Comprehensive Comics KanColle: Building a Dimensional Empire from Scratch

Its structure is completely different from the engines previously installed in starships. It emits a faint blue light and is temporarily in standby mode.

"This is a hyperdrive."

Chiju Natsuyo said.

"Its principle is somewhat similar to that of a warp key."

"In the higher dimensions of the universe, there exists a hyperspace network invisible to ordinary people, just like a highway."

"After starting the engine and entering the webway, the spacecraft can achieve interstellar travel at speeds far exceeding the speed of light."

Lu Chen nodded to indicate that he understood.

Very familiar.

When primitive natives first go to space, the standard equipment is usually a hyperspace drive.

The effect of the warp key can be seen as opening a hyperspace gate from Earth to Cybertron, allowing the Autobots to travel back at faster-than-light speed.

After analyzing and applying its technology, it is normal to build spacecraft with similar principles.

"We are still researching long-distance jump technology. It shouldn't take too long. We can also use the Dimension Matrix as a reference."

Chishou Natsuyo confidently promised Lu Chen.

"How fast is the speed of a hyperspace engine? How many times the speed of light can it reach?"

Richelieu asked curiously.

"How many times? No, no, no, on a cosmic scale, you have to be more imaginative."

The scientific research loli shook her head.

"Several, dozens, or even hundreds of times the speed are not enough to support interstellar travel of thousands or tens of thousands of light years."

"Commander, do you want to give it a try?"

Aurora stood in front of the main console and extended her hand to invite Lu Chen.

"I can now travel hundreds or even thousands of light years in a short period of time. For example, to Alpha Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away, it would only take a few dozen minutes?"

"Let's take a look at this universe together?"

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(Pictured is Aurora).

Chapter 315 Another year of competing for supremacy in the galaxy!

In the solar system, at the star base.

The silver-white cruiser slowly set sail from its anchorage, carrying Lu Chen and the ship girls away into the distance.

Compared with conventionally powered starships, her speed is much faster, and in an instant, she has crossed the orbits of Mercury and Venus.

The first superluminal starship of the Star Empire, the Royal Light Cruiser Aurora.

In the bridge.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed ship girl wrote and drew on the holographic interface, reading various parameters.

"In a star system, we usually adopt a sub-light speed cruise mode. After getting rid of the star's gravity well, we can enter the hyperspace channel."

"The cruising speed of the hyperdrive is much faster than that of a conventional engine."

In just a few minutes, Lu Chen saw the blue earth outside the porthole.

Normally, it takes 1-2 days for the Wannian Fengxue to travel from the solar system to the Earth.

"good."

He praised.

After crossing the Earth's orbit, there are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn...

Some starships that mine space minerals also work on the moons of Mars and Jupiter.

When they looked up, they felt as if a dazzling meteor was passing through the dark space, and its speed was so fast that even the ship girls found it difficult to capture its trajectory.

Further outward in the solar system are the orbits of Uranus and Neptune.

This place is too far away and has not been developed yet, so it looks desolate.

"Neptune, Neptune, look, that's you down there!"

Cheshire pointed at the light blue planet outside the porthole and poked the ship girl next to him who had long blue hair, wore a maid outfit, and looked like a young lady.

"You will be fined for using puns."

Neptune also leaned over and looked at the planet with the same name as itself, which was the farthest from the sun.

She never dreamed that one day she would actually see it with her own eyes.

After crossing the orbit of Neptune.

The shipboard AI issued a prompt.

[Has escaped from the star's gravity well and can enter the hyperspace channel]

Aurora stood beside Lu Chen and pressed the start button.

"Commander, we need to speed up."

"Come on, choose a route. Where do you want to go?"

Swah——

A star map was projected in front of him.

Hyperspace navigation is equivalent to selecting a target location and then sending the spacecraft to reach there via a high-latitude channel.

This was their first time traveling faster than the speed of light, and Aurora felt that she should let the commander make the decision.

"Well... let's go somewhere closer first."

"Alpha Centauri."

Lu Chen thought about it and chose the familiar position on it.

As the star system closest to the Earth, Alpha Centauri appears very frequently in various works about other worlds.

It is the home of various alien civilizations including but not limited to the Trisolarans, Transformers, and Avatar.

He wanted to see what was on Alpha Centauri in this universe.

"Ok."

On the star map, a mark lights up.

[Target selected, preparing to enter hyperspace channel]

[All ships are ready]

Following the AI's announcement.

hum-

The starship trembled slightly.

The dark space and starlight outside the porthole were rapidly stretched and turned into colorful light bands.

At faster-than-light speeds, visual effects will be distorted.

The spacecraft seemed to have entered a time-space channel, with bizarre scenes flashing on both sides.

“Physics no longer exists.”

Kewei discovered that the equipment on his body was reporting errors crazily, and all the data exceeded the original theoretical limits.

Her analysis equipment and observation and aiming equipment are all at the level of sub-light speed natives, and are completely ineffective in superluminal mode.

The situation is similar for other ship girls, with garbled characters all over their equipment.

"No, it's physics that has entered a new phase."

Chishou Natsuyo said with a smile.

"Just as we went from Aristotle's classical physics to Newton's classical physics to modern physics, now we are studying space physics in the interstellar age."

click -

Soon, when the starlight outside the window returned to normal, the trance feeling when crossing the hyperspace channel disappeared.

Looking ahead, not far away is a completely unfamiliar galaxy.

It is a triple star structure consisting of three stars, Proxima Centauri A, Proxima Centauri B and Centauri.

In distant orbits, there are several planets slowly revolving.

After scanning with the detector, Lu Chen did not see Cybertron or Trisolarans here.

It seems that there is no alien civilization on Alpha Centauri in our universe.

On the star map, the distance from here to the earth is clearly marked.

4.2 light years.

Aurora took less than an hour.

"Incredible..."

The ship girls were dumbfounded.

They saw hope in each other's eyes.

Previously, the efficiency of starship exploration was limited by speed.

It would take a long time for a sub-light-speed civilization to develop its own galaxy, let alone travel to other galaxies several or dozens of light years away.

Spending several years on the road is unacceptable.

After the advent of superluminal technology, the scope of civilization's activities has expanded countless times.

It can roam freely throughout the Milky Way and even the surrounding large star clusters.

This is the real sea of ​​stars.

"Want to go somewhere further afield?"

Aurora selected another direction on the holographic interface.

hum-

The starship once again entered superluminal mode.

This time it took a lot longer than last time.

A few hours later.

Another bright three-star system appeared below the starship.

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A yellow supergiant and two main sequence stars are burning fiercely in the empty universe.

"This is Alpha Ursa Minor, 433 light years from Earth."

"Of course, it has a more famous title - the North Star, which is the one we see on Earth."

Aurora introduced it to everyone with great interest.

"Oh……"

Planets that were once only visible from Earth are now within reach.

The ship girls were filled with emotion.

This is the power of technology and loli!

As expected, the commander said that if the loli is strong, the country will be strong, and if the loli is smart, the country will be smart. There is absolutely no problem with that.

“Is there any alien civilization or life here?”

"Comrade, will there be aliens coming to fight us?"

Tashkent asked curiously.