bookmarkrole Chapter 240 - Go to the Butterfly Cluster
Chapter 240 - Go to the Butterfly Cluster
Chapter 240 – Go to the Butterfly Cluster
“Where is the free and civilized market?” everyone asked.
“M6 Butterfly Cluster.” Jin Qiu said.
Star cluster refers to a cluster of stars with more than 10 stars and physical connections (gravitational action) between them. Star clusters composed of dozens to hundreds of thousands of stars with loose structures and irregular shapes are called open clusters; clusters composed of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of stars, which look like a circle as a whole, and clusters with a dense center are called globular clusters. .
For example, the territory where humans are currently located is in the Angsu open star cluster, which contains a total of more than 3,000 stars!
At the pinnacle of the third-level civilization, the territory should rule one or more open star clusters, and only when the fourth-level civilization has the power to rule a globular cluster with hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of stars.
Thinking about it the other way round, globular star clusters are more likely to give birth to advanced civilizations because of their dense material and rich resources.
“The distance between the M6 butterfly star cluster and the M45 Pleiades star cluster is more than two thousand light-years! Even if our advanced star field-class battleship has been making hyperspace transitions, there is no way to jump over it in one go.” Xu Lianqiu said, “There must be resources in the middle. Added, and the battleship also needs a certain amount of time to cool down.”
“In any case, we must go to the M6 butterfly cluster once to see the free civilization market. Whether it is technology or intelligence, we all need it.” Du Xingyu said that at present, human civilization in the galaxy is smeared, and nothing is clear.
They must know what the current situation in the Milky Way has become.
Jin Qiu suggested: “If you are going to the M6 Butterfly Cluster, you must remember to keep your own civilization information confidential, and not let other civilizations know the location of human civilization, and the technological strength. Avoid being targeted by star thief civilization or malicious civilization.”
“I’m afraid Tianying civilization has leaked our information.” Chen Hong worried.
“Then don’t worry too much.” Jin Qiu said, “Under normal circumstances, no civilization will attack the enemy over a distance of thousands of light years, because this is very risky. When they attack the enemy, they will also expose their position. ”
“Only those star thief civilizations robbing everywhere can do this kind of thing.”
Du Xingyu nodded and said, “In any case, we must first take precautions and be prepared for danger in peace and security.”
After careful discussion, the commanders agreed to send a fleet to the M6 Butterfly Cluster to explore the free and civilized market.
“In order to adapt to long-distance space travel, all the ships of this fleet must be advanced star-class battleships. And all have a self-destruct mode, so as not to leak information after being captured by advanced civilization.”
“All the ships use robots and communicate with the headquarters through subspace communication equipment.” Du Xingyu said.
The third-level civilization is not yet capable of intercepting subspace information. If it is the fourth-level civilization, Du Xingyu is not clear.
There are not many four-level civilizations in the galaxy. The more advanced civilizations, the more resources they need, and they will not reveal their position easily so as not to be targeted by other advanced civilizations.
“Since we are going to the market, we also need to carry some materials or information that can be traded.” Du Xingyu stored some scientific and technological materials and special material resources on these battleships, such as equipment used to make force field generators, biochips, and electronics. Chips and so on.
These things may not be important to the third-level civilization, but they must be very precious to the second-level civilization.
“There are a total of twelve advanced star-class battleships equipped with various weapons and various types of robots of 12 million. The battleships are also equipped with spacecraft such as interstellar mining and maintenance. This fleet is sufficient to crush any second-level civilization. The third-level civilization, as long as you don’t encounter the star domain-class master battleship, you can also escape calmly.” In the space dock, the supervisor reported to Du Xingyuhui.
“Here is your bionic robot.” In front of Du Xingyu, a bionic robot similar to his appearance appeared.
He is about the same size as Du Xingyu, with some differences in appearance.
“The robot has basic intelligence, and its body is equipped with subspace communication equipment, so that you can directly control it remotely and act as your stand-in!” Superintendent introduced.
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“Not bad.” Du Xingyu reviewed the fleet and robots. In addition to him, there are also bionic robots by Jin Qiu, Chen Hong, Lu Xing, and Tours.
“Get the supplies ready and set off immediately!” Du Xingyu ordered.
“Roger that!”
The human commerce fleet set off, and Du Xingyu and others remotely controlled it through subspace communications. For safety reasons, before each hyperspace jump, they send two warships to jump and make sure they are safe before setting off.
At a distance of two thousand light years, each fleet only jumps 50 light years, and it needs to jump forty times! And every four jumps, the fleet needs to find a stellar belt to replenish resources.
A thousand light years away, the fleet came to a halt again.
There is still half of the distance to the Butterfly Cluster, and the surrounding star systems are relatively rare, and it is very difficult to supplement energy.
“About a light-year away, there is a blue dwarf star that can be used as a resource mining point.” The water drop detector detects the information ahead and transmits it.
In the ship, Du Xingyu and others attached consciousness to their bionic humans through the way of thinking connection. Space journey is a very interesting process, so many robots in the fleet have human consciousness.
The academicians of the Special Academy of Sciences, in order not to miss this space voyage, many made their own bionics to conduct research on the spacecraft.
“In the past, take a rest.” Du Xingyu ordered, “Add energy and adjust the positioning by the way.”
“Yes!” The fleet started to sail at warp speed, heading to the resource point with a curvature of hundreds of times.
A few days later, they have entered this star system.
“This blue dwarf has not been named yet. A total of 13 planets have been discovered around it, and one of them is suspected to have a primary civilization!” Scientist Jiang Jun explained the situation.
“Is there an elementary civilization?” The crowd came out of interest, “Call it out and have a look.”
On the way, it is not that they have not encountered civilization. About 760 light-years from the human border, the fleet has detected the fluctuations of the hyperspace transition, proving that there are technological creations of Level 3 civilization nearby.
However, the fleet did not go to contact them, but chose to make continuous transitions to avoid contact with them.
It is difficult to judge what will happen when encountering advanced civilization. Don’t worry if you encounter a primary civilization.
Jiang Jun called up the picture, and everyone saw that it was a rocky planet with a mass about 1.5 times that of the Earth.
Because it is in the habitable zone of the stars of the local galaxy, it has the right temperature and has an ocean that occupies a quarter of the planet’s surface area.
“Strange, there are some very low-level space exploration equipment in the outer space of this planet, but they have been abandoned for a long time!” Jiang Jun doubted. In the low-Earth orbit of this planet, there are some debris of satellites and space equipment.
“Have they given up on space exploration?”
A scientist wondered, “Abandoning the exploration of space is abandoning the progress of science and technology. Why is this? Is there a war?”
“The cities in this world are also very strange.” A cosmologist said, “This world has three continental plates, and the cities on each continental plate are highly concentrated.”
“There are less than seven major cities in total, and all other places are in ruins.”
In the water drop detector, they found that most parts of the world are urban ruins, and many places have been occupied by vegetation and wild animals.
“The oxygen content in this world is also very high, there are many large organisms!”
They saw that in forests, grasslands, and urban ruins, strong biological signals can often be detected. They are some strange large creatures with a wide variety of species.
“There are so many creatures in this world?” Du Xingyu asked in surprise, “If they had the ability to launch space probes, these large creatures would have been extinct long ago, or they can only exist in zoos and specimen rooms.”
“Could it be that the biotechnology of this civilization is advanced, which they cultivated?”
“Command, do you want to explore?” the crew asked.
Du Xingyu thought for a while, and said: “It will take about a few months for the energy and battleship to be overhauled, so let’s take a look.”
“Then we will collect information immediately!”
On the battleship, a large number of water drop detectors were released, flying to every corner of the planet.
Soon, the probe entered the city of this world.
Similar to human beings, intelligent creatures in this world also have limbs and facial features. Unlike humans, they all have a flexible hairless tail.
Their technology is about the same as the two millenniums of the earth. They have vehicles, trains, and airplanes, and they can also build computers, tanks, and artillery.
It stands to reason that such a civilization should be expanding rapidly and completely control the planet. But here, they all live in super-large cities that can accommodate hundreds of millions of people. Outside the super-large cities, tall walls and defensive equipment have been built.
“They are afraid of those large creatures.” This is the conclusion that Du Xingyu came to. Such a scene reminded him of the scene of human encounters with Zerg in another cosmic time and space, and the same was true for human society at that time.
Those large creatures are extremely tenacious and very similar to the Zerg.
“Is there a Zerg here?” Du Xingyu was puzzled. In order to figure it out, he decided to visit this society in person.
“Building a model of the long-tailed clan…starting to make bionic skins.” The laboratory inside the battleship immediately began to transform the bionic robots based on the appearance and characteristics of these indigenous people. Soon, a new long-tailed clan was released.