In the navigation lighthouse of the Glory Saber, a man was sitting cross-legged.
He was slender, with long fingers and dark brown hair, as were his eyes, normal eyes.
And on the high forehead, the hanging hair is tied up with a silver belt, which is where the "Navigator's Eye" is located.
This sphere is translucent white, with a mottled color outside. It does not gain vision by receiving visible light, but is able to penetrate the subspace barrier and gaze at the original information in the illusory space.
At this moment, he is using his subspace vision to lead the "Glory Saber" away from the subspace anchor point on the edge of the planet Safinius.
Dragged by the subspace currents, the frigate moved forward with difficulty. The entire ship was wrapped in an oval force field, sinking and floating in the invisible waves, just like a floating object floating up and down in the ocean tide. Same.
On the navigation tower on the upper part of the battleship, the chief navigator used his innate instinct to search for the light of the lighthouse, the Star Torch.
He has been doing this since graduating and serving with the Sabers of Honor.
The Star Torch maintains the existence of the empire and is not a word of expansion, because only the Star Torch can allow the navigator's warp eye to accurately locate the distance and position between itself and the target.
Without the light of the Star Torch that illuminates the entire galaxy, navigators can only rely on the psychic beacons used as relays in the physical universe.
They are nothing more than insignificant candles compared to the Star Torches. Only one tenth of the systems in a sector has a Warp Beacon, and their effectiveness is extremely limited.
It's the equivalent of walking around in a dark forest with a match.
Heading ', it will take about nine days to reach the Nessen system——
The chief navigator looked at the hand-drawn star map placed next to the rotating seat to confirm this, and then checked the Geller force field protecting the "Glory Saber" to ensure that it was stable and effective.
The Warp does not look like its true state, and even navigators cannot see through the blocking fog.
But his Warp vision allows him to detect the invisible swirling tides of the Warp.
The Nessen galaxy was chosen as a subspace anchor, and by moving in a given direction, it could span hundreds of light distances at a constant speed.
Things in subspace are not fixed, and the bizarre subspace means that even if a navigation route is planned, the final result may be completely different.
Therefore, he must stay awake during these nine days, always monitoring the situation of the subspace route and preventing even the smallest calculation error.
After checking, he discovered an omission and sent a series of cryptographically encrypted commands to Cambridge.
A few minutes later, the Geller force field on the starboard side began to strengthen. Under the control of the crew, the psychic shield expanded to a certain range.
The "Glory Saber" gradually withdrew from its current anchor point? The psychic power began to continuously impact the Geller force field.
In the navigator's perception, the entire ship is like leaves floating on the waves? Although he has not seen the starship's progress with his own eyes, he can still imagine it in his mind? The escort ship is moving through time and space at an alarming speed advancing in the dimension.
Less than half a minute? The original psychic lighthouse was no longer visible, and only blurry light spots could be barely seen from the scanning array.
As time passed and the warp warped, the blurry points of light became silent.
Turning left and right, the navigator stretched his limbs. This should be the safest time in the entire journey. It was also the time when he could relax briefly.
He withdrew the spiritual power he had released, pulled off the silver belt made of velvet, and blocked the third "eye" with a metal plate engraved with a magic circle and imbued with psychic energy.
But just before withdrawing his vision of the subspace, he vaguely "saw" a ship, following closely behind the escort ship, breaking the tide of the subspace, forming another vortex.
This may be another Imperial ship, as Safinius's anchorage is a busy node with transport ships passing by from time to time.
After making a note in the log, the navigator motioned to his half-brother to take over the task of navigation.
As a senior member of the navigator family on this ship, he has the responsibility to ensure the safety of the ship when it jumps or changes its route. Now that the task has been temporarily completed, he is happy to let his brothers and sisters take over the work temporarily and get training.
After all, just one hour of exposure to the subspace had already given him a splitting headache and mental exhaustion. If he didn't take the time to take a nap, he might not be able to last nine days.
In other areas of the navigation tower, lower-level family members are still learning. They are always talking about the true nature of subspace and the strange phenomena they have encountered during their travels as navigators. They all want to know those stories. .
Of course, until now, the main navigator of the Saber of Glory didn't like describing those stories.
Because as his service time increased, he encountered or heard more and more stories, and they became more and more terrifying.
He could even feel the dark abyss and evil tentacles tugging at the edge of his perception at any time.
There is only one thing those people must understand.
The Warp is anything but a benign place—
Just when he picked up a cup of hot tea and prepared to warm his stomach for a moment, a stinging pain in his forehead made him drop the cup in his hand.
The expensive white porcelain suddenly turned into pieces of garbage. The navigator shook his body and held on to the edge of the table.
"What……"
His world fell into darkness, with no pictures, no distance, no vision.
In just a moment, he was on the verge of collapse, and his consciousness seemed to be swallowed by the endless abyss.
Then, he saw a changing, snarling, indescribable, amorphous shadow, like a sneaky wolf, tightly attached to his back.
The wet teeth, the gleaming claws, the barbed tongue, everything is so real.
He could even feel the hot breath on the back of his neck.
It's so close -
"Steady, don't let it disturb your mind."
Suddenly, a soft voice sounded in his ear.
"ah!"
With a shout, the chief navigator woke up, and everyone around him looked at him in surprise.
"Sir, how come you..."
The chief navigator shook his head and indicated that he was fine, but his whole body was soaked in his own sweat, and his robe was soaked.
"go……"
He said to his attendant in a weak voice:
"...Go and inform the bridge that I have important news to report to the captain. Immediately, speed."
"Yes, yes! I will immediately!"
"ah!"
At this time, a scream suddenly sounded from the navigation tower, and he immediately recognized that it was his brother's voice.
The chief navigator immediately ran up the stairs, and then he saw the other person rolling on the ground holding his forehead, and blood was flowing out from between his fingers.
"what happened!"
He went up to help his brother up, but found that his other two eyes were also bleeding, looking very scary.
"what happened?"
"Behind...behind...following..."
Before he finished speaking, the trainee navigator fainted.
