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 sent to the Deep Sky Star will set off. Compared with 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 the deep space star. Their arrival will comprehensively strengthen the resource collection capabilities of Deep Space Star. These resources will be continuously transported back to Sedna Star. Now that Sedna Star'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 have been almost completed, 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 for a planet.
A more realistic situation is that as easy-to-exploit resources are gradually exhausted, the cost of extracting the remaining resources will become higher and higher, until they are so high that they have no economic significance at all. At this point, it can be said that its resources are 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.
This situation may change along the way with the development of science and technology. 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 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". Based on this, Zhao Changxing took precautions and dispatched more personnel to Deep Sky Star.
"Deep Sky Star has been captured by us and belongs to us. Now, all you need to do is to get back those things that already belong to us."
"Promise to complete the mission!"
Facing Zhao Changxing's instructions, more than thirty personnel representatives shouted these words at the same time.
"The deep space star is 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 flies by, and the boring space travel is finally over. When the planet, which still roughly maintained its post-war appearance, and whose near-Earth space was still filled with numerous interstellar mines, space debris, and garbage, finally appeared in front of people's eyes, everyone knew that the time for struggle had finally arrived.
Everyone is determined 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. With just fifteen years of work, 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 the biggest motivation for them to stay away from home and come 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 people. Because they have endured more tests and done more work on the Deep Space Star.
As many as 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 parties met, they began the first task. That is, to comprehensively clean up a large number of interstellar mines in the low-Earth orbit of deep space stars.
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. If not possible, they can actively change their orbits. Small pieces of space junk can be directly resisted. Only these interstellar mines will explode upon contact. An explosion may cause serious damage to a landing spacecraft and even cause casualties.
This all makes cleaning them imperative.
Scientists on Sedna have formulated a comprehensive 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 equipped on them allow them to search for traces of interstellar mines as perfectly as possible. Once a target is found, the automatic aiming 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 well and the advance is correct, one bullet can usually kill an interstellar mine.
A total of 306 military satellites destroyed up to 160,000 interstellar mines on the first day of 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 certainly continue for a long time. But people can't wait that long.
Now that the space environment has improved significantly, material transportation and personnel transfer have begun. A huge amount 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 who were originally stationed on the Deep Space Star accompanied the results they harvested during this period. With the help of the second batch of personnel, With blessings, we set off on our way home.
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 was actually just a convenience in addition to transporting personnel, and it was 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 space interstellar transportation.
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 orbit adjustment capabilities. The resource box uses an electromagnetic railgun to directly accelerate to a speed exceeding the speed of the second universe, so that after entering space, it will not enter the orbit of the planet, but will directly break away 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, one would set its velocity to a specific value that is higher than the second cosmic velocity of the Deep Sky Star, but lower than the second cosmic velocity of the 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 this second group of people arrived and worked for several months, the first standard resource box was launched under the watchful eye.
