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Chapter 256 The speed of light cannot be broken through

With the development of technology, the Nost people invented aircraft, and they tried every means to make these aircraft better, so that these aircraft could fly faster and higher.One day, a Nost adventurer who was about to break a new record took his own aircraft to a high altitude where no one had ever been before, and he suddenly discovered that the moon above his head seemed no longer unreachable. It exists in poems and stories. something.

Similar to humans on Earth, after gradually conquering the entire parent planet, some far-sighted Lost people realized a problem. The parent planet is just the cradle of civilization, and if civilization grows up, it is impossible to sleep in a comfortable cradle forever.

After thousands of years of gradually occupying the parent star, the Nost people finally moved their eyes from the ground to the sky. More and more sophisticated instruments were developed and manufactured for observation of the sky. More precisely, It is the observation of the sun and moon.Because in the night sky of Nost star, except for 2 small moons and the sun during the day, the sky seen by the naked eye is pitch black.

The first hero among them to fly out of their home planet once issued such a deafening slogan "We already have a smart enough brain and the right way to explore the universe. As long as we think, the Nost civilization will be able to conquer The whole universe!"

From the perspective of later generations, the Nost people are so outstanding. They are intelligent, united, and enterprising. They have mastered the key to the development of civilization - science. It seems that nothing can stop their civilization from rising and developing. up.

Soon, a more advanced detection instrument was developed. This is an electromagnetic wave detection device based on an ultra-wide frequency band. It is the highest masterpiece of technology in the entire Nost civilization. Observation simply does not require such a powerful device.

However, when the Nost scientists first tuned this thing up and pointed it at the dark night sky of the past, it let out a voice "Ouch, I'm going to..."

The Nost civilization gradually occupied all 2000 planets and hundreds of small celestial bodies in its star system in the following 13 years, and initially became a civilization with interstellar colonization capabilities, but the first Nost civilization to fly out of its parent star The words of the hero of Ster are never mentioned again.Because they discovered that the universe played a huge joke on them-there are no other valuable stars within tens of millions of light-years around their parent stars.In other words, their proud "center of the universe" is actually a small isolated island in the center of the universe, and this ocean is so huge that it is difficult for all Nost people to accept...

With the advancement of technology, generations of Nost people have gradually discovered a more cruel truth - the speed of light cannot be broken.This means that they face a desperate dilemma: even with the material and energy of the entire star system as the basis, it is difficult for them to create a system that allows many people to travel through the vast universe to reach the nearest super-giant galaxy that is richer. Spaceship system, because there is no supply in tens of millions of light-years, which is a fantasy for any technological civilization.This civilization, which has initially mastered the space navigation technology, is trapped to death in its own rich and lonely island of the universe.

After a long period of self-abandonment and chaos, another hero of civilization stood up.It is a scientist among the Norsts.It creatively proposes a plan: since, we can't go too far away from home.So, why don't we take the family along?
So the most ambitious plan in the history of the entire Nost civilization was born. They wanted to build a huge engine, big enough to carry their sun and their home from the most desolate corner of the universe to a wider world. Go to heaven and earth.Such an engine can continue to accelerate for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years, so as to accelerate the entire star and everything in the star system to a fast enough speed to fly towards the nearest large galaxy.But because of the continuous existence of the entire star system, the ecological circle will not change, so there will be no resupply problem, so no matter how long it takes, as long as you arrive at the desired destination before the star goes out, that is, the Nost civilization can leave The isolated island of this universe to explore a more exciting universe.

Considering that the more complex the system is, the easier it is to have various problems, the scientists of the Nost civilization designed an engine with the simplest structure, which is a super-large mirror in a fixed orbit, which generates light pressure by reflecting star radiation. This pushes the stars to move.Although the force of light pressure is pitifully small in terms of the mass of the star, it doesn’t matter, as long as the engine continues to work, it can always gradually accelerate the speed of the star after tens of thousands of years, millions of years, and tens of millions of years. To a considerable extent, and then rushed out of the desert of this universe.

The scale of this stellar engine is so large that after reducing its thickness to a few hundred nanometers at the limit of its technological level, the Nost civilization also had to dismantle a close-orbiting terrestrial planet as the engine. Raw materials for construction.At the same time, even with the use of automatic construction technology, it still lasted for thousands of years before it could be completed.

In order to keep the engine working for a long time, the scientists of the Nost civilization have used a kind of self-discipline robot technology. Through the control of the set program, they can recapture, process and store all the substances that are close to the engine or the engine itself due to aging. It is not only used for self-replication, but also scans the structure of the entire engine in real time. Once abnormal conditions such as damage, aging, failure or failure occur, these self-discipline robots will use the stored resources to repair the abnormal position.

During the ten thousand years after the stellar engine was built, the Nost civilization lived a relatively peaceful life.During this period, due to the limitations of energy and matter, their technological development was limited, but there was no retrogression of civilization.Just when the entire Nost civilization thought it could go on like this until they reached new large galaxies, an accident occurred.

The specific time has not been verified, but it is only known that about 12 million years ago, when the star system passed through an empty star field, a cosmic phenomenon that they had never seen before appeared.A kind of berserk energy tore through the space and appeared on the way of Nost civilization.A huge space hole suddenly appeared in this wandering star system, and then devoured 4 of the remaining 10 planets and a considerable part of the star's mass.In such a disaster, the gravitational balance of the entire star system is completely broken, and all the planets are like a pot of boiled glutinous rice balls, spinning in a mess.After hundreds of thousands of years of rebalancing, the star system regained its stability after losing two planets.

(End of this chapter)