The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3764

Chapter 3764 - Garimel System

After a lengthy journey through the Krakatoa Middle Zone, the expeditionary fleet finally reached the mission destination!

Moments before the fleet was scheduled to transition back into realspace, Ves and all of the other people on the ships momentarily experienced an unknown fluctuation.

It was as if their bodies were turning into jelly. It was a deeply uncomfortable sensation and made plenty of people worried.

This transition from the higher dimensions into realspace was not as easy as before!

Just as a couple of people began to worry about their bodies breaking apart, they all felt a strong suction feeling before their bodies instantly solidified again.

The fleet successfully arrived on the outskirts of the Garimel System!

"Deploy our mechs!"

"Scan our immediate surroundings."

"Count our ships and check for damage."

"Measure the radiation levels and report if there are any dangers."

"Keep our radiation shielding up and make sure that all of our people are wearing their protective suits."

The latter was an important precaution. Even though the suits did not offer that much protection against threatening radiation, it might make a difference if a solar flare swept the expeditionary fleet.

Nobody was comfortable wearing their protective suits during this time, but it was better to be safe than sorry.

As usual, Ves sat in the observer's seat on the bridge of his flagship during this key moment. He wore his Unending Regalia as usual and paid careful attention to the initial findings of his crew members.

The local plot which previously showed vague details became a little more clearer this time.

"Our current position is within our safety margins. Our mechs and ships are not under threat as long as we maintain this distance from the star."

The blue supergiant star was a lot larger and massive than a yellow dwarf star like humanity's ancestral sun!

It was difficult to describe the immensity and power of Garimel's central star. The enormous blue orb looked like it could swallow up a million ordinary dwarf stars!

Getting close to this humongous energy source was definitely suicide!

Fortunately, FTL drives were sensitive towards mass. A blue supergiant was many times heavier than ordinary stars and therefore changed the spacetime curvature over a significantly greater volume.

All of this meant that the expeditionary fleet landed much further away from the center than usual. It would take many days in order to the center of the star system, not that anyone was stupid enough to attempt such a feat.

More details emerged as the sensor operators and analysts gathered more data.

"The blue supergiant radiates so much heat that our ships will not be able to remain cool if they get too close. Depending on their heat capacity and heat dispersal characteristics, we will need to pull them away from the center of the star system so that their rate of heat loss exceeds the rate of heat absorption."

Ves frowned a bit when he heard this report. Although the astrophysicists had already predicted this condition, he hoped the conditions would be a little more temperate.

"How many planets have you found?" He asked.

"Only two so far, sir. Each of them is located in the outer system which we have expected. The closest is a dense superheavy terrestrial star that is presumably rich in metals but is far too hot for us to mine, let alone scout. The second is a gas giant that is located in the furthest reaches of the outer system and is likely safe enough for us to visit. We are not able to make any solid conclusions yet, but we have gathered preliminary clues that the gas giant is orbited by more than a dozen smaller moons."

"I see."

When Ves studied the constantly-updating plot, he judged that the first planet was too close to the blue supergiant star for the Larkinsons to explore. The second planet should be safer since it was quite distant from the massive heat source at the center of the Garimel System.

Both planets looked like oddballs. Their orbits were angled and their rotations were skewed. If that wasn't weird enough, their orbits were likely elliptical as well!

These were typical signs that the planets weren't native to the Garimel System.

In other words, they were adopted.

This made sense since blue supergiants generally possessed short lifespans. They typically lasted less than 100 million years, which was not enough time for the gasses and other space junk to merge into actual planets.

"We have confirmed that Garimel I and Garimel II are former rogue planets. They both originated elsewhere and wandered the Red Ocean for an unknown amount of years. Eventually, they flew close enough to Garimel to be captured by the blue supergiant. We are still gathering more data in order to determine how long ago their captures took place."

Ves was intrigued by these results.

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