This was Orange Star.
The Star Observation System spread across the planet's orbit, with over ten thousand satellites from two generations of systems monitoring the extraterrestrial civilization's activities in real time.
The new detection satellites used gravitational wave detection, capable of instantaneous, indiscriminate scans within a billion kilometers-a considerable range relative to their size. The older satellites used an electromagnetic wave detection system, with electromagnetic waves further divided into visible and invisible light.
Together, they formed an enormous system built across different eras of Orange Star's technological development.
The peculiar "eyes" of these technological creations floated quietly in the vacuum of space, inconspicuous as they orbited a massive, orange-red rocky planet.
Water Blue Star time: July 2, 2054.
Observations showed swarms of Interstellar Missiles rising from Water Blue Star against the dark backdrop of space. Their simple shapes were easy to distinguish.
Luo Qi thought they looked like missiles. Surely they could not be gifts from the people of Water Blue Star to the aliens.
Trailing bright ion streams, the missiles played out a spaceborne version of little tadpoles searching for their mother.
All right, perhaps that analogy was a little inappropriate.
But from a visible-light perspective, this "mother tadpole" seemed rather eager to receive her children.
It headed straight toward them, and then intense bursts of visible and invisible light flickered ceaselessly through the Solar System-flash, flash, flash.
It was like an enormous conference, where the constant bursts of camera flashes formed a focal point so dazzling that people could barely keep their eyes open.
Luo Qi noted that even the satellites equipped with optical lenses were struggling. Switching to the Invisible Light detection system did little good; the chaotic radiation made it difficult to see anything.
He switched again, this time to gravitational monitoring. Although the view was