If a civilization wants to develop for a long time, it is the only way to leave its own home planet. The resources of a planet are limited, and there is a huge security risk in gathering all civilization members on one planet. Therefore, every person with normal The intelligent race of thinking ability must step into the starry sky after completing the technology accumulation at the parent star stage—or in other fields, in short, they must leave their cradles.
But the Erim elves are faced with a desperate dilemma: the distance between their cradle and the nearest supply point is enough to deter any rudimentary space civilization, and it is impossible to reach them with their initial space technology. , They cannot find pedals and resource sources in their own star system like other civilizations, and then slowly research various space technologies with sufficient material and energy support, and they cannot find a Proxima Centauri small station that can be reached in their lifetime.
If a normal civilization wants to step into space, unless they are talented enough to research deep space navigation technology and super-light engines directly on the parent star without making any mistakes, they must be in their original galaxy. Seek a springboard, and use other planets at a suitable distance as a foothold to start a series of research. The initial technology accumulation of hyperdrive is accompanied by great dangers. Many experimental facilities with powerful power cannot be built directly on the parent star, and the most primitive hyperdrive fuel can usually only be grown in gaseous giant stars that are not suitable for living. range mined. Even without these two conditions, there should be at least another sun around the protostar system—this distance should not be too far, at least to ensure that the original pioneers can arrive within a generation.
But the Erim elves have nothing. They just broke out of the gravity circle. They are about to face an insurmountable chasm—unless they have a way to directly develop deep space navigation facilities without skipping various transitional technologies, they will only be trapped in these tens of millions of light-years of desolation. It's in the ground.
It is not impossible to directly build a deep-space starship with only one parent star, but it requires not only talent, but also great luck, and the Aerym elves do not have such good luck after all, they Failure to find the right path exhausted all kinds of non-renewable resources on the planet, and then he could only face the barren road of tens of millions of light years and wait to die slowly.
The planet starts to dry up. Astral resources are extracted, and even the planet itself is reshaped into a space floating island around the sun with higher energy utilization efficiency, and then the space floating island is slowly reorganized into other forms. These elves trapped in the cradle can only Using the limited things at hand to continuously transform and continue their civilization as much as possible, their home world is beyond recognition and is becoming more and more overwhelmed. The Erim elves who thought they had reached the apex of civilization are getting weaker day by day In the end, he could only guard a lonely sun and a piece of space floating island that has been reshaped countless times, and the prototype is almost invisible. The population also began to decline dramatically under brutal resource-limiting laws.
"When I was born, Ariem had already reached the critical point of collapse," Hilda said quietly, "No matter how much we love our homeland, resources will be consumed continuously, and there is no real world in a lone star environment. In the sense of a sustainable resource recycling system. In the last few hundred years we have even had to find ways to extract energy and matter from the sun, for which we have built many corona stations—that is a very dangerous facility. Expensive and not enough Stable. The operation of each corona station requires a huge human and material cost, and sometimes even the lives of many outstanding magician experts, and this is only a stopgap measure."
Hao Ren looked at Hilda curiously: "So you decided to build a portal when you found out that you couldn't build a spaceship?"
"Well, this is a grand plan proposed by my husband when he was still alive. Unfortunately, until he died in a coronal station explosion accident, we were unable to create a truly stable super portal that could lead to the depths of the starry sky," Hill said. Da sighed, "After his death, I spent 30 years with all the power of the whole country to build a huge space-time accelerator, which almost used up all the energy accumulated by the three corona stations in a hundred years. But the first time it started it was a huge accident, I was on the observation tower with the ministers to witness the opening ceremony... and then everything exploded. I didn't know how bad the thing would be, so now I have to Go back as soon as possible, my people must be in disarray, and they need someone to calm them down."
Vivian secretly glanced at Hilda with deep feeling: "I don't know what's going on, but I always feel a kind of sympathy for those Arim elves..."
Lily nodded understandingly: "Because they are all poor."
Everyone stared at this heartless husky: Is it time to say such things on such a serious occasion
Y'zaks smiled slightly, and looked around at the others: "Now you know what I meant to those demon hunters at that time, right? Resources are precious and cannot withstand internal friction. When I took the immigrant When the boat came over, I once heard an old man say that any civilization has a "fault tolerance value" in the development process. This fault tolerance value is determined by factors such as their home resource reserves, the race's own development ability, and the home environment. The higher the resource reserves , The better the surrounding environment of the home world, the stronger the civilization's self-development ability, the higher the fault tolerance value, and vice versa. If a civilization wants to develop, it must be transferred to other nearby places before the resources in one area are exhausted. Therefore, they must learn to protect the environment to reduce loss, plan routes to prevent going astray, and most importantly, try to avoid internal conflicts to prevent waste. The resource reserves and surrounding environment of the home world are determined by nature, and people can only decide Myself. Many races were born in fertile places, the planet is rich in products, and there are sufficient resource production areas and springboards around the planet, so they waste wantonly and spend all their wealth on civil wars, and finally realize that they have Even the last spaceship to Proxima Centauri could not be built, and some races were born in desolate and barren places, and they had to carefully calculate every step they took—whether they could leave the cradle alive is still unknown. There are many unfair things in the world , and nothing is more unfair than this 'racial fate'. To be honest, I think the people on Earth are a bit like rich prodigal sons-your solar system has springboards such as Mars and the moon, and Saturn and A giant resource station like Jupiter, every planet around you is full of fuel and spacecraft shells, and they are all so close that they can be reached by almost the most primitive chemical fuel spacecraft, but you are busy making more Throwing more bombs on one's own people - that's stupid, as stupid as the idiots back home. Look at those Aerym elves, their fault tolerance value is even negative... "
Hao Ren looked at Y'zaks in surprise. It was rare for him to see this big devil speak such a long sentence in such a fierce tone. This big man with a fierce look is usually very kind, and he never said much. . He was faintly aware of one thing: the story told by Hilda touched a sensitive point in the great demon's heart, which might be related to the latter's past.
Y'zaks, on the other hand, waved his hands apologetically after noticing that the expressions of the people around him were different: "I've said something serious, don't mind."
The corners of Vivienne's mouth curled up slightly: "No... I think what you said is very good, so good that it shouldn't come out of a devil's mouth."
Y'zaks smiled wryly and spread his hands: "You're not the first to say that."
"After I came to another world, I thought a lot." Hilda was silent for a long time before suddenly speaking again, "I confirmed for the first time that there are other races and even other worlds, and I also confirmed many conjectures of scholars in our race .The two days I was on Earth I happened to watch your science show and know what your solar system looks like and how far away you are from the nearest star - I find it incredible. We have been wondering if our surroundings are normal before , but we couldn’t find a reference at all, so we are not sure whether the elves of Aerym are too stupid or too unfortunate to get to where they are today. Now I am relieved—maybe I really shouldn’t blame those scholars. "
"Except for special cases, very few intelligent races are really stupid," the data terminal said suddenly, "as long as they are enterprising, they should be praised, and the rest should not be blamed even if they go astray or even end up trapped on their home planet. , because stepping into the sea of stars is indeed a very difficult task, and it often depends on luck. Sometimes a race can't find a way out of gravity after a lot of hard work. It's not that they don't work hard enough or smart enough, it's just not enough Just luck."
A slight hum came from somewhere in the spaceship.
The virtual images around the bridge became bright again, and a dazzling sun appeared in the corner of the screen.
"Arim is here," said the data terminal. (to be continued~^~)