"9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition!"
With the ignition command, a towering rocket slowly lifted off from a Rocket Launch Base in Equatorial Country. Its long, azure plume struggled to push the hopes of all Deep Blue Star People straight into the heavens.
Propelled by solid fuel, it soon broke through Deep Blue Star's Third Cosmic Velocity and became a satellite orbiting Deep Blue Star.
But this was only the beginning of the rocket's journey. According to the Deep Blue Star People's design, after being pushed into Deep Blue Star's orbit, the rocket would first circle the planet several times, using Deep Blue Star to accelerate. It would then fly toward the gaseous planet known to the Deep Blue Star People as Great Yin Star, where it would use the Gravity Slingshot principle to accelerate once more before finally heading beyond this Star System.
During the process, this latest-generation probe would undergo two more Gravity Slingshot accelerations. During the last one, it would correct its course and fly toward the direction where the aliens had previously been observed.
After that, the probe would embark on a journey lasting more than a decade, eventually reaching the vicinity of the Meteorite Belt where the aliens were located.
The probe itself carried an Electromagnetic Wave generator, capable of transmitting signals toward a target location in a cone-shaped pattern of Electromagnetic Wave propagation. The Deep Blue Star People hoped to use this method to actively establish contact with the aliens.
The aliens' actions had exceeded the Deep Blue Star People's expectations. The anticipated initiative from the aliens never came. Left with no alternative, they could only take the initiative and contact the aliens themselves. The distance was incredibly vast; even with Deep Blue Star's most advanced aerospace technology, it would