Galaxy Technology Empire

Ma Wu and Austin were the first to arrive at Yinglong Shipyard.

Austin blew his gum bubbles and asked, "Bo! Captain, is this our new ship?"

"Explorer 3, one of the replicas of the Predator, has a space jumping device." Ma Wu took off his sunglasses and replied.

The paint of Explorer 3 is different from that of Explorer 2. Explorer 2 is painted in silver gray, while Explorer 3 is painted in black, which almost blends into the void background.

The hull of the Explorer 3 has a twin-ship shape, just like two battleships spliced ​​together. Although it is a replica of the Predator, Yinglong Shipyard has still made great improvements.

For example, adjustments such as dormitories and living areas. After all, the original Predator has a maximum passenger capacity of about 150,000, while the Explorer 3 can only carry about 4,300 passengers at full capacity.

So many places have to be adjusted.

Especially for the curvature engine, the maximum speed of the Marauder's original curvature engine was only 31 times the speed of light, which was obviously out of date. Yinglong Shipyard directly replaced it with the PP-QL-16 curvature engine produced by The Paper Power Company, which can reach a maximum speed of 132 times the speed of light.

If you already have a space jumping device, why do you need a curvature engine?

The reason for doing this is mainly just in case. The Predator was brought to the Orion cantilever area by space turbulence. Without the curvature engine, it would really be a disaster for the sky and the earth.

In addition, the space jump device has a control time gap of more than ten seconds. Once it encounters an emergency, it may be very passive. At this time, the curvature engine can be used for emergency response.

Ma Wu took the acceptance document from the person in charge of the shipyard on the side, and then asked Austin to board the spacecraft to conduct the acceptance inspection.

The artificial gravity system made the interior of the spacecraft feel like it was on the ground of Blue Star. Ma Wu carefully inspected every area and important equipment.

"Captain, where are we going to explore this time?"

"The Sagittarius Cantilever, then the three-kiloparsec cantilever, the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud."

"Is the Sagittarius cantilever?" Austin wrote it down, and she was going to check the astronomical database. After all, the data in this era was updated very quickly.

"I heard that you are studying cosmic dark matter?"

"Anyway, sailing will not affect study. Nowadays, distance education is conducted. People who go to adult universities are office workers. How can they have time to sign in at school every day."

"My classmate is the governor of a dark dwarf galaxy. If you want to buy some dark matter samples, let me know." Ma Wu said while starting the backup antimatter reactor.

"Then thank you in advance, Captain. There is no problem with Reactor No. 6, and there is no problem with Reactor No. 8..."

Ma Wu quickly ticked each option in the acceptance document, and sometimes wrote down some adjustments or modifications.

"The captain's classmate is Governor Liao Qingsong, right? The first class of graduates of the astronaut major at United Universe University are all great people!" Austin said with a smile.

"Haha, Lao Ma and I are the worst."

Fang Haibo appeared behind the two of them.

"I thought you weren't coming back, then." Ma Wu threw the acceptance document over.

Fang Haibo raised his hand and caught the acceptance document firmly. He said with some embarrassment: "I just went to the Sagittarius Cantilever. After that, I plan to work within the alliance for a period of time."

"Why are you so embarrassed? I'm not someone who can't look away." Ma Wu patted him on the shoulder and smiled.

As more and more crew members returned, under the joint inspection of all crew members, it took three days to finally complete the acceptance of Explorer 3.

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Ma Wu submitted acceptance documents to Yinglong Shipyard and asked them to modify some of the equipment and settings of Explorer 3.

The person in charge, Zhou Bolin, suddenly said: "Do you need to install a set of dark matter stealth armor?"

"Dark matter stealth armor? What is it?" Ma Wu asked in surprise.

"It is a new product of positive experiments. It can avoid detection by most dark wave radars, and it can also resist the erosion of dark matter and dark energy." Zhou Bolin explained.

"Experimental product? Is the technology sound?" Ma Wu asked doubtfully.

Zhou Bolin took out a document and gave it to Ma Wu: "This is the product manual of Neutron Star Materials Company. The technology is very stable, but because it is a first-generation product, there are loopholes in two frequency bands, and the cost is relatively high."

Ma Wu took a look at the quote. It was relatively high. Are you kidding me? The quote for the Dark Matter Stealth Armor composite for Explorer 3 was 57 billion.

Am I drifting off? Or do you think I am a fool and a rich man who takes advantage of me?

Ma Wu didn't even think about it and handed the document back directly: "You should go ahead and fool the Supreme Command! If I agree to this, the Department of Space Exploration may throw me into a neutron star."

"Haha... How about a 50% discount?" Zhou Bolin smiled bitterly.

"..." Ma Wu ran away without looking back.

The Explorer 3 spacecraft is going to explore the cantilever region and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, not to fight. Why does it need dark matter stealth armor?

What's more, the price was too impressive. If he agreed, the Space Exploration Department would most likely not agree.

After a week of intensive modifications, Explorer 3 finally met Ma Wu’s expectations, and all crew members were in place.

At the space dock of Yinglong Shipyard on South A Industrial Star, Explorer 3 slowly left the shipyard and headed toward deep space.

"Report, it is already 20 units away from the nearest planet."

"Report, there is no spacecraft within 15 units nearby."

"Report……"

Ma Wu pointed to the star map of the Milky Way and selected the central area of ​​the Sagittarius Arm, an area with relatively sparse stars: "Move towards the Sagittarius Arm."

"Received." Fang Haibo entered the positioning coordinates on the space ball.

The space jump device of Explorer 3 released a powerful gravitational force, and countless antimatter was annihilated in the reactor.

In the void about 300,000 kilometers away from the head of the spacecraft, a black spot suddenly appeared, and then expanded rapidly.

When the black spot turned into a dark circle with a radius of 5 kilometers, Austin immediately pushed down the photon engine lever.

Suddenly, Explorer 3 rushed straight into the dark circle. As Explorer 3 completely disappeared into the dark circle, the dark circle quickly shrank and finally disappeared into the void.

Next to the Orion cantilever is the Sagittarius cantilever.

At this time, a spaceship rushed out of the dark circle and came to this strange starry sky. The spaceship was Explorer 3.

"The communication team starts the communication system and tests whether the communication with the space communication center is normal?" Ma Wu ordered.

"Communication is normal."

"The radar team scans the surrounding 3,000 light-year range and establishes a Centauri astronomical database."

"receive."

Fang Haibo quickly set up three emergency jump coordinates on the space ball to avoid panic in emergencies.

Austin shut down the photon engine and directed the crew of the proton team to quickly release proton robots in all directions. This action was inherited from the Explorer 2 era.

The exploration work is proceeding in an orderly manner, and they are the alliance's external pioneers and explorers.

They will spend a long time in the universe, accompanying the stars, racing against time, and dealing with unknown civilizations.