Voyage of the Stars

Capella, this is the star system that humans have reached today, and it belongs to the galaxy in the constellation Auriga. As usual, the human fleet did not stay here for long. After the supplies were completed and some hibernating cabins were built as supplements, the fleet continued on its journey to the stars.

The voyage is still continuing. After Capella has repaired and updated all materials, energy, and spacecraft, humans plan to embark on a large-scale voyage, with the goal of Aldebaran, which is 35.99 light-years away.

After the experience of several previous short-distance voyages, humans have a very good understanding of hibernation voyages and the performance of spaceships. The voyage of 35.99 light years takes about 240 years. Because the journey is farther than the previous voyages, most humans this time Going into hibernation.

During the three hundred and sixty years of navigation, the human population has increased from more than one million to 4.15 million, and fourteen of the fifteen residential spaceships have been filled.

Sociologists predict that after this voyage, the human population will increase to about 4.4 million, and fifteen residential spaceships will be filled by then. Therefore, the new government plans to make a long-term stay after arriving at Aldebaran in order to build more residential spacecraft and expand more warships.

Humans have detected the general situation of Aldebaran, which is a binary star system composed of an orange giant and a red dwarf. The orange giant has a giant gas planet. Generally, this gas planet has a high probability of having rocky satellites.

Moreover, there is also a red dwarf star. Although no planets have been detected in red dwarf stars through various observations, planets will generally exist. After all, it is a stable binary star system.

As usual, set sail and hibernate.

The Great Hibernation is like pressing the age pause button for human beings. Coupled with the possession of life potions, during a voyage of more than two hundred years, most human beings will only grow for 564 years. Medical genetic technology has made it almost impossible for humans to die from illness. , which is also one of the reasons for the steady growth of population.

During this voyage, Yue Yuan only woke up once. When he woke up for the second time, the human fleet was already approaching Aldebaran.

According to the normal long-term hibernation and awakening procedures, it takes one or two months to adapt after waking up. However, after physical strengthening, the overall physical quality of humans has been greatly improved, and the corresponding hibernation and awakening adaptation time has also been shortened from two months to less than one day. .

Like Yue Yuan, he only felt fully recovered after adapting for two hours.

Before the human fleet arrived at Aldebaran, the advance scout spacecraft had already explored all of this binary star system. As scientists speculated, the orange giant in the binary system has more than one rocky moon.

However, red dwarfs in binary systems do not have planets.

It’s not a big problem. As long as there is a rocky planet, there will be inexhaustible energy and resources for humans. Not only that, in order to avoid encountering star systems without rocky planets, during these hundreds of years of navigation, humans have also specially developed a device to extract gas resources from gaseous planets.

Of course, instead of putting a pipe down to extract it, we made a hydrogen collector and installed it on an unmanned resource collection spacecraft, and then let the unmanned resource collection spacecraft break into the periphery of the giant gas planet.

Thanks to the specialized technology, this thing is so long that it can be opened like an umbrella when it is working. After the collection is completed, it is collected on the spacecraft and flies back to space.

But now that there are rocky planets, humans naturally don't need to go to so much trouble to collect hydrogen elements.

After the fleet posture and deceleration were completed, Yue Yuan came to the bridge as usual. At this time, all the staff had returned to their posts.

"Have all the detection spacecraft been released?" Stepping onto the bridge of the Tianqin, Yue Yuan looked at the busy staff and asked casually.

"Commander Yue, all detection spacecraft have been dispatched with Aldebaran as the center!"

"Well! You must pay close attention to the movements of all parties. The universe is different from the ground, and there are more directions to consider." Yue Yuan came to the big screen and

Following the staff's answers, the current location and direction of the detection spacecraft have all been marked on the large-screen starry sky map.

Yue Yuan took a brief look at the information. There were probably more than a hundred detection spacecraft, and the furthest distance was 0.3 light-years away from human beings.

"Cross the asteroid belt and move towards the orbit of the target planet!" After watching for a while, Yue Yuan ordered the helmsman.

The asteroid belt is located in the outermost orbit of the giant gas planet, but it is not completely distributed on its ecliptic plane. From the image, it looks a bit like a bunch of satellites orbiting the earth. About half of the asteroids are located at the equator of the giant planets. On the plane, the other half is a bit messy.

According to astronomers' speculation, the cause may be that at some point, the two outer rocky planets were gravitational disturbed and finally collided with each other.

The specific details of the formation process still require long-term observations of the asteroid belt to get the answer.

It shouldn't be too early, because humans have discovered that these asteroid blocks are not small particles like the rings of Saturn, but are large and small, ranging from one or two kilometers to seventy or eighty kilometers.

In the inner orbit of the asteroid belt, there are two rocky planets, one large and one small. The larger one is almost the size of Mars, and the smaller one is smaller than the moon.

At this moment, the human fleet has entered the gravitational range of the giant gas planet. The target of the fleet's docking this time is the rocky satellite the size of Mars that is closest to the giant gas planet.

Although Aldebaran is a binary star system, because the mass of the orange giant star is much greater than that of the red dwarf star, the diameter of the orange giant star is 43.7 times that of the sun, while the size of the red dwarf star is only 0.36 times that of the sun, so this binary star system is different from what normal people know. Binary star systems are a little different.

They are not two stars orbiting each other, but the orange giant is located in the center, and the red dwarf orbits like a planet at a distance of 609 astronomical units from the orange giant.

Of course, the orange giant star is not motionless. Like the red dwarf star, it moves around a common void center of mass.

At this moment, the human fleet's battleships and spaceships have crossed the orbit of the red dwarf star and are slowly passing through the asteroid belt, heading towards the orbit of the target planet.

Due to the existence of such a star system structure, for convenience, humans call the orange giant Aldebaran A, the red dwarf star Aldebaran B, and the gas planet Aldebaran A-1. Its two rocky satellites They are called Aldebaran A-1-1 and Aldebaran A-1-2 respectively.

People now have another name for these two rocky satellites. The larger one is called Aldebaran-Kong star, and the smaller one is called Aldebaran-Zhongda star.

The planet where the human fleet docks is Aldebaran A-1-1, which is also the star Aldebaran-Kong.

It is said that the fleet is docked, but in fact not all ships are heading to the Aldebaran A-1-1 orbit. Due to military deployment and vigilance, the ten Shan-class warships are basically stationed in the orbit of Aldebaran A-1-2, while the space carrier directly found a larger asteroid to dock in the asteroid belt.

Therefore, only residential spacecraft and various non-military spacecraft can go to the orbit of Aldebaran A-1-1.

There are also a large amount of solid water resources and other heavy metal materials on the asteroid. The water needs of the battleships can be mined and supplied here. Other material needs can be transported directly through the factory-type spacecraft as usual.

Not a big problem.