Galaxy Domination Guide

Chapter 5 Insight

"There are still 30 seconds left, the phase jump is completed, ready to arrive at the target planet Delta."

"Phase jump is over, 10 seconds, 9 seconds..."

"The phase jump is complete, and the InSight successfully arrived within the range of the target planet Delta's gravity well."

Compared with humans on the earth, the distance from the sun to the earth is nearly 1.5 million kilometers, and it takes more than 8 minutes for light to cover this distance. However, for the InSight spacecraft, the speed at which their phase jumps can travel Faster than the speed of light.In fact, the preparation of the phase jump engine took longer than the travel time.

Phase jump is a navigation method that the Iridium United Empire came out earlier on the technology tree of interstellar navigation, and its technical principle is not complicated.This is a macroscopic use of quantum mechanics, and a simple explanation can be compared with the quantum tunneling effect.Microscopic particles have the characteristics of waves, and have a certain probability of passing through potential barriers, and their motion can be represented by wave functions.Using quantum coherence theory and related devices, the quantum state of microscopic particles is shared with the entire spacecraft without interfering with the original properties of all substances, which is a kind of complex state coherence.There is a gravitational well and a gravitational potential difference in the gravitational field between two celestial bodies, and the space region where the gravitational potential energy of the celestial body is higher than that of the nearby potential energy, there is a celestial body potential barrier.After the spaceship starts the phase jump, after the probability is adjusted, the macroscopic tunneling effect is realized, so that the spaceship passes through the celestial barrier and directly reaches the other end. This position is usually the outer area of ​​the celestial gravity well.So the phase jump is not essentially the physical movement in classical physics, but it does complete the superluminal movement of an object in the absolute displacement of four-dimensional space.

The advantages and disadvantages of phase jumping technology are more obvious.The advantage is that the technical difficulty required to manufacture a phase jump engine is not very high. Although larger and more complex ships are equipped with more complex jump engines, compared to other methods of FTL navigation, the phase jump engine is more difficult to manufacture. And material preparation can really be said to be pediatrics.Another advantage is that the energy spent by the phase jump is relatively small, and this advantage has great strategic significance.This means that such an engine can be powered by a relatively low energy density energy source, such as a nuclear fusion reactor.The above two advantages can actually be summed up into one, saving money.

The disadvantage of phase jump is also very natural. Since the jump is restricted by the gravity of the celestial body, it is best for the spacecraft to jump to choose the two celestial bodies with the largest force, which are actually the closest celestial bodies. good route.Celestial bodies have different revolution speeds, and their positions in the coordinate system of the star system actually change frequently, which naturally makes navigation become unstable.Compared with other means of interstellar navigation, the speed of phase jump is impressively slow.Although the speed of the specific phase jump is different, it is related to the gravitational gradient and the interaction force between celestial bodies, but for the voyage from the sun to the earth, skipping Mercury and Venus, and coming to the earth, basically the average speed After all, it is not faster than the speed of light.

InSight took a phase jump to the outer edge of the Earth's gravity well, and it took one hour, four and 10 minutes in Earth time.However, considering that this is a 1.5 million-kilometer voyage, this time is probably a little faster than traveling from the Fifth Ring Road to the Second Ring Road during the rush hour.

Because of its characteristics, this means of navigation is not favored by the Imperial Space Force, but favored by interplanetary commercial transportation within the star system.Even though the phase jump technology has been updated for several generations, the size and energy consumption have been greatly reduced, and the installation of such a thing on the United Empire battleship is basically to save energy.Especially the Insight, which is not a combat-oriented ship type, is more suitable for phase jumping.

The captain of the Insight, Xiuping, glanced at the holographic screen on the right side of the armrest of his captain's seat, and confirmed that the optical and electromagnetic stealth effects of the battleship had been activated.As a captain who has served in the Space Force for more than 15 years, Shuhei is not considered outstanding. He does not have a prominent background, he is not very good at flattering, and his actual personal ability is not outstanding, but he is finally doing his duty.The first prerequisite for a reconnaissance ship to conduct investigation missions is to hide itself. Although for many civilizations, the hiding of the InSight may be useless at all, but if it is such a civilization, the United Imperial Space Force will never send a single reconnaissance ship. ship to carry out the task, because that is suicide.

The mission of InSight is not complicated. It sent a group of unmanned reconnaissance planes to investigate the habitable planet they temporarily called Delta.This is all in accordance with the procedure. The scout ship will not send investigators to land on the surface of the planet until it has a general grasp of the situation. That is the most reckless behavior.If a captain did this, even if he did not cause any damage afterwards, he would be punished or even sent to an imperial military court.

The Empire cannot tolerate military personnel who disobey orders.

InSight carries a wide variety of surveillance drones that can be deployed for different situations and purposes.The model being sent out now is called "Dragonfly". As the name suggests, it is about the same size and shape as a dragonfly, but it can pass through the atmosphere and fly freely in the air.It basically does not have any attack capabilities, but it flies very fast, and its movements are dexterous, making it difficult to catch.With autonomous AI for control, multiple groups can form a cloud tactical group to carry out more complex operations.InSight released hundreds of such unmanned reconnaissance drones at a time, and was able to collect a lot of intelligence.

Shuhei was full of patience and meticulous.But his crew members are full of curiosity about this planet.

"Captain, it looks like this is the mother planet of the Iridium star." Yuan Xin said.

Shuhei nodded: "Strikingly similar, a blue planet with a similar size. Speaking of which, Sergeant Major, are you a native?"

Yuan Xin shook his head and said with a smile: "No, our family has been in the army for generations. Wherever the fleet of the empire goes, our family will move. I have left Iridium five generations ago. Let alone being born in China, I have never been to What about the native land? Captain, are you from the native land?"

Xiuping hummed, and said: "But it's not counted now. The local population has been exceeding the standard, and it is migrating out in large numbers every year. The dignitaries of other administrative stars want to go to the mainland again. There is no such thing as us there. The living space of ordinary people."

The captain and the sergeant major looked at each other, and they could see some bitterness in each other's eyes.The two of them didn't talk much about personal matters before, but today was an exception.They knew that maybe they would never be able to return to their hometown.

The blue planet in front of them, which looks like an iridium star, may become their new home.

Seeing the holographic screen on the right hand side displaying information packages for collection and sorting, Shuhei said, "Let's see how far the aborigines on this planet are."

The intelligence data collected by a large number of reconnaissance drones is at the level of big data.These unmanned reconnaissance drones can not only take images, collect audio and video, but can even directly connect to low-tech information nodes or networks to collect available information.The UAV itself acts as a port, and the main engine of the InSight ship provides algorithms and cracking methods. For an information technology network like the earth, it can be cracked in seconds.

The main engine of InSight is equipped with automatic information sorting, sorting and classifying information according to key sequences, and can automatically summarize. What Xiuping saw was such a compendium of information.

And the first page of this intelligence compendium is a photo, taken by the Dragonfly scout.This is a wall, and what matters is not the wall itself, but what is attached to it.

"Issuing a certificate is fast and convenient. After payment, please scan the QR code on the right."

"Specialized in venereal diseases, gonorrhea, psoriasis."

"Miss Bao, 15XXXXXXXXX."

Xiu Ping was stunned for a moment, and asked Yuan Xin to come and see.

Yuan Xin blinked his eyes, his face full of disbelief.

"Isn't this the Iridium script? How is it possible that our script is also used on planets in another universe?" Yuan Xin asked.

Xiuping quickly read some information content, then nodded with a ghostly expression on his face, and said: "It's the Iridium star script, it can't be similar or the same arrangement, although I don't understand the specific meaning, but it must be It's a way of saying people here."

People in the empire have only one certificate in their life, which is issued by the government, and there is no private application.The two Iridium people didn't understand the essence of the word "certificate".As for various skin diseases, the biomedical technology of the Iridium people has developed to eliminate most of the diseases in the human body. The sexually transmitted diseases were extinct a few centuries before Xiuhei and Yuanxin were born. Know about history.As for the broad, profound and mysterious word "Miss", it is not something that a few aliens can comprehend.

After reviewing more information, Shuhei was finally convinced that the iridium script that they had used for thousands of years, and was even stipulated in the constitution that could not be changed in the slightest, actually existed in a civilization in another universe.Not only is the writing method the same, but the pronunciation is also highly similar to the pronunciation of Iridium Standard Language.Xiuping also quickly discovered that there are more than 70 billion advanced intelligent life forms on this planet. The same population is divided into countless ethnic groups and more than 200 countries.These countries and nations also have different languages ​​and cultures, and have different national forms and development levels. The degree of confusion can almost become a museum.

"I began to feel that there might be some invisible mysterious force behind our time travel. The planet with the Iridium script must have some connection with the empire!" Xiuping said to Yuan Xin, looking at In the eyes of the water-blue planet, there are a few more things.

(End of this chapter)