Happy Times Always Pass Too Quickly
Traveling through space is a solitary journey, but humanity, having journeyed from the Solar System, has grown accustomed to this solitude. Living in spaceships, warships, Research Ship, and Biosphere Spaceship, people have become accustomed to life on spaceships, accustomed to this life of traversing the Great Universe.
This is what Wandering Civilization is like.
There's a saying from Earth Era: "The world is our home," which perfectly encapsulates the current state of Human Civilization. Our home planet is gone, and no other star in the universe feels like home anymore. Humanity's current home is on our spaceship.
In this day and age, thanks to the widespread adoption of Gravity Potential Well Technology, almost no one has the idea of finding a suitable planet to live on permanently. Moreover, with current shipbuilding technology, if people couldn't look out at the dark universe from the portholes, they wouldn't really feel like they were living on a spaceship.
Having long been accustomed to voyages that take decades or even centuries, this year-long journey is nothing to them; for an ordinary person, it's just a matter of chatting with friends and having a few drinks.
Upon reaching Level 4 Civilization, humanity's living environment improved significantly. Firstly, the application of Gravity Potential Well Technology allowed humans to experience Earth's gravity again without the Coriolis Force Effect. Secondly, the increased size and scale of spaceships resulted in more spacious dwellings and corresponding amenities.
The Residential Spaceship weren't built to be as large as the Lyra, but they weren't much smaller either. A single Residential Spaceship was about 220 kilometers long from bow to stern, and about 160 kilometers wide and high. Of course, its shape wasn't a regular cuboid, nor was it designed to be streamlined like Sunflower Seed like warships; rather, it resembled a plump, inflated pufferfish.
This form has a larger volume, which is in line with the design concept of Residential Spaceship. Other types of spacecraft that have large volume requirements are basically designed in the same way.
Like warships, these spaceships are actually on Planet-Class Warship in size, but their purposes differ, hence they are also called Planetary-Class Spaceship by humans. Although their manufacturing process is not as demanding as that of warships, it is still complex, representing a completely different level of complexity. However, because they do not carry naval guns, their structures do not have the same high strength requirements as warships.
The massive size of the Residential Spaceship provides ample interior space for humans to construct various facilities. It is divided into many levels, and because of its size, it is equipped with roads, streets, and general transportation vehicles.
Of course, the so-called means of transportation are not all like cars in Earth Era, with four wheels running on the floor of each level. More often, there are various Magnetic Levitation trains that travel in the sky above each level, as well as many personal flight devices that are like mechs, which also work on the principle of Magnetic Levitation.
Unlike Tactical Armor, it's a lightweight suit similar to Spacesuit Modification, specifically designed for internal transportation within Residential Spaceship. Because of its high destructive power, Tactical Armor is generally not seen on civilian streets; it's mostly used for activities on planetary surfaces.
So currently, the situation of humans Residential Spaceship is roughly as follows: some are on the ground, some are on rail transportation that follows the sky orbit, and some are simple personal flying mechs.
Personal Flying Mecha are especially popular, and many people own one.
It's quite amazing. In zero gravity, humans could easily "fly" inside a spacecraft using simple magnetic field technology. But in that situation, people longed to one day achieve simulated gravity technology and return to Earth's Gravity Environment. Now that such a Gravity Environment has been achieved, they prefer to fly in the sky.
Fortunately, the manufacturing capabilities of civilian organizations are quite good now, especially in the field of mecha. The mecha interest club that Xu Yanxia started back then now has many subsidiaries. These subsidiaries use the technology of the mecha interest club to manufacture personal Flying Mecha for people in need.
With more people flying, personal air disasters are inevitable, since there are always people who like to "Mech Racing." For this reason, humanity has added laws related to personal air disasters to the existing traffic laws.
However, while personal plane crashes do occur, they rarely result in fatalities. At most, people might suffer internal bleeding, or at worst, broken arms or legs. After all, humans are all enhanced and modified, making them extremely resistant to impacts. Those who are injured are usually those who forgot to activate Overclock Mode or failed to prepare in a moment of panic.
With today's Biotechnology, healing such injuries is a simple matter.
Actually, the so-called air crash law doesn't address compensation between the parties involved in the crash, but rather compensation for damage to facilities inside the spacecraft caused by the crash. It's the kind of situation where no one gets hurt, but the plants and flowers are damaged.
Today's Planetary-Class Spaceship are as big as islands, and naturally they can't just be steel jungles. Many plants that survived from the past and genetically modified plants brought back from other biospheres are used as embellishments for various landscapes. This allows humans to finally experience the comfort of green cities again after being away from Earth for many years.
Even the road surface has the solid feel of concrete, and there are also soil and rocks, all dug out from Rocky Planet.
Although many of the new generation of humans have not personally experienced life on Earth, most of them can still feel the beauty of harmony between humanity and nature due to the New Government's propaganda about the image of humanity's home planet and the influence of the older generation.
Humans brought out a very limited number of plants from Callisto. Fortunately, after discovering the Dog-Headed People Planet, they collected a batch of plants. Based on this, humans used advanced genetic modification technology, along with genes from some native Earth plants, to comparatively edit and modify those plants, enabling some to finally adapt to the human living environment. This is how we have the spaceship cities adorned with flowers and plants that we have today.
Of course, these new plants cannot be like those on Earth, and some of them are not even green leaves. Their so-called flowers are also very different from those of Earth plants, but their different styles bring a different kind of beauty to the human living environment.
This is a case of technology changing lives.
Because the ship is designed with an independent Gravity Potential Well Technology scheme for each floor, and the other side of the ceiling of the lower floor is the floor of the upper floor, which is full of Gravity Potential Well Technology -related equipment, a weightless zone is specially set up to facilitate residents to move up and down between different floors.
The interior of Residential Spaceship is like stacking multiple island screens one on top of another; the difficulty of its construction is unimaginable, but it is also very practical. A Planetary-Class Spaceship could easily house 200 million people.
Having created such a living environment with their own hands, humanity is fully qualified to be considered a space race.
Apart from the Flagship Lyra, the human fleet consisted of smaller ships, with ordinary Planet-Class Warship falling between the size of Lyra and their Residential Spaceship.