Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 587: The “Pipi Shrimp” is on the move!
Time flies quickly. Since the departure of the Tussian civilization, 20 years have passed again, and the sea trials of all large motherships are gradually coming to an end.
In a while, people will officially set off to bid farewell to this familiar star field. Various resource reserves are constantly moving upwards through the space elevator. Rare earth, nuclear fuel, organic matter warehouses, and conventional material warehouses are all fully arranged. .
Under this situation, both adults and children are looking forward to marching into the distance once again, eager to come into contact with other interstellar civilizations.
In the last year of the Spring Festival, fireworks flickered, and bright little suns flickered over the planet. Human beings are rich enough to use hydrogen bombs to set off fireworks... and this kind of hydrogen bombs can show all kinds of weird colors, everyone is very happy.
The party before the departure is naturally very lively. The chorus, the singer's casino, and the sketch comedy are always unsatisfactory.
A party that is still full of meaning is a party with a taste!
Next, a grand voting ceremony appeared on the planet. In fact, there was nothing special. The main purpose was to name these six new generation giant motherships.
For this matter, the people broke out with high enthusiasm for voting!
One of the Titan-class giant motherships capable of holding 50 million people was named "The Departure", which was named at the beginning and will not be changed. This name means a new journey after the new human civilization becomes the fourth-level civilization, and it also embodies people's beautiful expectations for the future.
So the people have the right to name the other 5 spacecraft.
However, after the voting ended, a ridiculous thing happened. One of them named "Pippi Shrimp" actually got the highest turnout rate!
If the water was thrown out, the relevant government officials could only pinch their noses and agreed, and one of the interplanetary carrier-class motherships was named-"Pippi Shrimp".
But soon, more people began to complain about this **** name, because they felt that most of their lives might have lived on this "Pippi Shrimp", which sounded too ugly. Up! It's really ugly!
Some people have even moved to the spacecraft. When they heard that their beloved home was named "Pippi Shrimp", they immediately exploded.
"The spaceship we live in, what matters to the rest of you! Why is our spacecraft named Pippi Shrimp! We absolutely disagree, and firmly disagree!"
So they began to protest loudly again and voted to change their names... The number of people who changed their names jointly reached one million hours in a day!
This time the "voting accident" was also regarded as a negative textbook, written in the newspaper, and its headline became-"Damn Democracy"!
In short, after a lot of twists and turns, all the names have been decided, and they are the "Departure" interstellar Titan-class spacecraft...
And 5 interstellar carrier-class spacecrafts such as "Dongfang", "Renaissance", "Shenzhou", "Progress", and "Future"!
These names sound pretty serious, or even a bit boring, but basically people can accept them, and there won't be too many objections.
"...Hello friends, viewers, the "Departure" interstellar Titan-class spacecraft, which can accommodate a normal life of 50 million people, is the economic, scientific research, education, and industrial center of the entire civilization."
"The rest of the interplanetary carrier-class spacecraft can accommodate a population of 20 million, have certain industrial capabilities and military combat capabilities. Now the total population of the new human civilization is insufficient, and each carrier-class spacecraft has more than 1,000 Million, the population size still has a certain degree of room for growth."
"A population of 10 million can maintain all aspects of the spacecraft. In the next few hundred years, the population will slowly increase, until the population of 150-200 million."
"After this, we may try to build our own planetary fortress..."
"Scientists are also studying the technology related to the planetary fortress. We have basically matured the rest of the technology, and the most important thing is the planetary speed..."
These new motherships are being introduced everywhere on digital screens on the roadside. The population above is carefully arranged, corresponding to the six major underground cities currently owned by mankind, just one city and one spaceship.
People's daily life will not be greatly affected.
If divided according to military strength, all spaceships are divided into five categories.
The first is the Titan class, that is, the spacecraft with the largest tonnage that can be built by humans. Various materials and technologies have reached the limit.
The cost and cost of building a Titan-class spacecraft is very high, so people only built one. Too much trouble, no need.
The second category is the aircraft carrier class, which is a giant spacecraft capable of carrying 20 million people. This type of spacecraft can carry a large number of people, is also quite capable of fighting, and has a fighting ability that is outstanding in comparison with the price.
Next are cruise class, destroyer class, and **** class spacecraft. These numbered spacecraft are curvature spacecraft, which can carry a large number of soldiers and are also storage points for drones.
The smaller one is the curvature UAV, that is, the cellular attack group, which is quite expensive.
The next step is ordinary drones. Because of their small size and low cost, ordinary drones are charge-death squads.
This type of small unmanned aerial vehicle, whose energy device is still ordinary nuclear fusion, obtains a relatively large initial speed through the electromagnetic ejection of the mothership. Because of the low cost, you can produce as much as you want. They are usually loaded with high-powered missiles, and they earn money by hitting each other at close range.
Plus some electronic jamming spacecraft, early warning spacecraft, reconnaissance spacecraft, etc., basically the human military system is like this, multi-layered and multi-dimensional.
A total of 320 large and small spaceships with grades and numbers, which have reached a reasonable range that human civilization and economy can bear.
If you add more spaceships, you will have to recruit a lot of troops, and the increase in maintenance costs is not unbearable, but in a peaceful state, it is not very affordable.
After this simple Spring Festival, the next step is to set off for a faraway place. Inside the Captain's Chamber of the Departure, an expedition ceremony is being held. The captain is in front of the TV, introducing matters related to the first long-distance voyage.
"...Ladies and gentlemen, our next goal is Tabby, which is about 400 light years away from our current position. If calculated at three times the speed of light, it would take about 133 years."
"...but we cannot always exercise at the highest speed, and the time required may be a little bit longer, maybe two hundred years or so."
"Because it is the first long-distance voyage, we need to debug the flight process of the fleet during the whole process. If there is no special reason, we will not investigate the planets passing by~IndoMTL.com~ we will reach the end in one breath!"
Captain Feng Zichen's introduction is quite colloquial, even if he doesn't have enough professional knowledge, he can understand it.
The performance of this female captain over the years is quite good, the reform has been done well, and she has personal abilities, so she has been re-elected, and the members of the Science Council have no objections.
The theoretical life span of the new human civilization is nearly 700 years old, and the regular personnel is about 500 years old. Therefore, the captain can be selected once every 50 years and can serve up to 4 times. A total of two hundred years of tenure is enough for a captain to do a lot of things, provided that his ability is sufficient.
Because it is an election within the party, and the power is peacefully excessive, basically there will be no dog-blood incidents such as party disputes.
Each era has its own style, and in this new era, people have survived many hardships and experienced a sinking accident, but they have become more confident and more radical than ever.
The entire civilization has stayed in this place for too long and too long. It should go out and get in touch with more civilizations, and people are willing to accept new development strategies.