Sane shipStar Map Draftsman I: Federation War

The Dawn ship circled Neptune twice before letting its speed slow down.

Chang’E flew the Dawn ship to Sane ship, and in about three hours, the Dawn ship would ignite the reverse decelerator and slowly stop near Sane ship, and according to the original boarding plan, Dawn Lucius would drive the engineering vehicle to approach Sane ship. If he is lucky, Dawn Lucius hopes to enter the Sane ship to have a look.

Dawn Lucius counted the remaining food, two bottles of glucose, half a packet of jam, half a packet of jelly made of oats, he threw aside the leaves that he was going to mix and eat, he could have a full meal today. There is still time, how about a bath, Dawn Lucius calculate how many calories will be wasted in the bath, if the waste of more that is not scratch, he needs physical strength, can support him to board the Sane ship, think about the experience of bathing on Earth, after the bath will be very hungry, Dawn Lucius looked at the food on the ground, broke his idea of going to the bath. “I taste a little special.” Dawn Lucius thought that if he met aliens, he could say this first when shaking hands with them to avoid being told first about his embarrassing body odor.

Dawn Lucius sat down in the captain’s chair, he turned to look at everything here, it all came from the same kind of hand, cream walls, with a little yellowish light, soft artificial leather chair, but he felt strange. Dawn Lucius saw the screen, but he didn’t hear Chang’E speak, probably because the AI was tired, but he was concerned about the alert. This proved that the Sane ship was already within the visible range of the electronic telescope. A wave of hot air poured out from the back of his neck, not knowing whether he was happy, or worried, in any case, he moved to the front of the porthole. From the computer’s imaging chart, on the black screen of the Hoyas, an object shaped like a moth rested silently, it looked like a moth that had retracted its wings to rest.

“Chang’E.,” Dawn Lucius half-raised his head and called out, but heard no answer, and he turned suspiciously to look at the empty room, where there was nothing.

“Chang’E.” Dawn Lucius shouted, Chang’E still did not answer him, he turned to search around in the watchtower, staring at the computer for a long time, eyes full of begging, and could not wait for the computer to tell him what was happening. This is not possible, Dawn Lucius also needs Chang’E to operate the engineering vehicle to fly to the Sane ship, although the engineering vehicle can be operated manually, but the accuracy is far less than the artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence can quickly collect information, processing and come up with a more accurate plan.

“Chang’E, why are you ignoring me?” Dawn Lucius asked himself, the logical spirit of a scientist was not effective at this moment. Dawn Lucius looked at the Sane ship outside the window, turned to look at the empty watchtower, he decided, he drove the engineering vehicle to reach the Sane ship. When Chang’E’s humor parameters were set, its survival parameters were also adjusted up by twenty percent, which, he thought, might improve the probability of Dawn ship’s survival.

After the sunlight traveled four and a half billion kilometers to the Kuiper Belt, there was little brightness left, and Dawn Lucius moved back to his chair as he turned to the computer in the control room, intending to manually configure the data acquisition so that even if he was offline, the Dawn ship could capture the scan data from the Sane ship to transmit back to the moon base. He also had a selfish desire to have the computer automatically drive back to the moon base in two days, or at least, to bring Kenny Jr. Clooney is back with him.

Dawn Lucius clicked on the super administrator interface, after setting up the data collection, he first checked the health of the Dawn ship engine, the nuclear reactor was intact, there was no damage to the compensation rods, and there was no risk of dissolution of the shell, so there was nothing wrong with the return. He always felt that there was something regrettable that had not been done, like a dying man who always regrets in his memories. “What else?” “Yes, to say goodbye to my son.” Dawn Lucius sat up straight in her chair, intending to record a video. No, his image in the video would scare his son, so let’s record the voice.

“Chang’E.,” shouted Dawn Lucius, who hadn’t heard the “I’m here!”

Dawn Lucius gently clapped his palm, he raised his hand again and clapped both ears, this time, he understood why Chang’E ignored him, it turned out, he was deaf.

Dawn Lucius smiled bitterly, such a simple thing, he actually did not find it, he shook his head, and with it, tears flowed down.

Dawn Lucius walked over to the food, he started to eat, and finally poured the glucose into his mouth. After eating, he actually felt so full that he couldn’t even drink water, just like an over-starved person, overwhelmed after a sudden full meal, he was half lying on a chair, his left hand propped up on his forehead in a daze. The sudden rise in blood sugar in his body made him a little sleepy, but he could not sleep, the problem of landing had not been solved, Chang’E design, human-computer interaction to voice, only a small number of advanced functions can be manually operated on the screen, operating the engineering car is not considered an advanced function, there is no manually operated panel, Dawn Lucius needs to solve this problem.

Chang’E is considered advanced artificial intelligence, but it has no autonomous consciousness, at best it is considered an advanced query system, humans speak to it, it splits the key words inside the dialogue, and then looks up the task content from the database, even if the task is executed, it is also carried out in this order, and the result of the execution of the task is fed back to humans through the dialogue, for example “Chang’E please play music.” Then go find the music and then automatically play it, it does not have the ability to play music by itself, for humans, the result of the success of the task or not, is given through the feedback of Chang’E. So, Dawn Lucius now needs to receive feedback on how the results, the ear can not hear, it can only rely on the eyes to see, see where it is? The answer is - the screen.

“Chang’E.”

Chang’E Answer.

“Please create a new engineering vehicle landing mission to show the results of our communication inside the hologram.”

Chang’E Answer.

The new image lit up as brand new as when it first landed on the Dawn ship. Only one of the four engineering vehicles remained, its diorama displayed in front of Dawn Lucius’ eyes, with different colored progress bars and pie charts showing the energy, communication systems and auto-navigation systems of the engineering vehicles, all of which were unused and perfectly suited for landing operations within a hundred kilometers.

“Please calculate the execution plan.”

The hologram suddenly went out, Dawn Lucius did not know what it meant, he was about to go to manually check if the hologram was malfunctioning, just then a new video was shown, it was the video of the probe looking for the landing port of Sane ship, the picture in it was not the same as expected, those one sphere like probes did not succeed in getting close to Sane ship, but at some They exploded within a certain distance. In the end, only one flew to the bottom of Sane ship without exploding, which is enough to show that there is a force field around Sane ship, or some kind of energy shielding the outside world from approaching. From human history, but all those with shields are used for combat, does this also mean that Sane ship is a warship?

Dawn Lucius was thinking about it when the Dawn ship suddenly looked up and flew downwards, off its horizontal course, Dawn Lucius didn’t stand still and his whole body fell on the floor of the hologram. He looked up to see what happened, there were multiple strings of numbers flashing on the computer screen, outside the porthole, the rival ship was accelerating towards the Sane ship, it was not hard to think, they wanted to be the first human team to contact the Sane ship, it was not hard to understand, but, why Chang’E suddenly changed the direction of the Dawn ship?

Force field, crap.

Dawn Lucius heart is tight, competitors do not know that the Sane ship has a force field as thick as ten kilometers, they are so fast to approach the Sane ship, is undoubtedly an egg on the stone, more deadly is, their ship explosion will impact Dawn ship, there is no way to predict the impact of this impact, but in space, the risk is the risk, there is no difference between the size, the risk All are deadly.

“Chang’E, tell the other side about the force field. Hurry!”

The hologram showed what Dawn Lucius had just said, it was the AI pressing the cue to Dawn Lucius and finishing the message to be conveyed, Dawn Lucius rearranged the message and said. “Captain, the alien ship has a ten kilometer invisible force field, enough to destroy anything approaching it, please be careful to keep your distance. Send!” The hologram showed the result of sending, Dawn ship still had to continue to change its course, gravitational waves could go through ten thousand years to spread in the universe, thanks to the fact that this place was free, there was nothing to hinder the propagation of the force, if the other ship exploded, Dawn ship could hardly be spared. This relationship, a bit like two adjacent farms. If there is an infestation, the best way to deal with it is to help the next farm to eliminate the infestation, in the face of the same harm, the competitive relationship will be weakened away.

“Chang’E, please show hazard measurements.” The hologram showed the reactor prediction of the other ship, Dawn ship needed to start changing course now, five hours away from Sane ship to be considered safe, after the blast shockwave, Dawn ship would change course again to approach, but Dawn Lucius didn’t know if he could last till then, he didn’t have any food left to eat. He prayed that the other side would listen to the advice and not collide with the Sane ship. The worst case scenario was that the other side would take the warning as a cheat and ignore it to fly towards the Sane ship, and then Dawn Lucius’ possibility of completing the mission would be even lower.

“Chang’E, please show an opposing course prediction.” Nothing fluctuated on the hologram, the other ship was like a bullet, flying straight towards its target Sane ship, Dawn ship to stay away, well, Dawn ship to stay outside the risk zone, Dawn Lucius muttered, as he resumed his seat in the captain’s chair and picked a comfortable angle to lie down.

“Chang’E, can land when, then wake me up, available extreme means.”

Time started from the singularity escape, all the way across the Earth, humans have a strong skill to tame livestock, but they can not tame time, everyone’s life is like a clock with an end, when the last “tick” is over, will be forgotten by time. He even suspected that he had died and that his soul had been lost in space. He opened his eyes, the flexible device flashed, and the engineering vehicle on the hologram was ready for him to land.

Around the Sane ship, there was nothing but darkness and debris from rival ships. Dawn Lucius opened the protective cover on the front window, he checked the return settings and the automatic data collection settings again, everything was ready, he stepped into the landing bay and got into the engineering vehicle. The flex device displayed a countdown, the containment door opened, and the engineering vehicle slowly drove into the containment bay, with his spacesuit intact and his oxygen tank sufficient to breathe for five hours, Dawn Lucius tapped into communications as he reported the mission to the lunar base one last time.

“Command Center, this is Dawn, I will be arriving at the Sane ship alien ship in 19 minutes, starting now, Dawn ship automatically collects data to transmit back to Earth ...... tell my son that I love him.”

Dawn Lucius flew away from the Dawn ship, one meter, two meters, one kilometer, ten kilometers ...... When he was looking back, the Dawn ship looked as big as an eyebrow, while the Sane ship looked like a big mountain, Dawn Lucius thought of the data he had read before, the Sane ship is a thousand times the size of the Dawn ship, which means that this warship can transport hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers. “They should really come here and take a look, this thing must be bigger than the data shows.” Dawn Lucius said to herself as she looked at the ship straddling the horizon. When the engineering vehicle flew to the edge of the Sane ship stand, Dawn Lucius’ heart rose in respect. He already felt shocked when he designed the Dawn ship; when it really came in front of the Sane ship, humans seemed insignificant. Like a dexterous bird, the engineering vehicle carried Dawn Lucius downward and finally stopped at the place where he could enter the Sane ship.

Dawn Lucius turned on the searchlight, and instead of an entrance, it looked like an alien sewer. The measuring tool showed that the round hole was about ten meters in diameter, but its baffle was only half closed, as if it was malfunctioning and stuck. “Alien technology isn’t great either.” Dawn Lucius finished and checked if the several cameras on his body were working properly and the picture was uploaded normally. The engineering vehicle drove into the pipe and slowly floated upwards, the probe data showed the pipe was six kilometers long, the further back, Dawn Lucius felt like he was walking into the mouth of a giant beast, “I hope this isn’t an alien toilet.” Infrared light gathers the structure of the place, the outside of the pipe is complex, either a place to pile up debris, or, it’s where all the ship’s motorized equipment is located.

Flying to the end of the pipe, there was a small square opening in the bare wall that looked only big enough for one person to climb through. Dawn Lucius talked to the engineering car about his thoughts, mixed with fear, he told the engineering car to stay put and wait for him here at the exit, and climbed over to the inside, an even smaller pipe. Climbing the pipe, for Dawn Lucius this thing is a routine, Dawn ships on most of the pipes he has drilled, nothing to fear. It took Dawn Lucius a few minutes to get to the table, which, judging by its height, was not for giants, but for creatures the size of a human. Dawn Lucius played with a searchlight to find the table all over, and did not find anything special, he turned around and began to look for other exits.

The exit was not hard to find, there was no door at all, he entered another room without any problem, there was more space here, with a round top and seemingly no end, Dawn Lucius took out the illumination ball, this tool was as big as a pool ball, when opened it could be thrown in the distance, in addition to the illumination function, the illumination ball could also collect location data. dawn Lucius threw an illumination ball in each of the four directions. Dawn Lucius scanned a floor in the middle of the room, or rather, a raised stage in the middle of the room, and walked over to it against the route on the hand ring. The text is a left-center-right structure, with a horizontal rectangle at the top of the left structure, a circle at the bottom of the center, and a triangle supporting the bottom of the circle. The middle structure of the text is only a rectangle placed vertically, which is also the longest part of the text. The right structure of the text is even simpler, a square rotated by forty-five degrees. Dawn Lucius walked along the table and recorded a dozen texts, which as a whole seem to be composed of simple geometric shapes, and behind these texts, a set of recognition rules should exist.

Dawn Lucius climbed onto the platform and there was a diagonal spliced seam passing under his feet, towards the center of the platform, which, he guessed, could be opened, and what was there when it was opened?

Dawn Lucius walked towards the middle of the stage, there was a disc on the ground about two meters in diameter, the lines sunken in the middle of the disc formed a special shape, Dawn Lucius identified for a while and found that the shape was an equilateral triangle cut, one corner of the triangle was cut off by another triangle, the other two corners were cut by a circle, and inside the triangle, the circle On the side, there are two more rectangles that look like two doors. Dawn Lucius could not see any difference, and he continued to search the table.

The exploration process was full of unknowns, the time he had forgotten and hunger came at the same time, Dawn Lucius was now a little disappointed, there was only one hour of oxygen left and the air inside the ship was mainly carbon monoxide, couldn’t breathe, he had run out of things to eat, he summed up the similarities between the two rooms, they were both empty, if he continued to explore the other rooms, they were probably also empty, so let’s put the last Dawn Lucius adjusted his breathing, took a searchlight and looked around, all looked the same, a random walk? No, only sixty minutes of life, then walking carefully, he walked along another spliced seam, while looking around, until after walking the lines, in addition to the cold floor, there was nothing special.

Dawn Lucius felt wet through, he felt some cold, it was the first time in a while that he felt cold, the soles of his feet were like stepping on ice and snow, Dawn Lucius threw all the illumination balls in his bag, the right hand spacesuit had an operating panel, he set all the illumination balls to free collection, these little things were like dandelions being blown apart, floating around the huge room. He was sleepy, if he would later be used as a specimen by the aliens, or as a sacrifice, then find a conspicuous position, Dawn Lucius walked back to the center of the stage and sat down on the edge of the disc. Until there were five minutes of oxygen left, his heart beat faster, thinking back to what he had to be proud of in this life, thinking back to what was worthwhile in this life, only Stacean Lucius, he began to be afraid, inside that translucent glass enclosure, Dawn Lucius cried out in pain, his rapid breathing made him lose his strength to support himself and fell heavily into the triangle.

In addition to his own cries, Dawn Lucius seemed to feel that there were other sounds in the room, the sound of metal rubbing and clashing. It turned out that there was a switch on that disc, and pressing it would activate the device in the room, and at first, the triangular lines and the lines of the disc lit up in turn, and after the pure white light linked up, the light strips at the root of the room’s walls also turned on. The lights of the dome illuminated his eyes, at this point, he was like an ant picking his head to look at the street lamp, Dawn Lucius also noticed that there was a brown thing on the side of the disc, the size of a fist, the shape looked like a short caterpillar, the body was surrounded by a ring of silver glowing lights that looked like an ornament. He heard the beep and ran out of oxygen, every breath he took in his helmet was hard on his airways and lungs, he held his breath, ripped off his spacesuit, looked at the smiling face of the flexible device in his hand, he felt his eyelids heavy and collapsed to the floor.

When Dawn Lucius lit the lights, the Sane ship came to life, the lights on the hull outline all lit up, blue, yellow, green, Sane ship like an exquisite work of art, when the telescope of the moon base can clearly see the light of Sane ship, the space agency people are shocked and at the same time have some expectations, they look forward to the data from Dawn ship The air in the chamber recirculated. When Dawn Lucius woke up again, he felt clear-headed, but hunger had robbed him of his physical energy and made movement more difficult, and he felt pins and needles in his bones as he reluctantly crawled forward. Lucius picked up the caterpillar, it began to move, not wriggle, he became an unclosed wrist guard, looking like a device to carry in the hand, Dawn Lucius looked at it, he put his right hand into it.

As the tentacles on the side of the gauntlet dug into his skin, the tingling sensation of his nerve feedback instantly exploded in his brain and he felt the life force being pulled from his back by something, and Dawn Lucius found his body being sucked by the gauntlet device, drying out at a rate visible to the naked eye. When he tried to take the gauntlet off, it was already deep into his flesh and blood. And the gaps in the floor patchwork were evacuating outward, revealing a blue screen behind them, from which large swaths of stars floated out, large, small, bright, dull, and the stars stopped when they touched the dome, and the sea of stars began to spin, the brightest part of which appeared to be on a disk, and in this spinning disk, purple nebulae rose and shrank like clouds, all this, before Dawn Lucius will close his eyes to reflect the galaxy, and what he does not know is that this is a star map, the star map of the galaxy.

On the spacesuit Dawn Lucius took off, the camera that collected data was still functioning, and the large half of the star map was clearly filmed and transmitted to the server of Dawn ship, these videos were compressed into a message queue and sent to the moon base every hour. Dawn Lucius’ body was gradually sucked dry, but strangely he did not lose consciousness, he was witnessing his own death, and Probably there was nothing he could do, so there was not a trace of fear in his heart. The bracelet that was sucking the life force out of him began to work, and Dawn Lucius’ body was released from the gravitational pull, or perhaps he was a commodity on an assembly line, being fixed on a conveyor belt that was destined for another room that had just opened.

Dawn Lucius watched as he just floated inside the room with two medical chambers, the coffins Rodney Cruise had spoken of, and Dawn Lucius was lowered to the floor, rolling his eyes to observe the room as completely as possible, the wall in front of him like a window with four transparent containers set in it, the bottom two with two dark shadows inside, not unlike soaked corpses. There was a circle of purple light on the wall, and the purple, like liquid, was shaking slightly. He reluctantly crawled forward and climbed to the medical bay on the left hand side, the video of the Dawn ship showed that there had been someone lying in it, Dawn Lucius held the medical bay and stood up, he ambled over the transparent medical bay, which was lying in something ...... similar to a human.

Dawn Lucius noticed that there was a flashing yellow light circle in the middle of the medical bay, which had triangles and rectangles moving around, regularly from the left to the right, which should be used to detect the health characteristics of the creature in the medical bay, Dawn Lucius pressed his hand on it, and the medical bay opened. The transparent lid began to move to the side, and Dawn Lucius did not have time to brace himself, so he was taken by the lid and stumbled, before falling to the ground, he grabbed the edge of the medical module, and a slight warmth came to his fingers, which was completely different from the warmth he felt on his skin outside the medical module. He wanted to see how the warmth came about. When he stood firm, the thing in the medical cabin had sat up straight and stared straight into his eyes, and so the two civilizations, in a hurry, met each other.

Dawn Lucius stared blankly at the other side, obviously a living human-like creature, their civilization is much more advanced than the solar system civilization, and overall, what happened next was just a few steps away. The creature smacked Dawn Lucius’s head, or grabbed his hair and bit off his ear and swallowed it, or plunged any hand into his chest, pulled out his heart and began to eat it up, thinking about it, Dawn Lucius subconsciously looked at his chest, he had little strength to panic. When he looked up at the creature again, the other was this time staring at the caterpillar device on his arm.

“I’m from ...... Earth.”

I thought that the thing would slap Dawn Lucius’s head, or bite off his ear, or pull out his heart and eat it ...... none of this happened, instead, the thing stared at Dawn Lucius’s arm. “I’m from ...... Earth.” Dawn Lucius opened his mouth to introduce himself, the thing looked at his lips as if to identify his language, Dawn Lucius felt his arm being strangled tighter, almost as if it had dried up, his body seemed to turn into a dead branch, he began to be afraid, began to regret.Dawn Lucius panicked. “Please tell ...... my son that I ...... love him.” Dawn Lucius said, while taking off the flexible device on his left hand, the screen showed the smiling face of Stacean Lucius, put the device on the thing’s leg, and the creature, after looking at Dawn Lucius, seemed to nod a little.

Just then, the light in the room turned purple, and waves of murmurs flashed through Dawn Lucius’ head, which were not picked up by his ear drums, as if someone was whispering in his head, or, as if someone was interrogating. At the same time, he also noticed the expression of the creature in the medical bay was a little ...... complicated? It stared straight behind Dawn Lucius, Dawn Lucius lent the support of the medical bay, turned around, two things, the shape of a person, but the overall appearance is the composition of light, the two things in step closer, one of them raised his hand, a beam of light changed into Dawn Lucius’s chest.

There was no pain, Dawn Lucius’s body was like a piece of paper, and where he was hit, it was like a white sheet of paper being burned from behind with a lighter, the flesh and bones were burned out at the same time, the burnt hole was getting bigger and bigger, Dawn Lucius used his hands to cover it, and his hands were like a candle being lit in the middle of the night, his fingers were like the wick in the center of the candle lighting up the surroundings. Lucius fell limp on the floor, he felt the sleepiness like a huge quilt, was starting to slide from his feet to his head, the whole man began to breathe slower, his eyelids began to get heavy, his head unconsciously tilted to the right, he remembered that a poet named Heine of Earth had said: “Death is the cool night.” Dawn Lucius felt no pain, instead, it was like starting a date with a long-lost familiar sleep.