Voyage of the Stars

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It can be said that a warship without a magnetic field shielding system cannot survive within the magnetic field shield range of a Lake-class warship.

It is precisely because of the magnetization phenomenon of the strong magnetic field that the Lake-class battleship is like a king with a domineering look. To deal with the moth-like small captain, you don't even need to fire your guns. Just turn on the shield and turn on the small battleship. The change will be like the minions receiving the impact of the overlord's domineering energy, losing their combat effectiveness one after another.

After all tests of the Dongting ship were completed, the new humanity finally entered the ongoing large-scale industrial shipbuilding stage. For the new fleet, the New Human Design and Manufacturing departments jointly proposed a century-old plan.

This plan was officially implemented after being approved by Yue Yuan.

The first phase of the plan is to expand the number of space docks used to build Lake-class battleships from one to fifty at an average construction rate of one space dock per year in fifty years.

With the experience of building the Dongting ship, the new humans probably know the construction cycle of the Lake-class battleship when resources are sufficient. Roughly, each shipyard can build a lake-class battleship every two and a half years.

Then the second stage is for fifty shipyards to start construction at the same time, and in the next fifty years, a thousand Lake-class battleships will be built.

After becoming a second-level civilization, with the current human computer technology, a lake-class battleship requires about 5,000 crew members, and a thousand battleships, that is, 5 million crew members.

This number has exceeded the human population eighty years ago.

However, human beings now have a population of about 10 million. In another hundred years, there will be no pressure to break through from 10 million to 50 million.

Recruiting five million people out of the fifty million people to become soldiers would have no problem at all under the military and political system of the new humanity.

Of course, the pressure only lasts for a hundred years. In the future, the population of new humans will steadily increase. When it reaches hundreds of millions or even hundreds of millions, the population problem that restricts the size of the fleet will no longer be a problem.

As long as the environment is relatively stable and they are not sailing away during the Great Hibernation, the population will inevitably increase.

Having said that, in this century-old plan, the new humanity will not only build battleships, but also other types of spacecraft.

After all, with a larger population, there must be a place for people to live. After all, humans do not intend to build ground bases on the desolate planet here to live permanently.

This requires more and larger residential spaceships, and if you want to have more spaceships, you need faster resource extraction speed, which requires more spacecrafts with various engineering equipment.

Link by link, the scale of all types of spaceships in the entire human race will experience explosive growth in these hundred years.

In the Centennial Plan, human civilization will also specialize in various derivative technologies of secondary civilization and then use them in various fields of society.

All these are not enough.

It can be said that as long as this century-old plan is completed, mankind will truly become a mature second-level civilization.

Of course, in addition to various major projects and industries in the general direction, mankind also needs to carry out a series of internal reforms.

The first is to carry out a series of reforms for the new government to alleviate some of the class solidification problems caused by military rule.

Military rule is not a big problem when there are few people, but when there are more people, many contradictions that were temporarily suppressed by the leader's prestige will gradually emerge.

Just like class solidification.

Of course, class solidification is not only found in military and political systems, but can exist in any system. As long as humans live long enough and sit in a certain position long enough, they will definitely exist.

The best way to solve this problem is naturally the term responsibility system. However, in the interstellar era, the term system will also cause another problem, which is the conflict between frequent changes of leaders and the long rhythm of interstellar life.

Just like the term of office of a person in charge is only twenty years, but the plan he is responsible for is likely to last for a hundred or hundreds of years, and there are also situations where human civilization often sails for hundreds of years.

This will cause unnecessary internal friction.

Therefore, Yue Yuan will never let that kind of rice-style democracy sprout among new humans. Of course, in fact, Yue Yuan doesn't have many worries in this regard at all, because the growth environment and education system of the new humans have made them take the current system for granted.

However, it is also necessary to appropriately relax policy pressure on the private sector.

In fact, no matter what kind of system it is, as long as it does not mess around with civil affairs all day long, and often uses power to show off to the people and increase the sense of power, it will be the same for ordinary people.

Moreover, the new government reforms led by Yue Yuan will naturally not be designed to allow others to overthrow themselves. His ultimate purpose in doing so was actually to introduce the concept of technological governance that he had always wanted to implement at that time.

The so-called technological governance does not mean that scientists should be leaders or immerse themselves in bureaucracy all day long. Theoretical scientists are still theoretical scientists, but they have a higher status and are given a more noble spiritual symbol in society.

This is conducive to the formation of the concept of scientific supremacy in human society, and the concept of scientific supremacy will allow human civilization to move to a higher level of civilization faster.

Of course, specific measures still need to be taken.

For example, the talent selection method needs to be changed.

In the idea of ​​technocracy, decision-makers are selected based on their expertise in a given area of ​​responsibility, especially scientific or technical knowledge. This system is significantly different from the democratic concept that voter representatives should be the main decision-makers of the new government.

Of course, this does not mean that all public opinion representatives should be eliminated. In other fields that do not involve science and technology, they can still be treated differently.

In this philosophy, decision-makers are selected for leadership based on expertise and performance rather than political affiliation or meeting skills.

Yue Yuan decided to work with other experts to develop a feasible system in this regard in the coming period.

It is true that this change will weaken his dictatorial power to hold whoever holds that position, but such power is simply unnecessary and unreasonable. Therefore, when mankind changes from a weak country with a small population to a truly populous country, After civilization, changes must be made.

Otherwise, not to mention the expansion of power, it will also endanger human scientific progress.

What he wants is not absolute dictatorship, but enlightened dictatorship.

This kind of technocratism, or technocrats, appeared as early as the twentieth century and belongs to utopian socialism.

Of course, it is impossible for today's new humanity to copy previous theories. They can only use this concept to formulate a system that is consistent with the current human social conditions and is conducive to the provision of scientific literacy.

Time is spent in proposing and completing one thing after another.