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Twenty years later.

The star in front has changed three times in the sighting device of Feitian.

In the process of zooming in from ten light years to two light years, the size of the star remained almost the same, and the naked eye could not feel it becoming larger.

The spacecraft began to decelerate. From two light-years closer to one light-year away, the star emitting 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 galaxy, the originally basketball-sized star 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 propagate along a straight line. When encountering a mass object, such as passing through the system of persistence, under the influence of gravity, the path of light will be affected, and a curved curve will occur.

Not to mention massive black holes. It is said that even the light cannot escape. The starry sky seen by the human 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 did not take another detour, and the pilot Berekov did a great job.

Through various observation equipment, Feitian quickly achieved a major harvest.

"Wealth! Wealth! We found a livable galaxy!"

"God, God must be looking after us. The first time we leave our house, we will have such a big discovery ... We will soon make a sensation in the entire Federation!"

Sugaru yelled at the large-magnification astronomical telescope and danced, looking at the green planet, and murmured in his mouth: "What a beautiful planet, it is more beautiful than the old Burla!

"I found another large gaseous planet with a diameter of more than 50,000 kilometers. This is the ninth spherical planet with a diameter of more than 3000 kilometers in this galaxy!"

Du Xiaofan is also very excited. The gaseous planet is a very good material supply point. The material reactor is very suitable for supplementing those hydrogen elements as nuclear fuel. The energy block on the Feitian will be used up one day sooner or later. The spacecraft itself cannot be synthesized. The ready-made hydrogen The element is the best supplement-after all, stars are also burned by hydrogen.

"This should be the first life planet discovered since the Blue Star Federation came out of its parent star? Didn't expect it was found by the Feitian for the Federation! Everyone is amazing!"

Looking at the increasingly clear video from the detector, Xiang Lan Meiqin clapped his hands, his face full of pride.

"No, not the first one, it should be the second one. The first one was the Rosa Star" Brave "spaceship and the captain Stanney, which was discovered more than a hundred years ago. That galaxy is called" Six Treasure Stars. " It is said that there are six habitable planets distributed in the habitable zone of life, of which the original life has evolved in the sea of ​​planet No. 3. "

The sound of Yunxing River beside him turned Xianglan Meiqin's original bright and splendid smile into a very lost and regret.

So we are the second one?

More than a hundred years ago?

Xiang Lan Meiqin turned his head and looked at him with a strange expression: "Xinghe Jun, aren't we still asleep more than a hundred years ago, how do you know this?"

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

Yunxing River Road, his words are half-truths and half-truths, there are news about the Liubao Galaxy, but the news does not look much at Yunxing River. The news of the Liubao Galaxy was told by the grandfather in his mind.

So he felt a little regret that the discoverer of the Liubao Galaxy was not him, but there was no way unless he could be born a hundred years earlier, or let the Liubao Galaxy go from the mission sector of Rosa Star to the mission sector of Bora Star. Only then can he take off that glory.

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 has caused a great sensation, and even within the Federation, it has driven a wave of interstellar development. Within a period of time, countless exploration spacecraft entered space in order to find a planet like "Pandora" , And then became famous overnight and became rich overnight.

What's so special about Pandora?

The grandpa in my mind answered this question.

"According to the information I have, the first value of Pandora Star is the unique plant resources on this planet. These plants show a kind of magical wisdom. They can form a kind of kind through a flexible vine. Network, share knowledge, and form collective wisdom. "

"And the second largest value Pandora has is that this planet is the main reason for being destroyed by the Federal 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. "

"This element, scientifically named UNBANUIM, is also called 'floating stone'. This element has superconducting properties at room temperature. This is not uncommon. There are many room temperature superconducting materials that humans can synthesize, but the floating stone There is also an attribute, which can emit a special force field. Under the influence of this force field, the weight of the object will magically disappear, as if it is weightless. "

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

"Take the simplest example: If the spaceship Feitian is loaded with about 10,000 kilograms of flying stones, the weight of the spacecraft will drop by 70%, and the endurance will increase tenfold!"

"In addition, the plants on Pandora's star, which can produce wisdom, seem to be related to aerial stones, but the specific principle is unknown, and the planet has been destroyed before the botanist has time to crack this secret."

Grandpa said in his head.

Yun Xinghe opened his mouth and said, "In this way, Pandora Star is destroyed by human greed for aerial stones, not the aggressiveness of those intelligent plants themselves?"

"Not necessarily, if these intelligent plants are good at dealing with each other, the expedition team that finds this planet will not be killed. The commander of the Federal Star Fleet may not be completely an ignorant, if not because of anger and anger, what Will it be ordered to destroy this planet? "

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

The grandfather reminded.

Yun Xinghe nodded his head and cheered up, not daring to despise it.

...

A year and a half later.

Thrilling flying through the Kirby's material belt, the speed dropped to less than 0.1C.

The planet Pandora is getting closer and closer, less than 20 astronomical units (1 astronomical unit = 150 million kilometers) from the Feitian.

It can be reached within two days at the speed of Feitian.

However, the Feitian did not go straight to the Pandora star, but continued to slow down, and went to the 5th gas planet outside the 10 astronomical unit.

This gaseous planet was first discovered by Du Xiaofan, so he named it as "Fatty One" planet. It has a diameter of 53,000 kilometers and emits an orange glow. It is surrounded by a ring of meteorites and several A small satellite, 90% of which is composed of water. In theory, there is a possibility of life on this satellite.

One day, Feitian reached a close orbit less than 1 million kilometers away from the "Fatty One" planet.

Then began to supply supplies.

Water, heavy element ore, elemental hydrogen, all these things.

Less than a day, the water tank is full, the fuel bin is full, and the ore warehouse is also full.

As for the "Fatty One" planets, they didn't fly over. The surface of these gaseous planets, near the equator, has giant tan vortices one by one, with the largest diameter, and can even directly plug Pandora into it.

Such a huge storm, in the Oma Nebula, everyone who has suffered enough does not want to experience it again, even without the idea of ​​being close.

Only one unmanned detector was fired, which was detected in the past.

But did not expect a major discovery.

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

Lan Xiulong suddenly pointed at the monitor screen and squinted.

how can that be?

Everyone leaned in, and his face was incredible.

On a light-element planet or a single-element planet, there can be no life. This is basic common sense.

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

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

Under the sunlight, continuously extend the umbrella cover and creep forward, indicating that it is an "animal".

"I guess these creatures should be 'seeds' projected from the inside of the planet. Moreover, gaseous planets are not completely gaseous, and there are some heavy elements inside. Maybe, under thousands of kilometers of clouds, there are A sea where life is brewing ... "

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

"Would you like to stay here for a few days and catch a few" jellyfish "to the spaceship, and study it carefully?" Gu Fan, the weapon officer, suggested.

"It's not necessary, Pandora's research value is countless times that of this planet. Go to Pandora first, and then have time to go back to this gaseous planet to see." Yunxing River Road.

"Yes!"

Everyone started to get excited.

...

Two days later.

The uncomfortable slowdown process is finally over.

At a 10,000-kilometer space orbit from the planet below, the attitude control engine under the wing of the Feitian did not stop working. Instead, it has been emitting high-speed particles, making the spacecraft hover over the planet still. With the autobiography of the planet, every Every 28 hours, this heavy element planet with a diameter of about 14,000 kilometers will be observed at every corner by the observation equipment on the Feitian, and the 100 nano-satellites launched by the Feitian. beauty.

Land accounts for 57%.

The ocean accounts for 43%.

The poles are covered by icebergs.

The terrain is mainly mountainous, plain, and basin topography, mostly mountainous, and there are a few lakes, swamps, and volcanic eruptions.

On land, forest coverage exceeds ~ www.readwn.com ~ Conservative estimates of plant species exceed 1 million, animal species exceed 100,000, fish in the water, birds in the sky, large monsters running on the ground ... This world is alive exuberant.

Even more exciting is that after the material sampler returned to the spacecraft, they found that this planet, except for the lower gravity constant, is very suitable for human survival.

Such as oxygen content, 25%.

Gravity constant, 0.5G (5 meters per square second)

There are 268 kinds of elements.

The land area of ​​more than 350 million square kilometers is enough for tens of billions of human beings to survive on it.

In the 30 degrees north latitude of the Eastern Hemisphere, there are hundreds of huge floating islands, ignoring gravitation, and floating in the sky quietly, so that the partners of Yunxing River are shocked and stunned. Empty islands, inside each one, contain a lot of "floating stones".

That is a priceless treasure.

Everyone will be extremely fanatical about it.