The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 335: Alien Version of the New Dryas Incident

There are no friendly spacecraft near the location of the exploration fleet, and given the distance from the Ezki home planet to here, even if a spacecraft is sent when the communication is disconnected, it is impossible for it to arrive now.

The other exploration fleets are all very far away. Although theoretically according to the last transmitted location information, the warships of several neighboring fleets may be able to arrive, this is contrary to the correct plan of the exploration fleet in the event of an accident in the mother civilization.

The best solution is to disperse as much as possible to various star regions, escape into the vast universe, and disperse and preserve the fire of civilization as much as possible. Only in this way can the seeds of civilization not be wiped out in one fell swoop.

Perhaps after a long time, the two civilizations that have successfully risen will meet again, like two lost souls reuniting in the void. Of course, the greater possibility is that the remains of one side will be discovered by the other side that has the ability to sail again.

The content of the transmitted signal was clearly in the Ezki language, and the format was exactly the same as the radio format they used. If the other party had deciphered the Ezki language through eavesdropping, it would not explain why they did not know the true purpose of the remnants, or even gave them a warning.

The scene was quite mysterious. There was a moment of silence on the radio channel, with only the trajectory of the comet still faintly visible. The silence was not broken until the commander-in-chief of the exploration fleet, who was closely following the progress of the comet capture plan, cut into the channel.

"who are you?"

While a series of analyses were being conducted underground on the planet Dikla, in a distant star field, the reconnaissance star scorpion finally found traces of another Ezki exploration fleet, and the signals observed at the first time showed that this exploration fleet seemed to have encountered some bad situation.

Preliminary observations indicate that a planet with a high probability of being a life-bearing planet has been discovered in the star system. An Ezki escort ship is quietly parked in the planet's orbit, while another escort ship is next to a huge asteroid in the rear.

Its trajectory shows that this huge asteroid will soon hit the life-bearing planet in sight. The escort ship seems to be preparing to monitor or intercept? But from the current situation, it seems to have no effect.

Considering that the other party most likely does not have sufficient manpower and resources to transform the planet's environment, the situation may not be much better than the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period if a collision occurs, and they will have to clean up the mess themselves. It would be better to give a reminder now. Under Lin Yi's control, the reconnaissance star scorpion quickly activated the radio transmission structure in its body and sent out a long-range radio wave reminder.

However, it seems that the other party's reaction was not beyond Lin Yi's expectations. The transmitted signal was quickly received by the receiving organ in the body of the Reconnaissance Star Scorpion, and automatically translated into understandable meaning based on the complete comparison.

"It's hard to explain in a few words, but we have no ill intentions. Right now, solving the asteroid problem is the key."

Another signal was transmitted. At the same time, in order to show sincerity, the scale-reactive armor layer on the surface of the Star Scorpion was activated. Countless tiny scales, which were far from the original source of inspiration - the feather scale structure, and were closer to the shield scale structure, changed their angles, causing the emitted light signal to change.

The dark surface that was originally hidden as much as possible in the optical band quickly became shining with the changes in the shield scales, just like the bright and shiny exoskeleton color of some arthropods such as mantis shrimps in later generations, and it appeared in the observation equipment of the Ezki civilization in front.

Although the reactor and its supporting thrusters were still running, the scorpion was invisible in the infrared band, but showing its body in this way would allow the other party to see the details more clearly and show its sincerity. "Our goal is to push this icy comet into the planetary orbit, not to intercept it. There is no emergency now."

The other party's response came quickly, and Lin Yi understood the specific situation of all this - the reconnaissance star scorpion was also closer to the front, and a pair of astronomical telescope-level optical infrared dual-band compound eyes could better capture various detailed information.

Among them was the life planet that was clearly visible under the light of the giant star. Its surface, the part visible to the naked eye only, had an ocean area far smaller than that of the Earth and Dicyra, while most of the land was a withered brown-yellow with a slightly dark reddish color.

Even now, around the end of the Permian and the beginning of the Triassic, the Earth is not so exaggerated as to face large areas of drought in the interior because the continents are connected into a vast Pangaea continent.

Perhaps the type of star itself makes its environment much hotter than Earth and Dikla's star, and probably also hotter than Ezekiel's parent star. And the other party pushed this icy comet into the planet's orbit, probably to change this environment.

Similar things have happened on Earth before, but firstly, they were natural occurrences without any intervention, and secondly, the incident originally occurred 12,000 years ago when Lin Yi lived in his previous life, which is nearly 200 million years away from now.

This event was later called the Younger Dryas event. It was nothing special in itself. For the environment of the entire earth, it was just a small-scale extinction event that was far from a mass extinction event, but for the human species, it was a key turning point.

One of the later speculations about its cause is that an icy comet hit the earth, triggering a series of chain reactions that caused the global temperature to drop significantly, affecting the global ecosystem.

Now, it seems that what the remnants of the Ezki exploration fleet have to do is to artificially trigger such a "Younger Dryas Event" to improve the overly hot and dry environment of the planet and make it more suitable for the survival of the Ezki people.

For the remnants of the exploration fleet that lacked the manpower and material resources to build a large-scale construction project, this was a solution. However, it was unknown whether it could succeed as planned.

If it just passed by, it would be fine. But if the comet's landing point and force were miscalculated, it would probably become a small-scale extinction event for the life planet that the Ezki people had finally found.
Perhaps there won't be a mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period, but it's not impossible that some indirect damage might have occurred, like the two asteroids in the Kelvasa event at the end of the Devonian period. It's hard to say.

Although Lin Yi was there to clean up the mess, and if all else failed he could pack up the remnants and send them to Dikla Star, but Lin Yi still wanted to see what would happen if this bold plan succeeded.

The reconnaissance star scorpion stopped accelerating for the time being, preparing to temporarily park in the orbit of another planet ahead. In the back, more star scorpions were gathering rapidly, preparing to continue observing everything, and if it didn't work, they would consider taking direct action.

(End of this chapter)