From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 368 Unknown

Author: Dong Ali

Chapter 368 Unknown

After Azshara awakened, a larger-scale voyage was launched based on the concept of "reaching first no matter what".

Countless large and small spacecrafts departed from various existing bases and spread their footprints throughout the entire secondary star cluster in 8 years. There were even more than a hundred spacecraft that crossed the 'this secondary star cluster' in one fell swoop.

The boundary has reached the outer space where the density of matter is even thinner.

As a result, these scientific expedition vanguards kept looking forward and looking back at the gaps and gaps, and continued to explore deeply in each star system;

The former began to seek to observe the world from a larger scale;

Among them, the latter continues to fill in the remaining cognitive gaps in the field of massive stars.

During this period, countless pieces of knowledge were gathered and exchanged in the virtual realm, and countless inspirations were generated from the thinking of a famous scholar, which led the Republic into more than ten years of accumulation.

In the process, cognition is changing, knowledge is precipitating, and technology is brewing. When all of this is gradually taking shape over the years, everything becomes very different from the past.

At this time, traces of the Republic could be seen directly or indirectly in 821 systems composed of a total of 1,624 stars of different stages. After several boundary expansions, this battle lasted for dozens of

The star field development plan of 2016 finally achieved results.

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Facts have proved that the star system itself is dominated by binary stars, followed by complex multi-star systems, and orphans such as parent stars are only a minority. This is not only the conclusion of the exploration of 'this group', but also in line with the exploration of more recent stars.

Potential gains from the wide-area universe.

And among all the star systems visited by the voyage, the proportion of ‘planets’ seems to be not high.

There are quite a few systems where there are only fine dust accompanied by meteorite material clouds and stars, and this situation accounts for almost 45% of the total, and most of them are multi-star systems, but there are still scientific research spacecraft of the Republic in this situation.

Standing firm in the barren';

Secondly, there are "not rich" systems whose total amount of matter other than stars is less than one-third of the parent star system, and such systems account for 35% of the total. There are also elves scientific research ships, mining spacecrafts, and small planetary surfaces.

the existence of smelting centers;

Again, it is the remaining 20% ​​known as the ‘bonanza’

In addition to the aforementioned common projects as standard equipment, this place is also equipped with an immigration base and a construction center that are busy all year round. There are also large and small spaceships that start or end here, which seems to be a busy interstellar route here.

It keeps going back and forth like a phantom.

As of Rune Calendar year 507, the Republic has discovered 8 special-level immigration stars, 26 secondary immigration stars, and 96 low-level immigration stars in the explored 'rich mine' area.

Among them, 'special grade' refers to rocky stars that are exactly in their respective habitable zones, have qualified magnetic fields, and are of appropriate size and mass, so that they will not allow element 1 to escape at high speed;

But without exception, they are only in the habitable zone. They do not naturally form a livable environment in the narrow sense, and there are no traces of life at all;

But for the Republic, this part of the planet will be relatively easier to be transformed, and after completing the large-scale climate transformation at the planet level, there are still conditions for the new system to sustain itself;

Therefore, whether during or after transformation, less energy, material, and energy will be spent.

'Secondary immigrant stars' refer to rock-based stars that are in the habitable zone but have inherent defects, such as a lack of magnetic field due to cooling of the star core, too large or too small mass, etc. Although their transformation process

There will be some troubles, but generally the trend is to make steady profits without losing money;

The last "last-level immigrant stars" refer to rocky stars located outside the traditional habitable zone. They are either extremely hot or extremely cold planets, or they may be satellites of giant planets. Whether it is the process of transformation or

Maintaining the environment afterwards will be quite troublesome, time-consuming and energy-consuming;

For them, we will temporarily decide which method to use to deal with them depending on the situation.

First, it is specially designed to move the track to the habitable zone, and finally use it as a "secondary" to start construction;

Second, only maintain the necessary small ecological circle, and then open it as a resource star to sects and city-states for extraction;

Third, only the virtual corridor is maintained and the original environment is maintained, making it a fully automated mining and smelting base maintained by a few projections;

Fourth, if left undeveloped, it might become an adaptive training ground for elves to promote the genetic awakening of underage individuals.

In terms of selection proportion, the order from most to least is roughly 4, 3, 2, 1. Only 2 stars were finally implemented in the migration orbit program due to their excellent size ratio and mineral composition;

However, when pulling one of the stars with a mass of half the parent star, it triggered a chain reaction of the orbits of the other stars in the star system, causing many orbits within it to be in an unstable adaptation for a long time.

The process of sexual change.

From then on, the elves began to be cautious about the migration of large stars, and decided not to interfere with their natural orbits unless necessary. Anyway, there are so many special and secondary ones now.

The selection is enough to transform more than thirty stars with beautiful scenery and comfortable environment like the parent star;

Over a long period of time, this number will not only be sufficient, but will be far more abundant than needed, and there will definitely be more similar or even better stars appearing in the future. There is no need to go through a thankless effort and risk

Involving the risk of greater disasters and disrupting the orbits of fragile planets.

In addition, since we are talking about habitable stars, the life corresponding to them is also a related matter that must be mentioned.

Because there were precedents on Tetris, and the elves' own environmental suitability also gave them more associations, the Republic's sights were not limited to the habitable zones of each star system, but broadened its exploration goals to

It covers all areas including rocky planets, rocky satellites, ice stars, gas stars, and even stars themselves.

However, the results of this series of explorations only seem to illustrate the scarcity of civilization and even life itself. Among so many targets, there is no third special case except the home star and the four moons;

Immediately, there was a faint feeling of loneliness, which lingered in the hearts of some sensitive individuals.

And about this.

"Isn't this a pain in the ass? At least we can be sure that no one will compete with us for resources within more than a hundred light years. If we also count the information transmission speed of electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves, then at least the resources within five hundred light years will be exclusively owned by us.

Yes, shouldn’t this be a good thing?”

"As for the farther areas, it is only less than a hundred light-years away now. The galaxy where the parent star is located alone has stars that need to be counted in trillions; and structures like the river system are observable

There are trillions in the universe, let alone the unknown outer universe?”

"In other words, there is no need to lament the loneliness of life now."

On the black hole exploration ship, the body consciousness dominated by the fangs made this comment in a tone that didn't pay much attention.

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As the years passed by, the date was gradually turned to the year 523 in the Rune Calendar.

After accumulating technology over time, the black hole exploration ship is now using a newly replaced engine group that has almost reached the bottleneck. It uses a natural speed of 0.9 times that of light, and a fold increase of 67 times. Overall, it is roughly 60 times.

It continues to sail forward at the speed of light.

In the past 15-fold, 21-fold, and 37-fold jump eras, the time required to accelerate the fortress to its maximum has long been compressed to more than a month, dozens of days, or several days, and now it is even more

The entire acceleration process can be completed in 3 days;

Therefore, the Exploration Fortress has long been qualified to complete multi-party observations with stops and stops along the way.

And they did exactly this, visiting many valuable targets along the way, carrying out long or short supplies, rest, and construction, and stretching the Republic in this direction for more than 650 light-years.

Observation of synapses.

For example, right now, the fortress has just ended its half-year construction and supply period, and left behind a small and medium-sized scientific research ship used to support the virtual corridor, and there are also some high-level spellcasters in it.

As well as the fused clones of several new molecular-level spellcasters;

Then, after replenishing part of the fusion fuel, the fortress increased its native speed to the highest level after only three days of acceleration, and directly entered the highest-power jump range, continuing to move towards the goal.

In the fortress at this time, only three of the dozens of spellcasters were left;

One of them is Nesta’s clone here;

Furthermore, it is the combined body of more than twenty high-level spell casters;

The other one is the combined body of several cutting-edge spellcasters, and because there are not many efficient supplementary methods for them to transform individually, even the combined body seems to be somewhat 'malnourished', and obviously not

Nesta and Azshara are as big and heavy as they are.

And because the casters of these two levels merged into countless clones along the way, in order to maintain the inner view of the rear, the crew members except Nesta had to maintain a deep merged state at all times;

That is to say, in terms of consciousness alone, there are only three minds in the fortress that are in the present world. The rest of the minds are receiving complex disturbing information from hundreds of strongholds from an internal perspective at the same time, and from time to time they take turns to dominate the body of the present world and

Expand the corresponding analysis.

About a month later, the fortress stopped after traveling for about 5 light years, and after three months of inspection and rough construction at the new stronghold, it set off again.

But because the casters aboard the ship were impatient, the new voyage lasted for two full years, covering a distance of 120 light years, and set off again after more than a month of engine repairs and towing target selection.

24 months passed in silence, and the fortress finally arrived about 5 light-years away from the target black hole, and the remaining journey only took one month. Victory seemed to be within reach.

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In the space, the phantom-like fortress is passing by silently, and the entities and projections within it keep themselves busy in a certain sense of expectation.

Nesta's clone here was inexplicably free, and was sitting with Azshara's projection body that had specially arrived, waiting for the last bit of time to pass.

"I suddenly realized that using a clone to make this trip is actually quite unnecessary."

As the only body part still wandering in the outside world, this piece of flesh from Nesta said with some emotion;

"Really? The work that can be done by the clone can also be done by projection. Unless the whole body is used up, there is no essential difference."

Projection Azshara responded and said,

"But the situation at that time was a little different after all. It's understandable that you want to accompany me through the expected journey of 1300 years, but fortunately it's not 1300 years. Otherwise, you will be in trouble, but you will regret it."

"I think so. It will be a bit embarrassing if I can't take it back. At least the technology has advanced fast enough. Otherwise, I would have to kill this part of the body."

"Yes, but the research on warping seems to have reached a bottleneck. It is estimated that it will be more difficult than before to go further."

"Almost, the best effect has been achieved on the 'frequency' side, and the rest can only be continued in the 'degree' direction."

While they were talking to each other, some kind of wave was emitted from several astronomical units away and acted here tens of seconds later.

[Alert! Detected]

The prompt from the Intelligent Brain sounded in my mind, but before it could be fully received, a violent shaking was felt throughout the fortress, and then the complete information was narrated;

[Interference from the unknown space force field has been detected, and the fortress is about to exit the jump mode. It has exited the jump mode, please be alert immediately.]

The fortress was also forced to brake due to inexplicable interference. At this time, even the original speed could not be maintained, and it began to drop suddenly as if it was trapped in some kind of spider web;

0.9, 0.7, 0.5, 0.1, 0.01 In just a few light minutes, it dropped directly to the cosmic turtle speed of one million kilometers per light hour.

"Um?"

Nesta was startled and hurriedly got up and crawled to the ground, and then appeared in the main control room the next moment;

Immediately afterwards, Azshara's projection also disappeared like a bubble, and also flashed in the main control room in a millisecond;

Further on, the other projections in the ship, and even the partial structures of the two combined bodies, also arrived at almost the same time.

The equipment provided by the fortress, under the control of the intelligent brain, is doing its best to spread perception in the direction where the interference is detected. The invisible fluctuations follow the traces of the force field along the way, and the hugeness unfolding in front of you is

The scene in the three-dimensional light curtain also continues to recede as rapidly and distortedly as it does in reality;

Only a moment later, the scenery at the end of the interference was captured and projected around the bodies of Nesta and others.

It was in the dark deep sky about five astronomical units away, and there were dozens of spindle-shaped objects that were so dark that they were almost invisible, floating quietly;

In the space in front of it, there is also an obvious sense of distortion clearly depicted at the moment.

Looking at this scene, looking at this obviously unnatural creation, thousands of thoughts flashed through the minds of Nesta and other elves. The thoughts contained in these thoughts that arise and flow instantaneously are also

It is a complex that is unique in hundreds of years.

But before they could think about it for a few more seconds, they saw the dozens of them in the three-dimensional drawing. No, perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe them as ‘ships’?

All in all, three shuttle-shaped ships with a length of about 15 meters began to move forward, and exceeded 0.1 times the speed of light in just a few light minutes, and then suddenly disappeared in a hazy feeling.

"Run the protective barrier at maximum power, and the fortress will immediately enter the ultimate protection mode, and all energy will be supplied to the defense end first!"

"The Corridor of Faith uses all its strength to capture the Black Hole Exploration, and tilts the reserves of faith power to integrate into the defense system!"

"Everyone is here! The projection body immediately withdraws to the headquarters to make way for resources, and the physical crew is ready to fight!"

Azshara's voice echoed simultaneously in the fortress and the central moon 896 light-years away, and various changes immediately occurred in all parties involved in the order.

In the fortress, all the projections that once numbered in the tens of thousands were disillusioned, while endless thoughts of faith penetrated from the invisible tunnel;

Immediately, between the lavender energy shield that had been generated a few seconds ago, arrays symbolizing divine grace appeared, twisted and spread out and integrated into the shield. In an instant, they turned into a depth that was almost impossible to see through.

purple.

Below it, purple, gold, black, and white inscriptions lit up among the material layers including the outer wall of the fortress, and the 500-kilometer-diameter fortress body was also collapsing inward simultaneously;

During the process, except for energy, element reserves, brains, and offensive and defensive systems, almost all non-combat areas were degraded into core bodies and fell into dormancy, while the materials they originally occupied were integrated into the fortress body, and eventually turned into offensive and defensive inscriptions.

carrier;

Therefore, when time passed by a span of just a few light minutes, a fortress with a dark gray color, a 300-meter deep purple energy shield attached to the outer wall, and a body diameter of about 50 kilometers, withstood thousands of people.

The spikes of different thicknesses appear like hedgehogs.

Then, after another period of silence, although the shuttle-shaped aircraft in the three-dimensional image in front of them did not make any more moves, they were once again captured in space about a million kilometers away.

distortion;

The fortress's perception horizon was partially transferred to the past, so the three pitch-black aircraft transformed from hazy to physical appearance, and were reflected in the thoughts of the crew and the separated light curtain.

In the fortress, at this time, there is an Azshara projection thread consciousness, a Nesta entity clone thread consciousness, and the main control consciousness of the two combined bodies, all of which are partially integrated into the central control brain program, which is equivalent to

Yu Zai simultaneously shares the perception of the entire fortress;

In the next moment, several signals such as electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves were captured at the same time. Although its repeatability can be judged from aspects such as amplitude, it is impossible to truly understand it without an agreement on the algorithm and decoding method.

the information contained in it.

But it’s not that there is no solution at all

A three-meter-square flesh-and-blood metal cage was opened from a certain core cabin. The broken limbs of the Beast King that had been suppressed from self-destruction were contained in it. At this time, they were passively opened by the invasion of the virtual realm.

All spirits are omniscient, and the cutting-edge spellcasters began to continuously turn between the inner perspective and the material perspective, bringing out their disturbing information and translating it in real time in reality.

(End of chapter)