Gundam 00: Rise of China

When Wang Ye stated in a resolute tone that solar power generation systems are a cage that restricts the exploration of outer space within the gravitational field.

General Gao fell into a long silence.

"We know that all too well."

"Those leaders of the past certainly knew this too."

After a moment of silence, General Gao revealed a deep despair.

"The solar-powered orbital system is 5 kilometers long. Its value in terms of clean energy is astonishing, but from the perspective of a soldier..."

"This kind of thing should never have been built in the first place, with a 5-kilometer-long orbital structure and all the associated facilities."

"Once its main body is attacked and destroyed, we won't even have a chance to save it."

Suddenly, General Gao reached for the water glass on the table, trying to calm himself down by drinking water.

After calming down, General Gao read out the internal estimates of the People's Revolutionary Alliance as if he were reading a report.

"When we were preparing to build a new solar power system in the early years, our internal scientists had already conducted research on it."

"If the celestial pillar, which is over 5 kilometers long, were to collapse, the portion above the top 3.6 kilometers would be fine; it would be carried away into the depths of space by inertia."

"But this part of the quality is actually meaningless in the face of a real disaster, because it is the middle section of a solar power system."

"That is, the elevator structure between 15,000 and 36,000 kilometers will be like a broken spine, silently bending from an altitude of 36,000 kilometers."

"Then, hundreds of millions of tons of carbon fiber cables will begin their long fall."

At this point, General Gao paused and his hand trembled slightly, a very subtle movement that Wang Ye still noticed.

Because the sloshing of water on the surface of General Gao's ever-present water glass was not visible to the naked eye.

"It's not a stone, it's a whip that stretches for over 30,000 kilometers!"

Before Wang Ye could interject or say anything, General Gao's face showed anger for the first time. He slammed his fist on the heavy table and raised his voice.

"When it officially enters the atmosphere within the gravitational sphere, the plasma generated by friction can illuminate half of the Earth!"

"This portion of the mass won't crash directly onto Earth; instead, it will act like a wounded python, coiling around the planet and causing a devastating chain reaction!"

"The area within a 500-kilometer radius of the final impact point will become a dead zone due to the explosion of up to 6.2 million tons of TNT."

"The ensuing tectonic shifts caused tsunamis thousands of meters high to sweep across the ocean coasts, and cables broke into countless pieces in the atmosphere, scattering around the globe like hundreds of millions of shrapnel."

"This rain of debris, totaling tens of millions of tons, is enough to destroy all surface buildings, farmland, and forests."

"There was no impact winter in the gravitational field at that time, because humans simply didn't have the chance to survive to winter."

"The trade network within the gravity zone was severed, and all cities that relied on microwave power transmission were instantly plunged into darkness."

"With order completely destroyed, the surviving humans will utterly lose their morality and perish."

"That……"

Including this world, Wang Ye can be said to have lived three lives. There are some things he can understand, and he can roughly guess some of them by combining some information he saw in his previous lives.

Even though he knew certain things, he still spoke up and asked questions.

Why did we build the Sky Pillar power system in the first place?

"Since our ancestors could foresee the future, why did they choose to do it?"

Upon hearing this, General Gao looked at Wang Ye, his chest still heaving violently from the previous outburst, and then he lowered his eyelids slightly and said.

Some people say that looking at the past is far less clear than looking at the future, but that's actually wrong.

"In the eyes of visionary people, the future can be vaguely seen with sufficient reference data."

"Just as excitement and confusion intertwine in everyone's heart."

"At that time, people did not understand why such a seemingly obvious sword of Damocles could destroy humanity itself."

"But we had no choice but to build it ourselves. The predecessor of Union started it, and the predecessor of AEU quickly followed. All eyes were on us."

"We want to stand firm in our position and persist in the development of atomic energy, but the external and internal environment is forcing us down the wrong path."

"The threat that solar power systems pose to national security is evident, but more importantly, as you said..."

"Solar power systems are far from sufficient for developing outer space; our current power generation system uses microwaves and cables."

"Within the gravitational field, there's certainly no problem, and the lunar region can be barely covered using a relay system. But what about outer space?"

General Gao coldly spread his hands, giving a conclusion that had long been agreed upon.

"Direct transmission has a limited area. For areas that cannot be covered by microwaves, lasers are needed for transmission, but neither of these are feasible long-term solutions."

"Compared to the vast universe, there are very few celestial bodies like the Sun. We have done calculations and found that the biggest problem with solar energy is that it decays inversely with the square of the distance."

「也就是说离太阳距离变成2倍，辐照只有1/4、3倍只剩1/9，火星範围之内能用，火星範围以外性价比几乎不用考虑。」

"The leadership at the time couldn't understand what the top executives of Union and AEU were thinking, how they could be so crazy in pushing forward such a plan, and even forcing us to take the same path."

"until!"

"until?"

Wang Ye's expression turned serious; he realized that the moment of truth had arrived!

"Celestial Being Organization".

Wang Ye didn't have to wait long before General Gao revealed the mystery.

"When we came into contact with the Celestial Being organization more than a decade ago, the confusion that had been troubling us for so long was finally resolved."

"A special particle energy source—that's the final answer!"

"The leadership at the time realized that the reason Union was focusing on solar energy systems was because they didn't want to rely on solar energy systems to secure their future."

"It's also not about using the hydrogen fuel cells that are currently the mainstream technology for exploring outer space."

"Undoubtedly, the special particle energy of the Celestial Organization is prepared for the development of outer space!"

"They set a trap for us from the very beginning, cutting off our future!"

"Otherwise, a force like Union, which harms others without benefiting itself, will not suddenly abandon atomic energy and embrace solar energy."

"Otherwise, Union wouldn't have been so decisive in taking the lead in abandoning its own nuclear energy facilities!"

"Otherwise, why would Union build a solar power system that poses such a significant threat to its national security?"

"Everything is a trap!"

"A conspiracy measured in centuries to sever our future!"

"Once you figure that out, you can't imagine how desperate the leadership was at the time."

"It was an unprecedented feeling of suffocation!"

"We are not afraid of sacrifice or hardship, but we will never allow our future to be cut short in our own hands."

"The Super Soldier Test Base was established for this reason."

"That was a stain, a sacrifice made out of necessity, in order to reclaim our future by force!"

"The People's Revolutionary Alliance can never be allowed to be confined within the gravitational pull; we must be responsible for our future generations."

"Even if our generation bears all the blame."