The vast galaxy, the vast space, time flies, and time flows.
Hundreds of years passed, countless people woke up, and countless people fell asleep. One after another, different faces appeared and disappeared in front of Zhao Changxing, disappearing and reappearing, like reincarnations one after another.
Sometimes, a certain face has not appeared in front of Zhao Changxing for many, many years, and Zhao Changxing will know that that person has exhausted his life during the long voyage and left this world forever.
He watched babies turn into children, children turned into teenagers, teenagers turned into young people, young people turned into middle-aged and then old, until he died.
For Zhao Changxing, the reincarnation of life and death has lost the power to shake his mind and emotions, and has become a very normal and insignificant matter. However, even so, he still retains human emotions.
He will still be sad, still sad, still excited and happy. What worried him was that the long lifespan would wear away the human part and become a "god", but it did not happen in the end.
Gods without human emotions are also not what Zhao Changxing hopes to become. He knew that if he became a "god", then human civilization would probably lose a lot of things and eventually become obsolete to everyone.
During these hundreds of years, he still put most of his energy into learning as he did in every previous interstellar voyage.
Human civilization has produced so much new knowledge that there was no time to fully learn it in the past. Now that civilization has stopped to some extent and stopped moving forward, it has become the best moment for him to catch up with the progress of civilization.
One day, the leader of the civilization who was responsible for the daily management of the civilization found him.
"Leader, the inertial navigation phase is over and it's time to slow down."
At this moment, Zhao Changxing suddenly realized that the long voyage that lasted hundreds of years and had a total distance of more than twenty light years was coming to an end.
It only takes about another 100 years of deceleration stage before the human fleet will reach the destination of this voyage.
"Okay." He said, "Let's carry out the plan."
"yes."
The inertial navigation stage is the stage where the space carrier and passenger and cargo spacecraft have the fewest failures. Because there are many components that do not need to operate or only need to operate at low power.
Now that the propulsion engines are about to start up again, the number of failures is bound to increase. It's time to arrange to wake up more hands.
As a result, millions of engineers, scientists, logistics personnel, service personnel, etc. were once again awakened in the human fleet. Many roller rooms that have been sealed for hundreds of years have once again been connected to the life support system and welcomed residents.
Under people's control, the aerospace carrier and the passenger and cargo spacecraft turned independently and began to spray out fierce plasma flames.
At the same time, more than 10,000 satellites of various types did not slow down along with the human fleet. They were released by each spacecraft and began to accelerate.
If there are no accidents, after more than forty years at most, they will quickly pass by the destination of this voyage at a speed of close to tens of thousands of kilometers per second - the star system numbered H1 by human civilization.
During the short flyby process, these satellites will explore as much information about this star system as possible at the closest speed, and send it back to the human fleet through the transit satellite for the human fleet to use before it reaches the target star. When connected, we can make the most reasonable and scientific arrangements for the development time of the following hundreds of years based on the actual situation.
Time that allows for peaceful development is always precious. Every time must be utilized as much as possible.
At this moment, the human fleet has enough confidence and resources to carry out this seemingly wasteful advance detection operation.
Although there were frequent accidents along the way, the destination was changed twice, and an extremely dangerous war was experienced along the way, at this moment, due to Zhao Changxing's persistence long ago, the resources and energy reserves in the human fleet are still at a high level.
There are just over 10,000 satellites, it’s just a drizzle, it won’t have any impact at all. As in the past, due to resource and energy constraints, even Zhao Changxing had to shave his head, it will never happen.
Under this arrangement, the human fleet once again spent several decades in peace. Various data from the H1 galaxy arrived as promised. After accumulating to a certain extent, the top leaders and elites of various civilizations began to be awakened and began to participate in the huge project of formulating long-term development plans for civilizations.
Gu Feng
The main star of the h1 galaxy is a white subgiant that is slightly more massive than the sun. Correspondingly, its surface temperature is higher than that of the sun, and its radiation is more intense than that of the sun.
It is similar in age to the Sun. However, for stars, the higher their mass, the shorter their life span. Although its age is similar to that of the sun, the sun is only in its prime at the moment, but it is already showing signs of aging.
It is inevitably evolving towards a red giant.
Nearest to it, there is a poor rocky planet locked by its gravity. Its mass is about similar to that of the Earth, but its radius is 12% smaller than that of the Earth. This means it has a higher density.
The side facing the star is hot all day long, with the highest temperature reaching nearly a thousand degrees Celsius, enough to melt a lot of steel. The back side is freezing all day long.
In addition to this planet, it has four other large planets, two of which are rocky and two of which are gaseous. Beyond that, there are only a few dwarf planets.
What makes scientists feel a little strange is that in this galaxy, apart from larger stars and their satellites, there are very few celestial bodies like asteroids and comets. This is completely different from the solar system.
In the solar system, there are at least millions of asteroids in the asteroid belt just between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, not to mention the number of overseas celestial bodies such as the Kuiper Belt and the ecliptic discrete disk.
A group of scientists studied for a long time and finally reached a more unified opinion. They believe that this may be hundreds of millions of years ago, when another star passed by it at close range, and its gravity caused chaos inside the star system. Eventually, under the combined action of the star and many large planets, the planet Earth was destroyed. Some of the lower-mass stars were either captured by the gravity of the large planets and became satellites, or they crashed into the large planets, while most of the rest were expelled from the galaxy.
In this way, there are only two or three big cats and kittens in this star system, and there are no large numbers, different shapes, and strange small stars.
But these are discussions at an academic level. From a practical level, it doesn't matter whether there are those little stars or not.
Time passed quickly, and more than ten years passed in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, the speed of the human fleet relative to the H1 star has dropped to only a few dozen kilometers per second, and is still decreasing rapidly.
Finally, the entire fleet parked in the H1 galaxy, next to the fourth planet from the inside—the Saturn-like gas giant planet numbered H1-4.
Planet h1-4 is similar in mass and size to Saturn, but due to the more intense radiation from star h1, its surface temperature is much higher than that of Saturn, and its magnetic field is also stronger.
It was discovered that the magnetic field of planet H1-4 extends millions of kilometers away, almost covering its entire satellite system. The violent radiation from the H1 star collided with the planet's magnetic field, creating an intense aurora that was hundreds of thousands of times larger than what could be seen from the earth, magnificent and brilliant.
Due to the combined effects of its own motion and radiation, as well as the gravity of the satellite, there is an extremely violent storm on the planet H1-4. Through observation instruments, people can clearly see that at the equatorial edge of the planet, there is a huge storm covering an area of more than one billion square kilometers, which occupies about one-forty of the surface area of the planet, which is larger than Jupiter The Great Red Spot above is even larger, more than three times the total surface area of the Earth.
Further observations showed that in this huge storm, the fastest wind speed was even close to the speed of sound. Under such a violent storm, even the most advanced "Mercury" class battleship of human civilization will be torn apart if it accidentally falls into it.
The space environment is always different from the planet's surface environment.
At the same time, under the influence of this planet, the many satellites orbiting it also have very harsh environments. Some have lava all over them, some have frequent earthquakes, and some satellites eject ice volcanoes that can even be ejected directly into orbit.
But human civilization still chose this planet as its first destination. The reason is simple. Even though its environment is extremely harsh, compared with other planets, the environment is still the best.
The scientific and technological strength of human civilization is enough to shield the influence of such adverse factors and firmly take root here. At most, the residential base needs to be made thicker, the reliability of each component needs to be higher, and space activities need to be more cautious.
At this moment, Zhao Changxing's mood was not affected at all by the harsh environment in front of him.
Looking at the huge stars, huge planets, and many satellites, Zhao Changxing was very excited and even made an exception to drink a glass of wine at the celebration.
"Here will be the place where our human civilization will truly take off. Here, we will have a population of hundreds of billions, we will truly enter the third-level civilization, we will have greater strength, and we will no longer be afraid Come rain or shine.”
In the huge banquet hall, facing the gazes of many high-level civilization officials and elites, and facing the media cameras, Zhao Changxing raised the wine glass in his hand. But what he faced was not in the direction of the guests, but in the direction of the Iron Blood Nebula.
"This drink is dedicated to the heroes who escorted us to finally reach here safely."
