The First Age of the Star Empire, early thirties.

It's been two years since the Pandora riot. But for all the civil servants of the Star Empire, it felt like yesterday.

Once people are busy, they always feel that time flies quickly, of course, there is a premise for this, that is, the work you do can not only promote social progress, but also make yourself feel happy and fulfilled.

On the other hand, even if you don't take a spaceship for interstellar travel, you may still feel the relativistic effect happening next to you, and you will have a short rest time and a very long working time.

Now, for all the citizens of the Star Empire, the work they do is very easy. Labor-intensive industries are basically replaced by intelligent robots, replaced by high-tech positions, and flourishing humanities and arts.

The popularization of intelligent AI and robots, combined with rapid additive technology and less sophisticated STC template technology, constitutes a new and great industrial revolution in the territory of the Star Empire.

It has raised the productivity of the Empire of the Stars to an unprecedented level, increasing the number of industrial products and the total amount of energy produced tenfold compared to before.

Of course, these are empty macro data, specific to various worlds, different regions, tens of billions of individuals, the changes brought to them are enough to be described as earth-shattering, if written into words, it is definitely a long and wonderful epic.

Currently, the number of worlds controlled by the Star Empire has reached five.

Among them, Blue Star and Fantasy World are the fastest-growing, both in terms of total population and economic level, which are much higher than other worlds.

The reason is also very simple. Blue Star is because the original industrial foundation is good, except for the sudden arrival of prawns, the external environment is also relatively peaceful.

Therefore, the early Blue Star, as the main control world of the Star Empire, received a large amount of resource investment. The world has the highest priority in terms of financial and technical investment.

The fantasy world is mainly because of the settlement of the army of immigrants from the wandering earth, and a steady stream of high-quality talents with a large number of technologies, turning this primitive, unindustrialized world into an experimental factory for all cutting-edge technologies in a short period of time.

As for the wasteland world, the wandering earth, and the planet Pandora that they just obtained, they were all restricted from resource investment by the Star Empire for their own reasons, which seemed a bit desolate and primitive.

And on the two most prosperous planets of the Star Empire, in addition to the changes brought to the world by technology, there are eighteen space-time passages that stand on the earth.

Eighteen space-time passages, about 100 meters high and about 60 meters wide, are built on several key cities in the fantasy world on one side and on several major continents of Blue Star.

They are surrounded by steel and guarded by heavy soldiers, while on the other side of the fantasy world, they are surrounded by ingenious psionic towers, which provide them with a steady stream of energy, allowing the space-time passage to remain in a state of operation twenty-four hours a day.

In Johannes, the most prosperous city of Blue Star, there is a royal city connected to the fantasy world through a space-time passage. It transports a variety of resources and meets the transportation needs of the people in the two places.

At this moment, I saw a sightseeing bus slowly driving out of the heavily guarded space-time passage, with some kind of tourist slogan written on it, which seemed to be a tour group coming from the fantasy world.

After turning a corner, they drove onto the main road leading to the city center, like any other vehicle.

However, it didn't take long for the roadblocks on the road to attract the attention of the people in the car.

I saw several construction trucks driving over the smooth glass modular pavement, driving very slowly, leaving equally spaced holes in the road with prismatic drilling equipment like pile drivers.

The intelligent robot in the back followed closely, surrounding the holes and stuffing a prismatic black object into it.

"What's that?" A subhuman child in the car pointed to the blocked section of the road and asked the adults on the side.

"They're laying down the ground track, which is the black diamond-shaped cylinder." The adult smiled and explained, "When the ground magnetic track is laid, this road will be able to pass the maglev car, maybe the next time we come, we will float directly through the door and fly out of the sky." ”

The adults who explained to the sub-children in the car were not bad at all, and the construction machinery is now building a maglev road, or to be precise, it is just a section that has not yet been built.

As early as the end of the twenty-ninth year of the stars, the city of Johannes of the Imperial Blue Star World put the maglev road reconstruction project on the desk.

At present, Johannes is carrying out maglev modification construction with the municipal building as the center and the main roads in the area.

Using an engineering vehicle equipped with a ground-drilling function at the front, a prismatic magnetic generator is driven under the road, and then the road is re-repaired.

Almost in the same year, the Stars Empire Transportation Research Institute launched a new generation of maglev vehicles, while maintaining the original wheel structure, a maglev drive is installed on the chassis, and it can be separated from the ground and enter the maglev track in special sections.

In order to cope with the advent of the era of maglev transportation, the Qunxing Empire has also issued corresponding policies, tentatively demarcating the area between six meters and thirty-eight meters above the highway as a special area for maglev vehicles, prohibiting the passage of other aircraft.

And according to different vehicle uses, speed standards, ten tracks with different heights are delineated.

For example, the first to the fifth are basically state-owned and military tracks, and their vehicle types are also long maglev special trains, pulling millions of tons of goods or tens of thousands of soldiers between the two worlds every day.

The sixth to tenth are civil railways to meet the daily transportation needs of the masses.

In principle, the higher the track, the faster the speed and the higher the degree of intelligence.

Maglev cars are faster and safer than regular cars. When the vehicle is driving in a lane at a fixed height, the cars at the same level are all at the same speed, so there is no problem of crashing and rear-end.

Normally, when people choose to enter the highest layer of track, the maglev car that reaches the highest speed will start the automatic cruise mode, the speed is fixed at 360 kilometers per hour, and the AI will completely replace the driver to complete the driving task after setting the route.

The breakthrough of maglev technology means that the transportation of the Star Empire has entered the era of three-dimensional traffic, and there is no need to worry about traffic congestion, which plagues social development.

From now on, Qunxing will gradually complete the transformation of the maglev orbit of every transportation artery in the main world. At that time, as long as you drive a maglev car, you can enjoy a travel speed comparable to that of high-speed rail no matter where you are.

It is foreseeable that with the continuous coordination of technology and safety, one day magnetic levitation can be achieved higher and faster.

Magnetic levitation technology had already been produced in Shen Sen's previous life, but the current use of the Star Empire is undoubtedly more advanced, and the cost is smaller, which is more convenient to promote throughout the territory.

All of this is thanks to the superconducting ore of Pandora, which is derived from the analysis and study of superconducting ore, on the basis of which the ground magnetic track can be developed for mass production.

The planet Pandora has now become an unobtainable part of the Star Empire.

Every day, tens of thousands of tonnes of superconducting ore are transported back by mining trucks, where they are transported to research institutes, laboratories and factories, playing a key role in hundreds of industries.

At the same time, because of the particularity of Pandora Planet and the RDA organization that may fight back later, Shen Sen began to find a way to militarize Pandora Planet.

In addition to building defense facilities and building an anti-aircraft fire system, Shen Sen began to practice commanding the "Ava" of Pandora, and let her act as the planet's "AI", firing pulse rays at will, setting off an energy storm, and using it as a means of attack to attack the enemy.

It has to be said that when Pandora becomes a space battleship, it can play a role that simply exceeds all the fleets of the Star Empire.

Endless pulse rays and energy cannonballs are enough to drown out any enemy who dares to attack.

But someone gains, and someone is destined to lose.

For the RDA organization, Pandora is a source of growth for their company's profits, a source of confidence for millions of shareholders, and a core business for their company to become one of the interstellar giants.

Although the journey of five light years is a long time, they will always receive information about the loss of Pandora.

Or rather, they already feel that something is wrong.

The region where the RDA is located, the Nakshatra Federation, the home planet.

In a dilapidated city, a homeless man stares above the city, looking at a fancy advertisement.

Everything in the city looks dilapidated and in decline, except for the maglev train that whizzes overhead to show the extraordinary that once was.

As the traffic light changes, a middle-aged man with no left arm and a gas mask crosses the street, ready to walk towards a bar.

Most of the people on the street are wearing gas masks. There are a lot of drunk people who look numb and walk down the streets drunk. The man was just one of them.

Pushing open the door of the tavern, there was a commotion inside, a commotion.

"Serve me a beer!" The man walked over to the counter and sat down to greet the attendant.

The waiter then took a glass of wine and handed it to the middle-aged man.

On the wall hangs a projection television with the news on it.

"The Bengal tiger, which has been extinct for 200 years, is making a comeback through genetic technology."

"RDA plans to produce three more Capital Star ......"

The middle-aged man pursed his lips, drank his wine in one gulp and walked out, standing outside the bar, sniffing the poisonous gases in the air, and he cursed indignantly towards the sky.

"Damn the interstellar age!"

Unlike the other six habitable planets currently controlled by humans, the human home planet, like ordinary people who have not been favored by the interstellar era, is also abandoned and isolated by this prosperity and development.

Even if it is the suzerainty of the Star Federation, because the resources of this planet have been exhausted, it has completely lost its political and economic strength and potential.

In the end, it can only completely become an old and weak country that can only rely on the fading traditions of the past, have no quarrel with the world, and carefully maintain its autonomy and sovereignty.

There are many disabled people here, and many veterans who have lost their limbs due to the war are not paid enough for them to survive after transplanting artificial prostheses, so they can only choose to live on their home planet.

Since 2050 AD, the home planet humans have moved the center of political unity from the home planet of the third planet of the solar system to the second planet of the Nakshatra five system, Hyya, where a declaration marking the establishment of the Nakshatra Federation was issued, and the calendar was changed in the same year. This began an endless expansion into the depths and borders of the galaxy.

The most striking features of the first 100 years, war and chaos, brought humanity's development towards the outside world to a complete standstill, but it was precisely because of this that the energy that burst out afterwards was even more explosive.

The development of light sail technology, antimatter engines, and dormant technology and technology that made human interstellar flight possible allowed human footsteps to step into the real galaxy for the first time. Humans piloted a spaceship, aiming for an unknown horizon and heading to the starry shore.

"Deceived Kangxi"

"Towards the distance! Go further! ”

This was the common slogan of the people at that time.

It's a golden age of freshness and progress in the air!

Still, the times weren't perfect. The first problem is the war that is born of profit.

In the first 100 years, the humans on the home planet and the interstellar humans fought endlessly for the hegemony of human society, and the space pirates were the deformities of the privateer tactics used by the two sides during the war.

Space pirates, the vast majority of them, are nothing more than criminal gangs that collude with corrupt politicians or entrepreneurs for illicit gains.

Especially to the inhabitants of the Frontier Planet, they are simply a bunch of thugs and madmen.

On pirate-infested border routes, the number of passing spaceships has been greatly reduced, supplies have stalled, and the price of supplies that have finally reached buyers has skyrocketed.

In addition to the original cost, the buyer also has to bear a huge security fee. This is an issue that cannot be ignored. If the grievances and unease of the victims grow, they will then turn to doubts about the federal government's ability to rule, which will undoubtedly weaken the will of humanity to develop its borders.

Therefore, in the 136th year of the universe, the Interstellar Federation finally made up its mind to launch a conquest and peace against the space pirates.

With the brave fighting of the home planet's army, two years later, the purpose of the Star Federation was largely achieved.

Although the war stopped for a while, the home planet was once again helplessly caught in a bitter battle with the Masahara family and entrepreneurs.

What has happened in history will not change because of regional changes, and the social diseases of mankind have never stopped.

After the great development of the caravans of the home planet, the interstellar consortium began to ask to break away from the control of the home planet, they formed an army, established a political power, and began to fight with the home planet for interests and rights.

War is brutal, and the consequences of years of war are very serious.

The power of the interstellar consortium is so strong that the Shinjuku Federation is forced to sign an agreement that allows them to form an interstellar entity that is beyond the confines of corporations.

Since then, the Star Federation has finally ended from the flames of war and once again embarked on the path of rapid development.

However, it was the ordinary people of the Nakshatra Federation who were completely abandoned and isolated by this prosperity and development.

They are like the original home planet, but after the advent of the interstellar era, they have become more and more embarrassed and lonely.

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