Seven years ago.
Gliese 581, a fickle star and a rocky planet, has a race called human. It is in full swing to develop a huge spacecraft called "Kunlun Mountain" to make final preparations for its long-distance voyage plan.
Everyone is striving for their own goals
On this day, Professor Li Zhi, who is in charge of astronomical observation, suddenly detected an unusual fluctuation.
It was a wave of radio waves with some regularity, very weak, but endless.
He frowned and examined, some doubting whether this wave was a pulse fragment of a neutron star. In fact, most of the signals detected by the Observatory are sent by these neutron stars or very distant supernovae. These signals do not have much meaning..
After a while, this series of pulse bands appeared again, and the same law!
Staring at the screen for a long time, suddenly, Professor Li realized something and yelled at his assistant, "record it quickly, all of it!"
"Retrieve the source point of the signal!"
In order to cultivate the public's interest in foreign exploration, astronomy, including cosmology, has always been a key project supported by the new civilization. Many students practice here.
Searching for signals from aliens, including signals from earth civilization, is a top priority.
Although... There has been no good progress. It is estimated that the real alien civilization has not used electromagnetic waves for communication for a long time.
The young students pondered over the radio waves. Because it is very weak, there are many missing signals, but there are some rules.
"It's so regular!"
"It's a string of signals, the real signal from civilization!"
"Don't get excited. Try to decipher it."
Professor Li has a hunch that this is definitely something great.
Then he heard that the observation room next door also began to revel. Obviously, both sides had a common discovery.
"Again! There's another big string of signals! " A boy screamed.
The radio telescope detected a large number of information codes!
More and more, more and more, which lasted for hours!
This time is not the original, only a few words, but a whole
103 megabytes!
103 trillion!
A few hours later, the supercomputer was analyzing and deciphering the data just detected. Professor Li knocked excitedly on the door of the next room, pretending to be calm and said, "Lao Guo, it seems to be a great thing."
"Well, did you find out? Was it the signal from the earth civilization? Or an alien civilization? I'm more interested in the signals of alien civilization. "
Lao Guo also blushed and said enthusiastically, "no, it's definitely not earth civilization, because it's not in the same direction at all. 1000% is not... On the contrary, I suspect it's the human beings on the golden sun who sent us a signal."
"Golden sun?" Professor Li was stunned and then patted his head. He almost forgot about it.
"Yes! This string of signals is likely to come from Kaptan! "
The report was soon passed back to the captain's office. Because it uses a traditional remote error correction code, it is easy to decipher.
When he heard about it, even Zhang Yuan was surprised and soon became excited.
"Have the humans of the golden sun arrived smoothly... No, in theory, they should arrive faster than us."
"Call an emergency meeting!"
At the same time, he issued several orders.
"Maximize the astronomical observation equipment and don't miss any information."
"Call the reporters, too."
……
More than ten minutes later, the conference room was already crowded with people. Everyone was talking excitedly, and the air was filled with a fanatical atmosphere.
In particular, Li Zhendong is in a mess with excitement. A group of physicists are frantically discussing strange words such as the so-called "graviton" and "cosmic string".
In short, this news can be said to be the best news about mankind itself in nearly a century!
In other words, the branch of the golden sun actually does not belong to the earth civilization itself, but another brand-new civilization.
But when I think of the boundless universe, there is another active and vibrant branch of human beings in the distant Kaptan star. Is there anything more worthy of expectation and celebration in the world?
Zhang Yuan didn't show off either. He played this translated letter directly on the screen.
"... dear Earth times, Hello, this is the golden sun, repeat for the seventh time."
"... dear Earth times, Hello, this is the golden sun, repeat for the eighth time."
……
"... dear Earth times, Hello, this is the golden sun, repeat for the 106th time."
This sentence has been repeated 107 times, making everyone here a little impatient. After Professor Li of astronomy explained, everyone was quiet again.
The reason is that the ultra long-distance electromagnetic wave communication costs a lot of money, and it is impossible to inform the other party in advance that we want to send information, so we must give the other party a preparation time. Only this repeated information can arouse the other party's attention.
Otherwise, this message is likely to ignore the past and never receive it again.
"I see." Ye Kaifu, sitting at the bottom, nodded.
After repeating 107 times, we finally got to the point.
"Hello, colleagues of the earth times. This is the branch represented by the Kaptan star and the golden sun spacecraft. I am Xu Peng, the then captain."
"Our civilization has developed here for 544 years. It is necessary and obliged to report the history of more than 500 years to you on the earth times, so as to better plan your future."
The tone was so heavy that everyone couldn't help holding their breath.
The two civilizations adopted almost the same strategy, that is, taking "new civilization history" as the guiding ideology, but there will be some differences in the detailed policies.
Because the history of the two civilizations is different. The earth times encountered many stories, and the golden sun must also encounter different stories.
Due to different development history, people's ideology and the culture of the whole society will be very different.
This is the complexity of a civilization. Even if both sides are human and homologous, they will still be very different.
In the development process of the golden sun, there have been a series of small problems.