Voyage of the Stars

All the staff members stared closely at the light of the tail flame and looked at the changing time next to them. However, the rhythm of space was not as fast as they imagined, so after watching for an hour, they all returned to his work.

Nothing else, just because the deceleration time is not completed all at once.

The maximum acceleration of human mountain-class battleships can reach 150G. It would take eight hours to decelerate from 15% of the speed of light.

Humanity's unmanned probes will take almost that much time.

Apparently, the detector also failed to decelerate within a few minutes.

In fact, most actions in space are like this. There are situations like "lightning flash" and "instant arrival", but they will not happen to aerospace-level civilization.

If you think about it, you will know that the starry sky in the universe is so vast that even light would take several years to travel the shortest distance, let alone an aerospace-level civilization that does not even reach the speed of light.

Therefore, after such a detection, it is unusual to have to wait several hours or even more than ten hours to get the results. Fortunately, it doesn't take long at this point, and there is also AI monitoring in real time, so humans don't have to worry too much.

"Yue Shuai, one of the three detectors has completed the deceleration first. Judging from the optical effects, it is adjusting its attitude. The next step should be to explore the Aldebaran star system."

"Continue to observe, focusing on the opponent's main fleet." Yue Yuan immediately issued new instructions: "Inform the Wudangshan ship and Emeishan ship formation to prepare."

From the position of the human being, we can see that the posture is adjusting, which means that the opponent's detector has actually completed the posture adjustment and is heading in a certain direction. I don't know whether to go to the closer Aldebaran B first or go directly to Aldebaran. FiveA.

From the position of the light source, humans can determine the locations of these three detectors.

Judging from the current situation, these three detectors began to accelerate as soon as they entered the overall range of Aldebaran. Yue Yuan began to slow down at such a long distance. He should be heading for the red dwarf star Aldebaran B.

Sure enough, after a few minutes, the personnel responsible for the observation reported that the direction of the three detectors that had completed deceleration was indeed Aldebaran B.

The semi-axis of Aldebaran B is 559.6 astronomical units long, which is the red dwarf star that rotates around the center of mass of the void together with the orange giant Aldebaran A.

This distance is much farther than the distance from Pluto to Too Far, ten times more.

A little conversion shows that at this distance, there is a time difference of 77.5 hours between what humans see and the true state of the opponent's detector.

Therefore, the focus of human attention is not these three detectors, but the detectors that came towards Aldebaran A before.

Of course, from the deceleration time of these three detectors, humans got the data they had been craving for more than four years, which was the acceleration value of the opponent's spacecraft.

125G.

This is the data obtained by humans from these three detectors.

It is very high, but not as high as a human warship, and as a detector, it is most likely an unmanned detector, so this data can only be used as a reference for the performance of the opponent's civilization's spacecraft, and cannot be used to judge the acceleration value of its warship.

Of course, this is related to the overall mass of the detector and the thrust of the engine, but it can be roughly judged from the overall perspective.

Once the first batch of detectors appears, a second batch of detectors will appear.

Humanity did not have to wait long before they saw signs of another batch of detectors from an unknown civilization slowing down.

This time it is much closer, it has completely exceeded the orbit of Aldebaran B, and it can be regarded as belonging to the inner circle of the Aldebaran binary star system.

There are a total of 8 detectors in this batch. Calculated from the time it takes to decelerate, it is also 125 G. These eight detectors are just like where they appeared. After completing their deceleration, they went straight to the giant gas planet where humans are located.

Presumably by this time, the unknown civilization had already discovered that there were no planets on the red dwarf star.

Seeing this situation, the humans who had been observing with camouflaged telescopes did not move, but waited patiently, waiting for the fleet to enter a state of deceleration.

What humans are most worried about now is that the unknown fleet did not start to slow down, and the eight detectors rushed to the asteroid belt and discovered the human fleet.

But as long as you see the unknown fleet starting to slow down, people don't need to wait for the fleet to decelerate. After all, they have already started to slow down. It is impossible to waste energy and turn around and speed up again. Moreover, there is a time difference in information due to distance.

Now the speed of the eight detectors that have completed the acceleration has slowed down, but the fleet is still advancing like Aldebaran B at 14% of the speed of light. Human beings believe that they can still see the unknown fleet slow down before the detector enters the asteroid belt.

If he could not wait, then Yue Yuan would not stupidly let the eight detectors enter the asteroid belt, but directly let the Wudangshan and Emeishan ship formations rush out to intercept.

No matter what, the unknown fleet must not be allowed to detect human arrangements.

In the images returned from the telescope, everyone on board each Shan-class battleship nervously watched the eight detectors getting closer and closer.

It can be seen that these eight detectors are not concentrated at one point and fly to the asteroid belt, but are widely dispersed, which is very consistent with the general detection situation.

It stands to reason that at this time, humans should be radio silent, but due to neutrino communication, humans still maintain internal communications and do not need to build relay base stations.

Neutrino communication can ignore obstacles and communicate point-to-point.

Under normal circumstances, a first-level civilization cannot master this communication technology. This is the communication advantage of human beings.

And because humans are within the Hill sphere of giant gas planets and are very close to each other, the communication delay is not that exaggerated, and the maximum delay is only one minute.

"Slow down!"

Within a minute, the information that the unknown fleet had begun to slow down was synchronized to the bridges of ten Shan-class battleships.

Yue Yuan also perked up and looked at the image that had been displayed on the big screen.

The first thing he noticed was the location of the eight detectors. The closest ones were less than 0.1 astronomical units from the outermost edge of the asteroid belt.

The unknown fleet is currently unknown, and it is still 30 astronomical units away from the giant gas planet. This unknown is equivalent to the position of Neptune in the solar system relative to the sun.

There is a delay of about 4.1 hours between its real actions and the images observed by humans.

"It starts to slow down at such a close distance. It seems that the gravity acceleration that this civilized creature can withstand is quite large." Yue Yuanxin said after seeing the parameters displayed on the screen.

Then he glanced at the eight detectors that were flying toward the asteroid belt with fusion thrusters. He turned on the communicator and immediately gave instructions to the Wudangshan and Emeishan ship formations to go out and intercept them.