Among the huge amount of materials required by the Voyage spacecraft for its journey from the solar system to the EZ Aquarius galaxy, a considerable part was produced locally in the Jupiter system.
After all, transporting various resources from the Jupiter system to Sedna takes a long time and requires a lot of additional manpower and material resources.
Especially the huge amount of hydrogen required to produce antimatter - on Sedna, obtaining hydrogen requires electrolysis of water, and water resources on Sedna are actually not abundant.
But it's different in the Jupiter system. Several of Jupiter's large moons are covered with water ice, and even an entire moon is covered with water ice.
But getting hydrogen at Jupiter doesn't require electrolysis of water. Jupiter itself is a huge, inexhaustible source of hydrogen.
At this moment, both the repair and transformation tasks and the resource reserve tasks have come to an end. Now, in addition to continuing the finishing work, people need to consider another issue.
How to deal with so many infrastructures, factories, etc. left in the solar system.
Even most of the spacecraft need to be disposed of. Because these spacecraft, such as those combat spacecraft, civilian spacecraft, cargo spacecraft, etc. made by humans, obviously cannot be taken to another star system. Nor do they have such significant value on their own.
Even the three space carriers that have made great achievements and are the soul of the human escort fleet, as well as hundreds of space cities that provide living and working places for millions of humans, and even the fire that has special significance to humans No. 1 spacecraft, people are not going to take it away, but will dispose of it directly.
However, wouldn't it be too wasteful to blow it up like this?
Zhao Changxing looked at the evaluation data in front of him with a calm expression.
"According to preliminary statistics, the total number of spaceships and aircraft that need to be disposed of is as high as 25,000, with a total tonnage of 22.16 billion tons. The total number of various types of factories that need to be disposed of is as high as 16,000, and the total material weight is more than 10 billion tons. In addition In addition, the number of various types of roads, infrastructure, etc. is too large to be counted."
Zhao Changxing once again summoned other civilization leaders and some scientists into the conference room.
"It's too wasteful to dispose of it like this. Can you think of a way to reuse the waste?... I mean, can these things create some obstacles for the Moyun Litar civilization that will reach the sun in the future?"
Zhao Changxing's statement made people think deeply.
People are certainly happy to create obstacles for their enemies. But the key question is, how to make it?
Just rely on these scraps of metal that are destined to be abandoned?
"I have already asked someone to calculate it." Zhao Changxing said: "Or we can try and use these things to find a way to bring the black hole closer to the sun."
"This, I'm afraid this won't work." A scientist objected: "At this moment, the black hole is already 15 times the mass of the earth. There is no way we can push it."
For nearly a thousand years, the black hole has always been surrounding the sun, always absorbing gas from the sun and turning it into its own mass.
It would take an extremely long time for it to swallow the sun whole. According to model estimates, this time may be as high as about 70,000 years. During this process, the mass of the black hole gradually increases and the mass of the sun gradually decreases. The rate at which it absorbs solar matter will also increase as its own mass increases.
But if we can find a way to change the orbit of the black hole and bring it closer to the sun, then it is obvious that the speed at which it absorbs solar matter will increase again. And this will lead to a series of consequences.
In addition to the gravitational chaos caused by the transfer of matter and the chaos in the orbits of major planets, one of the most direct consequences is that the intensity of radiation from the "sun-black hole" binary star system will be greatly increased.
Because the rate of absorbing solar matter increases, more mass will be converted into energy and emitted in the form of radiation.
By then, I am afraid that distant planets as far away as Sedna will be affected by radiation.
This will make the environment of the entire solar system increasingly harsh.
Of course, this cannot cause much trouble to a powerful third-level civilization like the Moyun Litar civilization. Model simulations show that this can only serve as a resource collection operation for the Moyunlitar civilization at best, resulting in an efficiency reduction of about 2%-2.6%, but...
The improvement in the radiation efficiency of black hole accretion disks will make the mining of "superionic metals" more difficult, and may even make it completely unfeasible.
This will be very interesting.
The Moyunlitar civilization, which was already severely divided in society, came to a galaxy where it originally thought it would be a great harvest. As a result, superion metals could not be mined, and the galaxy environment was so harsh that even its most basic resource collection tasks were affected. Obstacle, then, with this opportunity, will there be a civil war?
Even if a civil war does not occur, will the political struggle between the left-behinds and the homeless factions rise to the level of bloody conflict? Will social efficiency be reduced? Will "party strife" become serious enough to slow down the entire civilization?
These are all things worth looking forward to.
If this goal can be achieved by relying on some junk that is destined to be abandoned, people will certainly be happy to do it. So now there is only one question left.
How to do it?
Zhao Changxing raised his head, his expression still calm.
"Of course we can't do it by relying on our strength alone. But with the help of the environment and our strength, it is possible to do it.
Let's fill all the spaceships that are about to be abandoned with supplies that we can't take away. Then let the spacecraft hit the asteroid 856g3 at the fastest speed and with the highest kinetic energy. Change its orbit and let it hit Vesta. Change Vesta's orbit so that Vesta directly hits the black hole. "
This series of collisions will produce a domino-like effect.
The dominoes may be small at the beginning, but small dominoes can knock over dominoes that are slightly larger than themselves. This continues, because the fall of a very small domino at the beginning can eventually lead to the fall of a very large domino.
Human power is limited. But now that the gravity of the solar system is chaotic, we can use the power of nature itself to accomplish things that we were originally unable to accomplish.
What is particularly critical is that this mission does not require humans to pay too much, nor does it require humans to build more engines or thrusters. Just use those spaceships that were originally intended to be discarded to complete it.
Zhao Changxing's plan made people's expressions become serious unconsciously.
"Yes. Let's make a detailed plan now."
After this, the huge demolition task officially began.
The first thing to be solved are the man-made structures located underground and on the surface of the major dwarf planets.
People are too lazy to expend more power to transport them to space. Just blow it up.
This is a very simple thing. All people need to do is just throw dozens or hundreds of milligrams, up to no more than one gram, of encapsulated standard antimatter blocks - or antimatter bombs - directly into it.
In the face of the super energy released by the annihilation of matter and antimatter, no matter steel or plastic, no matter rock or soil, everything will turn into dust.
Seeing these factories, cities, roads, warehouses, etc., which had taken hundreds of thousands of years to accumulate, were blown up one by one, people looked heavy and didn't know what it felt like.
Several space elevators that were built with great pains and made great contributions to human civilization's march into space were also demolished.
During this process, major relocation work has also begun.
When deciding on the list of hibernators and awake people, Zhao Changxing followed the principle of voluntariness. It was up to people to choose whether to spend the rest of their lives on the voyage, or to temporarily freeze their lives and wait until they arrived at their new home. .
EZ Aquarii is a whopping 11.3 light-years away from the solar system. Based on the performance of the Yuanhang spacecraft and its maximum speed of 0.08 times the speed of light, including the acceleration and deceleration time, it will take a total of more than 200 years.
Its acceleration is only 0.02 meters per square second. It needs to continue to accelerate for nearly 40 years before it can accelerate to its top speed. After that, it will enter inertial navigation, and at the end of the voyage, it will take another 40 years to slow down before it actually reaches its destination.
This length of time has exceeded the average life span of people today.
The final statistical result is that out of a total population of about 7 million, about 6.8 million people chose to hibernate. There are less than 200,000 people who choose to stay awake.
Sufficient manpower is also needed to maintain the normal operation of the Yuanhang spacecraft. Enough engineers and workers are needed to monitor the operation of each module of the spacecraft, and manpower is needed to troubleshoot faults, etc. Such a small number of people is totally not enough.
Especially the 200,000 people who choose to be sober are not exactly the talents needed to maintain the operation of the spacecraft. Most of them are just regular people.
As a last resort, Zhao Changxing had to promulgate a policy of rotating hibernation, forcing some professionals to stay awake and work for a certain period of time before entering hibernation.
In addition, ordinary people also need to wake up regularly to avoid the damage caused to the body by long-term hibernation. For this group of people, Zhao Changxing also reserved enough space for movement in the Yuanhang spacecraft.
As the ferry shuttle flew back and forth, people with a small amount of luggage - luggage allowances have strict review standards, and Zhao Changxing does not allow any meaningless behavior that increases the mass of the spacecraft - dragged their families with them, and left in three steps. This has been my home for almost my whole life.
The once noisy space cities quickly became deserted.
It is deserted in the true sense of the word.
Because the life support system has been shut down, there will be no heating equipment to maintain the temperature.
As the internal temperature dropped, the originally gaseous air gradually solidified, eventually turning into blue ice crystals and falling to the ground.
