Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 557 Explorer II

Galaxy 6, April 7.

The Antarctic star area on the edge of the solar system, the headquarters of the Fourth Army - Queshanxing Fortress, Queshanxing is 547 units away from the sun, and is an asteroid slightly smaller than the moon.

Thanks to the sharp increase in the production of dark matter in the Alliance, the space battleships of the Fourth Army have been replaced with curvature engines, and the latest generation of curvature engines has increased the transition speed to a limit of 30 times the speed of light.

As the two border regions of the solar system, although the Antarctic region is not under as much pressure as the Polaris region, they are also busy now.

Because the Supreme Command has just formulated a colonization plan, their Fourth Army will be responsible for the expedition to the Proxima Centauri in the Proxima Galaxy, and establish the first star system colony in the Proxima Centauri.

Ma Wu, who had just returned to Blue Star from the front line of the Polaris area, rushed over to Queshan Star Fortress with a group of crew members.

His car was replaced with a Shadow Leopard-class modified Explorer 30 spacecraft, a curvature spacecraft whose speed can reach [-] times the speed of light.

This time Ma Wu and others will take the first step to explore the way, and the expeditionary fleet of the Fourth Army will set off for Proxima Centauri about two months after their departure.

On the space port of Queshan Star Fortress, a shadow leopard-class space cruiser that has turned into a dumbbell shape is Ma Wu's new car "Explorer II".

Ma Wu looked at his watch, the time was almost up, and after reporting the flight record with the control tower of the aerospace port, he said loudly:
"Explorer [-], head towards Proxima Centauri at full speed."

"Received." Fang Haibo and Masayoshi Kobayashi quickly started the photon engine. They needed to leave Queshan Star 15 units before they could start the curvature engine and enter the transition state.

After 7 hours, they successfully arrived at the starting point area of ​​the jump. For the safety of the spacecraft during the jumping flight, the Alliance Space Transportation Department formulated the "Jumping Flight Management Regulations", which stipulated the starting point area and the ending area of ​​the curvature spacecraft. , transition routes, etc.

The jump start area where Explorer 5 is located is an area with a radius of 500 units. There are a total of 150 jump routes here, and a total of [-] routes to Proxima Centauri.

"Enter the route of Proxima Centauri 46."

"receive."

Explorer 30 instantly activated the curvature engine, and entered a transition state [-] times the speed of light in a blink of an eye.

Proxima Centauri, a subsidiary galaxy of the Procyon galaxy, is the closest star system to the solar system. The distance is only about 4.2 light years. Explorer 30, which can travel 51 times the speed of light, can reach the interior of Proxima Centauri from the edge of the solar system in only [-] days. .

In fact, the Fourth Army has already pushed the border of the Alliance into the void near 2 light-years from the sun. The border close to Proxima Centauri is the Yiyi Mountain Star Fortress, and the transition route to Proxima Centauri starts from Passed near the Wing Mountain Star.

The Yiyi Mountain Star Fortress is about 13.8 units away from the sun. It is a black asteroid, a little bigger than the Titan star. There is a squadron and 2 soldiers stationed here.

Ma Wu monitors the situation around the route through the dark wave radar. The dark wave radar can be used in the transition state. After all, its working principle is similar to that of quantum communication.

Compared with the empty Polaris region, the matter density of the Antarctic region is higher, and celestial bodies such as asteroids are denser.

a month later.

Explorer [-] exited the transition state, and they had already left the Queshanxing Fortress on the border of the alliance.

"Detect the astronomical conditions of the surrounding star field, and then we will move on." Ma Wu ordered.

"Okay." Fang Haibo immediately started the dark wavelet scan with the highest power, and conducted a comprehensive scan of the void with a radius of 1.5 units around the spacecraft.

Masayoshi Kobayashi will open the missile silo and launch six Xiongfeng 15s in six directions, east, west, north, south, up and down. These missiles are equipped with proton micro-robots. Xiongfeng 15 will spread proton micro-robots in the void along the way.

In fact, around the border of the solar system with a radius of 2 light years, the alliance has scattered densely packed proton micro-robots, coupled with means such as dark subwave radar and gravitational wave radar, basically realized monitoring without dead ends.

Unless space jumping technology is used to directly jump into the inner solar system, other ways of entering will be more or less monitored.

On the explorer [-], there are many proton micro-robots, and these proton micro-robots will be scattered along the route.

Ma Wu turned around and looked back at the direction of the solar system. At this time, only the light of the sun is still shining in the solar system. Although the light of the sun has no temperature at this moment, for every wanderer who travels far, Still as warm as a mother's embrace.

"Captain, the astronomical situation has been recorded." Fang Haibohui reported.

Only then did Ma Wu come to his senses, put aside his mild nostalgia for the time being, and turned around to continue the exploration work of the stars and the sea.

"Justice, prepare to launch a Hero 53 towards Proxima Centauri."

"OK."

Masayoshi Kobayashi danced his fingers, and after obtaining the authorization from Ma Wu's captain, he pressed the launch button of the Xiongfeng 53 missile.

After the missile manhole cover bounced off, the Xiongfeng 53 missile, accelerated by the electromagnetic catapult, rushed out towards Proxima Centauri at 30% of the speed of light.

Ten minutes later, the Hsiung Feng 10 missile was already some distance away from the Explorer 53, and the supercomputing program that came with the missile immediately activated the curvature engine.

In fact, this Xiongfeng 53 missile is not so much a missile as a detector.

"The Xiongfeng 53 curvature engine starts and enters the transition state at a speed of 90 times the speed of light."

"The dark subwave radar is activated, scanning the astronomical conditions along the way, and is recording the astronomical conditions of the Void Sea along the way in real time."

In order to obtain ultra-fast speed, the Xiongfeng 53 missile sacrificed a very large payload. Among the mass of 137 tons, the payload is only about 6.7 tons. These payloads are used to install monitoring equipment and the like.

The Xiongfeng 90 missile, which is 53 times the speed of light, is now 1.9 light-years away from Proxima Centauri from Explorer 8, and it only takes about 53 days. The detector modified by the Xiongfeng [-] missile can reach the inner area of ​​Proxima Centauri.

In fact, the super-light-speed missile Xiongfeng 53 is currently only a laboratory product. The reason why it appeared was mainly to restrain the curvature of the spacecraft.

The alliance knows that in the Milky Way, human civilization is definitely not the only one with super-light-speed spacecraft. If it is not prevented in advance, it will definitely suffer a big loss in the future.

"Everything is normal for Xiongfeng 53, the astronomical situation has been entered, and the star map data is being updated."

Ma Wu ordered: "Let's continue to set off, aiming at Proxima Centauri."

"Yes." Everyone was very excited. They would become the first group of Blue Stars to go outside the solar system. The excitement of exploring the unknown starry sky made their blood boil immediately.

Explorer [-] entered the transition state again, and a distorted transition trace was fleeting.

After Ma Wu sat down, he flipped through the logbook. He did not forget this mission to explore Proxima Centauri.

The first is to test some equipment; the second is to explore the astronomical conditions of the Proxima Galaxy and the Procyon Galaxy (Centaurus a); the third is to look for the natural wormhole discovered by the An Luo star.

If the wormhole is found, they will explore it. A natural wormhole is simply a huge asset for the alliance.

(End of this chapter)