One of the territories of the Kingdom of Kante, it was also a star system that was directly handed over to the Federation by Queen Orchid for fleet rest.
At this moment, the fleet directly under the command of Jiang Xingchen has been resting here for three days.
In fact, it only took a few days to reach the Small Magellanic Cloud without any fighting.
Logically speaking, there is really no need to rest.
However, after all, it is 200,000 light-years away from the Milky Way, and many things are not complete just by observing across the galaxy.
Therefore, after arriving here, the fleet also needs to conduct intelligence analysis through various means.
Originally, the plan was to take a week, but because the Kingdom of Kante provided a detailed map of the Small Magellanic Star, the distribution of forces in most of the galaxy, and information on the strength of each civilization, etc.
This progress has been greatly accelerated, and now all the work has been completed in three days.
In the conference room.
Staff officers from the fleet directly under the fleet, commanders of each squadron, and people from the Science Department, etc., all gathered together.
Reporting on the results of the past three days one by one.
"Commander, in the past three days, we have conducted extremely detailed observations of the entire Small Magellanic Cloud. The distribution of stars is not much different from our observations from the Milky Way."
"However, after observing through various means, we discovered a very strange problem."
"Initially, when we conducted inter-galactic observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud in the Milky Way, we only identified more than 800 million stars, but this time we discovered more than 2 billion stars."
Hearing this, Jiang Xingchen also frowned slightly.
He still knows the basic information about the Small Magellanic Cloud.
The diameter of the galaxy is about 7,000 light-years, which is half smaller than the Large Magellanic Cloud.
However, even so, it is still the fifth largest galaxy in the Local Group of galaxies, just behind the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Immediately, a very strange problem appeared.
Through rough observations across galaxies, it was found that there are only more than 800 million star systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is less than half of the number in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Logically speaking, with a diameter of 7,000 light-years, the number of stars should be at least 2-3 billion.
This is obviously very abnormal.
However, although for thousands of years, many people have doubted this result, and there have been people who have used other methods to reconfirm the number of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
But the result is still...
More than 800 million!
In the end, everyone reluctantly accepted this strange fact.
However, Ouyang Qing now says that there are actually more than 2 billion stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud?
"Tell me in detail what's going on!"
"Yes, Commander."
Ouyang Qing nodded, and then opened the three-dimensional star map of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
"Look here, everyone, according to our past two thousand years of research, more than 90% of the more than 800 million star systems previously discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud are distributed in these places."
"But in the remaining places, there are only less than 50 million star systems distributed."
In the star map, following Ouyang Qing's explanation, a large number of marks first appeared in an area that occupied about 60% of the entire galaxy.
Nearly 800 million stars are concentrated in this area.
Then, some marks also appeared in the remaining 40% of the area, but these marks were very loose.
Compared to the previous area, this area seemed very empty.
This has always been the biggest question that all astronomers have about the Small Magellanic Cloud.
After all, there are only 50 million stars in nearly half of the galaxies. This is too abnormal.
"Then, here are the results of our detections in these three days."
The next moment, the originally empty area suddenly became denser, even much denser than the other area.
Finally, a set of numbers appeared on the edge.
The number of stars in this area.
Many people even rubbed their eyes after taking a look, for fear that they might have looked at one more zero.
Number of stars: 1,523,971,013.
From 50 million to more than 1.5 billion?
What is going on?
"According to our research over the past few days, there is a large amount of unknown optical interference in this area."
"Although our federation has reached the fifth level of technological civilization, if we want to observe another galaxy across 200,000 light-years, we still inevitably need to use optical equipment."
"The use of optical equipment for observation is interfered by it and cannot obtain correct results."
"However, now that we are in the Small Magellanic Cloud, we naturally do not need to use this observation method. Instead, we can directly detect the entire galaxy through space scanning."
"Although space scanning technology is not mature enough, the maximum scanning range does not exceed 10,000 light-years, and only data on the structure of one galaxy is obtained, which cannot be used in war."
"However, this time it is used in the Small Magellanic Cloud, and it is just right."
"At the same time, it was also because of the use of this technology that we discovered the problem."
Hearing this, Jiang Xingchen nodded.
After pondering for a while...
"Does the science team have any speculations about this?"
"Commander, although we are still not sure what this interference is, we can basically confirm one thing."
"What's up?"
"This is not a natural disturbance, but a man-made one."
"Artificial..."
"Commander, I think the people in the Kingdom of Kante should know something about the situation. After all, the information they gave us happened to be missing the content of that area. Normally, it would not be such a coincidence."
Holding his chin, Jiang Xingchen also started thinking.
The Kingdom of Kante sent star maps and information on the Small Magellanic Cloud...
As Ouyang Qing said, it only contains most of the galaxy, that is, there are nearly 800 million stars on the initial star map, accounting for about 60% of the entire galaxy.
At the beginning, no one thought much about this.
After all, it is only a third-order civilization and has not officially entered the fourth-order civilization.
Therefore, it is normal that the Small Magellanic Cloud has not been fully explored.
But now that I think about it, that's not the case.
The information provided happened to be missing the area with interference.
How could there be such a coincidence?
Even the Kingdom of Kante really doesn't know what is in that area.
But I definitely know the existence of that area!
It seemed that I had to talk to Luo about this issue.
Just as Jiang Xingchen was thinking about this, a badge on his chest represented his military rank and the communication function within the ship...
Suddenly I remembered.
After a light touch...
"Commander, I am Bai Zhi from the bridge communications team."
"What's up?"
"The Kingdom of Kante has just contacted us and hopes to arrange a meeting between you, Commander, and their queen."
"The new queen?"
"Yeah, tell them you're in a meeting and talk to them later?"
"No, it will be on the Star in one hour."
"Yes, Commander!"
talks...
Fortunately, I also have something to ask them.
After ending the communication, Jiang Xingchen whispered to himself.