Chapter 587: A Distance of 1,000 Light Years

"I heard that this place is a thousand light-years away from the earth. If all the space rifts are closed now, we will never be able to go back, right?"

A scout from the Awakened Army looked at the dark night sky and sighed.

In fact, he wasn't even sure if the current sky was considered a night sky, and he could see stars all over the sky, shining in the sky.

Fang Yuan saw that the scout was quite young, not a few years older than himself, so he handed over a bottle of energy drink and asked, "Is this the first time you have sent such a long-distance mission?"

The star power level of this scout is level 9, which is not low among the awakened group.

Of course, compared with the members of the military scientific research class, it seems relatively low.

After all, the military scientific research class is selected from the best awakened people in the country, so they are naturally top-notch in all aspects.

"There have been several reconnaissance missions in the rift cave before, but they are not dangerous this time."

The scout took the energy drink and chatted with Fang Yuan.

His so-called danger, to some extent, is based on the level of awakened people in the same industry.

Among the members of the accompanying military research class are advanced awakeners of war level Lv.

One can imagine how dangerous this reconnaissance mission is.

"According to the reconnaissance plan, you will not be too dangerous, and you will return home safely." Fang Yuan comforted.

"I'm not afraid of danger. I just looked at the night sky and felt a little emotional. This place is a thousand light-years away from the earth. If there is no space rift, it is a place we will never be able to reach in our lifetime." The scout sighed.

Han Youwei shook her finger and corrected: "It's not the night sky now, it's daytime for Star Beast World."

"Daytime? No way."

Not only this scout, but the other people beside him were also very surprised.

Now the outside of the transport vehicle is so pitch black that anyone would think it was night.

Han Youwei pointed to a brighter star in the sky, and said, "According to the information I read, that star should be the 'sun' of the Star Beast World."

Everyone gathered in front of the glass,

Stare at the sky.

"That's...'the sun'? No way. It's about the size of a sesame seed."

The scout was very surprised. He was a soldier earlier, so he didn't know much about astronomy, but he was eager for knowledge.

"Yes, that star is the star of the star beast's mother galaxy. The distance between the star beast world and their stars is 50 astronomical units, which is 50 times the distance from the earth to the sun. So the size of the stars here is similar to Neptune in the solar system Seeing that the size of the sun is about the same, it is a relatively bright star." Han Youwei briefly introduced the stellar information of the Star Beast's mother galaxy.

Beef Ball put his face on the window glass, looked up at the sky, and suddenly said, "It's so cold!"

"Idiot, it's minus 150 degrees outside." Eve snapped mercilessly.

Beef Ball pointed to the star in the sky and said, "It looks about the same size as Polaris. Is it too small?"

Han Youwei began to popularize science again: "There is a misunderstanding. In fact, the Polaris is not one star, but three. In astronomy, it is called a triple star. A system composed of three stars is scientifically called Alpha Ursa Minor."

"Wow... so Polaris is a three-body body." A student in the military scientific research class exclaimed.

"Can you see Polaris in Star Beast World?" the scout asked curiously.

"It can be seen that the Star Beast World is 983 light-years away from the Earth, and the Polaris is 434 light-years away from the Earth. The Star Beast World, Polaris and the Earth are arranged in a triangle. The Star Beast World is about 600 light-years away from the Polaris, so you can indeed see it. The brightness will be slightly darker than that seen by the earth." Han Youwei continued to popularize science.

"Is the Star Beast World still in the Milky Way?" The scout asked a rather dumbfounded question.

This question is actually a bit stupid. It sounds like you don't even understand astronomy.

However, Han Youwei explained patiently: "Of course in the Milky Way, the diameter of the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years, and the distance between the Earth and the Star Beast World is only 983 light-years, one-hundredth of the scale of the Milky Way.

"That is to say, even if there is no space rift, humans and star beast civilizations will meet sooner or later.

"Because the distance is too short, when the civilization level reaches 2.0 or above, the civilization will explore other star systems.

"If there is no space rift that allows us to meet the star beast civilization in advance, we and the star beast civilization will probably find each other at civilization level 2.1, a local conflict will occur at 2.5, and a full-scale war within the system will break out at 2.8. Rule the galaxy and become a 3.0 galaxy civilization.

"However, we are born in the current era, and we probably cannot see the future galactic war. After all, it will take thousands or even tens of thousands of years of development. However, we can try to finish the galactic war ahead of schedule."

Eve reached out and hugged Han Youwei's arm, and said swayingly: "Youwei knows a lot."

"We have been running on the surface of the Star Beast World for several hours, why can't we see the Star Beast?" Someone turned the infrared night vision lens and looked around.

"It's minus 150 degrees outside. Although there are star beasts that can withstand such a low temperature, they are very few in number, so there are very few star beasts on the surface of the star beast world." Pull it out for everyone to see.

Although the chance of a star beast appearing on the surface of the star beast world is very small, the scouting team still found a relatively large star beast after five hours of marching.

In order not to affect the reconnaissance mission, the team chose to bypass the star beast and move on.

...

Fifteen hours later, the reconnaissance team came to the west of the Deep Wind Rift Valley, 300 kilometers away from the end.

The reconnaissance team stopped in a hidden meteorite canyon next to the Great Rift Valley, and then began to set up camp.

This time it was a reconnaissance mission, and there was no need to rush into the star beast's nest, but to observe the star beast's nest from a safe distance.

The first step of the reconnaissance plan is to observe with a refracting telescope three hundred kilometers away and take pictures of the star beast's nest.

Once you're done, decide on your next move.

After the reconnaissance team of the Planetary Defense Council stationed in the Meteorite Canyon, they began to install machines and prepare to observe the star beast nest.

The members of the military scientific research class put on their combat uniforms and opened the door of the transport vehicle. Suddenly, a cold breath rushed in, freezing the little remaining drink in the energy drink can on the table into ice.

"Fuck! I haven't put on my combat uniform yet." Niu Dazhi complained, and quickly wrapped himself up with the black crystal shield.

"The temperature is minus 153 degrees, and the main components of the air are hydrogen and helium. Be careful not to leak the oxygen in the oxygen supply system, or it will cause an explosion." Eve detected the composition of the atmosphere and reminded everyone.

the other side.

The team in charge of installing the refracting telescope has already started to work clangingly.