Chapter 327 External Expansion
When humans completed the restoration of the Blue Planet environment and designated Blue Planet as the capital of the New Federation, humans had been resting and recuperating in the Nirvana Galaxy for 31 years.
This year, Qi Yiming was 143 years old. Compared with the human lifespan of nearly 300 years, Qi Yiming was considered middle-aged at this time.
And this year was designated by the human government as the year of human rebirth and the first year of the New Calendar.
That is, from this year on, humans once again set their sights on the vast sea of stars.
In September of the first year of the New Calendar, the first large colonial spacecraft of the New Federation departed from the large space station located in the orbit of the fifth planet, carrying one million humans to the Proxima Galaxy 632 light-years away from the Nirvana Galaxy.
There, humans will build a bridgehead for counterattacking the Zerg, and it will also be a fortress galaxy to deal with the Zerg invasion.
The reorganized third fleet of humans will also set off with this colonial fleet.
After escorting the colonial fleet to its destination, they will have a period of rest and then continue to sail to deeper space.
The mission objective of this fleet is very clear, which is to sail to the farthest location that the stargate can connect to, and then find a galaxy suitable for human colonization nearby and station there.
Then wait for the subsequent arrival of the engineering fleet. After the engineering fleet arrives, the second stargate of the New Federation will begin to be assembled.
Yes, Qi Yiming has already begun to implement his counterattack plan that he has long been familiar with.
The Nirvana Galaxy is 32 million light years away from the Ancestor Galaxy, the birthplace of the New Federation. This distance is actually not far for the New Federation with stargate technology.
But the only problem is how to safely lay the stargate route all the way there.
The farthest distance that a pair of stargates can connect is about more than a thousand light years. If you want to lay the stargate to the Ancestor Galaxy, you need at least more than 3,200 pairs of stargates.
The most difficult part of laying these stargates is not the construction of the stargates, but how to let the escort fleet and the engineering fleet pass through this distance of more than a thousand light years safely and quickly.
But for Qi Yiming, this more than a thousand light years is not a big problem.
The war star has a long-range delivery function, and this distance is exactly 1,100 light years, so the engineering fleet and the escort fleet can be delivered by the war star after a star gate is built.
Qi Yiming originally wanted to use this method to build the first pair of star gates, but considering that the New Federation currently only controls one galaxy, there is no huge depth to deal with the invasion of the Zerg.
So the first pair of star gates can only allow the escort fleet and the engineering fleet to fly slowly.
However, the connection distance of the first few pairs of star gates has been reduced to 300 light years, so that humans can quickly obtain a combat environment with a large depth.
With the establishment of colonies attached to the star gate, the human territory has been expanded while the human alert range has been expanded. In this way, Qi Yiming can take the war star to safely leave the Nirvana Galaxy to perform the task of laying the star gate.
If the Zerg suddenly attacks during this period, Qi Yiming also has time to let the war star quickly return to defense through the newly built star gate transportation line.
At the same time, the huge defense depth will not allow the Zerg to rush directly to the Nirvana Galaxy, which is extremely important to the New Federation.
Today's human beings are completely different from the civilizations they were when they first arrived at the Nirvana Galaxy thirty years ago. The initial embarrassment no longer exists, replaced by a huge interstellar fleet.
Thanks to the rapid increase in population, Qi Yiming has formed seven interstellar fleets in the past thirty years, each fleet has 1.5 million warships of various types.
The Nirvana, the first Titan battleship of the New Federation, which is being planned to be built, will also be completed in the fifth year of the new calendar.
In addition to the seven interstellar fleets, Qi Yiming also has a special fleet of about 300,000 ships.
This fleet is the neuron battleship that Qi Yiming has been thinking about.
In the ninth year after the discovery of the ruins, the Academy of Sciences, led by President Sun Chao, concentrated on the button-shaped objects obtained from the ruins.
Finally, the technology of digitizing human consciousness and transferring it to a new body was barely cracked, allowing humans to step into the era of pseudo-immortality.
However, the success rate of digitizing human consciousness is still pitifully low, with a success rate of less than 10% in the branch.
The operators of the 300,000 neuron battleships in Qi Yiming's hands are all the products of some dying people who have successfully completed the dataization of their consciousness.
These people's lifespans have come to an end, so under the temptation of being able to raise their citizen level by two levels at a time for their descendants, they voluntarily participated in the experiment.
The successful people are very lucky. Not only do they get a new body, but they also get the opportunity of almost eternal life. At the same time, the neuron battleship construction plan that Qi Yiming had suppressed at the bottom of the box is put back on the agenda.
The design and construction of neuron battleships adhere to the simple and rough idea.
Because all the equipment in these battleships will be connected to the body of the operator through the neural network laid in the hull.
The entire battleship only needs one person to operate, so the battleship does not need to consider the problem of large personnel configuration.
In this way, the space saved can be used to build more equipment.
Therefore, the newly designed neuron battleship not only has amazing defense, but also its firepower output capacity is more than ten times that of ordinary battleships of the same level.
Qi Yiming once conducted an exercise within the fleet after the first neuron battleship was put into service.
The result of the exercise surprised Qi Yiming. A neuron battleship could repel a squadron of more than 10,000 warships of various types without any damage.
This is also the most important reason why Qi Yiming dared to let the War Star leave the Nirvana Galaxy to assist the engineering fleet in laying the stargate line.
Qi Yiming believes that the Nirvana Galaxy is guarded by 300,000 neuron battleships. Not to mention repelling the invading Zerg, at least the Zerg can be firmly blocked outside the Nirvana Galaxy and wait for the return of the War Star.
The first neuron flagship of the New Federation built on the Light of Death will serve in the fifth year of the New Year. Fang Min, who has fortunately completed the digitization of consciousness and obtained a new body, will take over Qi Yiming's duties and drive his own flagship to guard the Nirvana Galaxy until Qi Yiming completes the laying of the stargate.
Today, Fang Min has become one of the most enviable people in his circle.
To put it bluntly, Fang Min not only got the opportunity of pseudo-eternal life, but also became a superman who is not afraid of death.
The reason for this is that the Academy of Sciences has not only initially completed the technology of human digitization, but also, with the in-depth research on button items, humans have realized the technology of instant transfer of human digitized consciousness.
In other words, once Fang Min, who has undergone digitization transformation, dies on the battlefield, his consciousness will be transmitted to the medical cabin prepared for him in advance through the quantum transmission device with his DNA characteristics.
At the moment when Fang Min's digitized consciousness reaches the medical cabin, the medical cabin will recreate a body for him based on the DNA data stored in advance by Fang Min, and then put his consciousness into the new body again, so that Fang Min can drive the new neuron battleship back to the battlefield after a short rest.