Japan: A New Age

Shunping is talking to chapter one.

"This“ is better than “ooh", but it's not a passenger ship, so it's not very habitable. "

"But Shunhei's move to Shinmatsu was a special room. This is what happened because we were normal rooms" Chaichi looked over at a little room because it is unified with bright cream colors, although it is a killer landscape with bunk beds and desks.

"By the way, I wonder exactly how much longer it will take to get to the linen solar system for that purpose," ChapterI asks.

"Yeah, it's seven days and six hours since we left (referring to one day of Earth time, by the way) because we're 65 light years away from Earth. It's six and a half days since it's already been 10 hours. You have a lot of time to study" Shunping says mean.

"Hih-uh, I'll do it. I'll do it, but what mechanism is it to breathe ammonia with linens," Chaichi asks, even with his head.

"Um, I'm not much of a defensive range around there either, but ammonia is oxidized and then nitrogen breaks down by nitrites and other microbes, right? So I guess if you have an active atom on the biological side, you can live with the energy of the reaction.

This is because the ammonia itself is a very unstable substance, quite active but the hydrogen and nitrogen of the components are not only active, on the contrary, it needs to have an oxygen active on the biological side, so I guess it will have taken up in the form of food.

But a giant planet is a very thick helium as its main ingredient. The very thick atmosphere of ammonia and methane and the fact that they are covered in liquefied, or solidified, oceans, and then it seems quite difficult to take out metals, etc. to launch civilization. Also, it's hard to imagine how you can take it in any way, such as substances that become food, but there's probably a plant-like presence. Given all this, don't feel like living conditions are pretty harsh.

Perhaps the reason why the Linens came to the Armal solar system is because their resources are being depleted. However, because there are so many giant planets in the universe with atmospheres including ammonia, there are more likely to be similar organisms than there are organisms that breathe ammonia like the Linens. Either way, what I can clearly see is that you've actually been on the ground since "Junping replies.

"But the linens, even if the Armals tried to make contact, didn't they seem to hate it? It would be annoying to force information out of something you don't like, wouldn't it? What are we going to do with this," Chap. I ask.

"Hmm. I have a secret plan. Well, look. She said to absolutely interact" Shunhei has a suspicious grin.

While Chapter I was being studied smoothly, time had passed and the linen solar system was clearly visible.

As the Armals analyze it, there are a total of 10 planets, two giant planets in the center, just like the Earth and given the line of planets, the others unfortunately have no temperature or environmental planets convenient to the Earthlings, planets that are mostly cold or scorching, planets that seem to be in good orbit as temperatures are desolate, with low oxygen concentrations and high oxygen dioxide concentrations.

"Even then, terraforming would allow us to live there, but if we could find a habitable planet at the pace we're finding now, we wouldn't have to bother with that kind of hassle."

Shunpei makes a tear, even though Chap I says so. "Oh, chapter one, you're getting a lot deeper. You must have studied. Well, let's go to the cockpit and see the data."

After a while, different data against the solar system and planets emerge and are shown on the screen.

"Is the diameter of the sun generally close to my sol and of equal temperature?

I wonder which planet you want. One is almost equivalent to Jupiter in 7.5 astronomical units from the Sun on the fifth planet, six times the diameter of Earth, maybe 2.2 times the gravity, the other is 19.5 astronomical units from the Sun on the sixth planet, the fifth planet is hydrogen for the rest of the helium, ammonia and methane, and the sixth planet is trace for the rest of the helium, right? This is the fifth planet, isn't it? The sixth planet, even if there were ammonia on earth, is freezing everything too cold, and the frozen sea there would be too deep to rip civilization apart. In that regard, the fifth planet is about as mild as minus 140 degrees.

Oh, just fine. There are five satellites, so go down to the biggest third satellite where gravity is good. And by the way, that's hard to understand, so I'll tentatively call the fifth planet the linen star. "

Shunhei speaks alone and concludes, and makes an order to call it a landing request.

The third satellite, which rotates a distance of about 1 million km from the linen star in about one month, also landed just in the middle of the plane facing the linen star because the rotation speed is also about two months/time slower. Well, I'm going to put one on in about a week at most, so the communication won't be a problem. The planet, named Linen Satellite 3 by Shunping, has a diameter of about 6,000 km and a gravitational acceleration of about 3.5m/sec ^ 2, or 1/3 of the Earth.

Negotiations with the linen stars are once to be done by the Earth Defense Forces legal officer. This was boring, but I said, "If that's what you want, I'll leave you with the machine from Earth."

Fitted in the words of Shunping.

Only “Sayin" has landed, and the other two aircraft continue their alert flight around Linen Satellite 3.

First, the artificial intelligence Larna 1202 calls in the way of a call obtained in the last contact towards the tentatively named linen star. In calling for about an hour, there was a reply.

But "it's a rejection. 'There is no story. Leave,'" he says repeatedly, "says Larna.

"After all, this will not bring us to a negotiated conclusion," Shunhei looks at Ichita Yoshida, who is in charge of legal affairs.

"Um, there's no island to choose from," Yoshida says, but Shunhei returns it.

"Then I'll send you what I've prepared. Lana, 1202?

"Hmm, good or this?" Larna hesitates.

"This is all I have. If this is the case, I will definitely react. I will make sure that they get it in the end," Shunping pushes.

"I have no choice. Then let's send it" Larna sends a picture signal.

Morishita asks. "What kind of stuff did you send"

"Yeah, the linen star could be the culprit of the Armal massacre. More importantly, it fits too well at times, so we consider it very suspicious. Besides, I don't try to respond to any communication.

I can't leave you nasty guys alone, so if I don't hear from you in a day, I have no choice, so I'll bomb the linen star. If it's not convenient to destroy the 5th satellite, let me know. The bombing of the fifth satellite will take place in two hours ".

Shunping says all the time.

"Yes! Such a rambling!" Morishita screams, "But do you really want a fifth satellite?

"Of course, you really can't. It's just that there was something artificial on the fifth satellite, so I might have some contact".

Rana said, "I got a response. I hear the 5th satellite has personnel. The destruction of the Armal star has nothing to do with us, but they want to explain it, so they're coming this way. They also have bases on this planet," he said.

"Hey! I knew it. By and large, the linens are suspicious. It is called the time of the visit of the Armal system. Perhaps they are aware, too. It's possible he gave the X species information about the Armal star."

After a while, Sajima, the explorer, says. "A flying object is approaching. It's very small, about the size of a box van."

In addition, Deep Mountain, in charge of communications, said, "A small, injected rocket is approaching from American aircraft, New Atlanta, and will arrive in half an hour at 500 km/h."

"Larna, communicate with your opponent, shoot him off if you stay close at that speed for more than 1 km. First, let me send you some data that will help you grasp the word. We start by being able to communicate with each other, so we can make contact, and when we approach you, we consider it an act of hostility," Morishi says.

"I've sent you data. It takes about 20 minutes to analyze," says Larna.

Larna says 20 minutes later. "There are a lot of unintelligible words because the pattern of life is completely different from that of oxygen-respiring organisms, but a basic conversation will be established"

In the meantime, the flying object landed about 2 km from "Sa 'non".

"Okay, first of all, if it's possible, I want you to put out footage of them," my face appeared on the screen at Morishi's request.

I don't know what to say about that, the parts as faces are there, and the placement is generally similar to that of humans, but the eyes seem smaller and the eyelids seem sturdy. The nose is wide and low. This is likely to have the ability to close again like a lid. The ears are similarly taken. Instead of hair, it is covered with skin that seems thicker and more robust than the skin on the face. The color is close to brown throughout. The width is wide, but I don't feel that wide because of the neck and wide shoulder width.

It sounds like a heavy bass. Something, it utters words. Translated by Larna.

"I am Guizon, base commander of Zuman, this satellite. The government ordered me to come here. Stop being so abusive as to destroy satellites. I'll tell you anything you ask."

Shunping moves in and out, but we all let him back down. In this case, it would be Shunping's turn, no matter what you think. Different head rotation and basic amount of knowledge. He's also the one who made the scene.

"First, do you know that the Armal star has been destroyed"

"I know. We are now forced to become more slaves than subordinates to a race that calls itself doomed"

"Explain to me about that race."

"He calls his name the kid zomi and calls himself the kid zomi empire, integrating 23 stars with five other races, the other being virtually the treatment of slaves. If you come under that rule, you will be given what you need to survive, which you earn for yourself, but you will be deprived of all your rights and freedoms and even appear to be ruling in the form of serving a kid. It's just that being under their control gives them machines that gain infinite energy, so some of us want to join the Kidzomi Empire"

"Oh, then we'll give it to you. It's a fusion generator that fuels hydrogen."

"Yes! Almost all of our problems are its energy and food, but food can be increased as long as it has energy. Is that true? Is that true?

"Oh, wait a minute," Junhei explains with an image out.

"This is a 1 million kW nuclear fusion generator.

And this is a small 100,000 kW. As long as you have hydrogen, well, on your planet, you can get as much hydrogen as you want, right? I don't know if I can make my own because I'm not sure about your technology, but it sucks. Well, you can rest assured of that, but tell me more about that kid empire. You can't forgive them for destroying Armal stars. "

"To the best of my knowledge, the first of those prints is that our beautiful Taran system is about 10 light years off the outer edge of the galaxy. That's why they can't come either. There are 23 dominant resident planets, as I said earlier, whose range falls within a range roughly 25 light years in diameter. Those inhabited planets are all so-called giant satellites like my planet Taran, and the atmosphere is helium and ammonia.

Apparently, the Kizomi Empire fought an intense survival struggle with oxygen breathing organisms. After 1,000 years of fighting in the same system, they say that you will destroy the opponent, the Kizomi Empire won and destroyed the opponent. Since then, the Kick-Ass Empire has been annihilated when it finds oxygen-breathing organisms, which means it's annihilated three other species besides the annihilated opponents of its own system, as I said just now within the confines of their empire.

The Armal star was lucky and boasted that it had perished as a result of being found between my Taran star and the Kidzomi Empire.

Well, for us, stars like the Armal Star are not worth anything. But doing something like destroying other intelligent races is a grief to us, too, because we say that the Armal star, which was a little but marginal, was destroyed in an act totally contrary to the linen mentality, "Gizon explains.

"I want you to tell me the tech side of the kid zomi empire," Shunping said.

"They're definitely using what you call nuclear fusion power. But from what I heard, he said there was a mechanism for turning heat into electricity, and that heat was all you could use. He also boasted that there was no hunger in the Empire because food production could also be produced efficiently using its heat and electricity.

He said that weapons basically use high-speed ammunition and that there is something like a decisive weapon that can easily be destroyed on a planet. Our weapons are fast ammunition, and we have laser weapons, but they are small in power. But this point is on par with ours. The power of high-speed ammunition also seems to be out of step with what belongs to the Empire. Also, they say their spacecraft can give twice the maximum speed of light, which is out of step with us, and it's honest that if they come in a convoy and threaten them, they'll have to give in. "

Subsequently, scientists and engineers from the linen star who were informed by Gizon gathered more and more in rockets to show them the blueprints of the nuclear fusion reactor they provided, and found that it was manufactureable. Immediately, they did all they could to produce. It was also immediately decided to mumble a peace agreement with Earth, the Linen Star. Shunpei secretly lowered his chest to being a people-friendly race, such as where Shunpei's initial threats did not take root.

There is a gathering of captains of the American ship New Atlanta and the Russian ship Gorbachev aboard the ship.

"I will now announce the results of my inquiry into the situation from the Linens"

Morishita explains.

"I have sent the materials to the device at hand, so I would like you to confirm them, but give an overview.

First, it was the fleet of the Kizomi Empire that destroyed the planet of the Armals. This empire has 23 dominated inhabited planets, all inhabited by giant satellites. That range, which is roughly 25 light years in diameter, seems to say that the linen star Taran star, and by the way, the system, is also the Taran star system, but its boundaries are about 10 light years away from.

This kid seems to have been fighting oxygen-respiring organisms for a long time in his system of origin, and the struggle was to destroy which, but since finally destroying his opponent, he has been annihilated when he meets oxygen-respiring organisms.

Already, in their prints, they destroyed three species, with the exception of those in their own system. It means that planets like Earth, which are essentially oxygen, are of no value to them and, if inhabitants are present, are subject to destruction. They have five conquered races, and those races are deprived of all their rights by the Kizomi and serve as slaves. For this reason, it is necessary to give a certain number of people to the Kizomi Empire in order to make them serve the Kizomi in soldiers and underwork.

In addition, all resources belong to the Kizomi, and in their mines and other places, the conquered people are forced to work. In general, however, residents of giant satellites have severe weather conditions and problems in securing energy and food.

In this regard, it seems that the Kizomi Empire has an abundant source of energy and, as such, adequate food production, as well as sufficient energy and food supplies for the conquered peoples. The fact that the Linens also have problems securing energy and food probably doesn't leak, and some of them are about serving the Kizomi Empire.

So you're suppressing the conquered people, but you're giving them what they give.

The next thing I know is technology, but it's way ahead of the planet a while ago.

First of all, nuclear fusion is happening and it seems to be generating heat and turning the turbine to generate electricity. This is inefficient in the sense of obtaining electricity, but the opposite can be said of the fact that giant planets use heat for food production. But, well, the turbine life expectancy problem remains. Also, the hydrogen that hits the fuel needs to be 3deuterium, so it doesn't seem to be excessive. This technology doesn't seem to have been black boxed and supplied to the conquered people.

In addition, gravity engines are being put into practice, and their use itself is more sophisticated than ours, achieving twice the speed of light without the use of time fields. You seem to be using gravity engines for all kinds of transportation. Double the speed of light earlier is a battleship, up to sublight speed for normal passenger ships, so the application of the spacecraft's gravitational engines seems to be a secret technique to the conquering people. Though gravity engines usually seem to be popular, which we use for normal transport.

Plus, it still looks like a rail gun as a weapon. The absence of long-range cancer due to heat or light radiation does not seem to stem from the result that there is no power at all on Earth without long-range irradiation, such as lasers. The power of the rail gun is only known to such an extent that it is unclear and probably more than the speed of 5 km/s developed by Japan.

There is also a nuclear bomb used on the planet Armal. This is a so-called water explosion, which, together with what has been developed entirely on Earth, creates a fusion reaction by surrounding a nuclear bomb that initiates a thermonuclear reaction with triple deuterium. The power is about 200 megatons, if you look at the Armal Star record. This is old technology too, but power doesn't make a fool of itself.

Also, I can not hesitate to use it in the annihilation battle, so when it is used for a long time, it becomes scary. But when it comes to anti-battleships, it won't work unless you blow them up in close proximity again. By the way, in the case of a barrier that is now equipped to our ship, in the case of an explosion of 200 megatons, it would be dangerous if it exploded within 200 m.

However, the technique of hitting, or missile, is also gravity-engined, and we have determined that maybe 3 km is the maximum in seconds. Stealth technology doesn't seem to be paying much attention, so as long as you can detect it, it's not a problem to destroy it with a rail gun air defense type to this extent, and it's easy to avoid. Also, they're still developing the tactic of hitting a high-mass ship on a planet. Well, this doesn't work against ships.

After all, this is the right thing to do before approaching a protected target. "

After a few questions about its content, Shunping rises.

"Yeah, guys.

It's a big question of what to do with this, because it's a noisy country where a kid empire or something shows up and somehow wipes out all the inhabitants of an earth-type planet.

Nevertheless, I think it is safe to say that for the moment the only dangerous enemy is its Kizomi Empire, and because of the fact that it travels twice as fast as its speed of light, there is no fear that it will suddenly appear and be bombarded on Earth or by the New Yama or other colonial stars.

For the moment, I think we should work out measures to combat them, since we have almost figured out their arming as well. As it stands, the trouble must be a large-calibre rail gun and a nuclear missile. Right now, the large caliber rail guns our army is equipped with cannot be prevented by the current equipped barrier. By and large, it is the principle that a battleship can prevent the weapons it projects, so you are violating that principle.

Therefore, the measure as director of the Central Laboratory is' bending the orbit of a rail gun projectile with a gravitational engine '.

This is why we pile up another gravity engine. This is not as big as for propulsion. But I'm sorry, but I'll use the locker room at the position in this diagram.

Well, you'd rather sneak an inconvenience without a locker room than hit the other guy's bullet and die, wouldn't you? Hey! "

Shunping winks at everyone. Hi Morishita seems to be changing her personality. I wouldn't worry about it.

"How do we use this gravity engine? This is right, you're modifying the function a little bit, illuminating an approaching object, changing the target's orbit.

Of course, it's impossible for a human to deal with it after his opponent's ship fires a rail gun. But once you're in a combat position, it's standard procedure for a robot for maneuvering to be in an accelerated state in the time field. For a manipulative robot in that state, it equals stopping a rail gun bullet or something. Unfortunately, because I can only distract you. Note that you'll want to hear if you get shot suddenly and accidentally.

But the answer is, "That's how close you get to detecting your opponent, and the dumb spot is shot and destroyed."

But that's where the question came in.

"Yeah - Mr. Shunhei. Why did you give the linen man the technology of a nuclear fusion device and a normal type of gravity engine? Again, what authority?" The Russians listen.

"Yeah, I have authority. The developers of this device are me and Dr. Makimura, and the teacher has got an understanding before they come. By and large, who but us has to get permission to give aliens this technology? Is that the President of Russia?" The Russians can't answer Shunhei's question.

Then, just a day later, Shunpei is meeting several of the linens in a makeshift cabin built outside ”Sayin”. Of course, it also contains Zuman's base commander Gizon, who first contacted him.

The interpreter is naturally Alice instead of Larna.

"I am very grateful to you Japanese. We are now making a nuclear fusion device with all our might, and it is expected to be completed in six months. This, thanks to you, Shunhei, for designing a reactor that generates heat and a reactor that generates electricity separately, makes it possible to operate very efficiently. I am also very grateful for this. Whatever we can do for the people of Japan, I want you to say it."

A representative of the Linens says. Anyway, I haven't communicated the presence of Americans or Russians in particular because the interpreter is Larna.

"Six months, that's excellent. But, again and again, the Linens must not divulge this technology to the Kizomi Empire. Because this goes much further than theirs," Junping says.

"Of course, there's no reason to be under their control when this happens." and rep.

"Also, the linens only have a 30,000 year history and the technology for nuclear fusion and gravitational engines could not be developed, but the technology in general is very sophisticated, the fact that you modify the nuclear fusion reactor is superior to ours. We hope you can contribute with these things."

"Ooh, I'd love to be able to contribute that way, but the problem is their military threat, because whatever it is, it's a presence that can destroy it fine," the delegate says.

Shunping answers to that.

"As for that, your rocket technology is also very good, such as acceleration, in that it eventually reaches up to 1/2 the speed of light. Now, if you lift the acceleration performance of your biggest missiles today with a small gravity engine and hit the opponent's ship at that speed, they can destroy even their tough belly defense. Place the required number in the stronghold and you can defend them even if they send in a fleet."

"Um, I want you to talk to me about defensive posture"

To the rep's words, Shunhei looked down at Morishi and said, "That's fine. He is an expert, so he and his people will guide him."

"By the way," the delegate says.

"An obviously intelligent creature was built on the 11th barren satellite of the 12 satellites on the 6th planet next door, and there is a tower of thought that it was also built by oxygen breathing creatures like you.

Getting close to it sends a signal of thought, but we don't know what it means. I hear you're looking for other intelligent creatures. If you like, why don't you visit there? When I get close, it sends a signal of thought, so I can tell right away. Nothing particularly dangerous. "

"Oh, that's valuable information, thanks. I'll definitely go."

Shunhei shakes hands with his representative and gloves in space suits. Anyway, the target is an ammonia breathing organism. The opponent is also toxic to oxygen and cannot enter the opponent's atmosphere.

"Commander Morisha, let's go immediately to the eleventh satellite of the sixth planet. I have a feeling this is probably something amazing." Morishita answers even though Shunhei says so.

"Let's go. It's our job to gather as much information as possible. Take New Atlanta for the moment and leave Gorbachev behind."

Since the sixth planet is now just in its closest orbit to the fifth planet, from here it is a distance of about 750 million km in five astronomical units, the difference between the distances from the stars of the system, so it is only an hour's flight if it flies at a sublight speed. of satellites with a diameter of less than 3,000 km, around a surface of 10,000 m. Indeed, I feel a message rather than a signal. landing at the point specified in that message.

There is a tower that also has a height of 50m in the hexagon that shines black. The handover of the base is about 10m, but the tip is about 1m. I don't see anything that looks like an entrance. In the dark of the vacuum, standing in the center where the rocky outcrops around are prominent, it emits a kind of creepy presence.

As Shunhei, Morishi and Alice as Larna's eyes descend from "Sayi" and approach the tower, part of the base of the tower appears to be inviting with light. There, the range of about 1m square is brightened and something like a white pattern emerges in the black. Obviously the pattern is regularity and makes some sense.

"It's probably an expression of the 13th decimal method. Larna, I think this is mathematically something."

Shunping asks Larna through Alice.

"That's right, it's a 13th decimal. And why the hexadecimal method?"

"It's to make it difficult. 'The point is, try to preach this. I'll put up something nice if I solve it'. Rana, you must be able to solve it" Shunping orders Rana's words.

Larna silences.

Slightly, through Alice, Larna sent me an image on Shunping's terminal. "Think of that in your head," says Alice. Shunhei sees the image but naturally thinks of it in her head.

Suddenly, without a foretaste, one side of the base of the tower indents into the shape of a door and pulls it up, where an inlet of 1 m wide and 2 m high is formed.

It's bright inside.

Shunping and the others stepped inside.