Chapter 687 Running Towards the Distance
On the artificial earth numbered 34.
The young man who had just said goodbye in Zheng Bai's office had already returned to the commander's office via the space elevator.
"Lin Li, have you finished saying goodbye?" Alang, the corps' psychological counselor, asked with a heavy heart.
Lin Li nodded: "I have already said goodbye to Uncle Zheng, it's time for us to leave."
The two came to the main control room of the artificial earth .
Civil Officer Andrew Levski saw the two men walk in and immediately realized that they were about to leave the Superstar Colonial Branch.
Lin Li patted the other person’s shoulder: “Andrew, the civil affairs work will be left to you.”
"Don't worry! Leave the internal affairs to me." Andrew accepted the other party's instructions.
Ah Lang solemnly assured the two: "I will do my best in terms of public opinion and psychology."
"Then I'll leave it to you!"
Half an hour later.
Continuous alarms sounded inside artificial Earth No. 34, and most of the employees entered the safe life support cabin at the first opportunity.
Only a small number of staff members are still busy at their posts.
Right at this moment.
Alarms also began to sound at the Giant Star Spaceport.
A large number of staff members were facing a serious enemy.
About 12 hours later, eight circular holes slowly appeared on the surface dome of artificial Earth No. 34, each with a diameter of 600 kilometers.
Something terrifying seemed to be brewing in the huge void.
Suddenly, a dense torrent of high-energy particles emerged from the hole at the North Pole of the artificial earth, and hundreds of millions of tons of hydrogen plasma were ejected in an instant.
Hundreds of millions of tons of plasma are erupted every second. If there is a planet nearby, as long as it is hit head-on, the surface will be basically wiped clean by the plasma torrent in an instant.
Such a terrifying plasma jet soon pushed Artificial Earth 34 to move slowly towards the South Pole Star.
At the same time, the artificial lunar frigate orbiting the artificial earth No. 34 380,000 kilometers away, as well as other space warships, also quickly followed the artificial earth to leave the giant star nebula.
Inside the office of Superstar Port.
Zheng Bai looked at the artificial earth No. 34 which was getting farther and farther away, his eyes were somewhat complicated and helpless.
As part of the Spark program, these artificial Earths must leave the giant star nebula and move away from the solar system.
Moreover, Li Qingye also gave the highest authority to every commander, psychological counselor and civil officer of the artificial earth. His own position in the artificial earth was just a totem symbol and he no longer had real management authority.
The reason why Li Qingye made this decision was based on the current technological level of the Intelligent Company and the compromise solution he discussed.
He knew very well that even if Sapiens increased the maximum speed of the spacecraft to 30% of the speed of light, there would still be no way to directly control any planetary system outside the solar system.
It is obviously inappropriate to rely on synchronous communication and synchronous robots based on magnetic monopoles in the long term.
If the artificial human plan is adopted, the first generation of artificial humans and their second generation children will be fine, but once the third generation begins, the third generation, which has been isolated from the mother planet for hundreds of years, will definitely not have much sense of belonging to the mother planet of the solar system.
Although Sapiens has the biotechnology to implant a fixed loyalty template, this is a double-edged sword. Not only will its effect be weakened from generation to generation in the process of natural reproduction, it will also suppress the creativity of new humans and cause mental illness.
After much thought, Li Qingye decided to let go and lifted the head office's control over the artificial humans, allowing them to establish a completely independent subsidiary.
Then he approved these artificial humans to take away all the technology of the Homo Sapiens company, as well as the database storing the genetic sequences of all the organisms in the solar system, and a large amount of data about human civilization.
In other words, each artificial earth is no longer controlled by the solar system headquarters. They take the "entrepreneurial resources" allocated from their families and make a living on their own.
From then on, the relationship between them and the Solar System Headquarters was that of a main family and a branch family, rather than a relationship of superiors and subordinates.
Li Qingye gave them freedom from the very beginning because without the technology of faster-than-light travel, separatism would sooner or later arise in planetary colonies.
Rather than becoming enemies at that time, it is better to let go from the beginning, so that a backup of civilization can be left. At the same time, both sides still have more or less friendship.
If one of the subsidiaries becomes prosperous and promoted to the second-level civilization in the future, the parent company will definitely benefit from it.
As for whether the separated subsidiaries will turn around and attack the parent company, this is obviously a possibility.
But this risk is unlikely to occur for at least a few thousand years.
Because Sapiens' life science technology has made rapid progress in the past few decades, the current life expectancy has reached about 482 years.
In other words, the first few generations of artificial humans must have been respectful to the solar system parent company.
We’ll talk about what happens next later.
Li Qingye did not look ahead or behind. After all, if he did not do so, problems would arise sooner or later in the colonies of the alien galaxies.
What's more, in order to ensure that these subsidiaries can develop, the Solar System parent company will regularly organize technology and cultural exchange conferences in the virtual world.
Ensure that each subsidiary can go further on the journey of exploring the starry sea.
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After more than three hours of continuous acceleration, 0.55% of the solid metallic hydrogen stored in the working fluid warehouse was consumed.
More than ten trillion tons of hydrogen plasma were ejected into the void, forming a stardust tail in the void.
At this time, the speed of the artificial earth has soared to 538 kilometers per second, but it is still a long way from the limit of 1.8% of the speed of light.
Such a huge mass loss naturally requires preparation in advance to avoid the impact on the Earth's gravity due to the loss of hundreds of trillions of tons of mass.
During the flight, in order to ensure the safety of the artificial earth, the super magnetic field deviation shield densely covering the surface dome is also operating at full capacity.
The asteroids along the way will be directly bounced away, or directly smashed by the magnetic field shield.
About 26 hours later.
Inside the main control room of the artificial earth.
"Report, the cruising speed has reached 1.8% of the speed of light."
Lin Li calmly ordered: "Shut down the planetary thrusters immediately."
"yes!"
As the planetary thrusters at the North Pole were shut down and the last bit of hydrogen plasma was ejected, the inner wall of the thruster's nozzle turned red.
However, the residual heat on the inner walls is quickly absorbed by the waste heat recovery system.
Then, several other planetary thrusters were started one after another, but these planetary thrusters were only started briefly, mainly to adjust the direction of flight.
The destination of artificial Earth No. 34 is a planetary system relatively close to the solar system. At this time, artificial Earth No. 34 is about 8.7 light-years away from that planetary system.
