Star Empire

“...From the perspective of the planet, the space is full of stars, rich and prosperous. In the dark and clear night sky, many huge but dim structures are clearly visible. The huge nebulae stretching for thousands of light-years are like vertical rivers. System structure. In some galaxies that are relatively close together, huge overlapping vortices can be seen from the planets.

In human eyes, they are almost eternal, but when gravity dominates the movement of galaxies, they will unstoppably draw closer to each other and plan a spectacular fusion of galaxies. In this process, there will be a large number of When new stars are produced, the original galaxy structure will be torn apart, and it may take hundreds of millions of years to establish a new equilibrium.

The current federation is well aware of these, and can even control these processes to some extent at all costs. However, in that era when it had not yet escaped the gravitational circle of the planet and was almost undetectable, the mysterious and beautiful starry sky It has always been one of the sources of people's beautiful reverie.

However, after trying to step into deep space, the starry sky brought people only deep awe for a long time. …”

"Yes, because of the distance." In the splendid space building, Victorville's eyes were swallowed up by the gorgeous galaxy.

"The distance between planets is calculated in astronomical units, while stars and galaxies use light years or even parsecs. However, even such a huge unit needs to be expanded by many orders of magnitude to describe the huge structure of the universe. During the gravitational circle, the originally seemingly prosperous space will instantly show people its cold and ruthless side:

Vacuum, extremely low temperatures, lethal radiation, and prohibitive, chasm-level distances. In the early days, it took hundreds to tens of thousands of years for power-medium nuclear-powered spacecraft to fly between stars, and they required a long acceleration and deceleration process. , and their sub-light speed navigation capabilities can only allow them to crawl in the cold space.

After the development of early super-light navigation technology, space is still a place with extremely limited manpower. Early super-light navigation relied on the curvature of space. During such navigation operations, the spacecraft used gravitons to generate anti-mass vibrations, making the space The curvature is reversed so that the spacecraft can continuously slide into the space ahead like a slide.

However, such gravitational vibrations will produce gravitational lenses, and the gravitational lenses will often expand to hundreds of astronomical units. Although this is nothing for a planetary system, the main routes are often very concentrated, with a large number of spacecraft. Frequent flights will have a devastating impact on space. Around these airports, there are often continuous gravitational lenses constantly generated. These need to be relocated every once in a while to avoid the spacecraft being trapped in these chaotic areas of space.

In deep space, unsafe factors also exist. Large-mass objects in space will strongly distort the surrounding space. In the early days, these objects served as the only beacons for ship navigation, but these beacons were not stable. Sometimes these distortions were inexplicable. Fluctuations occur. Due to the long distance and imperfect early knowledge, sometimes the selected target suddenly loses focus and is thrown out when jumping over it, wandering in the helpless darkness, or suddenly crashes into a star and is burned by the plasma flames. into ashes...

Such tragedies were common in that era.

Between galaxies, even super-light technology takes a long time. The distance is tens of millions of light years, and the empty abyss has swallowed up the lives of countless pioneers.

In the movie, the process of flying to other planets only needs to be carried by the camera. In the asteroid belt, you need to travel carefully to avoid being hit by the passing small celestial bodies. With a kick of the light speed accelerator, you can fly from one end of the star system in the blink of an eye. To the other end... However, in reality, after entering the star belt and coming out, there may be no need to turn around at all, and there may not even be many things visible in the field of vision. The dark deep space is the main theme of the universe, and the planet's atmosphere is Like a layer of swaddling clothes, there is prosperity inside the swaddling clothes, but outside the swaddling clothes, there is a dark abyss.

During the development process of the Federation, the practical application of the world of high-energy physics has been quite perfect, but this is definitely not enough in the foreseeable future - now, cutting-edge practical applications are far behind the black box of mathematical model interpretation technology With the speed of development and the current level of application technology, it may only be able to barely protect itself within the scope of the universe..."

“Always be in awe.”

Victorville stood in the wide-area telescope equipment control center at the top of a control tower in the military intelligence center, and focused his sight in the direction of the third hexagram.

The golden vortex where the structure could even be seen was now greatly weakened, leaving only a tiny speck that was not very bright, floating vaguely in the dark space.

After watching for a while, the Archon opened multiple perspectives of the information collection network. From this perspective, all surveillance facilities in the entire federal network were his "eyes."

If you look directly into deep space with the naked eye, no matter how powerful the enhancement is, you will not be able to directly understand the real scene tens of billions of light years away - pure optical methods cannot compensate for the light speed barrier.

In the deep sky at the edge that should have been empty, from time to time bright spots flashed across, bringing a little extra light to these dim corners. The light spots stayed in the universe for a while, and then flashed past. The ground was left with an almost invisible ripple.

But it's not completely invisible. When these bright spots stay nearby, if someone happens to be able to look at the distant starry sky through the location of those light spots, he will be surprised to find that the original starlight will be stretched and continue to move infinitely toward the celestial axis. Extending until the end of his vision.

These highlights are the formations of Star Federation's ultra-large-scale force field structures. Through powerful guidance fields and anchoring technologies, they continuously shape the space structure. During their round-trip, huge superpositions The long wall of warp space is closing in quickly.

In the process of warping space, the starlight within the warping range will be pulled to one point as the space structure changes, and countless bright silver filaments will gradually converge in one place. If an optical panoramic photo can be taken, , inside this warped bubble, you will see a surprising dome or cage made of starlight.

After the warp space is completely closed, this area will become an independent "temporary universe" isolated from the outside world. However, neither the parliament nor the frontline base here proposes to completely seal off this area. Therefore, this warp space The curved space will leave an entrance and exit of about one light-year. At that time, this will become the end point of the curved starlight. If you view this area from the right place, it would not be wrong to call it the "Star Star".

"In the same place, visible and invisible, they are still real..."

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"All system inspections have been carried out. Within this month, all sensitive components of the space station have been visually confirmed and self-disciplined scanned and checked by more than three people. Assuming that the steady-state fluctuation of the environment is within three ten thousandths, it is not considered the most peripheral The expendable shield array confirms that the space station can continue to sustain itself for at least five hundred years. It seems that the first layer of shield array will be completely crystallized and penetrated in fifteen years." At the frontline base, an adjutant told Caluster reported.

"Very good." Carlos nodded, "The mission was completed very well."

The adjutant saluted and left.

"The most appropriate thing we can do now is to wait here for the test probe carrier to be built. For us, this is really a pity." After the adjutant left, Caloust opened a holographic screen and said, After pressing a few buttons and entering a few "quick sentences" for today's routine log, "The information collection network has stopped providing indexing services for this area. We have no way of knowing what happened in the Federation, and now we can no longer get it from the parliament." It’s a routine order, research still needs to wait.”

"No way." Cavernril stood aside. His body was surrounded by a large number of holographic displays at high speed. From the back of his head, bright colored threads extended from his hair. These faint threads Connected to a larger terminal in the distance, Cavinrel was obviously conducting high-speed data exchange at this time. It was quite impressive to be able to devote his energy to joking with the boring general.

"What are you doing? I've seen you working hard every day for the past month. It shouldn't take so long to sort out the information, right?" Calost would be deeply impressed every time he saw Cavin Riel handling the large number of holographic windows surrounding him. Feeling helpless, "I more or less understand why, in your eyes, there are often one or two unreasonable things in the federal legal system - right now, I think you may need a lot of tentacles, or use a more convenient authorization method. "

"Restart the research on the grand unified theory, review past data, write reports, make comparisons, and establish hypotheses." Cavernell casually extinguished the two holographic screens. However, more holographic screens were in positions that were not suitable for direct manipulation by the human body. The windows suddenly appeared, and Cavinriel tried hard to deal with them all as soon as possible. However, these holographic information windows that required direct authority authentication must be manually controlled. This is a standard requirement of the federation. It must be manually controlled, otherwise even if The authority body is directly connected, and its request will not be approved.

"If I can really achieve results this time, I must find a way to delete these embarrassing entries." Faced with a situation that is already immersed in and difficult to respond quickly, Cavinrel can only use his own body The quality and enhancement plug-ins solved everything smoothly with a series of smooth movements that joked with the quality and movement rules.

"These requirements... require high efficiency and physical contact... obviously this will bring a lot of difficulties to the operation."

"Personal-level inertial stabilizer?" Kalost was a little surprised by this. Currently, the smallest inertial stabilization structure is installed on the color core probe. However, if the color core probe is compared with a real person, it is more than fifty meters long. The inertial stabilizer is a series of spheres with diameters ranging from one meter to five meters. This system obviously cannot be installed in the human body.

"The actual manufacturing technology can still progress more or less slowly, such as the miniaturization of graviton-controlled inertial stabilizers. This at least shows that guys like me who are in charge of cutting-edge and practical applications are still working on things, so don't worry so much about it. ." Cavinriel waved his hand casually, and the bright silk thread extending from the back of his neck began to gradually disappear, and the large number of windows surrounding him began to spread out in an orderly manner.

"Finally, it's all sorted out." Cavernrel's face was filled with a satisfied smile. After the halo of the interaction area completely disappeared, he walked out of it. With a wave of his right hand, a recliner was generated next to Kalost. , the science officer, who had been busy for a month, leaned back on the recliner with a comfortable look on his face.

"Now that you have time, why not tell me a few questions I asked before?"

"Okay." Cavernriel immediately sat up, and the general turned off the soldiers on duty and the main control system, ready to listen to the non-essential communication here. But he found that the science officer who was very relaxed just now was extremely serious now.

"General, I will start with the first two issues. Those are the most serious technical barriers we have encountered."