Chapter 19: The Lost Civilization (Aaron's Message)

"I'm sorry for the sudden interruption, but we're also forced to do it, our civilization's home planet was once as beautiful as Earth, but our unbridled exploitation and pollution have ruined this beauty, and when we realized it, we had to leave our home planet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

"Our people have been divided into 10 fleets and have traveled to 10 recorded planets that may be suitable for our survival, and your home planet, Earth, is also one of the 10 planets we have planned."

"Before we came here, we didn't know that the environment of the earth was so ideal, it was not much different from our home planet, but we didn't know before that the earth had given birth to its own life, that is, you, human beings."

"You are also the first intelligent life we have discovered other than us, we have known for a long time that the universe is not lonely, but when you appeared in front of us, we were still shocked and delighted."

"Our civilization is a civilization full of intellectuality, if it is in an era of peace, we really want to establish friendly diplomatic relations with you, but the other fleets that have gone to other star systems have come with disappointing news one by one, the earth has become the last hope for the continuation of our civilization, the leader of our civilization has gone through countless meetings, and countless questionnaires have been conducted among the citizens, but we have finally decided to invade your world."

"In order to achieve the invasion, we began to observe your civilization and learn your knowledge, there is no doubt that you are a very potential race, you only took two hundred earth years from the industrial age to the atomic age, and then entered the information age, it only took a few dozen earth years, it was only a short time to wait for the arrival of the other nine fleets, your civilization has actually developed to the point where it can confront us head-on, which undoubtedly frightens us."

"The leader of our civilization has decided that it cannot be delayed any longer, and one-tenth of our civilization will be the first to attack, although your civilization is developing rapidly, there is still a huge gap with us."

"But I have to say that both of our civilizations were quite unlucky, and just as we were about to attack, a gamma-ray burst came...... It was too late for us to observe a gamma-ray burst, but we had no choice but to evacuate quickly, and we are sorry to have abandoned you and the Earth, we sent this message to you through your network, but not many people seemed to believe it, and at that time we really thought that your civilization was about to die. ā€

"But we couldn't escape the radiation range of the gamma-ray burst after all, we have no way, the only option, to let all the spacecraft get together and jointly launch a pseudo-gamma-ray burst with the same frequency, but ahead of half a fluctuating period, in the direction of the gamma-ray burst, if the plan goes well, the two gamma bursts will cancel each other, so that we can find a glimmer of life."

"But unfortunately, the plan failed, and our ship was confident that it would survive this radiation, but our people did not, so one-tenth of our civilization slept forever in the vast sea of stars, just like your dead people."

"But fortunately, the people of our spaceship survived, perhaps because of an interference in the gamma rays emitted by countless spaceships, which just canceled out the gamma rays arriving on this spaceship, and we survived, but we were the only ones who survived."

"Tens of thousands of people live in this spaceship, but almost all of them are ordinary citizens, in order to preserve the most precious part of civilization in the disaster, scientists and leaders and elites in various fields have almost gathered on another faster and safer spaceship, which is our flagship, but they are all dead now, although we survived, our spacecraft also suffered great damage, nuclear fusion engines, over-distance communications, organic generators and other important machines have failed, There are a part of our citizens who have the knowledge to repair them, but without the support of civilized industrial production, we do not have enough replacement parts and technical conditions. ā€

"Without telecommunications, we can't connect with our mother civilization, we lose our organic generators, we lose our sources of biomass, we lose our fusion engines, we don't even have the energy to support our return to the solar system...... But we didn't give up, we can go back to the pastoral era, we can grow our food inside the spaceship, we can turn off the impulse engine, we can sail back to the solar system in a regular way, no matter how long the time is, as long as we return to the solar system, we can use the radio amplification effect of the stars to connect with our mother civilization, and we still have hope. ā€

"The time of conventional voyage is very long, in the 288th year of conventional voyage, that is, 998 earth years, I was born, I listened to my parents tell everything about our civilization, and I am as hopeful as everyone on this spaceship, as long as we are connected to our mother civilization, with us as the air coordinates, we can completely guide a small number of mother civilization fleets to the solar system by sailing at curvature faster than the speed of light, so that we can not only be saved, but also become heroes of civilization."

"But when we returned to the solar system after a long journey, we saw you, and we couldn't believe that you had survived gamma-ray bursts and were about to build a glorious civilization once again...... But this is not good news for us, the earth is located in the orbit of the third planet of the solar system, and now we have no way to get close to the sun without hiding from you, and we can't even enter the eight planetary systems, the energy is running out, the shortage of biomass makes us unable to think, we are desperate, and there are only two choices in front of us. ā€

"One is that we ask you for help and contact the mother civilization through your help, but we cannot guarantee that you are kind to us, and to a certain extent, we are enemies, we must deceive you, so that you are willing to help us contact the mother civilization, so that the fleet of the mother civilization will come in advance to occupy your world."

"The second is that we are desperately trying to use 95% of our remaining energy to activate our last weapons and destroy you in one fell swoop...... But even with 95% of the remaining energy, there is no way to accelerate the [Orbital Magnetar] to its original speed, and it can only impact at a slow speed of less than 100 times the speed of sound...... Although we are weak, your situation does not seem to be much better, according to the calculations of [Kara-3], even if it is only an orbiting magnetar with less than 100 times the speed of sound, it is a weapon that you cannot resist at the moment. ā€

"Our citizens voted and finally chose the second option, I'm sorry, we really have no choice, our civilization is full of intellectuality, we can't do such a shameful and despicable deception, so we choose to use the power of civilization to defeat you head-on, in this war, we are undoubtedly evil invaders, but we have no way, there is really no way, the only thing we can do may be to hold respect for your civilization, with the full strength of our civilization, to defeat you head-on."

"But what we didn't expect is that you are so crazy, using the satellites of your home planet to block our last weapons, we have failed, completely failed, and now, peace talks are no longer possible, and we do not have enough resources to support a war, although our civilization is full of intellectuality, but we also know the law of natural elimination, energy is exhausted, biomass is exhausted, in order not to let hunger and despair crush our intellect, we choose to die together."

"My wife has fallen asleep in my arms and has returned to Kara's side along with our unborn child, and my life is coming to an end, leader of the earth's civilization, I'm sorry to let you listen to the nagging of a hostile civilization for so long, the reason why I left this recording is just to send you a message."

"Although we can't become the empty letter coordinates of the mother civilization, the location of the earth has long been exposed, although we are enemies, although our ending has an indirect relationship with you, but at the last moment of life, looking at my wife's peaceful sleeping face, I don't have any hatred for you, we are a civilization full of intellectuality, we know that everything is provoked by us first, and such an ending is also our own bitter fruit, so we don't hate you."

"Give up the earth, leave, leave, leave...... The fleet of the mother civilization should have entered the Orion cantilever, and even if there is no curvature to sail, at the speed of our civilization's spaceship, it will not take more than 200 Earth years to reach the solar system, so, leave...... Our target is only the Earth, and even if it has been damaged by gamma-ray bursts, we have the confidence to repair it, so let's go, let's go, let's go......"

"I don't want a war between us, neither your people nor our people should die in a war that can only exist in low-level creatures in order to grab living space, we should have greeted you when we came here, and exchanged our technology and resources for you a part of the living space in a peaceful exchange, but I'm sorry, although our civilization is full of intellectuality, there are also some radicals in it who have power, I can't stop them, I'm just an ordinary citizen, I can't do anything other than vote on the anti-war questionnaire......"

"Our corpses will be degraded by prepared microorganisms, I'm sorry, I can't leave you with our bodies to expose the weaknesses of our civilization, this ship has left a lot of technology in it, and there is also a good impulse engine in it, although it is not worth mentioning compared to Earth, but this is the only thing I can leave you, with it, you should be able to start a formal interstellar journey, sorry, Earth civilization, sorry ......"

"This recording will be automatically translated into your language after my death, I don't know, at the last moment of my life, did I prove the intellect of our civilization, we are really not born invaders, we really have no choice............ My vision began to blur, and I could hear my wife and children calling out to me...... Kara, the one I will always love dearly...... I'm sorry, Earth Civilization, and good luck to you, Earth Civilization.................. An ordinary citizen of the Kara civilization - Aaronliu. ā€