Chapter 159 Aldebaran

Capella, this is the star system that humans have arrived at now, belonging to the galaxy of Auriga. As usual, the human fleet did not stay here for long. After the supply was completed and some hibernation cabins were built as supplements, the fleet continued to embark on the star journey.

The voyage is still going on. After Capella has repaired and updated all the materials, energy, and spacecraft, humans plan to make a long voyage, with the goal of Aldebaran, 35.99 light years away.

With the experience of the previous short-distance voyages, humans have a very good understanding of hibernation voyages and the performance of spacecrafts. It will take about 240 years to sail 35.99 light years. Because the journey is farther than the previous voyages, most of the humans will hibernate this time.

During the 360-year voyage, the human population has increased from more than one million to 4.15 million, and 14 of the 15 residential spacecrafts have been filled.

Sociologists predict that after this voyage, the human population will increase to about 4.4 million, and the 15 residential spacecrafts will be filled by then. Therefore, the new government plans to make a long stay after arriving at Aldebaran in order to build more living spacecraft and expand more warships.

Humans have already detected the general situation of Aldebaran. It is a binary star system composed of an orange giant and a red dwarf. The orange giant has a giant gas planet. Generally, this kind of gas planet is likely to have rocky satellites.

Moreover, there is a red dwarf. Although there are no planets detected on red dwarfs through various observations, there are generally planets. After all, it is a stable binary star system.

As usual, set sail and hibernate.

Hibernation is like pressing the age pause button for humans. In addition, with the life potion, most humans will only grow for 50 to 64 years in a voyage of more than 200 years. Medical gene technology has made it almost impossible for humans to die of illness. This is also one of the reasons for the steady growth of the population.

During this voyage, Yue Yuan only woke up once. When he woke up the second time, the human fleet was already close to Aldebaran.

According to the normal long-term hibernation awakening procedure, it takes one or two months to adapt after waking up, but after physical strengthening, the comprehensive physical quality of humans has been greatly improved, and the corresponding hibernation awakening adaptation time has been shortened from two months to less than one day.

Like Yue Yuan, he only adapted for two hours and felt fully recovered.

Before the human fleet arrived at Aldebaran, the advance scout spacecraft had explored the entire binary star system. As scientists speculated, the orange giant in the binary star system has rocky satellites, and more than one.

However, the red dwarf in the binary star system has no planets.

It’s not a big problem. As long as there are rocky planets, it is an inexhaustible source of energy and resources for humans. Not only that, in order to avoid encountering star systems without rocky planets, during the hundreds of years of sailing, humans have also specially developed a device for extracting gas resources from gaseous planets.

Of course, it’s not to put a pipe down to extract, but to make a hydrogen element collector installed on an unmanned resource collection spacecraft, and then let the unmanned resource collection spacecraft break into the periphery of the giant gas planet.

Thanks to specialized technology, this thing can be opened like an umbrella when working, and after the collection is completed, it will be folded on the spacecraft and fly back to space.

However, now there are rocky planets, so humans naturally don't need to go to such trouble to collect hydrogen elements.

After the fleet posture and deceleration, Yue Yuan came to the bridge as usual. At this time, all the staff have returned to their posts.

"Have all the exploration spacecrafts been released?" Stepping into the bridge of the Tianqin, Yue Yuan looked at the busy staff and asked casually.

"Commander Yue, the exploration spacecraft has been dispatched with Aldebaran as the center!"

"Well! We must pay close attention to the movements of all parties. The universe is different from the ground, and there are more directions to take into account." Yue Yuan came to the big screen.

With the staff's answer, the current location and direction of the exploration spacecraft have all been marked on the star map on the big screen.

Yue Yuan took a quick look at the information. There are about a hundred exploration spacecrafts, and the farthest one is 0.3 light years away from humans now.

"Go over the asteroid belt and get closer to the orbit of the target planet!" Yue Yuan instructed the helmsman after watching for a while.

The asteroid belt is located in the outermost orbit of the giant gas planet, but it is not completely distributed on its ecliptic plane. From the image, it looks a bit like a bunch of satellites orbiting the earth. About half of the asteroids are located on the equatorial plane of other giant planets, and the other half are distributed in a somewhat disorderly manner.

According to astronomers, the reason for its formation may be that at some point, the two rocky planets on the periphery were disturbed by gravity and finally collided with each other.

The specific details of the formation process still require long-term observation of the asteroid belt to get the answer.

The time should not be too early, because humans have discovered that these asteroid blocks are not small particles like Saturn's rings, but are large and small, ranging from one or two kilometers to seventy or eighty kilometers.

There are two rocky planets in the inner orbit of the asteroid belt, one large and one small. The large one is almost the size of Mars, and the small one is smaller than the moon.

At this moment, the human fleet has entered the gravitational range of the giant gas planet. The fleet's target for this stop is the rocky satellite the size of Mars that is closest to the giant gas planet.

Although Aldebaran is a binary star system, the mass of the orange giant is much greater than that of the red dwarf. The diameter of the orange giant is 43.7 times that of the sun, while the size of the red dwarf is only 0.36 times that of the sun. Therefore, this binary star system is somewhat different from the binary star system that people normally know.

They are not two stars orbiting each other, but the orange giant is located in the center, and the red dwarf orbits 609 astronomical units away from the orange giant like a planet.

Of course, the orange giant is not motionless. Like the red dwarf, it moves around a common void center of mass.

At this moment, the warships and spacecrafts of the human fleet have crossed the orbit of the red dwarf, and are slowly passing through the asteroid belt, approaching the orbit of the target planet.

Due to the existence of such a star system structure, for convenience, humans call the orange giant Aldebaran A, the red dwarf Aldebaran B, the gas planet Aldebaran A-1, and its two rocky satellites Aldebaran A-1-1 and Aldebaran A-1-2 respectively.

For these two rocky satellites, people now have another name. The larger one is called Aldebaran-Kongming, and the smaller one is called Aldebaran-Zhongdaxing.

The planet where the human fleet docked is Aldebaran A-1-1, also known as Aldebaran-Kongming.

Although it is said that the fleet is docked, in fact, not all ships go to the orbit of Aldebaran A-1-1. Considering military deployment and vigilance, the ten Mountain-class warships are basically stationed on the orbit of Aldebaran A-1-2, while the space carrier directly finds a larger asteroid in the asteroid belt to dock.

Therefore, only residential spacecraft and various non-military spacecraft go to the orbit of Aldebaran A-1-1.

There are also a large number of solid water resources and other heavy metal materials on the asteroid. The water resources required by the warships can be mined and supplied here, and other material needs can be directly transported by factory-type spacecraft as usual.

It’s not a big problem.