Voyage of the Stars

"Originally it was Barnard's Star, which was the closest. It was only 5.6 light-years away from us. However, considering that the Silver Mist may have obtained interstellar navigation technology from our factory, we changed our goal and went further. The Wolf 1061."

The science officer replied: "Wolf 1061 is about 8.1 light-years away from us now, which is farther than Barnard's Star, but relatively safer. There are about 24 stars within 15 light-years of the Ross 154 star system, and even if the silver haze If it really masters the ability of interstellar navigation, I don’t think it can know us in the vast sea of ​​​​stars. But having said that, I don’t think Wolf 1061 is safe, after all, the Silver Mist”

"I know!"

Yue Yuan walked to the porthole, looked at the exterior of the three Starlight ships, and sighed: "If Silver Mist really gets technology from our legacy factory and develops, then I am afraid that the entire star field will not be safe. If they master With controllable nuclear fusion technology, the sailing speed must be much faster than ours. In a few hundred years, it may develop into a cosmic disaster."

"Yes, so Wolf 1061 is just our temporary destination. We have to run further. We can run as far as we can before reaching level three civilization." The science officer was fiddling with the equipment in front of him. , while speaking.

"It seems that we will not be able to develop in one place for a long time in a short period of time." Yue Yuan still put his hands on the railing and looked out the window.

Humanity has finally gotten rid of the Silver Mist, but we don’t know how long this escape will last. It may be a hundred years, it may be hundreds of years. But as long as the Silver Mist has not been eliminated, this star field will still be a dangerous star field for humans.

In other words, it will basically be difficult for humans to stay in one place for a long time in the future.

As the Hope slowly sailed into deep space and gradually disappeared into the bright starry sky, mankind embarked on a new journey.

However, the influence of silver mist has not faded away from human life.

In daily life, people also mention Silver Mist, a creation of alien civilization, from time to time. As the new government that leads mankind, it also held a summary meeting for this purpose.

It mainly summarizes the gains, losses and lessons learned in this silver fog incident.

At the meeting, Yue Yuan first conducted a self-examination on his judgment in the final stage. He should not have agreed to carry out the final useless bombardment and put humanity in danger.

Although it is said that no one can make mistakes without being a sage, this kind of thing really shouldn't happen.

However, regarding Yue Yuan's self-examination, the participants said that without adequate preparation in advance, humans would not even have a chance to escape.

Having said that, it also shows that humans lack experience in facing alien civilizations. It can be said that at this time, the silver mist truly taught mankind a lesson about the dangers of cosmic civilization.

This course is heavy.

It also makes mankind clearly realize that advanced civilization is advanced civilization. Even a miner who only knows how to mine cannot be defeated by low-level civilization.

At the same time, it also tells humans that sometimes greed may cost lives.

If human beings had ignored the strange signals from the beginning, if human beings had not planned to rescue the Mokians from the beginning, if human beings had only thought of running away from the beginning.

There are no ifs in the world. Such lessons can only be written in people's hearts, so that people can always remain vigilant in their subsequent actions.

At the meeting, in addition to self-examination and introspection, there was also a mission arrangement for humanity's next itinerary and a general strategy for humanity's possible encounter with extraterrestrial civilizations.

What can be confirmed is that during the journey to Wolf 1061, most humans entered a long hibernation just like the previous thousand-year voyage. A distance of 8.1 light-years, traveling at 15% of the speed of light, taking into account the slight time dilation, it would take humans approximately 54 years to travel.

It’s only 54 years, and it passed in just one sleep.

After the realization of controllable nuclear fusion, a mere 8.1 light-years is no longer necessary for more than 800 years of difficult navigation under human feet.

After this encounter, almost no one on the Hope now has any illusions about aliens.

Yue Yuan believes that if we encounter other aliens one day, no one in the human race will believe any nonsense about friendliness.

Not only that, this incident is likely to change mankind's attitude towards lower civilizations.

Many people who had ideas for peaceful exchanges basically lost their original ideas after the Silver Mist incident. Yue Yuan even suspected that if humans grew up and encountered a low-level civilization, no one would object to launching a massacre without saying a word.

He has heard many such extreme voices at meetings.

Yue Yuan said he was very happy with this change.

During the voyage of the Hope, before humans went into long-term hibernation, Yue Yuan also organized several special meetings of various departments and types.

What deserves the most attention is the seminar on solving human navigation problems. The discussion mainly revolves around the incompatibility between the fragile human body and the powerful power of controllable nuclear fusion.

For Yue Yuan, there are two themes for this conference. One is to specialize in biotechnology and enhance human beings themselves. The other is to specialize in materials technology and create an acceleration buffer.

For scientists, there is only one theme of this conference, which is to need money, resources, talents, and conduct research.

Supporters of both sides also launched heated discussions on these two routes, but just like the dispute between Xu Zhenyi and Yi Kai, they all insisted on their own opinions and there was no result.

This kind of dispute is not actually about denying the other party's route and not studying it, but that everyone believes that they should first increase their investment in their own proposed route.

For this reason, after the meeting, Xu Zhenyi and Yi Kai went to Yue Yuan's office to clarify their views again, hoping that Yue Yuan would give priority to the investment in their own plans.

"Chief, now humans don't have the corresponding biotechnology at all. Not to mention technology, they don't even have the theory to strengthen the body. So it's better to focus on creating the acceleration buffer first. After all, this material technology already has a considerable theoretical basis. . Or give priority to the acceleration buffer, so that we can solve the problem of high G acceleration faced by humans in the shortest possible time." Xu Zhenyi said.

Yi Kai on the side immediately shook his head: "Although the acceleration buffer has some theoretical basis, if we really want to do this, we have to upgrade the spacecraft and battleships from beginning to end. After all, the so-called acceleration buffer is also a kind of liquid. Then You have to consider the various electronic devices on the spacecraft operating in this liquid."

"This is not a problem, Dr. Yi!" Xu Zhenyi told him his thoughts immediately before Yi Kai finished speaking: "I have understood it with Dr. Yu Nanfeng from the Engineering Department. We don't need to modify all the facilities in the spacecraft. We only need to In addition, just design a buffer acceleration zone for injecting the acceleration buffer."

"The problem of electronic equipment is not difficult to solve. We have a coating technology that can separate electronic equipment from liquids. Dr. Yi's original electrical equipment has been replaced with superconducting materials. There is no resistance and heat dissipation problem. The coating technology is completely feasible."