Voyage of the Stars

Human beings are very interested in the study of magical phenomena in the universe, so they were very reluctant to leave when they left, but there was no way. I have been here for decades, but I still have found nothing except some phenomena that I have begun to know, and I don’t even have a way to continue research.

In fact, humans originally had a capture plan, but in the end they found that they had no ability to capture those sparkling bright spots. They didn’t even know what they were, let alone why this huge hydrogen molecular cloud had such a strange phenomenon. .

In this case, humans can only choose to leave temporarily and continue on the road to the stars.

However, although there is no substantial progress, it has also increased human beings' understanding of the universe and let human beings know that there is such a strange phenomenon in the universe that they have never seen before, and even reaching the fourth level of civilization cannot be achieved. Something to figure out.

The universe is indeed magical. It is far from what you see when you stay in one place. There are countless unknown, unheard and unseen things hidden deep in the vast sea of ​​stars.

And the discoveries here will also make mankind realize that as a wandering civilization, you can indeed gain more knowledge than if you have been developing in a star system or a star field. Although wandering all the time will also increase the risk of civilization being destroyed, danger also comes with opportunities.

Just like the small universe created by the Awakener for mankind, it is there, and there are two-thirds of mankind's astronomical-level particle collider in it. This is the opportunity for level three civilization. If it is a civilization that has always stayed near its home star and expanded outwards with its home star as the center, it may develop until it dies and may not be able to discover the small universe located deep in the starry sky.

When they discover the small universe, they will find that the astronomical-level particle collider left by humans inside is incomplete, but the core components of the collider are still there, because humans only dismantled its acceleration part.

To take a step back, even if the particle collider can no longer be used, the resources in that small universe are not enough to support the long-term development of a third-level civilization, but seeing an astronomical-level particle collider of that length can always give a third-level civilization Inspire.

At least it will make them think that this may be a necessary device to advance to the fourth level civilization, so that they will make up their minds to work hard. Maybe this is the factor that promotes a third level civilization to advance to the fourth level. This is an opportunity.

The same is true for humans today. If it were not a wandering civilization, humans would never have discovered this nebula, and the knowledge gained from discovering this nebula may affect humans' judgment on certain things in the future.

This is probably what the so-called God’s will is all about!

In particular, the conjecture that it is a biological creature may provide some ideas for humans to understand other life in the universe. Human beings have long known that there is more than just carbon-based life in the universe, but if the shining point in this nebula is life or living things, it will greatly expand the direction of human intelligence collection.

Having said that, because for humans, the shining point of this nebula is still an unknown thing. Based on the vigilance of unknown things, when humans decided to leave, they did not take back the detectors they had previously sent into the nebula. Let it return to the outside of the nebula, and then place it in the void.

Yes, they were indeed abandoned by humans in a sense, but they were not abandoned without value. It was not just the detectors, but also the unmanned engineering ship that was sent out to work.

Before humans left, they transported another batch of supplies and a space work platform, and then asked the engineering ship to build an observation station outside the nebula to conduct long-term observations of this nebula. At the same time, it is also the maintenance and repair center for those detectors to ensure their working life.

According to human estimates, the antimatter energy system of this observatory and maintenance center can last for about ten years. After the antimatter is exhausted, the heavy nuclear fusion reactor will be activated. After heavy nuclear fusion is activated as the energy system, the working platform can still persist. In twenty years, the platform will also enter a low-energy working state, that is, it will no longer maintain the detector and will only maintain its own observations of nebulae.

Thirty years later, this temporary working platform and observation station will be completely burned out and turned into cosmic scrap metal.

In other words, after humans leave, they can continue to observe the nebula for thirty years. Naturally, this information cannot be transmitted to humans in real time, so humans have specially placed an unmanned spacecraft on standby to collect information. When the platform comes to an end, it will It will carry the information of those thirty years and start a warp sail to catch up along the route planned by the human fleet.

In fact, humans can also make the working platform last longer, but it is meaningless. For example, after hundreds of years of observation, the human fleet had long since disappeared, and it was impossible for the remaining spacecraft to catch up with the human fleet.

Thirty years is just enough. Humanity plans to stop at the next destination for supplies, build a few planet-class spaceships as backup, or provide a living standard for those alien races who have contributed to the development of human civilization. Like planet-level residential spaceships and other types of spacecraft, if there is time, humans will produce more of them to prepare for the future growth of battleship clusters.

A civilization needs to increase its living space, and cannot wait until there is almost no place to live before thinking about building new spaceships.

Humanity soon arrived at the next destination and stayed there for thirty years. After building a batch of new planet-class spacecraft, they continued on their journey.

During this period, humans also waited for the spacecraft full of thirty years of observation data, but unfortunately there was still no new discovery. The light spots in the nebula were still flashing there, and no one knew what the principle was.

Humans also wanted to observe by looking at the overall situation. After all, some experts have put forward such a view: the entire new cloud may be a kind of organism. However, after a comprehensive analysis of the flash points in many places, humans did not find any connection between them, and the flash points generally did not show the appearance of transmitting additional information signals to the outside.

It can be said that nothing was gained.

But there is nothing to regret. Anyway, the location is recorded on the star map. As long as the nebula moves around the center of the Milky Way like other stars, humans can find it again. Of course, it is estimated that it will take humans to reach a higher level to find the nebula again and continue to study it.

Previous exploration and research have clearly told humans that the level of Level 4 civilization is far from meeting the standard of exploration. Without enough cognition, exploration is useless.