Voyage of the Stars

In fact, this is indeed the case.

The Millennium Project, this is the human definition of this project. But a thousand years doesn’t really only take a thousand years, but thousands of years.

The drawings of the new particle collider were completed with the cooperation of many design institutes. After the drawings were produced, they were reviewed and finalized by multiple scientific institutions.

This is the first phase of the Millennium Project.

In the second stage, the engineering department will check the various functional structures, required material properties, various supporting modules, etc. involved in the drawing requirements one by one according to the drawings, and determine the design in the drawings through experimental demonstration. All parts are manufactured, whether humans are capable of manufacturing them.

At the same time, scientific teams in various fields will also make efforts in their own fields when the big project reaches this stage.

For example, experts in the computer field are responsible for cooperating with experts in strong artificial intelligence design to design specialized strong artificial intelligence for mining in major star systems in the future. Theoretical physicists are using this time to continue looking for loopholes in the various principles involved in building such a large collider. Experimental physicists form a scientific team to conduct targeted optimization experiments on the functional realization of various module components of the new particle collider.

Of course, I don’t know about computers and physicists. Building such a collider requires the cooperation of all human beings, covering almost all disciplines. Including overall planning, logistics and transportation, management and control, etc.

Experts in astronomy are not idle either. They need to collect information from the universe through various detectors to determine whether the environmental radiation and spatial distance of a certain universe are suitable for building a new particle collider.

Needless to say, mathematicians, their role is not in a single field, but throughout all aspects of the subject involved in the entire project, that is, they are needed in every aspect.

It can be said that after the new government decided to really get started, everyone who was still useful to society became busy, and even the private sector was not idle.

The new government has promulgated various support projects required for the construction of new particle collider in the society, including the recruitment of mineral transport personnel and mining area patrol personnel.

Although it has an ideological imprint, humans are still worried about letting a strong artificial intelligence dig mines for thousands of years in a certain star system alone, and humans are required to patrol. Mineral resource transportation tasks also require human participation. The reason is that humans cannot create so many strong artificial intelligences at once, and they are not confident about single intelligent programs.

Construction also requires the participation of engineering and technical personnel, rather than just leaving it to strong artificial intelligence. This time the new particle collider construction project is a joint operation between humans and strong artificial intelligence.

However, since strong artificial intelligence already has self-awareness, humans do not treat strong artificial intelligence as slave labor, but give them a certain amount of respect, which is mainly reflected in vacations and rotations.

In this construction plan, the first batch of strong artificial intelligence assigned to mine will mine in the target star system for three to five hundred years, and then they will be replaced by the next batch of strong artificial intelligence. The withdrawn strong artificial intelligence will come to the human headquarters for maintenance and repair.

Of course, this requires humans to have sufficiently strong artificial intelligence.

Therefore, creating a new batch of strong artificial intelligence is already part of the plan to build a new particle collider.

The third stage is mining. In the entire grand plan, mining operations in nearby star systems will run through the entire new particle collider project.

Humanity plans to start construction in 6 to 8 star systems at the same time. The specific number of star systems needed to be excavated will be determined based on actual detection data and transportation costs.

If the resources of rocky planets in the star system are relatively abundant, it is estimated that only six star systems need to be hollowed out. If the resources are not very rich, it may be increased to eight.

Humanity's goal is to hollow out all the rocky planets in the target star system within a thousand years.

After the third phase has progressed for some time, the fourth phase of the plan will be carried out simultaneously.

Humanity will begin to actually build a new particle collider at a suitable location in space between the selected mining star systems.

In the construction phase, the main body of human civilization will be the headquarters, and mineral resources transported from various stars will be processed, and then construction will begin. Components that can be modularized will be modularized, and precision components that cannot be modularized will be built all the way.

Since it is still in the planning stage, humans do not yet know how long it will take to build such a particle collider with an astronomical length, but it is initially estimated that it will not be less than 1,500 years.

Time flies, and it has been more than a hundred years since mankind set out on a voyage.

During these more than a hundred years, experts and scholars from all walks of life and in all aspects of mankind have performed their duties and successfully completed the first stage of the master plan. At the same time, detection missions to serve this millennium project have also been put on the agenda.

One after another, the advance fleets separated from the human main fleet. They originally intended to target various star systems in the star field. They would be led by human commanders to explore the stars within that star field.

When the human fleet arrives, they will collect information on the internal conditions of several stars in that star field to the human fleet headquarters to provide the most realistic data for the development stage of the Millennium Project.

It is foreseeable that the stars in the star field targeted by humans will lose all rocky planets in a few thousand years and become stars with only gaseous planets, or naked stars.

Perhaps in the near future, if a low-level civilization arrives in this star field, they may find that there are no rocky planets in the six or seven star systems in this star field. At that time, they may think that it is a strange phenomenon in the universe and study it!

After more than a dozen exploration teams were sent out, the human fleet continued to sail along the original route. At this moment, the fleet was less than a hundred years away from its destination.

Humans seemed to have returned to the time of wandering around. The difference was that this time humans did not encounter other alien civilizations, and the so-called relics were nothing. It seemed that only humans were active in the entire starry sky.

There was a feeling of loneliness and desolation, but humans had long been accustomed to such sailing and running around in the universe.

This may be the normal phenomenon of space travel. Humans have encountered many alien civilizations, but they did not encounter them at the same time and place. They often traveled for hundreds or even thousands of years and traveled through countless star systems before encountering those civilizations one after another.

From the perspective of time span and regional intervals, the alien civilizations encountered by humans are not actually frequent.

Just like this voyage, the human fleet sailed towards the target star field one star at a time, but until it finally arrived at its destination, it did not encounter any civilization. Along the way, let alone alien civilization, it did not even encounter a planet with life. All were the most ordinary and common barren planets in the universe.