Deep Space Fleet

Time passed quickly. Since the departure of the Tos civilization, 20 years have passed again, and the trial work of all large motherships is gradually coming to an end.

After a while, people will officially set off and bid farewell to this familiar star field. Various resource reserves are being continuously moved upwards through space elevators. Rare earths, nuclear fuels, organic matter warehouses, and conventional material warehouses are all fully arranged.

Under such circumstances, no matter adults or children, they all look forward to marching to the distance again, eager to contact other interstellar civilizations.

In the Spring Festival of the last year, fireworks flickered, and bright little suns flickered over the planet. Human beings have become so wealthy that they can 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 was naturally extremely lively. The chorus, singer solo, and sketch cross talk always made people feel unsatisfied.

A party with endless meaning is a party with flavor!

Next, a grand voting ceremony appeared on the planet. In fact, it was nothing special. It was mainly to name the six new generation giant motherships.

For this matter, the people broke out with great enthusiasm for voting!

One of the Titan-class giant motherships, which can accommodate a population of 50 million, is named "Departure", which was named at the beginning and will not be changed. This name means the new journey after the new human civilization becomes a fourth-level civilization, and it also entrusts people's good expectations for the future.

So the public has the right to name the other five ships.

However, after the voting ended, an ironic thing happened. One of them named "Pipi Shrimp" actually got the highest voting rate!

The water that was thrown out, the relevant personnel of the government department could only hold their noses and agreed, and one of the interstellar aircraft carrier-class motherships was named-"Pipi Shrimp".

But soon, more people began to complain about this damn name, because they felt that they might live on this "Pippi Shrimp" for most of their life, which sounded too ugly! It's really ugly!

Some people have even moved to the spaceship. When they heard that their beloved homeland was named "Pipi Shrimp", they immediately became furious.

"The spaceship we live in, don't care about the rest of you! Why is our spaceship named Pippi Shrimp! We absolutely disagree, absolutely disagree!"

So they began to protest loudly again, voting to change their names... The number of people who jointly changed their names reached one million hours in one day!

This time, the "voting accident" was used as a negative teaching material, and it was written in the newspaper, and its title became - "Damn Democracy"!

All in all, after some twists and turns, all the names have been settled, namely "Departure" interstellar Titan-class spacecraft...

And 5 interstellar aircraft carrier-class spacecraft including "Oriental", "Fuxing", "Shenzhou", "Progress", and "Future"!

These names sound quite serious, even a bit boring, but basically people can accept them, and there won't be too many objections.

"...Hello, viewers, the 'Starship' interstellar Titan-class spacecraft can accommodate the normal life of 50 million people, and is the economic, scientific research, educational, and industrial center of the entire civilization."

"The rest of the interstellar aircraft carrier-class spaceships can accommodate a population of 20 million respectively, and have certain industrial capabilities and military combat effectiveness. The total population of the new human civilization is now insufficient. Each aircraft carrier-class spaceship holds more than 10 million people. There is still room for growth in scale.”

"A population of 10 million can maintain all aspects of the spacecraft. In the next few hundred years, the population will increase slowly until it reaches 150-200 million."

"After this, we may try to build our own planetary fortress..."

"Scientists are also researching related technologies of planetary fortresses. We have basically matured the rest of the technologies, and the most critical thing is planetary warp speed..."

On the digital screens on the side of the road, these new motherships are being introduced everywhere. The living population above is carefully arranged, corresponding to the six major underground cities currently owned by human beings, exactly 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 largest curvature spaceship that can be built by human beings, and various materials and technologies have reached the existing limits.

The price and cost of building a Titan-class spaceship was very high, so people only built one. It's too much trouble, and it's not necessary.

The second category is the aircraft carrier class, which is a giant spaceship capable of carrying a population of 20 million. This type of spaceship can carry a large number of people, and it is also quite capable of fighting, with outstanding combat capabilities at a relatively low price.

Next are cruiser-class, destroyer-class, and escort-class spaceships. These numbered spaceships are curvature spaceships, which can carry a large number of soldiers and are also storage points for drones.

Even smaller are the Curvature Drones, or Cellular Attack Swarms, which are quite expensive to build.

Then there are ordinary drones. Because of their small size and low cost, ordinary drones are the death squads.

The energy device of this type of small UAV is still ordinary nuclear fusion, which can obtain a relatively high initial speed through the electromagnetic ejection of the mothership. Due to the low cost, it can produce as much as it wants. They are usually loaded with high-power missiles, and hitting the opponent at close range is to earn money.

Coupled with some electronic interference spacecraft, early warning spacecraft, reconnaissance spacecraft, etc., basically the human military system is like this, multi-level and multi-dimensional.

There are a total of 320 spaceships, large and small, with levels and numbers, reaching a reasonable range that the current human civilization and economy can bear.

If more spaceships are added, a large number of recruits will be required, and the increase in maintenance costs is not unbearable, but in a peaceful state, it is not very cost-effective.

After this simple Spring Festival, the next step is to go to a distant place. Inside the captain's room of the Qi Cheng, an expedition ceremony is being held, and the captain is in front of the TV, introducing matters related to the first long-distance warp speed voyage.

"... Ladies and gentlemen, our next goal is Tabby's Star, which is about 400 light-years away from our current position. If calculated at three times the speed of light, it will take about 133 years."

"...But we can't always run at the highest speed, and the time required may be a little longer, maybe around two hundred years."

"Because this is the first long-distance voyage, we need to adjust the flight process of the fleet during the whole process. If there is no special reason, we will not investigate the planets passing by, and we will reach the end in one go!"

Captain Feng Zichen's introduction is quite colloquial, even if he doesn't have enough professional knowledge, he can understand it.

The female captain's performance over the years is quite good, the reform has also been done well, and she has personal ability, so she has been re-elected, and the members of the scientific council have no objections.

The current theoretical lifespan of the new human civilization is nearly 700 years old, and the regular personnel are about 500 years old. Therefore, every 50 years, you can choose a captain, and you 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 he is capable enough.

Because it is an intra-party election, power is peacefully excessive, and bloody incidents such as party disputes will basically not occur.

Every era has its own style, and in this new era, people have survived a lot of suffering and experienced a sinking accident, but they have become more confident and more radical than before.

The entire civilization has stayed in this place for too long, and it should go out to contact with more civilizations, and people are also willing to accept new development strategies.