Mass effect relays are spread throughout known and unknown star fields, and have become the main way for civilization to explore the galaxy. [Full text reading] If you look down from the zenith direction of the Milky Way, you will find that after these primary and secondary repeaters are connected to each other, they will form a "hub"-shaped ring surrounding the entire Milky Way, covering almost all human beings. All the star fields that can be reached! This shows how prosperous the civilization that originally created and built the Mass Effect Repeater was.
Among these mass effect repeaters that appear in pairs, in addition to the distinction between "primary" and "secondary", there are also some special repeater types. They have become "different" either because of changes in the universe or because they have been modified for some special purpose.
For example, in the plot of Mass Effect Generation, a repeater named "Miao" plays an important role. It was originally supposed to be an ordinary secondary relay, but due to a supernova explosion, it was pushed into the nebula and lost its trace. "Miao" disappears, and the Elos galaxy, which is naturally connected to "Miao", "disappears" in the star map of the Milky Way, and no one can reach it anymore.
Later, the Protheans successfully located the "Miao" relay in the nebula. They found the Elos galaxy and built the Elos planet into a hidden paradise...
There are other special repeaters, as well as a repeater located in the Batarian civilization. That repeater leads directly to the dark universe where the reapers sleep... Wow!
The "Omega 4 Repeater" is also a member of the special repeaters.
The color of this repeater located in the meteorite belt of the Omega Galaxy is a special orange.
And it's nearby the lost paradise of criminals across the galaxy - Omega Space Station. Lu Yuan deliberately placed Ding Mumu, the only member of the Dawn Group who was outside the system, at the Omega Space Station. It was not without reason. According to Lu Yuan's plan - ever since Ding Mumu entered the world of Mass Effect, her target has been vaguely pointing to the Omega Space Station and this special Omega 4 relay.
As a member of the Rosen family and the sister of Miranda Rosen, Ding Mumu has a complete background based on Cerberus since she was born - the Rosen family is an important supporter of Cerberus, and Miranda is One of the important members of Cerberus - in this context, even if Ding Mumu is not a formal member of Cerberus, he will be considered a potential member.
In the future, Cerberus will capture the Omega Space Station in order to control the Omega 4 relay. But Lu Yuan had already made his plans twenty years ago... This guy had a comprehensive plan in his mind long before he entered the world. To a certain extent, Lu Yuan is indeed more terrifying than the Lord God.
After Ding Mumu escaped from the Rosen family, she first joined the "Heavenly Punishment" mercenary group like a game. But step by step, he walked to Omega Queen Elia, became her most trusted deputy, and secretly controlled less than half of the power of Omega Space Station.
The reason for all this effort is that the Omega 4 repeater is the most important repeater in the entire galaxy, bar none! Because of the star field it leads to. It is the ultimate dream of galactic civilization - the galactic center!
The center of the Milky Way is the intersection of the Milky Way's axis of rotation and the galactic plane.
Generally speaking, it is recognized that the center of the Milky Way should be a super black hole with a mass of 2.5 million times that of the sun. In addition to the black hole at the core, the galactic center also includes a star cluster sphere with a diameter of about 20,000 light-years located at the center of the barred spiral galaxy. This area is mainly composed of high-density, old red stars (with a life span of more than 10 billion years, in the red giant stage). The space between the stars is not an empty universe, but a rapidly rotating hydrogen disk.
Ionized hydrogen, high-speed ejection of matter, star collapse, gravitational distortion, planet collisions... countless phenomena that are rare in astronomy are happening every second in this star field. This is the most violent and chaotic place in the entire galaxy. It is also a forbidden area for civilization to survive! It can be said that the surface of the star is compared with the environment of the galactic center. It’s simply not worth mentioning!
Exploring and mining the galactic center often becomes a sign that a river system civilization has completely mastered a galaxy and entered a higher stage.
Of course, there is another hidden benefit of the galactic center, that is, no matter what detection method is used, a spacecraft cannot be found in the galactic center...
The "Omega 4 Relay" leads to the outer reaches of the galactic center, where Dawn disappeared.
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Time is like water, three years have passed in the blink of an eye...
In the fast-paced pan-galactic era, enough things can happen in three years. So much so that no matter the ordinary people, the Parliament or Cerberus, they have completely forgotten about the Dawn incident. Only when Mu Xing or Lu Yuan's name is mentioned occasionally. People only accidentally remember...oh, that spaceship seems to have really disappeared.
After the photo craze passed, because no new evidence emerged, people even thought it was just a news hype. Maybe the Mu Xing siblings have nothing to do with the space station at all. Maybe the space station itself was fake...after all, there was only one photo.
In the end, the photo itself was less lively than the lawsuit of the century that the photo sparked.
The leader of Cerberus, the "Illusive Man", may occasionally pay attention to the news about the Dawn and those people in his spare time. It's just that whether it's Lu Yuan or Mu Xing, the industries, planets, patents, works, etc. under their names are still creating huge profits. But all that money was deposited in the environmental protection fund's account. It only invests in large-scale planetary transformation projects. There has never been any record of personal consumption, and there is no trace of purchasing any shipbuilding materials.
The network monitoring center has not detected anyone with similar characteristics to Lu Yuan and Mu Xing appearing in the Milky Way. They seem to have just disappeared...
It's not like no one has thought about that huge sum of money, including Cerberus - as an underground organization, their thirst for funds is unlimited.
But even though Lu Yuan and Mu Xing never appeared again, they still had a group of powerful friends. Like General Hackett, Commander of the Fifth Fleet, Admiral Yang of the Seventh Fleet, Li Huamei of the Second Fleet, Elaine, the famous Asari environmental expert, Carl Danner, the Commander of the Quarians, etc., and there are even more " The Bitchis of "Jinghua" are staring at the side like vicious dogs... Anyone who wants to touch that money must be prepared to be bitten to death by these crazy women!
The "Mu Xing Act" two years ago proved this point very well... As long as the "Phantom Man" thinks of that incident, he can still feel the pain in his heart!
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The so-called "Mu Xing Bill" refers to a resolution submitted to the Star Federation Council by a member of a certain political party about a year after Mu Xing completely lost contact.
We all know that the Earth-only Party has undergone fundamental changes from the original party, and they are now one of the coats of Cerberus. Because Cerberus invested in Musing Labs in the early stages and maintained a close technology exchange relationship with Dawn in the mid-term, almost all of the dozen multinational groups and hundreds of medium-sized enterprises in the entire Cerberus family have gone The technical route set by Dawn.
Except for companies that serve military orders, almost all products for civilian and commercial use require payment of patent fees. Therefore, the expenditure on patents alone exceeds one billion stars a year! Cerberus had to find another way to do this.
The core content of the bill is that "for any technology closely related to the progress of civilization, in order to benefit mankind, the patent term should be appropriately shortened and the core technology content should be fully disclosed after the patent term." Because the so-called "technologies closely related to the progress of civilization" were either born a century or two ago and have long expired the patent period; or they are left by the Protheans and do not require patent fees at all - new technologies that can be patented , and it is so important that it is related to the progress of civilization. In fact, it is only the latest technologies developed by Mu Xing!
Therefore, from the beginning, this proposal directly targeted most of the patents held by Mu Xing, so it was called the "Mu Xing Act."
Although after the bill was proposed, the military quickly stepped forward and announced the "one-star authorization" agreement between Mu Xing and the military. But one is that there are too few stakeholders in the research results. Not many large companies will stand firmly with Muxing Laboratory, even the military. On the other hand, Musing did not protect its patents well enough and could easily become a target of attacks.
Moreover, Cerberus controls more media power, is more skilled in manipulating public opinion and public opinion, and has no lower limit.
They unscrupulously "estimated" figures such as Lu Yuan and Mu Xing's total wealth and annual income, and published them in the media to incite ordinary people's hatred of the rich; then big companies followed suit, describing how these patents blocked They carry out technological innovations, and how much cost they add to the products, etc. - it is as if if they do not pay patent fees, the selling price of the products can be discounted;
Then the "Civilization and Progress Technology Review Preparatory Committee" of the Star Alliance Council was quickly established to conduct an "extensive" assessment of all Star Alliance's patented technologies - and sure enough, except for Mu Xing's patents, most of them were included. , others have only a few innocuous patents included. What’s even more disgusting is that the owners of those patents immediately stood up and expressed their full support for the bill. For the sake of civilization and progress, they were willing to give up all the rights and interests generated by the patents.
In fact, the content of one of the patents is nothing more than "How to kill iron-eating bacteria on teeth", which is very boring...
Under the overwhelming publicity of the media and the coercion of "public opinion", this proposal, which clearly violated the Citadel Agreement, was successfully passed in the parliament. As for Mu Xing's minions, the "Jinghua" firm did nothing except issue a bland condemnation.
Is this really the case?
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ps: The time span will jump directly to the beginning of the third part, followed by the decisive battle to determine the ownership of the world. The length of the decisive battle has not yet been determined, but the major events that occurred in the middle will be briefly explained in several chapters and some discontinuous events. (To be continued.)
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