Urban Sims

Chapter 308 P654J - Pandora
20 years later.

The star in front changed three times in Feitian's sighting equipment.

In the process of shrinking the distance from ten light-years to two light-years, the size of the star remained almost the same, and the naked eye could not feel that it was getting bigger.

The spacecraft began to slow down, and the distance from two light-years to one light-year later, the star with a yellowish halo suddenly became much larger, like a huge basketball, hanging in the starry sky.

After passing through the Oort Nebula and entering the interior of the P654J star system, the star that was originally the size of a basketball suddenly shrank and became the size of an egg.

This strange phenomenon is related to the scattering of light.

In addition, in space, light does not always travel along a straight line. When encountering a massive object, such as passing through a star system, under the influence of gravity, the path of light will be affected, and an arc will be bent.

Not to mention massive black holes. It is said that even light cannot escape. The starry sky seen by the naked eye may not necessarily be the real starry sky, and there may even be many errors—like a mirage in the desert.

The value of the navigator is here. An excellent navigator can correct these visual deviations and avoid detours.

The Feitian didn't make any extra detours, and the navigator, Belekov, did a great job.

Through various observation equipment, Feitian quickly made major gains.

"Get rich! Get rich! We found a habitable galaxy!"

"Oh my god, God must be looking after us. It's the first time we left home, and we made such a major discovery... We will soon make a sensation in the entire Federation!"

Eyes on the large-magnification astronomical telescope, Su Jialu yelled, danced, looked at the green planet, and murmured in his mouth: "What a beautiful planet, even more beautiful than my hometown Birla!"

"I discovered another large gaseous planet with a diameter of more than 5 kilometers. This is the ninth spherical planet with a diameter of more than 3000 kilometers in this galaxy!"

Du Xiaopang was also very excited. The gaseous planet is a very good material supply point, and the material reactor is very suitable for replenishing those hydrogen elements as nuclear fuel. Moreover, when the energy blocks on the Feitian are used up sooner or later, the spacecraft itself cannot be synthesized. Hydrogen is the best supplement—after all, stars are fueled by hydrogen.

"This should be the first planet of life discovered by the Blue Star Federation since it stepped out of the parent star, right? I didn't expect our Feitian to find it for the Federation. Everyone is really great!"

Looking at the increasingly clear video images from the advanced detector, Mikoto Koran clapped her hands with pride on her face.

"No, it's not the first one. It should be the second one. The first living planet was discovered more than 100 years ago by the 'Brave' spaceship and captain Stanley of Rosa. That galaxy is called 'Six Treasures' Star', it is said that there are six habitable planets in the habitable zone of this galaxy, among which primitive life evolved in the sea of ​​planet No. 3."

The voice of Yun Xinghe next to her turned Xianglan Mikoto's originally delicate and bright smile into an extremely disappointed and regretful one.

So we are the second one?
100 years ago?

Xianglan Mikoto turned her head and looked at the authenticity with a strange expression: "Mr. Xinghe, weren't we still sleeping more than 100 years ago? How did you know this?"

"I woke up earlier than you and browsed some news sent by the Federation. During our dormancy, the Federation added more than 100 habitable galaxies."

Yun Xinghedao, his words are half true and half false. There are news about the Liubao galaxy, but Yun Xinghe doesn't read much of these news. The news about the Liubao galaxy was told to him by the old man in his head.

So he felt a little regretful that he was not the discoverer of the Liubao galaxy, but there was no way, unless he could be born 100 years earlier, or let the Liubao galaxy go from the mission sector of Star Luosha to the mission sector of Star Bora, Only then can he take off that honor.

However, this does not mean that the value of the P654J galaxy is lower than that of the Liubao galaxy.

It can even be said that the discovery of the P654J star caused a great sensation, and even drove a wave of interstellar development in the Federation. For a period of time, countless probe spacecraft entered space, hoping to find planets like "Pandora" , and then become famous and rich overnight.

What is so special about Pandora?
The old man in his mind answered this question.

"According to the information I have, the greatest value of Pandora is the unique plant resources on this planet. These plants show a kind of magical wisdom. They use a kind of flexible vines to build a kind of network. , share knowledge and form collective intelligence.”

"The second greatest value of Pandora is the main reason why this planet was destroyed by the Federation Fleet. The so-called death of a few soldiers is just an excuse. The fundamental purpose of the Federation is to mine this planet. There may be special mineral resources that even supernova explosions may not necessarily produce."

"The scientific name of this element is UNBANUIM, also known as 'pumice'. This element has superconducting properties at room temperature. Stone also has a property, it can emit a special force field, under the influence of this force field, the weight of the object will disappear magically, as if weightless."

"How this element is formed is currently unexplainable by science, but it is of great significance to human beings, and may even bring about unprecedented technological and energy revolutions."

"To give the simplest example: if the Feitian spacecraft uses about 1 kilograms of pumice stones, the weight of the spacecraft will be reduced by 70%, the speed can be increased to 0.8C, and the endurance will be increased by ten times!"

"In addition, the plants on Pandora seem to be able to produce wisdom, which seems to be related to the pumice stone, but the specific mechanism is unknown. Before the botanists had time to crack this secret, the planet was destroyed."

The old man in his mind said.

Yun Xinghe opened his mouth and said, "So, Pandora was destroyed by humans' greed for pumice stones, rather than the aggressiveness of those intelligent plants?"

"Not necessarily. If these intelligent plants are easy to deal with, the expedition team that found this planet would not have all died. The commander of the Federation Starfleet cannot be completely ignorant and reckless. If it is not because of anger, How could you order the destruction of this planet?"

"In short, the intelligent life on this planet is not easy to deal with, so we must be more careful."

The old man in his mind reminded.

Yun Xinghe nodded, cheered up, not daring to underestimate him in the slightest.

……

A year and a half later.

Feitian, which passed through the Keboi material belt in a thrilling manner, dropped to less than 0.1C.

The planet Pandora is getting closer and closer, and the distance from Feitian is less than 20 AU (1 AU=1.5 million kilometers).

At the speed of Feitian, it can be reached within two days.

However, Feitian did not go straight to Pandora, but kept decelerating and went to No. 10 gaseous planet 5 AU away.

Du Xiaopang was the first to discover this gaseous planet, so he named it "Little Pang One". 5.3% of one satellite is composed of water. In theory, there is a possibility of life on this satellite.

In one day, Feitian arrived at a close orbit less than 100 million kilometers away from the "Little Fatty One" planet.

Then start replenishing supplies.

Water, heavy element ores, elemental hydrogen, all these things are needed.

In less than a day, the water tank is full, the fuel tank is full, and the ore warehouse is also full.

As for the "Little Fat One" planet, it didn't fly over, because on the surface of this gaseous planet, near the equator, there are several giant brown-yellow vortices, the largest diameter of which can even directly insert Pandora star.

Such a huge storm, in the Omar Nebula, everyone who had suffered enough did not want to experience it again, and they didn't even have the idea of ​​approaching it.

Only one unmanned probe was launched, and it was detected in the past.

Unexpectedly, a major discovery was made.

"On this gaseous planet, there are some creatures, no, there are many creatures!"

Lan Xiulong opened his eyes wide, and suddenly pointed to the monitor screen.

How can this be?

Everyone leaned over with disbelief on their faces.

It is basic common sense that life cannot exist on a planet with light elements or a planet with a single type of element.

Because just like there are 20 common amino acids that make up protein, there are more than dozens of elements such as carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium required for plant growth. If the essential elements are lacking, it is like pure distilled water Just as microorganisms cannot survive, they cannot constitute a rich and colorful world and the diversity of the biosphere.

But this gaseous planet is close to the north and south poles of the stratosphere, in the orange atmosphere, there are jellyfish-like creatures floating in the air, flying around like dandelions, and the number is difficult to count, in short, it is densely packed, tens to hundreds of billions.

Under the sunlight, these creatures continuously retract and retract the canopy and wriggle forward, indicating that they are a kind of "animal".

"I guess that these creatures should be 'seeds' thrown up from the interior of the planet. Moreover, the gaseous planet is not completely gaseous, and there are some heavy elements inside. Maybe there is a cloud under the thousands of kilometers thick cloud layer. The sea that brews life..."

"In short, this gaseous planet is very valuable for research." Sugaru said.

"Do you want to stay here for a few days, catch a few 'jellyfish' on the spaceship, and study them carefully?" Gu Fan, the weapons officer, suggested.

"It's not necessary. The research value of Pandora is countless times that of this planet. Let's go to Pandora first. If you have more time later, go back to this gaseous planet." Yun Xinghe said.

"Yes!"

Everyone began to get excited.

……

Two days later.

The uncomfortable deceleration process is finally over.

It is in a space orbit at an altitude of 1 kilometers from the planet below.

The attitude control engine under the belly of the Feitian did not stop working, but kept emitting high-speed particles, causing the spacecraft to hover above the planet. With the autobiography of the planet, every 28 hours, the heavy weight with a diameter of about 14000 kilometers Every corner of the elemental planet will be observed clearly by the sighting equipment on Feitian and the 100 nano-satellites launched by Feitian—like a beautiful woman stripping naked.

Land accounted for 57%.

The ocean accounts for 43%.

The poles are covered with icebergs.

The terrain is mainly mountains, plains, and basins, mostly mountains, and a small number of lakes, swamps, and volcanic eruptions.

On land, the forest coverage rate exceeds 90%, and there are more than 100 million species of plants, more than 10 species of animals, fish in the water, birds in the sky, and large monsters running on the ground... This world is full of vitality.

What's more exciting is that after the material sampler returned to the spacecraft, Yun Xinghe and the others found that this planet, except for the low gravitational constant, is very suitable for human survival.

Such as oxygen content, 25%.

Gravitational constant, 0.5G (5 meters per second squared).

There are 268 types of elements.

The land area of ​​more than 3.5 million square kilometers is enough for tens of billions of humans to survive on it.

And in the area at 30 degrees north latitude in the eastern hemisphere, when seeing hundreds of huge floating islands, ignoring gravity, quietly suspended in the air, when Yun Xinghe's partners were stunned in shock, only Yun Xinghe knew that those Each of the floating islands contains a large number of "floating stones" inside.

Those are priceless treasures.

Everyone will be crazy about it.

(End of this chapter)