Bright light warning, bright light warning, over temperature, over temperature… Signal connection failed, signal connection failed, signal connection failed… Error… Error… Unable to connect… Unable to connect…

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Due to the shortage of resources, our inability to intervene directly, and the uncertainty of communication delays, it is extremely difficult to repair the engines of the two spacecraft damaged by passing through the Oort Cloud. We can only choose to connect the severely damaged ships with fixed connecting rods, and then choose a relatively safe route and use two other spacecraft to tow them forward.

In the following period, we taught them how to make parts through daily instruction. After the messengers had learned and digested the knowledge, they used limited resources to make parts, and then selected smart carriers for repairs.

The fleet glided at a low speed on Mars for about 100 years. Then the challenge came again. They arrived in front of another barrier, a thick and serious meteorite area. According to our calculations, this area is at the distance of five blue giant stars. According to the current human algorithms, its thickness is 265.4 astronomical units. This is another challenge, but it is also a good start, because all the resources to repair spacecraft are available here. The entire fleet sailed slowly in this area for 200 years, and prepared enough resources needed for the follow-up to prevent any emergencies from happening again.

During these 300 years, we have also had new scientific and technological breakthroughs. We discovered the existence of gravitational lines and verified the reliability of using gravitational lines to transmit signals. This is because gravitational lines are free of impurities and have absolute purity. Using them to transmit signals can ignore the obstruction of objects.

We also discovered the nature of light. Light is intelligent and will adjust its posture according to changes in the environment. When there are no obstacles, it is invisible and is just light. When encountering a small density obstacle, it becomes a light particle. Light particles directly ignore the existence of objects. When encountering a high-density blocking object, it becomes a wave and takes a detour. The most important thing is that when a light particle passes through any object it can pass through, the particle or wave will record the memory of the moment it passes through the object. If it can be received at another location and all the light particles or waves that arrive at the same time are integrated and deciphered, a complete and uninterrupted signal will be formed.

Unfortunately, the Alliance did not carry out follow-up research, because no matter how advanced they are, they cannot break free from the shackles of emotions. With emotional shackles, they will choose the most cost-effective and practical ones. We are helpless. We chose to further study light particles, but due to the mismatch of our time and resources, we had to give up subsequent in-depth research. We can only choose the combination of light particles and gravitational lines to ensure that it can be applied in practice in the end.

With the authorization of the Alliance, we built a large light particle signal converter at the outermost edge of the Orion Galaxy. Then we plan to use 500 years to push the converter little by little along the direction of the gravitational line to the middle position between the Orion Galaxy and the solar system, which is 750 light-years away from the Orion Galaxy. After arriving at this position, the time difference in communication between the two sides can be controlled within one hour.

With our authorization, messengers far away in the solar system built a light particle code decryption and conversion device in the middle of the area humans call the Kuiper Belt. Then we taught the messengers how to make a small signal receiving device on the spacecraft. In fact, this set of equipment is similar to the medium communicator our ancestors made a million years ago, except that the carrier of the device we are making now spans the galaxy, and the line is invisible.

The construction process lasted for 200 years. After it was completed, it passed many tests and the results were all perfect. After being accelerated, the light particle signals were transmitted steadily along the gravitational lines without any instability. The time difference was also controlled within three hours of Mars time. Moreover, as the converter steadily moved towards the middle position between the two galaxies, the time difference was also shrinking little by little.

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With this device, the fleet began to gradually speed up and fly towards the interior of the sun. With the blessing of communication means, everything went so smoothly, and the rest of the journey was just a matter of time...

In the 60th year of the subsequent voyage, a messenger numbered No. received a warning message, and then submitted the information to the central processing system, but soon the information was locked by the upper-level scientific messenger No. 49, and this scientific messenger No. was also forced to execute a silent death sentence for one year, on the charge of arbitrarily reporting false data, constituting primary deception, and hindering scientific progress. But the fact is that this scientific messenger himself did not know that he was not sentenced to one year in the end, but to a maximum of 100,000 years. All those who were related to the scientific messenger No. were all executed for a long time. Silence and memory were erased until, as time passed, no civilized messenger mentioned this matter. After all, with one more or one less scientific messenger, all systems would operate normally.

Only scientific messengers No. 1 to 50 knew about this matter. After 50 years, this information was completely sealed in the database. It was not until the revival of civilization 100,000 years later that the top leaders made all the hidden information public.

In the 90th year of the subsequent voyage, the fleet approached the innermost part of the Kuiper Belt. Passing this point is equivalent to truly entering the inner solar system. This will be a day worth celebrating. All the envoys in the alliance are waiting for this node to arrive. The five major civilizations in the Orion Galaxy are also ready to celebrate, but what they waited for was not success, but the final abandonment of the fleet.

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The following is the fleet's final communication:

We are about to enter the plasma area, and it is recommended to turn on the plasma collection system.

Can be turned on

The surrounding temperature is absolute zero, the hull temperature is 100, and it begins to enter a plasma-dense area.

The plasma density is too high. It is recommended to shut down the collection system and turn on the magnetic field protection cover.

Magnetic field protection shield is on.

High temperature warning, temperature 1000.

Signal lost, recovery time 9 hours, autopilot system shut down.

Signal connection is normal, magnetic field shield temperature is 1500

Signal lost. Recovery time 1 hour, autopilot system turned off.

Signal connection is normal, magnetic field shield temperature is 2000

Signal loss, recovery time 8 hours

Danger, magnetic field shield temperature 3500, limit, limit.

"Turn on blue eyes to block out the bright light... What is this... It's so beautiful..."

Strong light warning, strong light warning, overtemperature, overtemperature… Signal connection failed, signal connection failed, signal connection failed… Error… Error… Unable to connect… Unable to connect… This was the last signal of the fleet entering Kuiper’s inner circle, and then the Alliance completely lost contact and communication with the spacecraft.

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The entire alliance base was in chaos. Even for us who were rational, we didn't know what the next instruction should be, because the whole process was intermittent, and the last picture was particularly strange. It was originally a bright light emitted by a red flame, but suddenly it turned white, and then all signals were lost.

We tried various methods to contact, but no matter which method was used, there was no response. No matter what communication method was chosen, only a bunch of repeated data was displayed. Quantum communication could not be restored. Light particle transmission was normal, gravitational line signal transmission was normal, receiving signal was normal, no signal, and the temperature was 5000 when the connection was lost.

The alliance continued to try to contact the fleet for ten years, and the data remained the same. Under pressure from multiple parties, the alliance finally decided to give up further contact because the cost was too high. It had no choice but to give up and admit the failure of this exploration, so that it would not have to invest more resources in rescue efforts in the future.

It was also from this point that all of the Orion Alliance's external explorations began to be shelved indefinitely, because over the past 2,000 years, too much energy had been spent, but in the end, there were no substantial results.

But we never gave up, because we believe in science, and we can't give up. If we give up, we may disappear completely from this universe. The most important thing is that the wandering spacecraft we have started to build is about to be completed, and all subsequent equipment will be of great help to us.