Voyage of the Stars

Last time, it was nuclear energy.

Not to mention the distance, let’s just say that the space elevator technology itself is also quite valuable to mankind. As mentioned before, human civilization is now a wandering civilization. When encountering danger, the main purpose is to quickly replenish supplies and escape quickly.

With the space elevator, you can just stop fishing and leave.

Of course, space elevators don’t just have advantages. Although humans have not yet created it, humans have noticed it after obtaining a complete set of space technology, because the data provided by the Nair people is very comprehensive.

The weight of cargo that a space elevator can carry depends on the quality of its cable material. The stronger the cable, the stronger the space elevator's carrying capacity.

The Nair people's data has clearly stated that many large finished components, such as a spacecraft that cannot fly into space by itself, cannot be carried by the space elevator at present, so their Pot Lid Planet No. 5 is used at the same time. Two modes of transportation.

However, if it is just about transporting mineral resources and supplies between heaven and earth, then the space elevator is more than wrong. Also, the passenger transportation capacity of the space elevator is unmatched by the orbital mass accelerator.

It can be said that with the acquisition of space elevator technology, human beings' space and earth transportation capabilities will increase by at least ten times.

Now the human manufacturing department has begun planning. After leaving the boundless star of the pot lid and reaching the next star, five units will be built first.

The reason why it is not built here is because there are not enough materials. After all, this is the territory of the Nair people. It would be good if humans can replenish the materials and fuel to complete the fleet. We don't expect the Nair people to provide resources for a few more space elevators.

Moreover, as long as you arrive in an unowned star system, all kinds of resources are not only available as much as you want, they are completely inexhaustible. There are so many ownerless stars in the universe. After immediately covering up the vast stars, as long as they do not go to the sphere of influence marked on the Nairn star map.

This is also the star system that humans will go to next. Since the Nair people have already given the star map to humans, the target has already been selected, and it is about 27 light years away from the vast star of the pot lid.

After everything here is completed, humans will leave.

Based on the current supply progress, the fleet will be fully replenished in about five years. In fact, if humans were allowed to mine resources on their own, it would take less than five years at all. However, the Nair people would not allow it. Human beings could only wait to receive supplies from the Nair people one ship after another.

Fortunately, the Nair people also have a fleet, so they are quite experienced in supplying materials, otherwise this time may be longer.

On this day, Yue Yuan was finishing his daily affairs in the office. Before he could go out, he heard a knock on the door.

After Yue Yuan shouted "come in", he looked up at the door and saw a man and a woman stepping in.

Yue Yuan, the leader on the Tianqin, knew each other. The man was from the staff department, surnamed Wei, and the woman, surnamed Lei, was the person in charge of the supplies this time.

"Shuai Yue, are we really not waiting for the transport fleet coming from the direction of the Great Lie Star?" It was Chief of Staff Wei who spoke.

Yue Yuan shook his head and said: "No wait! In five years, the fleet will reach the deceleration distance in three years. If we wait any longer, if that fleet is not a transport fleet, we may be in big trouble. We are not afraid of trouble, but we are not afraid of trouble. There is no need to take unnecessary risks.”

Listening to what Yue Yuan said, we knew that the original plan of the Nair people on the Pot Cover Star was still useful. At least many people in the headquarters, including Yue Yuan, felt that this matter was too strange, and it would be better to leave early. .

As the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under dangerous walls. Although the fleet is really possible to enter the Nair people, it is a fleet of transport ships, and it also carries a lot of cargo from the Great Fire Star, but now humans have taken it from the Pot Lid Vast Star. Now that you've got what you want, there's really no need to take the risk.

"I understand. Yue Shuai, one more thing. I'm applying to stay here for the next five years to assist Director Lei, and I won't go back with the Tianqin."

"Oh?" Yue Yuan raised his eyebrows, glanced at Staff Wei and then at Manager Lei next to him. He seemed to realize something, so he nodded and said, "That's okay. I'll give you five years' leave. But it's only five years." After that, you have to report back to the Tianqin."

"Thank you, Commander Yue." Staff Officer Wei saluted Yue Yuan happily.

"Well, is this what Director Lei is here for?" Yue Yuan looked at the other one.

"No, Chief, I'm here to report on the recent supply situation." Director Lei from the Supply and Logistics Department replied.

"Okay, I understand. Just send the data back in accordance with the procedure. You don't have to report it in person." After hearing this, Yue Yuan knew it was an excuse. Director Lei must have come to help Consultant Wei ask for leave. He probably didn't expect Yue Yuan to ask for leave. Yuan is so willing to give the holiday.

"If there's nothing else, just go about your own business." Yue Yuan gave the order to see off the guests.

"Yes, Yue Shuai!"

"Understood, Commander."

The two of them turned to leave, but just after they stepped out of the office door, they heard Yue Yuan's words drifting into their ears from afar: "By the way, you two can have more children in five years. If you are busy with work, you will have more children." The management department will prepare a case and they will handle it. The main reason is that the weightless environment also has some impact on the growth of the baby."

Yue Yuan's words made the two of them pause, but they had no intention of stopping.

Just now, after Yue Yuan saw the clues, he checked the validity period of the life potions of these two people and found that they both expired in the past two years. He knew that the two of them were going to get married, so he did this I happily gave him a five-year vacation.

Due to the problem of life potions, the human population is growing really slowly now. If it is a normal life, the birth rate will be okay, but if it is during an interstellar voyage, forget about it.

Fortunately, there are few natural deaths, otherwise the growth would be negative.

Speaking of which, from the time Callisto came out to the present, new life potions have been continuously developed. So far, no human being has died of old age. From this perspective, it cannot be said to be the fault of the life potions.

The main problem is the expiration time of the medicine for both men and women.

For two people who are in love, one of them has finished taking the medicine, but the other person still has it for decades or even hundreds of years. If you want to wait, you probably won’t have a chance until you die of old age.

In fact, the population management department has noticed this situation for hundreds of years, but if the population system does not change, there will definitely not be a major breakthrough in the population growth rate.

Because it was originally stipulated that both men and women must have children before they can register to use life potions, so the main force of human population growth now is actually the newborns who have grown up from generation to generation.

As for those who have used the life potion, even if both men and women have reached the effective period of the drug hundreds of years later, these people will not have that great desire to have children, and a large part of them will directly apply for renewal.

This is one of the reasons why after so many years, the human population is still less than 200 million.