Guide to Galactic Dominance

"There are still 30 seconds left. The phase jump is completed and we are ready to reach the target planet Delta."

"There are still 10 seconds left until the phase jump ends, 9 seconds..."

"The phase jump is completed, and InSight successfully arrived within the gravity well range of the target planet Delta."

Compared to humans on earth, the distance from the sun to the earth is nearly 150 million kilometers. Even just covering this distance takes more than 8 minutes. However, for the InSight spacecraft, the speed at which their phase jump can travel, Faster than the speed of light. In fact, the time it took to prepare the phase jump engine was longer than the journey.

Phase jumping is a navigation method that the Iridium United Empire came up with earlier on the technology tree of interstellar navigation, and its technical principle is not complicated. This is a macroscopic use of quantum mechanics. A simple explanation can be made by analogy with the quantum tunneling effect. Microscopic particles have wave characteristics and have a certain probability of crossing potential barriers, and their motion can be reflected by wave functions. Using quantum coherence theory and related devices, the quantum state of microscopic particles is shared with the entire spacecraft without interfering with the original properties of all matter, which is a kind of complex state coherence. There is a gravity well and a gravitational potential difference between two celestial bodies. A celestial body barrier exists in a space area where the gravitational potential energy of a celestial body is higher than that of nearby areas. After the spacecraft starts the phase jump, after adjusting the probability, a macroscopic tunneling effect is achieved, allowing the spacecraft to pass through the celestial barrier and directly reach the other end. This location is usually the peripheral area of ​​the celestial gravity well. Therefore, phase jump is not essentially a physical movement in classical physics, but it does complete the super-light movement of an object in the absolute displacement of four-dimensional space.

The advantages and disadvantages of phase jumping technology are relatively obvious. The advantage is that the technical difficulty required to manufacture a phase jump engine is not very high. Although larger and more complex ships are equipped with more complex jump engines, compared with other methods of super-light speed navigation, the phase jump engine is more difficult to manufacture. And material preparation can really be said to be child's play. Another advantage is that phase jumps consume relatively little energy, which has great strategic significance. This means that this kind of engine can be driven by energy sources with relatively lower energy density, such as nuclear fusion reactors. The above two advantages can actually be summarized into one, saving money.

The shortcomings of phase jump are also natural. Since the jump is constrained by the gravity of the celestial body, it is better for the spacecraft to jump between the two celestial bodies with the greatest force, which is actually the closest celestial body. This also makes the route chosen by the actual spacecraft navigation often not the most optimal. Best route. Celestial bodies rotate at different speeds, and their positions in the coordinate system of the star system actually change frequently, which naturally causes navigation to become unstable. Compared with other interstellar navigation methods, the speed of phase jump is also impressively slow. Although the specific phase jump speed is different and related to the gravity gradient and interaction force between celestial bodies, in terms of sailing from the sun to the earth, skipping Mercury and Venus and coming to the earth, the average speed is basically After all, it's not faster than the speed of light.

InSight used a phase jump to reach the outer edge of the Earth's gravity well, which took one hour and 40 minutes in Earth time. However, considering that this is a 150 million-kilometer voyage, this time is probably a little faster than traveling from the 5th Ring Road to the 2nd Ring Road in the Imperial Capital during rush hour.

This method of navigation is not favored by the Imperial Space Force due to its characteristics, but is favored by commercial transportation between planets in the star system. Even though the phase jump technology has been updated for several generations, and the size and energy consumption have been greatly reduced, the installation of such a thing on the United Empire warship is basically to save energy. In particular, the Insight, a ship type that is not primarily focused on combat, is more suitable for phase jumps.

Shuhei, the captain of the Insight, glanced at the holographic screen to the right of the armrest of his captain's seat and confirmed that the battleship's optical stealth and electromagnetic stealth effects had been activated. As a captain who has served in the Space Force for more than fifteen years, Shuhei is not considered outstanding. He does not have a prominent background, and he is not very good at flattering. His actual personal ability is not outstanding, but he still fulfills his duties. The first prerequisite for a reconnaissance ship to conduct an investigation mission is to hide itself. Although for many civilizations, the hiding of the Insight may not be useful at all, but if it is such a civilization, the United Empire Space Force will not send a separate reconnaissance ship at all. ship to perform the mission, because that would be suicide.

InSight's mission is not complicated. It sends a group of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to investigate the habitable planet they temporarily call Delta. This is all in accordance with the procedures. The reconnaissance ship will not send investigators to land on the surface of the planet until the situation is generally understood. That is the most reckless behavior. If a captain did this, even if no damage was caused later, he would be punished or even sent to an imperial military court.

The Empire cannot tolerate soldiers who disobey orders.

InSight carries a wide range of unmanned reconnaissance drones that can be deployed for different situations and purposes. The model currently being sent out is called "Dragonfly". As the name suggests, it is similar in size and shape to a dragonfly, but it can penetrate the atmosphere and fly freely in the air. It basically has no attack capabilities, but it flies very fast and moves dexterously, making it difficult to catch. Equipped with autonomous AI for control, multiple groups can form a cloud tactical group to conduct more complex operations. InSight released hundreds of these unmanned reconnaissance drones at a time and was able to collect a large amount of intelligence.

Shuhei is patient and meticulous. But his crew members were full of curiosity about this planet.

"Captain, it looks like this is the Iridium home planet." Ship Sergeant Yuan Nobu said.

Shuhei nodded: "Strikingly similar, a blue planet, similar in size. Speaking of which, sergeant major, are you a native?"

Yuan Xin shook his head and said with a smile: "No, our family has been in the military for generations. Our family will move wherever the empire's fleet goes. We have left Iridium five generations ago. Let alone being born in this country, I have never been there. Where is the mainland? Captain, are you from the mainland?"

Shuhei hummed and said, "But that doesn't matter now. The local population has always exceeded the standard and is migrating in large numbers every year. The dignitaries of other administrative stars are eager to go to the mainland. There are no such people like us there. There is no living space for ordinary people.”

The captain and the sergeant major looked at each other and could see some bitterness in each other's eyes. The two of them rarely talked about personal matters before, but today they made an exception. They know that they may never be able to return to their hometown again.

The blue planet in front of them, which looks very much like Iridium, may become their new home.

Shuhei saw the holographic screen on the right displaying an intelligence package for collection and organization, and said, "Let's take a look at the extent of the indigenous people on this planet."

The intelligence information collected by a large number of reconnaissance drones is at the level of big data. These unmanned reconnaissance drones can not only take images, collect audio and video, but can even directly connect to low-tech information nodes or networks to collect available information. The drone itself serves as a port, and the battleship host of the Insight provides algorithms and cracking methods. For information technology networks like the earth, it can be said that it can be cracked in seconds.

The InSight's host machine is equipped with automatic information sorting, arranging and classifying information according to key sequences, and can automatically summarize and summarize it. What Shuhei saw was such a compendium-style intelligence.

The first page of this intelligence summary is a photo taken by the Dragonfly reconnaissance device. This is a wall, and the important thing is not the wall itself, but what is attached to it.

"Applying for the certificate is fast and easy. After payment is completed, please scan the QR code on the right."

"Specialized in treating sexually transmitted diseases, gonorrhea, and psoriasis."

"Ms. Bao, 15XXXXXXXXX."

Shuhei was stunned for a moment and asked Yuan Xin to come over and take a look.

Yuan Xin blinked, with an incredible look on his face.

"Isn't this Iridium Astrology? How is it possible that a planet in another universe is also using our characters?" Yuan Xin asked.

Shuhei quickly read the contents of some information, then nodded with a ghostly expression on his face, and said: "It's the Iridium Star Text. It can't be similar or the same arrangement and combination. Although I don't know the specific meaning, I think it must be It’s a way of saying it for people here.”

Imperial people only have one certificate in their lifetime, which is issued by the government and does not require private processing. The two Iridium people didn't understand the essence of the word "certificate" at all. As for various skin diseases, the biomedical technology of the Iridium planet has been developed to the point of eliminating most of the diseases in the human body. Sexually transmitted diseases were extinct centuries before Shuhei and Yuanxin were born. Without special interest, there is no need to Know about the history. As for the word "Miss", which is profound and mysterious, it is not something that a few aliens can understand.

After reading more information, Shuhei was finally convinced that the Iridium star script, which they had used for thousands of years and was even explicitly stipulated in the constitution and could not be changed at all, actually existed in a civilization in another universe. Not only is the writing method the same, but the pronunciation is also highly similar to the pronunciation of Iridium Standard Language. Shuhei also soon discovered that there were more than seven billion advanced intelligent beings on this planet. They were the same species, but they were divided into countless ethnic groups and more than 200 countries. These countries and nations also have different languages ​​and cultures, as well as different national forms and levels of development. The level of mixture can become a museum.

"I began to feel that there might be some invisible mysterious force behind our time travel. The planet with the Iridium Starwen must have some connection with the empire!" Shuhei said to Yuan Nobu, looking at There was something else in the aqua blue planet's eyes.