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"Dark Master, that star is expanding violently! Is it going to..." Although Eta Carinae has not exploded yet, it often expands and contracts irregularly due to intermittent nuclear reactions.

This is basically the case for this type of high-luminosity blue variable stars.

Their nuclear reactions are too violent, and in the later stages of their lives, they basically proceed intermittently.

Once the reaction is too violent and too much heat is generated, and the radiation pressure is greater than its own gravity in a short period of time, it will begin to expand.

After expansion, the temperature and pressure drop, and when they can no longer maintain the conditions required for the reaction against their own gravity, they shrink.

During this process of expansion and contraction, they will continuously throw out large amounts of material.

so back and forth.

This is very scary.

Because you don’t know whether its contraction is the last one before the supernova explosion (followed by a violent explosion...), or whether it is just a routine expansion and cooling contraction.

"Emergency evasion jump! Let's step back a little further!" The expansion and contraction of high-luminosity blue variable stars are usually accompanied by violent material ejections. If this process is too violent, it is basically equivalent to a nova explosion.

Being hit by the ejected high-speed plasma material will cause certain damage to the spacecraft shield and communication system, which can be avoided of course.

hours later.

"Fortunately, that star did not explode! It was just expanding and contracting normally..." If a supernova explosion is about to occur, the star will shrink excessively in a short period of time, shrinking to much smaller than its normal size, and then Then it exploded suddenly under the reaction force of the elastic neutron fluid just formed in the core.

"I seem to have some impression of this massive star. Its coordinates should also be stored in the starry sky array of our universe. If I remember correctly -" In fact, Zeratul remembered it correctly.

In its golden age, the Protoss conducted extensive explorations of the entire Milky Way, drew a large number of extremely detailed star maps, and marked a large number of celestial objects such as various nebulae, giant stars, supergiants, pulsars, magnetars, black holes, etc. .

Including the Great Carina Nebula, a huge and conspicuous object located near the center of the Milky Way.

It's just that they didn't realize where this place was at the first time. After all, they no longer used the star maps left over from the Golden Age. It was Zeratul, a middle-aged and elderly star spirit with relatively broad knowledge, who noticed this.

"Dark Master, according to the star maps left over from our golden age, this should be the area with the densest concentration of massive stars in the Milky Way... It is also the most dangerous area in the entire Milky Way..." There are several places nearby that may be possible anytime, anywhere. A supermassive star that will explode, no one will feel safe here.

The green pure void energy flame in Zeratul's eyes flickered slightly, "...No, this is a good place. Those people couldn't have imagined that our base would be built in the Great Carina Nebula. If there are a few rare ones here, If a star of small and medium mass is at the same or similar position as the Milky Way in our universe - we will have a place to stay." In the golden age of the Protoss Empire, most of the more prosperous star regions of the Milky Way were explored by the Protoss.

Including the galactic center.

However, there were too few of them and they did not choose to occupy these places.

To be honest, even if a supernova or even a super supernova breaks out, they can still escape.

An emergency jump can allow them to jump out to a distance of dozens of astronomical units, and it will take nearly an hour for the stream of high-energy particles moving at near-light speed emitted by the supernova explosion to meet them. This time difference is enough for any Protoss ship. The ship (even a shuttle for both military and civilian purposes) activates the jump drive to make an ultra-long distance jump.

Therefore, the protoss can stay in such a seemingly dangerous place.

As long as their spacecraft doesn't accidentally crash into the gravitational range of those stellar debris, it won't be a big problem.

"Ah, it is indeed here. This medium-mass star, which is similar to El's sun, has many rocky planets orbiting it. We can establish our forward base here." Zeratul looked at it with great joy. Looking at the lifeless rocky planet in front of him.

Although most of these rocky planets are in the habitable zone, they have been exposed to all kinds of violent ionizing radiation in the Carina Nebula, as well as a large number of cosmic rays released by cataclysmic variables that explode from time to time. Baked, these rocky planets are barren.

They show no signs of life.

I heard you want to give birth to life? My X-rays and gamma rays are going to lift up the electrons of every atom here for you today.

Fortunately, their protoss is not very afraid of these radiations. On the contrary, when the intensity of these radiations is not too high, they can also draw energy from them for life activities.

Just as he said, the two star spirit hubs were directly jumped to the ground of one of the planets at a moderate distance.

After a while, the explorers jumped a large number of crystal towers, five jump gates, five teleportation gates, four mechanical platforms, a control core and two star gates to the surface.

As long as the construction is carried out for a period of time and the coordinates are sent back for verification with Proxima b, the jump network here can be used normally.

On Earth, January 2010, 1.

"Of course. As long as it is not directly hit by a gamma ray burst, the space-time channel will not be destroyed. We have this confidence." Tassada is very confident.

Just kidding, the Overmind led the largest swarm of insects at that time (Kerrigan was never able to conquer all the Overlord swarms, and many of them turned into wild zerg after the Overlord and Cerebrates died. When it was finally controlled by Amon's hybrid) and invaded Aiur, it also had no control over the time and space channels of the Antioch Executive Fortress, and had no way to destroy them.

In the end, the only measure the Overmind took was to put a layer of infection on them to hinder their normal operation and prevent the protoss support troops from jumping.

When the Archbishop of the Legacy of the Void came back with the Golden Fleet F2A, they easily cleared away the infections attached to them and recaptured these time and space channels, and then...

"I never expected that the first space-time channel far away from our current territory would be in the Carina Nebula." Xia Yan found this very interesting.

To satisfy his curiosity, he even thought about whether he could try to observe Eta Carinae up close in the future, although doing so would be very risky.

It may be that Eta Carinae will suddenly undergo a violent expansion, ejecting a large amount of hot plasma plasma gas, or its young and hot companion star (the mass of this companion star is about 50 to 80 times the mass of the sun, and it is much younger than the main star) ) will give him a big glare without hesitation.

Forget it, the dog's life is at stake, just leave this kind of thing to the detector. He doesn't need to take the risk.

Although he really wanted to get a closer look.

During this time, the productivity of the Terran humans on Mars was also gradually recovering.

Productivity is brought about by modern interstellar industry, and many traces of civilization will be produced in this process.

In order to minimize the chance of people on Earth discovering them, they had to hack all the Mars probes to ensure that they would only operate in the no-man's land specially drawn around them and not take pictures of things they shouldn't.

Now, the empire's military industry has recovered to the point where most military equipment, including battlecruisers, can be rebuilt.

Except for the science ship and the Gorgon.

In reality, the number of science ships is really small, and there are more battle cruisers than them (and they are also really expensive. The most valuable thing about a science ship is not its function, but the scientists and precious research equipment on the ship. Perhaps this is why the Tyran Empire began to use it to replace the scientific ship after developing the Iron Crow, because neither the scientists nor the precious equipment can really afford to lose it), if Xia Yan's system is not in short supply now If he is angry (lack of everything), he can just max it out in the system.

And it is simply expensive to not be able to rebuild Gorgon for the time being.

It requires too many resources to build, and the maintenance requirements are not as high as the Minotaur and the Minotaur's successor, the Morai (that is, the Yamato built by Nova herself in the Black Sky level of Nova's campaign) Easy, must enter the dedicated dock.

Although in theory they could recreate Gorgon in this universe.

Because Gorgon's prototype Vulcan is in his hands, the scientists responsible for testing and a considerable number of professional technicians are also still on board.

"But that's okay," he paused for a long time before continuing. "At least, they won't easily think that we will be here. Let Zeratul spread more detectors, we need more information."

at the same time.

The capital of the Shi'ar Empire, the planet Chandilar.

This is the political center of the Shi'ar Empire, and most of the Shi'ar people themselves live on the Feather Star (this interstellar empire contains many races, and generally the racial policy favors the Shi'ar people).

"What? They didn't take down the opponent despite their superior strength?" Empress Lilandra of the Shi'ar Empire was shocked.

The situation of the Shi'ar Empire is much better than that of the declining Skrull Empire and the Kree Empire, which is suffering from internal and external troubles. Moreover, their science and technology are indeed more advanced than the former two, and their military strength is increasing day by day.

As for the Nova Empire, which likes to act as the cosmic police, they can only be ranked second-rate.

The congressman who had just made the report nodded, "Yes, Her Majesty the Queen. The protoss fleet's firepower far exceeds our imagination. They use a variety of deadly neutron weapons and suspected anti-matter weapons without any scruples, and their ship protection The shield is so powerful that it is almost difficult for our weapons to attack their hull. Moreover, the small spacecraft that launches neutron weapons is completely invisible, making it difficult for our detection system to detect. I propose that the empire's Scientists must find a way to crack the opponent's stealth ship in a short period of time! Otherwise, our ship and fighter pilots will face life-threatening danger! This is a bloody lesson learned in this battle!"

"Very good, let's do it! Pause some irrelevant research and find a way to deal with these protoss first. I don't want what happened to the Dark Order to happen to us!" The fear of being burned by glass prompted Ben The bellicose and aggressive Shi'ar Empire had to brace itself to deal with it.

They were right. Both Tassadar and Zeratul had the idea of ​​​​retaliating. If they were not vigilant, the outer colonies would only be turned into glass balls by the Purification.