The starship that the sirens came to this planet in …
Listening to the last part of Tyre's mumbling, Gwen immediately thought of the starship that was still stranded in the depths of the Endless Ocean and was said to be larger than the capital of Gondor. To be fair, even if a cyberpunk civilization like Tarlonde had emerged on this planet, the starship that the sirens came in was still the most outrageous thing on this planet in Gwen's mind — a starship! It was a starship that could carry out interstellar colonization!
He really thought that this was a world of swords and magic when he first crawled out of the grave …
Gwen shook his head and threw those irrelevant thoughts out of his mind. At the same time, he looked curiously at the sea caterpillar that was lazily resting its upper body on the bench with its tail stretching out for a few meters. "How is the repair of your starship going? I remember you told me not long ago that your engineers have made unprecedented progress in the power core or something … "
"It's the core fusion tower, the big guy used to draw energy from the negative space tide to power the warp drive engine. After crash-landing on this planet, that thing has been shut down. The deep-sea technicians have tried everything but could not reignite its primary drive furnace." Tyre shook the tip of her tail and said knowingly, "Now we have finally figured out what magic power is, and we have calculated the 'deviation' encountered during the activation of the core fusion tower."
She paused as if she was seriously thinking about how to explain it next. "It is said that the deep-sea technicians have given up the plan to restore it to its original state. The environment of this world is too different from our hometown, and the core fusion tower's key structure is completely unable to adapt to the new environment. So they have decided to directly dismantle the core of the core fusion tower, replace the drive part with the Iridescent Light Focusing Matrix, and then use the force field coil and phase-change shunt outside the fusion tower to redistribute the energy flow. In fact, they have already tried this and dismantled a small part … The effect seems to be very good."
"The Iridescent Light … You have directly stuffed that thing into the starship's drive furnace?!" Gwen was stunned. He knew that the sirens were trying to find inspiration to repair the starship's energy module from Cecil's Iridescent Light Generator, but he did not expect that this group of daring deep-sea salted fishes would directly stuff the Iridescent Light Generator into the drive furnace, and it sounded like they did not just stuff one or two of them — they had stuffed a matrix in it!
That thing was usually a cannon used to attack cities! The power output was frighteningly high! Were those fishes burning a nuclear warhead in the boiler?
Tyre, however, was baffled by Gwen's reaction. She looked up lazily, and her voice sounded as if she could fall asleep at any moment. "What's the fuss? Our deep-sea technicians have always been very open-minded. Of course, there are still some problems, mainly the power output of the Iridescent Light Generator is still not enough. Even if the technicians over there have tried to increase the power density of the Iridescent Light Generator, it is only enough to barely run the fusion tower at the lowest power output. Usually, the main energy source of Antavine still depends on burning squid … But for us who have been stagnant for many years, this is already a great improvement."
Listening to Tyre's nonchalant rambling, Gwen's initially shocked expression finally turned into a wooden one. He looked at the Sea Caterpillar Spirit lying on the bench with a blank expression, and thought to himself that this was indeed a former interstellar civilization. Aside from the fact that there was something wrong with their brains, this race could only be looked up to on this planet …
Tyre did not know what was going on in Gwen's head. She just yawned and recalled the recent contact with her hometown. Then, she said with uncertainty, "By the way, we have a recent result of the repair project over there … You may be interested."
"Something I'm interested in?" Gwen was a little surprised. "What is it?"
"Antavine's faster-than-light communication array," Tyr said as he stretched and curled himself into a ball beside the chair. "That's the antenna system."
"Superluminal communication array …" Gwen blinked and finally remembered. "I remember you mentioned it to me … Wait a minute, you have fixed that thing?"
"It's not exactly fixed. The resonant crystal of the transmitting unit is too damaged. We haven't found a suitable replacement yet, but we have found a way to repair part of its receiving module," Tyr said. There was a hint of emotion in his eyes. "We haven't been able to receive contact information from other immigrant spaceships, but we have received the kind of signal you received in the monitoring station … and successfully achieved a precise location."
The news came so suddenly that Gwen did not react for a moment. He blinked a few times, and the corresponding information came to his mind. He knew that the sirens were trying to fix the antenna array of the spaceship, and he also knew that the Antavine was not the only immigrant spaceship launched by the sirens when they fled from their hometown. It was said that several other spaceships had set sail from their home planet, but now they were all lost in the vast sea of stars.
Now, although so many years had passed, Tyre's compatriots still seemed to believe that their compatriots on other spaceships were still alive. They hoped to fix the spaceship's communication system to reconnect with their compatriots who they had lost contact with millions of years ago.
On the other hand, he also knew what the 'signal' that Tyre was talking about was. It was the mysterious message from the vast universe that the Thorin Hub, the Northern Hub, and the Ancestral Peak Hub had heard one after another. The signal conveyed basic mathematical knowledge and language that no one could understand, as if showing their existence and greeting to other civilizations. He had already received confirmation from the Dragon God that the signal came from intelligent beings on other planets. But due to technological limitations, even Cecil's most advanced magic net hub could only occasionally receive the signal, but could not lock on to the specific source of the signal, and could not decipher the technology used to transmit the signal.
As for the deciphering of the mysterious' alien language ', Cecil and the Typhon Empire had organized a large team of cryptographers and word specialists a long time ago, and had even delegated the deciphering work to the people. But after so long, all the work had made little progress.
He did not expect that the sudden breakthrough point would come from the sirens, who had an ambiguous relationship with the Alliance.
"The source of the signal is not far from your initial speculation." Tyre saw the change in Gwen's expression, and she did not keep him in suspense. "It is indeed from the direction of the Frostsky Constellation. At the bottom of the Frostsky Constellation, there is a dim star. There may be other small celestial bodies, but our observation equipment is damaged, and we can't confirm it for the time being. After the precise tracking of the Antavine's star orbiter, the signal came from near the star. "
"Does the star have a name?" Gwen asked subconsciously.
"We call it SK-32-A, but in your human world, the sorcerers and astrologers seem to have given it a very nice name, 'Blue Star,'" Tyre said with a shrug. "It is not easy to confirm this. I have flipped through your messy and inaccurate astronomical charts for a long time, and compared it with the astrologers on Antavine several times before I can confirm that our SK-32-A is the same as the Blue Star that you humans call —"
Gwen did not wait for her to finish and immediately interrupted her. "From tomorrow onwards, change the salt in your pool to refined sea salt."
"Okay!" Tyr nodded. "Let's go back to the Blue Star. We have measured the distance between it and the planet we are standing on. It is about 6.12 light-years. It should have at least one massive gaseous planet and two solid planets orbiting around it. But we can't confirm which planet the signal is coming from yet … So far, we can't confirm which planet the signal is coming from …
"In addition, our antenna system has been tracking the signal for a long time and confirmed that the signal is sent continuously in a cycle of about 3.35 days. Each time the signal appears and disappears, it lasts for 16 hours. At present, we are not sure if this cycle is intentional or due to the influence of the space environment along the way …"
Gwen's expression was unprecedentedly serious. He carefully memorized every word Tyre said and softly repeated the special name. "… Blue Star …"
Tyre glanced at Gwen and seemed to hesitate. After a few seconds of thinking, she continued. "One last thing …"
"Go ahead," Gwen said immediately, and the urgency in his voice even surprised himself.
"… Most humans should not understand what this means, but as far as I know, you should be able to understand what I am going to say." Tyre shook the tip of her tail slightly, and her expression became very serious. "After the analysis of the communication array, we found one thing — the signal … is transmitted at the speed of light."
Gwen instantly frowned. Tyre's words were short, but the amount of information revealed was extraordinary.
"Faster than light …" He could not help but whisper. "That means …"
"Although we are 6.12 light years away, the signal is not the 'outdated information' from six years ago. We have received an instant message from the Blue Star, and this information transmission technology is very clever. It can be captured by our superluminal communication array, and it can also enter the conventional antenna system like the Magic Net Hub. This means that it was modulated to deliver information to as many 'targets' as possible." Tyr nodded. "And if we have the equivalent transmission technology, we can even achieve real-time communication with the Blue Star … across the distance of 6.12 light years, and establish communication with intelligent creatures on another planet."
Gwen was shocked by this sudden news. When he heard this, he asked, "Can your FTL communication array —"
"No." Tyre shook her head. "I just said, we have only fixed the array's receiver module, and only a part of it. The resonant crystal of the entire system is broken, and we have not found a replacement yet. "
Gwen realized that he was a little too excited, and immediately forced himself to calm down and said softly, "Anyway, Blue Star is obviously a more advanced civilization than us …"
"They at least have more advanced communication technology than us. Of course, that is not necessarily the case after the Antaverne is fixed," Tyre said, and then frowned, and there was a puzzled look on her face. "But speaking of this' communication technology '… I have a sister who works in the communication technology group, and she mentioned something suspicious to me last time."
Gwen frowned. "Suspicious?"
"Compared to the cutting-edge transmission technology of FTL communication, the signal sent by Blue Star is too simple and backward in terms of coding and modulation format," Tyre said slowly. She rarely talked about this knowledge, because most of the knowledge she knew was too difficult for humans to understand. But she knew that this incredible 'human' in front of her could understand what she was saying. "With the same channel width, they could have squeezed in more effective information and clearer graphics, but they chose the most primitive and inefficient 'coding table' …
"Can you understand the contradiction in this? To put it in a metaphor that you mainlanders can understand, it's like they have an extremely sophisticated and advanced magic device from the Kingdom of Gondor that is still in use today, but they tied a stick to the device and used it to smash walnuts. Although the goal is achieved, the process is … "
Tyre spread her hands, and Gwen quickly understood the meaning of her words. He thought of the information that Thorin Hub had heard before. At that time, he did not think much of it, but now, he knew that the signal was transmitted in FTL mode, and the sense of contradiction behind the whole thing came to him.
It was like in the age of optical fiber, two people using the most advanced computer and the fastest optical fiber network … to send each other a telegram.
"Perhaps this is just to make it easier for a 'low-level civilization' like us to decode the content of the signal they send." After some thought, Gawain thought of a possibility. "A more complex coding method may be more efficient, but obviously, it will be more difficult to decode it..."
"We have also thought of this possibility, but there is a problem." Tyre shook her head. "If it is to take care of 'low-level receivers', they can send multiple sets of different codes at the same time, using different levels of coding technology. In this way, no matter what level of 'receiver' they are, they will have a chance to receive and decode the signal. If Blue Star is really an advanced civilization that has mastered FTL communication, this is absolutely a piece of cake for them. "
Gwen had completely calmed down, and his mind was working quickly. The questions raised by Tyre were obviously worthy of further consideration. "Maybe … their signal is just to send to 'low-level civilizations'? It is also possible that the sender of the Blue Star did not care about the efficiency of the transmission of the message at all. They only needed to send the basic 'greetings' to the entire sector, and the most primitive coding method could ensure that the message was reliably sent to every civilization that had the ability to 'listen to space' … "
"This is also a possibility." Tyre nodded. "But what is the point of this?"
"… I don't know." Gwen hesitated for a moment before nodding slightly. "In the end, we still know too little about the distant sender."
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