Hope's finger abruptly stopped swiping across the holographic projection.
"What did you say?!"
He could not tell whether it was excitement or shock. A tangled surge of emotions raged through him.
"The planetary transformation preliminary plan started half a year ago! It's done already?!!"
"The terrain modifications are finished?"
"What's the Academy of Sciences planning to do next?!"
Hope bombarded his teammate with questions, barely able to string his words together.
Hansent said nothing. Instead, he raised his wrist and activated his wristwatch's holographic projection function.
After entering a few keywords, he reached out and made a gesture.
The holographic display flipped over.
"Human Federation Academy of Sciences announces the official launch of the planetary transformation plan today"
"Comet Nero successfully captured, scheduled to arrive at Dawn Star in six months"
"Dawn Star surface terrain modification project completed-now we await Nero's arrival"
"..."
Hope stared blankly at the news on the holographic display.
I'd only muted notifications for a few hours. Why did it feel like I'd traveled through time?
Without stopping to ask questions, he quickly tapped the news report open and read it carefully.
Half a year earlier, construction of Dawn Star's City Six had officially been completed.
But to everyone's surprise, plans to build City Seven had yet to appear.
Amid everyone's questions, the Human Federation Academy of Sciences calmly released a proposal.
"Planetary transformation preliminary plan"
Thanks to the Holographic Theater's long-running publicity efforts, even the younger generation born on Proxima Centauri was filled with anticipation and dreams of the "legendary" Earth era.
That went doubly for the older generation who had come from Earth.
The moment they learned that Dawn Star might one day become a second Earth, and that humanity might once again live beneath blue skies and white clouds,
All six surface