Chapter Ninety-Nine: Explorers
It's unimaginable for you carbon-based creatures.
Before we understand any scientific principles, we have begun to use nuclear energy, which is too simple for us, as long as all the gravitational tentacles are gathered together, the hydrogen atoms that can be seen everywhere in the planet are used as raw materials, and the precise control of the gravitational tentacles is used to make them fuse, we are energy creatures, the absorption rate of heat energy is extremely high, and the pure energy produced by fusion can be directly used as our food.
Since the invention of this technology, we have moved to areas of the stars where activity is more modest, and from then on, we no longer need to go into dangerous coronal storms for energy, we no longer have to rush to collect energy every day, we have started to think more, and we have begun to look up at the sky. Just as several of your ancient civilizations began to develop theology and philosophy after achieving food and clothing.
We have always wondered what is outside this blazing sky, the energy of the stellar heat gives us life, but it also prevents us from exploring outward, the strong electromagnetic interference emitted by the star itself is the first obstacle, we gather our people together, and constantly release gravitational wave frequencies outward, hoping to understand the outside world, but the result is naturally in vain, we do not receive any response, or maybe there is a response, but the small sound is buried in the star's huge interfering magnetic field.
Such behavior may seem naïve today, but for a nascent civilization, the infinite universe is so tempting, and we have established our first regime in a safe haven, and it is normal for us to divide social classes according to age, because older individuals have more powerful gravitational tentacles, they can provide more energy, and they can conduct more complex research. We built huge cities in the inner cores of stars, we combined our gravitational tentacles to weave a huge and delicate web that provided it for us to capture more rare substances inside the stars, and the world became clearer and clearer to us, and our society entered a golden age at that time, in which we created indescribable artistic wonders, and if you also had an inexhaustible supply of energy and food, you would certainly do the same.
Our cities are getting bigger, our tools are getting more sophisticated, and finally we're creating vehicles to explore outer space.
It's funny to say, it's a bombshell, we detonate it and use the gravitational sail to absorb the energy it releases, there are large explosions like this inside the star, and it happens all the time, but we can't control the angle and position of the energy it releases, but if we make it ourselves, it becomes much more controllable. In this way, by constantly detonating nuclear bombs behind the spacecraft, we reached heights never before reached in history. That's interesting, isn't it? If human beings are not afraid of high temperatures and shocks, then the first flying machine in your history will definitely not be a pulp plane, but a cannon.
Here we encounter another barrier, the farther away from the inner core of the star, the thinner the energy around us, light and heat are life for us, in that plan, we glimpsed the void, after sending back the message, the five pioneers on board the spaceship all died due to lack of energy, the spaceship they were riding on was gradually torn apart by a powerful external force, and after losing the energy maintenance, it became very important for us to accept the loss, we brought back a depressing truth with the incomparably precious population- Outside is a hell full of death and ice.
Since then, outer space exploration has ceased for almost a century, our century, which translates to your billion years.
During this period, although the Council outlawed the exploration of space, there were still attempts to do so, and as the problems of living space and class intensified, more and more young people became explorers, eager to find a virgin land that belonged only to them, rather than picking up leftovers under the old men, who believed that there were other planets in the cold void, but we had not yet discovered them.
The dispute between the two sides is getting more and more serious, and even a small war has broken out, you must know that we are a race that spares our lives, and we are afraid to avoid the word war. At such a tense juncture, a catastrophe that no one expected broke out, an unprecedented stellar flare event that destroyed our city, we are not afraid of heat and shock, but the massive amount of high-energy particle radiation ejected by the flare is fatal to us, it will disrupt the sequence of photon circuits in our core, it will be equivalent to destroying our brains.
So we had to move to a safer location, but the disaster didn't stop, and no matter where we hid, there were always all kinds of disasters that were in hot pursuit, and no one knew why...... The council blamed all this on the adventure, believing that the adventurer's ship had disturbed the star's magnetic field, and they were determined at first, but in the cold winter when the adventure almost completely stopped, the star activity did not slow down, but became more intense.
Instead, the adventurers brought back the truth.
He was the first person to break out of the galaxy after more than a billion years of unremitting efforts, you don't understand his name, I will call him Magellan by your historical code, he was lucky to get rid of the gravitational pull of the star with the help of the coronal storm, and after so many years of development, we have managed to create a perfect small energy field, enough to deal with the adverse reactions caused by leaving the star.
Magellan looked down on this brilliant orange glowing planet, it was so beautiful, every line on it, every spiral painted by the storm, every vigorous gushing track, it was as beautiful as a work of art, but the starry sky behind it was even more beautiful, and countless stars flashed faint but wonderful light against the pitch-black background.
It was a new world.
Magellan and his crew cheered, brandishing their gravitational tentacles, and although it was still a distant dream to immigrate to an alien planet with today's technology, their discovery broke a century-long curse, and we no longer feel fear when we look up at space, it is no longer so cold and terrifying, but a place of hope and endless light.
Along with this good news, a new investigation report was sent back to the home star, and they came up with a terrifying possibility from external observation and sampling, that the gravitational pull on the outside of the star was much smaller than previously predicted, and that the data collected at the end of the first launch of the death spacecraft was small, and although the error was subtle, it did evolve in this direction, and it was shrinking every day.
After this news was transmitted back to the home world, the scholars quickly investigated, their previous understanding of the evolution of stars was still blank, since Magellan's spacecraft successfully broke through, the home world has obtained a batch of precious star observations, and by comparing with other stars, they have come to a terrible conclusion.
The era of the main-sequence star of the star beneath their feet is over, and its internal hydrogen is beginning to run out, and soon it will enter the aging phase...... Finally, meet the fate of death.