The last human in the universe

Chapter 86 New Mode of Transportation
When the first second-generation roller base was completed and put into operation, Zhao Changxing led all the high-level civilizations to the space terminal of the No. [-] space elevator.

Here, there were more than [-] young men with solemn expressions and straight figures standing there wearing uniform uniforms.

Looking at these young people, Zhao Changxing was slightly moved.

Soon, the second spacecraft dispatched to the deep space star will set off.Compared with the first one, this spaceship carried more materials, industrial machinery and personnel.

A total of 5000 outstanding young people will take the "Earth" transport ship refitted from the previous space carrier and head to the deep space star.Their arrival will comprehensively strengthen the resource collection capabilities of the deep space star.And these resources will be continuously transported back to Sedna Star, and now that the various resources of Sedna Star have shown signs of being exhausted, they will continue to support the rapid development of civilization.

After all, Sedna is too small, and all kinds of resource reserves on it are limited.Now that the civilized population has increased to more than 20, and all industrial chains are almost complete, Zhao Changxing began to feel a little stretched.

One thing that needs to be explained is that unless the entire planet can be blown up and swallowed alive, there is a high probability that there is no such thing as a complete exhaustion of resources for a planet.

A more realistic situation is that as the resources that are easy to mine are gradually exhausted, the cost of mining the remaining resources will become higher and higher, until it is so high that it does not make economic sense at all.At this point, it can be said that its resources are exhausted, but in fact, there may be more corresponding resources in the deeper parts of the planet and even in the core of the earth.

The original earth, coal resources, oil resources, etc. have faced this situation.

With the development of technology, this situation may also be changed midway.For example, a certain technological breakthrough allows people to exploit deeper mineral resources at a lower price, then a certain mineral that was originally depleted may become abundant again.

The current Sedna star is in a situation where the cost of resource mining is getting higher and higher, and the resource reserves are gradually "exhausted".It was based on this that Zhao Changxing took precautions and dispatched more personnel to Deep Space Star.

"The deep space star has been shot down by us and belongs to us. Now, all you need to do is to take back those things that already belong to us."

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

Facing Zhao Changxing's entrustment, more than [-] personnel representatives shouted this sentence at the same time.

"The deep space star is far away from us, where you may face many difficulties. But I hope that no matter what kind of difficulties you face, you will always remember that human civilization will always be your strong backing."

"Yes!"

The transport ship Earth finally set off.

Because there is no need to take a tortuous route this time, and because many military facilities have been dismantled, the voyage this time will only take about two years to reach.

At that time, more deep space star resources will arrive.

Time flies, and the boring space travel is finally over.When the planet that still roughly maintains its post-war appearance and the near-Earth space is still filled with many interstellar mines, space debris and garbage finally appeared before people's eyes, everyone knew that the time for struggle had finally come.

Everyone has made up their minds to fight at this time.

This is not just based on favorable treatment-people participating in this expedition need to work on the deep space star for ten years, plus the round-trip voyage, it is a total of 15 years.And after 15 years of work, you can earn contribution points that you can't spend in two lifetimes, and realize wealth freedom immediately.

You can basically enjoy life for the rest of your life.

Of course, if you don't want to enjoy it, but are still willing to come out to work, Zhao Changxing is of course more welcome.

This treatment cannot be said to be generous.

But the main reason why people are so determined to fight is still that they know what they are doing and what their work means to civilization and what it means.This is the biggest motivation for them to stay away from their hometown and come here.

After getting in touch with the first batch of personnel stationed here, people could clearly hear their excited cries from the communicator.

The arrival of the Earth transport ship means that it is time for them to go home.

After the return, what greeted them was more wealth and honor than the second batch of personnel.Because they have endured more tests and done more work on the deep space star.

There are even nineteen people who died on this planet because of their duties.

The foundation they laid here will allow this second batch of personnel to carry out their work better.

After the two parties met, the first task began.That is, to comprehensively clear a large number of interstellar mines above the low-earth orbit of the deep space star.

These interstellar mines have made great contributions to human civilization in the past, but now they have become a headache for people.

In the past few years, many of them have exploded due to collisions with each other, collisions with space junk, etc., but there are still a lot of them left.

According to expert estimates, the number of existing interstellar mines in the near-Earth space of deep space stars is about 400 million.

Compared with them, space junk is much easier to deal with.Large pieces of space junk can be avoided, and if it is not possible, they can actively change their orbits.Small pieces of space junk can be directly resisted.Only these interstellar mines will explode as soon as they come into contact, and once they explode, they may cause serious damage to a landing spacecraft, and even cause casualties.

This all leads to an imperative to clean them up.

Scientists on Sedna have formulated a comprehensive cleanup plan for this.

After completing the initial work, hundreds of military satellites with higher orbits were released by the transport ship Earth.

Their higher orbits can prevent them from being interfered by interstellar mines and space junk. The radar scanning equipment and optical search equipment equipped on them can allow them to search for traces of interstellar mines as perfect as possible.Once the target is found, the automatic targeting device locks on to the target and releases a small bullet powered by gunpowder to destroy them.

In the short term, the orbits of interstellar mines are generally stable—all interstellar mines with unstable orbits are blown up during collisions, and this provides the possibility for precise targeting.

As long as the distance and speed are calculated and the advance is made, generally one bullet can kill an interstellar mine.

A total of 306 military satellites destroyed as many as 16 interstellar mines on the first day of launch.Afterwards, the number dropped all the way, but even on the 30th day, the number destroyed was as high as 6.

During this month, a total of about 280 million chips were cleaned.

The cleaning action is still going on, and will continue for a long period of time.But people can't wait that long.

Now that the space environment has improved significantly, material transportation and personnel transfer work has already begun.A huge amount of machinery and equipment and many personnel were transferred to the surface of the deep space star in batches. The first batch of people who were originally stationed in the deep space star, about 400 people, accompanied by the results they harvested during this period of time, after the second batch of personnel With blessings, I embarked on my way home.

This time, they took about 160 tons of gold, 659 tons of silver, a large amount of aluminum, gallium, lead, mercury, and more copper, tin, manganese, zinc and so on.

These minerals are all urgently needed resources for large-scale construction on Sedna Star.

Of course, even if the transport ship Earth has a very high carrying capacity and can transport tens of millions of tons of materials in one voyage, this speed is still too slow.

After all, it takes more than five years to go back and forth.

People don't expect all resources to be transported by spaceships.In fact, the transport of the Earth transport ship this time is actually just a casual addition to the transport personnel, which is an extra.

Larger-scale transportation will start after the arrival of the second batch of more than 5000 people.

Over the years, through the dismantling of the electromagnetic railgun possessed by the deep space civilization and the analysis of the blueprints, human beings have fully digested and assimilated this technology, and made it better than blue.

Originally, this technology was only used to drop materials from the ground to low-Earth orbit, similar to a space elevator.But after more in-depth research, people were surprised to find its huge potential in space interstellar transportation.

The principle is also very simple, it is nothing more than calculating the trajectory in advance, and then increasing its projection speed a bit.

After the mining of resources is completed, people will package the resources in standard resource boxes with orbit adjustment capabilities.The resource box uses an electromagnetic railgun to directly accelerate to a speed exceeding the second cosmic speed, so that after entering space, it will not enter the orbit around the planet, but directly break free and fly into deep space.

Because the orbit was calculated in advance, it will fly directly from the deep space star to the Sedna star.At the same time, people will set its speed to a specific value, and this value is higher than the second cosmic speed of the deep space star, but lower than the second cosmic speed of the Sedna star.Therefore, after it reaches the Sedna star, it will directly enter the orbit around the Sedna star and start to revolve around the Sedna star.

At that time, people only need to salvage them one by one.

This mode of transportation is extremely cost-effective.Except for the energy consumed by the electromagnetic railgun to launch them at the beginning, and a little energy consumed when adjusting the orbit and salvaging in space, there is no need to consume any other energy.

And this provides the possibility for large-scale and efficient acquisition of deep space star resources.

Now, after this second crew arrived and worked for several months, the first standard resource box was launched under the watchful eye.

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