Hearing Luca II say so, Hawke was stunned for a moment.
"Moderate danger zone? A level four civilisation, mutated?" Hawke grew worried and asked, "Which form of mutation have they undergone?"
"I don't know." Lucca Two replied, "The subsequent handling of the situation was blocked by the Guardian civilization, and we in Lucca are only a level three civilization and not qualified to know these things yet."
"So ... didn't the Guardian Alliance go and probe afterwards?" Hawk asked.
The Guardian Alliance was busy fighting the Scavenger civilization, exterminating the mechanical civilization, the alien beast civilization, and dealing with the ghosts that appear every now and then, so where would they have the time to explore all of these areas? However, there are missions to scout dangerous areas in the Alliance, and one can get at least 10,000 contribution points for scouting a secondary dangerous area, but basically no one will take up such a mission. Lower level civilizations don't have the ability to do so, and higher level civilizations are afraid of causing other troubles."
"This way ..." Hawke pondered, "We're inside Eagle Nebula, to get out, we'd have to sail at least five light years away, and just navigating through it headlessly like this would probably be more dangerous. Might as well just go on with the stated goal and settle down around this star for a while."
"That's the only way." Luca Two spoke with apprehension, "I hope that the gaze of the true gods will be watching over us all the time."
Hawk snorted coldly, "You have betrayed your race, you should be praying to the evil gods of your race, not hoping that the true gods will bless you."
Luca II was stunned and smiled bitterly as he stopped talking.
Hawke cut the call link and concentrated on starting the voyage.
In the midst of the voyage, Hawke had begun the prep work.
The red dwarf star, which Hawke had named Eagle Nebula I, meant the first star in the Eagle Nebula to be explored by itself.
Upon arrival at Eagle Nebula I, Hawke planned to upgrade his fleet to at least 8,000 kilometres per second and to increase the power of his weapons and defences by at least 50 per cent.
This would require more efficient engines and energy supply systems, which Hawke had largely completed by dissecting the Lucca civilisation's ships. This was a technical upgrade, not a scientific-theoretical one, so it was much easier.
At that time, Hawke's battle power would fully surpass that of the Lucca fleet. Faced with the Luka fleet without force field generators and gravity bombs, Hawke will be able to defeat it in the middle of a frontal battle.
The dissection of the Lucan fleet has begun. By dissecting the Lucca ship, Hawke was able to fully grasp every detail of its construction and the technology used in each detail.
At the moment, Eagle Nebula was only eighty billion kilometres away, and at Hawke's speed, he would reach his target in ten months.
Eagle Nebula I is a young star so active that its stellar wind is stronger than that of the Epsilon Eri galaxy. Powerful stellar winds blow out from it, blowing interstellar material into the distance and spreading the top of its heliosphere up to 80 billion kilometres away. Where Hawk is now, he is within the heliosphere's top.
In this way, Eagle Nebula has carved out a niche of its own within the vast nebula of Eagle Nebula. Here, interstellar matter is so thin that even meteorite chunks are much less common.
Against the reddish cosmic backdrop, Hawke's fleet, silent, advanced towards the dull star in the distance.
Hawke had determined that Eagle Nebula I had a planet, a gas planet of zero.8 times the mass of Jupiter, about 230 million kilometres away. In addition to this, Eagle Nebula I has two large asteroid belts, and numerous meteorite clumps in chaotic orbits.
The Eagle Nebula I star system fits all the characteristics of a primordial star system.
Hawke will build his base on top of Eagle Nebula a's moons.
Time passes slowly and the distance between Hawke's fleet, and Eagle Nebula one, is reduced to two billion kilometres. Here, Hawke came into contact with the first asteroid belt of Eagle Nebula a.
In the midst of this asteroid belt, Hawke saw a miraculous phenomenon; amidst the countless asteroids surrounding it, there were three massive asteroids-two one size larger than Pluto and one about zero.7 times the mass of Pluto, all three orbiting each other in chaos.
"It's the ... trinary phenomenon." Hawke concluded.
The so-called three-body phenomenon is a system made up of three stars of not very different masses. The three-body system is chaotic and the orbits are unpredictable. So far, only some three-body systems that specify special initial quantities can be solved, the rest of the three-body systems are unsolvable.
The two-body problem, for example, is a system of two stars with a small difference in mass, in which the two stars revolve around a common centre of mass and their orbits are stable and predictable. Three-body systems, on the other hand, are chaotic and unpredictable.
On top of the three-body system, there are the four-body, five-body and other multi-body problems, all of which are insoluble. In the case of Eagle Nebula, for example, thousands of stars of very different masses together form a chaotic many-body system, and there is no way to predict where a star in this system will orbit next.
"It's a vibrant belt of asteroids." Hawke concluded, "Perhaps, in countless years, one of the stars in this three-body system will acquire enough mass to evolve into a true planet, capturing the other two as its own moons, at which point the three-body system will be broken. The greatest possibility, though, is that after one of them acquires enough mass, it will pull the other two towards itself, and the three will merge into one."
At that point, a sufficiently spectacular planetary collision event will have occurred here.
In addition to this small three-body system, Hawke has seen many stars that could be called dwarf planets. The total mass of this asteroid belt is expected to reach three times that of the Earth.
One of the definitions of a planet states that it has the ability to clear the orbit of small stars. It is foreseeable that in the course of a long time, a planet will eventually evolve here, and then slowly empty the rest of the matter in orbit and, eventually, evolve a star three times the mass of Earth.
Hawke did not stop here, not even to slow down. Any asteroids in the way were mercilessly shattered by laser cannons, and those that slipped through were kept at bay by energy shields. Like a mighty crab, Hawke rampaged through this chaotic world.
Three days later, Hawke encountered the second asteroid belt of Eagle Nebula 1. This one was much smaller than the first, the largest being only 500 kilometres in diameter, and their mass did not even meet the hydrostatic equilibrium requirements, so the whole thing was not round, but irregularly shaped.
But there are many, many, hundreds of millions of comets here. Some of these comets, disturbed by the gravitational forces of the inner Eagle Nebula a and Eagle Nebula I, or by their own collisions, break out of their stable orbits and rush towards Eagle Nebula I. As they approach Eagle Nebula I, the water ice, dry ice, etc. in their bodies are heated up and, under the pressure of the powerful stellar winds, drag out behind them long tails, sweeping across the sky in a mighty gust of wind.
There are even comets from distant interstellar space that have extremely flat orbits, with their perihelion coming extremely close to the star, and at their closest, even sweeping past it at a distance of just a few hundred thousand kilometres. This is a very dangerous act, and the slightest misstep could see the comet smash directly into the star.
In the midst of this chaos, Hawke's fleet reached Eagle Nebula a orbit. After slowing down, Hawke chose a moon sized moon as his main construction base. The large fleet is scattered around the orbit of Eagle Nebula a.
Looking at Eagle Nebula a from here is like looking at the not-so-bright moon from Earth. And it's a red moon.
The moon Hawke had chosen had no atmosphere, so meteorite chunks could hit it unhindered, and the traces left behind had no weathering to remove, so its surface was uneven.
Of course, now that Hawke had arrived, this could not be tolerated to continue. Hawke drew out a thousand village-class ships and scattered them in orbit around the moon, a thousand ships that would block any small body that tried to hit the moon above.
Eagle Nebula a is a giant gas planet, with a mass of 0.8 times that of Jupiter and a volume of 0.7 times that of Jupiter, suggesting that it is a little denser than Jupiter. Its main components, however, are still hydrogen and helium.
On top of Eagle Nebula a, Hawk will be well replenished with supplies.
On top of Eagle Nebula a, violent hurricanes are blowing all the time, formed by the thermal imbalance caused by the irradiation of Eagle Nebula I. One of the most violent hurricanes has an estimated speed of eight hundred kilometres per hour, which is unimaginable above the Earth.
At the heart of Eagle Nebula a, is a blazing ball of liquid which, although liquid, is much denser than steel under the extreme heat and pressure.
On top of this, on top of it, there are countless massive lightning bolts. At the poles, there are also glorious auroras.
Eagle Nebula a has more than seventy satellites and many more meteorite boulders orbiting Eagle Nebula a. Nine of Eagle Nebula a's satellites are in hydrostatic equilibrium. These nine moons will become Hawk's construction factory.
The entire Eagle Nebula a system is virgin territory, untouched by life. Hawk will use this as his temporary home for technological development.