Voyage of the Stars

The Star Alliance Red Flame Civilization's exploration team has a very good execution capability. After receiving instructions from the Tianqin, they immediately conducted a more detailed exploration scan of the wandering planet.

However, the exploration spacecraft did not land in person, but dispatched some smaller probes, mainly for concealment considerations. After all, the smallest exploration spacecraft is a mountain-level one, which is still too large for planetary landing and may cause a lot of noise.

If there is no requirement for concealed exploration, there is no problem, but before the specific situation is found out, the people on the Tianqin obviously do not want to be too ostentatious.

It is just right to dispatch probes for scanning and exploration at present.

The efficiency of the Red Flame people is quite good. Not long after, the Tianqin received the latest exploration news continuously.

Xian Donggui at the command center was inputting information into the model while introducing it to Yue Yuan.

"General, this is the latest scan data. It seems that our previous guess was correct. A certain civilization used their planet as a spaceship to go out of the interstellar space. The destination is this yellow dwarf star. According to its trajectory, their departure point should be here."

As Xian Donggui spoke, a star map appeared on the holographic screen, showing three planets, namely a yellow dwarf star, a wandering planet, and a yellow dwarf star. In other words, this wandering planet is going from the yellow dwarf star at the other end of the starry sky to the yellow dwarf star at the other end.

Now they are about four light years away from their destination. At their current speed, it will take at least 800 years. It is true that this wandering planet has reached 1% of the speed of light relative to the target star, but it is impossible for it to reach the destination at this speed and then directly decelerate from 1% of the speed of light to a standstill. They must have hundreds of years of deceleration time.

As for the star they set out from, humans did not pay special attention to it before. Now they have discovered after some exploration that it is the yellow dwarf star that is about to evolve to the next stage. It has a lifespan of about 10 billion years, and now its hydrogen fuel is about to burn out.

The mass of this planet is much larger than that of the sun, so its life span is much shorter, only 10 billion years. That civilization must have known the situation of the stars in their home galaxy, so they drove away from their home planet.

From the detection situation, there are definitely life forms on this wandering planet, but not on the surface of the planet. At least now, humans can only see 30,000 planetary engines like mountains and the broken eaves and broken walls of buildings on the surface of the planet.

From the situation of the buildings on the surface of the planet, the civilization on this planet was once prosperous, but their architectural style is quite peculiar. They are not high-rise buildings like humans, but buildings that look like mushroom umbrellas. Although they are damaged everywhere, they can be repaired to their complete appearance with human information restoration technology.

If you look down from the perspective of space, the buildings on the ground are probably not much different from looking down at the mushroom group.

After seeing this group of damaged buildings that look like mushrooms and looking back at the planetary engines, Yue Yuan discovered that the architectural style of these planetary engines is very similar to turning mushrooms upside down.

From the scanned image, we can see that there are traces of roads on the land of this planet, and the information about the planet's atmospheric composition was quickly transmitted back by the probe.

Yes, it still has an atmosphere, but it is much less dense than the Earth's atmosphere. It should be that the planetary engine blew away a lot of the atmosphere when it pushed the planet.

There is about 10% hydrogen sulfide in the atmosphere, and the majority is nitrogen. The rest is a small amount of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and other gases. Oxygen accounts for a very small proportion here, which is no different from rare gases.

It is amazing that it is a planet with almost no oxygen.

There is also water on the planet, but the water on it has now formed a vast ice field because the planet was de-orbited by them. The probe also analyzed its composition and found that its water composition includes hydrosulfuric acid.

Obviously, the water on this planet must be a mixture of water and hydrosulfuric acid when it is not frozen.

Obviously, that is because the hydrogen sulfide in the atmosphere is dissolved in water.

This kind of water obviously also has the characteristics of hydrosulfuric acid, which is corrosive and toxic, and has the smell of rotten eggs to humans. The hydrogen sulfide gas in the atmosphere is full of the smell of dry toilets. It is simply a planet soaked in toilets in the 1980s and 1990s.

It seems that this is the environment where the creatures on this planet live.

The surface of the planet has changed beyond recognition, but many frozen plants can still be seen. They are purple in appearance. The probe has fished out some of these plants for analysis by the research department.

The results show that these plants also have the ability to absorb stellar light energy. The process is to extract hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide and then give hydrogen to sulfur dioxide to make sulfide.

After a test, the biologists were very excited because they concluded that this is a sulfur-based plant and sulfur-based life. After reaching this conclusion, they also asserted that the unknown civilization hidden underground on this planet must also be sulfur-based, a sulfur-based life form.

Humans have been in the starry sky for so long and have encountered many strange life forms, but except for some special life forms, such as Adélie, they are basically carbon-based life forms. I didn't expect to encounter sulfur-based life now.

How can biologists not be happy? That is a life form that has never been seen before.

Human research in the field of life sciences has been stagnant for a long time. Perhaps this form of life can inspire humans.

As the exploration deepened, humans also found many places that were obviously the entrances to the basements, but basically the doors were closed and there was no light. The whole planet seemed quiet, like a world that had been dead for a long time.

However, humans knew that this world was not dead, it was just temporarily dormant, only on the surface. Because through detection methods such as neutrinos, humans roughly scanned these underground bases.

Through detection and scanning, humans found that there were about 60,000 huge underground bases on this planet, which should be the habitats of the indigenous people on this planet, but this kind of scanning technology can only scan out a rough idea. What the specific indigenous people look like can only be known after entering the base or waiting for them to open the door.

For the time being, humans are not in a hurry.

Because in the process of scanning the planet with neutrinos by the detector, humans also found another interesting phenomenon, that this planet is actually a planet with a cooled core.

In other words, it no longer has geological movement, no hot core like the earth, so there are no plate movement, earthquakes and other things, and naturally there is no geothermal energy.

Generally speaking, this situation often occurs on planets far away from the main sequence stars, but I didn’t expect this planet to be like this.