The last human in the universe

Chapter 47 Space Elevator
This kind of atmosphere around the icy dwarf planet is extremely thin-comparable to the vacuum environment produced in some low-level laboratories in the Earth era, and it cannot exist for a long time. Once there is no human activity, there is no gas supplement , the atmosphere will slowly dissipate, but it still exists.

Observed with extremely high-precision equipment, they can cause some small changes in the reflectance spectrum of the planet.By observing these changes, their existence can be determined.

After receiving this observation report, Zhao Changxing once again fell into a long silence.The high-level human government officials who listened to this report looked at each other in blank dismay, and some couldn't understand why Zhao Changxing looked so solemn.

In their view, even if there is another civilization not far away from them, so what?Everyone lives on their own, and maybe they can also start some trades, exchanging some materials that one has but the other party does not have, or the other party has the materials that one does not have, which is also very good.Looking at the history books, didn't there exist many countries in the earth age, and could different countries maintain a general balance and peace?

Zhao Changxing said lightly: "What I am most grateful for is that I gave Xiaoxi the order to carry out all communications at the lowest power. And it has continued until now. Therefore, we discovered them first, not them. .And they probably haven't spotted us until now."

Yes, this order is still in effect to this day.This has caused many people's doubts, thinking that it has caused too much inconvenience to life, but Zhao Changxing has always insisted that there is no modification.

The high levels of the human government are still silent.

"Let's form a space army." Zhao Changxing murmured, "We need a professional army to protect our civilization."

A high-level person raised his hand: "Leader, why are you so wary? Why can't we coexist peacefully with them? They should also be in the process of rebuilding civilization, attacking each other, and attacking everyone. No good."

Zhao Changxing secretly sighed in his heart.

Speaking of IQ, no one here is a fool.But maybe the social environment is too simple, or maybe their entire life course is too well protected. Facing the unknown existence, they will always subconsciously be full of unrealistic beautiful fantasies, thinking and dealing with these problems Sometimes, I always look at it with a naive thinking.

Zhao Changxing said lightly: "Before thinking about this question, we first need to determine where we are. Can anyone tell me where we are in the solar system now?"

An official murmured: "We are in the Oort cloud, but outside the ecliptic disc."

"The closest macroscopic object to us—other than this dwarf planet we just discovered?"

People looked at each other and said, "It's 2012VP113. The distance is about 80 billion kilometers at this moment."

2012VP113 was discovered in 2012 AD in the era of the earth.It belongs to the same category of "distant independent objects" as Sedna.It is about half the size of Sedna's star.

The newly discovered dwarf planet at a distance of only over 6000 million kilometers is temporarily named 221SN1 in the star catalog compiled by the new human civilization, which means that it is the first dwarf planet newly discovered in 221 of the new calendar. planet.

It is also apparently a member of the "Distant Independent Objects" category.

"Very good. Then, assume such a situation. Our human civilization has been developing and developing, and the population is increasing, and there are more and more people, only relying on a small Sedna star... Are there enough resources? ?”

This question has a very clear answer.That is not enough.In fact, some mineral resources are already in short supply at this stage.Not to mention the unexpected addition of gold, silver and other elements due to the arrival of an asteroid, the rest, rare earth elements, actinide elements, radium elements, cesium elements, etc., have to be sent to Sedna Star in order to support industrial development. Looking internally, the deepest pit dug out is even several thousand meters deep, and the mining cost continues to rise, which has even had a great impact on industrial development.

"Then, in the case that other celestial bodies are too far away to reach, will we give up the resource replenishment on the dwarf planet 221SN1? Even if we can give up, then... the life living on the planet 221SN1 will let us live. Sedna?"

An official murmured: "Peaceful trade, exchanging what is needed, this is something that is beneficial to everyone..."

Zhao Changxing said bluntly: "You can take the entire planet as your own without any scruples, and go to mine resources on it without any scruples, why should you distribute it to other people? Why only half of it if you can have it all?"

Officials fell silent again.But it seems that they are still a little unconvinced.

The overly peaceful environment and social atmosphere make it impossible for them to understand this life-and-death dispute.

However, the habit of obeying for a long time made them still choose to obey Zhao Changxing's arrangement.After all, for so many years, Zhao Changxing has not missed the directional matters.

Zhao Changxing ignored them, but still said to himself: "The conflict between us is irreconcilable. Don't expect any possibility of peace. Either we destroy them, or they destroy us. That's all. We can only pray for the other party to rebuild The progress of civilization is weaker than ours, pray that we develop faster than them."

In its heyday, the opposing civilization clearly had the ability to travel across the stars.This goes far beyond human civilization.After all, in the heyday of human civilization, only one Tinder spacecraft could be built.

However, judging from the thickness of the 221SN1 planet's atmosphere, they have not had much impact on the planet's environment during the hundreds of years of development.And this means that their industrial capabilities are still extremely limited.

A very rough estimate is probably at the same level as the current human civilization.

This allowed Zhao Changxing to still maintain some hope in his heart.And if the telescope sees a large area of ​​artificial lights appearing on that planet—just like the earth did back then, then Zhao Changxing should think about how to escape again.

The resolution to form the army was passed by the meeting.Also passed were decisions to continue stricter enforcement of "radio silence" and a decision to build a space elevator.

In any case, a war with space as the battlefield always needs to transport huge amounts of materials into space first.And this is absolutely impossible without the space elevator.

The initial demonstration of the space elevator was carried out as quickly as possible.People eventually drew up plans for a space elevator.In the plan, it will be built on the equator of Sedna, because it has the fastest rotation speed.Its material is carbon nanotubes, and its total length is [-] kilometers.The total construction period is about ten years.

At the end of the space elevator, people plan to place a counterweight with a total mass of about 200 tons there, and build an interaction base [-] kilometers away from the surface of Sedna.

This space elevator can deliver about [-] tons of materials to space on average every day.In the future, whether it is to build more nurturing bases in space, build a dock to manufacture spaceships, or build a space base to train soldiers, it will be feasible.

After the construction of the space elevator was finalized, Zhao Changxing immediately gathered a group of computer professionals to start developing a space war game that was as close to reality as possible.

The purpose of this game is simple.In this game, under some fixed constraints, for example, the most advanced propulsion technology is the fusion reactor to increase the power of the ion thruster, the most powerful weapon is the hydrogen bomb but the delivery speed is slow, and there is no gravity in the spaceship , Spaceship armor can only use construction materials with the following performance indicators, etc. Both sides in the battle can adopt all means allowed by the game system, formulate all tactics, defend their own planet, occupy the opponent's planet, or destroy all the combat power of the opponent.

Giant ship cannons, super-heavy space battleships, kinetic energy weapons, chemical explosive weapons, missiles, special infiltration, siege support, fast maneuvering, etc., all means, all tactics, and all equipment can be used.

This game will be open to all adults-at this moment, human civilization is not far from the population limit, and the number of adults has reached about 15.Outside of work, anyone can log into the game and beat opponents according to their own style of play and strategy.

Zhao Changxing tried to find the correct way to play the interstellar war as quickly as possible through this simulation in the virtual world.Because before this, neither Zhao Changxing nor the rest of the officials knew how the interstellar war should be carried out.

Regarding the form of warfare in the space age, there are only some theoretical studies in the earth age.Whether these studies are correct or not, no one can say for sure.Because there never was a real space war.People at the time didn't think Star Wars would really happen.

Therefore, now that the cloud of war has enveloped the new human civilization, Zhao Changxing found that not only himself, but no one even knew how to start a war.

Under the premise that Xiaoxi specially allocated computing power for the use of programmers, and the programmers are all going all out, and there are many source codes of Star Wars games in the Earth era for excerpts, it is only a few months, "Space The game "War" has already begun to take shape.

As expected by Zhao Changxing, planet 221SN1 is very likely to have escaped alien civilization survivors, and the fact that the other side and our own side are very likely to break out of war conflicts in the future has quickly attracted the attention of almost everyone.Although most people don't think that this poses any real threat to them, and don't think that the conflict between the two parties is really irreconcilable, they still devote themselves to this game with great enthusiasm and begin to explore "one How should a real interstellar war be fought?"

(End of this chapter)