Because of the improvement in technological level, when leaving the star system this time, the fleet of human civilization finally no longer was as "searching" as it was when it left the solar system. It actually needed to rely on the gravity of the planet itself for initial acceleration.
This time, relying on the huge thrust provided by the spacecraft engine, the entire fleet directly entered the deorbit and began to fly away from the star system.
At this moment, in the main control room of the Yuanhang-1 spacecraft, looking at the still bright and dazzling star on the big screen, even with Zhao Changxing's temperament, he couldn't help but feel a little ups and downs.
A full five hundred years have passed.
Many people have spent their entire lives in this galaxy. Many people have died in this galaxy, and many people have been born in this galaxy.
There are some lucky people who, when they were just born, happened to catch up with the completion of the initial infrastructure stage and enjoyed abundant material life and a stable social environment. However, in the last hundred years of the "preparation for the voyage" stage, the entire civilization
Before comprehensive austerity, the entire life has been lived and passed away normally.
There are also many unlucky people who were already old when they came to this galaxy. They spent the last years of their lives in arduous work and have just passed the initial stage of infrastructure construction and have just ushered in stability and abundant supplies.
life, but life has come to an end.
There are also people who have just reached adulthood and ushered in the stage of "preparing for a voyage", and have to devote almost their entire young adult life to this cause for a hundred years. There are also many people who have died before actually setting sail.
Many people have many fates.
For Zhao Changxing, these many different destinies and different people constitute the entire civilization.
"On the whole, during the five hundred years that we stayed in the Lakai 9352 galaxy, our civilization successfully completed its historical mission during this period, laying a solid foundation for the final impact on the third-level civilization.
At the end of this voyage, after arriving at the Peacock Six System, the stay is still set at five hundred years.
In the Peacock VI galaxy, we initially plan to increase the population to tens of billions during the peak population period. When we leave the galaxy five hundred years later, the population should be around 6 billion.
The number of tens of billions of people, according to the current stage of genetic modification results and future expectations, according to the thinking speed, brain capacity and utilization efficiency that we humans can achieve by then, already has the strength to truly impact the third-level civilization. So, in the Peacock Six Galaxy
, the historical mission of our civilization is to become a third-level civilization and truly understand and master the principles and application technologies of large-scale preparation of antimatter.
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At the current stage, human civilization has basically determined the basic physical direction of the third-level civilization, which is the basic material composition in the microscopic world that is deeper than subatomic particles and quarks.
Only when you understand these things and form a complete system of mathematical and physical formulas can you truly become a third-level civilization.
——In fact, human civilization at this moment has fully understood what these mathematical and physical formulas are through the group of scientists of the Moyun Litar civilization. But this certainly does not mean that human civilization at this moment has
Level three civilization.
These things are actually the same in nature as the large-scale antimatter production technology that human civilization has mastered at this moment, which was originally only available to third-level civilizations. It is like facing a very complex and difficult-to-calculate math problem in an exam.
Got the answer directly.
Of course, people can directly use this final answer to do something, such as the antimatter production technology that humans have now used on a large scale, but in comparison, the problem-solving ideas and processes are undoubtedly more important.
Only by truly mastering this idea and process can we truly master this technology. This is what human civilization currently lacks.
To master this, there is no shortcut. People must build one giant particle collider after another that exceeds any previous era, and collect data through possibly tens of millions of collision experiments.
; To build more sophisticated dark matter, neutrino telescopes, gravitational wave telescopes, conventional optical and radio telescopes, etc., through thousands and tens of thousands of observations, theories are proposed bit by bit, verified, revised, confirmed, etc.
Only after waiting for the process can you master it.
And all of this will begin in the Peacock Six Galaxy.
The road ahead is long, but the goal is always clear.
The huge fleet of human civilization embarked on a long voyage under such circumstances.
In this acceleration stage that has just begun the voyage, as expected, a large number of failures once again came like a tide. However, both the number and the degree were much lower than the last time.
Last time, at the peak of the Yuanhang spacecraft, the number of faults even reached hundreds of thousands. Now, several years have passed, and the speed of the fleet has accelerated to more than 2,500 kilometers per second relative to the Peacock 6. A single large passenger and cargo ship
The highest number of transport spacecraft failures did not exceed 10,000.
With the current number of personnel on duty, we can completely handle it.
This is the most intuitive impact brought about by the advancement of technology and science.
At this moment, the fleet is already more than 300 billion kilometers away from the Rakai 9352 star. At this time, among the 30 aerospace carriers of various levels, the smallest model of the "Comet" class aerospace carrier has finally run out of fuel.
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It is just a strategic delivery vehicle, not an interstellar spacecraft.
But it doesn't matter, there is enough antimatter energy stored in the interstellar spacecraft. Now, it is time to conduct an "air refueling".
In this vast and empty space, a medium-sized transport ship quietly moved away from the Yuanhang 7 spacecraft at a speed of more than 2,000 kilometers per second, and then slowly sailed towards the ship with the same speed of more than 2,000 kilometers per second.
The "Comet" class space carrier can travel more than 2,000 kilometers per second.
In the early Earth Age, when aircraft speeds were generally only at the speed of sound, that is, a few hundred meters per second, aerial refueling technology was already a top technology that only big countries could master. However, with the aerial refueling being carried out now, each spacecraft can travel at sufficient speeds.
It was thousands of times larger than the airplane at that time.
According to common sense, the technical difficulty of this operation should be thousands of times higher than that of that time. However, the person in charge of this operation was just a middle- and lower-level supervisor.
Not only that, the supervisor was not nervous at all, and was even in the mood to joke with his colleagues while issuing instructions casually. The people in charge of driving the medium-sized transport ship were also careless, and one of them actually
He also operated the spacecraft while eating.
Everything seemed so casual, as if this matter was just a small thing.
But... this is really just a small thing.
In space, there is never any absolute speed. There is only relative speed. This is completely different from the planet's atmosphere and the surface.
Compared with Peacock VI, the speed of the fleet is as high as thousands of kilometers per second. However, the speed of different spaceships is only less than one meter per second, which is slower than the speed of human walking.
At such a slow speed, coupled with the assistance of instruments, I am afraid that even a blind man can complete this aerial refueling task easily and happily. What's more, with the development of genetic modification technology, there has long been no such thing in human civilization at this moment.
Blind, deaf, mute and other disabled people.
Even if a limb is amputated, stem cell cultivation technology can allow people to regrow limbs.
The first aerial refueling mission since the fleet set sail was completed without any surprises.
In the future voyages, such aerial refueling will be carried out many, many times, and a huge amount of energy will be transferred from the Yuanhang spacecraft to the space carrier to help them transport the only armed forces of human civilization to
New destination.
The expedition fleet moved forward calmly like this, until the light of Lakai 9352 became increasingly dim, until Maurya, a star that is very similar to the sun, became brighter.
Zhao Changxing has even lost count of how many interstellar clouds the fleet has passed through and how many route corrections it has made along the way.
Life has always been so peaceful, and various affairs in the entire civilization have even reached the point where it takes an average of five days for one thing to be reported to him. The rest of the things are too small and do not need to be known to Zhao Changxing. The lower-level officials can do it themselves.
It can be dealt with.
Under this situation, Zhao Changxing once again devoted most of his energy to studying. Astronomy, geography, humanities, history, psychology, mathematics, literature, biology, etc. Zhao Changxing learned everything.
Every interstellar voyage will be the best opportunity for Zhao Changxing to improve himself.
Hundreds of years passed in the blink of an eye. One day, among the thousands of stars surrounding the entire fleet, an inconspicuous star suddenly disappeared.
This disappearing star did not attract people's attention because no one or instrument was looking at it at the moment. Even if it was looking at it, it did not necessarily mean that someone would pay attention to it.
The reason is very simple. Many factors such as flaring stars, variable stars, interstellar clouds, etc. may cause a star to suddenly disappear.
But not long after, another star disappeared. Then, the third, the fourth...
More and more, more and more, and faster and faster.
This matter finally attracted people's attention and was reported to Zhao Changxing. Then, when Zhao Changxing stood in front of the live screen, people could no longer see a single star in the entire universe.
This entire process took place in less than 3 hours.
At this moment, the entire universe returned to pure and thick darkness. Except for the light emitted by the fleet itself, there was no longer any trace of light up, down, left, front and back.