History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 62 History Outline

Many historians classify this short period of 13 years as the first interstellar era, and there are very good reasons for this.They believe that this is just the year 660 of the cosmic era. After the earth where the coalition government that nominally governed all mankind was located was breached and surrendered by the Tiankui galaxy, which had the strongest military power at that time, and decades later, the coalition government itself "resurrected the dead."Indeed, the basis of this school of argument is that although the fall of the solar system in 660 marked the permanent decline of the nominal co-owner of the Earth regime, in the following decades, the entire Virgo supercluster of galaxies, although human beings each adhered to the long-formed stable "dock" Wall”, but the overall political system still continues the tradition before this.

Under such traditional inertia, even after 36 years of hard work, in the 696th year of the cosmic era, the known human regime of the entire supergalaxy cluster was conquered by force from the Tiankui galaxy. Some historians still believe that this is only the first interstellar era. Inertia continues.This group of historians is known as the "political inheritance school", and their theory is based on the legal succession of the regime itself.

And this kind of inheritance, whether it is the republic, democracy, tyrant and oligarchy in most of the past 3000 years of human development in the universe, or the monarchy that is recognized as the unique eagle emperor, there is no exception. line of succession of power.In the concept of political inheritance historians, the 3000-year history of the development of the universe does not need to be divided into 300 independent stages ranging from less than a hundred years to as many as [-] years as described in this book. Four major historical periods are required.

In the following, the views of this school of historians will be displayed in the notes for readers’ reference, but because the author himself is more inclined to the academic achievements of another school, he uses more of the "independent period school" in the overall writing The idea of ​​history.

In contrast to the political heritage school, another school of historians is known as the "independence period school".As the name suggests, this school of historians is more inclined to divide the past 3000 years of human history of space development into more characteristic historical periods.These periods of history are often defined by regime changes, large-scale military campaigns, or historical events that marked both reunification and great disunity.

Although such a division method can make people who only need a superficial understanding of history feel the ups and downs and magnificence of human history in the universe, but the basis for these divisions is often difficult to have a unified standard to consistently set the time and beacons on events.This problem is also the biggest point of criticism of the historical inheritance party and the independent period party.

Take the "Tiankui Era" divided by the Independent Era School after the "First Interstellar Era" as an example, there are many interesting counterparts.

According to the inheritance school, the surrender of the Earth’s central government in 660 Universal Era did mark the end of the era of space development dominated by the Earth for nearly a thousand years, but the subsequent era still upholds many political and economic traditions of this period, such as the two-tax system.However, for the independent period faction, the reunification of mankind achieved by the Tiankui Galaxy in 36 years through the combination of vertical and horizontal maneuvers and powerful military means has already marked that human history has entered a new era.

What's more, although the "Tiankui Central Government" established in 696 of the Universal Era lasted only 13 years, the innovations in the overall system of mankind in these 13 years are almost comparable to the development of all human beings in the Earth era to destroy the asteroid. "The Endgame Plan", and the human political and economic system that has been related to it for thousands of years.As we all know, the "End Plan" in the 23rd century AD, which aimed to save mankind itself, deployed almost all the natural resources and production capabilities available to mankind in the entire solar system at that time.Later, due to the accidental discovery of the first star tunnel in the asteroid remnant, and the second and first practical star tunnel obtained by blasting Neptune 200 years later, human enthusiasm for interstellar exploration overshadowed that at that time. It is almost the many ills of the social organization model in the "wartime" state.

Of course, this highly integrated and even paramilitary social organization and production model by the United Earth Government is crucial to the development and stability of human beings in the first 500 years of space.In the first year of the Universal Era, that is, during the period between 2600 AD and 300 AD, the earth has the absolute right to speak and the final decision on the interstellar affairs of the entire human race, including politics, economy, military, etc.Of course, as we all know, with the continuous opening of new star tunnels, more and more galaxies and planets with more convenient transportation and navigation have emerged in the past few hundred years, which has directly led to the political and political conflicts of the earth in the entire supergalactic cluster. declining economic status.

Although, in these days before Universal Era 600, Earth still acts as a "co-lord" to some extent for the entire human government, and often acts as a "mediator" between those sector governments with great military, economic and political power. " work, and also play the role of "final arbiter" for the contradictions and conflicts between many relatively weak star regions and galaxies, but the increasing equalization of political, economic, and military resources in the entire supergalactic cluster has made These "effects" are declining day by day.And precisely to reflect the contribution of the earth to the entire human race during this period, historians, whether they are "historical inheritance school" or "independent period school", all agree that this historical period is the beginning of the entire interstellar history of mankind, and also It is the "First Interstellar Era".This is also the only period when historians of the two schools have a consensus on the division of time in the 3000-year history of human beings entering the universe.

For the historians of the "Historical Inheritance School", the unified period of the thirteen standard years of the "Tiankui Era" was not divided into an independent period. The main reason is that they believe that the fall of the earth and the solar system in 600 AD, It is nothing more than a successful military operation like the other three times the earth was breached and changed hands in the hundreds of years before this.At the same time, although these four successful military operations, including the Tiankui galaxy, have at least nominally made the "local" galaxy and star region governments of the entire galaxy cluster re-submit to this long-term weak "central" government, but the actual political ecology No major changes have taken place.

On the contrary, for the historians of the "independent period school", the Tiankui galaxy broke through the solar system and the earth in the 600th year of the universe era, and it took 36 years to wipe out almost all galaxy clusters with the support of strong military power After the large and small star regions, the active military power and political entities of the galaxy government, brutal reforms were carried out in the entire human universe, but they had a great impact on future generations.There are a lot of reforms, but there are two that are worthy of history: the reform of the lithium metal standard credit point currency, and the reform of government floating officials at the star area, galaxy, and planet level.

With the support of the "two-tax system", although the economies of various star regions and galaxies can continue to operate, due to the gradual decline and collapse of the "earth-based" currency and financial system for hundreds of years, the economic entities. Trade gradually degenerated to the primitive state of "barter".In the first few hundred years when human beings opened up the universe, people could still use the unified credit points issued by the earth before and after the "endgame plan" and the settlement system provided by the earth itself to carry out trade and financial activities, but when the earth's own politics, As military and economic influence continued to decline, this system of credit points issued based on the productivity of the earth collapsed and was gradually abandoned by people.

From the perspective of future generations, the No. 17 leaders of the Tiankui star area have accomplished no less feats in conquering the universe by force than the later Emperor Eagle in the nearly 50 years of their reign.Simultaneously with his unification of the human universe war, there are also mandatory reforms of local bureaucrats, as well as the reform of the lithium standard currency that has a far-reaching impact on history.

The lithium-based currency reform first benefited from the Luozhuoer star area, Xiaoyunta Star Central University, Yu Minzhong, a professor of nuclear physics, led his team to realize the use of lithium for the first time in human history in 379 AD. Controlled nuclear fusion of materials.Such scientific and technological progress has greatly improved the status of lithium, a metal that ranks around [-]th in abundance in the universe, in human daily life.

At the same time, the development of more solid celestial bodies in the middle and late stages of the first interstellar era has confirmed the theoretical conjecture that the abundance of lithium elements tends to be average in the crust of common rocky solid celestial bodies.In this case, every solid celestial body with a total mass of not less than 20.00% of the earth can have at least 500 to [-] million tons of pure lithium that can be mined under the technical conditions at that time.

And because the total number of solid celestial bodies held by each star area and galaxy tends to be average, so in the large-scale lithium mining movement in the next few hundred years, the actual amount of metal elemental lithium obtained by each political entity or economic entity, and In the end, the amount used as a strategic reserve is basically proportional to the size of the star area or galaxy.On this basis, the regime in the Tiankui star region gradually implemented a lithium metal-based credit-based cross-satellite currency settlement system in its military-occupied area, which was supported by almost all local governments, economic entities, and most of the people.

Under normal circumstances, if the star regions that humans set foot in are in a state of division under the control of independent governments, the economy of each star region naturally needs to have currency in circulation as a guarantee.They will still issue multi-point certificate encryption credits based on quantum superiority algorithms with the known controlled reserves of lithium on the solid planets they control, plus the mined lithium in the area as guarantee or reserve.The digital signature of each credit point transaction records the identity information of the two or more parties involved in the transaction, as well as the information of the credit point issuing area.

Of course, such a situation did not need to be considered too much for the Tiankui sector, which was in a state of military dominance at that time.Their contribution to the entire human interstellar economic system also lies in this: a central settlement system based on the most abundant reserve of elemental lithium in the entire Virgo supergalactic cluster was established in the Tianyang galaxy, the capital of the Tiankui star area.

As the nominal and actual administrative capital of all human beings between 396 and 409 of the cosmic era, the Tianyang galaxy has a strong control over all the star regions, galaxies, and planets in the entire Virgo supercluster of galaxies after the political reform. At that time, the astonishing reserve of 17.00% of the known lithium reserves of the entire human race was an important factor for the regime to substantially reform and unify the interstellar human currency and settlement system in less than 30 years.

After mastering 17.00% of the lithium metal reserves of the entire galaxy cluster, and bringing more industrial galaxies and star regions into the Tiankui jurisdiction through wars, political mergers and other means, the nuclear fusion fuel production capacity in the hands of the regime has gradually increased.Until the year 695 of the cosmic era, the eve of the near unification of the inhabited areas of the entire Virgo supercluster, the Tiankui regime already possessed more than 50.00% of the fusion fuel production capacity of the entire galaxy cluster.

The "Lithium-based Credit Point Unified Promotion Plan" began around 690 AD, starting from those star areas that had been annexed by the Tiankui regime.Prior to this, the Tiankui regime had implemented strict demilitarization of the areas it had conquered over the past two decades.This year, under unified arrangements, a certain number of troops, material reserve transportation teams, and special government officials from the financial and monetary system began to station in each star sector.

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