the target black hole, and the rest of the journey was only 1 month, and victory seemed to be within reach

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In the space, the phantom fortress is silently passing by, and the entities and projections within it keep themselves busy with a sense of anticipation.

Nesta's clone here was inexplicably idle, sitting with the projection that Azhara had arrived for, waiting for the last bit of time to pass.

"I suddenly realized that it was not necessary to use a clone to run this trip"

As the only part of the body that is still wandering in the outside world, this piece of Nesta's flesh said with some emotion;

"Right? The work that the doppelganger can do can also be completed, and there is no essential difference unless it is done with a complete body. ”

Projection Aishara responded,

"But the situation was a little different after all, and it is understandable that you want to go through the expected journey of 1300 years, but fortunately it is not 1300 years. Otherwise, you will die, but you will regret it. ”

"Come to think of it, it's a bit embarrassing that you can't get it back when the time comes, but the speed of technological progress is fast enough. Otherwise, you will have to kill this part of the body. ”

"Well, but it seems that the research in this area has also reached a bottleneck, and it will be more difficult to go further than before."

"Almost, the 'frequency' side has achieved the best effect, and the rest can only continue to work on the article in the 'degree' direction."

As they were talking, some kind of wave was emitted from several astronomical units away, and acted on this side tens of seconds later.

[Alert! Detected】

The prompt of the brain sounded in his head, but before he could fully receive it, there was a violent shaking that was felt throughout the fortress, and then the complete information was narrated;

[Interference from an unknown spatial force field has been detected, and the fortress is about to exit the reflex mode.] You have already exited the flip mode, please be alert immediately. 】

The fortress was also forced to brake under inexplicable interference, and at this time, even the speed of the main movement could not be maintained, as if it was stuck in some kind of spider web, and began to drop suddenly;

0.9, 0.7, 0.5, 0.1, 0.01 in just a few light minutes, directly fell back to the cosmic turtle speed of millions of kilometers per light.

"Huh?"

Startled, Nesta hurriedly got up and burrowed into the ground, before appearing in the main control room in the next moment;

Immediately after, Aisara's projection also disappeared in place like a bubble, and also flashed in the main control room in milliseconds;

Later, the rest of the projections in the ship, and even parts of the structure of the two combined bodies, arrived at about the same time.

Under the control of the brain, the equipment that comes with the fortress is doing its best to spread its perception in the direction of detected interference, and the invisible fluctuations are tracking all the way along the traces of the force field, and the scene in the huge three-dimensional light curtain that unfolds in front of you is also retreating as rapidly and distorted as the real one in this extension;

Only moments later, the view at the end of the intervention was captured and projected around the bodies of Nesta and the others

It was in the dark depths of space, about five astronomical units away, and a dozen or so dark fusiforms were floating silently that they were barely visible;

In the space in front of it, a sense of distortion is clearly depicted in the present.

Looking at this scene, looking at this obviously non-natural creation, a thousand thoughts flashed through the minds of Nesta and other elves, and the thoughts contained in these instantaneous and instantaneous thoughts were also unique in hundreds of years.

But before they could think about it for a few more moments, they saw the dozen or so in the three-dimensional drawing. No, maybe it's better to use the word 'ship'?

All in all, three of the shuttle-like ships, about 15 meters long, began to move forward, breaking through the speed of light by 0.1 times the speed of light in just a few minutes, and then suddenly disappeared in a hazy sense.

"Run the barrier at maximum power, and the fortress will immediately enter the ultimate protection mode, and all energy will be supplied to the defense side first!"

"Faith Yongdao will go all out to capture the Black Hole Explorer, and tilt the reserve of faith divine power to merge it into the defense system!"

"All of them! The projection body immediately withdrew to the headquarters to give up the Yongdao resources, and the physical crew prepared for battle! ”

Azhara's voice echoed through the fortress and the central moon 896 light-years away, and immediately changed from one direction to another

Inside the fortress, there were once hundreds of thousands of projections who were all disillusioned, and endless thoughts of faith penetrated through the invisible corridor;

Immediately, between the lilac energy shields that had been generated a few seconds ago, an array of divine graces was revealed, twisted and scattered into the shield, and in an instant, it turned into a deep purple that could barely be seen through.

Underneath it, there were also purple, gold, black, and white inscriptions lit up between the material layers, including the outer walls of the fortress, and the fortress itself, which had a diameter of 500 kilometers, was also collapsing inward at the same time.

In the process, except for energy, elemental reserves, intelligent brains, and offensive and defensive systems, almost all non-combat areas degenerated into cores and fell into dormancy, while the substances they originally possessed were integrated into the fortress itself, and finally turned into carriers of inscriptions on the offensive and defensive ends;

As a result, when time crossed the span of just a few light minutes, a fortress with a body diameter of about 50 kilometers with a dark gray color as a whole and a 300-meter deep purple energy shield attached to its outer wall appeared like a hedgehog with thousands of spikes of different thicknesses.

Then, after a period of silence, although the shuttle-shaped aircraft in the stereoscopic image in front of them did not make any more moves, they were once again captured in the space of more than a million kilometers away.

When the perceptual horizon of the fortress shifted to a partial past, three pitch-black aircraft changed from hazy to physical appearance, and were reflected in the thoughts of the crew and the separated light curtain.

In the fortress, at this time, there is an Eshara projection thread consciousness, a Nesta entity clone thread consciousness, and the main control consciousness of the two combined bodies, all of which are partially integrated into the central control brain program, which is equivalent to sharing the perception of the entire fortress simultaneously;

In the next moment, several signals such as electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves are captured at the same time, and although the repeatability can be judged from the amplitude and other aspects, it is impossible to really understand the information carried in them without an agreement between the algorithm and the decoding method.

But it's not entirely without a solution

The three-meter-square flesh and blood metal cage was lifted out of a core chamber, and the Beastmaster Fragment that was carried in it and suppressed its self-destructive attribute was passively opened under the invasion of the Void Realm, while the tip caster began to constantly turn back to the inner perspective and the material perspective, bringing out its disturbance information and translating it in real time in reality.

(End of chapter)