This kind of atmosphere that exists around the icy dwarf planet is extremely thin - comparable to the vacuum environment produced in some low-level laboratories in the earth's era. It cannot exist for a long time. Once there is no human activity, there will be no replenishment of gas.
, the atmosphere will slowly dissipate, but it will still exist.
Under observation with extremely high-precision equipment, they can cause some small changes in the planet's reflection spectrum. By observing these changes, their existence can be determined.
After receiving this observation report, Zhao Changxing once again fell into a long silence. The senior human government officials who listened to the report looked at each other, 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 their own life, and maybe they can also start some trade to exchange some things that they have but the other party does not have, or the other party has things that they do not have.
The supplies we have are quite good. Looking at the history books, didn’t there exist many countries in the Earth Age, and could a general balance and peace be maintained between different countries?
Zhao Changxing said lightly: "What I am most fortunate about is that I gave Xiaoxi an order to conduct all communications at the lowest power. And it has continued until now. Therefore, it was us who discovered them first, not them who discovered us first.
.And, it’s very possible that they haven’t discovered us until now.”
Yes, this order is still being implemented to this day. This once aroused doubts among many people, who thought it caused too much inconvenience to their lives, but Zhao Changxing has always insisted that it has not been modified.
The top leaders of the human government still remain silent.
"Let's form a space force." Zhao Changxing murmured: "We need a professional army to protect our civilization."
A senior executive raised his hand: "Leader, why are you so wary? Why can't we and them coexist peacefully? They should also be in the process of rebuilding civilization, attacking each other and attacking everyone.
No benefit."
Zhao Changxing sighed secretly 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 has been protected too well. Facing unknown existences, they will always be subconsciously full of insecurities.
Practical beautiful fantasies, when thinking and dealing with these problems, will always be viewed with a childish mindset.
Zhao Changxing said lightly: "Before thinking about this problem, we first need to determine our location. Can anyone tell me where we are in the solar system now?"
One official murmured: "We are inside the Oort cloud, outside the ecliptic divergence disc."
"Which is the closest macroscopic object to us besides the dwarf planet we just discovered?"
People looked at each other and said, "It's 2012VP113. The distance at this moment is about 8 billion kilometers."
2012VP113 was discovered in 2012 AD in the Earth's era. It is a "distant independent celestial body" like Sedna. Its size is about half that of Sedna.
The newly discovered dwarf planet at a distance of only more than 60 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 the year 221 of the new calendar.
planet.
It is obviously also a member of the "distant independent objects".
"Very good. So, let's assume a situation like this. Our human civilization keeps developing and developing, and the population is getting larger and larger. We only rely on a small Sedna star... are the resources enough?
?”
This question has a very clear answer. That is not enough. In fact, some mineral resources are already in very short supply at this stage. Not to mention the unexpected replenishment of gold, silver and other elements due to the arrival of an asteroid.
Rare earth elements, actinides, radium elements, cesium elements, etc., in order to support industrial development, we have to look for them inside the Sedna planet. The deepest mines dug are even several kilometers deep. The mining cost
It continues to rise and has even had a greater impact on industrial development.
"So, when other celestial bodies are too far away to reach, will we give up replenishing resources on the dwarf planet 221SN1? Even if we can give up, then... the life living on the 221SN1 planet will let us live
Sedna?"
An official murmured: "Peaceful trade and exchange of needed goods are things that benefit everyone..."
Zhao Changxing said bluntly: "You can obviously take the entire planet as your own without restraint, and go to it to mine resources without restraint, why should you give it to other people? Why only half of it when you can have it all?"
The officials fell silent again. But it seemed that they were still a little unconvinced.
The overly peaceful environment and social atmosphere prevent them from understanding this kind of life-and-death dispute.
However, the long-term inertia of obedience made them still choose to obey Zhao Changxing's arrangements. After all, Zhao Changxing has not missed any directional matters over the years.
Zhao Changxing ignored them, but still thought to himself: "The contradiction between us is irreconcilable. Don't expect any possibility of peace. Either we destroy them, or they destroy us. That's it. All we can pray for is for the other party to rebuild."
The progress of civilization is weaker than ours, let’s pray that we develop faster than them.”
In its heyday, the other civilization was obviously capable of interstellar voyages. This far surpassed human civilization. After all, in its heyday, human civilization could only build a Spark spacecraft.
However, judging from the thickness of the atmosphere of the planet 221SN1, they have not had much impact on the environment of the planet during the past hundred years of development. This means that their industrial capabilities are still extremely limited.
A very rough estimate is that it is probably on the same level as human civilization at the moment.
This allows Zhao Changxing to still maintain some hope in his heart. And if the telescope sees a wide range of artificial lights on the planet - just like the Earth back then, then Zhao Changxing should consider how to escape again
.
The resolution to form an army was passed by the meeting. Also passed was the decision to continue to implement "radio silence" more strictly and to build a space elevator.
No matter what, a war with space as the battlefield must first transport a huge amount of materials into space. And this cannot be done without a space elevator.
The initial demonstration of the space elevator was completed as quickly as possible. People finally drew a plan for the space elevator. In the plan, it will be built on the equator of Sedna because it has the fastest rotation speed.
.It is made of carbon nanotubes, and its total length is 5,000 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 30,000 tons, and establish an interactive base 200 kilometers from the surface of Sedna.
This space elevator can transport an average of about 10,000 tons of materials to space every day. In the future, whether it is building more nurturing bases in space, building docks to manufacture spaceships, or building space bases to train soldiers, it will
All are feasible.
After the construction of the space elevator was finalized, Zhao Changxing immediately convened 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 very simple. In this game, under some fixed restrictions, for example, the most advanced propulsion technology is a fusion reactor plus a high-power ion thruster, and the most powerful weapon is a hydrogen bomb, but its delivery speed is relatively slow.
Slow, there is no gravity in the spaceship, and the spacecraft armor can only use construction materials with the following performance indicators, etc. The two sides can use all means allowed by the game system, formulate all tactics, defend their own planet, occupy the other party's planet, or destroy it
All the opponent's combat power.
Giant ship artillery, super heavy space battleships, kinetic energy weapons, chemical explosive weapons, missiles, special penetration, encirclement and reinforcement, rapid maneuvering, etc., etc., all means, all tactics, all equipment can be used.
This game will be open to all adults - now human civilization is not far from the population limit, and the number of adults has reached about 150,000. After work, anyone can log in to this game and play according to their own style
and strategies to defeat your opponents.
Zhao Changxing tried to find the correct way to fight an interstellar war as quickly as possible through this method of simulation in the virtual world. Because before this, neither Zhao Changxing nor other officials knew how to conduct an interstellar war.
Regarding the form of war in the space age, there are only some theoretical studies in the earth age. No one can say whether these studies are correct or not, because no real space war has ever occurred. People at the time did not think so.
Interstellar wars really happen.
Therefore, now that the cloud of war has enveloped the new human civilization, Zhao Changxing discovered that not only himself, but no one even knew how to start a war.
Under the premise that Xiaoxi specially allocated computing power for programmers to use, and the programmers all went all out, and there were many interstellar war game source codes in the Earth era for excerpts, in just a few months, "Space
The game "War" has begun to take shape.
As Zhao Changxing expected, the planet 221SN1 is very likely to have escaped alien civilization survivors, and the fact that the other party and itself are very likely to have a war conflict in the future has quickly attracted the attention of almost everyone. Although most
No one thought that this was a substantial threat to themselves, and they did not think that the contradiction between the two parties was really irreconcilable, but they still devoted themselves to this game with great enthusiasm and began to explore "a real game."