Voyage of the Stars

When the long time covered the track, when the vast space concealed the fleet, the huge human fleet finally crossed the distance of 27 light years and arrived at the target star.

The target star is a white giant star with a mass 2.69 times that of the sun, a surface temperature of 9950±221 Kelvin, a rotation period of 18 hours, and an age of about 280 million years. It is still in the main sequence stage and looks very young, but in fact it It has begun to move from youth to middle age. Because a white giant star like this is very massive, its lifespan is only about a billion years.

Because of the rapid rotation of this white giant star, its equator rotation speed is also extremely fast. The huge centrifugal force causes its equator to bulge outward, and the temperature reaches its maximum value on the surface of the equatorial photosphere, exceeding 10,000 Kelvin.

The violent burning gives it an ultra-high surface temperature, and also makes its spectral colors look like a huge sun, illuminating the space around it.

Even if you look at the screen, you can feel the surging power of its infinite white light. The wisps of substantial stellar wind are blowing all the time, just like the true fire of the sun, burning in the void.

The tail flames of more than 2,000 human fleet ships slowing down at the same time were like the light of a few matches burning in front of it, and they were simply not worth mentioning.

As soon as the fleet completed its deceleration and entered the conventional gravitational capture range of this white giant star, humans felt that they had entered a world of light.

Looking out of the porthole, the warships and spaceships nearby were all brightly illuminated by the light of the white giant star, as if all the warships were bathed in white light.

From the moment people wake up from hibernation, this white giant star has become the brightest star in the sky, and as the distance continues to get closer, its brightness continues to grow stronger, from a bright star in the sky to a scorching sun. , and then turned into a big fireball that could not be seen directly.

It was a fireball in the void, the true fire of the sun, a collection of violent energy, and the source of the surging stellar wind. The endless energy turned into photons and was released outwards like no money, dyeing all the planets within its range white.

The human fleet just shuttled through the violent ocean of light, slowly moving towards the target planet.

The target planet that humans will dock this time is the only rocky planet in this galaxy and the only planet located 18 astronomical units away from the white giant star.

Even though it is so far away, due to the excessive turbulence of its main sequence star, the temperature of this rocky planet reaches hundreds of degrees Celsius during the day and drops to below minus 200 degrees Celsius at night.

Judging from such a huge temperature difference, we know that this planet has no atmosphere. In fact, in such an environment, even if there was an atmosphere, it would have been blown away by the surging stellar wind.

Scientists estimate that in such a surging stellar wind environment, if the planet wants to maintain its atmosphere, its mass must be at least five times that of the Earth. However, the mass of this planet is only 1.9 times that of the Earth. The results can be imagined.

The reason why there is only one planet in the entire star system is that human scientists speculate through on-site observation data and stellar evolution models that those planets that are too close may have been swallowed up by their main sequence stars over a long period of time, and their orbits For more distant planets, when stars were first born, there were no conditions for their formation.

Overall, this is an unsuitable place for life.

However, as a second-level civilization, humans also have powerful battleship armor made of No. 2 alloy material. It is not a big problem to carry out various activities here. Of course, there are still some difficulties in various machine operations, but it is not Can not do.

However, like on other planets, wearing light armor, that is, a light spacesuit, is impossible to move around on the planet wearing a light spacesuit, because the stellar activity of this white giant star is too powerful, and it is moving around it all the time. Emitting all kinds of radiation.

In such an environment, if you throw a Geiger counter at it, the value will immediately explode, and a human's lightweight spacesuit will be completely unable to withstand it.

So the moment the star environment data was obtained, humans knew that this time they would have to wear tactical armor during the exploration activities on the planet.

Only the super protection of tactical armor can block all kinds of cosmic rays and ensure human safety.

The only planet is still a rocky planet. This is very lucky, and humans have no choice. After the fleet arrived in the orbit of the planet, it followed the same steps as usual.

Human beings are already very familiar with the matter of developing planetary resources. The entire process is roughly the same, but needs to be partially adjusted according to different planetary environments.

First, a large number of artificial satellites are launched to establish a comprehensive planet detection network, then unmanned detection and data collection are carried out, then unmanned equipment is airborne for secondary detection and planet data modeling, and then various initial base equipment are logged in and deployed.

Then there are manned and unmanned explorations on the ground in various aspects. After detecting various mineral resources, a mine is built, large machinery, remote control machinery, unmanned machinery and other machinery and equipment are dispatched to mine, and then loaded and transported. Ship transport ships back to the ground base, and finally launched into space using an orbital mass accelerator.

Humanity has already fully digested the space elevator technology, but it has not been built yet, so the only way to start is with an orbital mass accelerator.

When the Potato Star obtained the space elevator technology, mankind planned to build five space elevators. Now it can be carried out without external interference.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

With humanity's current level of technology and mechanical expertise, with complete freedom of movement, whether it is laying ground bases, transporting open space resources, or engineering construction, the efficiency is completely unmatched by the Nair people.

After the supply chains of various mineral resources were stabilized, humans spent one year building the ground part of the space elevator, and also improved it on the original basis.

The design of the Nair civilization's space elevator is entirely based on long-term use on a certain planet, but as a wandering civilization, humans will definitely not stay in a certain star field forever.

Therefore, humans have painstakingly made targeted modifications in the design of the space elevator.

The first is the ground structure part of the elevator. Humans have also designed it in a modular and mechanical folding manner. In order to facilitate the entire transportation into space and leave with the fleet, humans have also specially reserved space on the large ground structural components of the space elevator. Rocket chimera.

In this way, once evacuation is required, humans can completely take away the elevator cables, install several rockets on the base of the space elevator, and then launch them into space and transport them away together.