The world-devouring dragon

Having said that, fleet operations in the interstellar era are certainly not mindless and reckless. After the Second Republic became aware of this "huge beast", it was scholars in the field of scientific research who first initiated the proposal.

"A biological structure that can withstand 20 million degrees Celsius inside a star, can withstand pressure of more than 10^17 Pa, and can even drive the internal power of a body exceeding a gigaton to move... This is a unique sample!"

In an internal virtual meeting, facing the mental projections of many scholars, a scholar shouted excitedly.

What an incredible creature. Everything about it is far beyond the imagination and understanding of interstellar humans. It is like a mystery, a magical creature from another world.

According to human knowledge, it is impossible to have such a huge life, because once such a huge life form exists, its huge mass will form a huge gravitational force, which will spontaneously collapse inward to form a star or even collapse into a black hole.

But this life broke all the rules.

There is no doubt that it is huge, and it has a certain degree of self-awareness and may even communicate with humans. This kind of creature has never been seen by interstellar humans, not even once.

In this universe built by perfect logic, there are no strange powers or chaotic gods, let alone any Zerg that can run rampant in space. Psychic energy and subspace are the only things known to interstellar humans that break through the conventional physical rules, but Now, another such thing has appeared?

And soon, the pressure from the academics was on all the bureaucrats.

In the Second Republic, which was governed by science, science was considered supreme.

Past historical experience has made people extremely wary of people who are not knowledgeable enough to take up important positions. "Stupid and short-sighted people are not worthy of holding power." Only those who have fully developed their wisdom and knowledge can rise to the upper echelons of society.

In the Second Republic, every bureaucrat, no matter how big or small, actually had a background as a researcher or scholar. Even the generals, most of them were cutting-edge scholars who were proficient in experimental physics, because only in this way can they truly understand The performance of the weapons in your hands.

One can imagine what a lofty status scholars hold in such a country.

Faced with severe criticism and aggressive accusations at the academic conference, the governor of the Second Republic lowered his head, sweating all over his head, and kept nodding in agreement. This also directly eliminated the fleet commander's proposal to dispatch the fleet. A specimen so cherished must not be destroyed by violence.

According to the opinions at the academic conference, the Second Republic should try its best to capture this huge snake. Only when it is truly impossible to capture, can it consider killing it violently.

The core plan had been formulated at the academic conference, and the bureaucrats of the Second Republic refined it. Finally, the order was conveyed to the generals, and the plan they received became four steps.

"First send unmanned spacecraft for reconnaissance and make detailed data judgments; then send a small unmanned fleet for testing to test the target's specific attack methods and behaviors; finally, after the data is completed, set up gravity traps/specializations according to the corresponding data reports Many means including drugs/drone fleet capture... Unless all means completely fail, no violent action will be allowed."

A detailed plan with tens of millions of words had been issued, and the generals of the Second Republic had to act according to the order.

…

Galactic Calendar 20149, 1764 hours, 13 hours after the traces of the giant beast were discovered.

Near the solar system, an invisible wave of time and space occurred, and immediately, the first unmanned reconnaissance spacecraft emerged from the void.

This shuttle-like spacecraft is advancing in the void at sub-light speed. According to the monitoring report, the target is nearby.

"Reconnaissance... information... photons... gravity..."

Ten minutes later, the spacecraft flying at sub-light speed received the location information of the target. There was a reaction body 2 billion kilometers away.

"found it……"

However, during the detection, the target's speed was very fast, advancing at a sub-light speed of about 300,000 kilometers per second. It is close to 99.99...% of the upper limit of the speed of light, and is only a few centimeters away from the speed of light.

In this universe, as it approaches the speed of light, everything will change dramatically, and the flow of time will slow down and even become almost stationary. The closer it gets to the speed of light, the slighter difference will become more and more obvious. At this speed, it is difficult for anything to catch up with it. This does not only refer to the spacecraft, but also means "everything".

Whether it's gravity, photons, heat...

Nothing can exceed the speed of light. The closer it is to the speed of light, which means that even the simplest detection will be very difficult. Even gravitational capture will be difficult to capture such things moving at nearly the speed of light.

"It's just a small difference, but it's not even close."

In actual combat in space, in sub-light combat, even if there is only the slightest difference, you can often beat the opponent in all directions, because in your eyes, the opponent is as slow as if he has stopped moving.

For the giant snake that is approaching the speed of light at this moment, time has slowed down on it, and a thousand years is only a blink, and the unmanned reconnaissance spacecraft trying to catch up with itself seems to be completely stationary.

No, it's not even stationary, it's flying upside down.

The first dilemma encountered by unmanned reconnaissance was not the powerful threat as expected, but the excessive speed.

In the first detection, other than knowing the opponent's speed, nothing else was known.

"...The strong space-time effect can only measure the opponent's speed, but cannot determine the opponent's mass and volume..."

In the report of the unmanned spacecraft, it is written.

…

"About 299792457m/s per second? How is it possible!"

Regarding this number, almost everyone at the academic conference was in disbelief, and suspected that the unmanned spacecraft had made an error.

In this universe, the closer you want to get to the speed of light, the more difficult it becomes. Even with the capabilities of interstellar humans, the sublight speed limit that a standard spacecraft can reach is only about 99.999%, and this is almost infinitely close to What does the speed of light mean?

A thing whose mass is conservatively estimated to exceed 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. How much energy does this require?

It's simply ridiculous. Even if you add up all the energy that the entire galaxy can release, it's still far behind. Could it be that the kinetic energy generated by this huge beast when it moves is comparable to that of the entire galaxy?

Because in the images recorded by those interstellar passengers, the speed of the giant snake when flying away was not very fast, so in the academic conference, it is not difficult to capture a behemoth of this level.

However……

"Go measure again!"

The gloomy-looking president of the society ordered.

…

The second time...the third time...the fourth time...

Each time, more unmanned spacecraft went to measure than the last time, but the measurement results were all without exception. Almost no unmanned spacecraft could catch up with the target. At most, the speed measurement was getting more and more accurate.

299792457.61546 per second...m/s per second, about 2.768*10^31 kilograms (increasing all the time. Unable to measure the exact mass)...

The more measurements are taken, the more strange phenomena are discovered on this huge monster. In this monster, the conservation of mass seems to have failed, and it is growing all the time.

Except for the 1,000+ galactic hours wasted in vain, until now, scholars know nothing about the giant snake flying in space except for constantly discovering more mysteries.

The "behemoth capture plan" that excited scholars was in trouble from the beginning...

The 7th Ring World Society, a branch of the former Human Supreme Science Association.

After the dissolution of the Supreme Science Association, many small branches of the Science Association had to develop independently, and most of them died out, but one of them survived and expanded crazily after the establishment of the ring world, eventually becoming the entire Second World. One of the most powerful forces in the Republic.

But now, the president of the 7th Ring World Society, this usually serious scholar, has red eyes, covering his head, and keeps thinking.

This is an extremely abnormal phenomenon.

As a cutting-edge scholar, he has experienced far more genetic adjustments than ordinary people. It would have been impossible for this physiological phenomenon to occur, but now it has happened. It can only prove that his own unstable psychic energy has interfered with his body.

Such a degree of psychic instability that even medicine cannot solve, one can also imagine the anxiety in his heart.

The giant beast capture plan was initiated by him and signed by his hand, but now he cannot even proceed with the first step.

But at the same time, there was another thing urging him, and that was that the direction of the big snake seemed to be heading towards a nearby human settlement galaxy. For the safety of the entire galaxy, the bureaucrats on that human galaxy have urged it countless times, hoping to eliminate the threat as soon as possible, but it cannot be delayed any longer.

After a long time, he issued a new order.

"agree……"

Finally, the scholars agreed to the military's proposal, skipping the first step and directly conducting threat tests with a "small-scale unmanned fleet."