Millennium Project
That is indeed the case.
Millennium Project —that's how humanity defines this project. But a millennium doesn't literally mean just a thousand years; it means several thousand years.
The blueprints for the New Particle Collider were completed through collaboration among numerous Design Institute, and then reviewed and finalized by multiple scientific institutions.
This is the first phase of the Millennium Project.
In the second phase, the Engineering Department will check the various functional structures, required material properties, and various supporting modules involved in the drawings one by one, and determine whether humans have the ability to manufacture all the components designed in the drawings through experimental verification.
At the same time, scientific teams from various fields will also make efforts in their respective areas as the major project progresses to this stage.
For example, Computer Field experts will collaborate with Strong Artificial Intelligence design experts to design specialized Strong Artificial Intelligence for mining in future Star System. Theoretical physicists will use this time to continue searching for loopholes in the principles involved in building such a massive collider. Experimental physicists will form a scientific team to conduct targeted optimization experiments on the functionality of various modules and components of the New Particle Collider.
Of course, this isn't just a matter for computer scientists and physicists; building such a collider requires the cooperation of all sectors of humanity, encompassing almost every discipline. This includes overall planning, logistics, management, and so on. Astronomical experts are also busy, using various detectors to collect information from outer space to determine whether the environmental radiation and spatial distance of a particular location are suitable for building New Particle Collider.
As for mathematicians, their role is not limited to a single field, but extends to all the disciplines involved in the project; in other words, they are needed in every aspect.
It can be said that after the New Government decided to really get started, everyone who was still useful to society got busy, and even people in the general public were not idle.
The New Government announced various support programs for the construction of the New Particle Collider, including the recruitment of mineral transport personnel and mine patrol personnel.
Although they possess Mind Imprint, humanity remains hesitant to allow a Strong Artificial Intelligence to mine minerals alone in a Star System for millennia, necessitating human patrols. Human involvement is also required for mineral resource transportation missions, because humanity cannot create so many Strong Artificial Intelligence at once, and is uneasy about simply having a single Intelligent Program.
Construction also requires the participation of engineering and technical personnel, rather than simply being handed over to Strong Artificial Intelligence. This New Particle Collider construction project is a joint operation between humans and Strong Artificial Intelligence.
However, since Strong Artificial Intelligence has developed self- Strong Artificial Intelligence, humans do not treat it as a slave laborer, but rather give it a certain degree of respect, mainly reflected in terms of vacations and duty shifts.
In this construction project, the first batch of Strong Artificial Intelligence assigned to mining will remain in the Target Star System for three to five hundred years before being replaced by the next batch. The withdrawn Strong Artificial Intelligence then return to human headquarters for maintenance and repair.
Of course, this requires humans to possess sufficiently Strong Artificial Intelligence.
Therefore, creating a new batch of Strong Artificial Intelligence is already part of the plan to build New Particle Collider.
The third phase is mining. In the entire grand plan, mining operations near Star System will be carried out throughout the entire New Particle Collider project.
Humans plan to start work simultaneously in 6 to 8 Star System. The exact number of Star System to be excavated will depend on the actual detection data and transportation costs.
If the Star System has abundant Rocky Planet resources, it is estimated that only six Star System need to be excavated. If the resources are not very abundant, it may increase to eight.
Humanity's goal is to hollow out all the Rocky Planet in the Target Star System within a thousand years.
After a period of time in the third phase, the planned fourth phase will proceed simultaneously.
Humanity will begin to build New Particle Collider in suitable locations in space between selected mining Star System.
The construction phase will be based at the headquarters of Human Civilization, where mineral resources transported from various stars will be processed before construction begins. Modular components that can be modularized will be modularized, while intricate components that cannot be modularized will be built step by step.
Since it is still in the planning stage, humanity does not yet know how long it will take to build such an astronomically long Particle Collider, but preliminary estimates suggest it will take no less than 1,500 years.
Time flies, and more than a century has passed since humanity embarked on its voyages.
Over the past century, experts and scholars from all walks of life and all sectors have performed their respective duties and successfully completed the first phase of the overall plan. At the same time, the exploration missions serving this Millennium Project have also been put on the agenda.
Advance fleets broke away from the main human fleet, intending to explore the various Star System within their Target Star Region, each led by a human Commander.
When the human Great Fleet arrives, they will gather information on the internal conditions of several stars in that star system and send it to the human Great Fleet headquarters, providing the most accurate data for the development phase of the Millennium Project.
It is foreseeable that the stars in the Target Star Region that humans have identified will lose all their Rocky Planet and become stars with only Gaseous Planet, or naked stars, thousands of years from now.
Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, if Low-level Civilization arrives in this star system, they might discover that none of the six or seven Star System in this region have Rocky Planet. At that time, they might consider it a strange cosmic phenomenon and study it!
After more than a dozen Exploration Team were dispatched, the human Great Fleet continued sailing along its original route. At this moment, the Great Fleet was less than a hundred years away from its destination.
Humanity seems to have returned to its wandering days, the difference being that this time, during its voyage, humanity did not encounter any other Alien Civilization, and found nothing of the sort. It seems that in the entire starry sky, only humanity itself remains as a civilization active.
There's a sense of desolation and loneliness, but humanity has long been accustomed to this kind of voyage and travel through the universe.
This is perhaps the normal phenomenon of space travel. It is true that humans have encountered many Alien Civilization, but not at the same time and place. Instead, it is often after hundreds or even thousands of years of travel, passing through countless Star System, that we have encountered those civilizations one after another.
In terms of time span and geographical intervals, humanity has not actually encountered Alien Civilization very frequently.
Just like this voyage, the human Great Fleet sailed towards the Target Star Region star by star, but until it finally arrived at its destination, it did not encounter any civilization. Along the way, let alone Alien Civilization, it did not even encounter a single Life Planet. All of them were the most ordinary and common barren planets in the universe.