Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 696 Happy times are always short

Sailing in the starry sky is lonely, but humans who have come all the way from the solar system have become accustomed to this loneliness. Living in spaceships, warships, scientific research ships, and biosphere spaceships, people have also become accustomed to life on spaceships and to this kind of life sailing in the universe.

This is what a wandering civilization is like.

There is a saying in the Earth Age that the whole world is our home, which is a reflection of human civilization today. The mother planet is gone, and no star in the universe is a place that humans are attached to. Humans now have their home on the spacecraft.

In this era, due to the popularity of gravity well technology, almost no one has the idea of ​​finding a suitable planet to live on. Moreover, with the current human shipbuilding technology, if people cannot look out the porthole to see the dark universe, they actually can't feel that they are living on a spaceship.

I have long been accustomed to the journey lasting dozens or even hundreds of years. This time, the journey of more than a year is nothing. It can be passed by chatting with friends and drinking a few glasses of wine.

After reaching the fourth level of civilization, the living environment of human beings has become better. First of all, the application of gravitational potential well technology allows humans to experience the feeling of earth's gravity again without worrying about the Coriolis effect. In addition, because the spacecraft has become larger and more massive, people's residences and corresponding equipment have become more spacious.

The residential spaceship was not as big as the Tianqin, but it was not much smaller. The length of a residential spaceship from bow to stern was 220 kilometers, and the width and height were about 160 kilometers. Of course, its shape was not regular and not a rectangular block, nor was it a streamlined melon seed shape like a battleship, but more like a plump pufferfish after being bloated.

This form has a larger volume, which is in line with the design concept of residential spacecraft. Other types of spacecraft that have large volume requirements are basically designed in this way.

Like battleships, these spaceships are actually of the same size as planetary battleships, but they have different uses, so they are also called planetary spaceships by humans. Although the manufacturing process is not as demanding as that of battleships, it is also complicated. The complexity is two different extremes from that of battleship manufacturing. However, because they do not carry naval guns, their structures do not have the high strength requirements of battleships.

The huge size of the residential spacecraft means that there is enough space inside for humans to build various facilities. It is divided into many floors from top to bottom. And because it is large, it has roads, streets and general transportation tools.

Of course, the so-called means of transportation are not all like the cars of the Earth era that run on four wheels on each floor. There are more various magnetic levitation trains sailing on the sky routes on each floor, and there are many personal wearable flying devices like mechas, which also operate on the principle of magnetic levitation.

Unlike tactical armor, it is a lightweight outfit similar to a modified space suit, specially used for internal transportation of living spacecraft. Because tactical armor has strong destructive power, it is generally not seen on the streets and alleys of civilian spacecraft. They are mostly used for activities on the surface of the planet.

So now the situation of humans living in spaceships is roughly that there are those that run on the ground, those that orbit along the sky track, and those that are simple mechas for personal flying.

Personal flying mechas are especially popular, and many people have one.

It is amazing that, originally under zero-gravity conditions, humans could easily use simple magnetic field technology to "fly" in the spacecraft, but in that situation people were longing to realize simulated gravity technology one day and return to the embrace of the earth's gravity environment. Now that such a gravity environment has been realized, they like to fly in the sky again.

Fortunately, the manufacturing capabilities of private organizations are also good now, especially in the field of mecha. The mecha interest club founded by Xu Yanxia now has many branches. These organizations use the technology of the mecha interest club to manufacture personal flying mecha for people in need. With more people flying, personal air crashes are inevitable. After all, there are always people who like to "fly mechas". For this reason, humans have added relevant laws on personal air crashes to the original traffic laws.

However, although individual plane crashes do occur, no one will be killed. At most, there will be internal bleeding, and in serious cases, only broken hands or feet. After all, every human being has been enhanced and modified, and is very crash-resistant. Those who are injured are basically the result of forgetting to turn on the overclocking mode or not doing so in a hurry.

And it is very easy to recover from this kind of injury with today's human biotechnology.

Actually, the so-called air crash law is not aimed at compensation between the two parties involved in the air crash, but at compensation for damage to the facilities in the spacecraft caused by the crash of both parties. It is the type where people don't fall, but the flowers and plants are damaged.

Today's planetary spacecraft are as big as an island. Of course, there cannot be only steel jungles on them. Many plants that survived from the past and plants that were brought back from other biospheres and genetically modified are used as embellishments of various landscapes. This allows humans to finally experience the comfort brought by green cities again after many years away from Earth.

Even the road surface has the solid feel of concrete, and there is naturally soil and rocks as well, which were all dug from rocky planets.

Although many new generations of humans have not personally experienced life on Earth, under the influence of the new government's propaganda on the image of the human home planet and the older generation, most people can still feel the beauty of harmony between man and nature.

The number of plants that humans brought out from Callisto was very limited. Fortunately, after discovering the planet of the Kobolds, they collected a wave of plants. On this basis, humans used advanced genetic modification technology and some genes of native plants on Earth as samples to conduct comparative editing and modification of those plants, so that some plants finally adapted to the human living environment. This is how the spaceship city dotted with flowers and plants came into being.

Of course, these new plants cannot be the same as those on Earth. Some of them don’t even have green leaves, and the so-called flowers are very different from those on Earth. However, different styles bring different beauty to the human living environment.

This is technology changing lives.

Because the ship is designed with independent gravity potential well technology on each floor, the other side of the ceiling of the lower floor is the floor of the upper floor, which is full of equipment related to gravity potential well technology. Therefore, in order to facilitate residents to move up and down between different levels, a special weightlessness zone is also set up.

The interior of the living spaceship is like stacking the screens of multiple islands layer by layer. The difficulty of its construction can be imagined, but it is also very practical. A planetary spaceship can easily accommodate 200 million people.

Being able to create such a living environment with their own hands, humans are fully qualified to become a space race.

Except for the flagship Lyra, the rest of the human fleet is slightly smaller. The size of ordinary planetary battleships is between Lyra and residential spacecraft.

(End of this chapter)