Tom's massive fleet was still traveling at 85% of the speed of light.
This interstellar voyage had already lasted for decades, and the dark red star ahead was no longer distant.
Through the telescope, Tom could already observe the situation inside the solar system in quite detail.
He saw an extremely massive, giant star with a radius of a full fifty million kilometers—this meant its volume was more than three hundred thousand times that of the Sun, but its mass was less than three times that of the Sun;
He saw intense stellar activity unfolding on this red giant, saw violent stellar winds constantly blowing from the star's surface, stripping away large amounts of stellar material, sweeping across the entire solar system;
He saw gigantic solar prominences, like "starry sky gates," constantly extending, breaking, and combining on the star's surface, driven by the stellar magnetic field;
