The world-devouring dragon

In the year 2457 of the old earth calendar and four years in the human calendar, the legendary colonial spaceship "Far Traveler" has gone away. It will arrive at the target planet, the ideal blue planet, in 140 years.

But for humans still staying in the solar system, the story is far from over.

After that short-lived but far-reaching human union, only a hundred years later, the generation originally shaped by suffering died, the voices longing for peace and reason disappeared, and a new generation of divisions began to surge again.

As the girl sighed a hundred years ago:

"What is the meaning of everything we are doing now? What is the meaning of our existence in this universe? What is the meaning of such endless war? Such a spiral will only bring us infinite pain and final destruction. ."

In the Kuiper belt asteroid belt of the solar system, countless space pirates, mining companies, and careerists gather in this chaotic world. This is a disorderly world without restraint and a paradise for illegal crimes.

In the 176th year since the birth of the Human Federation, in the 178th year of human history, a new separatist force was born. This force, which claimed to be the protector of the asteroid people, relied on the huge advantages brought by the asteroid belt to fight with the fleets of the Human Federation. .

After two hundred years, humans are once again facing each other with swords against their compatriots.

Those warriors who embrace peace and ideals may have once been scholars, artists, and explorers of outer space, but now their swords are wielding against the compatriots they once swore to protect.

"What never changes? Ha, this fucking war."

In the unprecedented battle that broke out at the KB-769 asteroid, facing the billions of warships scattered in space, the fleet commander held his white military cap and laughed at himself.

The human union collapsed, not because of war, but because of the usurpation of power by the military.

Those who gather because of profit will disperse because of profit; those who gather because of righteousness will disperse because of righteousness.

Ironically, the human union that was born for the concept of peace eventually collapsed due to the usurpation of power by the military, because the military no longer wanted to adhere to peace under an outdated framework. They needed to unify the entire human race, no matter what the cost.

An era known as the "Great Collapse" began.

Various separatist forces have formed on the remains of the human union. The former human joint army, the Overlord, has occupied the earth, and numerous space habitats and planetary settlements have become the territory of these separatist forces. In this way, the melee continued for more than two hundred years.

Until a ghost from the old era returns...

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In the 428th year of the human calendar, an unknown signal appeared in the outer reaches of the solar system.

"What the hell is this? It looks like a signal from some old antique? An unmanned machine from the old era?"

Feeling the signal received by the processor in his brain, the miner who was commanding the unmanned mining machinery on an asteroid was a little confused. A strange signal came from a place 7.6 light minutes away from him.

Different from the currently popular subspace communication, this signal uses very ancient quantum communication.

But soon he was no longer confused.

A strange spaceship appeared in front of him. Different from the spacecraft materials commonly used in the solar system, this spacecraft... didn't even look like a spaceship, because many parts of it were not material at all.

After entering the space age, metals were officially eliminated, and humans began to use various topological materials. These topological materials that embody various strange properties at the quantum level have become humans' new favorites. Compared with those metals that only have extremely high strength and performance in three-dimensional space, these substances with eleven-dimensional structures at the quantum level are even weirder and can withstand all kinds of weird requirements of the space age.

But no topological substance can compare with the weird spacecraft in front of us...

Many parts of it are not matter, but forces and waves stimulated by the stance generator. This is not so much a spaceship as it is a position generator moving in space. Its almost transparent frame can even allow miners to see the internal structure and the strange devices of different sizes inside, as well as the seemingly suspended The little girl with bright eyes and confidence.

This spaceship is like a large toy with only a little internal structure made, and then the rest of the space is rendered with light effects.

But the powerful distortion of the space-time structure caused by it, you only need to look at the light rays moving weirdly next to the spacecraft to understand that this spacecraft is not as fragile as it seems.

"The reconnaissance aircraft of the First Fleet of the Human Federation's First Far Sector Hope Star greets you. Citizen, please assist me in contacting the nearest administrative agency of the Human Federation. I will bring the sincerity of the Human Federation's First Far Sector Hope Star. greeting."

The little girl raised her hand, saluted with an old-era human union military salute, and said in a childish voice that seemed serious.

miner:……? ? ?

And after a moment of communication.

"Huh? The Human Federation has been disbanded?! (#°Д°)"

…

On that day, a sensational news spread throughout the solar system. More than four hundred years ago, the legendary colonial spacecraft "Farstrider" that colonized the Ross 128b planet 11 light-years away was now back.

According to this fleet, it took the Far Travelers 145 years to reach the planet Ross 128b and named the planet "Hope" according to their prior preparations.

It is indeed a very suitable planet for human habitation, but it is also very dangerous. The numerous strange animals and plants made the first colonists very embarrassed. After one hundred thousand fertilized eggs developed into embryos, it took the colonists more than two hundred years to finally gain a foothold on the planet.

At the same time, they also got a lot of inspiration from those exotic animals and plants.

Compared with the human beings in the solar system, the colonists lag far behind in many technologies such as communication and combat, but their spacecraft completely surpasses the human beings in the solar system in terms of speed.

Once upon a time, the spacecraft speed of 7% of the speed of light was already the ultimate speed of human spacecraft. It was considered that only the "Far Traveler", which could accelerate unlimitedly in the void, could achieve this. Today, most human spacecraft in the solar system only have 2 % around the speed of light. But now, the speed of human warships on the Hope Star can easily reach 20% of the speed of light, and in extreme cases can reach 30% of the speed of light.

Because of this, after gaining a foothold, Hope Star dispatched a large fleet non-stop, hoping to conduct trade with the human union.

After learning about the collapse of the human union, the Hope Star Fleet staying in the outer reaches of the solar system finally decided not to enter the solar system and only conduct conservative trade transactions to avoid conflicts with various separatist forces.

An undeveloped habitable planet!

Human beings trapped in the solar system seem to have seen new hope. Under the surging undercurrent, human beings who have been fighting each other for more than two hundred years finally think of the call from space again.

But on the other side...

In a certain secret room, the commander of the Hope Star Fleet, now famous in the solar system, sat upright, looking at the old man in front of him in silence.

Although the old man is old, over a hundred years old, no one dares to despise his authority. As the leader of the former Human Federation Army, there is no one more powerful than him in this world.

Two seemingly unrelated people met secretly in this secret room at this moment, which is absolutely beyond everyone's imagination.

The old man looked at the young commander in front of him, and the young commander also looked at the old man in front of him. The two sides looked at each other.

Suddenly, the old man chanted in a low voice, and in his mouth he chanted the old human language that was common in the era of the human union.

"The gods are happy, the gods are happy..."

"You are the one who knows destiny, you are the one who sees the secret..."

The young commander followed up, using the same language. Although some pronunciations and intonations were different, the charm was exactly the same.

"You need to remember..."

Looking at the young commander in front of him, the old man paused, and then the old man and the young commander recited the same paragraph together.

"Things that cannot be said or unspeakable, sounds that cannot be heard or heard, appearances that cannot be seen or invisible..."

"How many people still know the secret on the Hope Star?"

"Very few, only thirty people including me."

The young commander lowered his head and said solemnly.

The old man was silent and then murmured.

"Time...has changed so many things. My ancestor designed and built the Farstrider back then. He knew he couldn't wait for you, so he asked his descendants to wait for you. My great-great-grandfather waited his whole life, but he didn't wait; I My great-grandfather waited all his life, but did not wait; my grandfather also waited all his life, but did not wait until his death; and my father, before he died, he grabbed my hand and looked at me tightly, although he did not say it clearly. , but I know what he wants to say."

"I thought that I might not be able to wait any longer, but I didn't expect that I would wait for you when I am the age of a handful of bones."

The young commander was silent, he didn't know what to say.

Seeing the young commander's silence, the old man shook his head.

"Now that you have taken root in a distant place, maybe it's time to do some things that have been decided a long time ago..."

…

In the year 435 of the human calendar, 7 years after the Hope Star Fleet left, the first planet-destroying weapon created by humans in the solar system was born, and its target was... the earth.

On the spaceship, the old man opened his eyes wide and stared at the planet in front of him that was about to be destroyed by his own orders, the hometown of mankind.

There are more than 100 billion human beings living there, and it is the core and most important place of the Overlord.

But the old man understood that even if this planet was destined to be destroyed from the beginning, it must be destroyed. The whole meaning of the birth of the Overlord was not to occupy this planet, but to better destroy it in the distant future.

But destroying this planet means that the entire solar system will be affected. Even Mars is not sure whether it can still be inhabited in the future, so humans must go to outer galaxies...

In the four hundred years since the birth of the human union, and in the nine hundred years since the second millennium AD to the present, the ultimate goal passed down in the hearts of generations of monastery masters has always been this. For this goal...

"Even at all costs..."

That year, when his father passed away, he held his hand tightly and looked at him tightly with his old eyes, only fierceness in his eyes.

The father said nothing, but he knew everything.

There is no way to conduct a large-scale evacuation operation. The more people know, the greater the risk of being infected. And no one knows when the planet will wake up, so the only option is "at all costs."

In the face of anti-matter ammunition weighing 80 million tons, even the earth could not withstand this huge energy release exceeding 1e^32J. The earth's crust with a thickness of more than 17 kilometers was violently torn apart, and the hot core inside was exposed. A strong gravitational wave vibration can still be clearly felt even hundreds of millions of miles away in space.

The spacecraft was shaking, and some people's faces changed.

There are so many scattered planet fragments, and no one knows whether a fragment will fly over at the next moment. On other planets, this impact has also formed earthquakes of varying sizes.

At this moment, even residents living on Mars can easily see the thrown matter in the sky.

The hot liquid metal core that had been stripped of its surface was like a water ball in violent shock. It was torn and peeled off by the explosion, twisted weirdly, and even finally dissociated into several parts, quietly suspended in the air, waiting for an unknown number of years. After cooling.

No one can hear the sound coming from the earth, but everyone will be terrified in the face of this terrifying force that they have never seen before.

But the old man couldn't feel this fear. All he could feel was fatigue and relief. The hand that was originally clenched now relaxed.

It was too long, and the fate that lasted for dozens of generations finally came to an end in his hands.

"Master, we have received news that others from the Overlord are preparing to arrest you."

Behind him, a man in gray robe said.

"I know."

"Then do you want to..."

"That's not necessary."

The man in gray robe behind him was about to say something, but the old man just replied lightly.

It's no longer necessary.

"The mission of the Priory has ended, and there is no point in our existence."

He said calmly.

Outside the spaceship, he could vaguely be surrounded by a group of spaceships, and high-power gravity traps had been deployed to prevent him from escaping.

He knew what was about to greet him. Destroying the earth with his own hands meant almost uprooting the foundation of the Overlord's existence. Those people were naturally furious, but wasn't this the meaning of the Overlord's existence?

"My death is deserved, but my death will allow mankind to completely get rid of the fear, the nightmare that has existed since the beginning of our birth. Without the earth, mankind will no longer have a home, and we will be a group of wanderers Orphans, but we will make the stars our home and trek among them."

Staring at the earth that was shattered into several pieces of debris, the old man's cloudy vision showed light.

"We are no longer children of the earth, we will become children of the stars..."

…

On the chessboard in the crystal sky, the vague human figure was struggling. In the end, it decisively transformed into a knife in its hand, and then cut off the root that was attached to the chessboard in one fell swoop.

On the chessboard, the black and white chess pieces disappeared, leaving only the lonely black king and white king. It is no longer stuck to the chessboard. After countless years, the chess piece on the chessboard is finally no longer a chess piece, it is free.

Floating in the crystal sky, the vague human figure circled a few times, and then plunged into the stars of the universe...

"This...this is..."

Looking at the newborn baby, the father's face was full of horror.

The ignorant baby closed its eyes tightly, but numerous thunder and lightning wrapped around its body, making the newborn baby float in the air out of thin air.

…

That year, a strange power began to appear among humans. Some babies were born with various strange abilities, and this power was eventually called "psionic power."