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MidReal Story
The Last Hope
Scenario:人类首次观测到宇宙边缘的星光时，收到了自己十万年前发出的求救信号。
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Aurora Blackwood
intelligent, and compassionate. Aurora discovers a distress signal from the edge of the universe, leading her team on a perilous journey to uncover its source. She faces challenges from her crew, including her rival, Captain Marcus. Despite setbacks, she remains focused on the mission and uncovers an ancient alien city with advanced technology.
Ethan Reed
enthusiastic, and naive. Ethan plays a crucial role in deciphering ancient texts found in the alien city they discover. His eagerness sometimes leads him into danger but ultimately contributes to their groundbreaking discoveries.
Lena Carter
loyal, and brave. Lena supports Aurora throughout their journey despite facing personal challenges like being separated from her family for years. Her expertise helps navigate technical hurdles during their mission to explore an ancient alien city.
When humanity finally reached the edge of the universe, they found a distress signal waiting there for them.
It was sent out a hundred thousand years ago, a beacon calling for help from a civilization long since dead.
The question was, who was meant to receive it?
Aurora
We were at the very edge of the universe, hanging just beyond the terminus of the cosmic horizon in the great void, when we stumbled upon the signal.
I was leading the Galactic Expedition Team in search of a new habitable planet, one that could take some of the pressure off an overcrowded Earth, when my chief astrophysicist rushed onto the bridge looking like she’d seen a ghost.
"What is it?" I asked her.
She didn’t answer.
Instead she just handed me her tablet.
On the screen, a single wavelength lit it up – a wavelength that wasn’t red-shifted or blue-shifted like all the others we’d been picking up.
It was as if this wavelength had been emitted and received simultaneously.
As if it had crossed the vast expanse of space in zero time.
As if it had ignored the speed of light completely.
"Where did you find this?"
I asked her.
"An ancient satellite," she said.
"It’s been orbiting one of the nearby stars."
I looked back at the tablet.
The satellite was in a highly unstable elliptical orbit, which explained why we hadn’t detected it before.
It would have been in the glare of the sun for most of its path, only becoming visible when it crossed the cosmic horizon.
"Get Lena and Ethan down here," I said.
"We need to figure out how to retrieve this thing."
We gathered in the ship’s conference room.
Lena was our chief engineer, and Ethan our chief cryptologist.
The three of us spread the satellite’s orbital data out across the holographic display that dominated one wall of the room.
"This is going to be tricky," Lena said.
"The satellite’s orbit is so unstable that we only have a narrow window to retrieve it."
Ethan shook his head.
"I don’t think we should even bother. We’re not equipped to handle something like this."
I looked at him incredulously.
"Are you kidding me? We have the entire resources of humanity at our disposal and you’re telling me we can’t figure out a way to retrieve a simple satellite?"
He shrugged.
"It’s not just a simple satellite. It’s an alien artifact. It’s not something we’re prepared to handle."
Lena snorted.
"We’re not prepared to handle anything. We’re on a mission to find a new home for humanity and we’ve been out here for two years without finding anything. If we don’t find something soon, they’re going to pull our funding and send us back home."
I glared at her.
"That’s not helping." Before I could say anything else, the door burst open and Marcus strode into the room uninvited.
Marcus was my chief navigator, but he had no business being here right now.
"What are you doing here?"
I asked him.
"I heard what you were planning," he said, "and I had to come down to stop you."
I shook my head.
"You have no authority over this mission. You need to leave."
He didn’t move.
"You can’t be serious about this. The resources required to retrieve this thing would be enormous. We can’t afford it."
I sighed.
"I’m afraid I am serious. And as mission leader, I have final authority over all decisions made on this ship. Now leave."
He glared at me for a moment, then turned and walked away.
When he was gone, I turned back to Ethan and Lena.
"All right," I said.
"Let’s get to work."
I studied the holographic display of the satellite’s erratic trajectory.
It spun wildly through the void, its path taking it in a wide arc around the star it orbited.
Lena pointed to a set of coordinates on the screen.
"If we position ourselves here, we can use the gravitational pull of the nearby dwarf star to slingshot ourselves into a trajectory that will put us in range of the satellite."
Ethan spoke up.
"I’ve been going over the data we’ve received from the satellite. It’s made of a strange alloy that I’ve never seen before. It’s incredibly dense, but it’s also incredibly light. It’s almost as if it’s made of anti-matter."
I ignored him and turned back to Lena.
"How long would it take us to get there?"
"About three days," she said.
"And then we’d have to wait another two days for the satellite to come into range."
"And how long would we have to retrieve it?"
"A narrow window. About thirty seconds."
"And then what? How do we get back?"
She pointed to another set of coordinates on the screen.
"We’d have to position ourselves here, where we could use the gravitational pull of this nearby planet to slingshot ourselves back towards Earth."
I looked at her incredulously.
"You expect us to hit a window that small at that speed?"
She nodded.
"It’s not impossible. We just need to time it perfectly."
"What happens if we miss?"
She shrugged.
"We crash into the planet." I looked at Ethan and Lena.
"Get to work on running simulations. I want you to figure out exactly how much time we have and what our exact trajectory needs to be."
They both nodded and set to work.
The next day, they called me into the conference room again.
This time, they had a simulation software running on the holographic display.
Lena manipulated it with her tablet, moving our ship through space and time until we were positioned in front of the satellite.
Then she took control of a probe that shot out from our ship and chased after the satellite.
The probe followed an intricate path, weaving through space and time until it was in position behind the satellite.
Then Lena manipulated the probe until it was moving in sync with the satellite, following its path perfectly.
Finally, she manipulated our ship until it was in position behind both of them, ready to scoop them up and bring them aboard.
"It’s not going to be easy," she said when she was finished.