Deep Space Fleet

The end of one era often means the beginning of another. The only thing that remains unchanged is that the times will always belong to the young people who are full of vigor.

In Era 4933, Zhang Yuan opened his eyes again from the dream and started his ninth waking period.

"Wake up, it's time!"

White lights, a small room full of security, and the same girl. It is still a cold young year. In this age, with a familiar and reliable partner, the sense of security is still very sufficient.

Recalling the absence of Lin Xuanxuan's company in the previous year, Zhang Yuan couldn't help saying softly: "Come here... give me a hug."

"Ah?" Hearing this sentence suddenly, for some reason, Lin Xuanxuan felt sore in her heart, and her eyes were a little moist.

The first sentence of this idiot before has always been "what happened in the spaceship..."

"...Not here, there are others."

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Yuan really asked the same sentence: "Oh...so, what happened inside the spaceship?"

"I knew you would ask that!" Lin Xuanxuan rubbed her eyes and said with a smile, "Everything is normal, don't worry."

"There have been a few small accidents, but generally speaking, it is within the allowable range of the error tolerance rate. Guess, have we encountered aliens again in the past few hundred years?"

"Aliens, there shouldn't be any."

Probably because of shift scheduling, this girl always wakes up half a month earlier than him.

"Has senior brother Zhao been promoted to captain?" Zhang Yuan asked again.

"Yes, you are already the captain's younger brother, you have been promoted, congratulations."

Zhang Yuan seemed to have thought of something, and was in a bad mood. He ignored her joke and sighed to himself, "Lend me your phone...I want to check something."

"Don't play for too long." Lin Xuanxuan seemed to know why Zhang Yuan was not very happy, and handed him the phone.

The "Huawei 888" mobile phone brought from the earth had broken down a long time ago, and it was replaced by a simple black-and-white screen elderly phone. Of course, there was no need to play games and the like.

Most of the electronic products brought from the earth have been damaged for so many years. Even the various military chips in the spaceship can't hold on anymore, and have been replaced several times.

Zhang Yuan clicked on his personal mailbox, and found that it was full of mail, including a large number of government work reports, and various captain's logs, which described in detail which accidents occurred in which era.

Immediately afterwards, among these emails, Zhang Yuan found obituaries about Academician Ding and other leaders of the previous generation.

Before his death, Academician Ding did not reveal anything more.

And this series of obituaries made him feel a little melancholy. Perhaps, this kind of parting has been experienced more, and it is not so difficult to accept...

...

In the following time, after being discharged from the hospital, Zhang Yuan was obviously busier than before. He is already at level 19. As one of the upper echelons of the spaceship force, he needs to coordinate and arrange the current sober personnel to maintain the spaceship again and again.

After all, the Earth Age is already a 2,700-year-old spaceship. Two thousand seven hundred years, not a hundred years, the passage of time doubles the chances of making various mistakes. They can no longer be like before, bragging and farting at work, and it doesn't matter if they are lazy to read the news or play a game.

The closer you get to your destination, the less you should take it lightly. If something really happened because of his negligence, Zhang Yuan would never forgive himself for the rest of his life.

...

On this day, Zhang Yuan was leading several correspondents to conduct routine inspections at the observatory.

This is already a routine thing.

Various communication devices in the observatory can receive electromagnetic signals from all over the universe from time to time.

Most of these electromagnetic signals are garbled characters emitted by stars and neutron stars. But there is also a very small possibility that it is a signal sent by the civilization of the earth or an alien civilization.

Of course, because the probability is so low that it can be ignored, several people are also in a relaxed mood, just as a routine inspection.

"The next time I wake up, I will arrive at the new home planet!"

"Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. 3,000 years have passed like this... I really want to write this journey into a novel."

"How about crowdfunding to write a novel?"

Listening to the discussion of his companions, Zhang Yuan couldn't help chatting: "After so many years, I don't know how the earth's civilization has developed? Has it escaped the trough of mediocrity..."

Another person also answered: "Captain Zhang, it's very difficult. Once the trough occurs, it is impossible to break free. We are already 18 light years away from the solar system. Even if someone has a whim and wants to communicate with us, it may not be possible. Find our precise location. If only someone could transmit a signal like Professor Edin."

"Hey, I don't know how much it costs to send out high-power electromagnetic waves. At this distance, it is quite remarkable to be able to transmit a few bytes."

Observe the solar system from this position, and you will find that the sun has become a dim star point. Planets such as the Earth, Mercury, and Venus are no longer directly observable. These planets can only be observed indirectly through an astronomical phenomenon called a transit, or photochromatic method. 【1】

At a distance of 18 light years, even a huge sphere like the earth is already insignificant. If there is no precise location, it is impossible for the civilization of the earth to find the specific location of the spacecraft. It is impossible for the spacecraft to receive a series of electromagnetic waves indiscriminately.

"Huh!"

A colleague suddenly said: "This section of electromagnetic waves seems to have a little logical relationship, but there are too many errors, it may be an accident."

"You should record it first. Any news from the earth is good. Even if you can't analyze the results, there is no loss, isn't it..."

Zhang Yuan turned to look at another correspondent: "Did you find any hardware problems?"

"Not yet, it's just that the computing speed of this computer is getting slower and slower."

"If it can be repaired, try to repair it. If you can't repair it, you can only replace the parts... How many parts do we have..."

Before the words finished, Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment.

He raised his head, narrowed his eyes, and remained in a daze for a long time.

The pupils shrank slightly, as if he couldn't believe it!

From his point of view, a large area of ​​light shines from the glass cover above his head... In the dim cosmic starry sky, a huge sun unexpectedly appeared!

Could it be—something exploded? !

The other two correspondents also stared blankly at the large glass cover at the observatory, and did not react for a while.

The light continued, getting stronger and stronger, illuminating the originally dim observatory like daytime, and even giving people a feeling of sunbathing in summer.

Zhang Yuan's heart began to beat wildly, and cold sweat broke out from his back involuntarily.

Snapped!

One electronic screen suddenly went out, and several other screens also began to shake crazily.

Zhang Yuan pressed several buttons in front of the computer in succession, and only then did he analyze the source of the strong light.

a...

Supernova!

More than 7,000 light-years away, the already unstable Seamount 2, that is, the η star in Carinae, exploded!

At this moment, the brightness of this supernova surpassed the sum of hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way, becoming the brightest in the universe!