Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 46 Hope

Personnel, supplies, equipment, fuel.

Everything that can be moved on Callisto will be moved to the spacecraft.

As for ground facilities that cannot be moved, such as factories, nuclear power plants, orbital mass accelerators and other ground facilities, they can only be left there and allowed to wander with Callisto in the universe.

"Time flies so fast. I didn't expect that I would be over 60 years old in no time."

Yue Yuan, who was already in the spaceship, looked at the transport cabins docking with the spacecraft through the portholes, and couldn't help but sigh at the passage of time.

The period of hibernation does not count as age. This is stipulated by the laws of the Earth Age, and this law has been inherited by the new government.Therefore, if Yue Yuan does not hibernate in the future, he will soon become the largest being among human beings.

However, although he is older, his appearance still looks like a young man, no different from when he was in Hanhai.

"General Commander, these are all collected from the Internet. Please take a look." At this moment, a clear voice sounded from behind.

It's Long Xiaolin, Yue Yuan's current assistant and secretary.

Yue Yuan turned around and saw Long Xiaolin floating over from the hatch, holding a tablet in his hand.

Because some personnel and equipment have not yet boarded the spacecraft, the large barrel spacecraft has not yet rotated, so the people on the spacecraft are still in a state of weightlessness.

Yue Yuan took the tablet and looked at it for a few times, then casually said: "There are quite a few. Which name do you like better?"

The large barrel spaceship was built but not named, so Yue Yuan asked Long Xiaolin to collect names. Now the tablet contains the remaining candidates after several screenings.

Yue Yuan took a look and found that there were eight names in total, namely Shenzhou, Humanity, Yishan, Kunlun, Noah's Ark, Callisto, Hope, and Tianzhu.

It seemed that relevant experts had already cast a round of votes on these names, because Yue Yuan saw that the support percentages were marked on the names.

Among them, Hope received the highest vote rate, followed by Humanity, Shenzhou, Noah's Ark, Kunlun, and Callisto. The last two, Tianzhu and Yishan, together received less than 5% of the votes.

The purpose of this round of voting is to screen out the two lowest-ranked names, and then hand them over to Yue Yuan, allowing him to choose one from the remaining six.

"Noah, I think it's particularly good to call it Noah's Ark. As the contributor said, our spaceship is the last hope of mankind. It will carry us to the other side of the starry sky, where we can thrive and continue the legacy of mankind. The future." Long Xiaolin expressed his opinion without hesitation.

It seems that she has one of the votes for Noah's Ark, and she seems to really want the ship to be named Noah's Ark.

But the final decision rests with Yue Yuan.

"Noah's Ark."

Yue Yuan murmured. To be honest, he didn't like this name very much.

It's not that it has any prejudice against the name Noah's Ark, but it just feels that this spaceship was built with painstaking efforts by human beings, and it was not built according to an oracle or a gift from God, so it doesn't quite fit the name.

Moreover, this ship is in the shape of a large barrel, not an ark at all.

So it is better to call it Kunlun than Noah's Ark. Of course, Kunlun was also excluded by Yue Yuan. It's not that Kunlun is bad, but that such regional names are not suitable for naming the only human beings.

As for the Shenzhou, it was good, but considering that there were many people from other countries among the more than 8 people, it was also excluded by Yue Yuan.

In the end, only Callisto, Hope, and Humanity were left.Each of these three names has its own advantages and disadvantages. The name Chief Callisto is of great significance, because Callisto saved mankind, and mankind also built a spacecraft using the resources of Callisto. It is undoubtedly a good idea to name the spacecraft after it. The best way to commemorate this planet that is about to say goodbye.

As for the human number, there is no need to say more, human beings.

The Hope does not have much pointing meaning, but just like its name, it straightforwardly expresses that this ship is the hope of mankind.

Yue Yuan hesitated for a while, and was a little undecided for a moment.

After a while, Yue Yuan slowly let go of the tablet in his hand, letting it float quietly on his chest, then stretched out his index finger and tapped it gently, letting it float slowly towards Long Xiaolin.

"It's called the Hope."

Hope, simple and straightforward.

It is the hope of mankind and the hope of civilization.

If Yue Yuan had followed his past temperament, he would have more likely chosen Callisto, but just now, he thought of a better place for the name Callisto.

That's the battleship that's still on the drawing board.

Although the construction plan was canceled before, three reservations were made for the mount interface. The three reserved positions are 120° apart from each other. They are obviously reserved for future warship mounts.

Although Yue Yuan said at the time that humans could afford to drive at most one warship, the designers would not foolishly reserve only one position.

After all, if there are not enough people now, there will always be enough in the future.

Therefore, as long as mankind can successfully overcome this difficulty in the future, the battleship will definitely be built.

Then call it the Callisto ship.

With Long Xiaolin's departure, the name of this residential barrel-shaped spacecraft was determined, Hope.

In the past, China had a set of basic rules for naming spacecraft. It usually called warships warships and gave general-purpose spaceships names. Now the new government also follows this naming method.

Therefore, the large barrel spacecraft that is a residential complex is called XX, and future battleships are named after XX ships.

The Hope is 980 meters long and is made up of ten five-hub discs with a radius of 550 meters. The outermost layer of each disc is linked to a 60-meter-high building suspension module. It can accommodate up to 14 people when fully loaded. The current resident population is more than [-] people.

It is a residential spacecraft with a complete power system, air circulation system, water circulation system, and of course a garbage disposal system.

Not only that, the Hope also has a planting cabin specially used for agriculture, an artificial starch production cabin, as well as a clothing and fabric production cabin used for basic daily necessities, a specialized production cabin for toiletries and sanitary products, etc.

It has all the functions of eating, drinking and defecating.

Hope's power comes from three large nuclear fission thrusters arranged outside the tail of the central axis.

Since there is no head-end thruster, if the Hope spacecraft wants to brake, it can only turn around by turning on the steering engines located on the stators at both ends and the vector engines located on the outside of the large disks at both ends for attitude adjustment, and then continue Carry out reverse thrust deceleration.

The large discs at both ends do not rotate with the large discs of the habitation module. They are fixed on the stator, so overall, the Hope looks like a large cylinder with both ends stationary and the middle rotating.

(End of this chapter)