The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Before coming into contact with the Prometheus database, Leo was full of expectations for the contents of the database. He hoped to be able to find the positional relationship between this world and the Earth Federation universe from the navigation data in the database, but now he After a rough browsing of the information in the database, he was very disappointed with the contents, because those information had been deleted in large quantities.

Judging from the composition of the data types in the database, when the people of the Earth Federation who transformed the Prometheus transferred the data of the Prometheus to the current intelligent core, the people who carried out these tasks took the initiative to transfer the data of the Prometheus All voyage data were deleted, including the voyage records of the spaceships of the Earth Federation, as well as the voyage records of the Prometheus.

Although Leo didn't know exactly what happened at that time, so that the supervisor here made such a decision, but judging from the sequence of data files in the database, the technicians at that time did not have a detailed deletion list, but only through analogy and retrieval Wait for a semi-intelligent method to find out all the data related to navigation and delete them indiscriminately, so there are a lot of accidental deletions in these data.

For example, there is an original navigation data in these data. This original navigation data is the original data that will be loaded on every navigator that comes out. The function of this data is not only used to test the operation of the spacecraft navigator, but also has The original control codes of key functions such as the operation of spacecraft engines, flight shields, space transitions, etc. This part of data can be said to be the most important piece of data in spacecraft navigation.

However, such a crucial original data was also deleted in pieces, which eventually forced the later technicians to rewrite a set of defective underlying codes, barely maintaining the main control computer's control over some of the main spacecraft. Device control.

However, it is obvious that the technician who wrote this code is also very aware of how bad his code is, so he did not let this intelligent core control too many things, only a few key devices, such as the spaceship above the entrance of the abyss engine.

This can be regarded as a crooked attack, which saves Leo the time to write another control code. After leaving here, he can directly teach the manager of Lanxi City the part of the code that activates the spaceship engine in this set of problem codes.

Although the technicians at that time had deleted those voyage records as much as possible, it was obvious that the technicians in charge of this matter were not experienced enough, and they relied too much on the intelligent retrieval function instead of searching and analyzing according to their own capabilities, which made some and Materials related to the voyage, but not voyage data, have been preserved, and one of the most useful materials is a part of the voyage diary left by a navigator named Henry.

Because it is a diary, this information is classified as a daily document, and the search and analysis level is the lowest. Although some data in the diary were searched and deleted because it involved navigation, a large part of it is still related to The content related to the voyage has been preserved, and the biggest reason why these diaries can be preserved is that the navigator who wrote the diary is a poor poet, who always likes to use some verses to describe what he saw and heard on the voyage.

Although those verses are worthless in terms of literature and art, they are better than these verses are straightforward enough to allow readers to easily know where the content of the description is. Through these descriptions, compare the time of each diary, and add The speed of the spaceship itself is enough for Leo to analyze the course of the spaceship.

From the point of view of the route, this spaceship from the Earth Federation period is a caravan spaceship. The starting point of the spaceship route is Chang’an Star, the largest colonial planet in the Early Earth Federation. The most famous scenery on this planet is the Twelve Hanging Moons, because There are twelve satellites of different sizes on this planet. Every ten years or so, twelve satellites will appear in the night sky at the same time. This scene is also described in the navigator's diary.

Chang'an Star is not the earliest colony planet developed by the Earth Federation, but Chang'an Star is the best developed among all the developed colony planets, and the overall scale there has surpassed the Earth's parent star.

In the early expansion plans of the Earth Federation, Chang'an Star was also the core of these plans. Almost all activities related to colonies, including commercial, military, and exploration, etc., all started with Chang'an Star. At the end of the early development activities of the Earth Federation, The governing center of the Earth Federation even moved to Chang'an Star, making Chang'an Star the capital planet of the Earth Federation.

This situation continued until the Earth Federation developed faster spacecraft, came into contact with more advanced alien civilizations, knew a wider space, and expanded the range of colonized planets to farther galaxies. From the front to the rear, its importance has also rapidly decreased, and finally changed back to an ordinary hinterland colonial star.

From the words in the diary, it is not difficult to see that when the spaceship set sail, Chang'an Star was still the core of the colony star of the Earth Federation, and it was mentioned in the diary that the Parliament of the Earth Federation had begun to propose moving the ruling center to Chang'an Star for convenience. The management of the colonial planet shows that the time at that time has entered the end of the early colonization period.

Afterwards, the spacecraft began to travel between various colonial planets along a very famous golden route in the early commercial history of the Earth Federation, conducting various commercial activities.

This route could be regarded as the lifeline for the Earth Federation at that time. Almost 70% of the commercial tax revenue of the Earth Federation came from this route, and almost all trans-galaxy business activities were related to this route. , People at that time also called this route the Caribbean route.

Because this route is similar to the colonial route in a certain ocean development period in the old earth era, there are a lot of commercial activities, and there are also a large number of pirates accompanying the commercial activities.

This is also the reason why this golden route is still so famous in the time of the Earth Federation where Leo was, because at that time there were countless battles between the interstellar pirates, caravans and the Earth Federation fleet, and countless legendary battles. Stories continued to happen on that route, until later these legendary stories have become legends, and continue to spread in the star fields under the jurisdiction of the Earth Federation in various art forms, and they will last for a long time.

Although the people of the Earth Federation in later generations yearned for the era when those legendary stories happened at that time, and regretted not being born in that magnificent era, but for the people at that time, sailing on this route was definitely not a joyful thing, and they were worried. , I am afraid that a pirate fleet will suddenly appear from some place has become a daily routine, and many people even have to rely on drugs to relax themselves.

Between the lines in the diary of the navigator revealed a kind of fear and hatred for the interstellar pirates. Even though his caravan had ten escort warships, the navigator still did not feel any safety. One of the main reasons why the federal government is preparing to relocate the ruling center to Chang'an Star.

It's just that the records about this golden route only occupy about half of the diary files. After the spaceship arrived at Noyes Star, a colony planet, the course of the spaceship changed, and even the function of the entire fleet also changed. .

During the first large-scale development period of the Earth Federation, the merchant fleets of large companies were not only engaged in commercial activities, but sometimes they also served as expedition fleets, development fleets, and other activities that could benefit large companies. Big companies even let their own fleets act as interstellar pirates to attack rival fleets.

Obviously, the fleet of this navigator is such a multifunctional fleet. When their commercial missions are completed, they will transform into another functional fleet, such as an exploration fleet.

In the pioneering history of the Earth Federation in the early days, the Noyes star was also a very famous planet with special significance. For example, the first contact with an alien civilization in the official sense of the Earth Federation was on this planet. The first civilization treaty signed with an alien civilization is also on this planet, and for a long time, this planet has also been the starting planet of the Earth Federation's development fleet.

Although the specific situation was not written in the diary of this navigator, judging from the content of the follow-up diary, the function change of their fleet was due to an unexpected incident, which forced them to suspend their ongoing commercial mission , transform the entire fleet into an exploration fleet, and launch exploration missions towards the unknown star field of the universe.

And from a few words, it can be seen that the fleet that changed its mission due to unexpected incidents was not the only fleet at that time. Almost all the fleets that were resting on the Noyes star at that time changed the nature of the fleet, heading towards the depths of the universe. advance.

Although there is only one sentence in the diary about the unexpected incident, and it is still a bad poem, Leo still found clues from this poem, and compared the history of the federal development to find out the details of the incident .

The verse in the navigator's diary is that a vase filled with flowers suddenly bloomed in the dark night. Although this line is very rubbish in terms of poetry, it describes the phenomenon well, because this sudden event is called the vase incident. .

The cause of the incident was that multiple cosmic telescopes located in Noyes observed an energy cluster suddenly blooming in the space about five light-years away from Noyes' star. The shape of that energy cluster was like a vase filled with flowers.

If it's just a weird energy pattern, it's fine. After all, there are various forms of energy in the universe, but while observing this mass of psychic energy, Noyes' scientists also captured an energy wave signal. This energy wave signal It is the energy wave signal used by the Earth Federation to develop spaceships in the very early days. The only meaning of this energy wave signal is the discovery of a colonizable planet.

Because the early technology of the Earth Federation was underdeveloped, this energy wave signal device was very huge and could only be used once, so this energy wave signal would only be activated when the planet was determined to be colonizable.

At that time, the people on the Noyes planet did not study why the early energy wave signals were still in use. They paid more attention to the location of the energy wave signals, because that location was a blank area from the star field map of the Earth Federation.

According to the Pioneer Act of the Earth Federation, before the Earth Federation fleet enters the colony planet, any resource development of the planet by the pioneers is valid and inherited, and belongs to the scope of private property.

So when the relevant news spread, all the spaceships capable of cross-space flight on the planet Noyes all turned into pioneer spaceships and headed for the new colony planet, although judging from the energy wave signal, they obviously had already It is impossible to become the first discoverer, but it is also good to eat some soup after the first discoverer, after all, there are still huge benefits in it.

After the Noyes planet administrative center passed the relevant news back to the Earth Federation, the Earth Federation decided to send a fleet to the colonial planet after discussion. It was just this round-trip, plus the time it took to discuss and form the fleet, etc., five years have passed. By the time the pioneer spacecraft of the Federation Fleet arrived at Noyes, the energy wave signal had also disappeared.

Afterwards, the Federal Fleet went to the star field where the signal source was located according to the coordinates and azimuths recorded by the Noyes star scientists. After arriving, they found that there was nothing in that star field, and the entire star field was equivalent to fifty times the size of the solar system. , There is nothing, not to mention the colonized planet, not even a meteorite or cosmic dust, and according to the data measured by various means, it is found that the energy activity of this star field is infinitely close to zero.

And those pioneering spacecraft that came to this star field five years earlier than the Federation Fleet also disappeared. Until the time period where Leo was, this matter is still the biggest mystery in the history of the Earth Federation's development.

The scientists of the Earth Federation have made countless explanations for this, and the one that is considered most likely to be the answer is that the vase-shaped energy pattern started with two Omega-level high-level life forms fighting, and those fleets that went to the star field in advance were killed. Involved in the war of higher life forms, everything in that star field was destroyed together, so there was such a strange state of dead energy in that star field.

As for why those pioneering fleets did not avoid the battles of higher life forms, but took the initiative to join in, it was because the Earth Federation had a very good understanding of psykers at that time, and they all called psykers new humans or superpowers, and even more so. The existence of Omega-level advanced life forms is unknown.

However, this guess was later denied by someone, because through some connections, someone entrusted the people of the higher civilization in the Supreme Council of the universe to investigate the past battle data of Omega-level advanced life forms, and found that there has never been an Omega-level advanced life form. It has fought so close to the nascent cosmic civilization of the Earth Federation.

The distance of five light years is like an abyss for some civilizations, but it is only a few steps away for Omega-level advanced life forms. If two high-level life forms fight at such a short distance, it will definitely hurt Earth civilization has had a devastating impact, so the investigation of the vase incident has never had an answer, and now the answer is right in front of Leo.