Epoch of Twilight

Time flies like an arrow, and time flies like a shuttle.

2153!

A full hundred years have passed since humans returned to the earth, and the human population has reached 600 million. With the production of wisdom medicine, it has gradually spread to everyone. In the past hundred years, technology has always been Developed like an explosion.

Human beings have gone from only being able to transform the earth to being able to carry out large-scale transformation of the entire star system.

The huge intelligent Dyson sphere has already enveloped the entire sun, and the endless energy it emits is converted into a huge amount of antimatter by the nearby antimatter factory.

At the same time, there are more Venus and Mars in the earth's orbit around the star. In order to move these two big guys to the earth's orbit smoothly, human beings began to study the planetary curvature engine in 2070, which cost more than ten It took two years to create two huge planetary curvature engines, and consumed hundreds of trillions of tons of antimatter, which was equivalent to the two-year accumulation of the Dyson sphere, which was only one-tenth of the completion at that time.

But everything is worth it. The orbit of the earth is the most suitable for human survival. It is the least difficult for the next planetary environment to be transformed, and the time required is also the shortest. In just a few decades, these two originally dead planets, The vitality that has already become vigorous is no different from the earth except for its slightly smaller size.

Moreover, during the construction process, the countless technical difficulties overcome have also accumulated valuable experience for the subsequent construction of super-large creations by humans.

Before the Dyson sphere was established, human beings once optimistically predicted that at least within a thousand years, human beings would no longer worry about energy issues. However, in fact, the growth rate of human energy consumption is far faster than human imagination. faster.

As the saying goes, the way of life of the poor and the way of life of the rich are unimaginable to the poor. The monthly consumption of the rich is money that he will never be able to earn in his entire life. This can also describe today’s human beings. When supplying, in order to consume the extra abundant energy every day, all kinds of crazy creations began to be built in large quantities.

For example, the gaseous planet multifunctional mining platform known as the "planetary vacuum cleaner" is absorbing gaseous planetary material from Jupiter.

For example, planet No. 4 in the Barnard galaxy and Planet No. 5 in the Sirius galaxy are slowly peeling off the rock layer, a rocky planet multifunctional mining platform known as the "planet stripper".

Another example is a planetary fortress that stays near the earth and is known as the third "ultimate guardian of mankind" on the earth, and can fly with a curvature fifty times the speed of light.

Each of these behemoths has a diameter of hundreds of kilometers, and the energy consumed per second during operation is an astronomical figure, especially the planetary fortress, which is a behemoth with a diameter of 500 kilometers, although it is far larger than the moon. Much smaller, but 1.5 times the mass of the Moon.

The alloy layer with a thickness of 100 kilometers and a high degree of collapse cannot break through the defense in a short period of time, unless it is directly hit by a large-mass antimatter. After a few trial voyages, it stayed near the earth because of too much energy wasted.

It’s not that the amount of antimatter produced can’t keep up with the consumption of this fortress of confidence, but that in recent years, human beings have begun to consciously reserve this strategic resource.

Even today's human beings can't sit back and relax in the face of this vast and boundless starry sky.

Forty years ago, with the entry into service of the new fourth-generation space detection equipment "Sky Eye", the detection distance of human beings to the surrounding area began to penetrate into the surrounding area of ​​1,500 light-years.

The number of extraterrestrial civilizations discovered has also jumped from three to twelve. The weakest ones that can be discovered by space detection equipment are civilizations that can explore the star system where they are located, and there are also interstellar civilizations among them.

Human beings have their own set of strict levels of danger to various extraterrestrial civilizations.

The lowest level is the harmless level: this type of civilization, even with all its strength, cannot harm human beings in the slightest. They can only shrink and circle in the star system and pose no threat to the earth.

This type of civilization accounts for the vast majority of all extraterrestrial civilizations discovered by humans, and more than two-thirds of civilizations are mostly at this level.

The second is the mild threat level: this type of civilization already has a certain degree of danger. They have been able to explore the interstellar space, and some powerful ones have even developed curvature technology. There is no suspense in the negative, such as the Bosing civilization that was destroyed by humans more than a hundred years ago.

The following medium threat level is already a great threat to human beings. This type of civilization is basically at the same level as human beings, and some are even stronger. Once a war breaks out, the outcome is unpredictable.

As for the high-threat level, and the final level of destruction, it is far stronger than human civilization. In the face of such a civilization, all human beings can do is to flee far away before the other party shows its aggressive intentions.

Fortunately, mankind is not so unlucky. What mankind discovered this time is a civilization that is moderately close to a high threat level.

It is about 1,200 light-years away from the solar system, and its tentacles spread all over the five surrounding star systems, and it looks like a hegemon over all surrounding civilizations.

Since it was detected, humans have paid continuous attention to this powerful civilization for 40 years. In the past 40 years, in the main galaxy where it is located, the number of scientific and technological creations has been expanding at a rapid rate. Of course Not to mention this civilization, in fact, human beings are also like this.

For more than a hundred years, human beings have not been able to forget the years of war. Although the old humans who have experienced those years have gradually disappeared over the years, the new humans with longer life spans are still in their prime, and most of them are already in their prime. In the leadership position, the sense of crisis in my heart is still there.

Since the discovery of this civilization, human beings have immediately entered a state of war.

That huge planetary fortress, this is the result of this arms race, and even two of them are still under construction.

In addition, in the past few decades, the number of curvature warships built by humans has exceeded 50,000, and the density and intensity of the huge space defense construction for the solar system are completely different from those of the Bostars at that time.

Compared with the general pessimistic atmosphere during the war with the Bossians, humans have nothing to fear.

In the past hundred years, human beings have deepened their research on energy quantization, and energy quantum leap technology has gradually matured, and human energy weapons have entered the threshold of superluminal speed.

The significance of this to the military, even if it is a transformation, cannot be overstated.

In the past, human beings had no better way to deal with super-light-speed targets except to accumulate attack density and rely on luck.

On the one hand, there is no accurate detection system, and there are huge errors in the detected spatial fluctuations and specific positions. On the other hand, the target speed is too fast, and the attack distance is too far away.

After all, even if the target detection is accurate, no matter how accurately the quantum computer of the fire control system can calculate the position where it can attack the opponent and launch it.

During the hours, or even a day or two, when the speed of light approaches the target, there are too many variables in between. A weak spatial fluctuation, the refraction of the thin air in space, and the occasional random speed change of the target can make all All preparations are useless.

But the faster-than-light energy leap weapon has completely changed all of this. It has greatly skipped the long-distance shackles of the attacking side and the disturbance variables in the journey. The moment it is launched, it can leap to the target in an instant.

Cooperating with the miniaturized space detection equipment of human beings and more advanced quantum computers, the hit rate of human beings to super-light-speed targets has increased by hundreds of millions of times.

Of course, even with an increase of hundreds of millions of times, the hit rate of a single attack is still pitifully low due to the small base.

However, in the wars of interstellar civilizations, hundreds of millions of artillery shells are fired at the same time. If the hits are insufficient, they can be supplemented by quantity. No matter how fast it is, it is useless.