I Am the Swarm

Rowan is a creature that pays great attention to personal privacy. Ever since he first noticed the monitors during the battle on Star Lazer, Rowan has been trying to find a way to arrange them.

The monitors of the Ji clan are scattered throughout the entire star field, and the number is unknown. Considering its concealment, these monitors must not be too large. This has been confirmed when the gravitational detectors discovered them before. Through technical means and analyzing the strength of the feedback gravitational waves, the intelligent bodies concluded that the actual size of the detector is about two cubic meters.

If it hadn't been too close to the battlefield, with such a small size, and the unique stealth technology, it would have been difficult to spot them with the slightly immature gravitational radar of the swarm.

But when they are no longer mysterious, Rowan has a spectrum. Small volume means small internal space, how much can two cubic meters hold? The external protective armor should only have radiation protection and simple impact protection functions. If it is an invisible paint, it will not take up much space. If it is a special material, it will more or less occupy a little space.

propulsion system? This is definitely not up to the level of the warp speed engine, it may be just a basic sub-light speed engine, limited by the size, the speed cannot be fast. According to this inference, these monitors should have been launched by the spacecraft, and they did not fly over by themselves.

observation system? This is the most important thing. If too many types of observation equipment are integrated, the space cannot be accommodated, and the types should not be comprehensive.

The information transmission system is the most important thing. No matter how much data and information is observed, if it cannot be sent back, it will be nothing. But its size already means that its armor is not too thick, in other words, it is a vulnerable item. This kind of thing must not be equipped with precious quantum communication equipment.

Of course, this preciousness is for civilizations without this technology. Maybe they are not precious to the Ji clan, but considering how the Ji clan protects these devices. The native civilizations that have just joined the alliance are only given five units, and the princes of the Duoqi civilization need to apply for one before they can be equipped with one. Old civilizations like Troy have only hidden a few units over the years.

If these ubiquitous monitors were equipped with quantum communication equipment, then they would not be so precious at all. Finding a way to get a few monitors is much easier than hiding them from the Ji clan. Rowan didn't believe that these monitors would not be found by relying on the means of the Trojan civilization.

Therefore, their information transmission system should also be conventional electronic signals. Of course, relying on the technology of the Ji clan, it is difficult for low-level civilizations to detect even ordinary electrical signals.

Finally, there are energy and energy conversion systems. Considering the particularity of their tasks, it is impossible to replace and recharge them frequently. Therefore, they necessarily need a long-term energy supply system. However, due to the limited size, the controllable fusion device is unnecessary, and even the controllable fusion device must be refueled regularly. It is also difficult for nuclear batteries and the like to last for hundreds of years. In this way, only solar energy and radiation energy are more reliable.

In this way, even if the Ji clan's energy conversion technology is great, but limited by the area of ​​energy absorption, the energy obtained per unit time will not be too much. Then according to this condition, there should be no high-consumption equipment in the monitor, which can prove the previous inferences.

However, no matter how reliable the guess is, in the end there is still a physical object that needs to be disassembled before it can be confirmed.

At the time when the invitation of the third prince Duoqi had just failed and he was unwilling to keep wandering outside. In order to "deter" the Rikens and prevent them from acting rashly, the swarm once assembled a large number of Primordials, shuttled back and forth between the Izumo base and the near-orbit base of the star.

During one of the marches, because of the approaching and provocative approach of the Duoqi fleet, the Taikoo group pursued them. During the pursuit, Zeng "accidentally" passed by a Ji clan monitor.

Although the monitor wanted to avoid it, there were too many Taikoo grades. At the same time, as it was speculated, the built-in propeller also played a role in adjusting the direction. Therefore, when the Taikoo cluster passed through, the monitor also disappeared...

Afterwards, the swarm gathered a large number of observation worms and intensively monitored the area where the monitor disappeared. But until now, more than ten years have passed, and no unidentified ships have been found to come to check.

The missing monitor was devoured by a Taikoo class, and a special electromagnetic cage grew inside it. This is just a small modification for the Taikoo class, which itself has various electromagnetic functions.

The electromagnetic cage adopts the structure of a part of the atomic furnace, and restrains the monitor with a powerful electromagnetic force. During the period, it was detected that the monitor sent out some electrical signals, which were very concealed. If it weren't for it being inside the Primordial Class, it would have been impossible to find it. However, with the shielding of the electromagnetic cage, the monitor has done useless work. In the electromagnetic cage, no electronic signal can get rid of the interference and transmit through the body of the ancient class.

And now that its frequency band is discovered, we can make some targeted modifications to the relevant insects in the future, and incorporate the electronic signal of this frequency band into the monitoring system, so it will not be so difficult to find them in the future.

This also confirmed the previous guess about the information transmission equipment, but in this case, there must be a signal base station somewhere, because the electronic signal sent by the monitor is not strong enough to fly too far away.

Through the observation of the signal sending direction, the swarm deduces that the base station is probably somewhere in the void outside the Riken galaxy. As for the specific location, it can only be investigated secretly. With the current strength of the swarm, it is still impossible to ignore the master of the base station. .

Fortunately, through this information, Rowan obtained new information, that is, even if the base station has quantum communication equipment, the electronic signal of the monitor still needs time to be transmitted. The information obtained by the Ji family is at least a few months to a delay of several years. this is a good news.

Some time later, the swarm dismantled the monitor, confirming everything that had been guessed before. At the same time, according to the newly discovered signal frequency band, search for Ji family monitors in the field.

Until the time progressed to the negotiations with the Trot tribe, Rowan also instructed Denton to tap information about the monitor, and Brar understood it and revealed some information cryptically.

According to Brar, in the early days when the New Seasons had just taken over from the original Seasons, everything was chaotic. The aliens who were originally confined to a star system by the Ji family took the opportunity to leave their home galaxy and started the colonization of the alien system.

At that time, the mentality of the Xinji clan hadn't changed, and they were still thinking about their respective mother clans. After their mentality changed, too much time had passed, and everything was a foregone conclusion.