As we all know, the 33 high-level Rubik's Cube is composed of a total of 6135 independent modules.

That means that this thirty-three high-level Rubik's Cube starship is also composed of 6,135 independent starship body modules.

Yes, it is.

Among the 6,135 individual starship modules, the 30-tonnage spherical nucleus is said to be the core of the antimatter drive. And this huge core is surrounded and served by 569 of the 6,135 starship modules.

And what about these 569 individual modules?

They belong to different serial numbers from the remaining 5566 starship modules, specifically, these 569 independent modules belong to the serial number of the antimatter drive module, and the serial number of the central superbrain module, and they cannot carry out any arrangement and reorganization with the other 5566 starship modules, nor can they be fused and recombined.

Yes, in addition to these 569 individual modules, the other 5566 Starship Modules are all part of the outer structure serial number. Whether it's modules built in the core articulation area of a starship, or modules built on the surface of a starship, they all fall within the serial numbering range of the starship's outer structure.

They revolve around the starship's core, antimatter drive module, and central superbrain module, building layer after layer of the starship's hull from the inside out, up to the entire starship's shell.

The module building function of these outer junctions is to protect the core of the starship, and secondly, when the starship encounters any heavy damage, it can carry out a repair reorganization and arrangement with the surrounding connecting modules, so as to complete the self-repair and upgrading process of the starship.

And the most superficial hull of the Rubik's Cube starship is composed of countless small low-level Rubik's Cube structure starships. These low-level Rubik's Cube structure starships refer to first-order, second-order, or third-order small Rubik's Cube ships, which are independent small starships in their own right, but can also be combined with other starships in the surrounding area to form a larger starship as needed.

For example, two first-order starship bodies can be combined into a second-order starship body. And a second-order starship body, plus another first-order starship body, can be combined into a third-order starship body. By analogy, these low-level starships attached to the most superficial layer of the starship can be upgraded into higher-level Rubik's Cube structure starships through a combination of arrangements.

For example, a third-order Rubik's Cube starship body formed by the reorganization of a low-level starship body, although it is like an ant to an elephant compared to the parent body of its huge Rubik's Cube starship. However, when this third-order starship body left the huge parent body, as far as an independent monohull ship was concerned, it was still a giant existence.

This third-order starship has an independent drive system, an independent mecha hangar and a weapons depot, an independent and fully functional scientific research equipment, and a reserve of materials necessary to independently maintain the survival of astronauts for a considerable period of time. Specifically, a third-order starship can carry more than 100 interstellar astronauts away from the parent body and can perform any short-range interstellar mission.

But under normal circumstances, whether it is a first-order, second-order, or third-order Rubik's Cube structure starship, they are all embedded in the most superficial hull shell of the Rubik's Cube starship in the most common square structure, and are fused with all the other surrounding ships to form the indestructible and powerful shell of the entire Rubik's Cube starship.

For this reason, based on the functions of these 5,566 independent hull modules belonging to the outer structure of the starship, the staff of the Seventh Research Institute of Space Technology have assigned them independent starship serial numbers, which start with 5566-1, 5566-2, 5566-3, 5566-4......

And so on, all the way up to 5566-5566, a total of 5566 serial numbers were programmed.

All the personnel who were allowed to board the ship, that is, all the astronauts who were allowed to participate in the interstellar exploration mission of the Rubik's Cube, were also organized into 5566 sequence groups with reference to the above serial numbers, and these sequence groups also started with 5566-1, 5566-2, 5566-3, 5566-4......

And so on, until 5566-5566, a total of 5566 sequential detachments were also arranged.

In the process of interstellar voyage, the starship detachment with 5566 serial numbers will not perform tasks together at the same time, they will always be dormant, and they will be woken up by the ship's central superbrain in turn according to actual needs, and then take turns to perform starship flight control tasks for a period of time.

And the only one who assists them in carrying out the flight mission is the central superbrain on the Rubik's Cube starship.

The Central Superbrain has the highest level of artificial intelligence that has been developed by the humans of the earth. It can not only track and evaluate the physical and psychological data of the personnel of each serial number interstellar detachment, but also issue work instructions for early or delayed sleep in a timely manner, and also issue instructions for early or delayed awakening in a timely manner.

And with the vast majority of the 5,566 serial number interstellar detachments going into hibernation, there are other species on Earth. This includes most of the plant and animal species that exist on Earth.

In the case of plants, it includes the adult plants, seedlings, or seeds of some of the plants that exist on the earth.

In the case of animals, this includes living adults, living infants, or embryos of some of the animals that exist on the planet.

In addition, in the dormant area of the earth's species, there is also a special hibernation chamber of super-large human subjects, in which tens of millions of earth-human embryos are dormant. Among them are those minorities that are on the verge of extinction on the planet.

The Rubik's Cube starship, which is set to be gone forever, is like a Noah's Ark sailing from the Earth to the outer solar system, which not only carries the mission of Earth humans to actively explore extraterrestrial stars, but also carries the important task of Earth humans to find extra-habitable planets and interstellar migration.

That is to say, once the Rubik's Cube starship finds a habitable exoplanet outside the solar system, it will immediately activate the embryos of these Earth humans and nurture them to become the first generation of Earth interstellar immigrants. And the matching ones that will be activated together are the animals and plants that have long been domesticated by the humans on the earth.

It can be seen from this that the Rubik's Cube starship can indeed be called the most outstanding product of scientific and technological civilization of human beings on earth at the beginning of the 22nd century. However, from the design and development of this Rubik's Cube starship, to the start of construction, to the acceptance of the entire starship, ten years have passed.

After acceptance, the starship has been moored in low-earth high-altitude orbit in Area 7.

It's, waiting.

It's been waiting for it.

It has been waiting for the day when human beings on Earth will truly break through the speed of light.

However, five years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the Rubik's Cube starship has not waited for the day when the human race on Earth will finally break through the speed of light.

As a result, the CNSA had to issue an order to go into hibernation in advance.

Why?

That's because it's not only the CNSA, not only the Seventh Academy of Space Technology, not only the Rubik's Cube starship that has already been accepted, but also the 5,566 serial number interstellar detachments that are already ready to go.

You know, the 5,566 interstellar detachments are composed of a staggering number of interstellar astronauts.

The Rubik's Cube starship, as the body of King Kong, can of course wait indefinitely.

But the astronauts of the 5,566 interstellar detachments are human beings, but they are flesh and blood. They can wait for a year or two, and they can wait for the first five years. But if they were to wait for five years after five years, this staggering number of human elites would probably have been eliminated or replaced by nature with the passage of time before the starship officially set sail.

It's actually not easy to train a qualified astronaut, let alone 5566 interstellar formations? From the initial selection, to being hired, to entering the arduous training, to finally becoming a qualified interstellar astronaut, these human elites have all poured into the huge human, financial, material resources, and a lot of time that the human beings on earth have paid and invested in them.

Don't?

Time, time is the most precious thing.

The 5,566 interstellar detachments that are ready to go have all received professional training for more than 15 years, but this is a long time to wait, and unforeseen risks coexist, such as the attrition of unnatural casualties.

If attrition in an accident of unnatural casualty is only an occasional occurrence of one or two times, it is nothing. But when accidents happen again and again, and the ultimate cause is that the astronauts fall into a state of hysteria and collective venting, then the problem is big, isn't it?

As a result, the CNSA had to think about a very real problem.

If the Rubik's Cube starship continues to wait endlessly, and the time for humanity to finally break through the speed of light has been far away. Then, over time, these originally qualified astronauts will no longer be suitable for entering space due to the continuous decline of their physical and motor fitness indicators. If this is the case, it will inevitably lead to a huge waste of human resources.

After careful consideration, the CNSA had no choice but to issue an early hibernation notice to allow the astronauts to enter the hibernation process in advance.

In this way, it will ensure that the astronauts' physical and muscular fitness are in optimal condition, and on the other hand, it will protect these unfortunate human resources from being eliminated and wasted.

However, according to the relevant provisions of the Earth Human Rights Protection Law at the beginning of the 22nd century, the notice of early dormancy issued by the CNSA is not a mandatory order, because astronauts have the right to make their own choices after receiving the notice from the CNSA.

In other words, astronauts can accept the command and enter the hibernation process in advance. However, they can also refuse.

So after the CNSA issued a notice of early hibernation, some of the half-advanced astronauts made a choice, and they entered the hibernation procedure in advance. However, the other half of the astronauts made a reasonable refusal.

Because, they chose to continue to wait naturally, because they want to reserve the right to meet their families on the weekend.

According to the CNSA, if astronauts refuse to enter the hibernation process early, they must have enough time to stay at the starship base and continue to undergo the corresponding physical training tests. However, before the official departure of the starship, once they are detected to have a drop in physical performance, they will be rotated, and they will lose the opportunity to board the starship.

Then, the follow-up question comes.

Because many astronauts are asking: What if humans are unable to break through the true speed of light in the short term? So will they just keep waiting like this?

The answer, of course, is NO.

Because when nearly half of the astronauts refused to go into hibernation early, another more top-secret high-level meeting had to be held urgently

It was at this high-level meeting, when the decision-makers were faced with huge human resource pressure on the one hand, and the long-term wait of the Lightspeed R&D team on the other, the meeting held three rounds of voting, and the final result of the three rounds of voting was that the Rubik's Cube starship received the official order to set sail.

The official start time is October 1, 2130.

On that day, it was National Day.