Extraterrestrial Intelligence Service.
As mankind's only external intelligence agency today.
Since humans detected the Bosnian expedition fleet four years ago, the establishment of this department has expanded rapidly like a balloon. From a small department of a hundred or ten people that almost no one cared about, it has now expanded to a large department of a thousand people. .
Even after the war, this department did not cut back at all, but continued to expand steadily.
The entire intelligence bureau is divided into eight branches, covering star map calculation, astronomical reconnaissance, monitoring of cosmic signals, exploration of extraterrestrial civilizations, technology level assessment, and diplomatic negotiations with extraterrestrial civilizations.
Of course, the only extraterrestrial civilization discovered by humans today is Bo.
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At this time, a conference room of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agency was filled with people and there was silence.
A long-distance quantum communication device that was disassembled from the Bo star spacecraft and repaired by humans was placed on the stage.
Of course, only large spacecrafts are generally equipped with ultra-high-power long-range quantum communication equipment for interstellar communication. Naturally, its size cannot be so small. However, such a giant equipment with a height of nearly 30 meters is obviously impossible to place in a conference room. Now all that is placed on the stage is its pickup (a device that collects live sounds and then sends them to the backend)
A negotiator and an assistant whispered to each other about the manuscript for a while, then took a deep breath and made a ready gesture. Electricity quickly passed through the communication equipment, and small lights represented normality. One by one they light up.
The signal channel was soon opened.
"This is a call from human beings. We now represent human civilization and formally request to negotiate with you. If you receive a signal, please answer immediately. Please answer immediately!"
The negotiator carefully and fluently spoke a series of Bo Xing language, and then repeated it three times.
For many people of the older generation, Bo Xing language is not unfamiliar. In a certain era, in order to better absorb Bo Xing technology, many people worked hard to learn the language of this alien civilization, and For the diplomatic service of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agency, proficiency in this language is even more important.
Many high-level officials came today. Except for those who really had something to do and couldn't leave, almost all of them came to the conference room and paid attention to this historic call. Apart from Bo Xing, mankind's blood feud, this is undoubtedly the first time that mankind has officially made peace with Another civilized dialogue.
However, as time passed by, the communication equipment became silent for a long time, and no sound came except for the noisy interference.
But this is expected. After all, even quantum communication will experience a certain delay at a distance of tens of light years, but I didn't expect it to be delayed for such a long time.
A group of people waited from morning until noon, and from noon until afternoon.
From the initial silence, to whispers, and finally to noisy discussions.
Just when the hungry people thought that the communication had failed, a string of rapid Bo Xing language came from the loudspeaker, and the entire conference room fell silent.
"Humans? Are you humans?" This voice, which came from nearly thirty light-years away, seemed a bit erratic under the heavy cosmic interference, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, and occasionally with a hint of harsh sharpness.
But even people who don't understand Bo Xing's language can still hear the unbelievable shock and panic in this voice.
This is a subtle mentality. As the losing side of this war, they hope that this defeat is just another accident and that off-site factors affected the expedition fleet (which is the case), even if the probability is almost impossible, and Feeling panic about the speed of human development.
"I repeat, this is a call from human beings. Now, on behalf of human civilization, we formally request to negotiate with you. No matter who you are, please immediately contact the higher-ups you can contact. We are here with peace."
Another long wait, this is destined to be the longest negotiation in history.
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While the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agency carried out strategic deception and lowered the vigilance of the Bosians.
Humanity has also begun an explosion of productivity. When technology develops into the mature intelligent age, the total amount of productivity has been freed from the shackles of population. The size of productivity is only determined by the will of the upper class and the limitations of resources and environmental damage.
Although Barnard's star system is only a star system, it is extremely rich in resources for human development.
The total mass of Planet 4 alone is equivalent to the sum of all the rocky planets in the entire solar system.
On the surface of Planet 4, huge engineering machinery representing traces of human activities spread rapidly around like a virus. Whether it was the "ice layer" after the surface atmosphere was frozen and solidified, or the underground rocks, they were all destructively mined. , separated into various elements, becoming factories, machines, and fuel for nuclear fusion furnaces numbering in the millions.
This massive human activity has even affected the temperature of the planet. The frozen planet No. 4 is continuing to rise at a temperature of three degrees Celsius every year. By the third year after the war, the planet already has a thin atmosphere and certain climate changes.
Also during this year, mankind's first curvature spacecraft began its trial voyage.
However, only one spacecraft of this type was built, which vetoed the original plan to build nearly thirty ships.
It's not that this spaceship has any obvious flaws, it's perfectly designed and has absorbed the technology of the Bosnians, making humanity's technological strength a huge leap forward.
The surface of the entire spacecraft presents an absolutely smooth mirror surface, and the reflectivity of light (the reflectivity of the light surface of vertically incident light) is close to 100%. Even photons traveling at super-light speeds can be effectively resisted.
Its maximum curvature can reach 4.5 times the speed of light, which is far more than three times the speed of light of the Boxing spacecraft.
The reason why the subsequent shipbuilding plan was rejected was because the anti-matter power furnace, which had been in an experimental state, also matured this year. As soon as this special power furnace was born, it showed a crushing advantage.
Even if it is just the first prototype, its maximum energy output is more than 300 times that of the largest fusion furnace built by mankind. Only ten units are enough to supply the energy needs of the entire spacecraft originally designed.
Coupled with the space saved in fuel, even a simple replacement can free up 15% of the space.
This first-generation curvature spacecraft is simply a flood discharge dam for energy consumption, and a considerable part of the space is used to store pure water (nuclear fusion fuel) and increase the fusion furnace array.
Don't underestimate this 15% space.
Humans are not the Bosnians who have always been in a long-term peace and have no external enemies. War has almost run through the entire history of mankind. Compared with the Bosnians' childlike attitude towards military affairs, human beings' thinking about military weapons is completely picky, and the pursuit of weapon performance has reached its limit. , on human military spaceships, you will not see any idle space.
Not to mention 15% of the space, even 1% is still a huge waste.
It not only makes the design of the spacecraft more relaxed, but also allows the extra space to have more powerful kinetic energy by simply adding an antimatter power furnace without expanding the size of the spacecraft.
Except for one flaw, antimatter reserves are limited.
Antimatter preparation technology has made significant progress in recent years. Now the energy/antimatter conversion rate has reached one ten thousandth, that is, 10,000 parts of energy can be converted into one part of antimatter energy. However, since its temporary residence in the Badna star system, human beings have been producing antimatter on a small scale. Even during wartime, the scale of production has not expanded at all.
Firstly, there is a serious waste of energy, and secondly, there is not much demand for antimatter, and it is useless for interstellar warfare. Facing long distances, light speed weapons are the most mainstream weapons in interstellar warfare, and they are also the most effective weapons.
Therefore, after humans have been in this galaxy for more than ten years, the total antimatter reserve is only a few thousand tons, a considerable part of which was harvested from the Bosnian spacecraft, but this amount is far from enough for a curvature spacecraft to span nearly thirty light years. energy requirements.
Fortunately, this defect can be easily remedied. With the current technological level of mankind, simply expanding the scale of production is a piece of cake.
In the fourth year, in just one year, the scale of antimatter production expanded tenfold to 5,000 tons.
By the fifth year, antimatter production reached 80,000 tons, and the price paid was that the temperature of Planet 4 increased by another ten degrees in the past two years.