Star Empire

A completely unfamiliar starry sky appeared in front of everyone.

"The armor structure of the hull remains intact, some armor plates have unstable feedback, the energy-guiding pipe network has suffered considerable damage, the main power system has stopped operating, some data files cannot be accessed, and contact with the imperial network cannot be made. There is currently no collection Report of injured crew members. It is confirmed that the medical module is in good condition, reserve resources have begun to be used, and reserve resources have been seriously damaged."

After the ship finally regained stability, the crew members who had recovered from the violent impact immediately launched an investigation into the situation of the ship and the environment where the ship was located.

"There is a great possibility that the world where this starry sky is located has not been observed and recorded by the empire."

"The boundary of order time and space has been confirmed. The crystal energy signal has turned back at the boundary. The world barrier in this world has a strong isolation restriction. It is still unclear the specific nature and cause of the restriction."

"No contact with the outside world."

"The void coordinates of the current world cannot be determined! Conventional analysis methods are invalid!"

"Stoker, can the power system be restored?" While the crew was busy, jehfs4314 noticed that the ship's current power system had suffered serious failures, and the energy-guiding pipe network connected to the reactor had direct faults in many places. Serious loss situation. Now the ship can still operate entirely by relying on the crystal energy blocks stored inside the ship.

"Captain, the space channel reactor cannot be fully restored in a short period of time. All the repair blueprints carried by this ship have been seriously damaged in the power furnace section. The basic industrial facilities and automatic repair system of this ship have suffered serious malfunctions. The current No efficient means can restore the damaged pipe network. Without external support, we may need fifty years to allow the warship to repair itself."

"The damage is so serious." jehfs4314's expression gradually became serious.

"Stoker, if I require that the remaining reserve resources of the battleship can support the battleship to maintain a low-power cruise state for at least a hundred years, and at the same time, these reserve resources need to be used to invest in emergency repairs of the battleship. Under such a requirement, we currently have How much energy output can the reserve resources provide for the warship to reach the normal state?" jehfs4314 asked.

"40%, the space channel reactor can also provide part of the power after emergency repair. The output value of the space channel reactor after emergency repair is expected to return to 20% of the normal working state output value. If it is activated to deal with the anti-paraphysical environment If the energy supply system is replaced, the battleship's power output is expected to return to 70% of its normal state."

“Can each system still use overload status?”

".Okay." came the affirmative answer, but jehfs4314 could tell that his stoker probably had to fight hard to give this answer.

"However, under such conditions, these severely damaged equipment are expected to be used at most four times in order to produce the overload output they can achieve under normal conditions, and each overload will bring more damage. damage."

"Okay, I know."

Communication was disconnected.

"How on earth could it be done like this? How far has it been traveled?"

As the stoker of this Truth-class battleship, hwdaw7431 feels that the current situation is really incredible - he knows that although the "hull" of the Truth-class is very old, the empire has never stopped upgrading the "inner" of this hull. Passed. The Truth level has never been old. It just experienced a passive cross-world voyage caused by a sudden space flash. Can it become so bad?

But no matter how unbelievable it is, reality must be accepted.

hwdaw7431 allowed part of the ship's energy to flow into the ship's space channel reactor. With the supplement of this crystal energy, some of the pipe networks that were not seriously damaged began to slowly repair themselves. After several attempts to determine the speed at which the completely broken energy-guiding pipe network could automatically recover without guidance drawings and abundant energy, hwdaw7431 cut off part of the energy path to ensure that the already precious reserve energy would no longer flow. into those "bottomless pits".

"Tsk, it's really troublesome after I can't connect to the empire network." After confirming that it was completely impossible for him to contact his portable storage space, hwdaw7431 could only reach into his own mind and start the multi-dimensional system from his mind. The key to the variable powertrain was taken out.

"The Sword of Stirring Variables sounds so mysterious. It's essentially just a crank." hwdaw7431 inserted the "key" into the "keyhole" and screwed the rotatable part of the outer handle to the end. After confirming that all the multi-variable brushes on the rocker in his hand had been fully opened, the stoker began to use all his strength to push the rocker that had become very heavy.

At the beginning, the crank handle was very heavy. Even if hwdaw7431 used its maximum strength, it could only make it rotate slightly. But as soon as the crank handle starts to rotate, it will start to drive a series of variable rotors inside the ship to generate energy. When If the number of driven rotors is sufficient, the system will enter an automatic working state and no longer need the help of external force.

While hwdaw7431 struggled to shake the handle, a series of "wings" and "pylons" gradually began to protrude from the outer armor plate of the spacecraft. These auxiliary structures protruding out of the ship were placed with auxiliary structures that were quite large compared to the appearance of the hull. propeller. The first propeller rotated and began to provide energy. After all the remaining propellers received sufficient energy replenishment, they all entered working status one after another.

As the rotational speed of the propeller continued to increase, a conical rotating body mixed with fine rays of light appeared near the propeller and wrapped around each blade of the propeller - this is the iconic phenomenon after the multi-variable brush is fully activated.

"The multi-variable power system has been started successfully. After all, it is a backup power system and can only be used in emergencies. It is not yet comparable to the main power system. When will the size of this thing be reduced to a blade that is only a few meters long? But It would be great if it could also provide such an effect.”

hwdaw7431, who was talking to himself, suddenly thought of the Ossia-class and Irusia-class. Those two types of core flagships are specially used to deal with the anti-paraphysical environment. They are unique among the imperial warships. This power system is used in them as Main power system is used.

These two types of giant ships have huge multi-variable brushes similar to propellers. The blades of these propellers are millions of kilometers long and are assembled in a coaxial and anti-propeller manner. When these huge propellers turn, there will be a considerable danger zone around these ships. Entering it by mistake will be equivalent to surfing in the barrel of a ready-to-fire cannon.

I have to say that although they look a bit rough and primitive, from another perspective, they are also really interesting.

"Still unable to figure out where this place is and still unable to contact the Empire?"

"Yes, Captain. We have tried all the methods currently available. Neither scanning waves nor physical detectors can break through the blockade of the space-time structure. We cannot get in touch with the world barrier here, nor can we get in touch with the outside world. Make effective observations here. The cosmic background radiation here is very special. Among the twenty-six void quadrants currently known to the empire, no world with such cosmic background radiation will be generated inside any quadrant."

"So, we are currently in a strange world, and this strange world may be located in a quadrant that has not yet been discovered by the empire, or it may be that this world has been transformed by external forces." jehfs4314 speculated. "At present, the possibility of the latter situation is much greater than the former situation."

"Yes, Captain, our ship is made of extraordinary materials. No matter what the cosmological constants are in the world, our ship retains strong resistance to these differences. The differences in the world cannot damage the ship like this. Moreover, after analysis, the reason that caused the spacecraft to come here is probably a space flash. A normal space flash is almost impossible to absorb an information body as large as a battle carrier, and a normal space flash is even more It is impossible to cause a crossing across quadrants.”

"Then the conclusion is that this space flash is abnormal. There are only two factors that can affect the space flash. The virtual information environment and the nature of the world where the space flash is connected. Everyone knows the world of the empire. , and this world has most likely undergone some form of unknown but massive transformation. Only in this way can it create a world neighborhood strong enough to suck our battleship out of the empire's world."

"What do we know about this universe so far?" jehfs4314 asked.

"We have measured some of the cosmological constants and determined the way the dimensions here are unfolded. We have corrected the conversion relationship between the unit time here and the main axis time of the empire. But there are more situations that we cannot determine for the time being. This world may be It has been transformed by powerful external forces. In order to ensure safety as much as possible, we have not yet used more intense detection methods."

"The nearest "star" to us is only three light-years away? That's too close." jehfs4314 glanced at the star map and became a little more wary of this strange and strange world. "The stealth mask system that can shield the battleship is still there. How long will it take to fix it?”

"It will take another hour."

"No, we can't wait here for such a long time. It's just a "star", but it was so close to us when we appeared here. It gave me a very bad feeling." jehfs4314 shook his head, "Use the warp space bubble navigation mode to find the nearest hollow point nearby. Let's get out of here first."

"Warning, the existing space-time structure cannot be captured in the current working mode, and the warp space bubble navigation mode cannot operate."

"The current working mode...cannot capture the space-time structure?!" Faced with this sudden warning, an ominous premonition gradually came to people's minds.

“Are conventional navigation methods currently available?”

"Captain, there is no problem if you just use it. However, the automatic self-repair of the ship is far from complete at present. If the normal navigation mode is started, the damaged pipe network will leak out the degraded crystal energy residue, which is inconsistent with The hidden laws of the empire, at the same time. If there really is a powerful force here that has not been detected by us, then our use of conventional power navigation will only expose it faster."

"Captain! There's something going on! A large number of abnormal space activities are occurring a hundred thousand kilometers away from us!"

"What? Increase the shield strength to the alert value and synchronize the situation with me!"

jehfs4314 blinked, and the situation outside the ship appeared exactly in the depths of his mind. An unidentified fleet that came from nowhere appeared in the direction pointed by the bow of the ship, about 100,000 stars away from the ship. Tomorrow, this is already a close distance.

"The number of unidentified warships is 1,200, and the formation is a 40×30 rectangular vertical formation. There are currently no further actions."

jehfs4314 carefully scanned these unknown warships that suddenly appeared in front of him. They were all dark, and the main body of the ship was roughly a rectangular parallelepiped with rigid lines.

If I recognized the various parts of these ships correctly, these ships have three round platforms that are quite large for the main body extending outward from the left and right sides respectively. The top of the round platform is covered by a black hemisphere. Wrapped in a dome, it may be the turrets of these battleships. Judging from the distribution of pipes, lines and cabins inside, these turrets seem to be beam weapons, powered by a method similar to the annihilation of matter and antimatter, but those pipes and lines are Three-phase placed

"Wait, wiring and pipes?"

When the record came to this point, everyone suddenly realized that the current detection methods can directly detect the inside of those battleships, and those battleships have no extra-dimensional defense methods!

"Captain, the track tracking failed, we can't determine where they started!"

"Can't confirm? This shouldn't be possible?!" jehfs4314 was quickly filtering the increasing amount of information. He intercepted some useful information and placed it on the network inside the ship. "You see, the level of these battleships is not High, they shouldn't have defenses that would render our anti-tracking methods ineffective!! The energy flow inside their hulls is changing. They want to use naval guns! All personnel! Get into combat positions!"

"Project clear communication signals to them!"

"Medical officer, wake up all the dormant individuals in the treatment cabin! Mobilize the individuals in better condition and prepare them to help defend the medical cabin!"

".yes!"

While the medical officer flashed into the medical cabin, the truth-class ship began to try to communicate with these strange warships. A series of geometric figures that conformed to the time and space rules of this universe were projected in front of the fleet. These geometric figures were changing. Continuously carry out interactions that comply with the rules. Doing so can show that one is "intelligent" and "understands the rules of this universe." Regardless of whether the party receiving these messages has good intentions or bad intentions, doing so will at least let them know that they can communicate.

"They didn't stop charging the guns."

"Captain, those turret guns are not the main weapons of these battleships. Their main weapons are the axis guns located inside the hull! Energy is flowing into the axis guns!"

"Part of their communication records were intercepted - they have no intention of communicating! They are ready to destroy us directly!"

"Shield strength increased to combat value!"

"Buzz——"

Thousands of scorching beams spanned a distance of 100,000 kilometers, creating a series of weak ripples on the shield of the Truth-class battle carrier.

"It is confirmed that our ship is under attack! Repeat, it is confirmed that our ship is under attack! The situation has been recorded and backed up!"

"Send them the first warning message! Start deciphering the race's method of communication!"