Chapter 6: The Catastrophe
After more than 20 operators who operated the Hornet searched the entire battlefield and further confirmed that there were no other survivors here except for the safe control cabin, and there were no materials worth recycling, they took their only gain, peace, and formed a "palm position" again, and accelerated in the direction from which they came. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After flying for more than two hours under the leadership of more than 20 rescuers, the control cabin finally captured a completely different picture from the endless universe, and soon included the panoramic view of the mothership of the human interstellar alliance, the Hope, into the camera.
In the A time and space where Ping An originally lived, in the same year that the indefinite insect attacked and destroyed the earth, the Hope that had just completed its maiden trip to space and successfully arrived on Mars was the largest and most advanced technology among all the spaceships ever built by mankind.
When the indefinite insects visited the solar system more than 600 years ago, mankind had already built a large-scale space station, and many spaceships, including the Hope, that could jump coordinates on three-dimensional spatial axes.
At the same time, the Moon, which is the satellite of the Earth, has also been built and renovated, and has become a transit station for Mars after human settlements.
When Hope arrived on Mars with more than three million crew and passengers, thousands of adventitious insects also passed through the Earth's atmosphere and reached the surface of the Earth's crust at the same time.
In order to expel the alien creatures that mutilated the human compatriots, the combat troops of various countries immediately launched an operation and rushed to the battlefield, but unfortunately the final outcome of the battle for the defense of the earth was - the armies of all countries were invincible, the earth was broken and disintegrated under the destruction of the adventitious insects, and the human beings who stayed on the earth at that time did not leave any survivors of the aftermath except for the last few spaceships that escaped from the clutches of the adventitious insects.
After the earth was shattered and disintegrated, human beings who lost their home for survival, and knew that the moon and Mars could not be saved, knew that if they continued to stay in the solar system to fight against the adventitious insects, they would only be wiped out, and finally made up their minds to abandon the solar system and flee through contact and quick discussions.
At that time, the Karen star system was the closest to the solar system, with a large enough terrestrial planet that could be transformed by many other projects such as artificial climate and environment, for human settlement. With little to no thought, the captains of the spaceships immediately agreed to travel to the Cullen system.
In the case of the destruction of the Earth, the surviving humans are not only already in the spacecraft, but also the humans living on the space station, the moon and Mars.
In order to prevent these compatriots from dying tragically among the adventitious insects, each spaceship, which was not full and had armed resistance, took action to dock and carry their compatriots.
As for those spaceships that are already fully staffed or have insufficient armed combat effectiveness, in accordance with the unanimous decision of the captains of the spaceships, they turned on the space coordinate jumping device and carried out the space coordinate jump in the straight line determined by the Earth and the sixth planet of the Cullen star system, in order to achieve the goal of leaving the battlefield of the solar system as soon as possible.
Since the farthest reachable distance of the spatial coordinate jump is limited by the power of the spaceship's main power source, the maximum jump distance that can be achieved by spaceships with different volumes and different ship sizes is completely different.
At that time, the Hope, which had the most combat power and could carry the largest number of people, was the spacecraft that was expected to make a space coordinate jump at the latest in the battle plan.
The tasks it has to undertake include not only fighting after the palace and carrying as many Martian immigrants as possible, but also taking the jump distance of the spaceship with the shortest jump distance among all the friendly ships after all the friendly ships in the solar system have jumped away, so as to achieve the purpose of reuniting with the friendly ships.
The captain of each spaceship will first make a spatial coordinate jump at the beginning, and then the plan for the reunion is very simple, that is, the last jump to leave the solar system, the Hope, undertake the tail sweeping work of the fleet, take the shortest distance of all the spacecraft taken by the friendly ship with the smallest main power source, and then make a rendezvous with the spaceship that falls at the end of the fleet.
After the meeting and completion of the meeting, the Hope, which then stopped jumping, needs to travel at a constant speed on the line between Earth and the sixth planet of the Karen star system towards its destination, the sixth planet, and in turn rendezvous with the friendly ships scattered in different positions along the line.
The spaceships that jumped away first, except for the three that directly met with the Hope at the end of the line, all the other spaceships chose their own targets, jumped to the first seven different positions in this straight line, and then maintained inertia, waiting for the Hope, which caught up from the end of the line, to meet the ships in turn.
In the process of trying to reconcile and continue to sail to the destination by inertia, a total of 230 million survivors of the destruction of the earth at eight coordinate points took a total of 400 years, at the cost of nearly 80% of the population and the tragic loss of nearly 70% of the spacecraft except for the Hope, before finally completing the rendezvous after halfway along the route.
And the reasons why humanity suffered such great losses on this route are different.
At the beginning of the escape from the solar system by jumping in space coordinates, no one knew where there were indefinite insects in the straight line connecting the earth and the sixth planet of the Karen star system, because humans did not know anything about the alien insects.
Adhering to the principle of "eggs cannot be put in the same basket", in order to prevent the collective jump to the eighth coordinate point closest to the earth, everyone still did not escape from the encirclement of the adventitious insects, so each captain chose eight different coordinate points to jump separately.
And it turned out that the captains' considerations were reasonable, and the seven spaceships that jumped to the sixth coordinate point, the third farthest from the earth, with a total of 2 million people on board, were very unfortunate to directly crash into the nest of adventitious insects the moment after the jump was completed.
Immediately, while firing their cannons to face the adventitious insects, while waiting for the energy loading time between the two spatial coordinate jumps to pass, these seven spaceships were all directly destroyed by the huge number of adventitious insects.
At this point, the friendly ships on the sixth coordinate point were all wiped out, and several other relatively lucky coordinate points also had their own difficulties.