While Toberu's scientists were busy debugging equipment and learning how to read messages from the Imperial Data Network with Bubble's instructions, Sandora had lost patience. The possibility that the Fifth Fleet will lose contact again will increase by one point, because no one knows what "area" the Fifth Fleet will move to next, and the "movement" in the void does not have trajectory, direction, distance, etc. Any features that can be tracked in the normal space, as long as they are within the void jump radius of the spacecraft of the Fifth Fleet (radius is just a popular term, strictly speaking, it is the maximum offset for modifying its own information representation), they It is possible to flee to any place at any time, and while getting rid of those pursuers, it is also possible to jump out of the scanning radius of the Death Garden at any time. Although the Garden of the Dead has opened the scanning radius to the maximum, the possibility of the Fifth Fleet's sudden "disappearance" is still extremely high.
However, the call information we sent still cannot be "irradiated" to the other party.
Just now Sandora and Bubbles explained to me the technical knowledge of cross-quadrant communication in the void, and I have a certain understanding of this kind of communication: we all know that although the void is chaotic and looks disorderly, It has the "uniformity" in physics, but from the perspective of information theory, the void also has the characteristic of "inhomogeneity": it is divided into quadrants. Although the reason is unknown, it is indeed divided into areas. These areas are not physically isolated. They are equivalent to the virtual partitions of the hard disk. They are divided only because of different "characteristics" (that is, Said. In physics, actually every void quadrant overlaps together, they are the void), when located in two different void quadrants, not only the worlds contained in them will be very different, even the void domain will be affected by the information shift Influence. Thus, communication in the void spans more than two quadrants. And when at least one of the two parties is in a moving state, the sender and the receiver will appear out of sync, because "moving" in the void means that their own information representation is also changing. It also means that the codebook of the 'Movers' is changing at any time, and within the same quadrant, this change has rules to follow. Therefore, the various decoding devices that come with the communicator can maintain communication, but between different quadrants, this change will exceed the limit that any logic-based decoder can calculate, and communication will be blocked. In the imperial information network, the solution to this problem is to establish relay stations one by one, and ensure that each void quadrant has at least one communication relay station. These relay stations do not move, so they are not affected by the cross-quadrant barrier effect, they can send information to each other, and then they forward the information they receive to the void spaceship in the current quadrant; and if the communicating party has left the relay station (that is, away from the Imperial information network), as a pioneer ship deep into the void. It needs to rely on a fixed communication protocol to maintain contact with the rear. The communication protocol will determine that at least one data packet in the message sent by the two parties contains information about all possible arrival quadrants of the "mover" within the radius of a void jump. Information representation, to ensure that as long as the "movers" are still in these quadrants, they can keep in touch with the headquarters, and when the two parties communicate next time. This "decode-address packet" will be refreshed and relocated to the "mover". In this way, communication-refresh data packet-move-communication-refresh data packet, this process must be repeated continuously, and the communication between the two parties can continue. Between the Fifth Fleet and us, obviously, neither condition is met: it is neither located within the Imperial network. nor with us Unified communication protocol. Of course, there was such a communication agreement between it and the Fourth Fleet a long time ago, but according to the working principle of this communication agreement mentioned above, we can find that this process must be established on the basis that both parties maintain certain Frequency of contact, and each contact is successfully refreshed on the basis of "decoding-address packet". Once one of the two parties jumps out of the "address book" recorded in the last communication, the communication agreement will become invalid.
Communication between the Fifth Fleet and the Fourth Fleet has been broken for hundreds of years, and this communication protocol is now long overdue.
Of course, the above knowledge is limited to the situation of communication in the void domain. Basically, such communication is rare. After all, even the star field gods are not a race living in the void. We all live in a stable and orderly environment. In the world of the world, the "position" of these worlds in the void can be considered as constant, and naturally there is no need to worry about communication being blocked. Generally, the advanced void communication technology is often applied to those special spaceships that carry out development and cruise missions in the void field all year round.
Or the Exile Fleet.
"This is not the way," said Sandora, frowning. She tapped twice with her finger in mid-air to turn on a set of holographic projections. Tavel's image appeared in the center of the screen. This female scientist has been Online, and took over the on-site operations of the Death Garden, "Tavel, tell me your opinion. The biggest difficulty in establishing communication between us and the Fifth Fleet, and your countermeasures."
"Yes, my majesty," Tavel nodded, and complex data and charts were refreshed under her image. I can only roughly see that this is the operating status of the Garden of Death, and I have seen countless "message loss" , did not receive the return information" warning, "The biggest problem now is that we cannot grasp the real 'coordinates' of the Fifth Fleet. All the messages received by the Death Garden are expired, and the messages we sent are also expired. Yes, we try to include as many quadrant 'decode-address packets' in the outgoing message as possible, but the Fifth Fleet probably won't know how to identify this data packet, and they won't even notice these signals at all, because we The communication protocols between them are different, even the base system is different. If we want to break this deadlock, we need to locate the target more accurately and know which quadrant they will jump to-now it is completely blind. Theoretically, so."
It is a remarkable situation to hear the word "blind" from a scientist known for his rigor as Tavel. Immediately, I felt empathy for the embarrassment faced by the staff of the Death Garden, and then the next second, perhaps because of the blessing to the soul, I felt a light flash across my mind-Tavier said that we need to locate the target more accurately
In other words, she needs a scope with a predictive function
My eyes fell on Xiaoxue involuntarily, and then Sandora and her sister seemed to want to go together, and more and more eyes began to focus on Xiaoxue. The latter is a genius girl who is known as a keen six senses. She suddenly became clever: "What do you think I am doing? I didn't cause any trouble today. Dad, you can't be idle because you are idle, so just beat the child to play..."
"Stop talking nonsense!" I grabbed her and threw her to Bubbles, "Is there a way to add her to your system?"
at the same time. I also explained my thoughts to Bubble in detail during the spiritual connection, and the other party immediately nodded and took out the third awl from his pocket. Xiaoxue became anxious when she saw that thing: "Hey! What are you doing! Let me tell you, if you dare to poke me with that thing, I will be anxious to you..."
"Look, it scares you." Bubble pouted, removed the transfer device at one end of the awl, lowered his head and modified it a few times, then took out a pair of glasses-like things from the portable space, and combined the two parts When it comes together, it becomes as stupid as you want, like a children's toy XX magic girl transformation device, which is as shameful as it is. She put this thing in front of Xiaoxue's eyes: "Here, put it on."
Xiaoxue was dumbfounded for a moment, her face full of embarrassment: "Well...you should poke me with an awl..."
"What nonsense!" I slapped the girl into the seat next to me. He took Bubble's "magic girl transformation device" and put it on her, "Have fun, you, when the empire data network was not established, your mother had to lie in a coffin-like thing to connect with the radar." online…”
"But it's a little too embarrassing to wear this thing. It's not better to change to handsome and cool sunglasses than this colorful plastic frame..." Xiaoxue couldn't help complaining while wearing those silly shame glasses. But the latter has been activated, and the blue halo begins to diffuse from the place where the device touches the skin, adapting to Xiaoxue's mental frequency, "Hey, wait, it's interesting. There is also a play of this spring in the left lens." Hey Xinfan, Aunt Pao, you are amazing, did you just watch the original sample?"
I silently glanced at the child's mother, who twisted the awl on her head and made a gesture of hard work: "Okay, it has been synchronized with Xiaoxue's mental frequency band, and now the death garden is sending the next batch of data packets, In the middle, we will keep changing the offset. Xiaoxue, you put your focus on the Fifth Fleet, and then the system will automatically guide the establishment of a connection—just like the process of scanning another world with the old coffin-like equipment back then. "
Xiaoxue made an OK gesture, and started humming and watching cartoons. I don't know if she heard it clearly, but judging by Bubbles, the system is working normally. A circle of Toberu scientists and senior officials of the Fourth Fleet kept a blank attitude and watched everything in front of them from the beginning to the end. I guess for them, the working method of the First Family of the Empire is a bit unique. But no one came forward to talk to them, and more people chose to roll their eyes. The world has nothing to do with me—except for Tobelu scientists, whose eyeball structure cannot roll their eyes.
The two most unreliable guys finally started to work seriously, and everyone's attention was able to focus on the information fed back by the power amplifier system again. Tavel sent us the things displayed on the side of the death garden. On the holographic screen, except for a bunch of data that cannot see the logic, it is a system prompt: "Try to send a signal... The signal is lost, track the next signal source... Trying to send a signal... signal lost, track to next source..."
Then about one minute and twenty-five seconds later, that is, after a full-power broadcast period in the Garden of the Dead, something different finally appeared on the holographic screen: "Sending signal... The arrival echo is detected, and the signal source information is determined Characterization... The tracking system starts tracking, sends a signal... Detects the arrival echo, detects the identifiable information, searches the font... Error, information does not match. Try to connect again, the connection is successful, ready for the second attempt... "
After the communication was established, there were several failed matches. The compatibility of the decoding rules of the two parties was lower than the system threshold. This may be because the Fifth Fleet and the Fourth Fleet have been out of contact for a long time. Soon, the Fifth Fleet discovered that the strange signal was using the coding method used by the exiles, and the communication began to become stable.
In the display window representing the decoding ratio. The identifiable code finally broke through the threshold, and in the next thousandth of a second, the system sent a "decode-address packet" according to the preset process, and sent back to the At the receiving end of the death garden, Tavel finally announced happily: a stable channel has been established.
"The encrypted packet containing the navigation information has been sent, and the confirmation message has been received from the other party." Tavel reported, "The system is gradually increasing the bandwidth, and now we are starting to exchange the communication protocol between the two parties...It is expected to take 30 seconds."
The Tobel scientists in the hall were holding their breath. Looking nervously at the communication terminal, which was still full of clutter, there was nothing they could do to help. The communication matrix on the surface of Kerudak had been successfully activated. The channel is also running stably, but the calculation and conversion tasks of all data are completely on the side of the imperial equipment, and they can only watch the progress of the matter as nervously as other senior officials. Thirty seconds is quite short, but for the officials of the Fourth Fleet present, perhaps this is the longest thirty seconds they have experienced in their lives. They thought that the exiles who survived in the past were only themselves, but now they are about to fight with others. It's hard for outsiders to empathize with the excitement of a group of survivors reconnecting. Finally, a system prompt sounded "Direct connection has been established, stable communication" suddenly came from around. And the moment a relatively stable picture appeared on the communication terminal, there was a sound of deep breathing in the hall.
A video with severe interference patterns jumped out on the holographic screen in the center of the room, but the content was still distinguishable. The background seemed to be the interior of the battleship—you could see the huge equipment and busy staff shining in the distance, as well as the display Huge image of the exterior of the spacecraft. In the middle of the video, there is a tall "creature" whose whole body is translucent like a spirit body, without any fixed shape or facial features. I can't see where the vocal organs of this spirit creature are. But we heard a majestic and deep male voice: "This is the giant ship Haydn III, commander-in-chief Ke Kekina, repeat, this is the giant ship Haydn III, commander-in-chief Ke Kekina, we have received your signal, Please answer! Can anyone hear me?"
"Coco Kina..." The "Parliament", which had always maintained a high level of composure, was horrified at this moment, and flashed in front of the communication terminal in an instant, "Coco Kina, this is the Union Council... My God... you are still alive!"
"Yunade..." The spirit creature named Cocokina obviously froze for a moment, and then suddenly three groups of blue and white lights flashed in a row at what seemed to be his face—this should be his eyes , "Alan's ancestors... You are the Fourth Fleet!! You are still alive! The Fourth Fleet is still alive!"
Ke Kekina's voice echoed in the hall, and of course it also echoed in the bridge where he was. Through the video screen, one could see those soldiers who were busy in the distance turning their heads and staring blankly at each other. Some people seem to have finally figured out what the "Fourth Fleet" means (these people are likely to be members of the new generation, and they may have only heard of the Fourth Fleet in historical materials), and they suddenly showed shock, but Cocokina quickly ordered the staff to calm down: "Keep calm, continue to jump towards the intended target, pay attention to all information fluctuations within a quadrant, and immediately initiate emergency evasion once new information with an offset of more than 15% appears .”
"Kokokina, how's the situation over there?"
"Very bad, very bad, we are under attack, and now we are barely out of the enemy's pursuit, but we don't know when they will catch up again. The new home that has just been built for two hundred years is over... Ancestors, this communicator must be Something is wrong, I can't see your screen, what is the situation of the 4th Fleet now? How many starships do you have left? Are you free from those monsters... Wait... Can you reach us, and the signal strength Higher than a thousand years ago... Could it be that the Fourth Fleet is also moving to this position?"
"No, the Fourth Fleet... the situation should be much better than yours," the "Council" looked at me and Sandora awkwardly when the other party mentioned the word "monster", and then responded to Cocokina , "We have found a safe new home not long ago, and the fallen apostles cannot attack here. Eighty percent of the starships of the Fourth Fleet have been preserved, and they have not been attacked again for hundreds of years after losing contact. "
Cocokina's three eyes lit up at the same time, which may be an expression of joy: "Congratulations, it seems that some of the survivors from that year can finally continue to live."
"The most important thing now is the situation on your side," the "Council" immediately interrupted Cocokina's words, "We have sent a navigation signal, which indicates a safe area, and now the engine is fully open, evacuate here, we There is a fleet strong enough to repel any enemy."
Kokokina lowered his head, as if he was checking something: "Yes, we have received these data packets, and the host has parsed them... But you don't know how far we are from the target marked by this navigation signal ... I'm afraid we were overtaken before we evacuated to the target... Ah, the communicator has recovered, and now I can see your image here. It's still clear. Wait!"
Ke Kekina stared at the screen closely all of a sudden, and asked in a low voice: "Why is there a person wearing the imperial mark on the communication screen?" RQ