When the first second-generation roller base was completed and put into operation, Zhao Changxing led all the top leaders of civilization to the space end of the No. 1 space elevator.
Here, there are more than thirty young people with solemn expressions and upright figures, standing there in uniforms.
Looking at these young people, Zhao Changxing felt a little emotional.
Soon, the second spacecraft dispatched to the Deep Space Star will set off. Compared to the first one, this spacecraft carries more supplies, industrial machinery and personnel.
Fully 5,000 outstanding young people will take the "Earth" transport ship modified from the previous space carrier to go to the Deep Space Star. Their arrival will comprehensively strengthen the resource collection of the Deep Space Star.
capabilities. And these resources will be continuously transported back to Sedna. Now that Sedna's resources have shown signs of exhaustion, they will continue to support the rapid development of civilization.
After all, Sedna is too small, and its various resource reserves are limited. Now that the civilized population has increased to more than 200,000, and various industrial chains are almost complete, Zhao Changxing begins to feel a little stretched.
One thing that needs to be explained is that unless the entire planet can be blown up and eaten alive, there is a high probability that there is no such thing as complete depletion of resources on 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 they are completely without economic significance. At this point, it can be said that it
The resources have been exhausted, but in fact, there may be a larger amount of corresponding resources stored deeper in the planet and even in the core.
The original earth, coal resources, oil resources, etc. had faced this situation.
With the development of science and technology, this situation may change midway. For example, if a certain technological breakthrough allows people to mine deeper mineral resources at a lower price, then a certain mineral that was originally exhausted will be lost.
May become abundant again.
The current situation on Sedna Star is that the cost of resource extraction is getting higher and higher, and the resource reserves are gradually "depleted". It is based on this that Zhao Changxing took precautions and dispatched more personnel to the Deep Sky Star.
"We have captured the Deep Sky Star and it belongs to us. Now, all you need to do is to get back those things that already belong to us."
"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"
Facing Zhao Changxing's instructions, more than thirty personnel representatives shouted these words at the same time.
"The deep space stars are far away from us, and you may face many difficulties there. But I hope that no matter what kind of difficulties you face, you must always remember that human civilization will always be your strong backing."
"yes!"
The Earth transport ship finally set off.
Because there is no need to take a tortuous route this time and many military facilities have been dismantled, the voyage will only take about two years to arrive.
At that time, more deep space star resources will arrive.
Time passed by in a hurry, and the boring space travel finally ended. When the planet, which still roughly maintained its post-war appearance, and the near-Earth space was still filled with many interstellar mines, space debris and garbage, finally appeared in front of people's eyes,
Everyone knows that the time for struggle has finally arrived.
Everyone has made up his mind to fight at this time.
This is not just based on generous treatment - people participating in this expedition need to work on the deep space star for ten years, plus the round trip, it is a total of fifteen years. And just fifteen years of work is
You can earn more contribution points than you can spend in two lifetimes and achieve financial 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 work, Zhao Changxing will certainly welcome you.
This treatment cannot be said to be generous.
But the main reason why people are so determined to fight is that they know what they are doing and what their work means to civilization. This is what supports them.
Being away from home is the biggest motivation for coming here.
After getting in touch with the first batch of personnel stationed here, their excited cries were clearly heard through the communicator.
The arrival of the Earth transport ship means that it is time for them to go home.
After returning, what greeted them was more wealth and honor than this second group of personnel. Because they had endured more tests and done more work on the Deep Sky Star.
In fact, a total of nineteen people died on this planet in the line of duty.
The foundation they have laid here will allow this second group of personnel to carry out their work better.
After the two sides reunited, they began the first task. That was to comprehensively clean up a large number of interstellar mines in 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 huge headache for people.
In the past few years, many of them have exploded due to collisions with each other and space junk, but there are also a lot of them left.
According to expert estimates, the number of existing interstellar mines in the deep space near-Earth space at this moment is about four million.
Compared with them, space junk is much easier to deal with. Large pieces of space junk can be avoided, but if not possible, you can actively change their orbits. Small pieces of space junk can be dealt with directly. Only these interstellar
Landmines will explode as soon as they are touched. An explosion may cause serious damage to a landing spacecraft and even cause casualties.
This all makes cleaning them imperative.
The scientists on Sedna have formulated a complete cleanup plan for this purpose.
After completing the initial work, hundreds of military satellites with higher orbits were released by the Earth transport ship.
Their higher orbits can protect them from interference from interstellar mines and space debris. The radar scanning equipment and optical search equipment they are equipped with allow them to search for traces of interstellar mines as perfectly as possible. Once the target is found, they automatically aim.
The device locks onto the target and releases a small gunpowder-powered bullet to destroy them.
In the short term, the orbits of interstellar mines are generally stable - 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 correct, one bullet can usually kill an interstellar mine.
The total of 306 military satellites destroyed up to 160,000 interstellar mines on the first day of their launch. The number then continued to decrease, but even on the 30th day, the number destroyed was still as high as about 60,000.
In this month, a total of about 2.8 million pieces were cleaned.
The cleaning operation is still going on and will definitely last for a long time. But people can't wait that long anymore.
Now that the space environment has improved significantly, material transportation and personnel transfer work has begun. Huge amounts of machinery and equipment and many personnel were transferred to the surface of the Deep Space Star in batches. The first batch of about 400 people originally stationed on the Deep Space Star were
With the fruits they harvested during this period, they set off on their way home with the blessings of the second batch of people.
This time, they took away about 160 tons of gold, 659 tons of silver, large amounts of aluminum, gallium, lead, mercury, and more copper, tin, manganese, zinc, etc.
These minerals are all urgently needed resources for large-scale construction on Sedna.
Of course, even if the Earth transport ship has an extremely 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 for a round trip.
People do not expect all resources to be transported by spacecraft. In fact, the transportation of the Earth transport ship this time is actually just a convenience in addition to the transportation personnel, which is an extra step.
Larger-scale transportation will begin after the second batch of more than 5,000 people arrives.
Over the years, through the dismantling of the electromagnetic railguns possessed by deep space civilizations and the analysis of drawings and data, mankind has fully digested and absorbed this technology, and has achieved the goal of being better than others.
Originally, this technology was only used to deliver supplies from the ground to low-Earth orbit, similar to a space elevator. But after more in-depth research, people were surprised to discover its huge potential in interstellar transportation in space.
The principle is also very simple. It is nothing more than calculating the orbit in advance and then increasing its projection speed.
After completing the mining of resources, people will package the resources into standard resource boxes with the ability to adjust orbits. The resource boxes will be directly accelerated to a speed exceeding the speed of the second universe using an electromagnetic railgun, so that after entering space,
It will not enter the orbit of the planet, but will break away directly and fly into deep space.
Because the orbit has been 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, which is higher than the second cosmic speed of the deep space star.
But it is lower than the second cosmic speed of Sedna Star. Therefore, after arriving at Sedna Star, it will directly enter the orbit of Sedna Star and start orbiting Sedna Star.
At that time, people only need to salvage them one by one.
This method 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, no other energy is needed.
This provides the possibility for large-scale and efficient acquisition of deep space star resources.
Now, after the second group of personnel arrived and worked for several months, the first standard resource box was launched under people's gaze.