Time flies, and with the production efficiency of an average of fifty new faster-than-light spaceships added in ten years, the overall comprehensive strength of the earth's civilization is rapidly improving at a speed far beyond the imagination of ordinary civilizations.

Every year, as many as five faster-than-light spacecraft of various types join the faster-than-light flight route network of the earth civilization, and the communication efficiency between the earth civilizations across galaxies is rapidly improving with the efficiency visible to the naked eye.

Under the industrial planning pattern of the central government of the earth, each planet has a huge space for development and growth, and the human and material resources of the entire earth's civilization, under the guarantee of sufficient capacity, have exerted explosive chemical changes, and more than ten planets with the solar system as the core are enough to make people jaw-dropping every day.

In the development of decades, the immigrant stars of the earth's civilization have gradually had their own development characteristics, some specialize in metallurgical projects, specializing in the production of various high-end alloy metal materials, spacecraft deck materials, spacecraft main structure materials, a new generation of aerospace fighter alloy aluminum materials, etc., all of which are exported to the outside world are the kind of high-tech high-tech materials that are full of profits even if interstellar freight is added.

There are also planets specializing in the field of information technology industry manufacturing, specializing in the export of various low-end CPUs, information sensors, large-capacity electronic memory and other electronic consumables, small things in the field of these information, a single size, but the profit is not small, the market consumption is incomparably huge, a planet as the core development area, the export of profit funds, has been enough to ensure the good operation of the whole planet, in addition to the investment for industrial upgrading, In addition to consumption, all kinds of high-end imported equipment and so on required by other aspects of the entire planet are not a problem at all.

In addition, other planets also have their own characteristic industries, some specialize in optical instruments, some specialize in biological and pharmaceutical preparations, and some are stronger than the research and development and manufacturing of radar detection equipment。

Under such circumstances, the earth's civilization, with the local core of the earth's solar system as the core, has made great progress and breakthroughs in the fields of science and technology and people's livelihood.

By 2400 years, the number of people in the entire earth civilization system has reached the total population scale of 400 billion, and the total population of the earth has almost doubled in just a few decades, which is almost unimaginable in this era.

After all, in today's era, the speed of population growth, has with the growth of the level of scientific and technological civilization, and more and more tends to slow down the trend, the growth of each population, corresponding to the huge increase in production capacity, the accumulation of infinite materials, even with the government's strong support for the birth policy, but the overall rate of population growth, or inevitably showing a slowdown trend.

In this case, it only took 40 years for the earth's civilization to grow by 150 billion people, with an average annual population growth of more than 3 billion.

You must know that the population growth of the earth's civilization is not like those low-end technological civilizations at the planetary level, a considerable part of the population growth is indiscriminately filled.

In the earth's civilization, although the population is encouraged to have children on a large scale, there is also a threshold for citizens to give birth and raise children, and if they do not reach a certain economic condition and social level, even if they want to let go of childbearing, it is not allowed.

If the economic foundation does not meet the standard, sufficient social contribution, such a family can only have one or two children at most, and is not even allowed to breed offspring, and even compulsory birth control is required in serious cases.

Once the newborn is born, his personal information has been stored in the citizen database, and he naturally enjoys a series of free supply of educational resources, starting from learning to walk, almost starting to enter various levels of schools to learn and exercise, so as to ensure that once he becomes an adult, he can immediately have the ability to survive independently. The concept of social development that makes the best use of things.

Under such an educational concept and social development, every new population of the earth's civilization needs to increase the supply of various social materials, which are often calculated in thousands of tons and tons, and the increase in the total population of 150 billion in a few decades means that all planets have more than doubled the scale of production, which is undoubtedly an incomparably huge change for a civilization system of such a size as the earth, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is earth-shaking.

In fact, in these years, the earth civilization has indeed made great progress in terms of comprehensive strength, in addition to still taking the large-scale construction of faster-than-light spaceships as an opportunity to develop the earth's comprehensive industrial system, it has also invested more manpower and material resources, and constantly carried out technological research and development and industrial upgrading in all walks of lifeTherefore, the improvement and optimization of various subsystems and the continuous innovation of various new materials not only do not cause problems in the production and manufacturing of spacecraft, but form an organic technical integration, so that each spacecraft has been improved in technological progress.

It's the operation of the spaceship, The workers on the maintenance front maintained their complaints, and among all the nearly 400 faster-than-light spaceship systems on the earth, there were almost no two spaceships with a similarity of more than 90, and even the same deck of the same spaceship, often after a repair, they all became completely different materials...... It's so complicated that it's almost overwhelming.

Moreover, under such a degree of social change, the earth civilization has not only made great progress in the field of superluminal spaceship manufacturing, but also in the field of conventional sub-lightspeed spacecraft manufacturing.

Don't look at the production of faster-than-light warships by the earth's civilization, just like dumplings, batches of dozens of ships, but even among the earth's civilization, faster-than-light ships have always been the top-level, high-end, and resource-consuming construction projects.

Since the construction of faster-than-light spaceships, although the entire earth civilization has had nearly 400 faster-than-light spaceships, even to this day, every faster-than-light spacecraft, even the oldest First Emperor, still belongs to the military and is directly under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Military Commission of the Earth Civilization.

In the old days, faster-than-light spaceships were like aircraft carriers, real national weapons, and each one was full of weight, not comparable to other types of conventional ships.

Compared with the superluminal spaceship of the pride of the sky, the conventional sub-light speed starship is the second civilian ship.

Of course, this is just an analogy, in fact, the earth civilization still maintains a large number of sub-light conventional military combat spaceship formations.

It's just that these combat forces, like second-tier military combat forces, only circle around the planet and are responsible for guarding the security of each planet.

And when necessary, faster-than-light ships are the sharpest and most unrivaled knife combat force, and the most elite combat force...... This is true regardless of whether it is a military-type faster-than-light spacecraft, but it may be that in real interstellar combat, the type of military mission it performs is different.

Once an interstellar war really starts, as the core combat force, the military-type faster-than-light spacecraft is the core heavy combat force, the passenger and immigration spacecraft is the mainstream combat force, and the cargo spacecraft Although the safety performance is worth worrying, with its performance several times the speed of light, it is enough to undertake the needs of logistics and supply tasks.

Compared with these faster-than-light spaceships, the role of sub-light conventional military spaceships in interstellar warfare is almost equivalent to the role of shore defense artillery and coastal defense forces, which can only swim in the "shallow sea" area and play the role of guarding the nest.

However, among all the sub-light speed interstellar spaceships built by the earth civilization, the spaceships that belong to the military combat force only account for an insignificant small proportion, and more than 99 percent of the sub-light spaceships belong to the type of civilian spaceships.

After all, for the military, the use of sub-light spaceships as the military force of the Earth civilization is actually just a kind of forced substitute.

Compared with conventional sub-light spaceships, the performance superiority of super-light spaceships is not a little bit, with strong maneuverability, long range, fast speed, strong survivability, and huge lethality, perhaps a super-light spaceship can not beat 1000 conventional sub-light spaceships, but a formation of more than three super-light spaceships can completely suppress more than 3000 sub-light spaceships.

What's more, even if there is only one faster-than-light spaceship, although it can't fight 1,000 sub-lightspeed spaceships, it can fight and run, and the faster-than-light spaceship of guerrilla warfare can completely turn a planet upside down if it uses the tactics of breaking the relationship.

If it were possible, the Earth military would take it for granted that it would be good to replace all the military forces under its jurisdiction with faster-than-light spaceships, but unfortunately this is completely impossible.

On the earth today, the vast majority of faster-than-light spaceships, although they are under the management of the military, but they are fully responsible for civilian, transportation and other fields, and it is impossible to obey the command of the military around the clock, and only a few military-type faster-than-light warships can undertake military tasks all the time.

And for the military, in the case that most of the faster-than-light spacecraft are engaged in economic activities, the only faster-than-light spacecraft at hand is completely insufficient, although there is no too serious interstellar threat around the earth's civilization at this stage, but the mobile military deployment is still very necessary, otherwise a bad thing may happen, after all, in the vast starry sky, anything can happen.

Therefore, as a last resort, the use of a large number of conventional sub-light spaceships as a conventional military force to be deployed near the planets has become a compromise of last resort.

After all, it is impossible to use all faster-than-light spacecraft as a military combat force for the sake of unknown space threats, and compared with these unknown threats, faster-than-light spacecraft as a communication channel and passenger and cargo force undoubtedly play a more critical role in the overall development of the earth's civilization.

It's just that for the military, although it is quite necessary to use a certain amount of sub-light spaceships as planetary guard troops, but after all, nearly 400 super-light spaceships of the entire earth civilization belong to the military establishment, and once something happens, it is very simple to mobilize sub-light spaceships to participate in the war, and the planetary close defense force only needs to hold on for a period of time without problems, so of course the number of sub-light military spaceships should not be too much, and it is enough to maintain it for a period of time.

Therefore, although the overall number of sub-light warships on the eleven ecological planets of the earth's civilization is quite large, when it comes to a single planet, in fact, the number of warships on each planet is actually only five or six.

These five or six sub-light spaceships, in addition to the necessary maintenance for a planet, all other interstellar cruises, round-the-world cruises, and other tasks are more than enough to perform, and they are not shabby at all.

This is a total of less than seventy sub-light speed warships, and among all the sub-light ships of the earth civilization, it is naturally only a small fraction.

For the entire earth civilization, the faster-than-light spaceship is a good thing that can only be made by gathering the power of the entire civilization, it is not an exaggeration to say that every faster-than-light spaceship has political significance, and even the military has to go through all the tricks if it wants to build a full-time faster-than-light battleship, and for the civilian forces, it is a bit too difficult to play this. (To be continued.) )