Chapter 257: Return
Five months later, a Giant Elephant Class ship temporarily dispatched for transporting procured goods arrived together with the Peace Messenger fleet, slowly heading toward the Star Gate linking the Arm’s tail direction.
Because the Giant Elephant Class ship’s navigation speed was extremely slow, the return voyage took a full three months.
When the Galactic Calendar entered 9421, the Peace Messenger finally appeared at the Lunar Far Side signal shielding location in the Solar System through the Conqueror’s delivery at Ross 154.
When the entire fleet appeared at the Blue Star Hub, several committee members from various departments as well as a large number of staff members all appeared at the docking port.
The Space Force’s salute cannons also immediately burst into dazzling lights in space, warmly welcoming these pioneers who bore the responsibility of Humanity’s first communication with the Galactic Alliance and returned.
The instant Fan Ren exited the cabin, he spotted Jin Qiaoying in a black work uniform at the forefront of the crowd.
Jin Qiaoying was now over a hundred years old.
Although anti-aging medicine treatment had extended her lifespan by seventy years, making her appear very young overall.
But at this age, her face inevitably showed a touch of charm unique to mature women.
Fan Ren’s gaze paused slightly, a smile unconsciously appearing on his face, then he turned to the crowd in the field and stepped into the passage.
As the Chairman of the Committee, Fan Ren clearly had no time to waste on romantic sentiments.
In the following months, Fan Ren’s figure frequently appeared at the Blue Star Hub and in various departments of the committee’s office locations.
He, along with committee members from each department, and handling officials analyzed all the gains from this trip to Sirius Prime Star with officials from various departments and made targeted measures.
As of now, the number of eligible working-age staff in Human Civilization is 2 billion.
Huang Wei, now nearing death due to age, had proactively proposed entering hibernation state several years ago.
But his left-behind research results had truly helped Humanity open a shortcut on the path of the learning process.
Through the efforts of the Brainwave Laboratory, the current brainwave transmission equipment can now input the main curriculum content from primary school to university into the human brain at once and convert it into memory.
This research breakthrough made the 6-10-year-old children on Blue Star all seem like geniuses.
You could even see a child who still needed his mother to feed him, eloquently discussing various types of spaceships on the display screen at the dinner table.
Due to their age, these children’s worldviews have not yet fully formed.
Therefore, in the 6-10 age group, after completing the transmission of educational content, they will undergo several years of observation before making their choices in professional career aspects of life.
Generally, children graduating from university professional courses are at least 15 years old.
These may seem like the time hasn’t shortened much compared to the past, but through more precise and scientific observation and analysis, these university graduates exhibit their talents in respective professional fields more thoroughly.
This is also why there is a 5-year preschool observation period.
However, before hibernating, Huang Wei left a research topic worth deep investigation by Humanity.
Feasibility study on the transformation of life forms – transformation from carbon-based civilization to electronic civilization.
Of course, all related files and content on this topic have now been sealed by Fan Ren, and the entire research team has been sent to a secret base on Ross 154 planet for it.
In addition, in a meeting jointly held with the Ministry of Economy and Trade and multiple departments, it was decided to transfer 30% of the eligible working population to the Mining Department.
At the same time, 50% of mining output will be taken to the Starfield Market for sales.
And the Shipyard Construction Plant will proceed to specifically analyze the Fox Civilization’s Dreadnought, incorporating Human Civilization’s own understanding of new spaceship development directions in this process.
Due to competition from the Sirius Civilization, the design mainly references the advantages of the Fox Civilization’s Dreadnought, while the ship body still follows Human Civilization’s spaceship construction concepts.
This choice was made to avoid direct competitive conflict with the Sirius Civilization.
In addition, there is a very troublesome problem facing Human Civilization.
Whether to take out a loan to purchase a Star Gate!
As an important spatial equipment for communication between allied civilizations, the existence of the Star Gate undoubtedly provides all civilizations in the Galactic Alliance with an important connection tool.
Currently, for Human Civilization to go to Sirius Prime Star, it must first enter the Ross 154 planetary system from the Solar System under the Conqueror’s delivery, then enter the Alpha Centauri Hub star system via the Star Gate there, and proceed along the Star Gates.
Among these, the Conqueror’s delivery process is an indispensable link.
Without its delivery, Human Civilization would have to cross 4.2 light years of interstellar space, navigating for decades in the vast interstellar space to reach the Alpha Centauri Hub star system.
Due to the Conqueror needing to be highly secretive.
So currently, except for a few high-ranking officials, those who know of its existence have all been sent to work or hibernate in the Ross 154 planetary system.
And with the increasing demand for exchanges with the Galactic Alliance, the Conqueror’s delivery will certainly be exposed.
Then it can be imagined that in this remote star system, a Super Titan-class Battleship suddenly appearing would absolutely attract the attention of surrounding other civilizations.
Of course, it is not that Human Civilization at this time fears these civilizations of the same level.
But it must be known that the Overlord of this star domain is only 30 light years away from them.
Moreover, from all targeted policies, the Sirius Civilization has part of its attention on these Tier 2 Civilizations in the rear.
Because there is a vast number of carbon-based intelligent lifeforms here available for them to command.
Although the Sirius Civilization will not declare war proactively, this does not prevent them from spending vast sums to eliminate Human Civilization as an anomaly after learning of this Titan-class Battleship’s existence.
Through this civilization registration journey, after reading the Galactic Alliance’s detailed covenant regulations, Fan Ren is very clear about the cruelty in the Galactic Alliance.
In another multi-department high official joint meeting.
“The Ministry of Trade agrees with the Chairman’s opinion. As our last resort, its usage in this period has already far exceeded our expectations at the time.
Obviously, in today’s increasingly frequent cosmic activities, it is impossible to restrict our activity range to the Solar System—what difference does that make from closing the door to invent the car?
And the frequent use of the Conqueror greatly increases the risk of exposure.
Compared to the Star Gate’s price of one billion Star Coins and 5% annual interest rate, based on our current mining revenue comparison.
In 100 years, we will be able to repay this loan without pressure.”
