Chapter 100: Escape from the Dusk

We are very fortunate to have been created by a coincidence, but unfortunately our planet is very large, about fifty times the core around your planet, and the massive star will use up the hydrogen in the core faster than the smaller star.

After the hydrogen in the core is consumed, the nuclear reaction in the core stops, leaving a helium nucleus, and after losing the energy of the nuclear reaction that defies gravity, the outer shell of the star begins to collapse gravitationally, and the temperature and pressure of the core increase as during star formation, but at a higher level. This is where the frequent stellar activity during this period takes place, a flashback of the twilight before it falls into death, and soon these activities will subside, and the temperature of the entire star will rapidly decrease, and it will begin to expand gradually after the inner core collapses completely.

There are only three possible outcomes, either it will continue to expand into a huge but cold red giant, our people have long been accustomed to the environment of the yellow dwarf, and there is no way to survive in the cold environment of low energy, although it is still too hot for you to live in the place of death, but for us it is really cold. Either it will explode violently after expanding into a superred giant, and in that explosion it will be a pulsar or supernova with great mass, and no living thing will survive that explosion, and no living thing will survive on a supernova. The last possibility...... Worst of all, if it still has objective mass in the explosion, it is likely to coalesce into a black hole after the explosion, which is a state of death where time cannot flow...... Have you seen that? By the way, you've surely seen a pair of twin star black hole systems on the way here.

The reality is already in front of us, no matter what the ending, we have only a dead end, the planet has entered a state of twilight, and will soon usher in death, although there are still about two billion years, but for us this is already very short, and as the planet gradually cools, we will have less and less energy available, our productivity and scientific research strength will decline, and the further we go, the less we plan, so after learning this news, our society has quickly undergone drastic changes, After several wars, the Council for Nuclear Science became the new one, and until now, we still call our civilization the First Nuclear Civilization.

We erected a colossal statue of the First Core to pay our respects to the indomitable Pioneer of the ancients, and in the days that followed, we devoted all of our power to the development of the Void Ships, which we needed...... We need a ship that will take us out of here, the cold dusk chasing us behind us, and we're dead if we don't move forward.

During this period, we paid a huge price, sacrificed a lot of things, did a lot of crazy things, this is no way, as long as the thought of dusk, everyone fell into madness, in order to survive we are willing to do anything, but ...... In the end, we still failed, we couldn't build it, and the closest galaxy to us is twelve light-years away, and even with a dormant system, we can't carry it for that long...... You will not understand that carbon-based creatures can survive long interstellar journeys with a little cryogenic and medicine, but we need to consume energy all the time, let alone take everyone to the new world...... Even the need to sustain the lives of all people in space requires a lot of energy.

The stars are starting to get colder and colder, everyone is doing the last revelry, and the hope is getting slimmer, and even the people who continue to insist on developing the spaceship are only relying on a perseverance, and they themselves do not believe that they can build such a spaceship.

It was at this time that a crazy but feasible idea was proposed.

How about trying it out with the oldest ship? We can't build a powerful enough energy furnace, but we can build a huge enough radiant sail and reservoir, only a super huge nuclear bomb detonates behind us, theoretically it can accelerate us to ten percent of the speed of light, and after full acceleration, we can abandon the radiant sail and make attitude adjustments, and we can reach a new star before the energy is exhausted, which is a blue giant with a lot of energy, although it is not very suitable for us, but it is completely enough for us to make a transition.

Where are we going to get such a big nuclear bomb, you ask? Isn't that planet beneath our feet a big nuclear bomb? What we have to do is increase the energy of its core before it collapses, so that it can produce a strong enough explosion, which is what we do best, and we've been doing it for billions of years, and we've all been doing it for billions of years, and we've all got into action, building the right spaceship, aggregating a lot of hydrogen matter, and our gravitational tentacles can cover a hundred kilometers when fully deployed, and we're not many of us, but we're all united...... It's nonsense, solidarity in the face of death is an instinct, no matter what, it's better than death, isn't it? You too, little furballs, have shown unprecedented solidarity since the hijacking.

Because of our actions, the star's lifespan was shortened by 1.5 billion years, and the massive infusion of material overwhelmed the star's core, which collapsed prematurely in the amount of time we expected.

This level of explosion is difficult to withstand head-on, our ark is arranged outside the coronal circle of the star, the moment it explodes we are all stupid, this is something we have long expected, but we are still stupid, as if the whole universe lit up at that moment, the shock is indescribable, the burst of majestic energy instantly filled our memory, and 90% of the mass of our spacecraft is a huge storage.

The incomparably strong force propelled our radiant sails, which were woven from stands, could withstand huge amounts of heat and impact, and converted it into power, and in this way, our entire civilization embarked on a journey to the stars......

But it didn't reach the destination we set......