Super Copy of Great Power Technology

"Year 161 of the Falling Star Calendar, October 10

In a blink of an eye, I have been away from the wandering planet for more than 40 years. I have officially become an old man who is about to die. My physical condition is getting worse and worse, my appetite is decreasing, and my energy is not as good as before. I can fall asleep anytime and anywhere when I am working or on duty every day. I am becoming more and more unqualified for the position of captain. Fortunately, in recent years, the Purple Moon has been traveling in the endless void without encountering any crisis. The state of the spacecraft itself is also maintained well, and there are not many things that need to be handled by me as the captain. In my current state, I can barely cope with it.

However, for the future of the Purple Moon, I have already considered the next captain. I must find someone who is familiar with the Purple Moon, has a good reputation, good character, and is willing to sacrifice to take over the position of captain. Such a person is not easy to find. The position of captain is both a right and a responsibility, and it is a very heavy responsibility. He carries the responsibility of leading the 100 million compatriots on the ship to escape the endless void, reach the second cantilever, and find the second home. Becoming a captain means that you must be on duty every day for the rest of your life to handle daily affairs, and you can no longer enter hibernation, which means that you have given up the hope of reaching your second home, and the rest of your life can only be spent in endless loneliness. "

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"May 223, 5rd year of the Starfall Calendar

Today my heart stopped beating again. Fortunately, my monitoring robot found it in time and sent me to the medical cabin for rescue. Finally, I was saved. This is the third time my heart stopped beating in the past three months. It was not because of any disease, but because my body was too old. Many organs failed, especially my heart. I felt that I didn't have much time left, and it was time to give up the responsibility of captain.

The second captain of the Purple Moon was chosen half a year ago. He was Enrico Mason, a young man who was only 40 years old (in cryogenic hibernation, his life was fading very slowly, not counting his age). He was from the Dawn Fleet, familiar with spacecraft driving, had participated in the last battle with the Zerg, and was one of the very few soldiers who escaped back to the home planet with me.

In the past six months, I have been teaching Enrico Mason how to be a qualified captain, and I have been imparting my skills, experience, and methods of doing things to him without reservation. Enrico Mason learns very quickly and can already plan routes, handle affairs, and respond to emergencies. He has become somewhat like a captain.

After leaving the medical cabin, I returned to the top cockpit, packed my personal belongings, and wrote the last captain's diary. The legend of my Imperial Vice Admiral, Captain Gal Reyes of the Purple Moon, has come to an end, but the legend of the Purple Moon will continue. Next, I will call the other conscious crew members to hold a meeting and officially pass the captain's position to Enrico Mason.

I don't have much time left, my physical condition is very poor, and it is basically impossible for me to enter hibernation again. In the remaining days, I want to go around and see the world on the Purple Moon, where I have worked for most of my life. If I have extra energy, I will write a memoir to tell future generations how glorious our Naga civilization was, how tragic the war with the Zerg was, how painful it was to lose our home planet, and how lonely it is to wander in the interstellar.

——Last words of Gal Reyes, the first captain of the Purple Moon

After reading the last paragraph, Qiao Ruida closed the heavy metal book and let out a long breath. The history of the Naga people is too heavy. Even if only a small part of it is touched through this captain's diary, it still weighs on Qiao Ruida's heart, and he can't breathe for a long time. Captain Gal Reyes' life is tragic. Just after becoming the highest commander of the Dawn Fleet, he received the task of defending the portal of the mother system and resisting the invasion of the Zerg. This is an almost impossible task. You know, the Naga's million-strong main fleet has been defeated again and again in the battle with the Zerg, and is almost annihilated. There are only more than 10,000 warships left in the mother system. What can they do in the face of endless Zerg?

The mission failed as expected, and Gal Reyes became the first commander in the history of the Naga war to flee in the middle of a battle. After returning to his home planet, Gal Reyes was completely desperate and wanted to die, but fate played a joke on him again. The Zerg attacked their home planet in a big way, and Gal Reyes was appointed captain of the Purple Moon colony spacecraft, leading millions of his people on the road to escape.

Captain Gal Reyes was also great. He led the Purple Moon to escape the Zerg's pursuit and escape into the endless void, preserving the last spark of fire for the Naga civilization. Gal Reyes worked diligently as the captain for more than 200 years until he was exhausted and on the verge of death, and then he handed over the position of captain. It can be said that he dedicated his entire life to the tribe. Such a pure person deserves a great evaluation.

Qiao Ruida sorted and archived the scanned files and saved them in the database of the laboratory computer. The intelligent program simultaneously gave the Chinese translation of the captain's diary, and at the same time sent a copy to the Earth Flight Control Center through the neutrino communication satellite. This captain's diary is an important historical material for studying the history of war and escape of the Naga people. I believe that those old experts summoned by the country will be very excited to see this material. Qiao Ruida also found the captain's diary scanned by other astronauts and read them in chronological order. This time, he did not read the original, but the translation given by the intelligent program. Facing the familiar Chinese, the reading speed is naturally much faster. Some unimportant content was skipped directly. Only those important events did Qiao Ruida pause for a while and read carefully.

After the second captain, Enrico Mason, took office, he did not inherit Gal Reyes's policy of ruling by doing nothing. He awakened some scientists and about one-tenth of the young Naga people. He restarted the biological laboratory, the cryostasis laboratory and the superluminal flight laboratory to conduct research on life extension and artificial star streams. At the same time, Captain Enrico Mason also called on the awakened young people to form families and have children. He believed that the distance between the third cantilever and the second cantilever was too far. It would be difficult for their generation to fly over, even in a cryostasis state. Only by maintaining the renewal and iteration of the population and continuing the relay, can they rely on the efforts of several generations to survive the endless void and find their second home.

Captain Enrico Mason had the confidence to launch these plans because of the sufficient supplies left to him by the previous captain. Otherwise, where would he get the food and supplies to feed the large number of extra children, let alone maintain a laboratory that consumes a lot of materials and energy.

Enrico Mason has been the captain for more than 500 years, and nothing major has happened during this time. The biggest accident was a line failure in some of the newly installed frozen hibernation chambers, which killed thousands of Naga people. Fortunately, it was discovered in time and did not cause a large-scale power outage, keeping the losses within an acceptable range. As the saying goes, every failure makes you wiser. After the accident, Captain Enrico Mason developed a detailed hibernation chamber regular inspection mechanism to ensure that there are no problems with the hibernating Nagas. At the same time, the energy supply system of all hibernation chambers was transformed from dual backup energy supply to triple backup energy supply to ensure that there is no risk of error.

During Captain Enrico Mason's tenure, breakthroughs were made in life extension research and cryostasis research, further extending the already long lifespan of the Naga people to more than 500 years. This is why Enrico Mason was able to serve as captain for years. Most of the Naga people, except for a small number of newly born children, received injections of life extension potions. Including those tribesmen who were in a dormant state, they were also awakened and received a comprehensive injection of life extension potions. The cryostasis chamber was also partially transformed, and the cryotherapy potion was replaced with a new formula. The combination of the two can greatly reduce the consumption of vitality of the Naga people in the cryostasis state. After the full promotion of the two technologies, according to the estimation of medical experts, this group of Naga people can now survive in a cryostasis state for at least tens of thousands of years, which is enough to survive the long interstellar journey.

The research on artificial star streams, however, has not made any progress and has almost been standing still. Enrico Mason seriously underestimated the difficulty of developing artificial star stream technology. After all, this involves cutting-edge technology in time-space transformation and superluminal flight. The Naga people's technical accumulation in this area is too weak. It is not easy to make a breakthrough in just 500 years.

The birth plan went very smoothly. By the time Enrico Mason stepped down as captain, there were already more than 100,000 young children on the Purple Moon. Of course, when these children grew up to a certain age, they were each placed in a hibernation capsule and put into a frozen hibernation state. Otherwise, no matter how abundant the supplies on the Purple Moon were, it would not be able to sustain the consumption of so many people.

The captains after Enrico Mason were basically routine and didn't like to make trouble. They basically maintained the system left by Gal Reyes and Enrico Mason, occasionally checking for loopholes and filling in the gaps, but never made too many changes. During these thousands of years, the Purple Moon encountered several crises, including engine failure, meteorite impact, air leakage, even black hole generator failure, and crew rebellion, which caused certain personnel and material losses. After the accident, the captain and crew responded in time, relying on a large number of spare parts, a large amount of material reserves, and advanced machining technology to deal with these crises one by one. The slight losses were still within an acceptable range and did not cause any serious damage.

Starting from the tenth captain, the situation began to take a sharp turn for the worse, with frequent accidents, natural disasters, and casualties almost every year. At that time, the Purple Moon had been flying in the endless void for thousands of years. Even with effective maintenance, there were too many equipment and facilities, and they were at the end of their lifespan. Equipment malfunctioned almost every day, and the equipment failure alarm light in the spacecraft control room was basically always on. If it was just some minor problems such as some lighting bulb failures and mechanical door failures, it would be okay to find two crew members to repair and replace them. The only problem was that the power supply system and life support system would fail. If they were not repaired in time, it would really cause a large number of casualties.

The tenth, eleventh, and twelfth captains slowly spent their terms in constant repairs. When the thirteenth captain took office, the aging of the Purple Moon had become more serious. Minor faults occurred every day, and major faults occurred every ten days or half a month. Even the frozen hibernation chambers broke down from time to time, and at least tens of thousands of people died in the hibernation chamber failures. Seeing that the situation was not right, the thirteenth captain ordered all dormant people to be awakened, squandered half of the reserve materials, and carried out a comprehensive maintenance and repair of the Purple Moon. All equipment and facilities were replaced and repaired, and all potential hidden dangers were found and solved at one time. After this toss, the condition of the Purple Moon was indeed much better. At least during the remaining term of the thirteenth captain, there were no major faults.

Not long after the 14th captain took office, he encountered a very thorny problem, that is, the fertility of the tribe has declined across the board. At least 10,000 Nagas in a conscious state, more than 5,000 families, have less than 1,000 offspring in five years. This fertility rate is already shockingly low. As soon as he found that something was wrong, the captain immediately awakened a large number of experts in the fields of biology and medicine to conduct a comprehensive study on the problem of declining fertility among the tribe. After two years of systematic research, the expert team produced a 100,000-word research report. The captain is not an expert in biological genetics and can't understand the professional vocabulary throughout the article. He had to call two experts for face-to-face consultation. An old expert summarized the contents of the entire report for him. In summary, the decline in fertility among the Naga people is the result of the combined effects of life-extending drugs and long-term cryopreservation.

After thousands of years of research, the Naga people's life-extending potion has been updated to the fifth generation, and the average life span of the Naga people has been extended to thousands of years. But God is fair. The longer the life span of a creature, the more difficult it is to give birth to the next generation. This is a limitation inherent in the genetic level of life to prevent the unlimited reproduction of the population and cause catastrophic consequences. There are also the earliest batch of Nagas who have survived to this day. They have been frozen and dormant for at least thousands of years. Their body cells and even their genes have been irreversibly damaged. After awakening, there will be many sequelae of frozen dormancy, such as loss of appetite, reduced immunity, susceptibility to illness, difficulty sleeping, etc. Decreased fertility is just a representative symptom of dormancy sequelae, and it is not uncommon. In fact, the decline in the fertility of the Naga people already existed during the reign of the previous captains, but it was not so serious at the time and did not attract attention. It was not until the 14th captain took office that he tried to adjust the population age ratio and paid special attention to the population birth rate, and then he found that there was a big problem with the fertility rate. (End of this chapter)