History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 1 Introduction Poet Star

The poet star was discovered in 729 of the cosmic era, and the coordinates of the fifteen-digit ternary universe standard positioning of the planet are
【101112102221101】

【12222001211102】

【111000101010122】.

This is a terrestrial planet discovered in the outer ring of the core economic zone in the C star area.

After the planet opened up the passage to the planetary system through the Star Tunnel 729-1-13-23 in the C star area in 29, the data returned by the probe showed that the habitability of the planet was 987.3, which is a remote place with a low habitability. world.After the information about the planet was released, it did not attract much interest from mining companies, tourism developers, agricultural associations, or interstellar explorers.The reason is that the planetary data information sent back by the probe is either too bland and unremarkable to be worth wasting time and fuel for explorers.Or, the abundance of resources and natural conditions cannot meet the requirements of mining minerals and growing crops.

The bidding information for planet 392871803 was quietly lying on the bidding information network of the Interstellar Exploitation and Management Committee of the capital of Star Region C, Brareken. After more than five years, the Union of Science Fiction Writers applied to the star region government for the right to develop this planet.After the Alliance paid a deposit of 150 billion credit points for the joint certification of the star area, the Alliance obtained the right to manage and operate Planet 290 for nine years.

In this year, 37 ships prepared by the alliance took off.This shabby fleet is composed of second-hand spaceships, third-hand transport ships, recycled and repaired scrap ships, and several buy ten get one free immigration ships.These "broken" fleets took off one after another from the ship industry planet Esc in the C sector, and flew towards the target. Twenty-three months later, when 23 million SFW writers and artists awoke from cryogenic survival chambers, the swarm reached the outer atmosphere of the terrestrial planet orbiting a 100-billion-year-old red dwarf star.Together with various service robots fifty times the number of people, they will establish the 300th third resident world of human beings in the next 13 years of the plan.

Later, the red dwarf star around which the poet's star revolved was named "Changji".This name is used to commemorate the great poet named Li He who died young in the Tang Dynasty of ancient China.This talented poet known as "Poetry Ghost" has left more than 27 works of his rich imagination and personal style to the world in his 200-year-old life.And this red dwarf named after Li He's nickname "Changji" has at least 300 billion years of lifespan before leaving the main-sequence star stage. Perhaps this is also the artist's grief and remembrance for this pure poet.

"Heavenly Ballad"

The Milky Way turns and drifts back to the stars at night, and the clouds in Yinpu imitate the sound of water.

The sweet-scented osmanthus flowers in the Yugong Palace have not yet fallen, and the concubine picks the fragrance and hangs down the tassels.

Concubine Qin rolls up the curtain to the north window for dawn, and in front of the window is planted Tong Qing Feng Xiao.

The prince blows the sheng and the goose pipe leader, and calls the dragon to plow the smoke and grow the Yao grass.

The lotus root silk skirt with pink clouds and red ribbons, Qingzhou steps to pick up the orchid spring.

The east refers to Xihe who can walk a horse, and the sea dust is born under the stone mountain.

The small orbital radius of the red dwarf star system of Changji star makes the poet star's revolution period only 97 earth days, and the rotation period is [-] earth hours.These relatively short cycles for the usual inhabited planets make the planet more suitable to be developed into its intended use form.

Omit the boring and stereotyped more than ten years of planetary exploration and development, and directly introduce the goal of the Science Fiction Writers Union when it came to Poet Star.

Although the upsurge of sci-fi works that began in the [-]th century is rarely correct about the future development form and route of science and technology, the influence of these works themselves has made generations of fans and fans' descendants have fantasies and longings for the future. unabated.Most of the later generations of scientists who have made achievements in several fields have shown a great love for science fiction in their interviews and biographies.In addition to their good education system and their own talents and hard work, their scientific achievements are also an indispensable factor that spurs them on the road to success.

For such meanings and ideals, the Science Fiction Alliance provides professional and rigorous filming venues with high fees for hundreds of thousands of science fiction-themed film and television works that have been hot every year.It is a promising investment for the Union of Science Fiction Writers, which used to only receive income from donations and membership fees.

Building a comprehensive sci-fi themed base is also significant for educational and tourism purposes.If one or a group of tourists want to travel to Poet Star, they only need to pay a small fee.They came here from the inhabited planet on the border of star sector A, which is the farthest from the poet star, and the round-trip time only took no more than two years on a new type of shuttle boat that middle-class families could afford.

This will attract more than 50 billion primary and middle school students organized by schools every year, young couples who want to have a sci-fi honeymoon for the first time in their lives and legally registered marriages, or adults who just want to temporarily arrange a themed vacation for themselves.After all, for humans with an average life expectancy of over 200 years, it is a very common arrangement to spend one percent of the time in low-temperature sleep and happy vacations.

In the forefront of the planning, the main income is the rent of the filming location, the medium and long-term ground rent of various hotels, and the transportation expenses that are relatively high in price but acceptable to most fans. star decision.

Of course, the committee is confident that when the 290 nine-year period of planetary management and operation rights expires, it will fully enjoy the power of its original developers to exempt the 35% and 290% discount on renewal property tax, and continue to extend the management and development of Poet Star to the C sector government. right.Although according to current estimates, if the current population and economic growth rate of the entire C sector and the economic indicators of the Poet star [-] years later, the weighted calculation of the renewal property tax may be at least a thousand times the development deposit.

Different crazy fans of different sci-fi genres and writers have built several themed buildings around the planet. Everyone tacitly avoids using names with obvious metaphysical meanings such as "altar", "shrine" and "altar" to refer to These monuments serve to commemorate and to look forward to.Thanks to the invention of the implantable or plug-in brain nerve shunt synaptic converter, enthusiasts and learners can take the written works that have never been shown in the form of images, through the construction of their own brains, and through the converter to convert the concrete audio The video is recorded and displayed by computer.These, in addition to the spread of science fiction works themselves, have added more potential fans in this human society where the average annual reading per person is less than [-] books.

On a square in the central city of Poet Star in the northern hemisphere, a committee of fans cast a statue with a height of 300 meters.This huge chrome-plated statue is covered with thorns from its feet to its head, waving four weird thorny arms, and the special coating technology on the chrome-plated surface presents a texture like flowing mercury.The base of the cube structure with a circumference of 300 meters is also made of chrome-plated steel. The side of the base facing the positive pole of the planet's magnetic force line is inscribed: "This rough imitation only expresses the highest respect for the original work.".

The right side of the inscription is hollowed out into a space of 50*50*50 meters, inside which is a holographic projection of a female Asian piano educator with the initials SH in the middle of the 21st century.She is using a 56929-key black Bsendorfer Concert Grand 97 Imperial grand piano with the serial number 290 to play Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmani in the concert hall on the first floor of her home Holographic video of Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C Sharp Minor.

The left side of the inscription at the bottom of the statue has only one word in honor of the creator who created this image of the statue.This creator is none other than "Shrike" written in the native tongue of Dan Simmons, a science fiction writer from the United States of America on ancient Earth.On the side of the base of the statue facing the negative pole of the planet's magnetic field line, there is engraved the poem "Hyperion" by the 18th century British poet John Keats (John Keats), citing the original text of the first part of the first volume as follows:

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Before the tense string murmur.—To the earth!
For there thou wilt find Saturn and his woes.
Meanwhile I will keep watch on thy bright sun,

And of thy seasons be a careful nurse.”—

Ere half this region-whisper had come down,

Hyperion arose, and on the stars
Lifted his curved lids, and kept them wide
Until it ceas'd; and still he kept them wide:
And still they were the same bright, patient stars.
Then with a slow incline of his broad breast,

Like to a diver in the pearly seas,

Forward he stoop'd over the airy shore,

And plunged all noiseless into the deep night.
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Grab the barb of the arrow cluster.To the world!

There you can find Saturn the Suffering.

Meanwhile I will watch over your glorious sun,

And watch over your seasons with care.

The whisper has not yet half descended from heaven,
Hyprian rose to his feet, raised his curved eyelids to the stars, let them open,

Till the murmur ceased; still his eyes wide open,
The stars are still bright and patient stars.

So he slowly leaned his broad chest forward,
Like pearl divers in a sea of ​​pearls,
He leaned forward on the high shore,

silently into the deep night.

——Translated by Tu An from "Selected Poems of Keats" (Tu An's translation collection)
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The beautiful poems of ancient poets Li He and John Keats always make people experience the fictional images and contents fully imagined by science fiction writers on the surface of the poet star, adding some romance and poetic flavor.In the following 2000 years, countless authors claimed to live in Poet Star, inspired by the cultural and creative environment here, and created best-selling science fiction works.Perhaps this is the best commemoration for these two talented poets who died young for us in future generations.

Although it was written nearly a thousand years ago, space travelers who love science fiction and fantasize about the future always come to Poet Star in an endless stream to pay respects to these great writers who provided more thinking space and dimensions for human beings in the past.At the same time, I also hope that writers and readers today and in the future can continue to explore along the path of the sages, and expand a broader boundary for the imagination of our species.

Although the torrent of history has passed for more than 2000 years, the unique temperament of Poet Star has continued to attract various creators and tourists. For more than 2000 years, the continuous stream of visitors, after receiving the space station, will directly land in the science fiction work they most admire and yearn for, or in the theme park of science fiction writers.Most theme parks don't sell a wide variety of souvenirs like other planets with a strong tourist industry, because for lovers who can come here, they can be with their favorite works and authors over the years. Camping or taking a leisurely stroll under the dotted sky is the best tribute to the author and his great works.

Most of the random notes about Poet Star are written in the small apartment that the author rents near the Tropic of Cancer of Poet Star.The author can serve as the window of the study and the bedroom at the same time, of course, facing the direction where the huge thorny body of the Shrike can be seen.I hope that such a humble book as "Essays" can also meet readers who like it in the vast universe!Ha ha……

The full text of this article is quoted from the fourth volume of "History of Human Cosmos Exploitation", the second volume "Planet Catalog", a related material under item No. 11973 "Poet Star".The writing time of this random note should be the 100th year of the cosmic era, more than 937 years after the Poet Star was built and opened to human beings in the whole universe.Although the planet-related items included in the "History of Pioneering" are generally objective data and materials of the planet, the writing committee agreed that the cultural temperament of the planet represented by several works of art is also an indispensable part of a human habitation.Therefore, many articles, music works, paintings and other works of art are also included under the item of planetary information.

The name of the author of this essay about Poet Star is no longer available, but judging from the apartment where the Shrike statue can be seen in the article, the author should be an employee of the "Hyperion" theme park.I believe that this employee will be very happy if he knows that his casually written article expressing his admiration for the poet star and the stories behind it is included in the "History of Development".

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