After the meeting, nearly 300 interstellar ships of various types in the Expedition Fleet started a grand carnival. All ships turned on all navigation lights to celebrate this special moment of epoch-making significance.
The bright lights stretch for nearly a thousand kilometers, like festive fireworks, illuminating the entire dark and silent space. They are the fire of hope and the dawn of the future.
Wine and delicacies filled the ships one after another, and laughter and laughter echoed inside and outside the ships. The entire voyage fleet became a sea of joy...
This is the first collective carnival since the voyage fleet set sail. It heralds the arrival of a new era. In the deep space of the distant universe, mankind has discovered a livable exoplanet for the first time, a familiar blue color. The familiar green continent and vast ocean provide essential environmental support for human survival and reproduction.
It will be the future and dream of the entire human race, and it is also one of the ultimate goals of this expeditionary fleet of 5.98 light-years.
Today, it finally ushered in the dawn.
Although this planet still has many practical problems, it cannot stop the progress of human civilization and deserves to be remembered.
An hour later, a scout fleet consisting of a planetary civilization assessment ship, a planetary life detection ship, a planetary environment analysis aircraft and 6 armed escort spacecraft flew towards the synchronous orbit of Barnard b...
The commander-in-chief of the scout fleet is Liu Hanyang, who will command the entire fleet, and the deputy commander-in-chief is Zhou Yun. She will command 6 armed escort spacecraft to provide armed escort for the entire fleet.
The commander of the special landing force and biochemical force is Xiao Hang. He will lead this ground force to land on Barnard B along with Liu Hanyang and Zhou Yun. There are also 50 heavily equipped flying combat mechs, which have also been integrated into the ground. In the army.
Before the scout fleet set sail, according to the relevant data collected by the planetary civilization assessment ship, based on the development process of human society, Barnard B's civilization was still at the end of the slave society, which would not cause any harm to the scout fleet. threaten.
For the race of Barnard B, the scout fleet is a god-level armed force. It only needs to use an armed escort spacecraft to drive them back to the Stone Age without any blood.
But the danger and unpredictability of the universe have taught mankind a lesson before, and the price has been extremely heavy.
As far away as the evil starry white flower encountered by the search fleet led by Li Sujia, as close as the fleeing formation infected by the zombie virus encountered by the voyage fleet.
Everything has sounded the alarm to the expedition fleet. In the crisis-ridden deep space, prudence and necessary force protection are very necessary, and it is also a strategy that must be implemented.
Bloody experience warns the crew that things that seem to have no threat are often accompanied by huge risks, even fatal. Carelessness and underestimation of the enemy mean disarming.
"In 15 seconds, the scout fleet will enter the synchronous orbit of Barnard b." The commander of the fleet's flagship planetary civilization assessment ship "Morning" reported.
"Order the fleet to hover in synchronous orbit. No ship is allowed to enter Barnard B's atmosphere without my order." Liu Hanyang ordered.
Soon, nine ships of various types in the scout fleet arrived at the predetermined orbit. They hovered quietly in the synchronous orbit of Barnard b, like its synchronous satellites, moving slowly with it. ..
At the same time, the planetary civilization assessment ship "Morning", the planetary life exploration ship "Dawn" and the planetary environment analysis aircraft "Jiang" began various detection tasks. They will detect the planet wrapped in a dense atmosphere at close range. Rocky giant planet.
"The detection of the Marching No. 1 has been completed." the command officer reported.
Liu Hanyang's eyes were fixed on the large screen at the front of the command module. The data sent by the planetary environment analysis aircraft "Jiang" jumped on the screen like rising flames.
The data shows that Barnard B and Barnard C (gas giants)
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Star) has a strong gravitational effect, and the two form a small system similar to the Earth-Moon system. In addition to rotating around Barnard's Star, the former also rotates around Barnard c.
It takes 260 Earth days to orbit its parent star Barnard's star, 23.7 hours to orbit Barnard c, and 18.1 hours to complete one autobiography.
"Then Barnard B will have two years, one with 260 days and one day? The replacement of day and night is 18.1 hours?" Liu Hanyang asked.
"Yes, you can experience two years in Barnard B. As it orbits its parent star, Barnard's Star, Barnard C will always appear in its sky. During the day, Barnard C will be its Another sun, but the heat it brings is minimal, and at night, it will be its moon, which is about 15 times as bright as the full moon," the commander said.
In a sense, Barnard's Star b\c is the "moon" of each other, because as they rotate around their parent star Barnard's Star, they also rotate around each other.
It is precisely because of the gravitational effect between the two that Barnard b has four seasons. However, except for the two poles, the four seasons in other areas are not particularly obvious. The temperature difference is only 7 degrees Celsius, and the annual average temperature is 20.3 degrees.
In addition, the geographical environment of Barnard b is very similar to that of the Earth. In addition to having a vast area of land and ocean, continental shelf-level glaciers are found at its two poles.
In addition, its geographical types are also rich and diverse. Forests, grasslands, deserts, and Gobi are distributed in different regions, but the forest area is the largest, accounting for more than 60% of the total surface area.
It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a forest planet.
"The planetary life exploration ship Dawn sent detection data."
Liu Hanyang's eyes followed the commander's voice and looked at another large screen. On the screen, various data about Barnard B's biological type and other information appeared.
The data shows that there is diversity of organisms on Barnard b, and they are all carbon-based life. Unlike the organisms on Earth, they all use carbon dioxide as their respiratory and metabolic method. There are a wide variety of organisms in the ocean, similar to fish on Earth. kind.
On land, the number of herbivores and carnivores is about seven times that of the earth, forming a closed loop of the food chain.
"How big is the largest creature?" Liu Hanyang asked.
"Currently, a herbivorous animal has been detected. Its body is about 19 meters long and 5.5 meters high. It is comparable to the Brontosaurus from the Cretaceous period of the earth." the commander replied.
"Any more? Like carnivores, how big are they?"
"There should be, and there will be a lot of them. If necessary, I will order Dawn to continue detection now."
"No need for now, everything will be clear when we log in."
After he finished speaking, he stared silently at the jumping numbers on the big screen... It is hard to imagine that there are planets with the same biodiversity as the Earth in an exoplanet galaxy 5.98 light-years away from the Earth.
It seems that the universe is full of miracles of life.
"What about intelligent life? What is their situation like?"
After he finished speaking, a pair of intelligent creatures about 3 meters tall appeared on the big screen, resembling a man and a woman on Earth. The man was slightly taller and stronger than the woman. His body shape was similar to that of humans, but his skin was thin. Squamous structure, relatively dense and very smooth.
In addition, the biggest difference from humans comes from the head, which is diamond-shaped, similar to snakes on the earth. The tongue is also forked, and the eyes are large and convex, in the shape of compound eyes.
"What can we call them?" Liu Hanyang asked.
"Uh...serpentine."
"Oh, the name is quite appropriate. What about its population status?"
"This species is widely distributed on Barnard b, with a population of more than 20 billion. It is the only intelligent creature on the planet."
"I want to know
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Details of the intelligent creature. "
"The flagship of the scout fleet - the planetary civilization assessment ship "Morning" will give you the answer, please wait."
About 5 seconds later, a row of dense data appeared on the big screen. The data showed that snake-like people were divided into four categories, but there was no difference in body shape and skin color between the four categories. The only difference was the hair on their foreheads. Different color imprints.
There are 4 colors of branding, namely blue, red, orange and white. Correspondingly, the snake-shaped people are also divided into 4 categories, namely blue, red, orange and white.
What surprised Liu Hanyang and others was that the marks of different colors on the snake-shaped man's forehead were shaped like a circular seal, with a huge hollow pattern like a "six-sided tower" in the middle of the seal.
"What does the pattern of this six-sided tower represent?" Liu Hanyang asked.
"It's a building on the planet. According to the images from the detection satellite, there are hundreds of thousands of six-sided towers with a height of about 800 to 1,000 meters on Barnard b," the commander responded.
Liu Hanyang's eyes returned to the circular seals of different colors on the snake-shaped man's forehead. There were clear marks on the skin around the seal. From this, it can be judged that the seals of different colors should have been branded after birth.
"Why do they have different colored seals on their foreheads?"
Liu Hanyang's words made everyone look at each other. They looked at each other with confused and incomprehensible expressions.
"It should be to distinguish occupation or status." said the planetary civilization assessment officer.
After a brief thought, everyone nodded.
In fact, this is indeed the case. The hollow seals of different colors on the foreheads of snake-shaped people are symbols of their identity and status. Different colors represent different types of snake-shaped people.
Among them, the blue type of snake-like people has the smallest number, but is in a dominant position, mainly composed of priests and other clergy. The red type is the ruling class, mainly composed of nobles, slave owners and soldiers, and is an important source of the planet's armed force.
The orange category is mainly engaged in coolies, mainly in the construction industry, and is second only to the white category in number. The white category has the lowest status and the largest number. It is mainly slaves and is mainly engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery production.
"But based on the data obtained from the detection, the relevant situation has changed." the commander said.
"Change?? What kind of change?" Liu Hanyang asked.
"Most of the orange and white serpentine types are engaged in large-scale construction activities under the compulsion of the blue and red serpentine types."
The commander said as he projected another satellite picture onto the big screen. This time the image taken by the detection satellite was clearer.
On the screen, hundreds of thousands of towering six-sided tower-shaped buildings appeared on Barnard B. They were densely distributed in different areas of the planet, occupying almost all continents.
These buildings are towering and magnificent, all made of thick wood. Their height is more than 800 meters, some even exceed one thousand meters, and they are still breaking through the limits.
"Are they totems?" Liu Hanyang thought to himself.
"Besides that, there is another situation."
The commander said, pointing to another vast area of the planet, which was a burned forest.
What surprised Liu Hanyang was that some orange snake-like people were setting fires everywhere in the forest, so that the sky above the entire planet was filled with thick smoke, and the soaring fire and light could be clearly seen as far away as the planet's synchronous orbit. Ribbons of fire burning everywhere.
Another group of white snake-like people planted a kind of fluorescent green saplings in the burned area. They were completely different from the trees on the planet, both in shape and height.
This strange phenomenon puzzled Liu Hanyang.
"Burning and planting at the same time, what are they doing?"
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