A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 108 This Civilization is Too Shocking

With the fusion of cultures, the various independent and closed Tak societies on their home planet exchanged knowledge through communication, and all kinds of literary works sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

Among them, the most popular is science fiction literature.

Other literature is limited to the internal world of the Tak people, while science fiction depicts the world outside of the Tak people, which greatly arouses the curiosity hidden deep in the hearts of the Tak people that has been suppressed by religious interpretation.

In their science fiction works, Takaran science fiction writers have boldly depicted a universe filled with space civilizations, in which there are also joys, sorrows, loves, and hates just like those of the Takars themselves.

In this sci-fi universe, alien civilizations would fly spaceships, assemble massive alien fleets, and freely travel between celestial bodies, either creating civilizations or destroying planets, living forever like gods.

Countless Takars believe this is their vision of the future, the civilization they yearn for.

During this period, the Takar people actively searched for traces of extraterrestrial civilizations and attempted to make contact with them.

However, all these efforts were in vain. The deep expanse of space offered only silence and noise. Neither the probes successfully launched outside the star system nor the electromagnetic waves in the cosmic background provided any meaningful response. The entire universe seemed to be telling the Turks, "You are the only civilization in this universe."

Subsequently, as the scientific community explored the science of the universe more deeply, and after their home planet had orbited the sun more than a hundred times, the Turks pessimistically discovered that they could not achieve the beautiful future depicted in science fiction.

Putting aside everything else, the mere fact that the speed of light cannot be exceeded extinguishes their fantasy of exceeding the speed of light.

Science fiction literature thus declined; it gave the Taks a wonderful fantasy, but it couldn't give them a wonderful reality.

Such a thing, which is utterly useless except for fantasy, is better off not existing. If it weren't for the fact that it at least provides some impetus for children's imagination, science fiction might have been categorized by the Turks as a kind of mental drug.

However, some people will always have to embrace the future, and the problems that will inevitably arise will always have to be addressed.

As the population on their home planet increased, the allocation of resources became a serious problem, and famine, crisis, poverty, and war continued to spread throughout the 150 billion Tak people's society on the planet.

Faced with all these problems, taking big strides toward the universe seems to be the only answer.

With a mileage of 3064 miles, the Tasmanian nation of the Tasmanian Union successfully completed its first manned spaceflight.

The Turk Darisco, aboard a manned rocket, broke through the gravity of his home planet, entered outer space, and after orbiting the planet once, successfully returned to Earth.

Following the arrival of the Tass Alliance, the Tass Alliance began preparations for landing on the planet Mai.

Mai is one of two satellites orbiting the Taks' home planet. Its orbit is used by the Taks to measure time, and each orbit is called a Mai cycle.

The other satellite, which is farther away, is called Alpha. The Tus Alliance plans to land on Mistar first, and then on Alpha.

On the day the landing rocket was launched, the entire Takar community gathered around a radio, listening to the exciting speech over the air.

[To all Tuckers: I never imagined that I would one day be able to give this speech. I am honored to have been chosen as the reader and I am deeply proud of it.]

In the past, we scorned science fiction, thinking it was nothing more than children's stories and boring fantasies.

Today, fantasy is so close to us, so close that it's within reach, and we are bringing fantasy into reality.

What an exciting moment! The universe is so vast that on a cosmic scale, the contradictions, prejudices, and international conflicts between nations seem meaningless, ridiculous, and childish. Everything is there, everything is available, but no one chooses to take it; they are only fighting for what is right in front of them.

The unknown world is full of mysteries waiting to be discovered. Where are the boundaries of the universe? What is the purpose of the universe? Does a civilization like our Turks exist in the universe? What happens after the universe reaches heat death? Do black holes really exist? Do neutron stars and pulsars really exist? And so on.

We, the Tahs Alliance, are willing to be the pioneers for all the Tahs, marching towards that vast land, to secure a brighter future for all the Tahs.

First, we need to complete the login process for Maistar!

Perhaps some will laugh at us, as landing at Mindstar and the vast future I envisioned seem very different.

I can give a clear answer to questions like this right now—it's a small step for now, but a giant leap for the future.

After overcoming countless challenges, we will finally realize the fantasy of the fairy tale and bring it into reality...

Tataka listened to the president's impassioned speech over the radio, feeling more relaxed than ever before.

He must relax because he is the direct astronaut for this space landing. Maintaining a highly tense mental state can easily lead to mental fatigue, which in turn increases the probability of errors during operations.

Therefore, Tataka must adjust its own state.

As the countdown began, Tatakae conducted its final pre-launch equipment checks.

When the countdown ended and a powerful recoil pressed Tataka firmly into his seat, he knew the rocket had launched!

The rocket has no windows, but Tatakae can see the outside of the rocket through an external camera port.

The friction of the air produced a dazzling light, like flames, making Tata feel that he was not heading towards the universe, but launching a death assault on an endless purgatory shrouded in a sea of ​​fire.

Once the rocket enters space and atmospheric friction is eliminated, the camera no longer captures a flame-like light, but rather a clearly defined new world.

On one side of the world is endless darkness, and on the other side is a world of vibrant colors.

Tata recognized that colorful world; it was his home planet, the mother that nurtured the entire Tak race.

Now, he is leaving his mother's embrace to venture into the darkness and explore a new world!

Tata silently bid a brief farewell to his home planet and began to focus all his energy on adjusting the rocket module's orbit.

Because the Takar's propulsion technology is still limited to chemical fuels, Tataka needs to adjust its trajectory, using a gravity slingshot to gradually approach Maistar, eventually completing the orbital change so that the rocket module can enter Maistar's orbit, and then gradually shrinking the orbit to complete the landing on Maistar.

This sounds easy, but it is actually quite complicated. Tataka needs to maintain constant contact with the ground space center during this period.

Once, twice, three times... ten times, eleven times, after completing the eleventh revolution around the mother star, the rocket capsule began to change its orbit, cutting into the orbit of Mai Star.

"Calling the ground, I've spotted the planet," Tata reported to the ground space center.

"Communication went well," the ground-based space center replied.

Just as Tata was about to end the radio communication, he was suddenly shocked by what he saw.

Mai Xing was shrinking at a visible rate, just like a deflated balloon.

This counterintuitive scene really frightened Tataka, and he immediately contacted the ground space center.

"Calling for ground control! Calling for ground control!"

"Ground command center has received your message. Please explain the problem."

"Mistar is disappearing! Mistar is disappearing!"

In fact, there was no need for the Tatas to report it over the radio, because the Taks on the ground could clearly see that the ancient planet Mai, which had been hanging in the sky for countless years, was shrinking at a visible rate. All the Taks on their home planet watched this change in the sky with utter horror...

(End of this chapter)