Time flew by. The Dessa people's migration had long since ended, and once the equatorial electromagnetic acceleration track on their home planet was completed, it entered its final practical testing phase.
"Trial run commencing..."
"The instruments are in good condition. All systems are operating normally..."
"Beginning the second trial run..."
The planetary leaders halted the testing process. "Enough. There's no need for a second run. Launch. We don't have that much time."
"Yes. Beginning launch preparations. Countdown: forty counts."
The launch center on the Dessa home planet issued the command to launch the equatorial electromagnetic acceleration track. The radio signal achieved global coverage in 0.15 seconds.
Nuclear power plants across the planet that received the command connected to the equatorial electromagnetic acceleration track. The electricity they generated entered current splitters, dividing the total output of each plant into countless portions to avoid exceeding the superconductors' critical current.
Hundreds of millions of superconducting lines connected to a substation near the acceleration conduit. The divided currents converged within the substation without loss, then underwent voltage amplification. The immense amplified current was fed through metal cables more than ten meters in diameter into enormous metal rings.
The metal rings of those acceleration tracks gradually began generating powerful magnetic fields.
[1, 2, 3, 4... 23, 24, 25...]
The countdown tugged at every Dessa person like a thread, focusing the gaze of the entire Dessa civilization.
[...46, 47, 48, 49, 50, launch!]
At the command, a basketball-sized object shot out from the launch point under the force of the powerful electromagnetic field. It circled the planet's equator, continuously accelerating.
One lap!
Two laps!
Three laps!
After circling the planet's equator more than ten times, the basketball-sized object reached an astonishing speed. At that velocity, even a block of tofu would have smashed the moon