Chapter 1: The Beginning
Years later, as I sat in my bunker, listening to the rumbling of artillery outside, and pointed my pistol to my head about committing suicide, I would have remembered the day I first joined the army.
It was 29143 A.D., I first came to the door of the Moon's Vaal Harbor Recruit Training Base, which covers an area of tens of thousands of acres, and when I stepped through this door, I would officially become a member of the Interstellar Defense Force and join this magnificent interstellar war.
The war between the solar system and the Rosha system has been fought for many years, and the Rosha system was the first extra-system colony discovered by mankind, and now it is humanity's worst enemy.
I was assigned to the Army as the lowest mechanic, the lowest class in the army.
But at that time, I only felt that I was extremely excited to join the glorious Galaxy Defense Force, I was just an ordinary young man from the slums of the earth, and now I was very satisfied with wearing a handsome and straight military uniform.
I encouraged myself in my heart that every screw is very important in this war that determines the survival of mankind. So I'm proud of who I am, even though I'm a bit rustic, and my comrades-in-arms who live in the Rich District of the Cloud and come to join the army often laugh at me.
When we entered the base together, they called me a ground rat because I was a dungeon guy, and I rushed up to fight them, but we were all reprimanded by the officers.
I thought the story was like this: I was bullied first, then I became the best soldier with my tenacious will, and then I hit them in the face.
As a result, we entered the melting pot of the army, and it took only three days for us to become our closest comrades-in-arms, and these comrades saved my life several times in the subsequent battles in the Rosha system.
The army is indeed a melting pot, and on the first day of joining the army, we were required to participate in a full day of ideological education activities. One of the most impressive to me was the history talk in the evening, which gave us a detailed introduction to the history of the war.
This history of mankind begins with the Star Gate, and in fact, all the legends of mankind have to start from the day the Star Gate was discovered.
One day many years ago, a scientist of human genius discovered that gravity can tear apart space-time, and there is a space-time tearing point near any planet. This point used to be called a wormhole, but now it's called a stargate.
The discovery of the stargate turned the long interstellar crossing into a point-to-point instantaneous jump.
The whole of humanity is in an unprecedented because they have been trapped on Earth for too long, too long.
Before the discovery of the stargate, human beings thought of countless ways to travel faster than light, but all failed, and human beings began to fall into deep despair, believing that it was impossible to leave the earth for the rest of their lives. At the same time, faith in technology is gradually beginning to crumble.
Technology has led to the rise of human beings, and for a long time human beings have believed that science and technology have no limits, and one day technology will lead mankind to conquer all the stars and seas.
Technology may have no limits, but there is a human lifespan.
It took many centuries for mankind to understand that the complexity of technology has become a deadly trap compared to the short lifespan of human beings of 100 years.
It takes a person most of his life to complete the knowledge before a certain subject, and then he has the possibility of researching forward, but at this time he is already dying.
What makes human beings even more desperate is that all kinds of god-level technologies that were previously fantasized do not exist, and nuclear fusion is already the limit of human technology.
After all, nuclear fusion is the principle of stars, and the road is simple, and what technology can human beings find more profound than the principle of stars?
Those times when humanity struggled to move were called the Dark Ages.
Until the stargate was discovered.
Humanity has finally found a way out in the darkest and most desperate moments.
The planets inside the solar system are connected to each other by stargates, and in the vacuum outside the solar system, there are countless stargates, which connect the entire universe.
The doors of countless worlds were opened in front of mankind, and mankind established a space base on Pluto, which was named "Advance", and since then mankind has begun the great age of interstellar exploration. Set out bravely towards the vast stars.
The distances between celestial bodies billions of light-years are now point-to-point transitions, and shipping routes are mapped, and humans are beginning to build their own star maps.
Some stargates are directly linked to blazing stars, some are linked to terrifying black holes, and many are behind some deadly traps, which have caused a lot of damage to expensive shuttle ships and restricted the speed of human exploration.
In addition to this category, the most on the other side of the stargate are one desolate and dead world after another, in short, it is difficult to have a habitable planet that is just suitable for human survival.
No one has counted how many adventurers have explored the Outer Worlds from the Forward base, but the star map is getting bigger and more complex.
The rules were agreed upon, and the star orbit to the habitable planet was represented by a red line on the star map.
Humanity waited with great anticipation for a full millennium to find the first red line, the Rosa system. Then it took another 300 years to find the second red line, the Phil system. Since then, no matter how much effort has been made, there has never been a third red line.
In the process of exploring one world after another, humans find themselves alone.
Human beings have searched many galaxies, and alien creatures have found a lot, but so far they have not found any intelligently civilized species, most of them are very primitive creatures, and they can't even reach the level of cells, and they have not found any traces of civilization, and human beings have found themselves as God's only favorite.
In the tens of thousands of years since then, mankind has entered a true golden age, when humans ruled the three major galaxies of the Sun, Rocha, and Phil, and the footsteps of adventurers continued to expand the territory of the human empire. A small half of the universe has left the footprints of the great race of mankind.
The solar system is the center of human civilization, and there are legendary stories in every corner of the home planet, and countless skyscrapers are criss-crossed, which is the center of human power and culture. The entire planet shines with the greatest glory of humanity.
The Rocha system provides nourishment for the whole world, and as the first exocolony of mankind, this galaxy is the world's big granary, a big factory. Due to the vast territory and abundant resources, the primary and secondary industries of mankind have been transferred to this side in an all-round way, and it has become a resource center and an economic center. At its peak, the three habitable planets of the Rosa system provided more than 70 percent of humanity's resources.
Phil is a petite galaxy with only one habitable planet. Phil is the most dazzling pearl in the crown of human technology. The free and relaxed atmosphere allows the flower of technology to bloom there, and the technological level of the Phil system is the highest among the three galaxies. Known as the mecca of technology, countless adventurous tech believers have gone there to build the main star Fei'er into a dazzling future star.
In addition to the three major galaxies, there are also huge merchants who travel through the universe, forming vast alliances and calling themselves wanderers.
The territory of the human empire is centered on the earth, including the earth, Mars, Rosha, Kui, Dixing, and Phil, a total of 6 planets, dozens of satellite cities, and thousands of space cities. With a total population of 200 billion, countless wonders have been built in all corners of the world, the entire human race is united under the rule of the empire, internal strife is suppressed by a community of destiny, everything is so thriving, and the great cause of prosperity and development for thousands of generations seems to be just around the corner.
The history of the Golden Age of Humanity is a source of deep pride for each of our soldiers, who were once the masters of this world, even though the human empire has now been shattered.
The common memory of our generation is the revival of the human empire, the children from the slums and the children from the cloud villas, now on the moon base, and we will fight side by side in the future, life and death.