Preparations
Amidst humanity's massive production and upgrading efforts, the ninth year has passed since communication with the Moke Star People was severed.
The immense pressure and well-organized planning unleashed humanity's tremendous power. Coupled with the leap in productivity brought about by technological advancements, the optimization of Artificial Intelligence, and various other factors, the upgrade and transformation of the Hope was completed a year ahead of schedule.
There are still two years until the agreed-upon time with the Moke Star People.
Now that things have come to this, there's no longer any need to discuss whether or not to contact the Moke Star People as agreed.
Rescue is needed.
However, there's no rush.
According to Yue Yuan, these two years should be used to continue making thorough preparations.
For example, in addition to the existing 2,000 hydrogen bombs with a yield of 100 million tons, we should deploy another 1,000 or 2,000. Also, in the next two years, humanity should collect more Protium Deuterium Tritium, helium-3, Helium-4 from Ross 154-7 and its satellites to replenish the Hope's stockpile.
On this day, Yue Yuan, beaming with pride, arrived at the brand-new Command Center from his Command Department office. Clearly, he was in a very good mood.
Just now, he learned from a social survey document that the total human population has increased from more than 80,000 to 128,888, and one-third of the newly added population has reached adulthood.
It seems that the Amorous Breeze promotional campaign has been quite effective.
After enduring thousands of years of trials and tribulations, humanity has finally recovered in these relatively stable years.
It is believed that in the near future, humanity will build new Residential Spaceship, since the Hope spacecraft is designed to accommodate a maximum population of 150,000.
Of course, it's possible to overload it slightly, but while overloading wouldn't stop the Hope from running, it would definitely lower the living conditions for the people.
That definitely won't work.
The most basic condition for a healthy society is to ensure that people have comfortable living conditions.
"The collection of supplies, the recovery of large machinery and equipment, and the emergency preparations for boarding the personnel of Ross 154-7 planet and satellite, as well as the dock crew, must all be completed this year. We must be fully prepared." Before even reaching the center of the bridge, Yue Yuan instructed his assistant to write down his words.
They looked like they were about to pack up and run away.
Indeed, this was the case; the plan to escape at any time was part of the Rescue Plan and had been decided long ago when Yue Yuan Delaying Time.
Two years later, if there is any sign of trouble with the rescue mission, Yue Yuan will not hesitate to issue the order to set sail.
"How's the hydrogen bomb deployment going?" Upon arriving at the bridge, Yue Yuan spotted Man Yuemei among a group of staff members and walked over to her, asking.
The Man Yuemei had just returned to the Hope from the Callisto Warship, and at this moment the Callisto Warship was hanging on the Hope and rotating with it.
There are two other warships of the same type as the Callisto Warship, which are now also aboard the Hope as backup ships.
"The deployment of 2,000 hydrogen bombs with a yield of 100 megatons has been completed, and they are currently operating normally in orbit. The additional bombs are being sent to Ross 154-4 orbit in batches. It is expected that another 1,000 bombs will be added next year, and another 1,000 bombs the year after." Man Yuemei stared at the screen in front of her without looking back, her hands fiddling with some buttons on the control panel.
Yue Yuan followed her gaze and saw that the screen displayed the status data of the Callisto Warship.
Man Yuemei seemed to sense Yue Yuan's gaze, and spoke again, "After this training, the engineers will spend a year upgrading the Propulsion System of the Callisto Warship."
"Well, putting aside the Callisto Warship, the idea you mentioned about adding another thousand hydrogen bombs the year after next is probably not feasible. At most, we'll have five hundred. In the second half of the year, we need to adjust the orbits of the hydrogen bombs already in orbit so that they form a Hydrogen Bomb Array covering the orbit of Ross 154-4 Planet," Yue Yuan said.
A planet is so big that even two or three thousand hydrogen bombs wouldn't have much of an effect on it, let alone in a much wider orbit. So to maximize the effect, the hydrogen bombs must be arranged in a certain spatial position.
Upon hearing this, Man Yuemei closed the linked Callisto status system on her computer and nodded, saying, "I know, but you'll have to send me the location layout data later."
As she spoke, Man Yuemei picked up the water bottle on the control panel, took a sip, and then pulled out a controller from her pocket and pressed a button on the large screen. "This is a rescue mission transport ship. The hydrogen bomb device has been deployed, and the internal gas ratio has been filled several times according to the data provided by the Moke Star People. Everything is fine. However, a while ago, an engineer suggested upgrading the Fission Engine to a Fusion Engine, saying it would demonstrate our human friendship and grandeur."
"Heh," Yue Yuan chuckled, looking at the panoramic and detailed images of the transport ship displayed on the large screen. He felt reassured and didn't ask Man Yuemei whether she had agreed to the upgrade, because he knew without asking that Man Yuemei definitely wouldn't agree.
"This is good, isn't it?" Yue Yuan said with a smile.
"I do hope we can successfully pick up that 'Shu Po'." Man Yuemei turned around and sat down on the left side of the captain's seat on the Hope, then crossed her legs in a woman's style and sighed leisurely.
Perhaps seeing that Yue Yuan had no objections to the arrangement of the transport ship, she turned off the large screen, then pressed the button on her seat to recline slightly, and closed her eyes to rest.
She was somewhat fatigued from the previous training exercise by the Callisto Warship.
"Who isn't!"
Seeing that the screen was turned off, Yue Yuan turned his gaze to the staff members working at their posts on the bridge of the Hope Ship.
Although he had always advocated for the deployment of various hydrogen bombs and seemed ready to take action, deep down he still hoped to receive that Moke Star People.
Because an alien advisor is far too important to humanity's development and understanding.
In fact, Yue Yuan had also considered the possibility that all of this was a trick by intelligent Nanobots. Over the past period of time, Yue Yuan had analyzed this issue with his Think Tank more than once, but his idea did not hold true, whether from the perspective of the Moke Star People or from a technical analysis.
If this was a trick by the Nanobots consciousness to escape Ross 154-4 Planet using human transport ships, then why didn't it do the same when humans landed, instead destroying those transport ships? Those transport ships were capable of flying off planets; if it was truly the work of the Nanobots consciousness, then this doesn't make sense.
From a technical perspective, almost no human Artificial Intelligence expert believes that an Artificial Intelligence Consciousness could fabricate lies to such an extent.
All these inferences suggest that the Moke Star People truly exist and genuinely need human assistance.
Even now, as the rescue operation draws ever closer, many people on the Hope are already fantasizing about whether they might be able to obtain some information about the weaknesses of the 'Silver Mist' from the Moke Star People, and then humanity could use those weaknesses to defeat it, and perhaps even gain control of it.
This kind of plot often appears in science fiction movies, so it's no wonder that people fantasize about it.
Yue Yuan also hoped that such a legendary movie plot could happen to humans, but as someone with technical knowledge, he knew it was too difficult.