The stars, but they become the gray wind

"This is simply incredible to us. If the other party is truly a Kardashev Type III civilization, then for them, doing this is like running over an ant with a wheel without causing any harm to it."

"I think this may be the result of deliberate action by the other party."

"Our best option at this stage is not to provoke the other side and cross the bottom line set by the other side."

"Judging from their statements, their demands may not be excessive for humanity. This is a very good option for all of humanity. We may actually be able to avoid the problems caused by long-standing wars and conflicts."

Chapter 213: Denuclearized Blue Planet Fins

The shell of the corrector, which had decomposed into gas, silently passed through the obstruction of walls and doors and arrived at the United Nations conference hall where the meeting was being held. The shell, which no one could detect, observed everything, such as the representative of a certain Zionist entity who was now speaking out. He claimed that his country had suffered heavy losses in the attack, and openly condemned the alien civilization for making his country lose the ability to protect itself, and showed favoritism towards certain dangerous elements. Just as he finished speaking and was about to sit down again, the shell lifted the covert operation state and suddenly appeared in the hall, scaring all the humans present.

"Protecting yourself? Taking sides? Shouldn't you think about what you are doing? What have you done?"

"You're using self-protection as an excuse to indiscriminately kill people who are genetically your own kind?"

The official representative of a Zionist entity present felt as if the translucent alien cube was staring at him. Although the alien cube did not have any eyes or cameras on its surface, he still felt a gaze watching him.

"But... partiality?"

"It's ridiculous. Your actions have already gone beyond even the most basic bottom line of our attitude towards intelligent life."

Immediately afterwards, countless holographic projections appeared around the shell. They were detailed images and pictures of the horrific scenes and events that had occurred in an open-air concentration camp in the past decade, which had been created by the Zionist entity country present. These recorded images, texts, pictures, and information were played in a loop, broadcast to the world from the venue of this open UN Security Council meeting under the live cameras of a large group of reporters.

"Your species are quite skilled at using self-preservation as an excuse to brutally murder your fellow humans."

The alien cube spoke in an emotionless voice. Thousands of holographic images showed the atrocities committed by the army of a certain Zionist entity in Gaza City over the past decade: the massacre of unarmed local civilians, who were later declared terrorists; heavily armed soldiers storming hospitals and indiscriminately shooting medical staff and patients; attacks on convoys and personnel of Aid Without Borders that were merely delivering water and food to civilians in the war; the army systematically killing innocent local women and children, and taking pleasure in doing so afterwards; the wanton bombing of civilian facilities, causing scene after scene of tragedy; mass graves next to hospitals and civilian relief facilities in open-air concentration camps, where many bodies were dug up still wearing the uniforms of doctors and patients; the mutilated bodies of countless children. One horrific picture after another was played on a loop in the United Nations hall, and these uncensored pictures were broadcast live to billions of people around the world under the cameras of the reporters present.

"This is what you creatures did." The alien cube commented coldly on the evil deeds of mankind. Finally, one of the holographic images was pulled to the front. It was an interview video of a skinny old man.

I was born here, this is my home. I don't hate anyone. I just want clean water and food, and to buy a good life for my children. We are not terrorists, we just want to survive. We are not Palestinians or Israelis, but a group of people who just want to survive and those who want more hatred.

I'm tired of the hate... so tired I can't even wash my hands because there's no water.

In the picture, a skinny old man, leaning on a cane, sits in the ruins of what used to be his home, weakly recounting the suffering he has endured.

"That's what you did. You just used the excuse of protecting yourself to abuse violence."

"It is nothing more than a shameless excuse for a group of greedy people to incite hatred and war."

The representative of a certain Zionist entity present was speechless when the truth was exposed.

"And, everyone here, all the disasters and chaos that your civilization has suffered in the past hundred years are caused by you yourselves." The alien cube turned its gaze to the American and Soviet representatives present.

"You have spent nearly half a century expanding and promoting your ideology in other countries, without a single success!"

"These countries and regions don't even have the most basic prerequisites to support your ideology."

"If you look deeper, it should be small things, like being tolerant of people who have different views and ideas than you, or understanding those who believe differently than you."

"Do you really think that just sending a few troops to those countries and regions, relying on your dogmatism, dropping a few bombs, and killing a few dictators, can count as democracy and freedom, or as successfully promoting your ideology?"

"Oh, stop dreaming."

"Most people don't want so-called freedom, democracy, or any ideology. What they want is long-term stability, borders, order, layers of security, and internal peace. People yearn for a society that can control and maintain their stable lives. If you can meet their needs, they will follow you."

"The worst part is that everyone thinks they're right. Terrorists think they're right, fundamentalists think they're right, capitalists think they're right, and even communists think they're right. In the end, no one can convince anyone else, and no one is willing to tolerate each other. You're stuck in this vicious cycle where whoever has the bigger fist is right."

"With all due respect, the organization you and I are in this building, the organization it symbolizes, was created to effectively help you solve the world's problems. However, you have used it as a tool for political manipulation. Countless people have died in the wars and chaos you have unleashed. So, let's be frank."

"The truth is: your wars and games are useless!"

"So let's be clear, I'm here to solve some problems on this planet."

"And now I feel that the problems on this planet start with you here!"

"It is precisely because you here regard this naive and foolish game as the best strategy for solving the problem that countless humans, who are originally the same species at the genetic level, have gone to war against their fellow humans on the same planet for a tiny bit of profit."

"Your civilization has wasted far too much time and countless resources on meaningless problems. Simply for these meaningless issues and short-term gains, it has created one ism, dynasty, corporation, nation, and alliance after another. Countless fictitious concepts have blossomed on this blue-green planet. But looking around, all this is the evil result of greed and short-sightedness. Countless people live in a world of weighing pros and cons, fighting each other to the death for short-term gains. Yet, no one is standing up to question whether this is not the way civilization on this planet should be."

"Dry soil cannot bear rich fruit. If you want a better future... you can... but you... must change the root causes of these problems!"

These words were like a heavy boulder dropped on a calm lake. The meeting room became boiling in the blink of an eye, but no one present could see any emotion from the alien cube in the middle.

"And I...will help you take that first step."

The images on the holographic projection changed, showing a series of shocking pictures.

These images come from a variety of shooting angles and techniques, including satellite images, cameras inside the facility, drone footage taken from high altitude, sonar data, etc.

The expressions of all the representatives of the nuclear-armed countries present changed. Although the forms of these images varied, the content of the pictures was very unified. These were all live images of the nuclear strike forces of various countries on Earth.

"Remember, the root of the problems on this planet lies with you. To fundamentally solve the problems, you need to change, and so does human civilization."

"And the first step in building a more rational civilization is to eliminate the possibility of your mutual destruction."

"I am here to invite all of humanity to witness a nuclear-free Earth!"

The holographic imagery shifted dramatically. Countless cracks suddenly appeared on the casings of hundreds of intercontinental missiles and nuclear warheads stored in the missile base's underground silos. The ten-meter-tall missiles instantly disintegrated into a vast pile of fragments and powder. Meanwhile, beneath the frozen ground across the ocean, thousands of nuclear warheads, once secure in their underground storage, suddenly and without warning, in a manner that defied all laws of nature, melted into a heap of liquid metal waste. The nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles on the missile launchers stationed in the underground tunnels began to develop the familiar silvery-white markings and patches. Within a minute, the entire launcher and its missiles were reduced to piles of metal powder.

Similar scenes were broadcast through holographic projection in the conference hall to the delegates attending the conference and everyone sitting in front of televisions and other electronic display devices outside the venue. Billions of people around the world watched the real-time images of the global nuclear weapons destruction that shocked the world.

Everyone in the conference hall had expressions of shock and bewilderment on their faces. The entire UN Security Council hall suddenly became extremely quiet. Or to be more precise, most of the delegates present had been so shocked by the images on screen that they had lost the ability to speak.

"Remember, sometimes falling behind doesn't mean being stupid. It's your long-term meaningless internal friction that makes you look so stupid. This planet... is about to change." After leaving such a message, the mysterious alien cube turned off all the holographic displays and disappeared into the open space in the center of the hall along with the closed screens.

It will take some time for humans to understand the huge changes that have just taken place...Human society...is about to change.

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After this event, which was later called the global destruction of nuclear weapons, several countries were ready to take action because of the destruction of nuclear weapons. The warning they received was that more than half of the conventional munitions and weapons in the entire country were decomposed into a pile of harmless powder, and there were no casualties in the whole process. This rather mild but extremely threatening warning made these countries that were ready to take action instantly give up all thoughts of launching foreign or internal wars.

As the impact of the global nuclear weapons destruction incident gradually spread, countries began to disarm and restrict all forms of armed conflicts caused by national borders, economic interests, religion, and ideology. Regarding these conflicts, countries began to be more willing to resolve the issues at the negotiating table rather than relying on fists. Even on a global scale, more than a dozen countries that had originally experienced large-scale civil wars or local conflicts due to ethnic and religious conflicts began to completely abandon the route of peaceful negotiations based on force, because they knew that any form of force they used might attract the "technical intervention" of alien civilizations, which might cause their few armies to instantly lose all their weapons and combat capabilities.

All of a sudden, the various news reports of large-scale casualties caused by local wars and chaos that had been common around the world in the past few decades almost disappeared. This was especially true in the Middle East, where the situation had been chaotic since the end of World War II. Suddenly, the situation was greatly eased, and the governments and anti-government armed forces in the East, which had been in chaos, laid down their arms and chose to go to the negotiating table.

In the open-air concentration camp in the Middle East, the old man who appeared on the holographic projection screen in the United Nations conference hall looked at the high wall one kilometer away from afar. It was the existence of this wall that killed the hope of survival of countless people. The old man stared at the wall from afar with eyes that had long since dried of tears.

Suddenly, a strange sound was heard in the sky near the old man. At first, the old man subconsciously covered his head and crouched down, thinking that it was another air raid that many residents in this open-air concentration camp were accustomed to. But when he saw the source of the sound, he was stunned.

The source of the sound was thousands of white spherical machines flying at a low altitude of less than 100 meters. On both sides of these white spherical objects, there were four gun barrel-like objects extending forward. For some reason, there seemed to be strange green lines on the four gun barrels extending forward.

Under the old man's puzzled gaze, thousands of drones flew over the head of the old man with a cane and rushed towards the gray high wall in the distance. When approaching the high wall, thousands of drones formed a horizontal row parallel to the high wall. Then the drones in the formation fired thousands of green light beams towards the bottom of the high wall. The moment the green light beams touched the base of the high wall, the solid reinforced concrete and barbed wire wall collapsed. Like a sand castle easily shattered by the waves, this gray-white high wall that had killed the hopes of countless people in the past few decades collapsed into powdery ruins in front of the old man in an instant.

Behind the collapsed wall, the Zionist army that once loved to show off their might in the city they surrounded had long since ignored the orders from their superiors to continue holding their ground and fled in fear. After all, the meager wages they received were not worth fighting with the angry people on the other side of the ruins who had been oppressed by them for more than ten years without even a usable weapon. Compared with the army they were in, which they knew very well, these soldiers who were running away in defiance of their superiors cared more about their own lives.

More than ten minutes later, as the first brave young man crossed the high wall that had turned into powdered ruins, he stood on the ruins of the high wall that had once killed the hopes of him and his family, and waved to the crowd watching behind him. He was followed by the second, third, fourth... More and more people followed the young man in the lead and crossed the high wall that had turned into ruins, setting foot on the land that had once been their home. On the other side of the high wall, the army that had once been rampant in their own city was no longer there. After decades of suffering, the people trapped in the open-air concentration camps finally broke free from their shackles and returned to the land where their grandparents and fathers and mothers once lived. This time, no one or anything could stop them.

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"That shouldn't raise any questions... Without weapons, how can you possibly fight?"

The red-haired cat girl seemed very positive and happy.

"We've already opened the way for them to resolve the issue through dialogue. If that doesn't work out, it only proves that the humans on this planet are a bunch of rubbish."

"We have plenty of time. As for achieving planetary unification through dialogue and peaceful negotiations, that's up to them. We're not babysitters."

"As for Mars and the Moon, after what we've done, they should have realized the root of the problem, right?"

"Wow... this is really... wonderful!" Moia and his Teian friends who were watching the images coming from Earth couldn't help but applaud.

"If we were to do such a sophisticated method, we would definitely not be able to do it."

"All nuclear weapons were destroyed with zero casualties. If we were to do it, the noise would probably be much louder, and the results probably wouldn't be so perfect."

"After all, targeting all nuclear weapons stored deep underground and on the seafloor on this planet in such a short period of time, completely destroying them without missing a single one, and without causing any casualties in the process, especially the last part, is a very difficult task for us."

"As expected of an interstellar civilization far more advanced than ours, this method is truly ingenious, accurate, and efficient."

"By the way, if you leave this matter to us, how will we solve it?"

"Uh... now that you mention it, it seems I haven't thought about this problem before. Wait a minute... let me first list the difficulties of this process."

"Well, first of all, the exact location of those nuclear weapons. Although we can obtain the exact location of all nuclear weapons deployed on Earth by invading the enemy's military communication and command system, a considerable number of nuclear weapons are deployed in thick underground bunkers or on the seabed. The nuclear weapons on nuclear submarines are not a problem. The sea water is only tens to hundreds of meters deep, which is not very effective for the terawatt-level high-power lasers carried by our spacecraft. However, we may have to consider the energy loss caused by atmospheric interference. After all, unlike drilling holes in celestial bodies like the moon, which have no atmospheric interference, the interference caused by the Earth's atmosphere will be much more serious. Perhaps in this case, against those nuclear submarines hidden on the seabed, it would be more effective to directly inject high-speed interceptor missiles with a disposable thermal insulation layer into the atmosphere and the sea at hundreds of kilometers per second?"

"As for those nuclear bombs stored in underground nuclear bunkers, forget about using lasers to slowly burn them like on the moon. The only way to quickly destroy those nuclear weapons in colleges and universities is to use earth-penetrating bombs equipped with nuclear directed energy warheads, right?"

"As for high-energy particle beam weapons being able to penetrate rock formations hundreds or even kilometers deep to kill, it seems technically possible, but it doesn't fit the concept of destroying nuclear weapons with the highest efficiency and lowest cost in the shortest possible time."

"What about the ultra-high energy neutrino beam?" a Theian next to him suddenly suggested.

"This kind of thing is totally unfeasible with our current level of technology, right? It's still only in the theoretical engineering verification stage." Moia had indeed heard of this theory, but when she thought about the electron volt energy level of the neutrino beam needed to destroy nuclear weapons on an entire planet, her face became a little tense.

"Let's not even talk about the question of how we can produce a neutrino beam with an energy of 1000 TeV with our current technology."

"Although neutrinos can easily penetrate planetary-thick strata and all physical protective layers of conventional matter, such high-energy neutrino beams interact strongly with surrounding matter during propagation, producing a large number of high-energy neutrons. Upon striking the plutonium or uranium within a nuclear warhead, these will inevitably trigger a nuclear fission reaction, igniting the warhead. Although this energy release is much lower than the original design energy release of a nuclear bomb, it will still produce an explosion equivalent to approximately 3% of the original design energy of a nuclear weapon. In other words, a 1 million-ton nuclear weapon, after being destroyed by ultra-high-energy neutrinos, will still produce an explosion equivalent to 30,000 tons of TNT, which is no different from a small nuclear bomb."

"But if we were to do something like this, we probably wouldn't choose to irradiate the Earth with high-energy neutrino beams to destroy all nuclear weapons on Earth, because even our technology can't build a particle accelerator of that level.

"Even if we could build it, we wouldn't be able to stuff it onto a spacecraft or some other mobile space platform. The engineering difficulty of building a super particle accelerator of that scale to produce neutrino-antine annihilation Z bosons is quite difficult, even for a K1.2 civilization."

"As for hypervelocity nuclear directed-energy earth-penetrating bombs and those hundred-kilometer-per-second high-speed interceptor missiles designed specifically to destroy underwater targets, potentially carrying nuclear charges, while arguably the cheapest and most effective options, they would undoubtedly cause considerable casualties and damage to parts of the planet's surface. Given our technological capabilities, if we truly wanted to destroy every nuclear weapon on a planet, considerable collateral damage would be unavoidable. At least we wouldn't be able to achieve their level of perfection, and we certainly wouldn't be able to strike the planet's civilization with zero casualties."

"Our methods are probably much more brutal than theirs. Admittedly, they are quite gentle towards other less developed civilizations, including ours."

"I hope the humans on Earth can understand their gentle intentions and true intentions. If it were us, we wouldn't have the patience to use such gentle methods and kind words to persuade you."

"Perhaps this is a form of relatively gentle tolerance towards other civilizations? Try to use the most gentle methods possible. Change its development model and future without completely overturning the entire civilization?"

Chapter 214 The Road to an Ideal World

The overseas military bases, economic presence, and military presence of major powers around the world have all begun to shrink significantly following this nuclear destruction. This time, there will be no more hegemonic nation or organization. All of humanity will gain the right to truly free development and mutual respect without brutal interference. The old world order, based on unequal levels of technological and economic development, will be completely and peacefully dismantled. Following this nuclear destruction, human society will no longer have any major power or organization that relies solely on force to dominate the world order. The human mindset that has prevailed since World War II, based on who has the biggest fist, will be completely overturned. From now on, humankind will no longer resort to violence to resolve their problems. To build consensus and maintain the functioning of human society, they must give up some of their own interests and allow former enemies to live a comfortable life. Using time and non-violence to resolve hatred and conflict between the two sides is the only and most viable path forward for human civilization today. If we continue the past path of establishing a new system through violence and coercion, then ultimately... After running for dozens or hundreds of years, the new social system will inevitably become rigid and corrupt, and fall into the endless cycle of historical cycles again, repeating the mistakes and follies that mankind has made for thousands of years. In the process, it will cause the sacrifice of thousands of innocent people, and let more people be trapped in the torrent of hatred and history, and be used as cannon fodder and sacrifices to be thrown into this long river from which there is no return for mankind.

Throughout human history, people with military power have always tended to use violent oppression and killing to solve problems when facing vulnerable groups. But now the rules have changed. Any violent suppression will only lead to direct attacks from alien technology. All the world rules based on power that humans have had for the past hundred years are gradually being disintegrated.

During the global nuclear weapons destruction incident, a large number of countries protested against the alien civilization's behavior, but the other party did not respond to these protests, and even did not care at all. The methods commonly used by humans are obviously useless for an alien civilization whose most information is unknown. When those protesting countries carefully examined their current situation with the alien civilization, they realized how stupid they were.

To an alien civilization suspected of possessing interstellar faster-than-light travel capabilities, humanity's current actions resemble insects protesting a falling fly swatter. They don't even have the right to say "no." They've already shown the utmost kindness and respect by informing humanity before carrying out this action. They completely disregard the feelings of a group of creatures they consider no different from insects or even bacteria. Yet, humanity still knows very little about this alien civilization. They chose the option that minimized losses. So far, humanity has suffered zero casualties in this incident. Despite the fact that all of humanity's nuclear weapons and the vast majority of its military strike capabilities were destroyed in an instant, the fact that humanity has suffered no casualties is undoubtedly a message to humanity: I can destroy all your resistance in an instant, without bloodshed, and you are powerless to do anything.

The common means used by human society to deal with this situation are nothing more than a few economic or military means. However, for an alien civilization whose technology and scale far exceed that of the Earth, this behavior is no different from a monkey showing off its power in front of a group of fully armed hunters with a crude wooden stick. In the face of the absolute gap in technology, all the means and methods abused by humans have lost their meaning.

Shortly after the global nuclear destruction event, several countries on Earth, in the Middle East, Africa, and South America, that were previously embroiled in territorial disputes, attempted to seize the opportunity to launch foreign wars against their neighbors to seize disputed territory. In response to these restless nations, the alien civilization dismantled all firearms in circulation and held by these nations, from the military to various black market gangs, into a vast pile of harmless powder. The nations that had been on the verge of action almost immediately quieted down, fearing direct intervention from the alien civilization.

Any country or organization that attempted to stir up trouble during this period of freedom and uncertainty was ruthlessly suppressed. Any country, organization, or individual that attempted to provoke war and conflict was met with unprecedented interference.

During the entire incident, compared to the series of chain reactions and chaos on Earth, the Moon and Mars appeared to be much more orderly. Regarding the large-scale nuclear weapons destruction incident on Earth, the astronauts stationed on the Moon and Mars lacked a sense of reality of this event. Due to the lunar conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in the last century, the human beings in this world generally restricted countries from transporting lethal weapons to the lunar surface in order to prevent militarization. Therefore, the human astronauts and other humans stationed on the Moon lacked a sense of reality about the nuclear bomb destruction incident at this time. Of course, as a human being on Earth, most people are happy to see a nuclear-free planet. Although the process of nuclear denuclearization is indeed difficult for some people to accept, it has indeed brought peace.

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Of course, the complex political situation on Earth has little to do with the early stages of construction of the mass accelerator on the Moon and the Martian asteroid outpost. Witnessing the extraordinary efficiency and construction capabilities of alien civilizations on the Moon and Mars, the human astronauts there have become acutely aware of their own weakness and backwardness in the interstellar space. The first step to changing this situation is to expand the current scale of space infrastructure construction.

The edge of a crater forms the foundation for the Lunar Mass Accelerator, a facility built against the mountain. While the Lunar Mass Accelerator is far smaller in scale and construction difficulty than Earth's, the total engineering effort is still substantial. For Earth's civilization, currently at approximately 0.75 scale, the mass accelerator is a monumental undertaking. A significant amount of construction equipment and materials stored in lunar colonies are being invested in the initial construction of the mass accelerator, paving a new path for humanity on Earth and in the future solar system. While human technological advancement may not be as strong as that of the starry sky, and its overall technological level lags far behind, humanity can still strive to improve this situation in the distant future through its own efforts.

Unlike mass accelerators on Earth, which are built in vacuum tubes, the lunar vacuum environment provides much more convenient conditions for their operation and construction. For example, a lunar mass accelerator essentially eliminates the need for vacuum tubes tens of kilometers long. Instead, it simply utilizes the moon's natural vacuum to easily accelerate a payload to lunar escape velocity and launch it into orbit.

On Mars, Kelly Baldwin wasn't particularly concerned with the complex political situation on Earth. Rather than that boring politics, she preferred to focus on the silicon-based compounds and fossilized remains of early microorganisms on the Moon. She had never imagined the answers lay so close to home. She had traveled 400 million kilometers from Earth to Mars to discover extraterrestrial microbes, only to find the answers so close to Earth, despite knowing deep down that it was practically impossible. Drilling through a layer of rock over 5000 meters thick—for humans with current technological capabilities, drilling beyond 5000 meters on the lunar surface remains a monumental engineering challenge.

Although the mass accelerator can indeed launch payloads into orbit at a low cost, and can also afford the future Earth-Moon orbital solar power station, which is an early precursor to the production of Dyson cloud modules, a mass accelerator is ultimately powerless without supporting other infrastructure. Some people have proposed that a 200-kilometer-long skyhook should be built in the lunar orbit to provide a boost for the payload to Mars, and one or more skyhooks should also be built in the orbit of the Goldilocks asteroid on Mars to receive payloads and cargo. However, this is a long-term engineering plan. At present, even the mass accelerator on the moon is still in the early stages of laying the foundation, and most of the construction work has not been completed. It will still take time for humans to complete the construction of space infrastructure in the inner solar system.

On the Goldilocks asteroid on Mars, astronauts and construction personnel from the Happy Valley base have successfully landed and established the first small mining outpost. This site has been named Kuznetsov Station, in honor of Kuznetsov, the first human astronaut to land on an asteroid. Kuznetsov Station is built within a meteorite impact crater on the asteroid's surface. Although it currently consists of only a few modules, this marks the beginning of their interplanetary species' journey on Mars, a new interstellar colony. Future generations may remember their work here, ushering in a new era of healthier development for human society.

Even more surprising for the Mars Happy Valley base was a detailed exploration of the asteroid's composition, revealing not only iridium but also significant amounts of platinum and gold. These reserves far exceeded even the most optimistic estimates of asteroids by various space agencies, totaling at least 100,000 tons of various minerals. This delighted everyone at the Mars base, and as a commemoration, they placed the first sample of ore they had excavated from the Goldilocks asteroid in a glass box and displayed it in the base's lobby.

Several aerospace engineers and orbital mechanics experts who have worked in the Mars base for a long time, while participating in the exploration and mining of Goldilocks, also proposed the idea of ​​using Goldilocks as the starting counterweight for the construction of the Mars orbital skyhook. Since Goldilocks's mass and volume are large enough, the momentum loss and continuous decrease in orbital altitude caused by the long-term operation of the orbital skyhook can be said to be very minor for an object of Goldilocks' size and mass. In addition, by borrowing the naturally existing asteroid Goldilocks, the time cost of building a large space station can be saved, and the raw materials for building the skyhook can be obtained directly from Goldilocks. Of course, these are still just ideas. Goldilocks is now just an early mining outpost, and a large amount of equipment and infrastructure are not yet in place. In order to realize the ideas of these orbital mechanics and aerospace engineering experts, both the Mars base and the moon need time to improve their infrastructure construction.

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In the unloading warehouse of the Happy Valley base on Mars, Ed, who was already gray-haired, and the woman in front of him, who was also very familiar to him and had a face full of wrinkles, looked at each other in extreme awkwardness.

"Uh...hi...Ed, long time no see?" Finally, Marco decided to take the initiative to break the awkward and silent atmosphere between the two parties.

"Hey... Margo, it's been a few years since we last saw the old generation. Besides the two of us, there aren't many left."

"Although we don't want to admit it, we are old after all."

"And more importantly, after all, we are both traitors, aren't we?"

"One of us betrayed our country, and the other betrayed billions of people on this planet."

"No, if there's anything I've learned from being an astronaut for so long, it's that you shouldn't let your moral compass hold you back from doing the right thing."

"Sometimes we have to make difficult choices for the long term."

"Regarding this, when I was on that alien spaceship, it seemed that they had some different views on this issue."

"They believe that a perfect option exists that is both fair and minimizes losses. However, most intelligent creatures always lose the opportunity to choose this perfect option when weighing the pros and cons of their immediate interests."

"Oh...really? Then you must have gotten along well with Kuznetsov. He, like you, has been living on an alien spaceship for several months."

"Come with me. I think you need to take a tour of this Martian base that you single-handedly helped build."

Margo followed Ed and toured the Mars base. When she was the director of the Space Agency, the Mars base had only a few narrow cabins, but today it has become a mining and scientific research outpost with nearly a thousand people stationed here. In the future, this will also be the starting point for mankind to travel to the deep space of the solar system and a gold mine to be developed. Goldilocks Little Star is still in the early stages of exploration and development. A large amount of precious metal mineral resources will support future humans to move from here to other areas of the solar system, toward the asteroid belt, toward Jupiter, toward Saturn, toward Uranus, and toward the outer solar system where Neptune is located. It will be a springboard. Even if humans can continue to survive, this may even become the starting point for humans to become a Type II civilization thousands of years later. Margo hopes that this Mars base The significance of the Earth is far more than just a scientific research outpost. She hopes that one day mankind will no longer be bound by the products of the old era such as country, nation, religious beliefs, ideology, etc. When facing alien civilizations and the vast unknown starry sky, mankind should first be a species that should unite. Margo hopes that the Happy Valley Base will be the starting point of all this, even if it will take decades or hundreds of years to see initial results, but as a scientist and engineer, Margo still hopes that the dream is not just a dream, but the starting point for mankind to move towards the future. This is why she finally chose to leave the protection of the alien spacecraft and come to Mars. She wants to be a participant, participate in and build all this process with her own hands, and contribute to the future of a united human civilization, rather than just being a witness.