Chapter 603 Ghost
Mikoyan was in the space observation office at this time.
The old man who spoke at the meeting before had already obtained various data after Cicada-class No. 004 boarded the alien spacecraft.
And a large number of astronomers are studying this data.
Dr. Mikoyan asked, "Ivan, what do you think?"
The old man quickly analyzed the data and replied nonchalantly, "45300 to 45400 years. We can basically lock down the starting time of this spacecraft, plus the other party's sailing direction."
He casually pulled up a star map and circled an area.
"The starting area of the alien spacecraft is probably here."
Looking at the empty target area, Dr. Mikoyan stroked his beard thoughtfully: "Dark Star?"
"You should know that in the long evolutionary history of the universe, in addition to a large number of planetary systems, there are actually quite a few dark stars hidden in the seemingly empty interstellar space." Old man Ivan explained calmly.
The so-called dark stars are wandering planets floating outside the planetary system.
These wandering planets include asteroids, planets, and super-dim red dwarfs.
Asteroids and planets, in particular, are difficult to detect with astronomical telescopes because they do not emit light.
Dark stars can also be called ghost planets.
Ivan speculated that the home star of the alien spacecraft is most likely a dark star. As to whether it is an ultra-dark red dwarf or a planet, it is still an unknown.
"Mikoyan, I want to mobilize some cosmic telescopes to focus on observing this area to see if we can find this dark star."
Mikoyan thought for a while and said, "This kind of planet should be difficult to lock onto, right?"
“It’s really hard, but I want to give it a try.”
Seeing the look in his old friend's eyes, Mikoyan knew that this guy had made up his mind. He nodded and said, "Okay! I can give you a letter of assistance so that those astronomical telescopes can cooperate with you."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."
In fact, the Space Observation Office has quite a few astronomical telescopes.
However, the astronomical telescopes their office owns are all on the surface of the Earth and in low-Earth orbit.
In addition to the Space Observation Office, which has an astronomical telescope, there are five other institutions within Sapiens that also have astronomical telescopes.
The five institutions are: Space Business Department - Space Security Office, Science Business Department - Institute of Astrophysics, Industry Department - Star Precision Instrument Group, Planetary Physics Equipment Group, and Hengguang Precision Instrument Group.
Among them, the Space Security Office has the largest scale of astronomical telescopes, which are densely distributed on the six planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, with a total of 729 astronomical telescopes.
The Institute of Astrophysics has a total of 76 astronomical telescopes and scientific detection equipment, which is almost the same number as the Office of Space Observation.
Finally, there are Starry Sky Precision Instruments, Planetary Physics Equipment, and Hengguang Precision Instruments. These three are equipment research and development and manufacturing companies. They have 20 to 50 devices operating in outer space, mainly for testing equipment.
The first institution Ivan contacted was the Institute of Astrophysics.
The two sides hit it off and quickly organized various types of astronomical telescopes to closely monitor that piece of void.
As time went on, the Cicada-class 004 spacecraft collected more and more intelligence on the alien spacecraft.
This information further confirmed the power of the alien spacecraft, which is helpful in determining the speed limit of the alien spacecraft.
By determining the speed of the alien spacecraft and the time it took off, we can determine the approximate location of its starting point.
Finally, Ivan and others finally locked on an approximate location, which was 3.021 to 3.025 light years away.
The angles and spatial coordinates, as well as the possible movement area of the ghost planet, were also analyzed by other researchers.
Based on this data, they gathered a large number of high-precision astronomical telescopes and detection equipment, and after four months, they finally found clues about this ghost planet.
It is a gas planet with a radius 1.6 times larger than Jupiter and a huge ring system.
This planet can be discovered thanks to its huge star rings, which increase the reflection area of starlight.
The planet is currently drifting in another direction, and at its current speed, it is expected to arrive near Vega in 87.2 million years.
Apparently the planet is moving away from the solar system.
Although they don't know whether the civilization on this planet still exists, after integrating various intelligence, they still have some speculations.
Resource depletion and internal war are the two most likely.
After all, this is just a large gas planet. Even if the gas planet abducted dozens of natural satellites, it is estimated that it would not be enough for a civilization to develop into a level 1 civilization.
The alien civilization discovered that its mother star was drifting towards the distant star Vega, and it would take another 87.2 million years to reach the vicinity of Vega.
This time is really desperate.
Even Ivan and others felt sad for this civilization.
As the population of the mother planet continues to grow, the resources of the mother planet will sooner or later be exhausted unless their entire civilization can reasonably control the population growth or adjust the development of various technologies.
Ivan and others speculated that this civilization might have faced two choices at that time.
One is to hold on until 87.2 million years later, when the mother star arrives near Vega, and then quickly immigrate to Vega.
Another option is to migrate to the nearest planetary system - the solar system.
However, based on the reverse inference of the technology of alien spacecraft, the technological level of alien civilization is about the same as that of current human civilization, and some of its technologies are even inferior to those of Homo sapiens.
With this level of technology, it is imaginable how difficult it would be to build a generation spacecraft and try to cross a distance of 3 light years to migrate to the solar system.
In addition, the major think tank offices of Sapiens Corporation have simulated the social form of this alien civilization.
Based on the currently known intelligence, it is highly likely that alien civilizations are not a monolithic entity, but rather some members are conservatives who prefer to wait, while others are radicals who prefer to immigrate to the solar system.
This can be deduced from the fact that the other party only launched one generation spacecraft.
If this civilization is truly united, then if they want to migrate to the solar system, they will definitely have more than one generation spaceship, but will concentrate all the resources of the mother planet.
This way , they could build at least a few hundred generation ships.
If there really were hundreds of generation-generation spaceships, then this alien spaceship would not have completely perished now. With large-scale generation-generation spaceships, resources could be used to scrap some spaceships, thereby ensuring that some spaceships could be maintained.
From this we can see that in this alien civilization, radical immigrants are most likely a minority, and most of the other aliens are conservative.
Based on this conclusion, another piece of information can be deduced, that is, there are very likely still surviving members on the civilization's home planet.
This forced the Sapiens company to be highly vigilant.
After all, the technology of this alien spacecraft was only manufactured by this civilization 45,200 years ago and cannot represent the civilization's current true technological level.
If the other party's technology has made great progress , then this alien civilization will be a huge threat to human civilization.
After reading these analysis reports, Li Qingye immediately asked various departments of the company to discuss and prepare plans to deal with the invasion of the solar system by alien civilizations.
And the other side.
The exploration of alien spacecraft by the Cicada-class No. 004 spacecraft has also entered a new stage, and they are preparing to check on the aliens.
