"Teacher, you are about to turn one hundred and seventy, and according to past practice and your tracking health assistant, you have about one hundred and ten years to live. But we will not be able to reach the Silver Heart for at least 180 years. Why don't you choose to sleep? The latest wake-up technology only takes three days to get people back to normal, so it shouldn't affect the big picture, right? ”

In the office, Zhou Donglai, Qin Guang's adjutant and disciple who had been cultivating hard, asked a little puzzled.

Qin Guang smiled and looked at his proud protégé.

He was very satisfied with Zhou Donglai, who was only in his fifties, and had already been among the best in a number of mock command trainings, and in an encounter in 2812, Qin Guang handed over part of the command to Zhou Donglai, and he also completed the task well.

As a new generation in the fleet, Zhou Donglai did not live up to Qin Guang's esteem, and now his reputation in the fleet is on par with Emerson's.

It's just that after all, I'm younger, and I'm still a little taken for granted.

Qin Guang patted his disciple on the shoulder and said, "We are now in a highly information age, and the evolution of everything has been accelerated countless times. Three days may seem short, but it's enough to turn the world upside down. After all, we are far away from the hinterland, and we have neither external support, nor even the all-round computing power support of the main brain. ”

Zhou Donglai: "But simulation calculations point out that it is impossible for us to encounter enemy troops before 2830, so you can sleep for a few more years, teacher, right?" ”

Qin Guang: "Most of the fleet's own artificial intelligence computing power is used to deduce external situations and support scientific research. We don't have 100% control over how our fleet is performing. In ultra-long-distance and ultra-long expeditions, the crisis is not only external. ”

"It must be admitted that refrigeration technology is of great significance, and it will inevitably bring drastic changes to the architecture of our civilization. The Empire out there is a big society, and our fleet has more than 100 million men, and it is clear that it will exceed 200 million in the near future. ”

"Eight hundred years ago, the nameless fleet with a population of 200 million was considered an unnamed power. We sparrows are small, but we have all kinds of organs. So, something is bound to change next. These changes can be good or bad. ”

Zhou Donglai: "Teacher, but we now have a high proportion of soldiers, we are a force built on the foundation of the empire, and the narrow concept of the country is still different, right?" ”

Qin Guang smiled, "I appreciate your active thinking, but you ignore a point I just mentioned. ”

"What?"

"Distance and time change a lot of things. Especially when more and more older generations choose to sleep to prolong their lives, this change will gradually be magnified. So, for us, cryonics is a double-edged sword. If we use it well, we can change our lives for our expeditionary mission. If it is not used well, it will also bring us destruction. ”

Zhou Donglai: "Then teacher, do you still support freezing?" ”

Qin Guang laughed, "Tong Ling has learned the gambling nature of the sage, how can I get better?" No matter how much we gamble, the ultimate goal is always to increase the success rate of the mission. ”

"I see."

Zhou Donglai finally understood what Qin Guang meant.

"I can't sleep, though, but everyone else can. I'll review this first list, but I'm not going to be able to ask about everything in the future? Leave the decision to the assessment team. Wait another two years? When the time is ripe, you can also try intermittent freezing. ”

"Good teacher."

……

Time has passed year by year? Emerson Corbert chose to sleep in 2845.

At this time, he has updated the fleet's freezing technology dozens of times? Becoming more and more reliable, waking up with a lower accident rate? The safety factor is just about the same as that of civil aviation flights in the 21st century.

Yes, there are still risks? But the risk is not so great as to need to choke on food.

In the past twenty-five years, a lot has changed within the fleet.

Year 2825? The fleet received a data package from the Reich.

In addition to the regular science and technology sharing content and current affairs briefings, this packet also contains a rotating guide analysis system in the dormant era, referred to as the rotation system.

The system was carefully crafted by the main brains after collecting a large amount of data, and first regarded the Morrowind Empire as a whole? And then divide it into star fields? Comprehensively considering the balance of resources and the exchange of materials and personnel in different star fields, a set of optimization of the allocation of human resources in the time span is proposed, which can not only maintain the creativity of civilization, but also improve the allocation of human resources in the time span as much as possible.

At the same time, the scope of application of the system can be narrowed down, from a bustling star region with a population of 10 trillion to a space research institute with only tens of thousands of people.

After a comprehensive analysis through a rotation system? can give the best rotation plan and resource allocation plan.

The nameless fleet, which has just reached a total population of 180 million people, is also subject to the guidance of the rotation system? This fleet assessment team reduced a lot of work.

However, Qin Guang didn't use it immediately, but let the evaluation team spend more than half a year? Adjusted the strategy mode in the rotation system to achieve a rotation scheme that meets the characteristics of the nameless fleet? And start implementation.

By 2845? As more and more newcomers pass the functional level assessment? Able to take over the work in the hands of the older generation, a large number of manual positions began to switch from long-term duty mode to rotation mode.

At the same time, due to the stable structure and small size of the new refrigeration plant, which is convenient for centralized resettlement, a large number of people have been put into a frozen state, and the living space in the fleet has become greatly rich, which has further accelerated the training speed of a new generation of voyagers.

There are even radicals in the leadership of the fleet who have proposed that if this trend continues, the fleet can use the surplus productivity of large ships to create more modular, freezer-only spliced spaceships, further expand the size of the population that the fleet can accommodate, and then strengthen the number and performance of energy absorbers that absorb real energy particles from the curvature space, so that by the time it reaches the silver heart, the original 150 million people will swell into an army of 10 billion people!

At that time, these tens of billions of soldiers will have one armor, regardless of performance, but just thinking about that amount is exciting enough.

Tens of billions of armor and tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of intelligent combat units, this expeditionary force will become a mighty main force that throws whips and breaks the river.

I have to say that the future depicted by this radical is very tempting, and Qin Guang almost moved his heart.

However, Qin Guang thought about it again and again, and decided to temporarily suppress the radicals' proposal on the grounds that there were not many soldiers but were fine, and only agreed to appropriately accelerate the scale of population expansion of the new human race.

By 2850, a total of 70 million people had entered the freezer, the vast majority of whom were among the first to board the fleet.

A small number include new pinnacle warriors, super scientists, genius captains, and other emerging talents.

At the same time, Qin Guang and Emerson, three years after his reawakening, jointly passed a new bill.

In order to meet the material requirements for manufacturing and maintaining more freezers, as well as to prepare for the Silver Heart battle, the fleet will shut down gravity simulators in most non-scientific laboratory areas, first, to allow the current population to gradually adapt to gravity-free life, and secondly, to train a new generation of space warriors in gravity-free conditions.

Giving up gravity does not mean giving up physical fitness, and the fleet will strengthen physical training under gravity-free conditions to achieve the effect of all soldiers at critical moments.

With the original physique of earthlings, under the condition of no gravity, the physiological function is not adapted to the space environment, it is difficult for platelets to accurately locate the broken blood vessels, and some minor internal bleeding can easily spread into serious injuries.

Although personal medical assistants can properly restrain this phenomenon, if the human body lacks the ability to self-regulate, once the energy supply is insufficient, or if it enters a state of intense intensity, this slight difference will greatly suppress the combat effectiveness.

According to Emerson's estimates, the remaining 150 years are enough time for the older generation of human bodies to adapt to gravity-free conditions in rapid evolution, the human brain will enter new information, become more sophisticated machines than personal medical assistants, and the human body will produce a new enzyme.

Once the body senses internal bleeding, the tissue cells of the body quickly secrete new enzymes without the need for the brain to make a judgment. This new enzyme does not need gravity to assist in positioning, but will follow the guidance of chemical bonds, like electrons flowing from the negative electrode to the positive electrode in a battery, quickly pounce on the wound, combine with red blood cells, undergo a swelling reaction, and then settle and coagulate, quickly sealing the wound to play a self-first aid effect.

The mechanism of this new type of thrombin is only one of the directions of the evolution of space humans who have been soaring in the space of gravity-free curvature for a long time.

There are thousands of enzymes that are not found in gravity in the human body, and the relationship between cells and tissues, the arrangement of neurons, and even the way nerve signals are transmitted will all undergo fundamental changes.

Dramatic changes are everywhere, just as there will be huge structural differences between inland ships and ocean-going vessels of the same displacement.

In the year 2870, when the second generation of new humans under the weight of gravity gradually came of age, the difference in size of the three generations of humans became apparent.

The first generation of humans, who came from different galaxies and relied on the stable quantum constants of stars, were relatively short.

The second generation of new humans, born in space and coming of age in gravity, is slightly taller.

However, the third generation is clearly polarized, with tall people easily exceeding three meters tall, and short people really only 0.5 meters.

Different body type tendencies represent differences in talent among this generation, and usually tall people have large brains and high scientific potential.

Shorter people have higher bone density and muscle solidity, and the relatively small brain allocates most of their talents to combat ability, and these people are natural armored warriors, and their talents are slightly better than those of the original steel bone warriors.

At this time, the total population of the three generations of humanity combined exceeded 400 million.

Among them, 70 million first-generation humans are sleeping, and 70 million first-generation humans are in key positions in various departments, and they are basically waiting for rotation.

The second generation of humanity numbered 140 million, and the third generation had 160 million.

Qin Guang sat in his office, holding a top-secret report in his hand.

The report was a slight headache for him.

After perennial observation and analysis of the starry descendants carried by the fleet, it was found that some problems had arisen between the three generations of human beings.

At this time, the fleet was more than 9,000 light-years away from the imperial frontier, and although it had been in the curvature space for a long time, it was somewhat connected with the rules of the cosmological constant in the original three-dimensional space outside, and the sense of distant distance and the sense of time dislocation of long-term voyages, as well as the continuous changes in the enzyme environment in the human body, had affected the way people thought about problems, and eventually led some people to have problems in their thinking.

The new generation is gradually losing their sense of identity with the home planet and the empire, and the unified will to sacrifice for the whole race is gradually being attacked.

This problem is especially evident in the third generation of space humans.

Some began to question whether it really made sense to make such a long voyage straight into the heart of the enemy.

Begin to wonder if there is a real chance that this expedition will succeed.

If you go, you will be sent to death, so why not just take advantage of the fact that the fleet is already far above the ecliptic of the galaxy and start sending more people to the extragalactic galaxy, in the hope of leaving more seeds for civilization to be outside.

There are also people who are dissatisfied with the distribution of resources that the first generation of humans gave priority to in terms of rotational resources.

There are also people who think they are capable, but they always have to be pressed on the head by the old guy, and they are dissatisfied with this.

Of course, long before the departure, the Imperial Planning Department had something to think about this phenomenon.

However, at that time, human beings did not possess cryonics technology, and the initial plan was to kill all people once their will was shaken, and use iron-blooded military control methods to preserve combat effectiveness as much as possible.

But now the situation has changed, with the blessing of freezing technology, some of the older generation are sleeping, and they can save their strength until they reach their destination, and at the same time, there are indeed many newcomers who have to show their talents.

Today, the comprehensive strength of the Nameless Fleet is dozens of times stronger than when it set out, purely from the numerical level.

If you can control the situation, you have a better chance of winning when you arrive.

But if you can't control it, it's messed up.

The current situation is that the vast majority of people hide these careful thoughts in their hearts because they are afraid of the ubiquitous artificial intelligence surveillance, but Qin Guang knows that with the passage of time, quantitative changes will inevitably lead to qualitative changes, and a major power shock is likely to occur within the fleet.

Although he can give an order, order the artificial intelligence to instantly destroy all the shakers inside.

But these people are actually not guilty of death, and the perspective of most of the wavering people is still from the direction of continuing human existence, but everyone has different ideas.

Moreover, Qin Guang was reluctant to show the talent of these new generation of human beings.

These are all valuable resources.

Qin Guang began to fall into a long thought, and he had to come up with a solution as soon as possible before the situation continued to deteriorate.

He knew that this was the time for him to face the real test.

If things were really that simple, he would be able to fly over quietly and lurk, and the matter would be over after a fight, and the Empire would not appoint him to be the commander-in-chief.

While Qin Guang was thinking hard, Emerson, the chief scientist who had woken up again, knocked on his door.

"Two messages. A good one, a bad one, which one do you want to listen to first? ”

"Okay."

"The good news is that the Cultivation Department has just successfully raised a new baby. The baby's genes are derived from a male pinnacle fighter and a female S-class warrior, respectively. It was preliminarily determined that this baby had similar potential to Chief Instructor Tong Ling. We've got another super soldier. ”

Qin Guang nodded, "Yes, what about the bad news?" ”

"The baby is reproductively isolated from humans."

Qin Guang stood up straight in shock, glaring angrily, "What! No way! ”

"I don't think it's possible, but it happened."

Emerson shrugged.