The last human in the universe

Chapter 210 Level [-] Civilization
Compared with the antimatter needed in interstellar voyages, which is often calculated in millions, tens of millions, or even billions of tons, an antimatter factory with an annual output of one thousand tons is undoubtedly extremely small.On the whole, it can even be considered that it has no effect on civilization at all.

But its significance is not ordinary at all, but very significant.

Because at this stage, human civilization is still using the production line on the armed mining ship brought from Viragash to produce antimatter.

That is a production line with an annual output of about [-] tons of antimatter.

On this basis, human civilization has copied this production line by tens of thousands, but even now, for any design details in this production line, even the diameter of a cooling pipe, the direction of the line, and the location of the hopper The diameter and the power of the temperature control equipment have not been modified.

What did this production line look like in the solar system at the beginning, and it is still what it looks like today, almost 1000 years later, without any change.

It's not that people are unwilling to modify it, but that they really dare not modify it, for fear that a little modification may cause inexplicable failures and malfunctions, and eventually lead to major accidents.

This kind of thing is not without precedent in history.

Even when a huge amount of antimatter is needed to prepare for interstellar voyages, the total output is only increased through the construction of numerous antimatter factories.As for increasing the output of a single production line, for example, upgrading the annual production capacity of 20 tons to [-] tons, that is beyond even a dream.

This is the reason why we only know what it is, but we don't know why, and we haven't fully digested and assimilated related technologies.

But it is different now.

This antimatter production line with an annual output of one thousand tons is completely independently designed, installed, laid, debugged and produced by human beings!Human civilization has fully mastered the relevant technologies of this production line!
However, after understanding the antimatter production line with an annual output of [-] tons, what about the production line with an annual output of [-] tons in the future?What about one hundred thousand, one million, or even tens of millions of tons?

For this significant and far-reaching project, Zhao Changxing personally participated, specially coordinated and formed a theoretical demonstration team composed of up to [-] top scientists, mobilized no less than one million top skilled workers, and made great efforts in logistics and resource supply. Give the green light.

This kind of ability to "concentrate power to do big things" is probably only possible in human civilization.At least none of the alien civilizations that people know and have contacted have this ability.

Therefore, a dwarf planet that exists between the orbits of the two planets H1-2 and H1-3 has become the focus of the entire human civilization during this period.

At the beginning, a large number of giant cargo ships comparable to Yuanvoy spacecraft frequently traveled between this dwarf planet and the major planets, bringing in a huge amount of personnel and materials.People have even built a space city on the orbit of this dwarf planet for scientists and engineers, technical workers, and logistics service personnel who participated in this project, and corresponding planting bases, animal husbandry centers, commercial centers, hospitals, etc. , is also readily available.There are even nursery schools, elementary schools, middle schools and universities.

This desolate and barren dwarf planet, originally of no value, has become the core of civilization due to the strategic adjustment of human civilization, and the entire planet has also undergone earth-shaking changes.

Many supporting factories have sprung up, the ground traffic is extending in all directions, the mountains are flattened, the basins are filled, and even the only small satellite that revolves around it is directly installed on it for the safety of the space route. The high-power planetary engine pushed it away directly.

However, under the premise that the entire civilization is going all out to provide support, and the human civilization government attaches great importance to it, the construction of this antimatter production factory with complete independent property rights of human civilization is still full of bumps.

Some technical problems have not been solved for a long time, some researches have not been able to make breakthroughs for a long time, the condition of supporting factories is frequent, and casualties continue.

In the most serious accident, a serious antimatter leak occurred during the trial production of a supporting production line—a full ten grams of antimatter accidentally leaked, and during the process of reacting with positive matter, it released an amount equivalent to The explosion energy of more than 40 tons of TNT explosives.

Such a huge amount of energy will destroy all man-made buildings around tens of kilometers around this factory.The earthquake caused by the explosion spread throughout the entire planet, collapsing and damaging countless factories, roads, and bridges.

More than 1000 people were killed in this accident.

Even so, this is also the reason why the lethality of this explosion was greatly weakened in the vacuum environment.If such a serious explosion occurred on the surface of a planet with an atmosphere, such as the earth, then the affected areas and the number of casualties may be more than that.

For this incident, nearly [-] billion people in the entire human civilization have fallen into grief and mourning.After that, the joint investigation team disposed of more than [-] persons responsible for the accident, and the project commander resigned.

The technology of "large-scale production of antimatter" has once again demonstrated to human civilization that it is qualified to become the dividing line between the second-level civilization and the third-level civilization.

But life still has to live, and things still have to be done.The overall strategy of human civilization to attack the third-level civilization cannot be stopped because of this incident.

Under the ruins and pain caused by the explosion, people wiped away their tears, regrouped, and threw themselves into the struggle again.

This time, Zhao Changxing tossed and turned, and tried his best to mobilize more power from various important projects in the civilization and put it into this project.

More space cities, laboratories, and various types of bases have appeared in the orbit around this dwarf planet.The number of spaceships that shuttle back and forth has increased a lot compared to before.

Under such circumstances, countless people struggled for another 20 years before finally solving various difficulties in the construction process and finally completing the construction of the factory.

When the antimatter sealed in the strong magnetic field container left the assembly line and entered the reserve factory, the media reporter responsible for broadcasting this scene shed tears of excitement.Many engineers and technical workers in space suits cheered, and the audience waiting in front of the audio-visual media cheered.

"Now, we can proudly say that our human civilization has finally truly become a third-level civilization..."

The breakthrough of civilization has never been like that described in some literary and artistic works. Once enlightened, the whole will undergo a qualitative change and the combat power will increase greatly.The real breakthrough of civilization comes from the small accumulation bit by bit, and it happens unconsciously.

Yesterday, human civilization was still a second-level civilization.Today is the third-level civilization.But it would be nonsense to say that the overall strength of human civilization today has increased by leaps and bounds compared to yesterday.

Everyone knows in their hearts that today's achievement is just the beginning.In the future, with this dwarf planet as the center, the antimatter-related industrial system will need to undergo leaps and transformations again and again, and complete transformations again and again.

At this moment, for Zhao Changxing, in addition to the crucial antimatter-related industries, there is another project that has drawn his great attention.

Military science comprehensive promotion project.

Zhao Changxing and everyone in human civilization do not hope that when facing external challenges, human civilization always needs to work hard, take huge risks, and rely on the sacrifice of thousands of people to usher in ultimate victory.

No one wants human civilization to always fight the strong with the weak, and soldiers always have to pay huge sacrifices to defeat the enemy.

If possible, people still want to see the scene of flooding the enemy with a torrent of steel and countless warships.

This is also what Zhao Changxing is looking forward to.Therefore, following the will of the people and the general trend of civilization development, the human government proposed this equally crucial super project.

It is a comprehensive project that comprehensively improves military science and the combat effectiveness of human civilization.

From the development of new weapons, new generation engine development, spaceship armor, structural innovation, to a spy satellite, a military satellite, an interstellar mine, etc., everything related to the military field is all involved in this plan within the domain.

For this reason, Zhao Changxing designated a dwarf planet about 1 billion kilometers away from the H5 star outside the orbit of the H1-67 planet as the residence of the Academy of Military Sciences. With reference to the dwarf planet of antimatter engineering, large-scale research was also carried out here. Construction, including the construction of space cities, planting and animal husbandry bases, many laboratories, many ports and other facilities.

The "Expedition" space carrier seized in the Jagged Nebula was also dragged here, and began to be inspected and searched by thousands of human scientists.Of course, in this process, the cooperation of captured aliens of various races is indispensable.

There are tens of millions of technologies that can be obtained from the Expedition space carrier.Among the many categories of technology, the one that fascinates people the most and makes civilization leaders including Zhao Changxing think about it day and night is the technology related to "vacuum cannon".

The vacuum cannon is another important symbolic technology of the third-level civilization in addition to the large-scale production of antimatter.Compared with other types of weapons, this weapon also has more powerful combat capabilities.

It can even be said that without mastering this technology, human civilization will never be able to start a dignified frontal battle with the third-level civilization.

Now, after hundreds of years of hard work by countless military experts, the No. [-] prototype was finally built. On this day, it finally came to the day of field inspection.

A spaceship slowly flew out of the port, slowly adjusted its posture, and slowly moved forward.At this moment, 130 million kilometers away from it, an asteroid with a diameter of about 160 meters has been towed there in advance by a tugboat.

(End of this chapter)