Technological supremacy starts with acquiring alien spaceships

Now that Chen Yu had discovered a life-bearing planet in a nearby star system, he instructed the AI to head towards the source of the radio signals.

Ten million light-years might have seemed like an incredibly vast distance when Chen Yu first acquired the Millennium Falcon.

But now, for Chen Yu's Millennium Falcon, it was a very short distance.

The Millennium Falcon entered warp space, without even using its maximum warp speed.

In less than a day, it arrived at the star system containing the civilized planet.

[Captain, the Millennium Falcon has exited warp space and arrived in the star system of this civilized planet.]

"Alright, approach the planet, identify its civilization level, release the universal language translation codes, and send a request to land on the planet's surface."

[Captain, there's a situation!]

"What is it?"

[This planet is currently not emitting any electromagnetic waves or other radiation. I cannot detect any signals such as the internet.]

"What's going on?"

[Captain, the civilization on this planet has perished. The intelligent life has gone extinct.]

Chen Yu's eyes widened. Suddenly, he seemed to realize something.

"Damn! How could I forget that? We detected the electromagnetic wave information from this planet from 10 million light-years away. Now we've traveled here at faster-than-light speed, which means the electromagnetic waves we detected were emitted from here 10 million years ago. After 10 million years, the civilization on this planet would have long been extinct!"

[That's correct, Captain!]

Chen Yu spat.

It's like how the Earth started creating radio electromagnetic waves in 1888 AD.

That's only a little over a hundred years ago, which means that the electromagnetic waves created by human technological civilization have only traveled a little over a hundred light-years into the universe.

If humanity goes extinct in 1000 years, then those electromagnetic waves will be detected by a technological civilization 1000 years later.

They come to Earth based on the electromagnetic waves, but by then, Earth's civilization has already perished. It's the same situation as now.

"Well, I guess the civilization level of this planet wasn't very high. If it were an advanced civilization, they would definitely have the ability to modify the planet's environment, and they wouldn't have gone extinct."

[Captain, we should still go to the planet's surface to take a look and explore the relics left by this civilization. It might have a positive impact on our understanding of this star system.]

"Alright, and also check the stability of this star system and see how this civilization went extinct."

[Understood, Captain.]

"Oh, this planet looks pretty big, and it has an atmosphere, blue oceans, and green vegetation. It's clearly a life-bearing planet!"

[Captain, I have already detected the data for this planet.]

[The planet's diameter is over 43,000 kilometers, more than three times the size of Earth. The gravity is 12 times that of Earth. There is liquid water on the planet, and atmospheric content can be detected after landing.]

[The star system this planet is in is very stable. The sun this planet orbits is an aging star. Although the sunlight radiation is not as strong as Earth's sun, this planet is close enough to the star that it receives more radiation than Earth. The star can continue to burn for at least billions of years.]

Chen Yu frowned upon hearing the AI's introduction of the data.

"Since this star system is stable and the planet's environment looks good, why couldn't those technologically advanced beings survive even the last 10 million years?"

[Captain, that is indeed very strange.]

"Forget it, land directly on the planet's surface. All the answers are up there!"

[Understood, Captain!]