Scientific Data Accumulation Is Also a Form of Strength

The first batch of seven Probe Spaceships all safely reached the critical orbit at the Roche Limit, calculated according to parameters such as the probes' mass and material composition, as well as the black hole's mass and Gravity. Their journey toward the black hole had been by the book: they first traveled at Warp, then switched to conventional propulsion upon reaching a certain range from the black hole. Every orbital distance had been precisely calculated, and no accidents occurred.

The second batch also consisted of seven Probe Spaceships. However, unlike the first batch, they did not travel so methodically. Three of them headed directly for the black hole's Roche Limit critical point using Warp Speed Travel. These Probe Spaceships were experimental in nature. Their flight conditions and internal status were monitored in real time by onboard instruments, while the first batch of probes also photographed and monitored them.

As expected, those three spaceships met with an accident. Before their Warp Speed Travel had even reached the black hole's Roche Limit, their Warp travel directions became disordered. It was not that the human instruments had directly malfunctioned, nor had the Force Field Generators broken down. Rather, the black hole's immense Gravity interfered with the Warp fields, causing them to become uncontrollable, and the Probe Spaceships veered off course.

When the Probe Spaceships went off course, humans could still see from the data fed back by their monitoring modules that the ships' automated Warp field control systems were desperately trying to adjust the fields' intensity and direction. Yet all their efforts were futile.

The more the Probe Spaceships' Intelligent Systems tried to correct the problem, the more uncontrollable the situation became. In the end, they darted about in Warp like headless flies, before being dragged directly toward the black hole by its