Dark Age

This celestial simulation system uses the sun as its coordinate origin, so it's clear that the rapidly changing numbers indicate the planet is moving rapidly relative to the sun's original position. This would normally be a normal phenomenon, but Callisto is not normal.

To make it more intuitive, Gan De signaled Xiao Yu to zoom out further, so that most of the Solar System could be displayed.

"We've been thrown out!!!" This time Yue Yuan saw it clearly.

"According to the observation data, that's indeed the case." Gan De was silent for a moment, then said in as calm a tone as possible, "As we can see, the super strong shockwave produced by the sun's explosion and the reduction in gravity caused by the loss of most of its mass directly changed Jupiter's original orbit.

At the same time, Callisto and Jupiter's other satellites that were not destroyed by the shockwave were all scattered by this series of complex effects. Jupiter eventually became a Rogue Planet because it lost the sun's gravity."

"Callisto, where we are, was initially protected by Jupiter, but its surface temperature once exceeded two thousand five hundred degrees Celsius. No planet could escape the surge in space temperature within the Solar System."

Gan De continued to explain the answer obtained from the observation data, "Fortunately, our Callisto Base is sturdy enough and buried deep enough, otherwise we would have no chance to return to the surface again."

Yue Yuan knew this, and he nodded, interjecting, "I heard from the first batch of staff who went up that when they stepped onto the ground, the area around the entrance was still full of uncooled lava. If the engineers hadn't calculated accurately, we would have faced the risk of lava flowing back."

"Yes, if only one link had gone wrong, we would have been doomed." Gan De sighed.

As he spoke, he straightened his aching back, adding a sigh that his old body was not as good as before, and then continued, "Now, the Callisto where we are has broken away from Jupiter's gravitational range and is heading towards the dark universe at an angle of 17.3 degrees to the Solar Ecliptic Plane.

Not only Callisto, but several satellites that were not destroyed in the disaster, such as Saturn's Ymir, Saturn's Erriapus, Saturn's Kiviuq, etc., were also thrown out of the Solar System."

At this point, Gan De couldn't hide a trace of lingering fear on his face, "Actually, we are very lucky. Many satellites fell towards Jupiter in this process, and then were torn to pieces when they crossed Jupiter's Roche Limit. Heaven has eyes, we are lucky not to have suffered the same fate as them."

Who would have thought that, unknowingly, the surviving humans had escaped another disaster.

Logically speaking, such a large change in orbit should have been detected by the instruments on Callisto, but at that time, in order to save energy, basically all kinds of scientific exploration instruments were shut down.

However, according to speculation, it should have been that when the great disaster came, the strong shockwave caused great chaos in the Solar System. Under the action of the chaotic gravitational field, a series of complex changes and chain reactions occurred in the orbits of the celestial bodies, leading to the current situation.

"Doesn't that mean that Callisto will become a Rogue Planet, and we will fall into that vast dark universe along with Callisto?!" Yue Yuan murmured, these words seemed like a question, but contained too much surprise.

"Yes, at Callisto's current relative speed and position, it will cross the original Uranus orbit in three years, and completely fly out of the original Solar System in thirty years." Gan De said, gesturing on the screen,

"That is to say, we will get farther and farther away from the stellar remnant, until we can't get a trace of light... No, we should say that we are already in darkness now. Because the sun did not turn into a white dwarf, but was blasted into a nebula. So it is obvious that we, like many planets in the Solar System that have not disappeared, are still in this gradually cooling remnant nebula."

What a terrible piece of bad news!

The sun has been blasted into a nebula, and the entire Solar System will no longer be what it used to be. Without enough gravitational constraints, the planets that have not disappeared will slowly go their separate ways.

This means that the surviving humans will enter the Dark Age. In the long future, humans will not be able to obtain a trace of energy from the stars, and will fall into a real energy crisis in the near future.

They may even wither and perish in an unknown corner of the universe along with Callisto.

This is fatal, and it is the ending that Yue Yuan can foresee now.

Because humans do not have the ability to travel interstellar distances.

Don't think that humans have been able to build such a huge base on Callisto before, but the distance from Earth to Jupiter is not a distance at all for interstellar space, or it is not comparable at all.

It really is... when it rains, it pours, and when the boat is late, it encounters a headwind, misfortunes never come singly.

"What is the direction of Callisto's advance?" Yue Yuan opened his mouth after a moment of silence, his tone full of expectation.

Gan De showed a wry smile. How could he not hope that there would be a star system in the direction of Callisto's advance? But the Solar System is originally a remote area of the Milky Way, and the nearest Centaurus Trinary Star System has also been blasted. The probability of Callisto, which was randomly thrown out in the chaos, heading towards a star system is almost zero.

"There is no star system. Judging from Callisto's current direction, we will pass through the empty space where Van Maanen's Star, Epsilon Indi A, and GJ9066 Star System are located in the future, but this is only a preliminary analysis. More accurate data will have to wait until the ejected material from the Centaurus Trinary Star System sweeps over."

Because these knowledge are familiar to Gan De, he basically did all the talking.

Perhaps because he had been standing for too long, Gan De, who was feeling a little tired, pulled a chair from the side and sat down before continuing, "The diffused debris gas cloud formed by the material ejection from the Centaurus Trinary Star System will probably meet us in thirty-three years, but I don't think the impact should be great. After all, the distance is already very far. With our technological strength, we can at most hide underground on Callisto for a while. Well, electronic equipment may be affected. In this regard, we still need to let experts in related fields think of a solution."

Yue Yuan understood that Gan De was trying his best to remind him from the information he had mastered and from his perspective that the disaster was not over yet.

"Yes, I'll have experts in various fields come and discuss it later. It's always good to be prepared." Yue Yuan gladly accepted Gan De's intention.

Because he also knew that what Gan De said would not be false. The sun had been blasted to the point where it had lost the qualification to become a white dwarf, and the Centaurus Trinary Star System would probably be no exception.

"The good news is that after Callisto is heated, we don't need to worry about energy problems for the next few decades." Gan De said again.

Before Yue Yuan could be happy, he opened his mouth and gave a piece of bad news, "But for this reason, we may have to worry about other resources."

"This... shouldn't be a big problem." Yue Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking it was some kind of problem.

"Oh?" Gan De didn't expect that Yue Yuan would say that the problem he was worried about was not a big problem.

"We have Callisto." Yue Yuan smiled.

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