Forty-One Years

Yes, unlike the others, Yue Yuan would not hibernate. He would remain awake to lead the new government and guide humanity through these difficult years until they embarked on their second long journey.

Moreover, taking advantage of the relatively free time ahead, Yue Yuan planned to enrich himself.

Over the past few years, he had felt that his knowledge level was somewhat insufficient, especially when dealing with suggestions or opinions submitted by various industries. Some of the professional knowledge involved was completely unfamiliar to him.

Although there was a think tank, Yue Yuan felt that this was not ideal. It was best to understand things himself.

Fortunately, he now had a long lifespan and plenty of time, so he could take this opportunity to study hard again, not aiming to become a scientist, but to broaden his knowledge.

In the entertainment-scarce Callisto Base, studying was undoubtedly the best way to pass the time.

"They wouldn't deliberately make things difficult for me. Doctor Yi Kai is an upright person; at most, he'll just say a few words to me." Zhu Pete's face showed a smile, as if recalling his meeting with Yi Kai.

Upright my ass, more like someone who acts on a whim, Yue Yuan thought to himself, and was about to ask about the Security Department when Zhu Pete's voice suddenly rang out.

"Hello! Oh, okay... Good, security work must not be relaxed, good... Good, I know, you guys wait for me there, I'll be right there."

Seeing Zhu Pete hang up the phone, Yue Yuan immediately said without waiting for him to speak, "Go ahead and take care of your business."

"Yes, Commander Yue." Zhu Pete turned cleanly and left quickly.

Watching Zhu Pete's back disappear, Yue Yuan once again turned his gaze to the outside of the window, looking at the lights that resembled twinkling stars.

Now, in the sky of Callisto, you can't see the stars with the naked eye. You can only look at the lights of humanity to comfort your soul.

But for some reason, as he looked, and thought about how he and humanity would have to stay on this dark Callisto for decades, a sense of loneliness and desolation arose spontaneously.

"Ba Mountain Chu Water, a desolate place, twenty-three years of exile."

In this situation, Yue Yuan once again acted as a poet, but the mood was very different from the one he had in Han Hai.

Feeling the poem that suddenly popped into his head, Yue Yuan suddenly felt that he understood Liu Yuxi's mood when he wrote this poem.

Time passes like this, never ceasing day or night.

Whether you live happily, sadly, or lonely, time passes day by day as always.

In a daze, twenty-three years passed.

During this time, in addition to work and study, the busiest time for Yue Yuan was five years ago.

Because that was when the Great Cylinder Spaceship was completed.

However, there was no ribbon-cutting ceremony, nor a grand celebration, only a series of hibernation arrangements.

After the spaceship was completed, the workers and engineers who had built the spaceship were also arranged to enter hibernation, and more machinery and equipment were put into hibernation.

All of this was to save energy, to wait for the arrival of the Centaurus Trinary Star System shockwave.

To this end, many scientists were awakened, and they made various preparations for the future impact based on observation data and various calculation data.

In this round of observation and calculation, scientists were pleasantly surprised to find that, due to various influences, the axis of rotation of Callisto was now facing the direction of the shockwave, and the human base was on the other hemisphere.

In other words, in this round of material ejection impact from the Centaurus Trinary Star System, Callisto once again transformed into a shield, blocking everything for humanity.

Since the base was foolproof, the scientists' energy naturally turned to the Great Cylinder Spaceship.

When the material ejection impact arrives, the Great Cylinder Spaceship certainly cannot continue to operate in synchronous orbit, so it must change orbit.

In the plan formulated by the scientists, the Great Cylinder Spaceship needs to change from a synchronous orbit around Callisto to a high-orbit movement around the poles, and also ensure that the spaceship is exactly behind Callisto when the material ejection impact arrives.

Therefore, the linear velocity of the spaceship needs to be as small as possible.

The smaller the linear velocity of the spaceship relative to Callisto, the longer it will spend behind Callisto, and the smaller the impact of the material ejection will naturally be.

For scientists, the orbital change calculation of the spaceship is very simple, so they only need to predict the intensity and duration of the material ejection.

Humans once relied on Jupiter to avoid a supernova explosion, so there is already a lot of data on the intensity, damage, and duration of material ejection. Scientists can use this data, plus the observation data of the material ejection cloud of the Centaurus Trinary Star System, to build a model.

With these things, scientists can determine how high the spaceship's orbit needs to be and how to set the orbit.

A flat elliptical orbit.

Finally, the scientists finalized the plan.

The spaceship is first pushed into a higher orbit, and then orbits in that orbit. When the shockwave is about to arrive, precise corrections are made to make the spaceship move around Callisto like a comet.

Under precise calculations, the Large Cylinder Spaceship will run from near the orbit of Callisto to the far end when the material ejection impact arrives, and then avoid the impact through a long far-orbit movement.

After completing the initial calculations and orbit predictions, the awakened scientists, excluding the daily rotating research staff, re-entered hibernation.

Time slowly passed in this cycle of hibernation and rotation.

As the material ejection approached, the scientists awoke from hibernation once more and remotely controlled the spaceship from within Callisto Base.

The material ejection cloud, traveling from a distance of 4.22 light-years, finally arrived at Callisto's location after a long journey of nearly forty-five years.

Because the sun's explosion also ejected materials into outer space, the Centaurus Trinary Star System's material ejection had slowed down significantly from its initial 10% of the speed of light after a round of collisions. Coupled with the great distance, its destructive power was greatly weakened.

From this perspective, the already deceased sun had inadvertently helped humanity.

However, even weakened, it still possessed considerable destructive power. After all, it was the eruption of three stars, and its power was indeed unimaginably great. The riddled Space Dock was the best proof of the material ejection's passage.

Under these circumstances, humanity formulated a series of scientific countermeasures and ultimately weathered the impact of the material ejection cloud with only minor scares.

Following this, the next task for humanity was the great migration.

The great migration from the base to the spaceship.

People woke up from hibernation one after another and went in batches to the Orbital Mass Accelerator, boarded flights to space, and finally boarded the long-awaited spaceship.

Prior to this, the spaceship had once again been adjusted to a synchronous orbit.

With past experience, this great migration proceeded without any hitches. Orderly and methodical was the best way to describe the process of relocating to the spaceship.