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 take 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 have eight hours to rest, four hours to study, and four hours to participate in the spacecraft. Maintain tasks within the base, or become a teacher, cooperate with Xiao Xi to educate younger children, or participate in some more difficult spacecraft maintenance tasks. The last four hours are left to deal with your 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 are not required to participate in the labor. This is an iron law that has lasted for hundreds of years. But now, Zhao Changxing broke 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 are like flowers in a greenhouse, feel something new and different from Zhao Changxing's harsh attitude and words. This was a big shock to them.
If everything 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, he will not let those who make sacrifices 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 this was preparation for war, they only thought that it was preparing for a voyage to the inner solar system.
The atmosphere on the entire Sedna planet, including various space bases, once again became serious and dignified. Countless people are walking in a hurry, and countless factories are 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 TEU is similar to that of an Earth-era shipping container, only larger. On average, a standard container can contain about 100 tons of materials.
It is equipped with a simple propeller. After acquiring the initial speed of forward movement, the propeller will immediately start decelerating. Under the control of automatic control equipment, after arriving at the intended construction site of the space carrier, they will exactly decelerate 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 every launch, people will launch 200 TEUs, with a total mass of about 20,000 tons.
These TEUs themselves are also qualified construction materials, so those 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 parts and integrated into the space carrier. At the same time, each standard box is painted black without any reflection, and 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 were eventually detected, Zhao Changxing was actually not too worried. After all, their heading is to the inner solar system, not to deep space stars. No matter what the people of the Deep Space Stars think, they will only think in the direction of the inner solar system, and will not doubt that this is an action against themselves.
After really pulling out all the stops this time, new calculated data soon emerged again. This time, the estimated construction period of the space carrier has become 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 didn't think about what to do if he failed. Although war thinking all emphasizes the need to consider defeat before victory, it is necessary to leave a way out for oneself. But now it is clear 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 over the first batch of instruments and equipment, and now they have begun to use the materials that arrived in the early stage to build the skeleton of the space carrier.
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.
Its long central axis can be used to build a large number of warehouses, park a large number of combat spacecraft, and build numerous facilities. The circles rotating around it can create gravity suitable for human survival. No matter from any aspect, this 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 exceeds 1 kilometer, and there are two circles on it, each with a diameter of more than 300 meters. In addition to field hospitals, canteens, dormitories and other facilities, these two circles also reserve a large amount of materials that require special environments. On its central axis, many facilities are densely integrated, such as shipyards, 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 materials. 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, including 90 spacecraft pilots, and most of the rest, except the commander, are logistics personnel.
In addition to food, medicines, medical supplies, spacecraft spare parts, etc. are also needed. 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. After comprehensive calculation, it is more economical to use methane plus liquid oxygen to burn and inject gas.
In addition to the fuel to drive itself forward, it also needs enough fuel to supply 30 combat ships. Comprehensive calculation, the total mass of fuel is as high as millions of 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 didn't consider returning at all. The first reason is that they really can't carry so much fuel, and the second reason is that once the battle fails, even if they return, it will be meaningless.
In this battle, if you don't succeed, you will be benevolent. Zhao Changxing has already shown the courage to break the boat.
In this battle, he will personally serve as the combat commander and follow the soldiers to the front line. If it doesn't work out, he won't 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 wait for the Sedna Star to send the fuel.
One standard box after another flows like water into the deep space, turning into parts, into warehouse after warehouse of materials, into ammunition, medicine...
Time flies by. With two months left before the scheduled time, the construction finally came to an end.
All personnel, supplies, spaceships, 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 committee members, including Wu Qinghong, who has been performing outstandingly recently, will follow him on the expedition. The remaining half of the war committee members and all government officials will stay on Sedna.
Looking at the officials who were getting thinner day by day, Zhao Changxing was filled with emotions.
In the past few years, people have generally lost more than 5 kilograms of weight. Comprehensive war preparations were carried out, and the slight signs of obesity that had just appeared before the wartime control disappeared without a trace in the past few years.
Zhao Changxing wanted to say something, but nothing came out. After being silent for a long time, 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.
"Promise 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 Celestial 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..."
