Cyber Heroes

Because NASA has so many "major discoveries" about "Shocking! This asteroid is actually...", the news two years ago did not stir up much excitement.

In addition, for a long time, only people in the southern hemisphere and low latitude areas of the northern hemisphere can observe "Ogun". The southern hemisphere has much lower population density and per capita income than the northern hemisphere, so even astronomy enthusiasts Not many people in the circle discuss this matter.

"NASA did become interested in it because of its extremely irregular shape." David Klein continued: "NASA believed that its shape was very confusing and did not appear to be naturally formed. Therefore, on the 26th In June of this year, the European Southern Observatory's VLT (Very Large Telescope)'s SPHERE (High-Resolution Spectropolarimetric Exoplanet Searcher) was aimed at this area and obtained the first clear images of 'Ogun'."

On that photo, the "Ogun" appearance becomes clearly visible.

It looks like a piece of casting that has been worn and rusted. Yes, it should start out as a silver surface. However, its surface gradually wears away due to the friction between interstellar matter, cosmic dust, and the collision of various tiny celestial bodies.

Just like a metal surface that has been ground with emery.

Xiangshan swallowed. He did hear himself swallow.

No one was surprised when some kind of reflection was first observed on Ogun's surface. It is too common for small celestial bodies to have reflective objects such as ice crystals.

But now, no one can deny that it is a man-made thing.

"Ogun" is a man-made creation.

Man has discovered an artifact that was not made by man himself.

Xiangshan heard a lot of swallowing sounds.

Klein paused for about a minute, seemingly waiting for everyone to digest the news.

Then, he continued: "Because the high-level officials believed that the news of 'human beings' discovery of extraterrestrial civilization' would have an unpredictable impact on society. So they did not make it public at the first time, but secretly formed a special committee in the hope that We can handle this matter in the safest way possible.”

"At the same time, everyone has also noticed something. 'Ogun' currently has no power. It relies on inertia and has been flying in space for an unknown length of time. NASA believes that even if Ogun is an alien spacecraft, it has It may have used up all its fuel for some reason, or it may have crashed."

"In July of the same year, the United States urgently established the Space Force. This was once considered by the international community as a signal to restart the arms race. At the same time, NASA also launched a large number of Ogun-related projects."

"NASA's mission at the time included 'establishing contact with Ogun' and 'capturing Ogun.' However, 'Ogun' did not respond to electromagnetic waves in almost all frequency bands, and it did not actively emit any electromagnetic waves."

"The following year - in January of 2027, NASA believed that 'Ogun' had entered the limit range that human space technology can touch, so it launched the SLS-9 rocket in advance to prepare to send the capture system to 'Ogun' ' place."

"It was at this stage that the Russians intervened in incidents related to 'Ogun' - after they got the news, they blamed the United States for their attempt to monopolize 'Ogun' and tried to interfere with NASA's capture plan."

"The boring struggle between the United States and the Russian Federation has been going on for quite some time. A few months ago, the Republic also got involved. Due to some geopolitical reasons, NASA's capture vehicle did not send 'Ogun' to the North. The Atlantic Ocean, but came here.”

"You can see the ensuing conflict in the news, so I won't go into details. In short, after a series of complicated events, the United Nations Office for Project Services urgently became the 'Ramo Special Project'—— Incidentally, the name is taken from Sir Arthur C. Clarke's "Meet Rama."

The next thing David Klein said probably refers to...

The South China Sea Fleet and the Seventh Fleet faced off nearby. The Northern Russian Federation is also making a high-profile entrance.

Although "Ogun" has not yet been opened, it has profoundly changed the world situation.

Xiangshan frowned slightly at this time.

"Were the Indonesian riots...premeditated?"

After the financial crisis in 2021, the country of Indonesia has fallen into a new round of turmoil, even worse than the financial crisis in the 1990s. Xiangshan vaguely remembered that there was indeed news last month...or did his parents talk about it during dinner? Let’s talk about Indonesia.

There are also reports of rebels killing civilians.

But now it seems that the Indonesian riots have given the United Nations an excuse to send peacekeeping troops.

This inevitably makes people wonder whether there is a shadow of a big country behind this riot.

At the same time, Xiangshan also realized the strangeness of the welcoming team at the airport.

That is not "a peacekeeping force" at all, but a military force that monitors each other.

Perhaps the unrest in Indonesia not far away is real, and there are real peacekeeping forces. But the group that appeared at the airport was not a peacekeeping force sent by a certain country.

Although peacekeeping forces have always been criticized for their complex members, cumbersome management systems, weak strength, and insufficient response capabilities, which make it difficult to promptly stop some emergencies and humanitarian disasters, they are by no means limited within a small team. It shows mutual wariness and estrangement.

Just like the performance of the South China Sea Fleet and the Seventh Fleet outside. This "defense force" is not defending anything at all. They're just "checking each other out."

This is simply a matter of a few big countries temporarily setting up an organization and then naming its security forces as peacekeeping forces.

In addition, because the Republic entered the scene late in this incident, they did not have much time to form a team of scientists. They need to screen out scholars across the country who are "potentially useful" and then ensure that these scholars are "absolutely trustworthy and will not leak information at will."

It is precisely because of this that Xiang Shan joined this super project just based on Liu Zhenghui's request.

At this time, the car has arrived at a brand new park. The park is heavily guarded by soldiers wearing blue helmets. Within the wall is a huge turf. Many construction machines are moving very fast. At the same time, several simple but magnificent buildings have been erected.

The lawn is edged by a row of trees. Behind the woodland composed of tropical trees is a huge white building - it looks like several tents connected into one, somewhat like the Sydney Opera House.

According to David Klein's introduction, the material that made up this "building" was originally the "parachute" that was fixed to allow the "Ogun" to land.

"Ogun" is a kilometer long, has a maximum radius of nearly 100 meters, and can weigh hundreds of thousands of tons. With such a terrible mass, if it is allowed to fall freely, it will be called a natural disaster - the most important thing is that it itself cannot withstand such a terrible impact.

So humans found a way to add dozens of giant parachutes to this thing. The fixed ropes of these parachutes are made of the strongest carbon fiber, which comes from the Republic of China Academy of Engineering. It is a technology developed with the goal of "space elevator". It is said that these outputs are piled up by the laboratory regardless of cost.

Most of the parachute canopy fabrics come from the United States.

NASA tried every means to limit the landing site of "Ogun" to shallow sea areas.

This can not only buffer the force of falling to the maximum extent, but also prevent such a huge thing from falling into the sea and not being able to recover it.

It is said that the night Ogun fell, steam and heavy rain covered the area. Even distant Indonesians can hear the beast's roar.

A small part of the parachute fell off when Ogun fell, but most of it was still there. Therefore, the "Rama Special Project" committee established under the United Nations Development Program used these parachute materials to build this "tent"-like building to prevent the prying eyes of unrelated people.

This park is the work area of ​​"Rama Special Project".

After arriving at the park, David Klein left immediately and returned to his original job. Other staff members guided many scholars from the Republic to register.

Since the park is still under construction, scholars can only live in temporary dormitories. According to UN staff, large apartments prepared for them are also under construction and are expected to be ready for occupancy next month. In addition, a database and conference center will be built within a few days.

Each scholar received a key.

After completing the registration, they officially became members of the United Nations "Ramo Special Project".

After that, Officer Xiao Hu appeared once. He gathered the scholars together and once again emphasized the discipline of confidentiality, especially emphasizing that scholars were not allowed to contact the outside world at will before approval.

Since various countries were still negotiating on the ownership of "Ogun" a few days ago, the framework of the "Rama Special Project" has not yet been set up, so the project team was unable to assign work to the scholars in a short period of time. At least for the rest of the day, the scholars can move around freely in the project park.

"You guys can communicate more with your foreign colleagues and make more friends." Director Xiao Hu said with a smile: "This may not be a short-term project. In the project area, everyone must carry forward the spirit of the Republic's 'equality, mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence' , work with colleagues from all over the world to unlock the secrets of 'Ogun' and contribute to the development of human science!"