Hope

Personnel, supplies, equipment, fuel.

Everything on Callisto that could be moved was being moved onto the spaceship.

As for what couldn't be moved, like factories, Nuclear Power Plants, and Orbital Mass Accelerators, those ground facilities could only be left behind to drift through the universe with Callisto.

"Time really flies. I didn't expect to be in my sixties all of a sudden."

Yue Yuan, already aboard the spaceship, looked out of the porthole at the transport modules docking with the ship one by one, and couldn't help but sigh at the passage of time.

Age doesn't count during hibernation, as stipulated by Earth-era laws, a regulation that the New Government also inherited. So if Yue Yuan doesn't hibernate again in the future, he will soon become the oldest human alive.

But although he is old, his appearance is still that of a young man, no different from when he was in Han Hai.

"Chief Yue, these were collected from the internet. Please take a look." Just then, a crisp voice sounded from behind.

It was Long Xiaolin, Yue Yuan's current assistant and secretary.

Yue Yuan turned around and saw Long Xiaolin floating over from the hatch, holding a tablet in her hand.

Because some personnel and equipment had not yet boarded the spaceship, the Large Cylinder spaceship had not yet started rotating, so the people on the spaceship were still in a state of weightlessness.

Yue Yuan took the tablet and glanced at it, then casually said, "There are quite a few. Which name do you prefer?"

This Large Cylinder spaceship was built, but it hadn't been named yet, so Yue Yuan asked Long Xiaolin to collect names. The tablet in her hand now contained the remaining candidates after several rounds of screening.

Yue Yuan looked at it. There were eight names in total: Shenzhou, Humanity, Mountain Moving, Kunlun, Noah's Ark, Callisto, Hope, and Sky Pillar.

It seemed that relevant experts had already voted on these names, because Yue Yuan saw that the names were also marked with support rate percentages.

Among them, Hope had the highest vote rate, followed by Humanity, Shenzhou, Noah's Ark, Kunlun, and Callisto, with the last two, Sky Pillar and Mountain Moving, having a combined vote rate of less than 5%.

The purpose of this round of voting was to screen out the two names ranked last, and then hand them over to Yue Yuan, so that he could choose one from the remaining six.

"Noah, I think Noah's Ark is a particularly good name. Just like the submitter said, our spaceship is humanity's last hope. It will carry us to the other side of the stars, where we will reproduce and continue humanity's future." Long Xiaolin said without thinking.

It seemed that she had cast a vote for Noah's Ark's high vote rate, and she seemed to really want the ship to be named Noah's Ark.

But the final decision was in Yue Yuan's hands.

"Noah's Ark..."

Yue Yuan muttered. To be honest, he didn't really like the name.

It wasn't that he had a prejudice against the name Noah's Ark, but he felt that this spaceship was built by humans through hard work, not built according to divine revelation, nor was it a divine gift, so it was not very suitable for this name.

Moreover, this ship is a Large Cylinder shape, not 'Ark'-shaped at all.

So calling it Noah's Ark is not as good as calling it Kunlun. Of course, Kunlun was also excluded by Yue Yuan. It's not that Kunlun is bad, but this kind of regional name is not suitable for naming humanity's only hope.

As for Shenzhou, it was not bad, but considering that there were also many people from other countries among the 80,000 people, it was also excluded by Yue Yuan.

In the end, there were only Callisto, Hope, and Humanity left.

These three names each had their own advantages and disadvantages. First of all, the name Callisto focused on meaning, because Callisto saved humanity, and humanity also used Callisto's resources to build the spaceship. Using its name to name the spaceship is undoubtedly the best way to commemorate this planet that is about to be bid farewell to.

As for Humanity, there is no need to say more, it's about humanity.

Hope did not have too much directional meaning, but as its name suggests, it directly expressed that this ship is humanity's hope.

Yue Yuan hesitated for a long time, and for a while, he was a little unsure.

After a while, Yue Yuan slowly released the tablet in his hand, letting it float quietly in front of his chest, then stretched out his index finger and gently tapped it, letting it slowly float towards Long Xiaolin.

"Let's call it Hope."

Hope, simple and direct.

It is the hope of humanity, and also the hope of civilization.

If it were according to Yue Yuan's usual temperament, he would be more likely to choose Callisto, but just now, he thought of a better place for the name Callisto.

That is the Warship that is still on the blueprints.

Although the construction plan was cancelled before, three mounting interfaces were still reserved. The three reserved positions were spaced 120° apart, obviously specially reserved for future Warship mounting.

Although Yue Yuan said at the time that humanity could only afford one Warship at most, the designers would not be foolish enough to reserve only one position.

After all, there are not enough people now, but there will always be enough in the future.

So, as long as humanity can successfully overcome this difficulty, warships will definitely be manufactured.

And when that time comes, it will be called the Callisto Warship.

With Long Xiaolin's departure, the name of this cylindrical living module spaceship was thus decided: Hope.

Previously, Huaxia had a basic set of rules for naming spaceships, generally calling warships "Warship" (jian, warship), and general-purpose spaceships were named with "Number" (hao, number/name). Now, the New Government also follows this naming convention.

Therefore, the Large Cylinder spaceship, which is a comprehensive living module, is called "Something-hao," while future warships will be named in the form of "XX-jian."

The Hope is 980 meters long, made up of ten five-hubbed disks stacked together, with a radius of 550 meters. The outermost layer of each disk is connected to a 60-meter-high building suspension module. It can accommodate up to 140,000 people when fully loaded, and currently houses over 88,000 people.

It is a living module spaceship, with a complete power system, air circulation system, water circulation system, and of course, a waste disposal system.

Not only that, the Hope also has planting modules dedicated to agriculture, artificial starch production modules, and specialized production modules for clothing, fabrics, and toiletries needed for basic living.

It has all the functions for eating, drinking, and sanitation.

The Hope's power comes from three large Fission Thrusters arranged on the outside of the central axis at the rear.

Since there are no thrusters at the front end, if the Hope spaceship wants to brake, it can only turn around by activating the steering engines located on the stators at both ends, as well as the vector engines located on the outside of the large disks at both ends for attitude adjustment, and then perform reverse thrust deceleration.

The large disks at both ends do not rotate with the living module disks; they are fixed to the stator. Therefore, from an overall perspective, the Hope looks like a large cylinder with both ends stationary and the middle rotating.