Chapter 691, Setting Sail for the Star Realm

In the Hanyuan River System of Nanyun Prefecture in the Chinese Star Boundary, in a void at the edge of the Hanyuan River System, a fleet of only a dozen spaceships arrived at this dark and dim place accompanied by ripples of space. of void.

The original name of the Chinese Star Realm was the Kalawi Realm. According to the past traditions of the empire, changing the name was a must. The name Kalawi Realm was not pleasant to the ears. The Empire was now the master of the entire Star Realm, so it was natural to choose a name that was consistent with the Empire. With the name, the Chinese Star Realm naturally replaced the Karawi Realm.

The empire divided the entire vast Chinese star realm into ten prefectures, namely Central Prefecture, Beihe Prefecture, Xiyu Prefecture, Nanyun Prefecture, Donghua Prefecture, Jinsha Prefecture, Linmu Prefecture, Surabaya Prefecture, and Tuqiu Prefecture. There are ten prefectures, and each prefecture has jurisdiction over an area of ​​more than 8,000 river systems.

Each prefecture is an administrative region. The imperial government establishes an administrative structure at the prefecture level, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the central government of the empire. Below the prefecture are the governors of river systems. Below the river system general headquarters, relevant departments are established according to the conditions of each river system. administrative level.

The three levels of the empire's central government, general office, and governor are the latest administrative levels of the empire. Down below, the mayor of a planet or a city is the lowest level. The imperial government has always been streamlined and streamlined, and has established government agencies. At the same time, we should try to streamline and clarify responsibilities as much as possible to avoid the situation of having only one person to eat, redundant officials, and nine shepherds among ten sheep.

The Imperial Galaxy, the Sculptor Galaxy, and other places where the empire originated are the Central Palace, which is considered the core of the empire. The other nine palaces are divided according to the specific conditions of the Chinese star realm.

Nanyun Mansion is a mansion on the southernmost edge of the Chinese Star Boundary. As for how to distinguish the southeast from the northwest, this is more complicated, because there is no distinction between southeast, northwest, up, down, left, and right in the void universe. To distinguish the direction, you need a reference object. .

The Hanyuan River System is a river system at the edge of Nanyun Prefecture. Flying in the south direction, it is a dark world. This is really a dark world. Compared with the dark abyss between river systems, The dark abyss here is even darker, colder, and quieter. There is no light except the light coming from the direction of the own river system. Everything is very dark.

Compared with this dark world, the Hanyuan River System seems like an island of light in the darkness, with bright stars and dazzling stars. However, in fact, the Hanyuan River System is a barren river system, even up to now. No people from the empire have immigrated here. Although Nanyun Mansion has issued many policies to encourage immigration, there is still no one here.

Each of these more than ten spacecrafts were brightly lit, temporarily dispersing the darkness in a small area around them. The spacecrafts were branded with the logo of the Imperial Institute of Astronomical Sciences, and various scientific detection instruments were already in operation.

Spectrometers, gravitational wave meters, space technology detectors... Various advanced instruments are aimed at the dark world, trying to find information invisible to the naked eye.

"It's really dark, I can't see my fingers!"

Tang Boyuan looked at the pitch-black world outside, like a pitch-black night where he couldn't see his fingers. Such areas are rarely seen in the universe. You must know that in the universe, there are usually bright stars, even river systems and rivers. A lot of starlight can be seen in the dark abyss between systems, but not here at all.

"Of course it's pitch black. The outside is outside our Chinese star realm. The light from the void hundreds of millions of light years away has long been dimmed."

Dong Zhifei was staring at the computer monitor at this time. The spectrum analyzer was collecting starlight for analysis.

The dark world does not mean that there is really nothing. In fact, there is still light, but the light is very, very weak and cannot be distinguished with the naked eye. However, it can be distinguished with advanced spectrometers, which are on the spacecraft. They carry the most advanced spectrometers in the empire, which are enough to capture the faintest light. Then, by analyzing the red-shifted spectral lines of these lights, the source and distance of the light can be inferred.

Generally speaking, there are many methods for measuring long distances in the universe. Astronomers generally use the trigonometric parallax method, the spectroscopic parallax method and the Cepheid variable star-period light relationship method to measure distances. There are also Type I methods. Supernova parallax ranging, spectral redshift ranging, gravitational telescope and other methods, space scientists can also use the space wave method to measure distance and precise positioning.

The use of parallax for distance measurement is generally more suitable for targets that are relatively close. There is no problem in measuring targets that are thousands or tens of thousands of light years away. However, if you want to measure targets that are often hundreds of millions of light years away, the parallax The accuracy will be greatly reduced.

Generally, at this time, a combination of methods such as Cepheid variable star periphotometry, spectral redshift ranging, gravitational lens penetration, space fluctuations, etc. will be used to measure distance and position.

"Haha, it seems we are lucky. We finally made a new discovery here in Nanyun Mansion. Judging from this spectral analysis, this light comes from the void 150 million light-years away. It is the closest we have found. ”

Dong Zhifei looked at the computer monitor. Many of the research tasks of the Empire's scientists could already be automated. They received the spectrum and automatically analyzed it to calculate the distance and location of the light source. This could greatly save the precious time of the Empire's scientists.

"150 million light years?"

Tang Boyuan immediately went over to look at the two people who were the heads of the Imperial Space Astronomy Research Institute. In fact, they didn't have to come out in person, but with the existence of quantum communication, they could work anywhere. They were the kind of people who liked to run around, so they led an expedition team to fly around.

"The space fluctuations also show the same, it seems to be correct."

Tang Boyuan carefully compared the data of several scientific instruments. The principle of the space fluctuation instrument is very simple. Massive celestial bodies will cause space distortion and folding, causing space ripples. We all know that all celestial bodies in the universe are actually moving along their own trajectories, including massive black holes.

These massive celestial bodies move in the universe, and the space fluctuations caused by them will spread very, very far. By analyzing these space fluctuations, we can accurately calculate the distance, movement trajectory, etc.

This space wave rangefinder is the most accurate distance measurement method in the empire at present. Its error is very small. Of course, its applicable target must be a large mass celestial body, such as a black hole with huge mass, a galaxy, etc. If the target mass is too small, it is not as accurate as other scientific instruments, because the space wave caused by a small mass celestial body is very, very small, or even completely unable to cause space wave.

"Start to aim in this direction and conduct a full range of analysis. It seems that our empire has found its first target."

Tang Boyuan was in high spirits and issued orders to his team. The empire was ambitious and was not willing to be limited to the Chinese star realm. The original goal was to take over a star continent first.

"It's better to see if we can find the space-time ocean current channel. According to our inference, this space-time ocean current channel should be within 1 million light years from the star realm."

Dong Zhifei was also excited. The Imperial Space Astronomy Research Institute has been searching the entire Chinese star realm for a long time. It has been searching in all directions. The light closest to the Chinese star realm in other directions comes from 300 million light years away. At such a long distance, the Empire's space-time gate cannot reach it at once, and can only be transmitted to half of the position.

Now that the star realm of 150 million light years has been found, the Empire's space-time gate can almost directly transmit the fleet there. In this way, the Empire can begin to invade this star realm.

Of course, it is better to find the space-time ocean current channel. Building a huge space-time gate is too expensive and takes hundreds of thousands of years. Now the Empire is in a vigorous immigration, and the finances are still relatively tight. If it can be saved, it is naturally better to save it.

Tang Boyuan's team began to get busy. On the large spaceships, various instruments were fully turned on, constantly drawing a star map of the distant starry sky. At the same time, from these large spaceships, small unmanned spaceships continued to fly towards the void in all directions. As for those small detectors, they were released without cost.

The news soon spread back to the empire's base camp. The empire's top leaders were also very excited. Finally, they found a target that could be attacked. Li Fu even got excited and named this newly discovered continent "Qihang Star Realm", which meant the beginning of the empire's conquest of the universe and the interstellar sea.

Soon, the entire Hanyuan River System began to become lively. The news spread throughout the empire. The people of the empire soon realized the value of the Hanyuan River System. It is very likely that this place will become the bridgehead for the empire to invade the Qihang Star Realm in the future. After the empire takes over the Qihang Star Realm in the future, this will be a bridge connecting the two star realms and a hub and center of transportation.

It would be best if we could find a space-time ocean current channel here. In that case, the status of the Hanyuan River system would be even more unshakable. If there is no space-time ocean current channel, the empire will build a space-time gate here. The role of the space-time gate is naturally beyond doubt.

Since ancient times, any place on a major transportation route will become very wealthy. The ancient Sui-Hangzhou Grand Canal in China made both sides of the river the richest areas in China. Singapore, which is located on a major transportation route, is also rich just by doing some transit trade. Areas along the river, along the river, along the coast, along the road, etc. all mean wealth.

The Hanyuan River system, which was previously ignored, suddenly became a hot commodity. In a short period of time, hundreds of millions of imperial people applied to immigrate to the Hanyuan River system, all wanting to seize the opportunity here.

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