In January of the 120th year of the Federation calendar, the Titan shipyard, the most important shipyard in the history of human civilization, was declared completed. It was only a matter of time before human civilization could build the next generation of interstellar warships.
In March of the 122nd year of the Federation, major breakthroughs were made in advanced scientific research projects such as super magnetic gravity cannon, super-light flight, circumsolar antimatter furnace... etc.
In July of the 125th year of the Federation Calendar, the human population exceeded the peak of 40 billion, and the need to colonize galaxies was imminent.
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City in the Sky, a huge conference room at the top of civilization, a year-end meeting is going on.
With a conference room of nearly 1,000 square meters, the entire venue is solemn and solemn.
On the curved chairman's conference table, Zhou Xing is sitting in the chairman's seat, with Yang Minghua on the right, Zhou Wenhua on the right... all the core executives of the Shining Star Group are gathered together.
Xie Liwu stood on the podium and gave a work report to everyone in an exciting tone: "... Sales of the Star II expedition ship suddenly peaked at 50 million units, and profit revenue exceeded 1.79 trillion... This year, the federal government will simultaneously launch , Blue Star, Apokolips, Dawn Star...etc., the transformation and immigration projects of thirteen colonial stars, etc., the group has mainly participated in the transformation project of Blue Star, Titanium Star, Dawn Star, costing nearly 5000 trillion, and the project is progressing smoothly... "
"Mr. Zhou, dear colleagues, the group made brilliant achievements last year. The total tax expenditure reached: 1337 trillion, accounting for 12.7% of the federal government's tax revenue. It is very important. Under the leadership of Mr. Zhou, the group will carry out..."
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In the huge conference room, the shareholders and the CEO were all excited and smiling as they listened to Xie Liwu's year-end report.
The sixth scientific and technological revolution of human civilization has broken out. Shining Star Group, which led the outbreak of this revolution, has become a "pig in the spotlight". Its economic size and scientific and technological influence have deeply penetrated into the entire human civilization and society. It can be said that it is the influence of the entire human civilization. Technology oligarchy, as long as human civilization does not suffer a devastating blow, Shining Star Group can continue to rely on it.
In the chair, Zhou Xing looked at Xie Liwu's work report and was satisfied with the speed of development of human technological civilization. However, a lingering worry always troubled him.
Human civilization is now in a period of crazy expansion. Human civilization is enjoying the fruits of the sixth scientific and technological revolution. With the advancement of science and technology, the scope of human civilization's exploration of the universe is getting wider and wider. This expansion is bound to cause trouble, and small troubles can If we solve it, we will eventually encounter unsolvable troubles. Human civilization will encounter a huge crisis, or it will provoke powerful alien intelligent civilizations in the galaxy, or the Dark Zerg, or unknown existences... By then, wars between civilizations will be impossible. Dodge.
In an unknown galaxy, a human exploration ship shuttled out of a space-time wormhole.
The expanding population urgently needs more planets with life. Participating in space exploration missions and embarking on interstellar exploration has become the hottest thing in human civilization at the moment. The Harvey exploration ship is one of the billions of exploration spacecraft in human civilization.
On the USS Harvey expedition ship, the dim lights in the command room suddenly brightened, and a burst of electronic synthesized voice suddenly said: "The preset destination has been reached, the wake-up system is activated."
Immediately, there was a "click" and "click" sound in the sleep chamber, and the sleep hatch covers were opened one after another.
"Captain Harvitt, Commander Li Mu, Adjutant Jones, Captain Henry... arrived at the preset destination, dormancy terminated."
"Captain Harvitt, Commander Li Mu, Adjutant Jones, Captain Henry... arrived at the preset destination, dormancy terminated."
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The electronic synthesis is repeated continuously in the dormant cabin, like an alarm clock that wakes up the crew in the dormant cabin.
"Okay, Jarvis, we're up, shut up." A white man climbed out of the dormant cabin with difficulty and shouted.
"Understood, Captain Henry!" the electronic synthesized voice responded, immediately ending the repeated alarm.
"Haha, why are you so angry with Jarvis! It's just an intelligent program." A middle-aged man reassured with a smile.
"Boss, replace Jarvis quickly! We are all up, but it is still shouting. It is not intelligent at all. The 'Xinghui' of the Star II is the intelligent brain." Henry climbed out of the dormant cabin, He said with an annoyed look on his face.
"That's right, Captain, Henry, you must seriously consider this suggestion." Li Mu, who had just climbed out of the sleeping cabin, agreed with a smile.
"Star Glory II, that thing costs 30 million star coins, and you're going to kill me!" Captain Harwitt rolled his eyes at everyone and scolded with a smile.
"Boss, you get what you pay for! Our Harvey is out of date. If we replace it with the Star II, the time spent on this trip can be reduced by at least one-half, and the safety performance can be improved by at least five times." Henry said remindingly.
"Yes! The Star II not only has sub-light speed, but is also equipped with a proton main gun. Its attack power is a hundred times that of the Harvey..." Henry nodded excitedly and introduced the parameters of the Star II expedition ship in detail.
The risks of interstellar exploration are extremely high, and a good spacecraft is too important for the safety of the crew.
Hearing this, Captain Harvitt was silent for a while. He didn't know the benefits of Star Glory II, but it was hard for him to pay for it!
"We'll wait until this expedition is over. If we can make money, we'll change immediately. If not, it's almost time for our team to break up." Captain Harvitt looked at everyone and suddenly announced.
Henry's eyes widened and he looked at Captain Harwitt in disbelief: "What's going on? Our financial situation is already so bad?"
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Captain Harvitt. They were all shocked by the sudden news.
"I'm sorry, but the expedition groups with financial resources have all replaced the Jingyao II, and we... The competition in this industry is very fierce. If this trip does not get corresponding returns, the Harvey will have no choice but to change its business model." Harveyt The captain looked at everyone and announced sadly.
"Boss..."
Everyone looked at Captain Harvitt, and for a moment, they didn't know how to comfort him.
"Haha, don't be sad, everyone. Maybe we can gain something from this expedition! Not to mention changing the spaceship, maybe everyone will become rich and no longer need to take risks." Li Mu looked at everyone and said with a smile.
"Well! What Li Mu said is right. For the future of rich life, everyone has started to move." Captain Harvitt nodded heavily, looked at everyone urging, and said: "Li Mu, Henry, follow me to the command room, Jones Check the physical status of all members, everyone else is in place, start moving, quick, quick... "
After hearing this, everyone immediately dispersed, inspected the spacecraft, and those who underwent physical examinations... all entered into a tense working state.
Soon, Captain Harvitt led Li Mu and Henry to the command room. Outside the huge command window, a blue and green planet came towards them.
"Jarvis, report the situation of the spacecraft." As soon as Captain Harwitt walked into the command room, he immediately issued an order to the auxiliary brain.
"The Harvet's current speed is 350 kilometers per second, the hull pressure is normal, and the gravity inside the ship is 0.87g..." an electronic synthesized voice detailed the status of the spacecraft.
"Jarvis, how long will it take for us to reach the Blue-Green Star? Report the monitoring information of the Blue-Green Star." Captain Harvitt continued to ask while looking at other monitoring data on the console screen.
"At the current speed, Harvet will enter the blue-green star orbit in five hours. The blue-green star is the fourth star in the TTMU11 galaxy in order of distance from the star. It is the largest diameter, mass and density among the TTMU11 galaxies. The terrestrial planet is 170 million kilometers away from the star. It took about 5.7 billion years to form and has a surface area of 870 million square kilometers, of which 41% is ocean and 69% is land..." "Jarvis" detailed the parameters of the blue-green star.
"It's so beautiful, Captain. This distance is so similar to the Earth. We will definitely gain something from this trip." Li Mu said excitedly as he looked at the huge blue-green star outside the window.
"It's a pity that it lacks a satellite. Otherwise, its development value will definitely enter the second series. Earning more than ten billion is not a problem!" Henry looked out the window and said with regret.
Human civilization, which has entered the era of stars and seas, has suddenly lost its shackles with the prosperity and development of scientific and technological civilization, involving an increasingly wider range of star fields and more and more planets, and has launched interstellar migration to planets that have been discovered.
The federal government has listed all planets suitable for development in several sequences based on the information learned from the expedition ship's exploration and comprehensive point evaluation.
The first series has a similar ecological environment to the Earth's parent star. However, humans have only found one blue polar star for this level of planet.
The second series is a planet that has an ecological environment for human survival and can be suitable for human survival after undergoing less planetary transformation. The federal government currently controls nearly a hundred second series planets, and most of them are currently in a state of development or to be developed. .
The third series is not a planet with an extreme environment. After undergoing certain transformations, it can reach an environment where human immigrants can survive, or a planet rich in special metal resources.
The fourth series is a planet that has a certain development value, but is not worthy of human society’s current investment in development.
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"That's good. You found out that you have spent a lot of money to obtain the right to explore this planet! I hope you can gain something." Captain Harvitt smiled contentedly.
A planet like Earth suitable for human civilization is hard to come by, and Captain Harvitt is not that big-hearted.
The earth, the mother planet of mankind, has a natural satellite, the moon, forming a small celestial body system - the earth-moon system. Although the guidance of the moon is not great, its existence officially allows the earth to have tides. The direction of the moon's revolution is exactly opposite to the direction of the earth's rotation, so the sea water is also opposite to the direction of the earth's rotation, causing friction between the sea water and the seabed. Although This friction is very small, but it is enough to affect the speed of the earth's rotation: the earth's rotation speed slows down, and the moon stabilizes the tilt of the earth's rotation axis, so the earth has suitable seasons without being too extreme.
It is the formation of the earth-moon system that enables the earth to form an ecological environment suitable for human survival.
Without the moon, the earth's autorotation speed would be three times that of today, and the daylight hours on earth would be only 8 hours. Due to the faster rotation of the earth, powerful storms and hurricanes would occur on the earth in the east-west direction, and there would be no trees on the earth. , because plants must cling to the ground to survive, and animals need to become stronger, preferably with aerodynamic body shapes and natural carapace, because only in this way can they not be blown up by strong winds—maybe to rule the earth There will be some turtle-like and armadillo-like creatures.
Without the moon, the gravitational torque of the sun and other planets would cause the earth's rotation axis to wobble and tilt to an extreme degree, even more than 90 degrees, and eventually become similar to Venus and Uranus.
"Henry, it is very rare for a planet to have a near-Earth satellite. However, everything has advantages and disadvantages. Its size and mass are suitable, and its rotation speed is just right, so that this kind of ecological environment can be formed. If there is an extra natural satellite, it will now I'm afraid it's not like this." Li Mu looked at Henry and comforted him with a smile.
Hearing this, Henry nodded with a wry smile, indicating that he understood what he meant.
"Let's detect it first! As long as the environment is suitable, it is not difficult for the federal government to artificially build a near-Earth satellite for it." Captain Harvit said looking at Li Mu.
Li Mu nodded. The federal government is now worried about the expanding population. The environment suitable for advanced civilization to survive is very harsh. How can they find a kind of life star with an environment similar to the earth? They are absolutely willing to spend huge amounts of money to transform it.
"Jarvis, prepare to launch the probe to collect the atmospheric environment and ecological environment of the blue-green star to prepare for landing." Captain Harwitt gave the order.
"Okay, Captain!" Jarvis responded, and immediately, the Harvet launched an unmanned probe to the blue-green star.
Soon, Harvet arrived near the low-Earth orbit of the blue-green star and began a period of continuous detection of the unknown blue-green star.
In the Milky Way, like the Harvet, there are endless human exploration ships carrying out exploration operations on unknown planets. At the same time, the expanding population forced the human federal government to start exploring and developing the first series of planets.
"Snapped!"
Iris slapped himself, and then he came to.
Iris is not a masochist, just because an insect the size of two palms is sucking blood from his face. Just a slap turned the insect into a pulp, and his face was also covered with meat. Mud and blood.
Yes, the insects in the forest are unusually huge. God knows what caused it. However, it is said that when the earth was in the dinosaur period and the early dinosaurs, the insects at that time were also unusually huge. It seemed that they were related to the content in the air. The large amount of oxygen has something to do with it. Because the oxygen content is huge, it leads to the emergence of giant creatures.
Iris has naturally learned about these things, but the content in the books and encountering this situation in reality are completely different things!
For example, in reality, it is normal to encounter a mosquito the size of one or two fingers, but it is too exaggerated to encounter a mosquito the size of a palm. If it is a mosquito the size of two palms, then this is purely It's scary.
In this forest, two palm-sized insects are everywhere, and some of them can suck human blood. Who knows, are they sucking the blood of other creatures, or do they think human blood is unusually sweet
The interstellar armor was turned off when sleeping at night, and the soldiers had to adopt a special method. Just like their regiment leader Zhang Lei did, they took some special leaves and tree branches and painted them on their faces, leaving only two Nostrils sleep.
Iris was not very lucky today. He accidentally let the leaves covering his face fall off while he was sleeping. As a result, his face was sucked by a giant insect. Then half of his face was red and swollen all day long, almost Even speaking was difficult.
Fortunately, the super immune gene drug changed the body's immune system. The redness and swelling on his face had disappeared by that afternoon, but this also sounded a warning to everyone.