"Teacher, you are about to be 170 years old. According to past practice and your health tracking assistant's reminder, you still have about 110 years to live. But it will take at least 180 years for us to reach the galactic center.
Why don't you choose to sleep? The latest wake-up technology only takes three days to restore people to their original state, so it shouldn't affect the overall situation, right?"
In the office, Zhou Donglai, Qin Guang's adjutant and the disciple he cultivated, asked slightly puzzled.
Qin Guang looked at his proud disciple with a smile.
He was very satisfied with Zhou Donglai. He was only over 50 years old and already ranked among the best in many simulated command trainings. In an encounter in 2812, Qin Guang transferred part of the command to Zhou Donglai, and he completed it well.
Task.
As a new generation in the fleet, Zhou Donglai is worthy of Qin Guang's respect, and his reputation in the fleet is now as good as Emerson's.
It's just that I'm a little younger after all, so I still take things for granted when I think about them.
Qin Guang patted his disciple on the shoulder and said: "We are now in an advanced information age, and the evolution of everything has been accelerated countless times. Three days may seem short, but it is enough to turn the world upside down. After all, we are far away from the hinterland and cannot get external support.
, and it doesn’t even have the full computing power support of Mastermind Fanxing.”
Zhou Donglai: "But simulation calculations point out that we will never encounter enemy forces again before 2830. Teacher, can you sleep more or less for a few years?"
Qin Guang: "Most of the fleet's own artificial intelligence computing power is used to deduce external situations and support scientific research work. We do not have 100% control over the operation of the fleet. In ultra-long distances and ultra-long periods of time,
In an expedition, the crisis is not just external."
"It must be admitted that freezing technology is of great significance and will inevitably bring drastic changes to the structure of our civilization. The empire outside is a large society, and our fleet has more than 100 million people, and it is obvious that it will exceed 200 million people in the near future.
"
"Eight hundred years ago, the nameless fleet with a population of 200 million could be considered a nameless power. Although we are small, we have all the internal organs. Therefore, some changes will definitely happen next. These changes may be good, or they may
It will cause problems."
Zhou Donglai: "Teacher, but we now have a high proportion of soldiers. We are an army based on an empire. We are different from the narrow concept of the country, right?"
Qin Guang smiled and said, "I appreciate your proactive thinking, but you ignored a point I just mentioned."
"What?"
"Distance and time will change a lot of things. Especially when more and more older generations choose to sleep to extend their lives, this change will gradually amplify. So, for us, cryonics is a double-edged sword
.If used well, it can change the destiny of our expedition mission. If used improperly, it will also bring destruction to us."
Zhou Donglai: "Teacher, do you still support freezing?"
Qin Guang laughed loudly, "Tong Ling has learned the sage's gambling habit, how can I get better? No matter how we gamble, the ultimate goal is always to increase the success rate of the mission."
"I see."
Zhou Donglai finally understood what Qin Guang meant.
"However, although I can't sleep, others can. I will review this first list? But in the future, I won't be able to interfere in everything, so I will leave the decision-making power to the evaluation team. Wait another two years until the time is right.
You can also try intermittent freezing in Donglai."
"Good teacher."
…
Time passes year by year? Emerson Colbert chose to sleep in 2845.
At this time, he has upgraded the fleet's refrigeration technology dozens of times, making it more and more reliable. The accident rate during awakening is getting lower and lower, and the safety factor is approximately equal to that of civil aviation flights in the 21st century.
Yes? There is still a risk? But the risk is not so great that you need to stop eating due to choking.
Great changes have taken place within the fleet in the past twenty-five years.
In 2825, the fleet received a data packet from the Empire.
In addition to regular technology sharing content and current affairs briefings, this data package also contains a rotation guide analysis system for the Slumber Era? Referred to as the rotation system.
This system was carefully crafted by the mastermind Fanxing after collecting a large amount of data. He first regarded the Morrowind Empire as a whole and then divided it into star regions. After comprehensively considering the resource balance and exchange of materials and personnel in different star regions, he proposed a complete set of
Can it not only maintain civilized creativity, but also optimize the allocation of human resources in the time span as much as possible.
At the same time, the system can also narrow its scope of application, ranging from a bustling star region with a population of ten trillion to a space research institute with only tens of thousands of people.
After comprehensive analysis through the rotation system, the best rotation plan and resource allocation plan can be given.
Now that the total population of the unknown fleet has just reached 180 million, does the guidance of the rotation system also apply? This fleet evaluation team has reduced a lot of work.
However, Qin Guang did not just use it. Instead, he asked the evaluation team to spend more than half a year to specifically adjust the strategic model in the rotation system to achieve a rotation plan that conforms to the characteristics of the unknown fleet, and began to implement it.
By 2845, as more and more newcomers passed the functional level assessment and were able to take over the jobs from the older generation, a large number of manual positions began to switch from long-term duty mode to rotation mode.
At the same time, due to the stable structure and small size of the new refrigeration plant, it is convenient for centralized placement. After a large number of people were put into a frozen state, the living space in the fleet became greatly abundant, which further accelerated the training of a new generation of voyagers.
Some radicals in the fleet leadership have even proposed that if this trend continues, the fleet can use the surplus productivity of large ships to manufacture more modular spliced spacecraft that only store cryogenic warehouses, further expanding the population size that the fleet can accommodate.
If we increase the number and performance of energy absorbers that absorb real energy particles from curvature space, then by the time they reach the center of the galaxy, the original 150 million people will expand into an army of tens of billions!
By that time, these tens of billions of soldiers will have one piece of armor, regardless of its performance, but just thinking about the number is enough to be exciting.
With tens of billions of armors and tens of billions or even hundreds of trillions of intelligent combat units assisted, this expeditionary force will become a mighty main force capable of crossing the river.
It must be said that the future described by this radical was very tempting, and Qin Guang was almost tempted.
However, Qin Guang thought over and over again and decided to suppress the radical proposal for the time being on the grounds that the number of troops should not be large but the number of troops should be fine, and he only agreed to appropriately speed up the population expansion of the new humans.
In 2850, a total of 70 million people have entered the cryogenic warehouse, and the vast majority of them are the older generation who were the first to board the fleet.
A small number include new top warriors, super scientists, genius captains and other emerging talents.
At the same time, Qin Guang and Emerson, who had reawakened three years later, jointly passed a new bill.
In order to meet the material needs for manufacturing and maintaining more cryogenic warehouses, and also to prepare for the battle in the center of the galaxy in advance, the fleet will shut down gravity simulators in most non-scientific laboratory areas, firstly to allow the existing population to gradually adapt to a gravity-free life
, and the second is to train a new generation of space warriors under gravity-free conditions.
Giving up gravity does not mean giving up physical fitness. The fleet will strengthen physical training under gravity-free conditions to achieve the effect of all people being soldiers at critical moments.
With the original physique of people on earth, under the condition of zero gravity, the physiological functions are not adapted to the space environment. It is difficult for platelets to accurately locate damaged blood vessels, and some minor internal bleeding can easily spread into serious injuries.
Although personal medical assistants can appropriately restrain this phenomenon, if the human body lacks the ability to self-regulate, once the energy supply is insufficient or it enters an intense state, this slight difference will greatly suppress the combat effectiveness.
According to Emerson's estimation, the remaining 150 years are enough for the older generation's human body to adapt to gravity-free conditions through rapid evolution. The human brain will input new information and become a more sophisticated machine than a personal medical assistant, and
A new enzyme will be produced in the human body.
Once the human body senses internal bleeding, the body tissue cells will quickly secrete new enzymes without the need for the brain to make a judgment. This new enzyme does not require gravity to assist in positioning, but will follow the guidance of chemical bonds, like electrons flowing from the negative electrode to the positive electrode in a battery, quickly
It pounces on the wound, combines with red blood cells, undergoes a swelling reaction, then settles, coagulates, and quickly seals the wound to achieve the effect of self-rescue.
The mechanism of this new type of thrombin is just one direction in the evolution of space humans who have been flying in gravityless curvature space for a long time.
Thousands of enzymes will be produced in the human body that are not available under gravity. Fundamental changes will occur in the relationship between cell tissues, the arrangement of neurons, and even the way nerve signals are transmitted.
Huge changes are everywhere, just like the structural differences between inland ships and ocean-going ships of the same displacement.
Time went to 2870, when the second generation of new people in zero gravity gradually came of age, the difference in body size between the three generations of humans became apparent.
The first generation of humans, who came from different galaxies and relied on the stable quantum constants of stars, were relatively small in size.
The second generation of new humans who were born in space and matured under gravity are slightly taller.
However, the third generation shows obvious polarization. Tall people can easily exceed three meters in height, while short people are indeed only 0.5 meters tall.
Different body shape tendencies represent differences in talents of this generation. Generally, taller people have larger brains and higher scientific potential.
People with short stature have higher bone density and muscle solidity, and their relatively small brains allocate most of their talents to combat ability. These people are natural armored warriors, and their talents are much better than those of the original steel-skeletal warriors.
Still slightly better.
At this time, the cumulative total population of the three generations of humans exceeded 400 million.
Among them, 70 million first-generation humans are sleeping, and there are 70 million first-generation humans who hold important positions in various departments, and are basically waiting for their turn.
The number of the second generation of humans is 140 million, and the number of the third generation is 160 million.
Qin Guang was sitting in his office, holding a top-secret report in his hand.
This report gave him a slight headache.
After years of observation and analysis of the star bodies carried by the fleet, it was discovered that some problems had arisen among the three generations of humans.
At this time, the fleet is more than 9,000 light years away from the empire's frontier. Although it has stayed in the curvature space for a long time, it is somewhat connected to the cosmological constant rules in the original three-dimensional space of the outside world. The sense of distant distance and the sense of time dislocation caused by the long voyage, and
The enzyme environment in the human body continues to change, which has affected the way people think about problems, eventually causing some people to have ideological problems.
The new generation gradually loses its sense of identity with its home planet and empire, and its unified will to sacrifice for the whole race is gradually affected.
This problem is especially obvious among the third generation of space humans.
Some people began to question whether it really made sense to conduct such a long voyage and penetrate directly into the enemy's hinterland.
Start thinking about whether this expedition really has a chance of success.
If you go there, you will die. Why not take advantage of the fact that the fleet is already far above the ecliptic plane of the Milky Way and start sending more people to extragalactic galaxies in order to leave more seeds for civilization outside.
There are also people who are dissatisfied with the allocation of rotating resources that gives priority to the first generation of humans.
There are also people who think they have excellent abilities, but they always have to be held down by old guys, and they are dissatisfied with this.
Of course, the Imperial Planning Department had considered this phenomenon long before departure.
However, humans did not have cryonics technology at that time. The initial plan was to kill everyone once someone's will was shaken, using iron-blooded military control methods to preserve combat effectiveness as much as possible.
But now the situation has changed. With the blessing of freezing technology, some of the older generation are asleep and can preserve their strength until they reach their destination. At the same time, many newcomers are indeed able to display their talents.
The comprehensive strength of the unknown fleet is now dozens of times stronger than when it set off, purely from a numerical perspective.
If you can control the situation well, you will have a greater chance of winning upon arrival.
But if you can't control it, things will get messy.
The current situation is that most people are afraid of ubiquitous artificial intelligence surveillance and keep these little thoughts in their hearts. However, Qin Guang knows that as time goes by, quantitative changes will inevitably lead to qualitative changes, and there are many problems within the fleet.
A major power shock may occur.
Although he can give an order and order the artificial intelligence to instantly destroy all vacillators internally.
But in fact, these people are not guilty enough to die, and most of the wavering people still think about the problem from the perspective of continuing human existence, but they have different ideas.
Moreover, Qin Guang was reluctant to part with the talents displayed by these new generations of humans.
These are valuable resources.
Qin Guang began to think for a long time and must come up with a solution as soon as possible before the situation continued to deteriorate.
He knew this was the time when he would face his real test.
If the matter was really that simple, if he could just fly over quietly and fight, the empire wouldn't appoint him as the commander-in-chief.
While Qin Guang was thinking hard, Emerson, the chief scientist who woke up again, knocked on his door.
"Two news. One good and one bad. Which one do you want to hear first?"
"OK."
"The good news is that the training department has just successfully cultivated a new baby. The baby's genes come from a male peak warrior and a female S-class warrior. It is initially determined that this baby has potential similar to that of Chief Instructor Tong Ling. We have
A super soldier can be born."
Qin Guang nodded, "Yes, but what about the bad news?"
"The baby is reproductively isolated from humans."
Qin Guang stood up straight in shock and stared angrily, "What! Impossible!"
"I didn't think it was possible, but it happened."
