In the following time, signals continued to come. It's just that the process of decelerating the spacecraft was a bit boring, and the deceleration process took half a year - which made many citizens complain: Could it be more boring? Of course, this is also what ordinary people think. For professionals, deceleration is a critical step. If this step cannot be completed perfectly, it will have a great negative impact on subsequent steps. The most serious thing, such as rushing out directly, would be a tragedy! After all, the kinetic energy carried by the spacecraft is too powerful and cannot be captured by ordinary stars!
And the subsequent destruction of the "enemy's" defense capabilities is exciting. But when the genocide document was signed, many citizens began to protest against the cruelty of the empire; and when dozens of cold viruses were released, there were even demonstrations!
However, successful immigration is ultimately reassuring. Although there are problems like this, success is the most beautiful fruit! Instead, the citizens' opposition to the empire's actions quietly disappeared.
There are just dozens of cold viruses of varying severity, and even humans may not be able to tolerate them—let alone aliens who have never been exposed to such viruses. Within a few days, the ground was already covered with corpses, and a month later, the land was completely barren, with not a single animal in sight! Not even animals the size of ants survived! On this planet that has no ability to resist cold viruses, the harm of viruses is magnified thousands of times! However, the Empire also explained some things, such as using Germany's behavior in World War II as a metaphor, such as using Japan's behavior back then as a metaphor, which temporarily made the citizens of the Empire somewhat understand the Empire's decision. Not to mention, it is no longer under the jurisdiction of the empire, but is within the scope of the Yanhuang Empire!
And with the return of the signal, there is also a large amount of the essence of alien civilization. These essences are compressed and spread using text, pictures, sounds, videos, etc. This information increases people's knowledge. It also gave the empire new material to draw from in its research direction.
In return, the Empire is preparing to launch a high-speed probe, which carries the Empire's latest technological achievements.
Many people expressed opposition to this action, wondering why they should be allowed to gain something for nothing. But the empire has also considered a lot. The most important thing is that the overall strength of human society is still too weak. The empire should and must take all means to increase the survivability of human beings in the universe. Based on the existing conclusions, it can be concluded that human beings will inevitably encounter more powerful cosmic civilizations in the future - in order to maintain basic dignity and survival ability in the face of such civilizations. Human beings cannot place their hopes on others, so they must strengthen their own abilities! Therefore, now is not the time to care about personal gains and losses. But you must strengthen your self-defense ability! Otherwise, the whale constellation may be the fate of future humans. Oh, the current star T in the Whale Constellation has officially been renamed the Yanhuang Galaxy!
In March of the 108th year of the Imperial Calendar, the spaceship War set sail. The third spacecraft launched by mankind and the first spacecraft built with private funds raised by the Empire. The significance of this spaceship setting sail is of great significance! It was promised before the empire was established. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, private consortiums, etc. were allowed. Establish your own empire; in the early days of mankind, you will expand your sphere of influence through this method.
But at any time, a promise is one thing, and whether it can be fulfilled is another. Actually. Every time a spaceship is built, it is a serious harm to the Empire! Massive loss of elites, removal of an entire industrial base, departure of relatives, etc. It will make the empire weak for a while. If the empire hadn't grown rapidly over the years, it really wouldn't have been able to immigrate continuously!
Therefore, the best way is to allow those separated empires to continue to play the role of division! Like dividing bacteria. As long as this happens a few times, the range of human influence may reach tens of light years, hundreds of light years, thousands of light years...and then keep expanding! This is an expansion method similar to 2, 4, 8, 16...!
After that, as long as the empire is strong enough, it can use certain means to integrate these isolated countries to form a United States, a federation, etc.; and if technology continues to develop in the future, it can directly Divide provinces and regions and exercise direct jurisdiction!
However, the step of complete unification is still too early, and it will not be considered for at least a thousand years. The most important thing now is to expand the scope of human influence, and then use ultra-long-distance communication technology to connect human society together. The detector sent to the Yanhuang Empire this time contains a complete set of information on ultra-long-distance communication technology. As long as the construction is completed there, humans will be able to achieve communication across galaxies! A signal delay of one hour is still acceptable in a universe that is often more than ten light years away; to be precise, it is already very good! Quite excellent!
And this time the warship takes off, it means that human private chaebols will officially enter the era of interstellar expansion in the future, and they can build their own empire! Perhaps, no one wants to be inferior to others, especially these plutocrats! Every leader of a chaebol has enough intelligence to be qualified for the position of emperor - in this case, of course he also has his own ambitions! Human beings are a strange kind of life. The smarter they are, the more they think, and the more they think, the more they have sex!
The War HMS is more like a signal: the Empire has really fulfilled its promise and is fully committed to the construction of the War HMS! Suddenly, many people became active.
In fact, the departure of these plutocrats will also be beneficial to the long-term development of the empire. Capital has always been expanding. If there are too many plutocrats and they are too powerful, they will inevitably affect the development and rule of the empire. They will eventually compete with the empire for control of power - whether it is resources, wealth or talents. The right capital power can become the pillar of the empire, but too strong capital power will hold it back! Just like the United States back then, it became strong because of the plutocrats, but later it surrendered because of the plutocrats! Chaebol - what they value is often wealth and family inheritance, and they don't care too much about the nation!
Especially this time, the top chaebols in the empire contributed 80% of the wealth, directly increasing the empire's social wealth by half! Make society richer. This wealth flows into every corner of society through orders, etc.
In July of the 109th year of the Imperial Calendar, after a year and a half of the Venusian year, the Warship finally left the solar system. It circled nearly a spiral pattern in the solar system, used the engine and solar sail to directly accelerate the spacecraft to 0.6 times the speed of light, and escaped from the solar system in one breath. The expedition has begun!
The War is worthy of the name of war. The combat power it carries is second only to the Hope spacecraft that the Empire is fully developing, and it is five times the combat power of the original Civilization spacecraft! After all, the second-generation spacecraft technology itself is far more powerful and perfect than the first-generation technology.
As the Warship departs, the Republic's Light spacecraft prepares to take off. However, the Republic was very embarrassed and wanted to rent the Empire's space reflector for temporary use. Over the years, the gap between the Republic and the Empire has become wider and wider. This is caused by its own governing philosophy. As the Empire prepares to build six life planets at once, it has temporarily opened up the immigration strategy - as long as you apply and pass the Empire's test, the Republic will be coordinated by the Empire. Even a powerful empire. Openly and openly hang the window of immigration on various websites on the earth. With continuous output, the empire also needs blood!
As for the Republic, I can only say sorry. An empire is an empire after all, not a charity!
However, as compensation, the Empire provides the Republic with a light pressure drive service for free - in fact, reflector technology is definitely one of the cheapest high technologies - as long as it is built, all energy drives will come from solar energy. Provided a one-time service - the Empire was virtually untouched except to let the computers work for a year.
The noise of Guangming's takeoff was particularly loud. The two auxiliary cabins are two powerful hydrogen and oxygen thrusters, and the billowing water vapor is more powerful than the original Hope spacecraft. Like a golden hoop. The link between the orbits of the Earth and Jupiter stretches 600 million kilometers! in a space environment. Lasts forever! For this reason, it even affected the promotion of light pressure for a time. Until the spacecraft accelerated to the orbit of Jupiter. The hydrogen-oxygen thruster was shut down because one-third of its reserve was exhausted, and it switched to a low-emission plasma engine, auxiliary lighting, and began to accelerate.
But after being accelerated by the hydrogen-oxygen thruster. The speed of the spaceship is already very fast. In addition, it is only 80 kilometers in length, which is much smaller than the empire's spaceship, so it accelerates very quickly.
The Republic spaceship took off at the end of AD 2164, which was the middle of Year 110 in the Imperial Calendar; by the end of AD 2165, in the second half of Year 111 in the Imperial Calendar, it left the solar system at 0.55 times the speed of light. After years of continuous observations, people have basically determined that Barnard's galaxy, 6 light-years away, has enough resources to allow humans to transform a planet with life similar to the Earth. But this is a challenge to the Republic's technology!
Build a planet suitable for human survival 6 light years away and 57 trillion kilometers away! But now, there is nothing there except desolate planets and debris! In other words, if the Republic wants to build a living planet there, it will take some time to transform the technology in the spacecraft into several space factories and build certain equipment. The Republic announced that it would arrive in 11 years, decelerate and enter the galaxy in one year, establish an industrial system floating in space in 20 years, and use another 30 years to transform a suitable planet! By this time, the Earth should be able to launch three to four new spaceships! Maybe the construction time will be shorter.
For today's Republic, technological development is secondary. The most important thing is to get rid of the pressure and shadow from the empire as soon as possible. Having such a powerful neighbor is really unsettling. I was afraid that the empire would suddenly say that day: So what, the earth is the ancestral planet of mankind, and an independent country cannot be allowed to exist on it. It should belong to the entire human race!
As the two spaceships left, the empire's new transformation plan also began. Building six life planets in the asteroid belt is also a challenge for the empire. The current asteroid belt is frighteningly empty—the largest fragments are no more than one kilometer; no matter how large or resourceful they are, they have long been stolen and become basic materials for building human society.
Therefore, it is not a small problem to build a planet in such a place without any basis. In the past, when Venus and Mars were transformed, at least one planet remained there and could be used as the core for transformation; but now, there is nothing left.
But this does not trouble the empire. After rigorous calculations, the Empire dragged six selected rocky planets with a diameter of about 3,000 kilometers from the Kuiper Belt. Along the way, the spacecraft was constantly used to adjust the angle and speed, and then the planets gradually approached the set orbit range. Once the orbit is stable, traditional impact methods will be used to terraform the planet.
But this process may be a bit long; according to published data, just dragging the six selected planets to the appropriate locations will take up to 20 years! This is a planet, not a toy! Space is not only dangerous, but also takes into account the three existing planets. Once the excitement is too much, the entire solar system may be destroyed.
At the same time, with the departure of the Warship and the Light, the Empire and the Republic were both beginning to develop and build the next spaceship. The empire is now so busy that it is beyond imagination! As groups of citizens leave the solar system one after another, it is a great stimulus to the remaining people, and of course it also frees up too many jobs!
For the Republic, it is also necessary to provide new spacecraft as soon as possible to support the construction of Barnard's Star. But the empire needs to build more powerful and advanced spaceships that can allow humans to go further! Unconsciously, Venus has become the vanguard of human society, and the earth can only be regarded as one of the monuments of human history!
Also, with the advancement of technology, human telescope technology continues to expand - telescope technology is one of the most important technologies in the interstellar era! Only when you see far can you think far! A hundred years is enough for observation technology to improve several times; now all light within a 40-light-year radius needs to be analyzed, as long as it is light that the empire can detect.
By analyzing the intensity, frequency, hue, etc. of light, we can analyze whether the object emitting light is a normal star like the sun, a red dwarf, a giant, or even a white dwarf, a neutron star, etc. It can even be used to analyze the age of stars and so on.
Accordingly, the empire is looking for its next immigration target! Even the empire is beginning to discuss whether to use transformation technology to build a planet suitable for human survival in the nearby single star system! We can’t keep letting the earth take advantage of it! Technology has always adhered to the concept of acceleration, and it is also developing at an accelerated pace. Human technology, with the maturity of cosmic information theory, has officially entered a period of explosion!