In fact, this is the first time I set foot on the land of the green star. Although the planet was dragged back to the shadow space as a trophy a few days ago, scientists are busy on it. The description of the system is extremely sensitive and fragile, which led to the grounding of the landing troops except the first batch of scorpion soldiers who landed on the green star. At first I wanted to follow Vega and the others to come over to have a look, but it ended up being so delayed. Forget it.
"The subordinates are really worried about letting those careless soldiers move around on this planet." Tavel said when he greeted me from the shuttle. I came here alone, although Qianqian expressed his interest in Green Star , But I'm really afraid that girl will come and mess around "In just a few days, we found at least 30,000 crystal clusters suspected of alarm devices on the surface of the green star. Their effective radius covers the entire planet, and any crystal clusters that exceed the threshold The energy fluctuations of the green star will be recognized by the green star as a signal of being attacked, and then an energy barrier under its crust will be activated. Fortunately, these alarm devices are only responsible for opening the defense, and are not connected with the self-destruct system—subordinates have sufficient reason to believe that the planet is self-destructive."
"That's right, that's what I believe. Anything that touches the old empire should self-destruct."
As I agreed, I jumped on the spot. The gravity of this planet is slightly lower than the standard gravity of the earth, but it doesn’t seem to be much different. The ground is covered with a layer of green material, which spreads all the way to the horizon. Clear green, they look crystal clear and textured. But it is soft to step on. Vega reported to me last time, she described it as "a natural carpet that can relax your six legs". Well, until now I feel that her way of describing is difficult to understand...
The landing point that Tavel guided us was near the North Pole of the Green Star. This North Pole was artificially designated by us, because the Green Star temporarily stopped rotating when it was dragged by the plundering ship, and it resumed its activities after arriving in the shadow space. One operation The episode on the above made the planet not rotate along the original rotation axis, and later Tavier simply re-designated the North Pole according to the current rotation axis of the green star—if there are aborigines on this planet. North should be lost by now.
Surrounding the landing site is a slightly messy scientific outpost. Several custom-made planetary colony warehouse sections are spliced together in a haphazard manner to form a series of laboratories and other facilities. Tall and strange devices can be seen everywhere around the outpost. Scientists use weird//shumilou’s fastest text update www.shumilou.com no pop-up window no advertisement//things, Tavel introduced that these are the special equipment used to scan the green star: everything used here The things are all specially made, even temporarily assembled, so there is no way to neatly plan according to the standard method, which makes the experimental area look less neat than the usual imperial base.
"We tried our best to adjust the energy bands of all the equipment. To bypass the alarms and barriers of the Green Star. You can see a tall crystal cluster in the distance, and this cluster is one of the 30,000 alarms. One, I don’t know what kind of civilization created this system. They grow from the ground and protrude out of the surface. Using these pointed clusters to determine the situation under the crust is the only safe and feasible way: at least without drilling through the ground. But they At the same time, it is connected to the alarm network of the planet, and it is not easy to scan these crystal clusters without triggering the alarm. These special scanning devices are not good in appearance, but they perform well in use."
"I want to know, could it be that this planet has been staying in the safe zone of space calmly for tens of thousands of years?" I asked in puzzlement, "From what you describe, the alarm system in this place is in a mess. How could that be?" Wouldn’t a small disturbance trigger global martial law? Wouldn’t it self-destruct if a meteorite hit it? As you said, it has a self-destruct system.”
"This is easy to explain. The several-kilometer-thick gel crystal on the surface of the green star has a protective effect similar to an armor layer. Although it doesn't seem to explain it, I collected a little sample and found that they can be charged. After being activated, they will become as strong as star alloy, and can resist a variety of energy attacks. Theoretically so."
It sounds a bit like the charged armor used by the imperial starship, but I don't know if this green carpet uses psionic energy.
"In addition, the alarm system of the Green Star has the ability to discriminate." Tavel saw that I had no doubts, and continued, "We have carefully conducted multiple tests and confirmed that this system is only effective for attacks and penetration below the earth's crust. If it is a meteorite On impact, it activates a deflection shield that bounces the attack away."
I raised my eyebrows: "Shield? You said this planet has a shield?"
"Once upon a time, we found a charging ring structure half a kilometer underground. It should be an old-fashioned shield generator. They have a psionic response, indicating that it was something that was equipped by the old empire for the vassal races, but these shields The generator should have been broken, or the energy was insufficient, anyway, these shields were not activated when the fallen apostles attacked. This is the theory."
"Wouldn't it be these crystal clusters that you found?"
I looked at the desolate wilderness around me. The surface of the green star is quite monotonous. There are only two things here: the green gel crystals that cover the entire surface of the planet, and the so-called crystal clusters that are a little lighter in color and have a real crystal texture. Well, things like crystal clusters were discovered by Tavel later, but I don't think they are important enough to call me over.
"Of course it's not just that."
Tavel shook his head as expected, and then turned on the holographic projection, "We found in the depths of the green star... a strange life response."
My ears pricked up: "Life response? Is there a living person down here?!"
"No, it's hard to say, the subordinate even suspects that this is a false alarm from the instrument: the feedback signal below stretches into a piece, and life reactions are occurring in an area almost the size of the earth's core, but according to the results obtained by the band frequency difference analysis method, These feedback signals have the same frequency, that is to say, they come from the same living body, theoretically."
"A creature the size of the earth's core?" I was dumbfounded, and then I couldn't help but glance at the sky. Sandora was just hanging there spinning leisurely, waiting for the moment of breaking through and being reborn, so she immediately calmed down. "It doesn't seem like something unimaginable."
"Please don't take the power of the apostles of Xiling as a routine." Tavel looked at the golden sun in the sky dumbfounded. Don't tell me, with Sandora shining there, the exploration work on the surface of the green star is not easy Less, at least without additional lighting.
"First of all, we can't explain why there is a huge living organism in the center of a planet: if it is really a living organism. This is not clear from any evolutionary template, and such life will not be born naturally , unless it was made by Clank. Second. You should see this, which is near the mantle of Green Star."
I looked at the pictures pointed out by Tavel, which were layered and analyzed green star structure diagrams. Most of the structure diagrams were marked with the word "to be determined", indicating that the structure of those parts was only guessed based on limited information, and the actual The situation can be very different, and in the mantle position, in addition to the words to be determined, there are also a lot of honeycomb grids. These grids are uniform in size. Distributed according to periodic huā patterns, it looks like a circular ribbon.
"These are holes, and the green star is divided into many layers. The outermost layer is gel crystals, the next layer is the solid crust, and then there are these nests. The signal shielding and alarm networks that are currently diffused near the crust should be all these The lairs emit, they are 100% man-made products, but several detection plans for these places have failed, as long as something touches these grids, it will be destroyed by a strong energy pulse. The pulse type is psionic energy, perhaps Anti-infantry sentry guns or something. The men didn't dare put the more powerful probes down: that might trigger some sort of self-destruct sequence. Theoretically."
"Very cautious, very good." I nodded while looking at the structure diagram of Green Star. At its core, the words "Suspected Life Response" were marked with a piece of red, and my attention was attracted by it.
"Ding Dong, Ding Dong" I reached into my breast pocket and grabbed the little one who was hiding in it and eating bubble gum. "Help me...do you have to be so exaggerated when you eat bubble gum?!"
Ding Dong was bound by bubblegum like a mummy, and he yelled in a muffled voice: "Ding Dong is actually very powerful! Ding Dong wanted to try the huā style of eating sugar, but it just didn't work."
"It's not enough for me to change three sets of clothes a day!" I took out the cup and washed Ding Dong. "Okay, okay, let's take a look at this, you might be interested."
It should be right to find Ding Dong for things related to strange creatures, at least her grades in her professional courses are not bad. I pointed her to the projection provided by Tavel: "Look at this, there is such a large creature near the core of the green star, well, it may also be a group of creatures, but Tavel thinks the possibility is not high, using the empire's The result scanned by the equipment is that there is only the response of a single biological individual—by the way, you should not use our equipment if you scan the life response?"
Ding Dong jumped to the nearest machine and compared himself with the sensor crystal of the machine: "Ding Dong can't reach it, so it can't be used!"
Well, I asked a pretty stupid question.
The little goddess folded her arms and began to fly back and forth in the air. Her small face the size of huā raw rice was full of serious expressions. Oh, a life reaction. Of course, there's really only one in the core, and it's a pretty big guy, and here—"
Ding Dong said, jumped into the air and quickly kicked a few places on the holographic projection with his little feet: "These grid-like structures also have signs of life, at least some signs of life."
"It's very strange." Ding Dong turned a few somersaults in mid-air, which is her unique flying stunt. "There must be many, many lives there. They are all alive, and many souls gather together, but they are different from ordinary lives. It feels like Less than a living body... It seems that many dissociated spirit bodies are mixed together, and there is strong interference, so it is impossible to break through at all."
Tavel and I looked at each other, and we could see the surprise in each other's eyes, but no one doubted what Ding Dong said. As a goddess of life, her judgment is worse than the most advanced life detector at this time. Accurate.
"I feel creepy." I squeezed Ding Dong's wings and put her back in my pocket. The little thing poked its head out and looked around. "Why does it feel like a ghost movie? There are hundreds of millions of orphans under the green star." Can't ghosts succeed?"
"If they really exist. They have survived for at least tens of thousands of years." Tavel said with a solemn expression, and slowly adjusted the instrument in his hand. "...before the fall of the old empire, before the appearance of the fallen apostles, they were alive..."
"Can we get in touch with them?"
"Theoretically... no." Tavier shook his head regretfully, "During the initial exploration, we have accidentally triggered the alarm system of the Green Star two or three times, but we have not received anything other than the automatic defense response with no signs of intelligence. Information: Nothing like communications from underground. They may not even realize that the Imperial Army is coming, let alone that their planet has been captured."
"Find a way to connect with those living beings." Sandora's voice suddenly came from the spiritual connection, "No matter what method they use, they may be the only surviving vassal race after experiencing the collapse of the empire."
Tavier immediately gave a military salute to the imperial power of Ulasses: wearing sunglasses.
"Ajun, I'm really angry if you dare to sing "My Sun" again!" Sandora noticed my malicious eyes keenly: from tens of thousands of kilometers away, she immediately threatened loudly, "By the way .What is the situation of the king's lander master ship? Is it possible to restart it?"
Tavel was stunned. The expression is very subtle: "... this... is a bit difficult, you know, it basically died in various places. It is a miracle that we can put it together now."
Tavel has her own difficulties. Although she is a chief scientist with super mobility, she also has her own strength limit. The cutting-edge technology needed for something like the King's Lander involves too many aspects. As a perverted product after the military thinking of the old emperor went to a certain extreme, the King's Lander Mastership almost pushed all the technologies involved in combat to the limit.
After finishing the communication with Sandora, Tavel and I started chatting, at first it was about the reaction of life under the green star, but soon. Our topic is biased towards the king's lander.
"A King's Lander, the most common model. How strong will it be?" I asked curiously.
Tavel thought for a while: "The subordinates have never experienced the glorious era of the King's Lander, so they can only guess from historical data. A King's Lander is a super weapon in terms of war positioning, even higher than the planetary fortress. When it is not fully charged, even a bomb-laden assault ship can seriously damage it, but after it is fully charged, the King's Lander can destroy almost everything within range, including the most powerful Eternal-class mothership This kind of spaceship goes to extremes, and it goes quite far: it is almost impossible to find anything more paranoid in the same war position, perhaps its original model was developed in the background of a tragic battle, basically every part of the empire A [revolutionary] armament is developed under such circumstances."
"One level higher than the planetary fortress?" I raised my eyebrows, "I think the Warsong is strong enough, at least the Warsong is equipped with multiple laws-law-like equipment. Back then, a single Warsong made a fool of our entire fleet. Round and round."
"An old Imperial starship can cause a lot of trouble to a fleet, but it can't destroy the latter, while a fully charged King's Lander can destroy a fleet and kill a starship by the way: their battlefield positioning is different. King's Landing The mission of the warship is to destroy the enemy, and it is more inclined to fight: use the strongest combat power to destroy the enemy head-on, and cause a devastating blow to the target in a short time, but the latter can be heard from the name, another name for Star Wars It is a planetary fortress, the word fortress is not the name of a weapon, but a mobile position, even if they are larger, more costly, and more complicated in structure, they are not used to charge into battle."
I thought about it for a while, and it became clear: this is equivalent to trying to compare who is more powerful, a nuclear warhead or a presidential palace. In terms of administrative level, the presidential palace crushes nuclear warheads, and the cost is the same, but throwing them on the battlefield , Tens of thousands of presidents can't withstand the nuclear bombing, can they
Of course, the planetary fortress is much more powerful than the presidential palace. At least it can be used for war. You can think of it as a presidential palace full of anti-aircraft guns, and it is full of congressmen carrying RPGs.
Tavel nodded in admiration after hearing my description: "Your idea is very unique."
I am very interested in the weapon system of King's Lander, Genesis. According to the existing description, I think it is a kind of main "cannon". When it is activated, it will "shoot" the target and then destroy the target. This is This way of fighting looks a bit rough, advanced weapons should be like the Warsong, standing still, and then the weapons of the law are scattered, and the world will be turned upside down XX light years away, as a combat power (only in terms of combat power) ) is still strong, the king's lander uses such a barbaric weapon, which is really surprising.
I consulted Tavel in detail, and learned the true face of "Genesis", of course, it is the documented version.
"Information dismantling and reorganization directional delivery device" nickname "Demolitionist" common name: Genesis.
"It will send a set of short messages to the target to identify the 'attachment point'. As long as the target exists and can interact with the surrounding world, the attachment point will connect it with the Genesis system. This is the targeting process, and then Genesis starts. , Disrupt all the information of the target and reorganize it randomly. This is the attack process. Genesis is such a simple and crude thing." Tavel explained this device that sounds powerful but is completely incomprehensible. "You know, everything in the world is based on information Description, because they can generate information interaction with other things, so they exist and have value, and Genesis is based on this ultimate foundation, it will destroy the information structure of the target, just like an extremely small speed Extremely fast hot start, although the attack range is limited, as long as the target is within the range, it will be demolished.
And now, our first goal is to copy a weakened version of Genesis that can be applied to other warships... "