APTnovel Chapter 84: The Garden of Light
Chapter 84: The Garden of Light
After a month of rest and reorganization at the Earth Empire in the Milky Way, all thirty fleets of the Lunar Empire returned to the Lunar Empire base in the Triangular Galaxy.
In the year 261 of the Interstellar Era, the time it took for the "Morse-tron Modulation Matrix" to transmit information between the Milky Way and the Triangulum Galaxy was reduced from one hour to one minute. This greatly facilitated communication between the Earth Empire and the Lunar Empire.
In the year 263 of the Interstellar Era, the time required for travel between the Milky Way and the Triangulum Galaxy to flip through the Klein Space was reduced from three months to one day. This greatly facilitated travel between the Earth Empire and the Lunar Empire.
Zhou Yuan, Wei Shan, and Lefia sometimes vacation in the Earth Empire, and sometimes they go to their new home in the Moon Empire.
With the Earth Empire and the Moon Empire cooperating in near real-time, science and technology have made rapid progress.
In the year 267 of the Interstellar Era, the Earth Empire Academy of Sciences used the "Super Energy Exchanger" to create a "Star System Light Speed Barrier".
In the year 269 of the Interstellar Era, the Earth Empire and the Lunar Empire jointly conducted an experiment on super-distance projection of a star. A massive star, projected from the Earth Empire's side through a super-large ring-shaped projection device, was successfully flipped through Klein space and projected to the vicinity of the Lunar Empire's New Home 1 in the Triangular Galaxy, with an error of only fifty kilometers.
In the year 271 of the Interstellar Era, based on the technology of projecting stars, the Earth Empire also projected a neutron star near New Home 1 with an error of only three kilometers.
The Academy's next task was to simplify and miniaturize the projection devices for stars and neutron stars. Building on the technology and science of these successful experiments, a scientist from the Lunar Empire proposed a "Mobile Home" plan. The gist of this plan was that since humanity could now project stars and neutron stars over long distances, they could also project habitable planets, allowing humans to carry their own planets on long-distance journeys between galaxies.
Inspired by the "Mobile Home" project, Zhou Yuan went a step further and proposed an even bolder idea: to build a "Halo Garden" for trans-river navigation.
At a scientific conference, Zhou Yuan described the "halo garden" in this way.
"The concept of 'Halo Garden' was inspired by the 'Mobile Home' concept, combined with the energy shield of the Tarantula Nebula, the 'mini-sun,' and the cluster of light. In fact, our current fleet is a miniature 'Halo Garden.' Imagine this 'Halo Garden' surrounded by an energy shield; inside this shield are our planetary satellites, our sun, and our fleet. If this 'Halo Garden' can also travel across galaxies, then we can discard the concept of a home planet base and migrate between vast galaxies with both our home planet and the sun. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Of course, we could forgo the star and only bring the home planet, but considering the energy supply for intergalactic travel and everyone's familiarity with having the sun, I hope to bring the sun along as well." The energy shield of the 'Halo Garden' is naturally an energy shield combining a Klein force field and intelligent energy entities. The 'Halo Garden' is equipped with a powerful 'motor,' a large-scale Klein force field generator, which is placed inside the sun. After all, the sun contains a large number of neutrinos, providing energy for the Klein force field generator, allowing the 'Halo Garden' to achieve continuous intergalactic travel. The energy shield of the 'Halo Garden' is only a defensive measure. Besides the fleet it carries possessing offensive capabilities, miniaturized projection devices for projecting stars and neutron stars can be deployed within the 'Halo Garden,' facilitating long-range devastating strikes against enemies. In this sense, a 'Halo Garden' is a rapidly moving 'interstellar fortress.'
The concept of "Halo Garden" is as groundbreaking as Zhou Yuan's proposal to equip intelligent energy beams with photon motors to make them turn.
The most crucial core technologies of the "Halo Garden" are the large-scale Klein force field generator and the miniaturized projection device that carries the stars and neutron stars. Based on this, the Earth Empire Academy of Sciences and the Lunar Empire Academy of Sciences clearly divided their tasks: the Earth Empire Academy of Sciences was responsible for developing the large-scale Klein force field generator, while the Lunar Empire Academy of Sciences was responsible for developing the miniaturized star and neutron star projection device.
With dreams and goals in mind, scientists from the Earth Empire and the Lunar Empire's academies worked day and night to quickly realize Zhou Yuan's vision of a "halo garden."
The Earth Empire fleet and the Lunar Empire fleet accelerated their search for Earth-like planets in their respective star systems, transporting and terraforming them. The Earth Empire's Star Bureau revised and improved the "Halo Garden" Act.
In the year 279 of the Interstellar Era, the Lunar Empire's Academy of Sciences developed a miniaturized projector for stars and neutron stars. This ring-shaped projector, with a diameter of only about 800 kilometers, was designed and manufactured in a modular fashion, similar to warships and teleportation portals. A single small projector, broken down into modules, could be carried by a county-level cruiser. The Lunar Empire conducted several subsequent tests on the miniature ring-shaped projector, ultimately successfully projecting a star and a neutron star towards the Earth Empire, with a significantly smaller impact error than previous larger projectors. The stellar projection error was only ten kilometers, and the neutron star projection error was only one kilometer.
Subsequently, the Lunar Empire Academy of Sciences collaborated with the Earth Empire Academy of Sciences on the development and testing of that large-scale Klein force field generator. This large-scale force field generator was clearly manufactured using modular materials with superphoton quark thermal insulation.
In the year 283 of the Interstellar Era, the Earth Empire developed a large-scale Klein force field generator, which was placed inside a star. When the generator was activated, a halo appeared around the star, then suddenly disappeared, traveling through Klein space to the Triangular Galaxy. However, the location reached by this haloed star differed significantly from the intended location, with an error of approximately 30,000 kilometers. Later, Imperial scientists continuously modified the model and corrected the parameters. After more than ten experiments, the final landing point error was reduced to 100 kilometers.
In the year 288 of the Interstellar Era, 17 years after Zhou Yuan proposed the "Halo Garden" concept, the Earth Empire and the Lunar Empire finally realized the "Halo Garden." When the large Klein force field generator placed inside the star was activated, this "Halo Garden" emitted a large halo around its energy shield. Inside the halo were a massive star, three planets (each with two moons), the Alpha Fleet, and miniaturized ring-shaped projection devices that launched the star and neutron star. Through hyperspace flipping, it reached the designated location in the Triangular Galaxy in less than a day, with an error of just over one hundred kilometers.
Thirty years after the destruction of the "Bomb Star Civilization" in the Spider Nebula of the Large Magellanic Dwarf Galaxy, all of humanity on Earth is once again in an uproar. It's like a myth, a legend that humanity can travel on a starship and roam the sea of stars.
As Zhou Yuan said, this "Halo Garden" is a fast-moving "interstellar fortress"!
Although the Earth Empire and the Lunar Empire now have the ability to quickly establish many "Halo Gardens," they both believe that it is not yet time to carry out large-scale migrations and will temporarily maintain the status quo. Each fleet can choose whether to establish a "Halo Garden" in times of crisis or when it is deemed necessary.
Since humanity achieved the "Halo Garden," all humankind has gained immense confidence, leading many to suggest that Earth's inhabitants should venture into the Andromeda Galaxy. Scientists at the Imperial Academy of Sciences, through detailed analysis, research, and extensive simulations conducted by a super artificial intelligence computer, confirmed that even if the "Halo Garden" were to be subjected to a targeted supernova burst like that of a "Light-Descent Civilization," it would not suffer significant damage.
The reason humanity hasn't yet set foot in the Andromeda Galaxy can be attributed to a lingering fear: the belief that it's the birthplace of a "light-falling civilization." The topic of "light-falling civilization" is something humanity avoids. Even with years of intergalactic travel technology, humanity has yet to venture into the Andromeda Galaxy.
With the advent of the "Halo Garden" and the ability to create a "light-speed barrier" for galaxies, humanity's desire to venture into the Andromeda Galaxy has grown increasingly strong. Talk of setting foot in the Andromeda Galaxy has become prevalent, with some arguing that it's time for humanity to shed the heavy psychological burden of the "light-fallen civilization." However, the lingering influence of the "light-fallen civilization" still resonates, intimidating everyone. Even when Gaia on the Moon attends important human events, some people can't help but think of the former Martian civilization, and of course, the much-discussed "light-fallen civilization."
The Earth Empire and the Lunar Empire were forced to re-examine humanity and conduct self-analysis. The leaders of the empires discovered that the rapid development of human technology and strength on Earth was driven by nothing more than difficult circumstances or large-scale wars.
The Earth Empire decided to shed its burdens and dispatched the 7th Fleet to lead the charge to the Andromeda Galaxy. The Alpha Fleet would first go to the Large Magellanic Cloud to conduct scientific research experiments on the supermassive black hole in the Tarantula Nebula, and then go to the Andromeda Galaxy to support the 7th Fleet.
In the year 289 of the Interstellar Era, the Alpha Fleet and the 7th Fleet traversed galaxies via the Klein Space, arriving near the Spider Nebula in the Large Magellanic Dwarf Galaxy from the Milky Way. The two fleets then parted ways, with the 7th Fleet immediately heading to the Andromeda Galaxy. The purpose of their circuitous journey to the Large Magellanic Galaxy was to avoid exposing the Earth Empire's fleet base in the Milky Way.
The Alpha Fleet sailed into the Spider Nebula and began some scientific research on that supermassive black hole.
Zhou Yuan stared blankly at the massive black hole, and couldn't help but recall the clusters of light that had tried so hard to protect the great sun thirty-one years ago. Now, those clusters of light had long since vanished, and the great sun had become a giant black hole.
Birth and death seem to happen in the blink of an eye.
Zhou Yuan couldn't help but recall the scene of Mei Fan, himself, and the leader meeting and talking during the Earth Era.
What is time? What is life?