At that moment, everyone in the control center knew that the Main Thruster had ignited. Hope had officially entered its thirty-year deceleration phase.
At that moment, the screens linked to the exterior cameras showed a faint Cloud Twilight rippling across Hope's surface. People knew it was interstellar dust that had accumulated in the ship's crevices during its years of steady travel.
The sight was like an old beggar who had been crouching motionlessly in a corner suddenly shaking out his tattered clothes, as though he had regained a little vitality.
For some reason, when Yue Yuan saw this scene on the screen, a line suddenly came to mind: "Sitting bolt upright in the throes of a dying illness."
More than nine hundred years had passed. Though Hope was only a spacecraft, everyone could see the marks left upon it by time's butcher knife.
Hope had successfully entered the deceleration phase. Though it was in its twilight years, its frame was still sturdy enough.
Only thirty years remained before they entered the Target Star System.
Hope was now roughly nine hundred Astronomical Units from the target star. At this distance, the naked eye still could not distinguish the target star from the other stars.
During the final two months of deceleration, the humans aboard Hope gradually awoke from hibernation.
By then, Hope had officially entered the target star system.
At this distance, Ross 154 had become the brightest star in the sky. Those who awoke opened their skylights one after another and gazed at this star of hope, tears glistening in their eyes.
"We did it! A thousand years... We finally made it!"
After crossing a thousand years of time, humanity finally felt the light of a star once more.
"Yes. Though we had long expected this day to come, when