Regarding this issue, Zhao Changxing convened all high-level civilization officials and many relevant experts for a long discussion.
The final decision was that human civilization as a whole still stayed here on Sedna, and only used the inner solar system as a place to obtain supplies.
There are two main reasons for this. First, the overall relocation is too difficult. It can even be said that human civilization currently has no ability to relocate millions of people, nearly a hundred space cities, countless space bases, factories, etc. to more than 10 billion people. kilometers away.
Second, it is about resources. Just like asteroids such as Sedna, the so-called resource depletion is actually just the depletion of some resources. But there are also many resources with huge reserves that are not likely to be depleted in the long run. For example, iron ore, silicon ore, etc.
The amount of this part of minerals used in the development of civilization is also huge.
After comprehensive consideration, Zhao Changxing finally made a decision. That is to say, the main body of civilization continues to stay here and only sends a planetary reclamation team to the inner solar system.
Under the guidance of this principle, human civilization concentrated all its industrial power, worked together, and spent 14 years building an unprecedented super giant spacecraft.
Its name is the Voyager spacecraft.
It adopts a similar shape to the original Spark spacecraft, but is much larger than the Spark spacecraft.
Its total length reaches an astonishing 7 kilometers, with a main shaft diameter of more than 300 meters. It integrates a large number of factories and carries a large amount of materials.
There are a total of 50 huge circles on it with a diameter of 1 kilometer and a length and width of 100 and 60 meters respectively. Each circle is divided into six layers, and the available area in each circle is as high as about 1.8 million square meters. 50 circles are 90 million square meters, which is equal to 90 square kilometers.
A total of 30,000 people have qualified to take the Voyager spacecraft to the inner solar system. Among them, there are mainly men and women in their prime of life, and priority is given to single men and women born through artificial breeding from the entire family, without father or mother.
Because of this mission, the outbound journey plus the return journey plus the time required to stay in the inner solar system are at least 25 years. It is inhumane to abandon your family and children to join this mission.
But if your family moves, or you have no father or mother, no children and you are single, then this problem does not arise.
Among these 30,000 people, there are about 1,000 minors. They will also embark on the journey with their parents.
To this end, the Voyager spacecraft needs to have kindergartens, schools of all levels, hospitals, parks, municipal centers, commercial streets and other facilities.
This is basically a small society.
In fact, according to the positioning, the captain of the Voyager spacecraft is equivalent to the mayor of the major space cities. In order to show his respect, Zhao Changxing even awarded the captain the same rank as the mayor of the human city, which is now the capital city of human civilization.
But when it came to selecting the captain, Zhao Changxing had a problem.
This is the largest long-range navigation exploration mission in the history of human civilization. Moreover, the success or failure of this mission is directly related to the fate of human civilization. Therefore, those who serve as captains must have a high sense of civilized responsibility, have an overall concept, and be able to look at problems from an overall perspective. They must also have the ability to remain calm in times of crisis and make correct decisions under heavy pressure.
Compared with these abilities, other abilities, such as daily management abilities, administrative abilities, coordination abilities, etc., can only be regarded as basic requirements.
Any mayor of a space city has these abilities. But not just any space city mayor can become the captain of Voyager.
At present, four or five candidates have entered Zhao Changxing's sight. But Zhao Changxing is still deciding which one to choose.
At this moment, in the War Commission Building in Human City, one of the war commissioners, Cheng Xuanjia, with dark skin and a resolute face, was wearing a straight military uniform. Even though the clothes had no wrinkles, he was still arranging them carefully in front of the mirror.
After completing this work, he left the building and took an unmanned vehicle to the human government building. Under the leadership of his secretary, he came to Zhao Changxing's office.
At this moment, in a daze, Zhao Changxing seemed to see the shadow of his grandfather, Cheng Kaitian, in Cheng Xuanjia.
Both of them are equally unsmiling, equally calm and determined, and equally meticulous.
At the beginning, after Zhao Changxing chose to temporarily abandon the military development plan and focus on social development, Commissioner Cheng Kaitian, who originally hoped to display his ambitions in the military field, could only bury himself in documents, books, theoretical conferences and computer models all day long. Studying war theories all day long, but never having the opportunity to actually apply these theories.
Until he finally died in depression, he did not wait for this opportunity to come.
His son, Cheng Xuanjia's father, inherited Cheng Kaitian's legacy, but also did not wait for the opportunity. Until now, Cheng Xuanjia had also become a war committee member with excellent results and theoretical level. Even when he was middle-aged, the opportunity still had not come.
Zhao Changxing was a little surprised at Cheng Xuanjia's sudden request to report in person. But he still agreed.
"Commissioner Cheng, sit down."
Even when Cheng Xuanjia sat down, his body remained upright.
"Leader, I am here this time hoping to become the captain of the Voyager spacecraft."
Zhao Changxing's expression immediately became serious.
Frankly speaking, the position of captain of the Voyager spacecraft, even if it has the same political status as the mayor of the capital city, is still not a good position. The main thing is that it is destined to be far away from the center of humanity, and the work is very hard and too important to lose.
It can be as short as 25 years, as long as 30 years, or in 40 years, the person may die in office before he can come back.
It is precisely because of this that some candidates that Zhao Changxing was originally very interested in finally chose to reject it.
This work is of such great significance that it is obviously not possible to do it unwillingly. Therefore, Zhao Changxing did not force them in the name of organizational arrangements.
This doesn't make sense.
Cheng Xuanjia was the first high-ranking civilized person to come to him, hoping to take up this position.
"Tell me your reasons."
Cheng Xuanjia's voice was still calm and firm: "If we can continuously, long-term, and obtain a large amount of resource supplements from the inner solar system, our civilization will have enough energy to build the army."
Zhao Changxing was slightly moved.
Turning theoretical research into practice and building a powerful space fleet with your own hands is a wish that has lasted for hundreds of years from Cheng Xuanjia's grandfather to Cheng Xuanjia himself.
"This position carries great responsibilities and is full of difficulties. Are you confident you can do this job well?"
"Our civilization needs a powerful fleet. Anyone who dares to block the realization of this goal is the enemy of our civilization."
Cheng Xuanjia's body was full of murderous intent.
This was the wish of his grandfather, his father, and himself for three generations. For this wish, he can give everything! He will kill anyone who dares to stop him!
Zhao Changxing knocked on the table lightly: "Okay! I can make the decision now. The position of captain of the Voyager is yours."
Zhao Changxing found that, given his strong will, Cheng Xuanjia seemed to be the most suitable candidate from every aspect.
His level, ability and willingness are sufficient. In that case, it's him.
Cheng Xuanjia suddenly stood up, raised his arms to the level of his temples, and solemnly saluted Zhao Changxing with a military salute inherited from the ancient earth era.
"Promise to complete the mission!"
"Go and prepare! Open up a large-scale channel for our civilization to obtain resources. The powerful fleet you want will be there."
"yes!"
It took another full year for the Voyager spacecraft's expedition plan to finally complete all preparations. An astronomical amount of wheat, rice, millet, soybeans, oil, salt, sugar and other materials, enough to feed 30,000 people for 8 years, were transported together with medicines, medical equipment, consumables, as well as numerous industrial machinery, fuel, etc. Arriving aboard the Voyager spacecraft.
During the expedition ceremony, captured by numerous cameras, Zhao Changxing held Captain Cheng Xuanjia's hand tightly.
"This journey is long and takes a long time, so we must be careful."
"Please be civilized and please let the leaders rest assured."
Cheng Xuanjia turned around and entered a ferry ship parked at the space base. He will take this spacecraft to the Voyager spacecraft parked in high orbit.
At this moment, a full 30,000 humans have been placed in various rooms and dormitories of the Voyager spacecraft in advance.
Countless people are holding mobile phones and saying their final goodbyes to the people they care about.
After this trip, the next time we meet will be at least more than 20 years later.
However, for the future of civilization, people must do this.
Someone has to take on this responsibility.
The giant antenna equipped on the hull of the Voyager spacecraft can smoothly complete the signal transfer between the two. However, as the distance increases, the communication delay will also become longer and longer. Until the point where the one-way communication delay is as high as 12 hours or more.
Zhao Changxing raised his head, and through the porthole at the top, he saw a bright blue light appearing in the dark and deep space.
He knew that it was the light emitted by the 49 ultra-high-power ion thrusters operating at full power at the rear of the Voyager spacecraft.
A total of 49 ultra-high-power ion thrusters powered by fusion power plants will be able to provide an acceleration of 0.002 meters per square second for this huge spacecraft with a total mass of 640 million tons.
It takes a full year of acceleration before it can reach a top speed of about 60 kilometers per second. After that, it will coast at this speed for 6 years, and then spend another year decelerating, so that it can reach its final destination.
Jupiter.
