History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 8 Heroes
On Luojing, the capital of the P1-5-9 Yunhong Star District, the faster-revolving satellite among the three natural satellites of the planet has already appeared out of the window twice. The chess game, which is evenly matched and unable to break through each other, is almost exhausting.The basic rules of Go are very simple and clear, but the complexity exceeds almost all other human intelligence games. The author's understanding is very one-sided.Some basic rules of the game are still understood-for example, regretting a game is something that should be avoided as much as possible between two players of similar strength.Here, under the window of the two full moons, there is one person who may have lost his computing power due to dizziness, and made a wrong move and regretted this step while smiling all over his face.

It's a pity that the opponent doesn't agree with him regretting the game. After all, basic etiquette and rules such as "smear the move with ashes", "play the move with sound", and "make the move without regret" are still very important to this opponent on the chessboard, and need to be followed deliberately guidelines.Finally, hours before the phase of the third full moon entered the window of the room where they were sitting, the two broke up without a word.

According to the situation before the person tried to regret the game, the result of the game between the two was a tie, and they won and lost as usual, but due to similar chess skills and only a few moves, the result is basically the same.

Cui Xing, who tried to repent, made some contributions with the local rebel army who opposed the unified government in Pingshan star in the star region seven years ago. He expected these contributions to become his qualifications for promotion.It's just that when rewarding meritorious deeds and redistributing benefits based on the resources and power behind him, he naturally didn't have many opportunities for a large number of meritorious deeds who only relied on two brothers who were also from the bottom.People like him who only possess some weapons and equipment that are only a little better than agricultural and mining equipment will naturally not get a position that is consistent with their merits at such a moment.

However, ever since the first wave of human beings traveled from the solar system through the No. 300 star tunnel in the Neptune ruins to the void universe on a large scale in a spaceship driven by a fusion engine, the spirit of forging ahead has never stopped. For more than [-] years, the unyielding brand and spirit of adventurers and entrepreneurs have helped Cui Huang decide his behavior and actions every second.This kind of trait can be considered as something similar to the "family learning" of an academic family, or it can be considered as a tradition that is similar to that of a family of political elites.

These have all driven Cui Yu to travel to several planets or asteroid groups that still have sporadic rioting forces in the past seven years, to help the local people who have all the equipment that is not as good as workers and peasants, and to eliminate those interstellar bandits who are causing trouble.During this process, he naturally slowly accumulated the reputation of the people and more loyal followers. Although he was not famous at that time, he already had a number of people in several nearby star regions that could be converted into political capital. Faith.

One year before the game described at the beginning, Cui Xing was recruited by the star area government to Luo Jingxing, the capital, to serve as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, and to be in charge of technical exchanges and trade in crops with other star areas.While it was a position that seemed hectic and lucrative in interstellar politics, it was far removed from his larger ambitions, he knew.

In this chess game, Cui Huang's opponent Gao Jing made a fortune in a very different way.It has been nearly 200 years since Gao Jing's family came to the Yunhong star area, and they came here as the first dozens of pioneers to enter the star area.After his ancestors experienced the most difficult decades of planetary transformation, more immigrants gathered around them one after another, and came to start their new lives on these planets with an average Kamin index higher than 998.9.

These first pioneers and their descendants naturally became the political administrators, military leaders and the main rentiers in the economic field in the star sector.Although the unified government and dictators like Heinrich had a significant impact on the politics of the star area more than 20 years ago, the politicians here used the military power of the unified government to fight the same rampant pirates on the border of the star area.At the same time, their political hypocrisy, obedience and patience allowed the political traditions of the Yunhong Star District to be preserved to the greatest extent, although millions of people were affected and killed in those years.

In the subsequent uprising that spread to almost half of the human universe, Gao Jing's status as a mid-level officer and a descendant of a prominent family in the star area, coupled with his outstanding personal ability, helped him stand out.This young man in his 20s has been ahead of almost all his predecessors and latecomers in the past ten years of military contests and political struggles.

Luo Jingxing's rotation axis declination of nearly [-] degrees allows the northern and southern hemispheres to have several months of polar day or night every year.It was more than a month after entering the polar night that Gao Jing invited Cui Xing, who he considered a fellow traveler and potential competitor, to sit down and play chess.

Gao Jing hoped that under the unique moon-viewing scenery of their planet, using the form of a chess game, coupled with his keen intuition for people, and intuitively judging this recognized hero who came from almost the bottom straight up, would bring him What a threat.

However, the result was satisfactory to Gao Jing, but somewhat melancholy.What is satisfying is that Cui Xing, a person who is as good as himself in chess, political ability, and military talent, would actually try to regret the game in the small hand-talking game.Under this appearance, it seems to mean that the person on the opposite side may lose his footing in an extreme contest.The sad thing is that in this star area, even several nearby star areas, and even the entire human universe, Gao Jing, who has seen countless people, seems to never see anyone who can match her.

But...he seems to have made the biggest lapse of judgment in his life.

On the third day after the chess game, Cui Xing left Luojingxing with his two brothers and a small number of followers under the pretext that he needed to go to the adjacent Yinbi star area to discuss a 20-year agricultural cooperation project.Naturally, he saw the hostility and vigilance from the opponent's heart in the game.

Cui Huang once thought that in a powerful outward-looking star area, he would find a force that he could contribute to, contribute all his talents and ambitions in his life, and achieve the goal of making this star area a new human manager .At the same time, you can also realize your own pursuit of fame and interests, and leave a magnificent chapter of your own in the vast history.

However, contrary to his wishes, the current situation can only allow him to start a business with almost zero foundation. Although the road is bumpy and difficult, creating a great cause that belongs to himself and his own group is also a way for people to continue to spur on this rough road. and reasons to encourage yourself.Of course, that regrettable move, in the eyes of later generations of researchers, may be due to his intention...

Although the united republic created by the first head of state, Heinrich Vasilyevich, has been wiped out in just over ten years, he objectively provided the entire human society with a governance model that was lacking in the era of corruption and decadence choose.However, with the collapse of the United Republic, each star region and even several inhabited planets built their own fences during the more than 100 years before the Republic.Those areas become the state of the independent dock wall system in fact, and become the reality of the entire human universe again.

Although the leaders within the scope of the Wubi economy and the people subject to it have more freedom and political autonomy than they did during the unified republic.However, it is an eternal theorem that the distribution of resources on a cosmic scale is not even, and the living standards of the people in these independent economies are declining day by day.The quantity and variety of materials available for distribution and consumption has also reached a level not seen in more than a decade since the arrival of the first pioneers.

Under such a background, idealists naturally hope that the entire human society will return, or advance to some kind of unified republic.The ideal state is naturally a state that is not so harsh and extreme in terms of political governance, and at the same time is conducive to the overall development of human economic life.At this time, careerists naturally have the public opinion they can use, and they also have the conditions to soar into the sky in this turbulent era.

The density of visible matter in the empty universe is only a few hydrogen atomic masses per cubic meter, if it is within the scope of science.The theory of parallel universes that has not yet been conclusively provided everyone with nearly unlimited materials for guessing the causal relationship between time and space.In the field of philosophy, the discussion of cause and effect and choice has almost run through the history of nearly 8000 years since human beings had writing, civilization, thinkers and philosophy.

On the surface, cause and effect and choice seem to be one with each other.However, I personally think that cause and effect are the inevitable consequences of a series of inevitable and accidental events in the antecedent under the irreversible vector concept of time.The continuity between cause and effect lies in the combination of many factors and the inevitable and only result produced.

However, the author believes that the mechanism of selection is a concept slightly higher than causality under some or specific conditions and levels.For example, at a certain level of people's cognition, the premise of the combination of several events is the inevitable drive for them to obtain the results they later obtained.

The combination of these events and factors is the result of the selection of individuals or groups that are higher than them in the actual ecological niche or governance level.However, if we continue to deliberate further, these so-called choices may be the result of the integration of more factors under the rules above them.Therefore, such a koan may not be able to hope to get a satisfactory answer in the process of self-certification and circulation on the level of knowledge and cognition of the author.

Judging from the deeds of Cui Huang and Gao Jing, some of the main points can be explained with causality and choice.After Cui Huang left Luojing, he continued to collect and organize more scattered homeless people and many rogues from weak forces.Finally, three years later, the Shayin star region where he was located was attacked by Gao Jing's 800 million troops.

The Shayin Star Area is located in the critical area where Star Tunnel No. 1-3 leads to several adjacent traffic star areas. If this star area can be controlled for a long time, it can generally deploy troops to most corners of the human universe in the short term by using strong military strength.And here, Gao Jing encountered the resistance of several star-area coalition forces united by Cui Xing.

The course of the war will not be repeated here, but only the Battle of Nuoguan Star that ultimately determined the direction of history.The 50-kilometer caliber high-energy laser refracting generator called the "cup" by soldiers is the most destructive and controllable interstellar war weapon in the past [-] years. The title "cup" well reflects its image as a drinking glass The appearance of the cup, and the transparent body plated with gold on one side.

Compared with stellar fusion weapons, which are destructive and difficult to follow-up and costly to clear the field, such concentrated energy weapons are more suitable for human beings who are only used to remove military strongholds and important facilities, or only need to erase the existence of one or two cities. Strategic objectives.This time Gao Jing's army has seventeen such weapons.

What Gao Jing never imagined was that normal kinetic energy weapons could not be destroyed, and each "cup" had enough defensive force around it to resist the attack of fusion weapons, yet fifteen of them were lost in this battle of Nuoguan.The 1-3-5-9 star tunnel controlled by the Cui Huang coalition forces is connected to an extremely unstable late white dwarf binary star system. The white dwarf host star of this system has accreted enough matter, and a supernova explosion is about to occur.

The coalition forces made a big gamble by using the few thousand remaining O-level fusion weapons: the nuclear weapons were fired at the white dwarf, causing the final star to undergo a supernova explosion in advance, and the explosion products included several newly formed ones, similar to the number of The iron asteroid that could have crushed Mars a hundred years ago.

These iron asteroids with a speed of 150% to 1th of the speed of light and a mass of 3 tons to 5 tons were carefully changed orbits by the coalition forces and passed through 9-1-3-5 and [-]-[-]-[-] Star Tunnel, successfully arrived at the battlefield.Before Gao Jing's army could react in time, they precisely hit these "cups" and several interstellar command ships.Those present in the silent purgatory can always imagine the smashing and explosions that would be heard if these destructions happened in the air.

The heavy loss shattered Gao Jing's dream of unifying the human universe on Nuoguan Star. He could only withdraw his troops and return to Luojing Star to wait for possible opportunities in the future.After the coalition forces won the victory, due to internal struggles and other factors, they finally split into Cui Yu's forces and local forces.After more than ten years of development, these three forces, including Gao Jing, finally integrated and unified a part of the human universe, bringing the originally fragmented "Wubi universe" period to an end.

(End of this chapter)