However, life must go on no matter what.
People began to try to forget that earth and start a new life, while hiding their communication channels.
Without knowing the level of Earth's civilization in this time and space, it would be a very unwise choice to rashly reveal one's existence.
No matter what, survival is the first element.
This was agreed upon by all crew members.
The colony ship entered the synchronous orbit of the planet Gliese 1, and then began to drop probes toward the planet's twilight line.
After the probe landed and brought back ground data, the colony ship then dropped the orbital airborne troop drop pod, then the infrastructure unit, and then the living pod containing the colonists, thus kicking off the "Colonial Era" "curtain.
Although there are 37 days in a year, because this planet does not have the concept of day and night, in order to commemorate the blue mother star, people still use the earth's 24-hour timekeeping and the solar system calendar year.
There is no sea in this world. The fresh water comes entirely from the glaciers on the far side of the planet, the freshwater lakes scattered at the dusk line, and the underground rivers that intersect like blood vessels.
There are many large fungi and low shrubs on the surface, and the oxygen in the air is very abundant. It is very comfortable to breathe the air of this world, as if this world was specially created for humans.
The world is very beautiful, and many magnificent natural landscapes cannot be seen on earth.
The river flowing from the back side to the sun side is evaporated under the high temperature into a wall of fog thousands of miles wide. The sunlight is deflected here and converges into a rainbow that never disperses. There are also those weird-shaped vegetation and giant fungi that cover every inch of the soft soil between the dusk and dawn lines. From a high altitude, it looks like a carpet of emerald green and bright red.
Life exists on this planet, albeit sparsely.
In fact, the planet's observer Steven Vogt made predictions a long time ago. Personally, he believes that the probability of life on this planet is 100% and has no doubt about it.
Turns out, he was right.
The dusk line is densely covered with vegetation and a large number of small and medium-sized arthropods with odd shapes, forming a simple ecosystem.
The colonists were relieved. Because they are not alone.
Living units were built one after another, ecological farms were built, and then a road network was rolled out to connect them into a city. Prospecting vehicles shuttle like a colony of ants. Construction trucks are transforming the landscape, and biologists are eagerly collecting unheard of genetic maps. The giant sun that never sets is like the sun at dawn. People are working hard to build new homes and sing the praises of a bright future.
Just like the colonists who set foot on America.
It's just that they are not European criminals, but human elites from Pan Asia. Whether it is ********* or science and technology. They all have enough confidence to despise that painful past. Under their hands, a utopia was built, where there was no war or crime, and all people were brothers and sisters.
The conflict has been resolved in the old world.
The seeds of human civilization will sprout again on this soil.
Of course, there are still difficulties.
For example, the metal minerals on this planet are extremely thin, and the reserves of iron, aluminum, and rare earths are unimaginably low. Miasma wafting from the ground can reduce people's immunity and even cause illness.
However, these problems can be solved. Metal minerals can be solved through the space mining module of the colony ship. The miasma that plagued the colonists' health was just the spores of a special fungus. Biologists quickly developed a poison that inhibited its reproduction, easily solving the problem.
However, besides these, there is a more serious problem.
That's the solar wind.
The planet has no stable magnetic field. Resistance to particles thrown from red dwarfs is almost zero.
The distance of the 1g planet from the star is only 0.15 astronomical units, which is only 0.15 times the distance between the earth and the sun. The solar wind blowing from red dwarf stars from time to time is like blowing directly on human faces. Without the protection of the geomagnetic field, all electronic equipment can only be used in an electromagnetic shielding environment.
It's like hundreds of EMPs are constantly bombarding the planet.
In order to improve accuracy, some physical experiments involving the atomic level had to be moved to colony ships in space.
Later, in order to avoid damage to the colony ship by the red dwarf star's solar wind, people re-accelerated the colony ship and drove it to the far side of the sun. At the same time, it moved from the planet's synchronous orbit to the star's synchronous orbit. This way. The colony ship is always separated from the "sun" by a planet. This can avoid the frequent interference of the solar wind on the colony ship, and at the same time ensure the normal conduct of scientific research activities.
Human production and life, which are extremely dependent on electronic equipment, have been seriously affected. Even later, people used wide-area magnetic shields to solve the problem of solar wind. But the impact still exists.
After all, no matter how wide the magnetic field shield is, it cannot cover the entire planet under its protection.
Fortunately, humans are very adaptable.
After adapting to these difficulties, everything gradually became smoother. All cities are built under electromagnetic shields. When viewed from space, they look like umbrellas spread out between the dusk and dawn lines, and humans live under the top of these umbrellas.
Everything is so beautiful.
Until they discovered that there were "aboriginals" on this planet.
They are a very aggressive group of creatures. In terms of social form, it is very similar to ants. There are female insects responsible for reproducing the population, war insects responsible for hunting, and worker insects responsible for digging D.
Generally speaking, they live underground at a depth of 20-30 kilometers away from the sun. The geothermal temperature here is enough to offset the severe cold on the surface behind the sun, and can melt the ice embedded in the ground into water.
It was not until later that people discovered that the tens of millions of rivers of varying thicknesses crisscrossing the earth's surface were actually the work of these bugs. And their tribe has existed for millions of years, or their civilization has existed for at least hundreds of thousands of years.
A civilization older than all human civilizations combined.
Although this civilization has not yet been "civilized".
Originally, because the living spaces of the two parties were too far apart, one was at the dusk line and the other was underground behind the sun. Maybe both sides regard each other as "bugs", and humans have been living on this planet for a hundred years without discovering these neighbors.
Until gradually running out of living space, humans began to think underground and reached out to the "canals" of those insects.
It was doomed the moment the two parties came into contact.
War is inevitable!
Logically speaking, technologically advanced humans would not be at a disadvantage when faced with a group of bugs made of blood and R. However, the reality is far from as simple as people imagine.
Human soldiers armed with Gauss rifles used thunder to clear away the bugs that fled to the surface. Scientists developed viruses to exterminate these bugs. The orbiting satellites dropped by the colony ships fired S-penetrating bombs to eliminate underground nests at targeted locations.
Everything went so smoothly that everyone was optimistic that it would not be long before they could take possession of the underground canals that the bugs had spent tens of thousands of years digging.
Until an insect wave swept through the border city.
Millions of arthropod insects are swarming into human cities without fear of death. And it swept through the entire human colony along the twilight line with a devastating force.
The fire of the explosion dyed the sky red, but it still could not stop the swarm of insects.
That scene was like the end of the world.
Everyone was stunned. They had never thought that these insects they crushed could actually burst out with such powerful fighting power. Although their cannonballs could easily penetrate these fragile R. bodies, they were still powerless in the face of the tide of insects.
Whether it is biochemical weapons or genetic bombs, all the methods people have tried have failed to exterminate these bugs. On the contrary, they have promoted the evolution of these bugs. Just like humans have spent hundreds of years failing to eradicate mosquitoes and cockroaches, these bugs can never be killed.
In order to fight humans, insects have differentiated into individuals with similar genes but very different traits under intense natural selection. The original mother worms, war worms, and worker worms further differentiated and eventually evolved into existences that were difficult for humans to ignore.
The spitter's acid Y is enough to corrode the armor of a tank, and the biter's diamond-hard claws are enough to tear apart the carbon nanobody armor of human soldiers. The hundreds of meters long siege worms are inlaid with metamorphic rock shells, turning human cities into ruins like earthworms plowing the ground. Later, people even had to restrict the use of nuclear and biological weapons to prevent these bugs from evolving further.
Hundreds of thousands of years of civilization burst out its foundation. This civilization that humans cannot understand uses its unique cruelty to declare its sovereignty over this planet.
It takes 18 years for humans to grow from birth to adulthood, while the slowest of these bugs only takes a week. They devour the corpses of their own kind and use the organic matter to breed new individuals. Facts have proved that in the end, people found out that they were dumbfounded. Using human market economics to measure the logistics of this Zerg civilization, the "cost" of a alien species that could tear apart carbon nano-armor with its sharp claws was even lower than the magazine of a Gauss rifle.
These creatures who do not know what death is are testing human logistics with their overwhelming numbers.
Squeezed out of living space by bugs, people once retreated to a space station in low-Earth orbit. Even if they have advanced science and technology, but do not have the resources to transform it into combat effectiveness, they have to admit that they are at a disadvantage in the war with these bugs.
Fortunately, although some bugs can fly, they cannot fly out of the atmosphere.
People have created a word to summarize all these abnormally evolved bugs - xenomorphs.
In this way, the one-thousand-year "War Era" began.
The war between humans and aliens. (.)