Facing the silent officials and committee members, Zhao Changxing said slowly: "All teachers in the education system have been transferred to the construction team.
Among the students, those who are over 12 years old and under 14 years old spend half a day every day to take care of younger children, and take on some simple maintenance tasks within the Spark spacecraft and the base.
Young people who are over 14 years old and under 18 years old should spend 4 hours a day to participate in construction tasks. During the rest of the time, they will spend 8 hours resting, 4 hours studying, and 4 hours participating in the spacecraft.
Maintain tasks within the base, or work as a teacher, cooperate with Xiao Xi to educate younger children, or participate in some more difficult spacecraft maintenance tasks. The remaining four hours are used to deal with my own chores."
Facing Zhao Changxing's arrangement, everyone was horrified to the point of turning pale.
No matter how heavy the construction tasks are, minors do not need to participate in the labor. This is an iron law that has lasted for hundreds of years. But now, Zhao Changxing has broken it.
"At this critical moment for the survival of civilization, everything should put the interests of civilization first. Without civilization, no matter how well we protect our children, it will only give the enemy more slaves, or give us more corpses in space." Zhao Changxing
Whispering: "The interests of civilization are above everything else. Above morality, law, human rights, emotions, etc., everything."
"yes."
The new humans, who were like flowers in a greenhouse, felt something new and different from Zhao Changxing's harsh attitude and words. This caused a great shock to them.
If all goes well, then, for a long time, the children who grow up during this war period will have a unique growth experience in the entire new human history.
As for the impact this will have on their lives and their growth trajectories, that is beyond judgment now. Zhao Changxing only knows that he will flexibly adjust policies according to the development of the situation and changes in the situation.
In short, the person who made the sacrifice will not suffer in the end.
Under Zhao Changxing's call, everyone, even some underage children, devoted themselves to war preparation activities. Of course, for the public, they did not know that they were preparing for war, and they only thought that they were doing it for their own good.
Preparing for a voyage to the solar system.
The atmosphere on the entire Sedna planet, including various space bases, once again became serious and solemn. Countless people were walking in a hurry, and countless factories were roaring day and night.
Under this situation, one standard box after another was thrown towards the inner solar system by the No. 1 space elevator launch pad.
The appearance of a standard container is similar to that of a container in the Earth Age, except that it is larger. On average, a standard container can carry about 100 tons of materials.
It is equipped with simple thrusters. After obtaining the initial speed of advancement, the thrusters will immediately start to decelerate. Under the control of the automatic control equipment, they will decelerate exactly after arriving at the scheduled construction site of the space carrier.
to a relative speed of zero.
The planned construction site of the space carrier is about 2 million kilometers away from Sedna. It is in an orbit around the sun.
Because the rotation period of Sedna is 10 hours, people only have an opportunity to send materials and personnel to the construction site every 10 hours. And for each launch, people will launch 200 TEUs, a total of
The mass is as high as about 20,000 tons.
These standard boxes themselves are also qualified construction materials, so the people responsible for building the space carrier do not need to send them back. People only need to process them again in the foundry, and then they can be turned into various forms.
The parts are integrated into the aerospace carrier. At the same time, each standard box is painted black and will not reflect light at all. At the same time, the surface is coated with the most advanced stealth materials to reduce the probability of being detected by spy satellites as much as possible.
Even if they are eventually detected, Zhao Changxing is actually not too worried. After all, their direction is the inner solar system and not the deep space stars. No matter how people think about deep space stars, they will only think in the direction of the inner solar system, not the deep space stars.
I suspect this is an action against myself.
After really trying their best this time, new calculation data soon appeared again. This time, the estimated construction period of the space carrier became 7.6 years.
This length of time can already meet Zhao Changxing's requirements.
"This is a desperate battle for survival." Zhao Changxing thought silently in his heart: "We have tried our best. Victory will definitely belong to us."
Zhao Changxing did not think about what to do if he failed. Although war thoughts all emphasized that one must consider defeat before victory, and one must leave a way out for oneself. But now it is obvious that human civilization has no way out.
Either succeed or perish, there are only two ways.
A few months ago, the first batch of trained engineers, technical workers and soldiers had secretly traveled to that place in standard containers. They brought the first batch of instruments and equipment, and now they have begun to use the materials that arrived in the early stage.
The construction of the space carrier skeleton has begun.
In the design, the first space carrier in the history of new human civilization adopts a construction style similar to that of the Spark spacecraft. This is not a coincidence, but this design has advantages that other construction styles at the current stage cannot match.
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Its long central axis can be used to build a large number of warehouses, park a large number of combat spaceships, and build numerous facilities. The circles rotating around it can create a gravity suitable for human survival. No matter how you look at it, this
Each style is the most suitable.
Four years after the implementation of wartime control, the overall skeleton of the space carrier was completed. Its total length exceeded 1 kilometer, and there were two circles on it, each with a diameter of more than 300 meters. These two circles except the field hospital
, canteens, dormitories and other facilities, it also stores a large amount of materials that require special environments. On its central axis, many facilities are densely integrated, such as docks, material warehouses, fuel centers, etc.
Of course, at this stage, these facilities have not been built yet, only the locations have been reserved.
After the overall skeleton is completed, the next step of construction begins immediately. This step of construction means a huge amount of supplies. People need to carry enough food to feed 500 people for more than ten years - these 500 people are all people participating in this interstellar expedition.
, there are 90 spacecraft pilots, and most of the rest, except the commander, are logistics personnel.
In addition to food, you also need medicines, medical supplies, spacecraft spare parts, etc. There are tens of thousands of various kinds of supplies. Among them, the most important category is undoubtedly fuel.
The space carrier body supplies energy through a fusion reactor, but the propulsion method still requires a working fluid. Comprehensive calculations show that it is more economical to use methane and liquid oxygen to burn and inject gas.
In addition to the fuel to drive itself forward, it also needs enough fuel to supply the flight of 30 combat spacecraft. Comprehensive calculation, the total mass of fuel is up to several million tons.
And this, according to calculations, is only enough for the space carrier to sail to the combat location and complete the operation, and there is not even enough fuel for the return journey.
Yes, Zhao Changxing did not consider the return trip at all. The first reason was that he could not carry so much fuel, and the second reason was that once the battle failed, even if he returned, it would be meaningless.
In this battle, if you don't succeed, you will be punished. Zhao Changxing has already shown the courage to risk everything.
In this battle, he will personally serve as the combat commander and follow the soldiers to the front line. If it fails, he will not come back.
If the expedition succeeds, then people will have time to wait, whether it is to obtain fuel on the Deep Space Star or to wait for the Sedna Star to send the fuel.
Standard boxes one after another flowed into deep space like water, turning into parts, materials in warehouse after warehouse, ammunition, medicine...
Time passed by in a hurry. With two months left before the scheduled time, the construction finally came to an end.
All personnel, supplies, spacecraft, weapons and ammunition, equipment, etc. are all in place. Zhao Changxing has arrived at the No. 1 Space Elevator ground base and is ready to set off.
In this battle, in addition to Zhao Changxing, half of the War Commission members, including Wu Qinghong, who has been performing outstandingly recently, will follow him on the expedition. The remaining half of the War Commission members and all government officials will stay in Seide.
Na Xing.
Looking at the officials who were getting thinner day by day, Zhao Changxing felt filled with emotion.
In the past few years, people's weight has generally decreased by more than 5 kilograms. With comprehensive war preparations, the slight signs of obesity that just appeared before the wartime control have disappeared without a trace in the past few years.
Zhao Changxing wanted to say something, but nothing came out. After a long silence, facing the people, he finally said only one sentence: "Look after your home and wait for me to come back."
All remaining war council members and human government officials stepped forward simultaneously.
"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"
Zhao Changxing waved his hand, took the committee members who were following the expedition, boarded the passenger cabin of the No. 1 space elevator, and set off for the first space carrier in the history of human civilization, which was two million kilometers away.
Deep Sky Star, Celestial Base.
Recently, with the restoration of deep space civilization's control over the planet, the scale of the Tianshen Base has been rapidly expanding. In particular, the electromagnetic railgun has finally been put into use, which has provided a strong boost to the subsequent construction of deep space civilization.
Seeing that civilization is flourishing, the population is increasing rapidly again, and science and technology are progressing smoothly, almost everyone is becoming more and more relaxed.
Under such circumstances, a piece of information was delivered to Noli Ruoxi's desk through the hands of the War Temple staff.
"Is there evidence that human civilization has been carrying out large-scale construction activities for unknown purposes recently? Hmm..."