Chapter 516 Gemini Ark

A year has passed, and it has been five years since the establishment of the Galactic Alliance.

In the past five years, the Empire's exploration fleet has found more than 1,300 civilizations, and the star systems that have been explored account for 3.45% of the area of ​​the Milky Way.

Among these more than 1,300 civilizations, 820 civilizations chose to join the big family of the Galactic Alliance, and the remaining civilizations disappeared in the long history of the Milky Way due to various "natural disasters".

Because there are too many star systems in the Milky Way and the number of the Empire's fleet is limited, the current map of the Galactic Alliance in the Milky Way presents a three-dimensional spider web shape.

Countless "spider webs" extend outward to connect the civilizations discovered by the exploration ship, and each civilization extends thousands of spider webs outward, which means that this civilization has joined the Galactic Alliance and assumed the responsibility of exploring the Milky Way.

Even so, in five years, only 3.45% of the Milky Way has been explored, and there are still countless unknowns in the Milky Way waiting for adventurers to uncover.

However, the prototype of the Galactic Alliance has been formed. At present, the Galactic Alliance is already a behemoth that no one in the Milky Way can shake.

In a starry sky thousands of light years away from the mesh star field of the Galactic Alliance, a mushroom-shaped spaceship suddenly left the hyperspace.

"This is the Ark Gemini, calling the Imperial Headquarters, calling the Imperial Headquarters!" The spacecraft sent out dozens of communications, but these communications were like a stone sinking into the sea and no one responded.

"We still can't contact the Imperial Headquarters. We have been jumping in this starry sky for decades, and we still haven't reached the star system."

"It seems that we have been making hyperspace jumps in the same place, and we can't get out of this ghost place at all." In the bridge of the Ark, Captain Zhang Jian was talking to himself angrily.

The lights in the bridge were extremely dim. This was because the Ark needed a lot of energy for decades of uninterrupted jumps, and the energy carried by the Ark was limited. In the absence of resource replenishment in the star system, it could only shut down unnecessary energy consumption to ensure the most basic needs of the Ark, so that it could operate for a longer time.

But even so, decades of uninterrupted jumps have made the reactor of the Ark close to exhaustion.

In order to save resources to the maximum extent, Zhang Jian shut down all life-support facilities and lights on the Ark except the bridge. All the crew members were driven into the hibernation capsule by him, leaving him alone on duty in the bridge.

In these thirty years of loneliness, the only one he could communicate with was the shipboard artificial intelligence, and his spirit was on the verge of collapse.

"Captain, the energy of our Ark can only sustain three hyperspace jumps. If we cannot reach the star system after these three jumps, our Ark will drift indefinitely in the universe, and all the people in the hibernation capsule will die in their sleep." The shipboard intelligence appeared next to the captain and warned.

"I hate myself! Why did I take the Ark on this road of no return!" Captain Zhang Jian said, covering his eyes with his hands, and two tears of unwillingness, regret, and guilt flowed out from his hands.

All this originated from an unknown signal they received thirty years ago.

After receiving this unknown signal from deep space, Zhang Jian ordered the Ark to change its flight direction and fly along this signal.

But they never expected that following this signal, the Ark would end up in such a strange place. They were trapped in this empty airspace and could not fly out of this area no matter how they flew.

After trying for thirty years, Zhang Jian still did not give up. He knew that once he gave up, the colonists on the Ark would die because of him.

Six days passed quickly. After the third jump out of hyperspace, the scanning device on the Ark still did not find any trace of the existence of any star system.

The Gemini Ark no longer had energy for the next jump, and the remaining energy was only enough for the hibernation chamber on the Ark to use for one year.

Just when Zhang Jian wanted to give up, suddenly several flashes appeared in the starry sky in front of the Ark.

"Speed ​​up, let's go and have a look!" As if a dying person suddenly found a life-saving straw, Zhang Jian anxiously ordered the shipboard intelligence.

The Ark's bulky body began to slowly accelerate and flew towards the place where the flash just appeared.

After dozens of days of flying, the Ark seemed to have suddenly passed through some barrier. The surrounding scenery suddenly changed. The boundless void disappeared, replaced by the wreckage of floating spaceships.

Among these wreckages, there were countless small boats busy. These small boats cut the useful metals from the wreckage and put them in the cargo hold behind them and rushed away.

"What is this?" Zhang Jian suddenly understood that this star field required the spacecraft to fly normally to pass through, rather than entering the hyperspace to jump through.

There must be some kind of protective barrier to prevent superluminal movement, and he led the Ark to jump in the same place for thirty years!

Looking at the wreckage all over the ground, it seems that there are many people who have the same idea as him, and these spaceships should have consumed all their energy and turned into a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron.

However, the situation of the Gemini Ark was not much better. The long-term high-speed sub-light speed flight has caused the energy of the Ark to reach the bottom. If Zhang Jian starts the Ark to fly at sub-light speed again, it may cause the Ark to completely lose energy.

Just as he was struggling to figure out what to do, a huge fleet suddenly emerged from behind the wreckage.

Zhang Jian opened his mouth in shock when he saw this fleet. The reason why he was shocked was not because the scale or volume of this fleet was beyond imagination, but because the appearance of these spaceships was really

All the spaceships in this fleet have a roughly similar appearance: the appearance of masted sailing ships on Earth in the late 18th century!

The three huge sails of these masted sailing ships are still preserved, but the canvas on them has been replaced by a black panel of unknown material instead of ordinary canvas.

The main bodies of these ships are also all made of alloy, but some places have added some wood-like decorations.

The original gun muzzles on both sides of the hull are still gun muzzles, and three rows of fifty ancient-looking cannons are just extended out of the hull.

And at the tail of the warship, the original position of the sailboat rudder is composed of dozens of propellers of different sizes, which seem to be the main power responsible for the advancement of these warships.

Just like that, in Zhang Jian's shocked eyes, twenty strange and retro-looking spaceships flew around the Ark.

"Guests from an unknown civilization, please let down your guard. We have no ill intentions and we come here in a friendly manner." Zhang Jian suddenly received a communication message from these spacecraft, and a middle-aged man with a top hat and bronze skin appeared on the holographic screen.