Chapter 352 Pisces Ark

"What are we doing? Have we sailed out of the asteroid sea?" Liu Rushun, who was lying on the command seat, was shaken awake by the crew, and the yellow light that sprinkled into the bridge caught his eyes.

"Yes, Captain, we have escaped from that hellhole!" Many crew members in the bridge were excited.

Since they woke up and served as crew members and were responsible for the maintenance of the spacecraft, it didn't take long for the Ark to sail into the asteroid sea.

Because the emergency plan for special environments was activated, these crew members were deprived of the right to continue hibernation.

They could only stay awake and wait until the Ark was out of danger. Who would have thought that this awakening would take seventeen years.

During these seventeen years, some crew members have given birth to children. These crew members originally thought that they would die of old age on the Ark, or decay with the Ark in the stars.

Unexpectedly, just when they had lost their fighting spirit, the Ark actually sailed out of the asteroid sea!

"Quick, scan this starry sky, I want to know where we are!" Liu Rushun stood up from the command seat and shouted anxiously.

Several telescope-style scanning radars rose from the upper deck of the Ark, rotating and scanning the surrounding starry sky piece by piece.

Tens of minutes later, the crew member responsible for drawing the star map shook his head in frustration.

"Captain, the star system we are in now is not in any star region we know."

"Not only has the Empire's astronomical telescope not recorded this star region, even the deep space exploration ship has not discovered this star region." The crew sighed.

"Is this another galaxy? Impossible, we haven't traveled through a wormhole." Liu Rushun was a little puzzled.

"Captain, we are currently in a special celestial system."

"According to the information sent back by various scanning devices on the Ark, this star field is wrapped in a thick sea of ​​asteroids in the center, forming a peculiar star field isolated from the outside world."

"Because it is far away from the middle line of the main arm of the Milky Way, and it does not emit any light, this star field has not been noticed by our empire's scanning equipment at all."

"When the deep space exploration ship that entered it lost the signal, we thought it was just a short loss of contact, but we did not expect that the area of ​​this meteorite sea is so vast."

"This star field contains more than 663 star systems. The starlight you see is emitted by these extremely close star systems."

"The distance between each star system here is only 0.5 light years, that is, the distance between two adjacent star systems is only about one-quarter the width of the solar system." (The diameter of the solar system is calculated based on the two-light-year diameter of the Oort Cloud surrounding the solar system) The artificial intelligence on the Ark appeared in front of Liu Rushun and slowly told her what she had learned so far.

"So close, how can this star system not be attracted by each other's gravity?" Liu Rushun asked puzzled.

"The gravity of the surrounding asteroid sea and the gravity between these star systems form a clever balance, which makes these star systems stay quietly in their respective positions."

"But this balance is very fragile. The disappearance of any planet will cause the balance system to collapse, and the same is true for ships with too much mass coming in."

"Of course, our ark is not that big." After the artificial intelligence finished speaking, it spread out a hologram in front of everyone in the bridge. In the hologram, each star system was scattered in a huge circular shell like chess pieces.

Obviously, the circular shell is the asteroid sea they passed through when they came in!

"I detected a large number of electromagnetic signals of different frequencies between these star systems, which indicates that there are a large number of civilizations between these star systems."

"According to my speculation, because of the special terrain environment here, these civilizations may not have developed the technology of jump. After all, it only takes a quarter of the distance of a star system to reach the next star system." The artificial intelligence waved his hand on the map, and electromagnetic signals of various colors immediately covered the entire star field.

"Send a few drones to infiltrate. I want to know the details here." Liu Rushun waved to several crew members.

"Yes, sir."

A few minutes later, five deep space exploration drones flew out of the warehouse of the Ark and jumped into the hyperspace towards the nearest five planets.

In just a few dozen minutes, the five drones jumped out of the hyperspace and arrived at the star system they were responsible for.

The information sent between the star systems was intercepted by the drones and uploaded to the Ark.

Soon, the information was translated and sorted out by the supercomputer of the Ark and handed over to the artificial intelligence.

"There are twenty civilizations in this star field, and the relationship between these civilizations is complicated." The shipboard artificial intelligence said to Liu Rushun.

"Oh? What does it mean?" Liu Rushun was puzzled.

"It means that you have two friends, but the two friends are enemies of each other, and your friend's friend may also be your enemy." The artificial intelligence spread his hands and said.

"These civilizations also maintain a weak balance like these stars. No country declares war on other countries, but small battles on their borders are constantly happening." Seeing that Liu Rushun did not speak, the artificial intelligence continued.

"Calculate our chances of success if we intervene?" Liu Rushun said solemnly.

"Calculating"

"Calculation completed, our probability of success is 0."

"The various civilizations in this magical celestial system are very familiar with each other, but once we, as outsiders, intervene, there is a 98% probability that they will attack us in unison."

"Not only that, although their warships do not have the ability to jump through hyperspace, according to the data collected by our drones, their warships are no less powerful than ours."

"Although we have obtained the design drawings and technical information of new warships sent by the capital of the empire, we do not have the conditions to transform the existing warships."

"Now our warship technology is still in a relatively backward period, and we have no chance of winning against the many civilizations in this celestial system. No, it can be said that we have no chance of winning at all." The shipboard artificial intelligence poured cold water on Liu Rushun's head.

"We. We, we all vote!" Liu Rushun thought for a long time, but still did not dare to make his own decision, so he could only raise the banner of voting.

"1. We just choose the nearest civilization and rush over!"

"2. We turn around, leave here, and continue to move towards the set goal."

"3. We stay and deal with these civilizations through guerrilla tactics, such as becoming interstellar pirates?" When talking about the third option, Liu Rushun's eyes lit up with excitement.

You know, since he was a child, his favorite games and movies are about interstellar pirates!