Exploration Yielded Nothing

Humanity could have simply left after the probes achieved nothing, but curiosity ultimately got the better of them. After some discussion, they decided to conduct further exploratory research experiments.

This was also part of the capture-and-research plan proposed by the scientists who believed the phenomenon was some kind of lifeform.

They had originally intended for the Probe Spaceships to capture it directly. However, subsequent observations revealed that the so-called light sources were not diffuse matter at all. Moreover, humanity's Probe Spaceships found it difficult to retrieve the luminous points, because whenever they approached, the points vanished and reappeared elsewhere.

Although the distance between where they vanished and where they reappeared was not particularly great, their transfers were simply too fast, occurring almost instantaneously. Humanity had no way to collect them for observation.

Thus, humanity had no choice but to find another solution.

First, the scientists believed that this flickering phenomenon was unique to this Nebula. Whether it was caused by some lifeform or was a natural phenomenon, it existed only by relying on the Nebula.

If that assumption was correct, humanity would not need to worry about dangers during the subsequent capture operation. After all, these flickering spots of light were unknown entities. To study them, humanity first needed at least some understanding of them, including whether they were dangerous.

Determining whether they depended on the Nebula was part of that. If they did rely on the Nebula, humanity could use Vacuum Zones to isolate them during future research and prevent them from spreading, thus avoiding unknown dangers.

The bold plan was therefore obvious. Humanity intended to deploy a group of Engineering Ships and use the force fields generated by their Force Field Generators to push—or rather, cut apart—a portion of the Nebula, then see whether the light spots could