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A consultative meeting is currently under way at the Conference Centre.

As you can see from the uniforms of the people seated, the people in the convention center belong to two different departments. Wearing a light blue uniform are people from the Space Development Project Center Headquarters, while people wearing black clothes with red cuffs are people from the Second World Management Committee.

"We have screened the candidates you provided, and we have a clear candidate, but in order to be safe, we need to select again after the production of Lancer IV is completed, so the process of the second world cannot be separated from the Galactic Era before that, do you have any problems?" Representatives in blue are explaining their decision to the opposite side.

"We can't interfere too much with the processes of the second world, and if inappropriate external means are used, regulators may adopt more extreme tactics to promote the process. According to the latest results from our macro analysis group, it will take at least six months before the Galactic Era reaches the epoch change. ”

"Six months? That's not enough, the production progress of Lancer IV will take sixteen months at the earliest! We need future captains to be in the best spirits at that time! ”

"Candidates don't need to worry at all, and if there are ups and downs due to changes in the environment, they won't be eligible to be on the shortlist."

…… Yes, this is a captain selection meeting, and it is the selection of the captain of the next colony ship.

A real giant colony ship would choose the most important captain in the second world, which has to be said to be a very strange choice, but it will become like this, because there is too much pressure on the heads of various departments.

Humans have been sending people outside the solar system since 1,000 years ago, and the final result so far has been nothing.

The biggest problem is, of course, the hyperspace navigation technology or warp speed technology that has not been broken so far, if there is a creator god in the universe, then the warp speed technology that carries life is undoubtedly the ultimate divine power to challenge the creator god head-on. Human beings have always felt that they will be able to break through the bottleneck of hyperspace technology in a few decades, especially when hyperspace communication technology becomes a reality, most human beings even feel that they will have hyperspace jumping technology when they sleep, but unfortunately the reality is a joke, and the hyperspace peripheral technology has been updated from generation to generation, and the ultimate problem is still dragging there.

Generally speaking, since the technology is not mature, the best way is to wait, anyway, human beings have completed the colonization of the solar system, and our sun will not end in one or two hundred million years, and time is very sufficient.

What stimulated the implementation of the extra-colonial program was a crisis within humanity -- population differentiation.

Due to living in different environments and gravity systems all year round, after generations of genetic self-adaptation, the earth, the moon, Mars, Europa humans gradually show completely different life characteristics, simply put, now non-earth humans return to the earth thousands of years ago, will be dissected as aliens, everyone is very worried that this will make human beings enter a chaotic state of separation again, from a certain point of view, the second world's dependence on regulators, the complete dormancy of earthlings is also due to this concern.

Before the construction of the first large-scale colonial ship, the research of antimatter has already achieved certain results, if the human race is really divided, even if it is distributed in the solar system at a maximum distance of tens of AU, it will not necessarily escape the disaster of self-destruction, and the only thing that can allow mankind to retain the seeds of wisdom is, of course, extraterrestrial colonization.

The fact that the Lancers, who had a certain experimental nature, left the Ice Barrier and disappeared from the cosmic background more than a decade later, caused a great deal of blow, forced to delay the immigration plan for decades, and gave birth to the current management system, a system that gradually promoted the Second World as the main world.

Lancer II, not so much a colonial ship as a research ship. It can be said that she is the most special one in the entire Lancer Colonization series, during the voyage, the Lancer II will drop a beacon point every 2AU distance, due to the slow sailing speed of the ship at the time, this beacon delivery action requires a lot of weight loss, resulting in the Lancer II can only maintain the living needs of less than 30 people when it reaches the target location. Incidentally, the Lancer II has the smallest crew in the Lancer series, but it has the largest volume and material capacity. But unfortunately, the Lancer II did not escape the fate of losing contact in the end, but due to the beacons laid along the road, enough information was recovered in the solar system in the years after the loss, and it can be determined that the cause of the loss of Lancer II was the accidental penetration of the hull by a celestial body. After reconstructing the Lancer II's autonavigation system, the investigation team speculated that the culprit may be a hypervelocity object that suddenly emerged from behind a slow celestial body.

The Lancer III is a true colony ship, with a six-light-year-long beacon guidance from the Lancer II, and a new autopilot and celestial interception system, she sailed smoothly, but unfortunately lost contact with her. Perhaps it shouldn't be said that the contact is lost, the signal sent by the Lancer III still exists today, although the distortion is outrageous, but it can still be partially restored, and there is no human feedback at all, it is all the signal that the ship automatically sends back to the solar system. According to the feedback information and log analysis, Lancer III should theoretically have arrived at the target galaxy, is in the preliminary preparation stage of the orbital star movement, as for the above personnel where to go is unknown, the biggest problem is that although the solar system has an internal hyperspace communication system, but there is no way to send hyperspace signals to Lancer III, and the normal electronic signal and quantum signal are delayed at this distance for decades, not to mention, without the cooperation of personnel, it is difficult for the machine to accurately restore the instructions, The slightest error could cause humanity to lose forever the ship, which was already twelve light-years away.

And the Lancer IV mentioned in the meeting of the Space Development Program Center at this moment, and the predecessors are completely the products of two eras, and the factor that stimulates the restart of the program is that the sporadic resistance movement is showing a rising trend year by year this year, marching here today, the one who ran to Earth tomorrow to rescue his compatriots, and the other one jumped to Europa the day after tomorrow to blow up the underwater base, and if this development continues, sooner or later, the Human Alliance will have to dismantle the existing management system and bear the infinitely increased risk of disintegration, and no one can predict what will happen after the disintegration, what they can do is to step up the restart of the colonization plan and send a boatload or two of people out of the solar system first.

Back to the Lancer IV, the gap between the era of the appearance of the Lancer IV and the Lancer III is four hundred years, and mankind has not done nothing during this period, and the development of the times has made the Lancer IV have the possibility of real migration.

First of all, the Lancer IV is equipped with a mobile hyperspace information integrated system that has been repeatedly tested for decades, although it is not as capable of galaxy scanning as the hyperspace information integrated system in the second world, but it can ensure that the Lancer IV can communicate with the launch base station in the solar system with a time error rate of 100 hours from 20 light years away, and this effective communication distance is far greater than that of the hyperspace information complex system in the second world.

Secondly, after several generations of improved propulsion system and external form, the maximum speed of the Lancer IV can reach one-tenth of the speed of light, greatly reducing the time of the entire journey, even if it flies twenty light years, it only takes half the time of the Lancer III to fly twelve light years. Of course, it is impossible for this thing to accelerate up to the acceleration set for time efficiency in the Galactic Age, and the entire acceleration process from standstill will last more than two years.

Then, the Lancer IV will also be equipped with kinetic interception weapons, and the new integrated interception system will be more reliable than its predecessors in the fight against high-speed celestial objects, ensuring safe navigation.

Finally, the Lancer IV will use a dormant manual management system with very high reliability and safety metrics. The system allows people in the hibernation pod to interact in a real-life setting without having to go to sleep. To make it clearer, while the crew is dormant, their bodies will still exist in the real scene of the ship in the form of holographic projections instead of in the virtual environment, and the interaction information of the holographic projections with living people or other projections will be accurately fed back to the sleeping body. Countless generations of updated technology not only listen, speak and see, but also allow the crew's virtual images to obtain the sense of touch, smell, taste and pain from the real scene, so that the crew can know the actual state of the ship at the first time, and the system can also tolerate a low degree of electronic equipment failure.

Finally, the improvement of the personnel system has greatly released the range of personnel selection, making it possible to "select the most suitable from the entire human race", instead of "selecting the best among very limited people" in the past.

The new colonization program changed destinations that could be unknown dangers, and in exchange for the need to fly an additional 5.6 light-year distance, the entire mission would be more than 170 years.

One hundred and seventy years, everyone else can be rotated, but the captain, who is the ultimate source of instructions for crisis management, needs to spend at least two hours a week knowing the current situation of the ship during these hundred and seventy years, and can be woken up by machines and crews from absolute hibernation or virtual leisure at any time.

A powerful heart is obviously not enough for the captain of the Lancer IV, and the designer of the Lancer IV, the Moon Base, said that if humans really have the existence of being able to complete the captaincy alone, it can only exist among the Earth Awakened and Europa's Demon King! The selection of candidates has been going on for two years, and there may have been various chivalrous people along the way, but today, after screening more than 20 million applicants, soldiers, and potential observers, more than half of the twenty people who entered the final shortlist are indeed Earth Awakeners or Europa Demon Kings from the Second World.

However, this result did not surprise the people in the Space Development Program Center, because these two very small minority groups are indeed fighting against "absolute loneliness" all the time, but they themselves do not realize that this is an abnormal state.

In fact, in the internal review of the planning center, the demon kings are out at the moment, and the reason is nothing more than that the demon kings are not just verbal, but really treat humans as monkeys, even if their brain mathematical efficiency far exceeds that of personal computers in the electric era, and they are only pediatrics, but they are by no means a reliable option to entrust the future of the entire human race. At today's meeting, there were actually only six candidates left inside: two soldiers, one volunteer, and three Awakened. Although there are two military quotas reserved in it, everyone knows that compared with the awakened, the possibility that soldiers can withstand psychological pressure for more than a hundred years is too small, and leaving them in the internal list is more or less reassuring.

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At the same time, the Moon, the Nine test site.

The test site and the experimental field on the moon are two things, and the test site is a place where the huge underground computing library of the lunar base provides sufficient computing power and conducts simulation experiments, and the computing capacity occupied by a laboratory is about equivalent to the amount used by the entire resident star of the second world.

At this moment, the huge metal machine suspended in the Ninth Proving Ground, which is completely unrecognizable as a hologram, is obviously the MCOSX magnetodynamic thruster that has been used in the second world.

"These guys...... Magnetic interference has really gotten a little lower. A woman in a bald white coat watched.

"What's the use of being lower, the measured data at the beginning can exceed the standard by a hundred times!" The man next to him shook his head, completely ignoring the slight improvements, "It's been half a year, and with this amount of improvement, it's a question whether the finished product can catch up with the design of the Lancer V." ”

The man's words attracted the attention of the woman, and she turned around and asked, "How many hundred years is the difference between three and four, five?" ”

"I have internal information that the preliminary demonstration of the Lancer V will begin within two years after the completion of the fourth, and the actual production will be carried out according to the procedure of the fourth ten years at most." The man took the opportunity to approach the woman and whispered the gossip.

"That's right...... For more than ten years, even if it is slow, it should be able to be used as a landing craft, and it can save a lot of materials in the early days of colonization. ”

"If you want me to see it, I want to lose contact, and I will save it!"