Association Space Maintenance Department, storm precursor observation parameter calculation drill site.
For the first drill, they would not be plunging headfirst into the void yet. They would first see whether they could observe the precursors, so they only needed to open a passage gate.
There was no particular requirement for where the gate's coordinates led. Based on Jia Xiu's understanding of how frequently precursors occurred, they could open it anywhere in a storm-prone area. Even if they did not see one currently underway, they would see one after waiting a little while.
According to the calculation algorithms, the time and location of a storm could theoretically be derived from precursor parameters gathered from multiple locations within a given range.
Thus, precursors were far more frequent and densely packed than storms themselves.
The gap was not severalfold or even several dozenfold, but tens of thousands of times. To capture a storm that would occur at some future location, they only needed to obtain parameters from any small patch of space within the range. That was also why Jia Xiu had only planned to have eight people observe the precursors in eight quadrants.
The countless precursors observed within a single quadrant all pointed to the same result, and there was a high chance that those from different quadrants would still lead to that same result.
Using eight people was already a conservative arrangement made for the sake of insurance, ensuring there would be no chance of anyone being unable to keep up.
Since they did not need to enter the void, the drill looked somewhat "bland."
That was what Jia Xiu thought.
From the outside, it was simply a row of people staring blankly into the void beyond the passage gate. After staring for quite some time, they wrote and sketched, remotely