Chapter 268 The Current Situation of the Human Federation

Author: Baiyun fluttering

Chapter 268 The Current Situation of the Human Federation

With the rich heavy element resources of Planet 4 and the three moons of Planet 4 rich in fusion fuel, the Human Federation began to build its own civilization through Star Destroyers.

In the following half century, the Human Federation did not rush into Barnard's system, but instead hid in Planet 4 and developed.

Anyway, there are abundant resources here, which is enough for the Human Federation, which has less than three million people, to develop for several centuries.

The reason for hiding it is very simple. Barnard's galaxy is too close to the solar system and Nanmen 2 (Trisolaran world). The Trisolarans must have already deployed sophons in this star system, and they will be discovered if they go in.

As for the probability of the Trisolarans discovering Planet 4, it is almost zero, because Planet 4 is too far away from Barnard's Star, and the Human Federation was able to encounter it only because of excellent luck.

In addition, there are sophon blind spots everywhere in the universe. The Trisolarans will not rashly let sophons sail around. Their detection method is to let sophons fly next to stars.

After all, a sophon is just a proton, and it does not and cannot be equipped with sophisticated detectors, not even comparable to human astronomical telescopes.

Therefore, the Human Federation has been hiding here for half a century. Planet 4, which was originally dead, became lively due to the industrial activities of the Human Federation.

After half a century of construction and production, the strength of the Human Federation began to soar rapidly. The amount of artificial wombs and resource development continued to increase, so the speed of human creation also increased.

The population achieved the goal of over 100 million proposed by Chu Yan 7 years ago, and is now close to 200 million, with the ability to maintain the current technological level.

Industrial production capacity also began to grow rapidly, tens of thousands of factories and mining bases were built and continued to expand, and new spacecraft construction tasks were also proposed.

At this time, on the surface of Planet 4, a huge mining and metallurgical base is like a steel forest, covering multiple mining areas. Countless huge mining machines are spread throughout the mining areas, absorbing the rich minerals underground.

In the synchronous orbit of Planet 4, hundreds of industrial space cities and ten times the number of space microgravity factories are also working in full swing.

The cabins of the space elevator are like busy bees, shuttling back and forth between space and planets. They are responsible for transporting refined raw materials to the space factory.

The space factory then conducts further processing and smelting to manufacture various mechanical equipment, and then transports them back to Planet 4 to develop resources.

The three satellites of Planet 4 are also very lively, with countless ice crystal mining equipment deployed on them, mining precious fusion fuel and minerals.

However, because natural satellites are not very massive, many heavy industries and high-tech industries are deployed on them to directly process the resources mined from satellites.

Looking at the prosperous scene in front of him, Chu Yan, who is almost 120 years old, couldn't help but smile slightly. After so many years, human beings have finally established a firm foothold in this strange place.

Since the Dark War, as the first generalissimo of the Human Federation, Chu Yan has never hibernated. Although he is a new genetically modified human being, he can be considered an old man.

"Generalissimo Chu Yan, the colonial fleet is ready. We can officially prepare to enter the Barnard system." Park Yijun, commander of the colonial fleet, came to report.

This plan actually started a year ago, because the Human Federation actually does not have the ability to manufacture stellar-class battleships at all. This plan is just to send the Human Federation’s original Star Destroyer strike group.

To be precise, the colonial fleet is composed of two Star Destroyer strike groups. They go to Barnard's inner system to develop the three planets inside.

Only one Star Destroyer strike group will be left on Planet 4. Before humans have the ability to build stellar-class battleships, it will remain near Planet 4 to prevent various emergencies.

The reason for dividing the forces into two groups is very simple. Now that the Human Federation's industrial strength and population are not small, they no longer rely on the industrial production capabilities of the Star Destroyer Strike Group, so they plan to march towards Barnard's Star.

In this way, on the one hand, more resources can be developed, and on the other hand, it can deter the Trisolarans from exchanging technology.

This plan is not radical. 200 million people is nothing compared to the Star Alliance and the Ring Republic, but it is actually not that small. The United States, as a superpower in ancient times, only had more than 300 million people.

What's more, the technology of the Human Federation is much more advanced than that of the ancient United States, which means that as long as there is no civilization with stellar-level navigation capabilities in Barnard's Star, it can only be defeated by the Human Federation.

Of course, for the sake of safety, the Human Federation made considerable modifications to the two Star Destroyer strike groups, and installed a large number of engineering modules and resource modules on them.

In this way, the two Star Destroyer strike groups will have sufficient fuel and strong industrial strength to better cope with various situations inside.

"In order to prevent the Trisolarans from discovering that we are hiding on Planet 4, you will make a detour into Barnard's star system and do not communicate with Planet 4." Chu Yan warned.

"General Marshal, how will we contact you then?" Pu Yijun asked.

"Don't contact us in the early stage. Just contact the humans and Trisolarans in the solar system. As for the later stage, we will set up a signal station at this location."

As Chu Yan spoke, he activated the holographic image in front of him and said: "This is the location. If you have anything to say, just send the neutrino signal here."

"This is the first signal station. After receiving the message, it will use electromagnetic wave signals to send the information to the second signal station, of which there are hundreds of signal stations in total."

"The routes of these signal stations are very complex and are unmanned. They will randomly send signals to other signal stations, and finally transmit them to a receiving station."

"We will set up hundreds of permanent personnel at the receiving station. If they receive the message, they will take a spacecraft to Planet 4 and deliver the message you sent."

"Generalissimo, this is too vigilant." Pu Yijun said in surprise.

Originally, Planet No. 4 was one light-year away from Barnard. If this was done, it would take several years to transmit a message.

"We must be vigilant. The Human Federation cannot let the Trisolarans discover that we are hiding on Planet 4, otherwise we will be dead."

"And if there were communication technologies such as sophon blind spots and quantum entanglement in the solar system, we wouldn't be in such trouble. All we can say is that we hope they have such magical technologies."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense and prepare to embark on an expedition to another world. The hope of the Human Federation now depends on you!" Chu Yan waved his hand.

"yes!"

Then more than 300 suns cooled down, and two Star Destroyer strike groups, totaling 14 Star Destroyers and 340 stellar-class battleships, embarked on a light-year expedition.
Chapter completed!