Pan Galactic Age

Chapter 1 Prologue

"I clearly remember everything that happened that day...ahem..." The old man leaned halfway on the hospital bed, refused the water glass offered by the visitor, straightened his body with difficulty, and continued in a hoarse voice, "170 Many years have passed, and I have never been able to forget that doomsday-like scene..."

"... At that time, I was 23 years old, and I was the 19th generation third-sequence immigrant from the planet 'Land of Annihilation'... No, at that time, it wasn't called 'Land of Annihilation', it had a beautiful name—" "Bright star", because its outer atmosphere is full of pulsing ions, looking at it from outer space, it is like a bright multicolored diamond in the dark, it is unique in the world, since the beginning of our human space origin , the most beautiful planet I have ever discovered, she is so beautiful, so eye-catching, so fascinating..."

"Many people on the planet hope to stay and work on the orbiting space station in order to appreciate its beauty in space, and I am no exception. The target is a trainee navigator... This job can give you a good view of the unpredictable and charming scenery of the "Bright Star"... In the border area between the Galaxy Federation and the Pan-Galactic Cosmic Community "Watching the Star Field", it was the It is the only mild and habitable planet that has not been affected by the war since the war that lasted for more than 30 years."

"Even because of the beauty of the 'Bright Star', the entire R5-S586J star system where it is located was not attacked. At that time, there was a view that even the war burned to the farthest seventh star in R5-S586J The vicinity of the ice rock planet is also a kind of blasphemy to the miraculous star 'Bright Star', so when the flames of war burned all the other star systems in the 'Watching Star Field' and even spread to many star fields in the hinterland of both sides, 'Bright Star' has naturally become the only holy place of hope in the hearts of people in the midst of war. Refugees from all over the world escaped from their homes on various starships and came to 'Bright Star' to gain a new life. It was really a busy day for the space station. ..."

"I remember that there is one space station in the long-distance orbit of the 'Bright Star' satellite, and two space stations in the near-orbit orbit of the planet. Every day, hundreds of starships of various kinds commute to and from these three space stations from all corners of the land of war. The squares in each space station are crowded with refugees waiting for asylum visas. Although the sadness of being displaced lingers in the hearts of everyone who fled here, the peace and beauty of the "Bright Star" still give a great gave them new hope..."

"...Just when everyone was praying for an early end to the war, the arrival of peace, and a return to their homeland, disaster still came... Yes, that was April 6717, 4 in the origin calendar, an unlucky date, R24- All space detectors in the S5J star system sounded at the same time the regional space fluctuations caused by the space jump of super-massive objects of unknown origin, which in turn triggered the dimensional space tide, which made us urgently shut down the star system leading to our R586-S5J star system. door, so as to avoid the disaster of space-time collapse..."

"Common sense tells us that only flagship-level starships have an engine for autonomous space jumps between star domains. Ordinary conventional starships can only perform short-distance jumps within the star system, and then go to and from different star systems and constellations through star gates. , the star field... It’s just that in R5-S586J of our Starship Federation, only the ‘Jedi’ starship and the ‘Persian’ starship and two ‘Starry Sky’ dreadnought-class starships have the ability to independently space jump, but Even if they jump to the 'Bright Star' together, the space fluctuations caused by them are far less than one-third of the space fluctuation equivalent of that day! This is beyond our common sense... let's not allow us to guess anything... "

"...unimaginable...unforgettable...a huge shadow gradually obscured the upper ecological circle of the satellite long-distance orbiting space station where I was, and everyone looked up and opened their mouths in shock at that behemoth, you know, The axis of the space station we are in is about 45 kilometers long, and the top-level ecological circle is about 11 kilometers in diameter, but it is completely blocked by that monster-like giant, and the end can't be seen at a glance... "

"His surface energy shield device seemed to be completely damaged, revealing the scarred original dark gray metal armor, and even two shocking large holes with a diameter of hundreds of meters. The torn armor twisted and flashed with lightning Spread around the entrance of the cave, it is hard to imagine what kind of trauma would cause it to be injured like this, and no one knows what this giant is? All the time-space communication information was actively intercepted by it and could not be sent out.”

"That was the first time I experienced the fear of the unknown. I tried to send a communication request to it through the navigation console, but I didn't expect it to be connected. The voice over there was very noisy, but I still remember it clearly. It was a The voice of a man with a low and hoarse voice seemed to have been heard somewhere, but he had no time to think about it at the time. He said: "This is all the fault of this war. Everything is a conspiracy. I must come to end this war." Disaster, there is no other choice, my crime will not be forgiven, but I must do it...you, you will have an hour to escape death...'”

"The communication was interrupted, and my colleagues and I couldn't understand what he was talking about, but, soon, we understood what he wanted to do, and the siren in the navigation room of the starship beacon sounded again,' The target is gathering super-high energy! This is... this is the sign of the launch of the doomsday weapon! This, this is the other shore!', our navigator captain shouted tremblingly, "He is going to destroy the Brilliant Ship. Star! We're done!'”

"There are a total of five people in the navigation room, a captain, three official navigators, me and another trainee navigator. Everyone is petrified, you know, it's the end of the world, just like this in front of us It was about to happen, and we were all petrified. The captain jumped up and started to send an alarm to the capital of the 'Bright Star' over and over again, and the communication restrictions were lifted. In the panic, I have forgotten the specific content, but everyone on the planet is still Didn't figure out what happened. Nobody took our word for it..."

"No one believes that someone will attack here, because the army has not issued any warning to us... I wanted to call the police to my family, but found that the civilian communication channel was still blocked by the energy tide caused by the accumulation of doomsday weapons... for an hour Of the 19 billion people on the 'Bright Star', only more than 3 left the 'Bright Star' on hundreds of starships..." The old man became more and more excited, but stopped the visitor again and actions of medical staff.

"An hour later, a beam of dazzling orange-yellow energy wave was launched from the behemoth overhead towards the 'Bright Star'. The navigation room suddenly fell silent. Ten seconds later, the communicator with the planet There was a dull "dong", and the communication was completely interrupted immediately. The five of us stared blankly at the "bright star" in the distance. The beautiful diamond seemed to be smashed by a giant hammer, and the light Spread out towards the space, revealing the original color of the dark green planet——'Bright Star' land area accounted for 70.00%, just like a dream, and it seemed that the veil was suddenly lifted. At that time, I actually had "Is this what the bright star is like?" In the next few minutes, nothing happened to the "bright star" except that the diamond shell was smashed. The weapon failed to launch?' After all, the other shore seems to have suffered serious damage, but the scene in front of me interrupted my naive thoughts..."

The old man's voice suddenly dropped, his whole body trembled, and he raised his trembling hands to cover his cheeks, tears streaming down his fingers.

"Sorry, maybe we shouldn't have come to ask you today."

"No! It's been more than 170 years! I've been silent on this matter, I'm running out of time, must... must speak out, speak out about that tragedy...don't let that happen again...never The old man was panting violently, trying to shout out with a hoarse voice, but unable to do so, he refused the care of the doctor next to him, pleading in his cloudy eyes, "Let me finish...let me finish..."

"The surface of the dark green planet is like an eggshell being crushed, slowly splitting apart in front of our eyes, the green gradually disappears, the surface of the 'Bright Star' is covered by the smoke and dust ejected from the internal lava, and the dark red light is like a shadow If now...'Bright Star' is destroyed like this. 19 billion people! At 12:11 noon, my parents and fiancee living in the capital must be eating as usual while watching the news of the Federation ..."

"Old man..."

"No need to say anything more, just listen to me...you probably understand what happened next, after the 'Bright Star' was destroyed, the gravity changed dramatically, and the two space stations anchored in close orbit were torn apart by the huge gravitational change It opened and fell towards the "Bright Star", but tens of thousands of people managed to escape in the starship. Later, the other side that barely fired the doomsday weapon lost all its energy, and the metal behemoth more than 20 kilometers away and The space station gradually squeezed past each other. We did not escape in despair. In the end, we only remembered being pressed down by the collapsed metal roof. All thoughts were lost. I know the name of the demon who killed 19 billion innocent people—General of the Pan-Galactic Cosmic Community, Xiao Cheng!"

(End of this chapter)