Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 307: Red emergency meeting
This is Captain Star, the third planet, and the branch of humanity represented by the Golden Sun.
The climate on the surface of the planet is always so cold and harsh. At a temperature of more than 180 degrees below zero, water vapor and carbon dioxide freeze into a cloud of solid. In the north and south poles of this planet, lakes composed of methane, ethane and other organic substances can even be found. These simple organic minerals are undoubtedly quite beneficial to human development.
A total of 30 million human colonists live in an underground city one kilometer deep underground on this planet.
The flames of nuclear fusion have brought endless energy, and it is also the greatest courage for human interstellar colonization.
The old captain Xu Peng squinted his eyes and looked at the stars in the distance through a layer of thick glass. Because this planet is too cold, the atmosphere is all frozen into a solid, so the air is thin and the stars in the distance are very clear.
Xu Peng is distinguishing which one is the sun and which one is Gliese 581.
The sun at this distance is barely visible with the naked eye, but Gliese 581... is too dim, and you have to use an astronomical telescope to see a vague shadow.
Xu Peng, the old captain, took a back seat ten years ago because of a decline in energy.
But the old man is always idle. He has become a volunteer worker in the observatory. It feels pretty good to take children to look at the starry sky, teach them how to use telescopes, and educate the next generation in their free time.
However, no children came to the observatory today. It may be that the final exam is approaching and the students are very nervous to review... The education of the entire civilization is still very strict, and everyone must study hard.
Drop!
At five o'clock exactly, it's off work.
It's boring to be idle anyway, Xu Peng put on his power armor and walked into the vacuum chamber not far away.
His!
The suction pump slowly draws out the air in the vacuum chamber. Immediately afterwards, he opened the door of the air lock and made a heavy "click". Fortunately, the gas in this room was almost exhausted, and not much air leaked out.
The electronic prompt in the security gate sounded, "A-level authority personnel, General Xu Peng, hello."
"Be careful when you go out and pay attention to outdoor safety. The current outdoor temperature is minus 182 degrees Celsius."
Xu Peng walked along the glass tunnel to an observation platform.
From this position, you can see the space elevator tens of thousands of kilometers high when you look up. If you use the telescope function that comes with the power armor, you can clearly see that the centrifugal wheel spinning above is spinning, and various transportation spacecraft are coming. Coming and going, and a ship...
Huge mothership!
Yes, the interstellar expedition must have a super mothership so that it can accommodate more people.
More population means more productivity and maintenance capabilities. Especially the latter-maintenance capability. In the starry sky, without maintenance, a warship composed of an army cannot span a distance of several light years.
"It would be great if humans could live longer... Then there would be no need to rotate and hibernate for a long time, the required population would be smaller, and the spacecraft could be built smaller."
For this interstellar voyage, related interstellar astronaut training is also ongoing, which has been going on for more than 20 years.
"In another three to five years, the entire Starfleet will be built...and it's ready to go."
Thinking of this, Xu Peng couldn't help but feel so heartbroken.
Although this is the story of a young man, but the old man has a ambition for thousands of miles, and it is good to be here to shine and give out a little residual heat.
This time the starting target is a nearby star jm7812317, which is about 4.7 light-years away, a star near the cosmic string.
11 years ago, through the largest astronomical telescope, human beings actually observed the flash of nuclear bombs on the next planet!
Of course, the flashes of these nuclear bombs are very weak. According to the rational judgment afterwards, it should be a war within the planet, not a large-scale interstellar war.
In other words, this unknown civilization actually had an internal nuclear war!
So, after some discussions, the senior civilization decided that, anyway, the first stop of the interstellar voyage did not have a very good goal, so they would simply go to this planet for scientific investigation.
Even if you collect history and perfect the historiography of new civilizations, it is good.
"However, the military still needs to be strengthened... Since this civilization has broken out of an internal nuclear war, it is theoretically of a belligerent type. It is unlikely to rise again within a few decades, and it may not even be self-destructed. . But, we must always take precautions..."
Suddenly there was a sound in my ear, it was my good friend Lu Zhongping. The two old men often looked at the space above.
Xu Peng nodded: "Interstellar travel is definitely risky, but the benefits will also be greater... We humans are groping for technology here alone. It is too slow and too slow. If this continues, it will never be the same. A good thing."
"Even if this civilization, the overall technology is not as developed as ours, there are always something different..."
"Hey, if you contact a stronger civilization, you will undoubtedly gain more...but our common sense about cosmic civilization is too lacking. It is better to start from a weaker civilization."
"If we get good results, can we send a copy to the other two civilizations... I just don't know if the Earth Age exists, or we are just doing useless work."
The wrinkles on Lu Zhongping’s face are like deep mounds. He still remembered the bets he had made with those young people. Some people said it was a hundred years, some people said it was two hundred years, and some people said it was three hundred. Year.
Almost sixty years have passed like this...
Time is like a white horse passing by, and the world is like a white cloud dog. I really hope that in my lifetime, I can wait for news...
"I just don't know how many years are left to live."
Didi! Didi! Didi!
In this moment of emotion, the communication device on the two power armors suddenly rang. Xu Peng glanced at the red mark, and his heart instantly tightened.
Red emergency meeting!
There are three levels of emergency meetings, the highest level is red, the second level is orange, and the lowest level is blue.
The red emergency meeting is almost the most important one. According to regulations, everyone who receives the news must rush to the nearest meeting site within 10 minutes!
"I don't know what happened..."
"Also, the asteroid is about to hit the base? Is this enough for the red standard?"
Full of worry, the two hurried back to the underground base again, speculating wildly in their hearts.
Along the way, I saw many people screaming and carnival. It was like having a carnival party. I didn't understand it.
"What's the matter?"
Xu Peng stopped a young man with a flushed face in excitement. This guy even protruded from the blood vessels on his forehead with excitement.
"Old Captain...Earth...Earth!" The young man was so nervous that he stuttered. He could only spit out the word "Earth", and couldn't say anything further.
But ~IndoMTL.com~ What he meant to express is not what he meant at all!
This caused him to become more and more anxious, his face was flushed and swollen like a red balloon, and he forgot to say the last half of the sentence.
"Could it be the letter from the earth's civilization?" Lu Zhongping, who stood on the side, made a suddenly realized look, "So that's it, this is really good news."
"But will earth civilization really do this kind of thing? Let's go, civilization go and see."
This kind of misunderstanding makes young people more anxious. What kind of earth civilization is obviously the human branch of the Earth Age. These are two completely different concepts.
Finally, he struggled to think of a good way. He grabbed a handful of his own hair. The severe pain caused him to break through the boundaries of his brain. "Old Captain, Professor Lu... …"
"It's not the earth...it was the Earth Age that wrote us back!"
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