At that moment, on the bridge of the Dawn Angel, the large, well-organized staff and command teams automatically shifted into their scientific survey mode, beginning a more detailed analysis of the intelligence sent back by the forward scouting fleet and unmanned probes.
They had naturally already seen the land and seas suspended within that enormous silver ring. Of course, perhaps because the Imperial soldiers had already been stunned once, or perhaps because Su Liuka, their resolute and unyielding sovereign, was aboard, their shock, though considerable, had at least not affected their efficiency.
Before long, the preliminary analysis was delivered to Brunhild.
"Your Highness, we can confirm that the... ring we're seeing isn't perfectly circular, but elliptical. Its closest point to the surface of this system's star is 1.28 astronomical units, or 178 million kilometers. At its farthest, it's 1.35 astronomical units, or 188 million kilometers."
In this era, an astronomical unit usually referred to the distance between a civilization's home planet and the sun of its star system. For a long time, the broad definition of "astronomical unit" had been one of the reasons the Empire and the Alliance had fought like cats and dogs. It wasn't until the Galactic Civilization Council was established that the unit was standardized as the distance between Huaxu, the council's homeworld, and its star.
Brunhild quickly realized that this was precisely the standard habitable zone for a naturally habitable planet, wasn't it?
"What about its mass?" Ostana asked.
"We're still analyzing that, but we can already determine its overall length. It's between 10.5 and 10.7 billion kilometers."
"How on earth did they build such a marvel..." Many people drew in sharp breaths, adding yet another burden to the Dawn Angel's environmental balancing system.
The sight alone was certainly awe-inspiring, but that was an emotional