The last human in the universe

Chapter 112 Mission
(Note: All the descriptions in this chapter involving the units of measurement of the Moyun Litar civilization have been translated into human languages ​​by the great author in advance. Don’t be fooled.)
At this moment, in the vast void hundreds of billions of kilometers away from the sun, the armed mining spacecraft "Okalo" is in a state of deceleration.

Its base, the 10-square-kilometer propulsion jets, have been adjusted to roughly align with the yellow dwarf star.At this moment, under the huge energy supply generated by the annihilation of matter and antimatter, the plasma jet is accelerated to a point very close to the speed of light and spurts out violently, continuously acting on the huge reverse thrust to the hull, Propelling the Okaro spacecraft with a mass of 900 billion tons slowly reduced its speed.

At this moment, the Okaro spacecraft is in an empty state.

More than 2000% of its total volume of about 60 cubic kilometers is empty.This means that, one day in the future, it will be able to accommodate a total of more than 1100 cubic kilometers of cargo—the total mass will be as high as about one trillion tons, and it will return with a full load from this star system to the place where the main body of civilization is located. Lalande 21185 star system to go.

By that time, the speed of the Okaro spacecraft will be far from being as fast as it is now.

When it came, it only took about 8.31 years to cross the long distance of 80 light years.Even counting the cumbersome acceleration and deceleration stages, the average speed is as high as about 10% of the speed of light.

But after being fully loaded, it will take at least 200 years to return to the voyage.That is to say, counting the round-trip time and the mining time in this star system, the time it takes for me to leave the main body of civilization will be at least 350 years.

This reality made Viragash slightly agitated.

As the captain of the Okaro spaceship and the supervisor of this interstellar mining mission, Viragash belongs to the "left-behind faction" among the two major factions within the civilization.The other faction is the "wandering faction".

These two factions are the two most important in the Moyun Litar civilization.Even the current supreme leader of civilization is just a product of compromise between the two factions.

The two factions have different political leanings, have different support groups within civilization, and have different interests.

Among them, the main political tendency of the left-behind faction is to give up the previous behavior of wandering between different star systems, and set off for the next star system after consuming the resources of one star system, and choose a fixed resource. , The stellar system with relatively good interstellar environment is fixed.

Of course, the resources of a star system are not enough to support the development of civilization.Then, civilization should choose to expand to the surrounding star systems, through vigorously developing inter-stellar fast navigation technology, and simultaneously supplying the development of civilization through the resources of multiple star systems.

The benefits of doing this are obvious - first of all, it can avoid the turbulence during each migration, avoid a lot of time and resources being wasted, and also save the time to rebuild the galaxy every time you sail to a new star system.

The political views of the Vagabonds are just the opposite of those of the Remainers.They believe that we should stick to the tradition of civilization and stick to the behavior of going to the next star system after consuming the resources of one star system.

They believe that this can maintain the vitality of civilization, allow civilization to come into contact with a wider world and gain more room for development in the continuous wandering.

The most important point is that doing so can improve the security of civilization as much as possible.Because once there is a fixed residence, the coordinates of civilization will be exposed.Once the time is long, it is easy to attract malicious foreign civilizations, causing their own civilization to suffer unpredictable risks.

At the beginning, the two factions were just different tendencies towards the future direction of civilization, and they were basically academic disputes.But in the past thousands of years, with the joining of different interest groups in civilization, this kind of dispute has changed somewhat.

Simply put, vested interest groups support the leftists.They don't want to change territories frequently, and frequent wandering will have an impact on their own industries.The common people, on the other hand, firmly supported the vagabonds.They believe that the act of wandering between different star systems will bring opportunities for their side to achieve a class leap.

As for which faction the next person supports, no one cares, although in civilization, they have the largest number, which is hundreds of times the total number of all people—whether civilians or rich and powerful.

The second person is just a tool, will anyone take the tool's opinion seriously?
This interstellar mining operation is an opportunity won by Veragash, who is a left-behind faction, in the midst of conflicts and compromises between the two sides.

If it wasn't for the new discovery that the star is being swallowed by a black hole, and there are a lot of natural rare minerals in the black hole's accretion disk, then this opportunity would not be won.

If this was just an ordinary star system, then the vagabond faction with broad civilian support would never give themselves the opportunity to drive a spaceship to mine minerals.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.Because the vagabonds have no excuse to refuse to obtain a large amount of rare minerals in advance.Because of this, the left-behind faction was able to win this dispute.

Once he successfully returns to the main body of civilization with a huge amount of supplies, and once he proves that this method is feasible, then the left-behind faction will naturally gain a certain advantage in the faction dispute.And I will also win the appreciation and attention of the high-level faction, and thus gain a higher status.

But all of this is based on one premise.

That is, the time consumption cannot be too long.

You know, just the round trip, the time is destined to consume 280 years.Including the time it takes to actually mine in the galaxy, if you don't pay attention, hundreds of years may be wasted, thus extending the total time of the entire inter-star system mining operation to 400 years above.

Once the time exceeds 400 years, the wanderers will be given an excuse to be attacked by them as inter-star system mining is not of practical significance.

"This mission must be completed within 350 years, definitely."

Viragash secretly made up his mind.

At this moment, the 70-year hibernation period has passed.He has been awake for about 8 years.However, in another four or five years, the spacecraft will reach the inner layer of the yellow dwarf star system.In another one or two years, real mining can almost start.

Normally, he doesn't have to wake up so early.Because there was obviously nothing he needed to deal with during the voyage.But this time the task is more special, he has to wake up early and personally supervise the progress of one thing.

That is the cultivation of the second person.

At the time of departure, the Okaro spacecraft only carried about 1 people.It is obviously unrealistic to rely on such a small number of people to complete the mining of the rare minerals called "superionic metals" in the black hole's accretion disk.

In fact, most of the 1 people are technicians, engineers, and managers, and the rest are responsible for some dirty, tiring, and dangerous tasks in service and spacecraft maintenance. Subperson of the task.

And the real mining task requires at least a million people to complete.

It is obviously not cost-effective to carry the second person directly from the main body of civilization.In order to save resources and time, Viragash chose to bring the gene pool of civilization.When it was about to reach that star system, it was cultivated in the spaceship in advance.In this way, when they arrive at the destination, the next time people just have the ability to work, they can be sent out to work directly.

To some extent, the cultivation of subhumans is related to the success or failure of this mining mission.This is the real reason why he woke up early.

"Captain, the higher education area has been completed, and the first batch of 30 people can go to receive skill training."

Chief Secretary Grigenghi reported a message to him.

"Okay. Send robot teachers to educate those stupid subhumans. Don't waste our manpower."

At this stage, everyone is busy maintaining the Okaro spacecraft, preparing equipment in advance, formulating mining plans, etc., but there is no spare manpower to teach those subhumans.

Gregg asked, "What do you want the elimination rate to be?"

Obviously, the education of subhumans should be strict and efficient, but it can't be taught tirelessly and repeatedly like human beings.This necessitates setting an elimination rate, that is, in the face of subhumans who do not study hard, they should be punished if necessary, and the most serious ones can be killed directly.

This is the elimination rate.

Viragash thought for a moment: "Let's set it to one thousandth."

This ratio is a bit high.This surprised Gregory secretly.But he could also understand the captain's urgency at the moment.

"Good captain."

After finishing this matter, Gregenshi reported again: "Our observation equipment observed that the survivors of that native civilization seem to be engaged in large-scale combat preparations."

Vera Gasello was a little surprised: "They found us? Shouldn't they?"

"According to the analysis of scientists, it may be that when our spacecraft passed through the small nebula MN-13, the radiation stream of the spacecraft 'lighted up' that nebula, which exposed our tracks."

"That's it. It seems that this native civilization is still interesting." Viragash waved his hand indifferently: "It doesn't matter. Just exterminate them when the time comes."

He cannot allow any uncertain factors to affect his mining tasks.Anyway, it is just a backward local civilization, the main body of civilization is gone, and only a few survivors are left.Just kill it casually.

"Yes."

The huge Okaro spaceship slowly slowed down its speed.

At this moment, the planet occupied by the survivors of the native civilization is not far away.As long as you get closer, you can attack.

Viragash does not intend to communicate with that civilization.He didn't have that time to waste.

But at this moment, his chief secretary, Grigengshi, rushed in hastily.

"Captain, we have discovered something unexpected, you should take a look..."

Viragash glanced casually, and his eyeballs almost popped out: "What? What? How is it possible?"

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(End of this chapter)