Earth Invasion

Chapter 15 L3

L3。在五个拉郎格日中，L3这个点显的孤零零的。不管是处于地月系之间两个六十度夹角上L4和L5，又或是位于月球两侧的L1和L2。这些引力平衡点都处于月球的周围。而隔着一个地球和月球遥遥相望的L3，则更像一个被撇在一边的“坏孩子”。

Indeed, in the development of the Earth-Moon space, L3 can be said to be the least popular place, or a desolate place.In many science fiction novels, this place is set as an anti-moon location, where many villains are lurking, conspiring to rule all mankind.Of course, those who make space development plans will not be influenced by this literary trend of thought.This year is 2429, and it has been 400 years since humans entered space. In this era, even God can only sit in a corner and watch humans advance in space, hoping that some pious missionary can reproduce the glory of the Middle Ages.People may appreciate literary works and regard religious belief as a kind of culture.But on issues related to science, if there is no correct theoretical basis or conclusive experimental evidence, then all have to stand aside.On the issue of space development, literary trends have no influence on development plans.

The biggest problem with L3 being unpopular is this point itself.Historically, the door for mankind to enter the space age was opened in 2038 when China built the first "Tiantian Road" mass accelerator located on Hainan Island.The opportunity for the construction of this accelerator is the success of controlled nuclear fusion and the demand for lunar helium three resources.At the same time, shortly after the completion of this accelerator, the construction of the Earth-Moon Cargo Electromagnetic Slingshot at L1 was also completed.Therefore, the first formal use of space resources by humans is to extract moon dust from the moon.In this case, L1 as a transfer station and L2 on the far side of the moon where there is no direct sunlight to protect optical equipment for near-moon observations have become the preferred targets.In 2081, after the completion of the 300-kilometer-class heavy-duty accelerator "Earth's Red Ribbon" located in the Kilimanjaro Mountains in Tanzania, the construction of the sky factory also started.At this time, the technology of directly using the silicate framework to build the satellite skeleton was not yet mature, and titanium dioxide on the moon became an important metal resource.Therefore, in the 22nd century, the first space construction climax—that is, the era called "the first space revolution" by the SCO people, the space satellite clusters located at L1 and L2 were the first batch to be built. of.

However, the gravitational balance of L1 and L2 is the so-called "dynamic balance", that is to say, the total amount of artificial objects in this place must belong to the scale of "negligible" for the moon and the earth.Although it will take hundreds of years for the total amount of human engineering to reach that scale, a normal person would consider things like planning for a rainy day.And the vertices of these two triangles, L4 and L5, are a stable static gravitational equilibrium point, and here is an ideal place for building a large-scale satellite group.

And L3, which has neither resources nor a stable balance point, naturally has to stand aside.

This situation was more than ten years ago—15 years and seven months to be exact.A big split in NATO made this place where grandma and uncle didn't love to be taken seriously again.When human beings have not stepped out of their home planet.NATO only appears monolithic. After 2038, China began to spread controllable nuclear fusion technology, and at the same time began to promote the global helium-300 fuel quota system.China, which has the only mass accelerator and is the number one industrial country in the world, is fully capable of promoting this system.After all, under the protection of land-based powerful laser weapons, six heavy aircraft carrier battle groups and a floating sea base, unless nuclear weapons are used, no one can touch Hainan Island.Under this system, the estrangement between Germany, France, Italy and other European industrial countries and Americans has become even deeper.And the internal contradictions caused by this estrangement existed on the first day when NATO was restructured into a complex that included politics, economy, and military.In the next 23 years, this contradiction kept fermenting, shifting, and combining.In the end, it turned out to be a contradiction between the emerging space industrial complex and the ground industrial and agricultural complex.Who is the dominant force in this huge NATO group? This kind of weird reason has brought the two sides almost to the point of fighting each other.And in the second space revolution in the first three decades of the 5rd century, that is, during the climax of L[-] settlement, the completely self-sufficient second-generation space city further exacerbated this estrangement between the two sides.And China, which has been shrinking behind the two space construction frenzy, has also begun to pull the split East Russia, Central Asia, and a group of countries in Southeast Asia into the SCO.At the same time, they pointedly pointed out that this way of development of NATO is very dangerous-physical distance will cause psychological distance.In China's thousands of years of history, central government orders have become waste paper when they leave Tongguan, because the distance is too far.In the absence of very convenient space transportation, the large-scale construction of completely self-sufficient space cities will plant the seeds of division.

Under such circumstances, China has missed the construction climax of space settlements for two consecutive times, in addition to building space factories, deep space mining, asteroid belt exploration, and Jupiter survey ships.Under the leadership of China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has laid a solid foundation for the real space age.When the technology of "directional magnetic field" was finally broken in the 23s of the 80rd century, the last hurdle of building a space elevator was completely cleared.Then, the entire SCO entered a 100-year high-speed construction period. In the 24s of the 80th century, the SCO already had 144 four-armed wind-type third-generation space integrated satellites, far exceeding NATO's 92.At the same time, it has a regular fleet of asteroid belt mining, a "gyroscope" class star-breaking mining ship, two super space reducers, two space ports, and an orbital elevator.

As for NATO, although there are more synchronous orbit industrial belts and near-Earth space stations than SCO, it has been stagnant in the crucial deep space mining.At the same time, the conflict between heaven and earth began to intensify.When entering the 25th century, the two parties finally parted ways.The space industry consortium headed by fourteen space industry complexes officially split from NATO to form the Outer Space Alliance (D.S.A).The SCO refers to this force as the "space sphere".And those who mainly focus on ground-based traditional industries continue to inherit the title of NATO.In this great split, NATO lost 80.00% of its space industry and 60.00% of its space fleet.Of the 101 satellites in space (built by New Century) only a few digits are intended to remain in NATO.As for the space circle, on the ground, there are only South Africa in Africa, Poland in Eastern Europe, Argentina in South America, and Georgia in Asia.

　There is another chapter at noon, officially going to space

　　
　
(End of this chapter)