The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

Oregana didn't say much, and directly packaged the scanned data and images and sent them back.

Scythe of War casually pulled out a data cable and plugged it into the back of his neck. After 3 minutes of hard work, an expression of about three points of SAN appeared on his face:

[... I can't speak anymore. 】

"We thought it couldn't be formed naturally."

[I don't think there's any need to think about this at all... You might as well expect that after the tornado destroys the parking lot, the wreckage in it fights a Gunpla in mid-air. 】War Scythe decided to smoke a cigarette to suppress the shock, but the mental model of the final world saw him take out the cigarette and started boiling water on the stove in the bridge, and took out an ancient mobile phone as a gesture If you want to send text messages, the scythe of war can only give up.He put his unlit cigarette in his mouth and asked [How many of them are uninhabitable?What about the dark worm infection? 】

"Now I see that there are three temperatures that are not suitable for living, and the others have not been discovered yet." Oregana read the parameters that have been determined, and replied, "There is no dark worm infection by visual inspection, although there is a dark worm reaction detected. , but that was a load wheel that fell just now. There are spiritual reactions in the local area, and there are three subspace rifts. We may be able to locate this world through the rifts..."

[Crack? 】

"Yes, there is a rift on one of the planets, but strangely that planet seems to be unaffected."

[Today's strange things are enough. 】

"Yeah," Oregana felt her brain ache. "Let's take a good night's sleep to relieve our tired spirit."

At this moment, Liu Lizi stretched out a finger, lightly poked the back of his boss's shoulder, then handed over the electronic board, and presented the picture on it in front of Oregana:

"Or, just be a little more tired, and let's recover together later."

"Day!!"

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Note ①: This structure comes from astronomer Sean Raymond's conception, that is, the ultimate project of the solar system-how to squeeze as many planets as possible into the habitable zone of the solar system.One of the solutions is to place 410 six planets with half the mass of the earth in eight orbits on average. The trick is to alternate between forward orbits and retrograde orbits, that is, each 'ring' is in a Orbit the sun in the opposite direction.Of course, this is only a stable configuration that is theoretically feasible. It does conform to the law of universal gravitation and can run stably for a long time, but this does not mean that it is possible for this thing to exist in reality.Obviously, such a structure can never be formed naturally.

Still this guy named Sean Raymond, based on the ultimate project of the solar system, he came up with a more cool second stage, the black hole ultimate star system-the core is a non-rotating black hole with a mass equivalent to 100 million suns , 9 suns are in a stable orbit around it, these solar energy makes 550 earth-level planets in the habitable zone, the minimum distance between the planets is only 0.001AU, and the innermost revolution takes about two days, in the crowded sky All kinds of stars flying by at high speed... very cool in every sense. (far eye)

Chapter 892 Chapter 801: Something that looks familiar appears in an unfamiliar place...

The hull vibrated slightly, and the sound of metal collisions echoed in the narrow cabin.During the nearly half-year voyage, the air inside the ship was gradually polluted, which was a high-intensity challenge for the nose.Three days ago, finding three crates of food rotting was also somewhat demoralizing - not just the realization that 'this voyage may not have time to finish', but also when the storeroom opened This was exacerbated by the stench of corruption that gushed out from within and permeated two corridors away.

Rot represents life, represents reincarnation, and should be a thing of reverence, but they are not popular on deep space cruisers.Inside the ship, if the packaging goes wrong, the food will rot several times faster than it would on the surface of the planet.Without food, the ship must return immediately, otherwise hunger will drive people into madness... This kind of thing has happened more than once or twice in the past, and any crew member knows the danger.

Everyone thought that this voyage would end in vain. The god of luck did not pay attention to the Xingsuo. If there is no harvest this time, it will be the fourth year of Shuangyu Xinxing.

The purpose of it and the thousands of crew members on board sailing is naturally void crystallization.

It is a dark brown mysterious substance that cannot be synthesized by humans. It is hard and light, and it can be used to make the hull of a spaceship, armor, and the indispensable photodynamic sail.Various countries are rushing to void crystals, which are almost irreplaceable and expensive strategic resources.All countries and forces have deep space cruisers to salvage void crystals, because this is a necessary material for making large spaceships.

This galaxy is very crowded. If you can't guarantee a sufficient fleet, you can't protect your homeland.

Starlock is one of the only three deep space cruisers owned by Shuangyu Nova. Every spring, when Shuangyu Nova moves close to the vortex of creation—a huge deep space vortex with a fixed position relative to the sun— , grab the window and sail to find and collect void crystals near the vortex of creation.Basically, there is no need to worry about fighting during this process, because so far, no country or force has the ability to launch a void cruiser outside the window position, reach the target and then drive back.

The distance between the vortex of creation and the outermost orbit is too far. If it is launched before entering the window period, neither the cruise ship nor the crew on it can withstand such a long voyage.Therefore, everyone basically lined up to collect the void crystals after occupying the outer circle of planets.However, this thing is not common. When and how much the vortex of creation sprays has always been the focus of research by stargazers. However, after hundreds of years of research, no one has figured out why.

The only conclusion that can be drawn is... this thing may be completely random, it may be sprayed in the next second, it may be sprayed in ten years...

Whether you can dig it depends on your luck, the death of seals and leopards is not the death of Africans, it probably feels like this.As far as Shuangyu Xinxing is concerned in recent years, they are the ones who are not dead, and the neighbors around are lucky... The sense of security of the people of Shuangyu Xinxing is gradually declining, and the Star Lock is taking everyone under such circumstances. The anticipation set off.

As a result, bad luck continued all the way, and Captain Soyola has been thinking about whether to kill a crew member to sacrifice to the god of the deep.Just as she was checking the voyage log to see who was so lucky, the Vortex of Creation suddenly reacted—a huge Seeker suddenly jumped out.

It was a kind of cosmic creature with an exaggerated appearance, but actually very friendly.Its outer shell is almost entirely composed of void crystals, which made this creature once regarded as part of some natural phenomenon.The name Seekers comes from the fact that they seem to be looking for something in the universe all the time, and they don't stop for a moment. They occasionally enter the galaxy, but they don't get close to any planets, and they usually leave in a short time.

Although the appearance is terrifying, everyone likes them. The direct reason is that the seeker usually appears with a large number of void crystals. These void crystals have been observed to fall off the seeker after leaping from the vortex of creation .The arrival of the seeker will bring wealth and resources, which is something everyone agrees on.

The news made the whole ship excited. The crew rushed to their posts one after another, and those who were resting in shifts were also woken up.They rushed into the maintenance room in a panic, picked up the heavy airtight suits that smelled of sweat and moisture, put them on, drank the strengthening potion, and prepared for the upcoming work to collect void crystals.

Next, they waited for almost four hours—seekers were friendly, but it was foolish to approach blindly.It's as if humans don't take the initiative to harm cats, but if cats run around their feet or lie silently on the sofa, they will occasionally be accidentally stepped on their paws or sit on their tails.Although it is painful for a cat to be stepped on, it will not hurt the life, but if the boat is caught by this thing, the boat will be destroyed on the spot.

"The Seekers are gone!"

When the observer on the mainmast shouted these words, the captain stood up immediately. She held the long cane handed down by her family, and paused on the floor on the four sides of the steering wheel six times, seven times, eight times and nine times to pray for blessings. Then use the other end to point to the direction of the void crystal, and said loudly:

"Good! Come closer! Boys! Port gun deck—cleaning bombs!"

"Purification Bomb—Port Artillery!!"

Void crystals are a cursed thing, and it is absolutely impossible to directly bring them back to the parent planet, or even mine them directly.If the crew did not pay attention during the collection, the crew would lose their minds within a few hours if they directly contacted the void crystals, their eyes protruded from the eye sockets and extended to the top of the head, and finally died in pain in madness. Anyone who had contact with the dead They must be isolated, and if necessary, even the entire deep space cruiser must be abandoned.

And the purification bomb is something specially used to suppress the curse.Its warhead is filled with black metal ore mined from the asteroid belt. As long as this ore is placed near the void crystal, its curse will dissipate in a short time.Some studies in recent years have shown that this curse is actually a biological thing similar to a virus, and the black ore can just emit some kind of energy field that suppresses the 'virus'.Although this can explain these phenomena, it is not accepted by the public. Most people still believe that this is the gift of the God of the Profound.

For example, Captain Soyola thought so. Born on Agra, she was a faithful believer of the God of the Deep, and she always sneered at those fallacies.

The Starlock sailed to the edge of the area where the curse took effect, and pointed the port side at the large expanse of void crystals that fell off. 24 giant cannons that adults can climb into protrude from the gun deck on the side. On the vacuum gun deck, the crew in closed suits will fill the fixed shells into the gun bore with the assistance of the bomb lifter. Then hide behind the bunker and grab the handle.

Afterwards, the shock of the bombardment shook the entire deep-space cruiser, and the shells flew out like meteors, and scattered the contents of the warheads in the air. A few minutes later, the fine metal fragments covered the entire void like a drizzle crystallization.After the observer confirmed the impact, the purification process was declared over, and the mining could be approached.

The catcher, Amiya, put the helmet on his knees, and carefully wrapped his silver-white hair with a scarf.When the indicator light in the cabin turned from green to red, she put the round helmet on her head, carefully checked every interface and oxygen storage, and struggled to lift the tool at hand that was reminiscent of a pile driver, and said:

"Okay, ready to leave the cabin. This time the crystals are relatively large, and each crystal needs to be tied with twelve fixing cables, understand?" She put her right hand on the button to open the door, "What is the first thing to do after leaving the cabin?" ?”

The crew replied in unison:

"Check the rigging! Sir!"

"Okay! Let's go!"

Amiya, who is 28 years old and has been in the industry for 11 years, has become the captain of the catcher with superb skills. She still feels a little trembling the moment she leaves the cabin-human beings cannot survive in the universe without protection, and The protection of the space suit is too weak.The protection referred to here is not limited to vacuum and temperature, but something deeper.

At the edge of the narrow field of vision of the helmet visor, there is always something moving, and there are always whispers in the ears from time to time.Her predecessors once taught her not to look carefully, not to listen carefully, and to treat all of this as an illusion. Once she really figured it out, she would never come back.Of course, Amiya wouldn't do that even without the guidance of her seniors.Whenever her attention drifted there, she would feel as if she could not breathe, it was a feeling of fear from the depths of her soul.

The universe does not welcome human beings, which is a consensus in the world.The place where the sun can't shine is the place where human beings can't live, and here, the sun is so weak that you only need to open the secondary filter of the mask to look directly at it.If you stay here for a long time, you will go crazy, this is not a place for humans to come to-

That's the way it is said... But it's still necessary to make a living. The salary and promotion are high in this industry. Even if you risk going crazy or dying in the universe one day, Lamia must do this job.

After confirming the tension of the safety cable of the link operation boat, Amiya hugged the 'pile driver', ignited the propeller and drove to the nearest void crystal.In the next few hours, she and her companions will conduct a careful survey of the entire void crystal, calculate the structural stability point, fix it with multiple anchor cables, and finally pull it to the cruiser by the workboat and fix it. It's like fishermen tying their big catches to the side of their boats and dragging them away.

But before she did it for a while, when she was still crawling up and down to find the best anchor point, there was a sudden whistling sound of electric current in the earphone, and then a young male voice sounded, it was her deputy Gran De:

[Captain, do you have binoculars? 】He said 【Look at the vortex of creation, there seems to be something there. 】

Amiya sprayed it back without hesitation, she reprimanded:

"Hell, I won't watch it! You'll be damned! Concentrate on your work, don't be affected by hallucinations! Don't delay us from making money just because you're crazy!"

【You won’t be cursed, that’s superstition!Only those who dive into the abyss of Agra will be cursed! ] But Grande refused to let go [That was not an illusion, not only me, Sesem and Ricardo both saw it.There's just been an unusual flash of light in there, if it's another Seeker we need to retreat immediately! 】

Although Amiya didn't believe that she would encounter such a good thing as two seekers appearing at the same time, she couldn't ignore this matter now-if one person saw something, it might be a hallucination, but multiple people saw the same thing Sorry, it's definitely not a hallucination.But Amiya's telescope is used to observe the anchor point at a distance of several kilometers, and it is not suitable for long-distance observation, so she sent this information to the Starlock.

This requires the use of large telescopes on the masthead lookout.

In fact, the observers on the watchtower were already watching—this was their job, and they were of course more sensitive to abnormal flashes than the trappers who were punching.After seeing the real body of that thing, everyone was speechless.

At first, they thought it was a new crystal, but soon saw some things on it that obviously would not appear on the void crystal... For example, the turret, the damaged base, and no matter how you looked at it, it was some kind of crystal. The coat of arms of the beast's claw.The golden pattern is definitely the handwriting of intelligent creatures, it is so unabashedly engraved on the mottled metal armor plate, quite majestic and weird.

There is no doubt that this is some kind of spaceship, but from the hull design to the coat of arms is unheard of.

A boat spewed out of the vortex of creation, what is going on?

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On the other side, Oregana was also in confusion.

"Really..." After she finished scolding people, she looked at the picture on the screen with a face full of crap, and said in a puzzling tone, "Why do we see a sailboat in the universe? How did you complete the drive?"

Yes, this is really a sailing boat.It's not the kind of sailboat of the Kato Jasmine School Club, nor the kind of sailboat of the Breeze class, but more directly, a sailboat...well, a galleon-type sailboat with a long axis of more than 500 meters.There are several decks, the poop is very high, and the steering gear is a variable auxiliary propeller. The only difference is that there is no bottom structure, and there is an inverted deck similar to the top of the ship.

There are eight masts on the upper deck and the lower deck, four on each side.The material of the sail is unknown, and the sensor data shows that the sail (pink) has a distinct energy response—the energy response mode is very similar to the dark worm's tail propulsion limb, which shows that the ship is really propelled by the sail of.

... Temiao's description of the spaceship actually mentioned the word 'sail outfit'—well, Captain Jasmine's White Bird also said sail outfit... What does this look have to do with the 'Cross Pioneer'? ? (cover face)

No one could answer Oregana's question.In silence, Oregana connected to the viewfinder, picked a few angles and pressed the shooting button.

"Huh? Are you taking pictures?"

"Well, I will send it to Captain Harlock later," the legion commander turned his head, his face suddenly became a little excited, "Give him another copy of the Breeze-class information, maybe we will see Arkady next time." By the time she reached Ya, her headsail was up—this is the Vanguard of Death! I am Harlock, Skeleton Heart!"

"Calm down! Have you lost all your SAN value!"

It took about 20 seconds to suppress the suddenly excited Legion Commander. After finally calming down, Oregana rubbed her aching neck with an intellectual expression on her face:

"It's not just a driving problem." She pointed to the people who were working on the screen—those people dressed like divers from the [-]th or [-]th century. When I got up, I felt that the vision would not be good. "They are salvaging the wreckage of the dark worm, but they seem to have noticed us now. Just now we saw someone take a look at us with a telescope."

"telescope……"

"Or something similar." Oregana shrugged and zoomed in on the somewhat swollen structure at the top of the opponent's mainmast. The LiDAR array is crammed in... the only thing that's certain is that there's at least one very large telescope inside."

"It looks like an observatory..."

Judging from the information collected so far, it is really difficult to speculate on the technical level of the opponent, and even the civilization level of the entire world is unknown.

410 six planets, the distance between the planets is very close, all of them are habitable, which virtually lowers the threshold for them to develop the universe.In the most extreme cases, they don't even need the technology of a closed space base, they just need a launch vehicle to spread out in their initial galaxy.

But at the same time, this may also become an invisible obstacle on their way to the universe-because there are so many things in the mother galaxy that they can't be used up, whether it is land or resources.But if there are multiple civilizations developing in the galaxy at the same time, then war is probably inevitable. Unless all of these civilizations are unified and fully developed, there is really no need to continue to go outside. (cover face)

To develop this kind of galaxy, only some "early technology" is enough, and because there is not enough necessary stimulation, they may not need ocean-going spacecraft or super-light speed technology for a long period of time ...

However, even if there is no need, even if there is a lack of stimulation and some FTL technology, is it too much for you to build a double-sided Galen ship?To what extent does the technology tree have to be crooked to point out such a spaceship?Don't tell me, this kind of ship is not technologically enough and it is not easy to build, but judging from the situation in which they collect the crumbs dropped by the dark worms, there is no evidence that there is any good technology.

Because these workers are using pile drivers to dig holes and use a lot of steel cables to force them... Those steel cables always remind Oregana that when she was playing "Kerbal Space Program", she couldn't solve the structural strength When there is a problem, the steel cable should be attached immediately, and that’s it. (cover face)

"However, what are they doing to salvage the wreckage of the dark worm?" Sea Hare asked, "Is it also for research?"

"It's possible, that's how their sail-propelling technology came about." Oregana replied, with a bitter face, her eyes glanced back and forth on the strange ship opposite, "It's the most troublesome initial contact communication stage again. gone."

The work of tracking the dark worm 'hunter' has to be handed over to the Barr and Mephisto who will enter the field later, because Diablo is now Poroboloda, basically there is no way to trace back, so wait until the follow-up ship enters. After the field, you can communicate with the aborigines here——

This is quite a necessary behavior.

In the past, the galaxy outside the maelstrom was the gathering area of ​​dark worms. The infection of this world has been in a state of ups and downs, and it has remained unchanged at a mild level of infection in modern times.This in itself is a very strange thing, and after passing through the maelstrom, everything in front of me is a strange thing-a galaxy with more than 400 habitable stars, strange ships with sails salvaging dark worm fragments, the whole The galaxy is not polluted by any dark bugs...

After so many years in the enemy-occupied area, you seem to be all right, isn't this too strange?There must be some reason for this... Contacting the locals may be the key to opening a breakthrough.

"Tsk..." Liu Lizi blinked and asked, "Anyway, the light signal first?"

Well, the random lighting, the basic operation, although it looks messy, is unexpectedly effective in actual operation-except that it will be awkward when explaining the meaning of turning on the light at the beginning after successful communication afterwards.

And after the first few times, because I was afraid that the random light signal would match a certain coding law of the other party, after interpreting it, it became a curse word, although I knew the possibility was very low... Finally, it was fixed as a one-second flash Twice the regular way of turning on the lights.

Honestly not much difference...

"Then turn on the light first," Oregana rubbed her head, and said, "First flash for 20 seconds, and see if the other party responds."

"Understood." The captain was just about to turn on the few remaining searchlights, but a surprised expression appeared on his face:

"The other party gave us a light signal first."

"Eh~?"

In the viewfinder, the spaceship with its pink sails was flashing this way with the searchlight on the masthead.One after another, like blinking stars seen through the atmosphere.