[Trigger Event: First Contact]

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Far away in the El Galaxy, Lu Yuan, who was busy, suddenly received such a prompt.

His eyes narrowed slightly, it was one of the five scientific research ships sent out for the company's reconnaissance exploration of the surrounding star fields when the company's space engineering program was just starting two years ago.

According to the latest information from the five research ships, the farthest exploration ship has far exceeded the estimated mission distance of 200 light years, and the company has sent back the collected data and specific directions of more than 200 star systems in the direction of the research ship.

The five scientific research ships have now brought back the data of thousands of star systems around the El System for the company, and according to these transmitted data, Lu Yuan is planning to establish a star map system with real-time observation for the company.

Lu Yuan used the "Huanyu Think Tank" as a backup support, and now this star map system has almost been completed.

After receiving the prompt, Lu Yuan immediately opened and perfected most of the star map system.

It has roughly shown the rudiments of a star field, among which the position of the El Galaxy is the most dazzling and the most flickering.

With the El System at its core, hundreds of star systems stretch out like spider web nodes across the star map system.

Ida System, Modo System, Pandora System, Torth System...... Galaxies that have not yet been included in the company's control are reflected in the data.

According to the system prompt, Lu Yuan searched on the star map system.

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[Description of Event: One of your research ships has been attacked by a civilization of the Danube Empire in a system called the Sakaban system, which has been classified as a hostile act, and the other civilization has launched a provocation against you. 】

[Trend of events: "Fight back against the Danube" / "Ignore the provocation"! 】

“？？”

Lu Yuan's eyes narrowed slightly.

The company's research ship was attacked, what happened?

He looked along the star map system.

The Danube Empire, the closest frontier galaxy to the other civilization, the "Thoth Galaxy", is separated from the El System by a diameter of 111 light-years, and the actual interstellar route is planned to be a long voyage distance of more than 150 light-years.

Through hyperspace navigation, the company's ships will travel to the other party's frontier system, and it will take more than half a year at the earliest.

And the Sakaban system, where the research ship was attacked, is even farther away.

Lu Yuan checked the galaxy data and found that the Sakaban system, where the scientific research ship was attacked, was another frontier star system ruled by the so-called Danube civilization, and this galaxy bordered other space-level civilizations.

According to all the earliest and most recent intelligence information from the attacked research ships, the Sakaban system once belonged to an astronautic-class civilization bordering the Danube Empire, but the system fell to the Danube Empire due to war.

And this space-class civilization bordering the Danube Empire, along with several space-class civilizations, belong to the just order and belong to the alliance, and they all border or have contradictions and conflicts with the Danube Empire.

The Sakaban system is one of the points of conflict between the Danube Empire and the cosmopolitan civilizations of these righteous orders, and currently serves as a strategic buffer between the two sides.

How could the company's research ship be attacked by this so-called Danube Empire in such a strategically disputed galaxy?

Lu Yuan was puzzled.

But he didn't worry too much, the company's scientific research ships are capable of traveling at sub-light speeds, and in order to guard against the unknown exploration environment in the universe, they are also equipped with certain self-defense weapons.

Although the combat capability of each scientific research ship is not very strong and cannot fight against those god-level civilizations, it is more than enough to deal with those low-light-speed space civilizations in this universe.

Even if it suffers a certain degree of passive attack, it can protect itself in time, so as not to say that it will be destroyed by other space civilizations casually.

But even so, after some thought, Lu Yuan also decided to declare war and counterattack the Danube Empire.

The other party's civilized attack on the company's scientific research ship, for whatever reason, is to threaten and damage the company's assets and personnel safety, and such a provocation is to ignore the company's interests.

On top of that, the territory of the Danube Empire was too close to the company, and the proven strength of the other civilization was pitiful.

Such a pitifully weak civilization occupies the territory of a civilization with a diameter of fifty light-years, as well as the vast resources of dozens of star systems.

For them, the other party is like a young child holding a gold brick and dangling in front of them all the time, and it is only a matter of time before the company declares war on it.

No one can be blamed for this, if you have to blame, you can only blame the other party's civilization for being too close to the El system where the company is located, and too far from heaven.

The subsequent stages of the company's space engineering program are almost underway.

Over the past two years, the company's hundreds of engineering vessels have been busy in the El system, and most of the space engineering facilities have been built.

Now, the star base of the El system can be completed with certainty, and the space dock on the star base has long begun to plan to build interstellar warships and develop space forces.

The company plans to build two warship groups as their first real space armed forces.

The first ships are expected to be delivered from the spaceyard to the company's ship systems in a year's time, and it's not too late to settle accounts with the Danube.

After analyzing it like this, Lu Yuan no longer thought about the Danube Empire, and continued to improve the company's star map system.

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The other side.

The Sakaban system.

This is a special star system because the star of this galaxy is a pulsar.

Pulsars are highly magnetized neutron stars capable of emitting electromagnetic radiation.

When a star rotates at high speed, its star produces a strange and spectacular beam of radiation, like a spear piercing a sphere, which is only visible when its axis is directed at the observer.

This phenomenon produces a very precise pulse interval, which is sometimes so precise that it can be used to precisely measure the passage of time.

However, the magnetic field of the pulsar is so strong that when an average ship gets close to the pulsar at a certain distance, the speed of the ship in space will be affected and weakened.

At this moment, near the pulsars of the Sakaban Galaxy, a scientific research ship of the Gray Gu Company was forced out of stealth mode, and was exposed to space so straight and straight, and even more exposed to the monitoring system of some space civilizations.

The research ship is currently under some malicious attack from the outside, but while it seems to be in a dangerous situation at the moment, it is actually fine.

(End of chapter)