History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 54 Historical Outline - Minutes

"This is an era full of opportunities, challenges, expansion, exploration, blood and tears. It is actually not an exaggeration to say that it has laid the tone of the human interstellar society for the next few centuries, or even thousands of years. .Perhaps it is precisely because of this great era, and the years of division and barbarism that followed it, that our people can use unprecedented military power to unify the entire human race under one political entity. Our great achievements are worthy of eternal praise Go down" - Eagle King

"Without the drastic changes of the first interstellar era in less than 300 years, and the great progress of some social sciences and natural sciences unearthed from it, human beings may not understand the importance of peace and stability to themselves for a long time in the future Meaning." -Martin Cecils, the first director of the management committee of Poet Star.

Thanks to the more than 600-year-long feminist movement on Earth and the promotion of technologies such as artificial wombs, the human society that opened a new era of interstellar exploration has shown unprecedented gender equality.Looking at the statistical data from the first year of the cosmic era to the next 500 years, government leaders, business leaders, military strategists, explorers, starship captains, scientists, factory technicians, grassroots employees, robot maintainers, and even pirates, robbers, For the leaders and members of criminal gangs such as fraud groups, the ratio of men to women is almost perfect.

Against such a social background, during the period from 371 to 660 of the cosmic era, which is called "the first interstellar era" by later generations, the equality of the sexes reached an unprecedented peak.Such an achievement, on the one hand, can be said to be the fruit of the long-term feminist movement on Earth, and at the same time, it is also because of the rapid expansion of human beings through star tunnels during the period from the first year of the cosmic era to the middle of the "first interstellar era", that is, 450 years of the cosmic era. Relatively peaceful age at the edge of existence.During this period, apart from skirmishes over the ownership of certain planets and small galaxies by expeditions sent by various Earths or later planets, there were no wars with more than 1000 casualties.

It is generally believed that this is because when more potential and low-cost resources still exist, there is no need for people to use wars, which are extremely costly, to compete for various existing elements of survival.However, based on the long-term historical experience of human beings, everyone knows that this kind of "low-cost" exploration will eventually come to an end. Coupled with the expansion of commercial purposes prior to the political field, a large number of interstellar pirates hidden in dark corners began to slow down. Rise slowly, and start looting those commercial starfleets without escorts on a certain scale.

In the early days, escorting was an effective way to drive away or eliminate small groups of interstellar pirates, but gradually star region and galaxy governments, as well as large commercial organizations began to consider establishing "dock wall" military strongholds in many node areas.At the beginning, these military strongholds only used some uninhabitable celestial bodies with extremely low Kamin index-such as large planet satellites or some wandering asteroids.These star bodies without large-scale habitation conditions are often built as fortresses with permanent military bunkers and heavy land-based military weapons.

Later, with the large-scale discovery and development of star tunnels between 200 and 400 years of the cosmic era, more and more habitable planets with a Kamin index of 995 or more were discovered, which also began the development of those small habitable planets A precedent for a planet with a walled fortress.At this time, these planets called "Wubi" truly possessed a truly comprehensive small-scale local power that integrated military, commercial, permanent residents and other elements into one of the similar towns in history.

Later, after nearly a hundred years of evolution, these local chiefs with local military power, civil administration power and certain commercial resources gradually began their relatively independent development in these places.During this period, merger wars between planets Wubi began to occur frequently, and in order to avoid the intrusion of wars, most people chose to flee to their stronger regions—those they thought would win the final victory in the region’s annexation wars. .

At that time, the space leap technology was far less developed than when "The History of Human Universe Exploitation" was written, which brought extremely high long-distance travel costs, so that most people in this disputed area could only travel between neighboring galaxies, or even Find your own suitable shelter among the neighboring planets.

The history of mankind tells us that if the above-mentioned local powers, including but not limited to civil affairs, military and economic forces, appear in their hands free from the central government, and if they emerge on a large scale, then perhaps the entire national entity will be far away from the central government. A collapse may not be too far away.This is true of the Tang Empire in ancient China, and the Arab Empire that rose almost at the same time as the Tang Empire in the Middle East. Perhaps human beings themselves cannot use cultural diversity to avoid this phenomenon.

The Suheyang family mentioned in "The History of the Development of the Human Universe", and the trinity system of civil administration, military affairs, and economics that her family experienced, such as "fubing" and "production households", actually confronted them with what the pirates pursued. The "Xingtun" system in China is the exterior and interior of each other, and the difference between the two lies only in the name of the expression and some subtle differences in administrative measures.In the end, the household system represented by the border government of the star region was defeated militarily by the star system of the other side. The Pirates' brutal and efficient pioneering spirit ultimately tipped the scales.

These contradictions trickled down, and finally converged into the historical torrent that swept across the entire supercluster of galaxies like Beso Bianran.In the military, the early stage of destruction and the subsequent evenly matched confrontation made the original political and military system accumulated for hundreds of years no longer applicable to the present.

However, the political governance environment of the star area has undergone tremendous changes from before the border chaos: some of the remnant pirates who surrendered due to appeasement occupied several resource-rich and populous planets such as Shuo Ye and were in a semi-independent state.Some of the three to five planets that formed a certain small alliance state in order to protect themselves during the border chaos also each guarded the important interstellar shipping lanes on the edge of their own range, causing the cost of navigation in the overall star area to double.

The lack of population and resource statistics during the border chaos made the physical and joint credit tax system that could have been obtained from various planets exist in name only.And in this period, a new and sustainable set of administrative, taxation, and economic management methods is about to come out.

In the 501 Universal Era, the Beso Sector Government Ministers Meeting spent several standard months discussing many issues that the star sector needs to face.They hope that the new tax system determined this time can guarantee at least 200 years of operation of the star area government.However, what the participants did not expect was that their reformed tax system for temporary use had been used in human society for thousands of years with tinkering.

The new tax scheme is divided into the following three aspects:

[-]. Based on the fact that the star area coalition government's administrative management of various grass-roots planets, asteroids, and space stations has actually collapsed, it is impossible to implement the previously effective system of military and economic integration between households and households.Therefore, the new policy abolished the practice of providing soldiers to the coalition government on a regular basis by each household, and replaced it with a more flexible recruitment system.

[-]. Due to reasons similar to Article [-], the system of paying in kind to the government every month, that is, minerals or grains, cannot be effectively implemented due to transportation and other factors.The new tax law changed the tax cycle from the monthly, quarterly, or semi-annual regulations stipulated by each planet and star area to a unified payment twice a standard year.The payment time twice a year is generally arranged by the governments or management committees of each planet according to the natural conditions or production methods of different industrial division planets.

431. The disorder of population statistics and hidden population make the original base of per capita tax payment lost.The new tax law is based on the total per capita tax payment in the 431 year of the cosmic calendar, weighted and evenly distributed to planets with different resource endowments, and then distributed according to the reclamation or development area or cubic volume recorded in the planet in [-].On this basis, this tax is added to the twice-yearly tax in kind and credits.Such measures were indeed the best choice under the circumstances at that time, because if each planet could not form a set of feasible taxation methods, it might end up as the ancients feared that the social management function could not be supported without effective taxation. down, and completely collapsed.

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