Chapter 243 Ten Years

Time always passes quickly in the interstellar age.

In the past, it would be impossible to cross from one star system to another in just ten years.

And civilizations like humans, due to limited resources, basically have to enter hibernation during long-distance voyages. In this way, in fact, many research works have also entered a semi-dormant state while embarking on the journey.

So even though humans have been away from the solar system for almost two thousand years, most of the time has actually been consumed in this way, and there is not much time for real stable development.

In fact, this is also the norm for low-level civilizations, no, it should be said that it is the norm for low-level wandering civilizations.

So ten years is really not long at all, but this ten-year voyage is very different from other times, because humans spend it in the "packing" state of the awakener.

Under such circumstances, this decade of manpower is extra fulfilling.

Because the exact voyage time is known, and it is shorter than the estimated voyage time of humans themselves, Yue Yuan did not let humans hibernate, nor did he let each department enter a semi-dormant state, but lived and studied normally.

When humans set sail, they did not expect to encounter the awakeners, so the supplies in the previous galaxies were budgeted according to the voyage of more than 100 years, so this time, there was no shortage of resources.

In such a situation, humans can naturally steadily advance various scientific research experiments as usual. On the other hand, although the intelligent system of the awakener ship 2355, the "Invincible Great Sword", did not directly provide technology to humans, it occasionally responded to human information.

Of course, humans did not directly obtain technology, but being able to communicate with an artificial intelligence of a sixth-level civilization from time to time also made humans more knowledgeable.

Sometimes a random word from the "Invincible Great Sword" can benefit humans a lot.

It is precisely because of this that these ten years have become a small spring for human science.

Humans are already a second-level civilization. Although ten years have not allowed humans to move to a higher level, and many things on the technical level have not made much progress, many things on the theoretical level have appeared in these ten years.

For example, many related novel theories such as quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, mathematics, and philosophy have been proposed. Although it is very imperfect, humans have at least made progress in scientific theory.

This is undoubtedly good news.

Because all technologies are based on theory.

Of course, there is no lack of progress in technology. At least the technology that humans have been dreaming about since the Callisto era has finally been realized.

That is artificial uterus technology.

It is called artificial uterus technology, but it does not really create a uterus. Instead, it uses scientific and technological means to imitate the uterine gestation process to create a device that allows fertilized eggs to reproduce.

It is equivalent to a breeding ground.

The process of truly creating life, which is the essence of the birth of life, is of course not understood by humans. The so-called artificial uterus technology is just a process of imitating the environment.

It is a biological technology of copying.

The emergence of these technologies means that the new government's population policy has one more option.

To be honest, the new government also understands that the population system based on the traditional family unit can no longer keep up with the pace of the interstellar era, but because there were no such technologies before, it could only be like this.

Because human life expectancy has been greatly improved, such a system is very likely to make the human race a force based on family relationships, and over time, it will form a situation where all eighteen generations of ancestors gather together.

In fact, after so many years, there have been some such signs among humans. Although the new government has legally defined the relationship between ancestors, such as issuing some regulations that there is no relationship beyond three generations. But the foundation of mankind is a group of people who value their ancestors, so in private, this trend cannot be stopped.

The emergence of artificial womb technology has enabled humans to truly reform the population system.

Of course, the reform will not be carried out at the moment the technology appears, nor will it directly abolish the original family system, nor will it prohibit natural conception.

So in the past ten years, the new government led by Yue Yuan has only begun to discuss the reform plan.

In addition, the biggest gain of this ten-year voyage is the warp speed.

It’s not that humans have mastered the warp engine technology, but the warp engine that was found from the crashed spacecraft on Callisto can be used.

All this is thanks to the cracking program of the artificial intelligence of the awakener.

After obtaining the cracking program, humans successfully entered the system of the fuel storage device not long after, and in the following years, they also found a way to start the warp engine.

But that's all. Once the four fuel storage devices are used up, humans will never be able to start the warp engine again, unless humans complete the grand unified theory and have the ability to manufacture it themselves.

So this warp engine is a limited-time version. In fact, from a general perspective, it is actually useless for improving human combat power, after all, it cannot be equipped on the entire fleet.

Moreover, it is used by small spacecrafts. Whether it can wrap the entire battleship is still unknown. After all, although humans can activate it, they don't know anything about its operating rules or specific parameters. Therefore, they naturally cannot judge how big a warp bubble it can generate and how fast it can sail.

If you don’t know, you have to find a way to figure it out.

Therefore, in the new government's plan, after the Awakener leaves, they have to find a place to stop for supplies, and then set up a project to build a spacecraft to install this warp engine and conduct various tests on it.

Four fuel storage devices were originally picked up. According to human speculation, after the experiment is completed, there should be two or three left.

If the experimental results meet the requirements for equipping a warship, then humans will install this warp engine on the flagship in case of emergency.

Although it is a one-time equipment, as long as it is used well, it can sometimes have unexpected effects.

Ten years have arrived as expected.

At the end of the tenth year, the Awakener appeared as scheduled.

"Little guys, I can only take you here. Goodbye."

Just like the first time before, the sound came from the Lyra's built-in loudspeaker. And after hearing the classmates in this way, humans also understood that it was the awakener who appeared and not his intelligent system.