I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Chapter 166 The Wandering Sun is No Longer Alone

[Home, home, I am Galactus 0. The last batch of Jupiter debris has been mined and I am returning. ]

[Received. Have a nice trip! ]

[All citizens of Earth, this is United Earth Broadcasting and Television, we are broadcasting live the installation process of the last node of the solar fusion controller for you...]

[The Global Academy of Sciences proposed the Wandering Sun Project to transform and upgrade the original solar fusion controller to make full use of the sun's excess energy and enable the sun to acquire interstellar navigation capabilities...]

[Today is the Global Memorial Day and the National Memorial Day for the Moth Project victims. The United Government held a grand space memorial ceremony in the solar fusion device orbit to mourn the 2071 billion human citizens who died in ...]

[Hao Xiaoxi, spokesperson for the United Government, held a global press conference today to announce that after five years of discussion, the United Government has approved the "Wandering Sun Project". The solar transformation project will be completed in 2088...]

[The last Galactus will be dismantled today to fill the gap in raw materials for the solar transformation project. Thank you for the contribution of the Galactus series of spacecraft to Earth civilization for more than 50 years, and thank you for being mankind's eternal friend "Traveler"...]

[All global citizens, this is United Earth Broadcasting and Television. Today we will broadcast live the first start-up test of the solar engine for you from the original Venus orbit...]

In the dark and silent space, the golden stars seem to burn eternally, emitting steady light and heat.

The eight planets and countless asteroids surrounding it have almost all disappeared, leaving nothing in sight.

Instead, a "fishing net outfit" was put around its body.

Viewed from far away in space, the "clothes" appear to be only inches away from the flames on the surface of the sun, and seem to be ready to be ignited by the sun's flames at any time.

But it is actually a visual illusion. The cage is actually nearly 10 million kilometers away from the edge of the hot solar atmosphere.

The regular spherical grid cage of the solar fusion controller surrounds the entire sun at a distance of 10 million kilometers from the surface of the sun.

The surface of the sphere is evenly divided into hundreds of geometric shapes of consistent size.

The nodes of the cage are spherical structures the size of the moon. Each node is connected to the other five nodes around it. At first glance, the spherical surface looks like a pentagon, but a closer look reveals that it is composed of equilateral spherical triangles.

This huge and orderly creation is full of geometric beauty and embodies the most advanced technology of Earth civilization. It is the greatest creation in human history.

——Its current name is [Sun Controller]. Its nicknames are [Xihe] and [Jinwu], reflecting the romance of the earthlings.

Between the controller cage frames, tens of thousands of kilometers of open grids appear to be empty, but are actually covered with thousands of layers of high-strength transparent materials as thin as cicada wings. These composite materials can efficiently capture solar thermal radiation and convert it into an endless supply of electricity.

On the inside of the physical diaphragm, there is a layer of light blue low-temperature plasma energy barrier, which can effectively absorb solar radiation particles and withstand the impact of occasional solar storms.

After the transformation, the solar fusion controller can be very different from the original design.

The top and bottom of the solar fusion controller cage - although up and down have no meaning in space, humans still named it up and down for easy distinction - are different from other nodes. The node here is a hollow ring structure with a diameter of about 10,000 kilometers.

In the cage position parallel to the solar equator, there is also a circle of similar circular nodes, but they are much smaller, with a diameter of only about 500 kilometers.

The cage rotates synchronously with the sun and slowly revolves around it.

The Earth is outside the cage, about 100,000 kilometers away from the cage's surface, and revolves around the Sun synchronously along the solar equator.

——Don't worry about the Earth being too close to the Sun and getting too hot. Under the regulation of the [Sun Controller] and the Earth's Star Ring System, the Earth's surface temperature remains roughly the same as before.

Although the orbit around the sun has been shortened by more than ten times.

The time it takes for the Earth to orbit the Sun is still about 24 hours.

This is thanks to the planetary engines on Earth that control the Earth's orbital speed.

地球时间2088年7月25日10点30分整。

As the commander-in-chief of the launch test pressed the start button, the solar controller cage began to deform.

The top ring shrinks and closes, while the bottom ring expands and grows in sync. The rings at the equator also close.

The entire solar system cage also slowly and evenly shrank and became smaller, as if it wanted to wrap the sun tightly.

At the same time, the energy level of the blue plasma energy barrier inside the cage was constantly increasing, becoming thicker, brighter, and lighter in color, as if the golden sun was wearing another layer of light blue clothes.

As the space inside the cage shrinks, the solar wind confined by the closed cage begins to flow faster and rushes toward the only exit - the circular gap at the bottom of the cage.

boom! ——

The golden tail visible to the naked eye slowly formed and converged at the bottom of the cage.

In the end, it was like the nozzle of a spacecraft propeller, emitting a violent stream of golden particles.

——This is the highly compressed solar wind, plasma ejected from the Sun, accompanied by concentrated thermal radiation.

This is a super-large nuclear fusion thruster!

As the cage further shrank and the bottom opening was further adjusted, the golden tail jetting out from the bottom of the cage became longer and longer, and eventually exceeded 10 million kilometers in length!

Along with the slight vibration of the cage, the sun and the cage moved slowly in the space at an amplitude imperceptible to the naked eye.

Slow, relative to the sun itself. But in fact, the sun is escaping at a speed of tens of kilometers per second, and is still accelerating!

After a few hours, the cage expanded, the top opening was reopened, and the openings at both ends were constantly adjusted in size, using the imbalance in the outflow speed of the solar wind to achieve braking.

Eventually, the sun stopped at a position hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from its original orbit.

[According to observations, the sun has successfully produced a displacement of 0.2 picoseconds in the Milky Way coordinates. The solar engine startup test was a complete success! ]

Hao Xiaoxi, who already looked like a middle-aged woman with gray hair on her temples, stood in front of the global live camera and proudly announced on behalf of the coalition government:

"I declare that the Wandering Sun Project has officially begun! Human civilization will enter the Wandering Sun Era from today!"

"Wow!"

"Excellent!"

"Praise humanity!"

"Praise the sun!"

Excited cheers echoed around the world and resounded through space.

The human civilization of this world ultimately could not escape the fate of wandering.

All the material in the solar system has been mined. Although the sun can still fight for another 500,000 years, human civilization continuing to stay in this desolate space is tantamount to slowly waiting for death.

So they decided to take the sun with them on their journey, using the ingenuity and bold imagination of the human race to transform the solar fusion device and build a stellar propulsion device.

Then the sun will take the earth and travel to the Proxima galaxy 4.22 light years away in years, where it will refuel the sun.

(Three-body people: Damn, you Earthlings are never going to stop, right? You are just going against our Three-body Galaxy, right?)

The difference is that this time, with the company of Mother Sun, the little ball is no longer alone, and the future of mankind is no longer dark.

There is light in the world, and there is light in people's eyes.

That is the sun, and it is also hope!