Homo sapiens

Galaxy Year 8, July 15th.

The Azure Dragon-class space battleship completed its final inspection in Mars orbit and received sufficient supplies.

The Qinglong class, with a payload of 45,000 tons, not only reserves a large amount of water resources as nuclear fuel and working fluid, but is also filled with various testing equipment, as well as lithium carbon nanolayers and related raw materials. There is also a machine specially used to process lithium carbon. Nanolayer devices.

42 crew members are already in place on the cockpit.

Yin Siyong looked at the time: "Everyone is here, heading towards the North Star at full speed. The re-acceleration time is 50 hours, and the first stage of the voyage is 1 astronomical unit."

"receive."

"The nuclear fusion power system starts, 2-ring operation, 4-ring standby, power output 10%..."

"Route planning completed..."

"set sail!"

Manic aluminum plasma was ejected from the main thruster of the Qinglong class. The plasma reached 15% of the speed of light, leaving an obvious light in the empty cosmic background.

This light began to erupt from the vent and spread outward in a funnel shape. There was no obvious light until 18 kilometers away.

Driven by the reaction force of the plasma thruster, the Qinglong-class space battleship flew rapidly in the direction of the North Star. At this time, the spacecraft showed a uniform acceleration state.

Yin Siyong and others in the cockpit did not take it lightly. Eight radar soldiers responsible for radar monitoring were staring at the holographic scanning screen attentively.

As the Azure Dragon class gets farther and farther away from the ecliptic plane of the solar system, the density of asteroids in the surrounding star areas also shows an exponential decline.

The situation before him made Yin Siyong feel a little more relieved.

He also looked at the damage to the lithium carbon nanolayer of the nuclear fusion power system.

[The degree of local deterioration is being evaluated, and it is expected to last for 130 to 180 days...]

At the 50th hour, the Qinglong-class's speed had been increased to 1,000 kilometers per second. At this time, there were only a dozen hours left to reach one astronomical unit.

Yin Siyong and others, who happened to have changed shifts several times, had been controlling the navigation direction and carefully scouting the surrounding asteroids.

When approaching the turning point of one astronomical unit.

"Start the auxiliary thrusters and start adjusting the flight direction."

"receive!"

"The navigation direction has been successfully shifted..."

"Reported flight speed dropped to 936 kilometers per second."

Yin Siyong immediately ordered: "Restart the nuclear fusion power system."

"receive."

As two of the Levi's rings of the nuclear fusion power system were activated, the Qinglong class accelerated again. When the speed reached 1,000 kilometers per second, the nuclear fusion power system was turned off again, switching the warship to inertial flight mode.

In the empty void, a space battleship flew past at an extremely terrifying speed.

On a course parallel to 1 astronomical unit above the ecliptic plane of the solar system, where asteroids are very sparse, the Qinglong class can move forward at high speed without the need for frequent orbit changes.

A distance of 43 astronomical units.

It only took less than 75 days. This speed is relatively impressive among first-level civilizations.

As the Qinglong class arrives above the ecliptic plane of the ancient cypress belt.

Yin Siyong frowned at this time.

Because he saw quite a few asteroids.

The distribution of asteroids in the Kuiper Belt is in a donut shape, and not all of them are concentrated on the ecliptic plane.

Even in the void 1 astronomical unit above the ecliptic plane of the Kuiper Belt, the density of asteroids here is dozens of times higher than in other parallel passages previously sailed.

For safety reasons, Yin Siyong could only apply the brakes in advance. At this time, the flight speed of the Qinglong class was only 300 kilometers per second, and it was still declining.

Especially after reaching the turning point, changing the flight direction and flying towards the core area of ​​the ancient cypress belt, the speed of the Qinglong class was only 273 kilometers per second.

Even at this speed, there is still a certain risk, and you must always pay attention to the trajectory of the asteroid within 1 million kilometers ahead.

If an asteroid is discovered within tens of thousands of kilometers, it may be too late to brake or adjust the flight direction.

"Report, a dwarf planet has been discovered ahead! The distance is 3.82 million kilometers..."

"What?" Yin Siyong was very surprised. He hurriedly checked the star map and found that there was no record of this dwarf planet in the star map.

Michelle turned to look at him: "Captain, what should I do?"

After thinking for a few seconds, Yin Siyong ordered: "Slow down and get closer to the dwarf planet."

"OK."

The secondary thruster of the Qinglong class was quickly activated, and then began to reverse thrust and decelerate evenly.

As the Qinglong class continued to approach the dwarf planet, the condition of the planet was also detected.

The diameter of this dwarf planet is 1036 kilometers. It is a nearly spherical planet, composed of ice and earth. Its density is equivalent to 44.7% of the moon. Its escape velocity is 1.541 kilometers per second. Since it has a low atmosphere of methane and carbon dioxide, its reflectivity is extremely low. .

Seeing these detection data, Yin Siyong suddenly realized: "No wonder this dwarf planet has not been discovered."

In fact, the Homo sapiens company has quite a few detectors and satellites in the Kuiper Belt. Currently, there are a total of 1,733 detectors and satellites currently in service in the Kuiper Belt.

This number seems to be very large. The problem is that the diameter of the Kuiper belt is close to 10 astronomical units, and the circumference is between 270 and 310 astronomical units.

An astronomical unit is the distance from the earth to the center of the sun.

Scattering 1,733 detectors and artificial satellites across the Cooper Belt is like dropping thousands of sonar detectors into the Pacific Ocean.

The general situation can be known, but it is simply wishful thinking to expect it to be able to completely understand the details of the entire ancient cypress belt.

It may be possible to increase this scale by another 10,000 times.

In fact, after the Homo sapiens company entered the Kuiper belt, it successively discovered 7 dwarf planets and 42 large asteroids.

Since this dwarf planet has not been discovered, Yin Siyong and others are naturally not polite.

After all, the first group to discover a star is qualified to name it.

As time goes by, the Qinglong class gets closer and closer to the dwarf planet, until the speed of the Qinglong class drops to 5 kilometers per second, and the distance between the two sides is only about 130 kilometers.

"Michelle, launch three satellites."

"OK."

The cabin on one side of the Qinglong-class ship opened, and three small launch vehicles flew towards the dwarf planet with artificial satellites.

About half an hour later, the three satellites successfully orbited the dwarf planet and sent back the first batch of images and detection data.

After discussing with a group of crew members, Yin Siyong decided to name the dwarf planet "Courage Star".

Courage is different from other Hades dwarf planets, which is why this dwarf planet has not been discovered.

But just then, they discovered some very strange data.

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