Tenglong Nebula, also known as Double Star Cemetery.
According to technical support information from the Royal Academy of Sciences provided by the Imperial Intelligence Agency, a complete binary star system consisting of two large main sequence stars once existed here.
The masses of these two main sequence stars are 37 times and 66 times that of the source sun respectively, and their volumes are 600 million times and 30 million times that of the source sun respectively.
One billion years ago, these two stars suddenly exploded in their prime. The energy released during their explosion even exceeded that of a supernova explosion. Moreover, astrophysicists at the Royal Academy of Sciences believe that the explosion of the binary star system is related to the black hole above.
It has no connection, and there is no trace of a large star passing through this place. The cause of the explosion is very strange, and we can only speculate that it was affected by some kind of cosmic ray explosion.
The terrifying explosion impact not only released high temperatures to the outside world, but also instantly generated an entire periodic table of elements.
The two stars were torn into fragmented "corpse fragments" and flew out in all directions in the universe.
Among them, the escaped matter flying upward enters the gravitational range of the black hole and is gradually sucked into the black hole.
After billions of years of cooling, condensation, and other evolutions, the rest of the escaped matter was pulled by the gravitational pull of the black hole above, the large black hole in the center of the ancient disk galaxy, and countless other stars, and became a line of previous generation sources.
The shape of the flying dragon in ancient myths of star civilization.
This flying dragon is about 2.2 light-years long, has a diameter of about 0.2 light-years, and has a spin period of nearly 50 million years. At this time, it is almost exactly between the Source Star and the Southern Nine Stars. The fleet needs to cross the dragon's body.
Inside the dragon's body, there are countless scattered stardust, plasma fog, and planets of various sizes.
No, these stars cannot be called planets. More accurate names are solid, gaseous and liquid spherical stars, as well as various space meteorites of different shapes.
The environment on the surface of these stars is complex and changeable, ranging from low temperatures infinitely close to absolute zero, to high temperatures of a thousand degrees, to "normal temperatures" of hundreds of degrees.
"Normal temperature" and high temperature usually come from reactions such as thermonuclear fusion inside these super-large solid stars. Their surfaces are not absolutely dark. There is not only background light composed of countless starlight in the galaxy, but also reddish magma flowing on the surface.
The glimmer of light released.
Ren Zhong, who had just woken up, stood in the combat command room with his hands on his hands.
Zheng Tian, who woke up earlier two months ago, stood on his left side.
Ten years ago, Zheng Tian came back and took over the responsibility of the general person in charge of intensive military training from Ren Zhong and Vincent. He sorted out the training plan from beginning to end and asked each armed warship to make targeted actions.
Adjustments will also be made to adjust ten transport ships into training ships.
At that time, Zheng Tianduo was busy for half a year before re-sleeping and kept awake for one month every year.
Zheng Tian completed her work very well.
A little further away on the other side, Qian Wangshen, who was in charge of the military scientific research project, was sitting in a wheelchair, looking down at the data with some difficulty.
Unlike other people in Spark Town who followed Ren Zhong all the way, Qian Wangshen came in halfway. He rarely had contact with ordinary people, and his direct subordinates basically followed the fleet to participate in the Great Migration. He was very interested in staying on the Source Star.
People do not have such deep emotions. Or perhaps, as a scientific researcher, he is born with a more rational thinking. He does not care so much about details, but only cares about the final right or wrong. He is not actually opposed to heavy-duty decision-making.
In the past ten years, Qian Wangshen has undertaken the heaviest scientific research tasks and never took a day off, which made him very old.
But just like Sun Miao, Lao Qian's lifelong dedication not only left a lot of achievements, but also cultivated a large number of successors.
In addition to the core personnel mentioned above, there is also an old face in the command room, none other than Zhuo Yihang, who was Zhong Ren's personal assistant when he entered the Enumerator College.
Ren Zhong saved his life from the time stream and arranged for him to go to Spark Town to start as a low-level manager.
His improvement is not very fast, but it is very steady, and he only moves forward slowly one step at a time.
In the past thirty years, Zhuo Yihang has only experienced less than fifteen years of cryogenic slumber, especially after entering the Great Migration Fleet.
After most of the other core cronies chose to sleep, Zhuo Yihang chose to follow Ren Zhong unconditionally and volunteered to take on more responsibilities and help Ren Zhong solve his problems.
This time, he started from the grassroots level of the Fleet Administrative Office.
Ten years have passed, and the once young man has turned into a slightly older middle-aged man, his eyes have become firm, and his thinking has become calm.
He is not particularly talented, and his thinking is not quick, but his greatest advantage lies in this. He never makes risky decisions, but whenever he needs to make a major decision by himself, he will always think carefully. Today
Zhuo Yihang has grown into a reliable acting administrative officer.
Zhuo Yihang: "Lord Viscount, the Communications Office has received a new detailed star map from the Southern Nine Stars. The latest information in the Tenglong Nebula is as follows... The trade routes and exploration routes have not changed much compared to ninety years ago.
.If we take the commonly used trade route, we only need to adjust the navigation parameters at more than 60 nodes such as 391, 644, 1214 and so on to slightly correct the direction. If we take the exploration route..."
There are two safe routes in the Tenglong Nebula. One of them is a commonly used route for interstellar trade between the Source Star and the Empire in the past thousand years. It is called the trade route. There are minimal obstructions along the way and it does not pass through the unstable radiation zone. The ship
The ship can basically move at full speed on this route, and the estimated transit time is 2.5 to 2.8 years.
The other route is named the Exploration Route. According to historical records, the first generation of humans from the Source Star Civilization took this path when they left the Source Star and entered the era of the big universe. Of course, it was not an overnight process, but one generation after another of pioneers.
One after another, he spent his life exploring the winding and hidden path of glory and suffering.
The exploration route that has been abandoned for many years is more hidden, has a longer distance, is more blocked by large stars along the way, and has an electromagnetic isolation zone blocking the path. It requires up to thousands of large-angle changes in direction to pass. The fleet must lower its altitude during the exploration route.
Moving forward rapidly, the overall passing time reaches more than six years.
If the trade routes are the mountain tunnels carved out by later generations, the exploration routes are the trails measured by the feet of the ancients.
After Zhuo Yihang introduced the situation, Zheng Tian turned to look at Ren Zhong, "Sir Viscount, we will enter the Tamron Nebula tomorrow, and we must decide which path to choose."
Nowadays, Zheng Tian has not completely forgiven Ren Zhong. She stood up again because she wanted to fulfill her responsibilities. She no longer calls Ren Zhong boss, brother Ren, Mr. Ren, and boss like before. She also follows the example of others.
He was also addressed as Lord Viscount in a respectful and distant tone.
Ren nodded and said, "I know."
Zheng Tian asked: "Do you want to have a meeting to discuss?"
Ren Zhong shook his head, "No. There is no need to discuss it."
Sometimes, he needs the wisdom of the crowd, but in this case, discussion is of no help.
The empire only provided star maps and did not send elite explorers here, nor did it have any military intelligence.
The advance team has accelerated into the nebula at full power in advance, but has not returned any valid information.
The small reconnaissance ship is also business as usual.
The Dragon Nebula looks ordinary and peaceful.
But no one can guarantee whether there will be a patrol of Ascendants lurking among them.
The reason is very simple. Although the armed battleships of the advance team are equipped with additional scanning devices, and the exploration performance of the reconnaissance ships is much better than ordinary small ships, after all, they are only independently developed based on the technology of the C-class seeker colony team.
The low-end goods cannot be compared with the high-tech equipment within the empire.
Enemies who dare to be active in these places can even evade the Imperial reconnaissance ships, let alone fringe armies like the Source Star Fleet.
Ren Zhong slowly closed his eyes and tried to make intensive deductions in his mind, or... it was guesswork.
After a long time, he gave up, opened his eyes again, and once again observed the complex and detailed star map.
It was just a choice between two options, but it was difficult for him. He had no idea which path to choose, and he failed to activate his talent for prediction.
Precognition is not invincible, and he has no understanding of the enemy. He is not even sure whether he is an ascendant or not. It is natural that he cannot give an answer subconsciously.
"Let me make a hypothesis first. If there are really rangers lurking inside, ready to attack and intercept us. This is also the territory of the empire, and rangers are also likely to be hunted by the empire, so let's assume that they only have one patrol team. Then, what will they do?
Analyze our dynamics? Where to ambush us? Zheng Tian, what do you think?"
Zheng Tian thought for a moment, "Our information has been leaked. The enemy should realize that we can think of this. Then, according to conventional speculation, the enemy may think that we want to try to explore the route to avoid their ambush."
Ren Zhong smiled, "But is it possible that the other party has predicted our prediction? It is speculated that we think that the most dangerous place is the safest place, but instead place the ambush point on the trade route?"
Zheng Tian was stunned, "Uh..."
"So, facing this choice, psychology is meaningless." Ren Zhong waved his hand, "Withdraw the advance fleet, and the rear fleet will advance forward, close to the main force, shrink the formation, and take the trade route. Retract all the reconnaissance ships
, turn off all radar scanning devices, adjust to passive mode, turn off all medium engines, adjust to gravity traction engines, and adopt silent navigation. Pick up all ice warriors on each ship, and then summon all combat professionals above level eight to participate in the network conference
, Zheng Tian, go and do a war mobilization and tell them that they are not allowed to sleep in the next three years and everyone is on standby around the clock."
Zheng Tian: "Yes!"
"Zhuo Yihang, send a notice to all civilians, telling them that even transport ships may need to participate in the war. Everyone must be mentally prepared and don't be surprised when a fight breaks out."
Zhuo Yihang: "Yes!"
Later, Ren Zhong walked to Qian Wangshen's wheelchair and said, "Brother Qian, thank you for your hard work."
Qian Wangshen rarely took his eyes off the tablet, raised his eyes to look at Ren Zhong, then raised his hand with some difficulty and pointed at the screen.
Ren Zhong looked along and saw a save progress bar.
An electronic sound sounded next to the wheelchair. It was a sound that Qian Wangshen conceived in his mind and read through brain waves.
"Mr. Ren, I just sorted out my ideas about the new analyzer and saved them."
Ren Zhong: "Yeah."
"By the way, a super-speed missile that can cruise at a quarter of the speed of light has been developed, with a maximum range of 60 billion kilometers. It can also be used as a range extender for the Seeker high-explosive missile."
Ren Zhong: "Yeah."
Qian Wangshen's cloudy eyes suddenly lit up and he said slowly: "Mr. Ren, I can only accompany you here."
"Thanks."
"goodbye."
Lao Qian's head slowly softened, he leaned on the wheelchair and fell asleep forever.
Lao Qian, the once unruly and unruly No. 1 war artist on the Origin Star, finally slowly burned out his life.
The era of old money has come to an end.
But the knowledge left by Lao Qian is still passed down and circulated on the fleet and Origin Star.