Chapter Ninety-Eight: Return to the Beacon Space City
This is the day when Saturn's storm is at its most intense.
The entire planet was shrouded in violent air currents, obscuring the sky and the sun.
In space near the meteorites, ice, and interstellar dust belts of Saturn's rings, sightseeing interstellar flights from planets are traveling between Saturn and Earth.
In the Star Alliance No. 6784 Interstellar Harbor, which was built in space near Saturn's rings, dozens of sightseeing spacecraft flying to Earth are moored at various take-off positions, waiting for tourists to arrive.
On the interstellar dock at the port of anchor, many small space shuttles come and go on the dock, selling Saturn souvenirs to people from the planets and Space City.
There are also some speculative elements who have been circulating on the routes of various planets for a long time, selling some cheap goods produced on other planets as Saturn souvenirs at high prices, hoping to earn star coins from tourists.
For this phenomenon, the Star Alliance tourism department is quite a headache, although the subordinate planetary tourism police have carried out many crackdowns, there are still tourists who are greedy for small bargains are deceived from time to time.
But that's all, these people are not bold enough to dare to seek money and kill people. Therefore, although the Star Alliance has carried out severe crackdowns, the punishment is not too heavy for these people, nothing more than fines and sentences of several years in prison, and no more stringent regulations have been introduced.
In the topmost luxury cabin of one of the blue civil interstellar flights, Yang Yi and Han Weiwei were standing side by side outside the dazzling window of the cabin, looking at Saturn in the distance.
The current Saturn storm is already traveling at more than 1,800 kilometers per hour, much faster than the center of Jupiter's Great Red Spot Eye of the storm. Due to the intensity of the storm in Saturn's atmosphere, the Covenant forbade sightseeing ships from entering the Saturn storm center.
This is the day when Yang Yi and them return to the Earth Beacon Space City.
During their time on Saturn, the two went to Titan, which is 290,000 kilometers away from Saturn, and Titan, which is 1.2 million kilometers away from Saturn.
These are the two largest of Saturn's many planets, and they are also the most concentrated moons of the Covenant at present.
A travel company of Star Alliance took advantage of the long-term ice cover on the surface of Titan to build the largest ice sculpture art city in the solar system.
Ice sculptors from all over the solar system gather here to decorate Saturn's moon, which is only 1,060 kilometers in diameter.
In Titan's largest city, the Crystal Ice Palace, artists use ice sculptures to tell stories in an exhibition that civilizes the entire solar system. Ice sculptures not only reproduce the evolutionary history of the solar system, but also reproduce the evolutionary history of human beings.
The characters and scenes in literary masterpieces are also reproduced here, such as the Havoc in Journey to the West, the Four Families in the Dream of Red Mansions, the ghosts and foxes in Liaozhai, Shakespeare's comedy, etc., all of which are recreated through ice sculptures in the Crystal Ice Palace.
In the Crystal Ice Palace, the evolution of the universe and galaxies is also shown to visitors through the imagination and hands of ice sculpture artists.
Yang Yi and Han Weiwei arrived just in time for Europa's annual Planetary Ice Sculpture Festival. At the festival, visitors not only saw the grand opening ceremony, but also experienced the free creation of their own statue of each visitor at the Crystal Ice Palace, although these costs are already included in the tour.
After discussion, Yang Yi and Han Weiwei decided to make a statue of the two wearing wedding photos in the Crystal Ice Palace. In order for the statue to be maintained for a long time, real crystal was also used as the material.
In the next few days, they visited several other smaller cities on Callisto, and then took an interstellar flight to Titan.
Titan is Saturn's largest moon, with a diameter of 5,150 kilometers, and is one of the largest planetary moons in the solar system.
Beneath Titan's thick methane ice, tourism companies have created the solar system's largest spa center using methane as fuel.
At the Titan Hot Springs Center, visitors from all planets can soak in the hot springs while visiting a methane beast endemic to Titan. The beast survives on methane and is covered in blazing fires.
Incredibly, this beast is surprisingly docile, not only does it not have any aggressiveness, but its cute appearance and laziness make visitors laugh.
Unfortunately, Methanem can only live on Titan, and will die as soon as it leaves here, otherwise it would have been spotted in zoos on other planets.
After returning to Saturn's rings from Titan, Yang Yi and Han Weiwei embarked on a return journey.
"Ladies and gentlemen, interstellar flight XM34896 from Saturn to Space City will depart in three minutes, due to the long flight time, please return to your seats for safety reasons."
Yang Yi and Han Weiwei snuggled up to each other, admiring the starry sky outside the dazzling window of the cabin, and the prompt sound of the flight attendant suddenly came from the cabin of the spacecraft.
"Weiwei, let's go back, the flight Mashan is about to leave the port."
Yang Yi glanced back at Han Weiwei and said.
"Well, let's go back."
Han Weiwei agreed softly.
The two of them returned to the cabin and sat down, attaching the safety escape system and seat belts.
Three minutes later.
A blue civilian spaceship carrying tens of thousands of people flew out of the Interstellar Harbor No. 6784 of the Covenant in the universe near Saturn's rings, entered the dark cosmic space, and flew at high speed in the direction of the earth.
Yang Yi looked at the dark starry sky outside the spaceship's dazzling window, frowning slightly and thinking about something.
Since they reunited with Han Weiwei, their lives have undoubtedly been happy, and with the generous benefits of the Star Alliance, they have traveled to almost all the tourist planets developed by the Star Alliance in the solar system.
Although this kind of life seems more comfortable, Yang Yi is not satisfied with this status quo. Looking at Han Weiwei, who was already sleeping on the other side, Yang Yi showed a soft gaze in his eyes, this was the softest place in his heart, because of her existence, Yang Yi made up for some regrets in his heart.
In two days, they will be back in the Beacon Space City and begin preparations to rebuild the Somersault Cloud.
As long as all goes well, the somersault will be reborn in the near future, becoming his and Han's companion for the re-exploration of the constellation Centauri, 4.3 light-years away, and beyond.
Thinking of the failed journey to Centauri more than two hundred years ago, Yang Yi's expression became heavy.
So far, Yang Yi does not know whether the Maltese invasion of the solar system a century ago was due to the launch of the somersault cloud, but one thing is certain, that is, the use of nuclear fusion technology is a technological explosion in various galaxies, at least in the solar system.
However, for today's human beings, the maturity of nuclear fusion technology has reached an unprecedented height, and even become a little backward.
At present, the most widely used technology of the Star Alliance is the antimatter technology that evolved from Maltese technology. This technology not only makes a variety of weapons, but also uses it as an energy source.
Not only are the antimatter engines more efficient in energy use, but they also provide longer distances. To the commendend, this engine first mate increased the speed of the spacecraft, greatly reducing travel time and increasing efficiency.
Since the successful development of the antimatter engine, the speed of the spacecraft has skyrocketed, from 700 kilometers per second before the war, to nearly 7,000 kilometers per second now, an increase of nearly ten times.
Even some powerful companies in the Star Alliance have begun to experiment with powerful engines that can support the spacecraft to fly 10,000 kilometers per second.
Almost all of the Covenant's military spaceships are equipped with antimatter engines, and even some civilian spaceships that need to carry out interstellar voyages have begun to popularize this high-efficiency engine.
The last time Yang Yi consulted in the Beacon Space City, the latest civilian spacecraft produced by the Explorer Starship Group made the antimatter engine the standard configuration of the new spaceship.
Compared with nuclear fusion technology, the successful application of antimatter technology is the real technological explosion. According to the standards of the Maltese, the solar system with antimatter technology has no generation difference with the Centauri in terms of planetary technology level, and they both belong to the middle fourth-level civilization. This is probably the reason why the Centaurs have not sent a fleet to invade for more than a hundred years after the defeat of the Maltese left-behind fleet.
Of course, there is also the possibility that Centauri is busy dealing with the war with the Sirius binary star Vajra, and flawlessly cares about the threats posed by the technological development of the solar system. After all, no matter how powerful the Centaur fleet is, it is impossible to deal with the attack of two fourth-level planets at the same time.
However, this is not necessarily a bad thing for the solar system, and the more peaceful the time, the stronger the foundation of the galaxy.
Until now, humanity has not established diplomatic relations with other galaxies or colonies in the outer galaxy.
But Yang Yi knew very well that with the rapid growth of the Star Alliance's strength and the rapid progress of technology, it was only a matter of time before he projected his influence to other star systems.
After all, there are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way, and each star system has a different number of planets and moons.
With the Milky Way's 100,000 light-years away and the sheer number of stars, even a tiny few galaxies would have evolved life and civilization, enough for many years of human exploration.
And with the current technological capabilities of the Star Alliance, the range of activity has not exceeded five light years, and even the fleet has not really reached a star system like Centauri. As for exploring the galaxy farther away, it's out of reach.
Therefore, the current Star Covenant is still weak, and once it faces a higher-level technological civilization, the Star Alliance fleet will be vulnerable, and it is not only possible to fall back into the flames of war, but even to be destroyed.
Perhaps the people of the solar system are now very confident in their technological prowess, believing that the Covenant fleet is capable of dealing with the threat of war, and is not worried about the invasion of other galaxies. But the serious consequence of blind self-confidence is to overestimate oneself and underestimate the enemy, and when the real war comes, these self-confident people are often the one who wants to collapse the most.
The interstellar flight returning to the indicator light is still at high speed on the way back and is getting closer and closer to its destination, having flown out of Saturn's gravitational range and approaching Jupiter.
And Yang also fell asleep with the gradual fatigue, he had to hurry up and get some sleep, so that he could rest well before returning to the Beacon Space City.