Online Games: Carrying Trillions Of Mechanical Legions With You

The rear of the Kestrel-class frigate.

Five huge ion engines ejected light blue tail flames.

The strong power pushed the huge metal hull to continue to accelerate.

soon.

Through the porthole of a battleship.

You can see it.

The land that was originally parked turned into a huge planet that occupied the entire field of vision.

Then the planet became smaller and smaller.

Eventually it became a magnificent celestial body as big as a basketball.

"It has successfully escaped from the gravitational field of Blue Star."

"The detected space environment is normal."

"Import star map."

"Set navigation target, Chiniken - RT03 system."

"Start establishing a jump route."

On the bridge.

Frigate's tactical computer.

The full name is the Optical Quantum Star Orbit Computing Terminal.

Ship dynamics are displayed on the light screen.

Blue Star is located in the Alem sector where the Lange civilization is located, a remote galaxy surrounded by interstellar turbulence.

The nearest transportation network node with a stargate.

2.7 light years away.

There are two barren and barren galaxies separated by them, and there are also no star gates built.

Under normal circumstances.

Even with jump engine 277.

It is also difficult for Luo Li's Kestrel-class frigate to cross this relatively long distance.

Because of the jump engine.

It is essentially a state of warping space and traveling beyond the speed of light.

It is not independent of the universe.

Instead, it just folds the surrounding space in its original position.

This kind of folding.

Can withstand normal asteroid impacts.

But for stars, black holes, and even just rogue planets the size of the moon.

It's hard to work.

A slight accident would result in the ship being destroyed and everyone killed.

So.

Luo Li before leaving.

Only then will they ask the Lange Seventh Fleet for their star map.

Just follow the star chart.

They opened up a safe channel to jump.

Only then can we cross this desolate 2.7 light-years.

ten minutes later.

After repeated calculations and corrections by the tactical computer.

A safe route that passes through two desolate galaxies and has an actual distance of more than 3.5 light years.

It is highlighted on the star map displayed on the light screen.

immediately.

The entire frigate shook slightly.

A group of powerful energy became active near the energy room deep in the frigate.

That was a sign that the jump engine began to inject energy and warm up.

"Warp engine activated."

Outside the porthole of the bridge.

Billions of stars that had remained unchanged for eternity suddenly became distorted.

Turned into streams of light.

Accompanying the sides of the battleship.

The jump drive required a full fifteen minutes of warm-up.

Within one ten millionth of a second after the official start.

Then Luo Li's frigate.

Accelerated to three thousand times the speed of light.

Luo Li sat in the captain's seat.

Silently experiencing this familiar yet unfamiliar feeling of slight weightlessness caused by the jump.

It seems like I have returned to the days of bloody fighting in the sea of ​​​​stars in my previous life.

Just that time.

He was working as a mercenary, temporarily spending his employer's high shipping fares.

Stay in a crowded crew room or even a dark and damp warehouse.

Go on a mission aboard someone else's starship.

And now.

He was sitting alone in the spacious and luxurious bridge command room, which was like a palace.

The master who personally controls and decides the course of the entire battleship.

I didn't stay in a daze for long.

Luo Li quickly came back to his senses.

He lowered his gaze slightly.

Look at the three-dimensional holographic battleship projection in the center of the bridge.

The battleship speed shown above.

At this time, the full speed of the Kestrel-class frigate has been reached.

Stable at 5 astronomical units per second.

Astronomical unit.

It is a standard unit recognized in the star sea as a standard unit for measuring jump speed.

One astronomical unit is equal to the distance that light travels in ten minutes in the vacuum of the universe.

It is approximately equal to 1.8 billion kilometers.

It is slightly further than the distance from the sun to the earth.

The frigate sailed at this speed.

It only takes about ten hours to cover the entire 3.5 light-year distance.

certainly.

It is actually impossible to run at this speed all the time.

Frigate's jump drive.

It can only support a long journey of up to one light year at a time.

Then a twelve-hour cooling period is required.

to start again.

Thus.

Want to really walk the entire route.

Arrive at the target star system.

It would take a total of more than two days.

And time stretched out.

The energy consumed will naturally increase accordingly.

Luo Li turned his gaze.

Moved to the edge of the battleship projection again.

Look at the energy reserve status displayed there.

"Energy remaining: 0.5 units."

The energy source used by starships.

It is a high-density energy crystal called an energy block.

It is also the most common currency unit in the galaxy.

Symbol of Pentacles.

At any regular bank in Xinghai.

One standard unit of energy block can be exchanged for one hundred star coins.

Cash out in either direction.

The energy block used by Luo Li's frigate.

Residues dug out from the crashed wreckage of the Star Hammer headquarters.

Only 0.5 standard units.

Calculated, it means that the jump can last for up to twelve hours.

Then the energy block will be depleted.

And in this transition process.

Can't go through any battles.

The battleship shield can only maintain its minimum consumption state.

Otherwise the energy blocks will be consumed at a faster rate. .