Chapter 442: Galaxy's Edge

But before setting sail, there is one more thing to do.

After the refit, the original more than one million various spacecrafts are useless and need to be disposed of.

The disposal plan given by the ruling committee is to throw them all into the star, leaving no one behind.

The burning star will be like a huge incinerator, burning all the remains of human refit. Except for the slight change in its own metal content, it will not leave any trace in this universe.

Even the few changes in metal content are extremely subtle. Unless a very detailed and deliberate study is conducted on this star, it is impossible to detect.

The mass of a star is at the level of 10^30 kilograms. At this moment, the mass of all the spacecrafts replaced by human civilization is only about 10 trillion tons, only about 10^16 kilograms, only about one trillionth of the mass of a star.

It is too difficult to say that such a small mass can have any macroscopic impact on the star.

So, under the common gaze of hundreds of billions of people, the huge waste disposal work began.

One after another, the spacecraft was adjusted to the appropriate orbit and thrown into the star at a speed of tens of kilometers per second. Watching this scene, people had extremely complicated emotions.

There was a sense of pride in the powerful civilization and the upgraded spacecraft with more outstanding performance and more advanced technology, as well as some nostalgia and reluctance for those old spacecrafts.

After all, that was our home where we had lived for thousands of years...

In these years, I don’t know how many people were born in those spacecrafts, grew up in those spacecrafts, received education, played, fell in love, got married and had children, worked and lived...

I don’t know how many people’s memories are contained in each spacecraft.

For a while, a trend emerged on the network of human civilization. I don’t know how many people posted photos and video records of their past lives in old spacecrafts on the Internet, telling about the things they had experienced in old spacecrafts, which aroused countless resonances.

But all of this eventually led to one result.

Say goodbye to the past and welcome a better future. Our future will be better.

The cleanup of more than one million spacecrafts, bases, equipment, etc. will be completed. In the No. 1 residential spaceship, which is known as the capital, another meeting of the ruling committee was held in the conference room.

This time, the ruling committee members will decide a very important issue.

Which star system is the target of this voyage? After arriving at that star system, how will the various affairs of the civilization be arranged? During the voyage, what work will the civilization focus on?

This is a very important matter. In a sense, this is related to the future direction of civilization and the fate of civilization.

In the past, Liu Yuan was the leader of such extremely important meetings. He would integrate opinions from all sides and finally decide on the most appropriate and reasonable plan.

The ruling committee members are also accustomed to working under the leadership of Liu Yuan.

For many years, every major civilization event has been arranged in this way. And the results of the execution of each event have repeatedly confirmed Liu Yuan's foresight and correctness.

It was thought that this meeting would still be the same, but something unexpected happened to the committee members.

In the solemn and solemn highest-level conference room, Liu Yuan smiled at the committee members.

"I will only be present at this meeting and will not participate. You decide how the civilization should proceed.

Not just this meeting. In the future, I will not comment on any matter."

The committee members looked at Liu Yuan in disbelief at first, then retracted their gazes after a moment and fell silent.

It was not until this moment that the committee members suddenly realized that the time for the head of state to leave the civilization was approaching...

Yes, now we humans are truly a level 5 civilization. On the basis of the theory of dark force, we have made great progress in all application directions. Although the research is not deep enough and cannot be compared with the old level 5 civilizations such as the Luotu civilization, the breadth of research is no longer inferior.

What is lacking in the future is only to continue to work in depth.

The head of state is about to leave. The future fate of civilization will truly be handed over to us.

The survival and life of nearly one trillion people, the security and development of civilization, such a heavy burden will truly fall on our shoulders.

Power also means responsibility.

In the past, this heavy responsibility was on the shoulders of the head of state, and we only needed to follow the head of state's command. Now...

The committee members have been in high positions for a long time, and each of them has proved their excellence in constant experience. But even if their minds have been trained to be as solid as a rock, they still can't help but feel a little flustered and confused at this moment, as if something is suddenly missing in their hearts.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Xinghe stood up: "Head of state, I think our state today is not suitable for discussing and deciding such an important matter. I suggest that the meeting be postponed and held three days later."

Liu Yuan smiled and said: "I said that I will only attend the meeting and will not participate in any decision-making."

Lu Xinghe, who is the second most important person after Liu Yuan in both name and actual power, solemnly agreed after receiving Liu Yuan's reply: "Yes."

Then he looked at his colleagues.

"I suggest that the meeting be postponed and held three days later. Do you agree?"

"Agree."

"Agree."

After the committee members unanimously passed, the meeting ended without any resolution.

When leaving, the committee members looked solemn.

Everyone quietly felt that from this moment on, civilization was different from before.

Time passed slowly, and three days passed in the blink of an eye. The meeting was held again. This time, the committee members were much more stable than the last time.

The discussion and decision-making were carried out in an orderly manner. After the preliminary preparations, the committee members carefully weighed the priority and importance of each matter and each choice, and finally decided that the voyage time would be set at 30 years, the total voyage would be set at 1,460 light years, and the final destination would still be a relatively remote and ordinary star system.

In that star system, the estimated stay time is about 200 years. During the stay, the focus will be on continuing to study the various technologies of the fifth-level civilization, optimizing and iterating existing technologies, continuing to try to replace existing spacecraft, and conducting research on larger and more powerful main battleships.

In addition, another most important task, even more important than all the previous tasks combined, was passed with the unanimous approval of all the members.

In the next voyage, the ruling committee must go all out to deal with the chaos that will inevitably occur in the transition stage of civilization, and must constantly adjust the organizational form of the entire civilization to adapt to the new operating mode in the future.

In this regard, Liu Yuan, as he said, only attended the meeting and did not express any opinions. Even if some members habitually asked for his opinions, Liu Yuan would only smile and shake his head, leaving all the decision-making power to the members.

Under this circumstance, the departure order was really issued. A total of more than 900 billion, nearly 1 trillion people, and a total of nearly one million spacecraft once again embarked on a long journey.

Everything is still the same as before. For ordinary people, this departure is no different. No one noticed that some far-reaching and extremely significant changes were quietly happening without anyone noticing.

In addition to the decentralization of decision-making power, Han Yang is also gradually withdrawing from more fields.

The first is social management. His computing power gradually withdrew from various civil and administrative agencies.

This caused a little confusion in the early stage. Many people began to complain that the efficiency of government agencies began to decline and the error rate was also increasing, which caused some inconvenience in daily life.

Fortunately, the human government responded quickly and soon responded to the public's call and began to comprehensively sort out the logic of administrative agencies, adjust the process, add positions, strengthen training, etc.

Fortunately, Han Yang's withdrawal was slow and gradual, leaving the ruling committee members with sufficient time to adjust. Therefore, the chaos has always been relatively minor and local, with a small scale, and will not affect the overall layout of civilization.

In addition to the management agency, Han Yang's previous responsibilities such as spacecraft operation status monitoring, emergency repairs, coordination between different spacecrafts, etc., have also gradually withdrawn.

For this reason, the ruling committee members had to establish a large number of new institutions and strengthen the original institutions.

Then there is the medical and health care aspect. Many doctors suddenly found that the medical system did not seem to be as easy to use as before. Medical record management, case analysis, disease communication, and even medical conference organization, etc., all showed certain delays and confusion.

Not only that, patients also began to find that doctors' efficiency in treating patients was not as high as before, and the accuracy began to decline.

The ruling committee made adjustments accordingly, strengthening the training of medical students, strengthening the internal construction of medical institutions, etc.

One field after another, gradually and orderly began to experience the pain of these transition periods.

Until this moment, the ruling committee members gradually felt how much they had to pay for the life they regarded as ordinary in the past.

Han Yang's withdrawal has always been unswervingly, unstoppably and slowly, until decades later, the human fleet once again came to a new galaxy for docking.

This time, Han Yang even withdrew from the field of scientific research, and truly handed over the future development direction of human civilization to human scientists.

You want to develop a new flagship battleship? Satellite-level, or even planet-level battleship? Sure, go and study it yourself.

So, scientists also encountered the troubles of people in other fields. They found that communication within the scientific community was not as smooth, organizational strength was not as strong, and material supply was not as sufficient and timely...

And so on and so forth.

"At least at the current stage, the scientific community of human civilization and subsequent scientific development no longer need me."

Han Yang thought silently: "At the current stage, the spacecraft manufactured by civilization can reach a maximum economic speed of 55 times the speed of light, which is far from the 80 times the speed of light of the Luotu civilization.

It only took us a few hundred years to go from 10 times the speed of light to 55 times the speed of light. But from 55 times the speed of light to 80 times the speed of light, it may take thousands of years.

Because civilization has passed the rapid development period after the breakthrough of basic theory. In the future, it will be a development model of striving for excellence and meticulous craftsmanship. We must continuously optimize and iterate on each performance indicator. It may take ten or even a hundred years to improve a performance indicator by 1% or even lower.

Relying on countless 1% or even lower performance improvements from countless performance indicators, we can achieve a slow improvement in overall performance, from 55 times the speed of light to 56 times, and then to 57 times...

Develop little by little, move forward little by little.

There is no other way to go except this one.

Under this development model, even if I exist, the degree of acceleration for development will not be too great.

It's time to prepare to leave and head to the Canis Major dwarf galaxy to pursue a broader future for our civilization..."

Han Yang operated a wide-angle telescope and looked at the starry sky where the human fleet was at the moment.

In the past thousands of years of uninterrupted voyages, the human fleet has truly crossed a long distance of more than 20,000 light years and truly arrived at the edge of the Milky Way.

The distribution of stars here is extremely sparse. Just like the galaxy we are in now, the nearest star is also 15 light years away.

This is unimaginable in the densely populated Milky Way.

Moreover, the stars here are generally dominated by old stars. They have reached the end of their lives, their volumes have expanded, and their surface temperatures have dropped.

On Earth, under good weather conditions, the total number of stars that can be seen by the naked eye is about 6,000. And here, no matter how good the observation conditions are, the stars that can be seen by the naked eye, The number will not exceed 1,000, and they are generally dim.

The starry sky has lost its color.

At this moment, after evacuating from the human world, Han Yang has invested almost all of his computing power in another place.

That is another star system more than 2,000 light years away.

The preparations for the voyage to the Canis Major dwarf galaxy are being carried out here.

Time passed slowly. Just when Han Yang thought that this stop would be calm and would be the same as any previous stop, but when preparing for the next voyage, an unexpected change suddenly occurred in the vast starry sky.

Only 15 light years away, in the star system closest to the current stop, under the watchful eyes of the surrounding warning satellites created by human civilization, accompanied by a burst of light and shadow changes, a huge fleet with a scale of more than one million spacecraft suddenly appeared. (End of this chapter)