How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 588 Searching for Unknown Signal Sources

The 40,000 leap-forward biological clusters coming from the colonized stars in the rear are used to support or regain the star system that belongs to the group, and at the macro scale of the Milky Way, the collectors expanding in this direction, the amoeba frontier faintly unfolds a roc Formation of wings.

The collectors of the colonized stars on both sides of the target star are working hard to open up new colonized stars forward, intending to form an encirclement trend and surround the target star system, so that even if the enemy successfully occupies that star system , in this surrounded formation, it is absolutely impossible to defend.

It can be said that the collectors are fully prepared.

However, even so, the collectors still have no idea - God knows what kind of technology the opponent has, and even a slight generation difference in the war will form a very obvious technical barrier.

In this way, seven years have passed...

The collectors who were waiting in battle did not catch the fleet of unknown origin from the feedback information of the radar.

This can't help but make the collectors feel puzzled.

"What's the situation, why haven't they come yet?"

"Isn't that signal a feedback signal for sailing deceleration?"

If there is a discrepancy between the theory and the reality, then there is a problem with the theory, because the theory exists around the reality, and after another year of waiting, the collectors are convinced that they regard the unknown alien civilization as a threat, and the danger alarm Can go down a level.

"We should check the situation."

"I agree."

Frightened by an unknown signal, the collectors all thought that they needed to confirm the source of the signal before making a final judgment, so that they could relax.

One thing is certain, the source of the signal should be coming towards the star system of the collectors, there is no doubt about it, because the collectors of other colonized stars have not received any unknown signals, which means that the beam of unknown signals , In essence, it is coming towards the star system of the collectors.

Considering the scale, the collectors speculated that the other party should not be aware that this star system has been occupied by them.

And another thing is that it is certain that the other party's sailing speed will not reach 60% of the speed of light. After all, after waiting for eight years, if it is really 90% of the speed of light, it should have arrived The destination has been reached, but it has not arrived yet, which means that the opponent's speed is slower than the collectors imagined.

Considering the time difference caused by the transmission of the unknown signal for five years, when the collectors received the unknown signal, I am afraid that the fleet of the alien civilization had already traveled a certain distance, so some collectors guessed that this alien civilization The speed of the fleet may not even be 50% of the speed of light.

This is why the collectors relaxed their vigilance a little.

"Start preparations for long-distance voyage exploration, find that signal source, the ethnic group needs to understand the actual situation of that signal source." The cluster leader issued a task in the channel.

The collectors began to operate efficiently like a machine around this task, and a large amount of resources were delivered to the five leaping creatures.

They are the appointed exploration team.

"How fast should we go?"

The speed of 90% of the traditional speed of light is definitely not enough, because at such a high speed, there is a high probability that it will pass the signal source. After all, there is a scaling effect, and the radar is no different from a blind man in that state.

But if the speed is too slow, although the signal source will not be passed by, the time for the collectors to search for the signal source may be quite long.

At a suitable speed, while the signal source can be observed, the search time will not be too long.

After calculation, the Tianji Juju answered this question.

"Thirty percent of the speed of light."

"learn."

The exploration team answered, but their questions were not answered yet, they asked the cluster leader.

"What should we do after we find the source of the signal? Is it to eliminate them?"

After thinking for a while, the cluster leader replied to the message.

"Depending on the situation, after discovering the source of the signal, establish radio communication with it and try civilized diplomacy. If the other party shows a strong attack intention, allow it to be eliminated, and then find their home star position from their spaceship."

"It's also possible that the opponent's navigation technology is not high enough, and other aspects of technology are not inferior to ours, so you still have to be careful. If you can't win, immediately disperse and flee to other colonial stars. Antimatter can accelerate you to a very high speed." High speed, if you can’t escape, it will trigger anti-matter self-detonation, and you must never let unknown civilizations get your corpses, which will make the ethnic group very passive in hiding intelligence information.”

"Understood."

Acceleration is also through the star track. After all, it relies on the fuel it carries for propulsion. Even if it is antimatter, it will consume a lot of money. The mass-energy formula is there.

A circle of electric field charging unfolded, and the speed of the five leaping creatures gradually increased from zero to 30% of the speed of light. The surrounding landscape quickly swept behind them, but because they were not high enough, the five collectors did not Feel the obvious space-time distortion phenomenon.

Although there is indeed a scaling effect, it is not visible to the naked eye, and the background does not converge to the front to form a starbow.

After the five leap-forward creatures escaped from the star orbit and left the star system, they spread out about two astronomical units each in the vast expanse of stars and the vast areas of stars, and then released radar waves outward to search for material entities.

It is not difficult to find it. There are few large matter entities between stars, and there are wandering stars, such as meteorites, planets, black holes, etc., but they are in the minority after all, compared to the huge scale of space-time between stars and stars. In other words, it's too small and sparse.

All the gatherers need is time.

"Found it! Over there!"

After sailing for an unknown amount of time, one of the collectors caught a weak reflection signal from the radar wave, and then it launched a concentrated radar wave in that direction, confirming that there was a large-volume entity in that direction.

It quickly shared this observation with other members of its species.

"Left deflection 67 degrees! Longitudinal forward tilt 83 degrees!"

After deflecting the trajectory of a large arc, the collectors approached the target at a high speed of 30% of the speed of light.

The feedback from the radar waves was not wrong, and a huge interstellar spacecraft appeared before the eyes of the collectors.

It is not difficult to find this spaceship. Against the background of stars dominated by pitch black, this interstellar spaceship is as dazzling as a star. From a long distance, the spacecraft can be captured only by the visible light angle of view.

"slow down!"

With the order to slow down, a dazzling white light was released directly in front of them.

Gamma rays are invisible, but when these gamma rays hit interstellar atoms, they become visible.

It didn't take long for the speed to drop to one-tenth of the speed of light, and the speed would still be very high, because the collectors must ensure that they are always at a high speed so that they can quickly enter the combat state after encountering unexpected situations.