Voyage of the Stars

If they also use the same method of turning off the engine and sailing at a constant speed like humans, it means that this fleet is still at the level of aerospace-level civilization.

Although humans have never seen an interstellar civilization, from the original statement of "Silver Mist" and the warp engine that has not yet been cracked, we can also guess what kind of navigation method the so-called interstellar civilization uses.

The warp engine must be at the speed of light or super-light speed. There should be no need to use this energy-saving inertial navigation method.

Then as long as we wait for the observation results of the large-aperture telescope, we will know the specific speed of this fleet.

Humans only need to measure the size of the dust cloud, and then combine it with the speed of channel formation observed by telescopes within a certain period of time to determine the speed of the fleet.

So is it still too late to run?

The data displayed on the big screen has given Yue Yuan the answer.

The dust cloud is 0.75 light years away from Aldebaran. In other words, there is a time difference of 9 months from the time the fleet enters the dust cloud to the time when humans detect the dust cloud.

This shows that when Yue Yuan came to the bridge of the Tianqin, the fleet had sailed for another nine months based on the situation shown in this picture.

According to data on the speed of aerospace-level civilizations from the 'Silver Mist' or Mok Star civilization, if it is a first-level civilization, it will now take four years and three months for the fleet to reach Aldebaran. If it is a second-level civilization, it will take another one Years and nine months. If it is a level three civilization, it will only take nine more months.

If it were a first-level civilization, it would still be possible for humans to run away now. But the problem is that after this two hundred and forty-year long journey, humans must carry out a large-scale replenishment, and many spacecraft must also be overhauled, otherwise it will be difficult to survive the voyage.

"Why is it at this time!" Yue Yuan, who was sitting on a chair, was thinking about countermeasures while waiting for further observation results.

If it were like the previous not-so-long voyages, rather than a long-distance attack, he would never have hesitated to order an immediate sailing, but it happened to be this time.

Now humans have just begun to land on the Aldebaran-Kong star. The infrastructure has not yet been developed. Various resource detection robots are still in progress. It is not yet time for resources to be harvested.

"Where is Man Yuemei?" While waiting for the observation results, Yue Yuan asked after finding that Man Yuemei was not in the bridge.

The staff on the bridge, the scientific officer and others didn’t understand either, so the ‘Light of the Galaxy’ directly connected Yue Yuan to Man Yuemei’s communication.

"Yue Shuai? Just in time, I was about to give you a report, and you took it over!" Another split screen appeared on the big screen, with Manyue Mei's avatar appearing on it.

Through the screen, Yue Yuan saw the background behind Manyuemei. It seemed to be in a certain corridor. The person was still floating, indicating that he was still on the Tianqin.

"Have you received the information from the dust cloud?" Yue Yuan asked first.

"It has been shared to my personal terminal through the Ministry of Armament." Manyuemei nodded and said that he already knew the latest situation, and then continued: "I have downloaded the Kunlun ship, Huashan ship and other warships located in the asteroid belt. Instruct them to rely on asteroids to hide themselves, but the Lyra is some distance from the asteroid belt, and there is a certain delay in communication, so I plan to go to the Kunlun ship in person to open a second command post."

"It just so happens that the current route to the asteroid belt is under the shadow of giant gas planets. Looking from the direction of the dust cloud, even if a telescope is used to look at us over there, this thruster tail flame cannot be found."

It makes sense, but the problem is that we don't know what level of civilization the fleet that passed through the dust cloud is.

"Don't worry, let's synchronize the dust cloud data to the fleet command system first, and let the captains of each ship find large asteroids to hide on their own. We will wait for further information to determine other strategies." Yue Yuan rejected Man Yuemei. proposal.

Immediately afterwards, he called Zhu Pitt in the bridge of the Tianqin, and then said directly: "Zhu Pitt, please make your department prepare for various emergency plans within the civilization. The news about the dust cloud is currently kept secret from the public, and we will wait for it. I will give you the next instructions."

"Understood!" Zhu Pite saluted.

After turning off Zhu Pite's communications, Yue Yuan issued several orders to his production, engineering and other departments.

The general meaning is to increase manpower, increase ground detection, and speed of resource extraction, and strive to have the first batch of mineral resources delivered to the resource ship within half a month.

Furthermore, the resource collection department immediately dispatched idle collection spacecraft to the giant gas planet to capture hydrogen elements.

When ground exploration has not yet found resources of protium, deuterium, tritium and helium three, helium four, the fastest way to obtain energy is to salvage and collect it from the periphery of the giant gas planet.

Although the situation is not clear now, it will not go wrong to replenish energy and supplies as soon as possible.

When we came to Aldebaran, basically all large platforms, engineering ships, and mining ships were docked in the orbit of the Aldebaran-Kong star satellite. As a specialized combat warship, it does not have the ability to mine large-scale minerals. .

At this point, the same goes for the flagship Lyra.

Therefore, energy replenishment and material replenishment must be pulled from various factory-type spacecraft.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Shortly after Yue Yuan completed the order for each department, Gan De's voice sounded again in the bridge of the Tianqin: "Commander, there is a result! From the analysis of the size of the dust cloud and the formation of the fleet's track, we judged that the fleet The speed is 14% of the speed of light, the large track is 120, and the rest are small tracks."

"The direction of the fleet has been determined. It is Aldebaran where we are. It is impossible to determine the size of the specific spacecraft just by observing the dust cloud track."

Gander, without any hint of betrayal, directly stated the results observed by the team of astronomers.

Hearing this voice, Yue Yuan was shocked and looked up at the big screen. At this time, all the information obtained by the astronomers had been synchronized on it.

Although they are 0.75 light-years apart, the observation is different from sending a spacecraft to the destination for detection. As long as the telescope can observe changes in the dust cloud for a continuous period of time, various related data can be calculated through supercomputers.

Of course, what the telescope sees must be a track that has taken place for nine months, but it does not affect the judgment.

"According to the normal interstellar navigation behavior, the position 0.75 light-years away from the destination should not be the position node where the fleet slows down. In other words, the fleet is still at the highest speed, and this speed is 14% of the speed of light, then It can be judged that this fleet belongs to the first-class civilized fleet." Yue Yuan looked at the data on the big screen and fell into deep thought.

It is not 15% of the speed of light. There are two possibilities. One is that it lost a little speed due to interstellar dust during the voyage. The other is that the highest speed that this civilization can reach is 14% of the speed of light.

No matter which one, it belongs to the first-level civilization.