From ship girl to machine god

"Teacher Zhou, can we really not build an immigration spaceship to transfer the population of the earth to Pandora?" But Zhou Zhe was always in the mood to feed the pigeons, but Hao Xiaoxi, who was following him, was not in such a mood. She was more I still miss the beautiful environment of Pandora.

This is actually normal. After all, the beauty of Pandora is unforgettable for anyone who has seen the image data captured by the investigation team.

It was so beautiful that it not only made people feel unreal, but also so beautiful that it was very easy to get addicted to it.

Especially now that the earth is facing the end of destruction, and human beings are about to perish within 100 years. At this moment, a beautiful living planet like a paradise garden is very close at hand, and there is no way for human beings to reach it. This is a planet that everyone will have thoughts about.

It's just that it doesn't matter if other people have ideas, but Hao Xiaoxi's identity determines that if she has ideas, there will be problems.

So Zhou Zhe continued to feed the pigeons after looking at her and said: "We can build immigration spaceships or send people to Pandora, but we can't do that, at least we can't do it now."

"It's because once we do this, neither the Mountain Moving Plan nor the Ark Plan will be completed, right?" Hao Xiaoxi was not an idiot. She easily understood what Zhou Zhezhi meant.

If a person has a life-saving straw when he is desperate, he will cling to this life-saving straw and hold on to it with all his strength to gain life.

But if there are two or more different options, it is often difficult for humans to choose. Not only is it difficult to choose, but it is also because there are other options that they cannot devote all their strength to one of them.

Because people are lucky, they will think that if this path fails, we can find another path.

It is like a dog walking between two mountains. There are people living on the tops of the two mountains who can provide food for it, and these people will ring the bell when they eat to indicate that the meal is ready.

If the dog keeps running towards a mountain, it will soon eat.

But if the dog turns around and runs to another mountain after hearing the bell and remembering it, it will never be able to eat and will only tire itself to death.

Humanity on Earth is now facing such a situation. Although humans have previously invested all their resources in the Mountain Removal Project, the coalition government has also begun to fully invest in this project, which is the only proven and feasible salvation plan. But now humans cannot guarantee that they will be rescued.

But now, another road that can save mankind appears. The United Government is actually like that dog and must make a choice.

Should the mountain-moving project, which has now progressed to a considerable extent, come to an end, or should it be abandoned midway and start over from scratch to build jump engines and immigrant ships for the Ark project?

If humans have enough time, no matter which one they choose, it will not be a problem. Human beings have enough trial and error costs.

Or maybe mankind has enough resources to advance two plans at the same time. No matter which one succeeds, it can successfully save mankind.

But now, humans have neither enough time nor enough resources.

Even if the coalition government has integrated all the resources on the planet, it still can only invest in one of the two plans.

What's even more terrible is that although the solar crisis will not erupt in 100 years, if humans want to push the earth away from the sun and escape this disaster, they must start early.

So humans don’t have 100 years, not even 20 years.

Although Zhou Zhezhi didn't know this, someone had already calculated the result in advance.

Otherwise, the lunar crisis in the movie would not have broken out at exactly that time, because humans would not have enough time to escape from the solar system any later.

Therefore, just as humans were reminded during the space elevator crisis, humans were also warned this time.

It was a series of observed Morse codes written at the microscopic level. After decoding, what was obtained was a paragraph, and the information it conveyed was exactly a calculation formula.

According to the calculation of this formula, humans must set off in 2058, otherwise they will miss the window time to use Jupiter's gravitational acceleration.

Because changes in the sun's gravity will affect the acceleration of the earth, if it is not possible to set off before this time, the earth will be captured by the expansion of the sun's gravity, and will ultimately be unable to escape the solar system and be devoured.

And now it is 2047. Even if we fully calculate the deadline for humankind to set off in 2058, it will only be 12 years away.

Not to mention building enough immigration spacecraft to move the population to Pandora in such a short time, it is still unknown whether humans can successfully build an immigration spacecraft that can complete the jump flight.

Not to mention the important fact that even with the help of a jump engine, a trip between Earth and Pandora would take a full two years.

In 12 years, even if humans now have ready-made spacecraft for direct use, it will only be enough for six trips.

Of course, if humans choose to immigrate by spacecraft, they don’t need to consider setting off in 2058, but the helium flash crisis in 2078 still leaves humans not enough time.

Chapter 79 Transport Ship

The coalition government successfully obtained a set of standard jump engines by dismantling the small frigate.

Although this set of jump engines is not as large as the one on the Blue Bird itself, and it is completely incomparable in terms of power, it is still a standard jump engine, enough to propel a [-]-ton transport ship to make a subspace jump. , sending a thousand hibernating crew members on board to the Proxima Galaxy.

Don't get me wrong, this is not to say that this immigrant ship is better than the main body of the Blue Bird.

The huge 20-ton body of the Blue Bird can carry tens of thousands of passengers if it is fully loaded.

The reason why it only carries a survey team composed of more than 700 people is mainly because there are not so many people needed for investigation and exploration, and if it really carries tens of thousands of people, the living conditions on the ship will become extremely harsh.

Of course, the more important point is that the upper limit of [-] people includes the Marine Corps.

If we only calculate the minimum number of people required for Blue Bird's main body to operate normally, in fact, dozens of people are enough to control her main body normally.

More crew members simply allow more equipment and more functional areas to function.

Just like if there weren't so many people on the ship, the Blue Bird wouldn't open the OMCS organic compound system, and there would be no need to open the canteen on the ship.

This is also why the Blue Bird did not open many areas on the ship when the investigation team was on its way to the Proxima Galaxy.

After all, a 20-ton space battleship is too big. There is no way for a mere 700 people to effectively explore the ship, let alone fully control and utilize it.

Rather than leaving those areas open to waste energy and precious oxygen, it would be more convenient to directly close the vacuum and then cut off the power.

But for the coalition government, they don't have so much to consider.

The one thousand crew members on the transport ship all sleep in hibernation cabins. Except for the necessary crew members responsible for driving, who will be rotated at regular intervals, the others will just sleep all the way.

On the one hand, this is to save precious materials and loads. After all, every ton of load in space is extremely precious. The money spent to transport one more ton of materials to space is a staggering number for ordinary people.

Even with the space elevator, a transportation method that can easily travel between the ground and space, there is no need to launch rockets or space shuttles like in the pre-aerospace era, which greatly reduces the cost of carrying cargo from the ground into space, but this is still a high cost. number.

The previous investigation team was supported by Blue Bird's OMCS organic synthesis system. They did not need to carry so many supplies on the road and could be self-sufficient on the road.

But the transport ship is not enough. Although the coalition government dismantled the original frigate and took away the weapons system that occupied a lot of space in the hull, it also expanded the hull to a certain extent so that it can hold more things. .

But even so, the internal space of the transport ship is still insufficient, especially after installing a thousand hibernating chambers and the necessary life-support equipment to maintain the crew's hibernation for a year, the remaining cargo space still needs to carry other cargo to Pandora and Proxima. Star B supplies, there is even less space to store supplies.

So this is both a compromise and a way to save money. After all, if 1000 people eat horse chews in a year, even if one person only eats 425 kilograms of grain a year, this will require at least several hundred tons of grain.

And what's not good about transporting a load of several hundred tons?At worst, we could just put a few hundred more people on board!

Ever since, after spending three months dismantling the frigate and spending another two months transforming it into a transport ship according to the design template provided by Blue Bird, the coalition government finally sent a second investigation team to the Proxima Galaxy. .

There were more of them, but the ship was smaller. They slept along the way instead of training along the way like the first investigation team, and they also experienced thrilling subspace crises.

By the way, after the experiments and tests of the first batch of investigation teams, hibernation can effectively resist the influence of subspace energy. Although it still has a certain impact, it is only the erosion of subspace energy caused by subspace navigation, which is not enough to affect hibernation. What impact does it have on the occupants whose conscious activity is reduced to a minimum?

After all, the jump engine technology provided by Blue Bird only operates on the surface of subspace, and does not go deep into subspace. The impact of subspace it can receive is really not worth mentioning.

Otherwise, if they really go deep into the subspace, let alone hibernating, even a dead corpse, the energy of the subspace can make it jump.

All in all, the second batch of human pioneers heading outside the solar system are on their way.

This time, the coalition government did not maintain strict secrecy like it did with the first investigation team. Instead, it disclosed the operation to the outside world, telling the world that there are habitable planets in the Proxima Galaxy and that humans have now mastered space jumps. Technology news.

Moreover, the coalition government also emphasized the existence of Jade Bird, saying that she was the chief scientist of the coalition government. She independently completed the space jump technology, independently manufactured the first jump engine, and personally went to the Proxima galaxy and discovered the habitable planet Proxima. Star b.

Of course, the existence of Pandora is still a secret.

After all, compared to Proxima Centauri b, which is only "habitable", Pandora can be called a paradise garden even compared to the earth itself.

If ordinary people were to know that humans have discovered such a good place, and now there is a way to go to this good place without having to worry about the solar crisis on Earth, then humanity will fall into turmoil and chaos again.

Just like the cake drawn by the Digital Life Project for mankind, as long as your consciousness is uploaded, you can live in the virtual paradise of the digital world without having to face any worries.

The Digital Life School just drew a pie, but the Pandora star really had a table full of people and Chinese people feasting on it.

Therefore, the coalition government must completely block the news and not let anyone know about the existence of Pandora.

Although Proxima Centauri b can cause some chaos, after all, it is a place where the gravity is much higher than that of the earth and the temperature is basically tens of degrees below zero. Everything has to be built from scratch, even if ordinary people on the earth know about Proxima Centauri. b, may not be willing to go to such a distant place to build a new home for mankind.

In particular, the coalition government announced that humans currently only have two jump engines and cannot immigrate to the Proxima Galaxy on a large scale. They will continue to promote the mountain-moving plan.

This has undoubtedly greatly dispelled most people's desire and ideas to go to Proxima b.

Chapter 80 The debris is rising and the spaceship faction

However, although the coalition government tried its best to reduce the impact of the news that there was a way out for mankind, and vigorously promoted the personality cult of Blue Bird to divert attention, riots still inevitably occurred.

But this time it was not the Digital Life Faction that was causing trouble, but the Spaceship Faction.

When they first decided on the final plan to save mankind, the most important basis for the Planet Faction to refute the Spaceship Faction was that humanity's current technology cannot build a spaceship that can last for 500 years. If it cannot reach the Proxima Galaxy, humans will have to stay on the road.

But now, this rule is self-defeating. Human beings do not need to build structures to support

Chapter 81 Second Phase Group

The second batch of survey teams also successfully arrived in the Proxima Centauri galaxy after a year-long jump voyage.

They did not go to Pandora immediately, and only a few people in the second phase of the group knew about the existence of Pandora.

To be precise, from the establishment to the departure of the second phase of the regiment, whether it was external publicity or internal task arrangements, they were sent to Proxima b to build an advance base, develop Proxima b, and build it into a new home for mankind. .

Only the leadership of the second-phase regiment knew that they had another mission to support the construction on Pandora.

However, because this mission was highly confidential, and the coalition government told them that they must obey Jade Bird's arrangements, the leaders of the second phase of the regiment did not go around claiming that they had another mission, but instead pretended that they were here to build the neighborhood. Star b looks like.

"Currently, we have developed a total of three temporary camps on Proxima b. Because the first-phase team has limited manpower, the construction work has been progressing slowly. The arrival of the second-phase team has given us a great help." In the conference room of the mothership , Qade Bird took over the appointment of the chief scientist of the coalition government brought by the second phase of the delegation, and became the top leader of the first and second phases of the mission without hesitation. While sitting on the main seat and delivering a speech, he also expressed his gratitude to the second phase of the mission. Make arrangements: "However, because your second phase team came directly from hibernation along the way, you may not be familiar with the work here, so you will not be sent directly to the surface for the time being. You will be familiar with the work on the mother ship for the time being. "

"We understand that everyone in the second phase team will be familiar with the environment in the shortest possible time so that they can be qualified for our work." The leader of the second phase team naturally understood the current situation of the second phase team, so he followed Jade Bird's words and showed his determination.

After all, the second phase of the team has just arrived at Proxima b, and the members have just woken up from hibernation, and it does take some time to recover and adapt.

The leader of the second-phase regiment is a woman with a resolute face. Judging from her resume, she is better at organization and management than the commanding officers and political cadres of the first-phase regiment. It is obvious that she was specially selected by the coalition government to assist Jade Bird in handling the matter. Daily management work.

The previous group was an investigation group sent by the military. From the members to the leadership, it was more geared toward military operations.

After all, the coalition government only sent them here to conduct a reconnaissance and did not consider the idea of ​​letting them build human settlements on the spot.

However, now that Proxima b and Pandora have been discovered, it is natural to turn military operations into construction tasks. Therefore, the members of the second phase of the regiment are more talented in this field, rather than being all soldiers like the first phase of the regiment. , the configuration is more like a combat unit.

Blue Bird naturally understood this, so after the arrival of the second group, she was ready to leave all matters on Proxima b to the leader of the second group who was very good at management based on his resume.

But before that, she still explained to the leader of the second phase: "I have planned the arrangements for the second phase. You 1000 people will be divided into four groups. Three groups will go to the ground to participate in the construction and construction of three temporary camps. For other ground work, one group remained on the mothership for rotation.

The first phase of the group will select some members based on their daily performance and comprehensive evaluation, and prepare to return to Earth with me.

This mission was originally supposed to go back in three years, but it turned out to be a long-term mission here. We should still give everyone a chance to return to Earth for a rest. "

When the first phase of the mission set out, it was agreed that it would be one year to go, one year to investigate, and one year to return, a total of three years. However, with the development of Proxima b and the discovery of Pandora, this so-called three-year period will undoubtedly be overturned. Greatly elongated.

So Jade Bird is preparing to arrange for some people to return to Earth. At the same time, she also needs to return to Earth to deal with some things.

"Chief Engineer Qing, how should we arrange the quota for returning to Earth?" Upon hearing that Qingniao was going to take people back to Earth, the political cadres of the first phase asked with concern.