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.
When observed with extremely high-precision equipment, they can cause some small changes in the planet's reflection spectrum. By observing these changes, their presence can be determined.
After receiving this observation report, Zhao Changxing fell into a long silence again. The senior human government officials who listened to the report looked at each other in confusion, 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 can live their own life, and maybe we can also start some trade to exchange some materials that we have but the other party does not have, or the other party has materials that we do not have. Looking at history books, weren’t there many countries at the beginning of the Earth Age, and could 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, we discovered them first, not them discovering us first. . And it’s very possible that they haven’t discovered us until now.”
Yes, this order is still in effect today. This has aroused doubts among many people, who believed that it caused too much inconvenience to their lives, but Zhao Changxing has always insisted that there is no modification.
The top leaders of the human government 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 good."
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 unrealistic and beautiful fantasies when thinking and dealing with these problems. When you do something, you will always look at it with a childish thought.
Zhao Changxing said calmly: "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 disk."
“What is the closest macroscopic object to us—besides this 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 the year 2012 of the Earth's Era. It is a "distant independent celestial body" together with Sedna. It is about half the size of Sedna.
The newly discovered dwarf planet at a distance of only more than 60 million kilometers has been 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 apparently also a member of the "distant independent celestial bodies".
"Very good. So, let's assume a situation like this. Our human civilization keeps developing and developing, and the population is getting bigger and bigger. 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 short supply at this stage. Not to mention the unexpected replenishment of gold, silver and other elements due to the arrival of an asteroid, the rest, rare earth elements, actinide elements, radium elements, cesium elements, etc., had to be supplied to Sedna in order to support industrial development. Looking internally, the deepest mines dug are even thousands of meters deep. The cost of mining continues to rise, and it 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 exchanging what is needed is what is beneficial to everyone..."
Zhao Changxing said bluntly: "You can obviously take the entire planet as your own without restraint and mine the resources without restraint. Why should you share it with others? Why only half of it when you can have it all?"
Officials fell silent again. But it seemed like 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 we develop faster than them.”
In its heyday, the other civilization was obviously capable of interstellar voyages. This goes far beyond human civilization. After all, in the heyday of human civilization, only one Spark spacecraft could be built.
However, it can be judged from the thickness of the atmosphere of 221SN1 that they have not had much impact on the environment of this planet during the past hundred years of development. And 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 allowed 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 conference. At the same time, the decision to continue to implement "radio silence" more strictly was also passed, as was the decision to build a space elevator.
No matter what, a war with space as the battlefield will always first require the transportation of huge amounts of materials into space. And this is absolutely impossible without the space elevator.
The initial demonstration of the space elevator was completed as quickly as possible. People eventually drew plans for a 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 five thousand 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 be 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 simple. In this game, under some fixed restrictions, for example, the most advanced propulsion technology is a fusion reactor and a high-power ion thruster, the most powerful weapon is a hydrogen bomb but its delivery speed is slow, and the spacecraft does not have gravity. , the spaceship armor can only use construction materials with the following performance indicators, etc. The two sides can use all means allowed by the game system and formulate all tactics to defend their own planet, occupy the other party's planet, or eliminate all the opponent's combat effectiveness.
Giant ship cannons, super-heavy space battleships, kinetic energy weapons, chemical explosive weapons, missiles, special penetration, encirclement and reinforcement, rapid maneuvers, etc., etc., all means, all tactics, all equipment can be used.
This game will be open to all adults - at this moment, human civilization is not far from the population limit, and the number of adults has reached about 150,000. After work, anyone can log into this game and defeat opponents according to their own playing style and strategy.
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 the other officials knew how the interstellar war would proceed.
Regarding the forms of warfare 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 there was no real space war. People at the time didn't think interstellar war would 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 people do not think that this is a substantial threat to themselves, and do not think that the contradiction between the two parties is really irreconcilable, they still devote themselves to this game with great enthusiasm and begin to explore "a How should a real interstellar war be fought?"
