Voyage of the Stars

In fact, everyone also knows that if the conflict cannot be remembered, then the human fleet will definitely not be able to move forward. Their differences of opinion are mainly on the issue of when the fleet will change its voyage.

Some people believe that humans should immediately turn around according to the preliminary target determined by previous observations. The reason is that the longer the delay, the closer the distance between the two sides will be, and the human fleet will be closer to the second star field of Nel civilization, so it will be more dangerous. .

The Nair civilization said that this is their second star field. Although humans do not know how many star fields the Nair civilization has, if this is not a lie, there are only two.

The reason why a star field is a star field must be a range composed of multiple star systems.

The Nair civilization has developed to the point where it has spread across two star fields, and its power is probably not comparable to that of humans. After all, it has not been long since mankind reached the second level of civilization. It is still a wandering civilization and spends most of its time sailing. As of now, the population is only 140 million, which is not at all the number that a civilization should have.

The same is true for the number of fleets. The technology is there, but the number is not what a normal second-level civilization should be.

According to various data that humans have, human experts believe that a normal second-level civilization cannot have a population of only tens of billions. If calculated according to human standards, after setting foot in the starry sky relying on the mother planet, the population around it will be Star field immigration, although due to environmental restrictions, immigrants can only live in the bases they build, but it should not be difficult for a galaxy to have one-third of the population of the parent star.

So a rough calculation shows that the population of the home planet must be 20 billion. If it develops to have dozens of star system bases, extrapolating upwards and downwards, it will not be less than 200 billion. This is still a conservative estimate.

If mankind has a population of 200 billion, and based on the very high military-civilian ratio of 1:100, it can have 2 billion soldiers. According to mankind's own Lake-class battleship standards, one battleship requires 5,000 crew members, so this is 400,000 Lake-class battleships.

Humanity currently only has 1,200 Lake-class battleships, which is simply a hopeless gap.

Therefore, this person believes that a civilization that develops normally and sets foot in the starry sky will inevitably have a huge number of individual lives, and therefore will also have a fleet unrivaled by humans, so it is best to turn around as soon as possible.

Of course, alien life cannot be measured by the number of humans. The manpower to operate the battleship will also be affected by the intelligence of the combat AI, and the fleet strength will also be affected by a series of factors such as development time, construction cost, management difficulty, etc., so this Just a very rough estimate.

Not only that, because of the empty space, people living in various galaxies must have serious information lag problems, especially in places where stars are sparse, information is transmitted between two star systems at the speed of light, one to one. Thirty years have passed since then.

In this case, those with military power more or less breed ambition, so too many fleets, according to human understanding of themselves, may eventually develop into countries with different cultures, or even break out from each other. war.

This is another factor that limits the number of fleets of civilizations without faster-than-light communications.

Humanity itself has developed abnormally and is a wandering civilization. Therefore, on this issue, we can only estimate based on the big data model.

In short, these people believe that the Nair civilization must have a fleet that far exceeds the number of humans.

As for other people's views, humans should ask clearly about the scope of the Nair civilization's star field before taking the next step.

Their reason is that if they don't ask clearly, the next star system they go to is likely to be the domain of Nel civilization. With the current navigation technology of mankind, it is not a big problem to go around a few times, but it is still unbearable to wander around in the starry sky without finding a docking star system.

After all, we still need to keep supplies and fuel to prepare for various emergencies. If we don't make more turns, it will lead to fuel shortage. Then we will really face the same situation as Kuntai Civilization.

People with two views held different opinions, and the command center was full of people for a while, which sounded like a wet market.

"It seems you have to make your own decision." Yue Yuan held his chin and weighed the two views in his mind.

But before he could say anything, a third view emerged among the crowd. It was probably because they saw the two sides arguing, so these people directly suggested that humans slow down immediately and return to the previous star system. .

It's a compromise.

But there are many supporters of this view. After all, no matter how you look at it, this is the safest approach. The most important thing is that humans have just come from there and know for sure that it is safe there and there are no aliens.

However, it is safe to be safe, but there is also a fatal problem, that is, the previous star system had no rocky planets and only two gaseous planets. Therefore, humans collected some hydrogen elements as fuel and left there.

So it is safe and secure, but there is also a potential threat of shortage of supplies. If the Nair civilization has ulterior motives, it might be blocked there, which would be really bad.

As for saying that the vastness of the starry sky cannot block roads, it is taken for granted that the fleet can sail at will, but in fact it cannot, at least not at the low level of civilization.

Low-level civilizations are limited by navigation technology and have to rely on star systems as way stations, so the stars in the starry sky are the road.

This is how routes and star maps come about.

"How many major accelerations and decelerations do we have enough fuel for?" After thinking for a while, Yue Yuan looked at a crew member in charge of material and fuel management.

The administrator was silent for a moment and then replied: "About eight to ten times of full power acceleration and deceleration. If the soil, stone, water, animals and plants in the biosphere spacecraft are included, there can be two more times."

After hearing this, Yue Yuan weighed it in his mind for a while, then asked the science officer to switch the big screen to a star map, then stood up and pointed to a star inside, and said to everyone: "Without further delay, let's proceed first. Slow down, change course, here we go.”

The star that Yue Yuan pointed to was the destination that humans had planned to change before, and it was also the star that some people thought might be the home of the Nair civilization.

Just listen to Yue Yuan continue to say: "But before that, the staff of each department took the time to sort out the information to reply to Neil Civilization. It is now 1:30 in the afternoon. Let's go have a meal first and prepare the reply before 4 o'clock in the afternoon. That’s it.

First of all, we need to understand as much as possible how big the territory of Nel civilization is, which are their stars and which are not. Secondly, it goes without saying that the self-information we disclose should be reserved. Finally, the staff department is responsible for formulating several emergency plans.

Although we have to change our route now, it does not mean that we must go there. The specific situation depends on the results of the exchange with the Nair civilization. "

After making the decision, Yue Yuan explained some precautions.