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Chapter 709: 437: Not Participating in the War?5400 Words?_1
Chapter 709: 437: Not Participating in the War?5400 Words?_1
Chapter 709: Chapter 437: Not Participating in the War?5400 Words?_1
He was gratified with the enormous scale that the Orion Arm Humans had achieved, but disappointed in not seeing more advanced technological development.
The expansion of the imperial territory mainly came from the individuals aboard the Striver Spaceship, who broke away from the Solar System five hundred years ago and took root in different places.
Beyond the Quantum Warp Stargate, the new technologies created by humans fell largely within Harrison Clark’s imagination and reasoning.
If he could now understand them, that meant they were still not advanced enough.
The total human population is about 350 trillion, with an average population of 2.43 billion per star system.
Over 100,000 stellar-scale Dyson membranes have been built by humans.
Although the population seems vast, and the total energy mobilized is astonishing, this remains a quantitative change, not a qualitative one.
If their enemy were still just spherical battleships, perhaps Harrison could already have declared victory in advance.
However, the imaginary enemy has now evolved from spherical battleships to a million Prism ships belonging to the Compound Eye civilization within the Milky Way territory, and Harrison has even considered the potential threat from the Parent Star of Compound Eye located in the Virgo Home Galaxy Cluster. Clearly, it is not time to celebrate in advance.
His disappointment also had another aspect.
He didn’t expect that he wouldn’t even see a single familiar name.
Not a single person like Nora Camp, Daniel Thompson, Needham Brown, Scott, Bart Owen, Martha Owen, Bernal Connor, Mr. Green, Marthus, Oliver Yeoman, or anyone else from the group of Neville Brown, Matilda, Gaius, Charles, Lawrence, and Bainesta was present.
With such a dramatic change in the development of human civilization this time, and the devastation of the Solar System, Harrison had expected to lose some people.
It’s entirely possible that some of the ancestors of these acquaintances stayed in the Solar System and perished in the ZS Apocalypse.
But not a single one, that’s too much.
“Scarlett, re-search these people…”
He added more names to the list.
Harrison’s memory was excellent, and he was making a deliberate effort to remember more useful people. At least a thousand names and faces were stored in his mind.
He reported all the names first, and then, by constructing images in his mind, he output pictures of nearly a hundred faces per image.
The last wave of humans leaving the Solar System involved 37 billion people, of which more than half, 21 billion, departed.
Even considering basic probability and statistics, some of these acquaintances’ ancestors should have left.
Two hours later, Scarlett: “Sir, the preliminary search has been completed and there is no sign of the corresponding individuals. Should we continue?”
Harrison: “What?”
Not a single acquaintance!
This contradicts the seemingly fallacious but genuinely true personal logic he had summarized from his long experience of continuous travels.
It can’t be that all the ancestors of the people I care about were left in the Solar System, or that all the Striver spacecraft they boarded overturned, can it?
How unlucky would they have to be to experience such a composite low-probability event?
Harrison rolled his eyes in frustration.
They’re messing with me!
This is just absurd.
He was unwilling to accept this fact, but reality would not change due to his personal will.
“Assign 10% of the computing power to conduct long-term searches. Inform me when there is news, and if there is no news, keep searching. Focus the rest of the computing power on analyzing technology and the situation of the Morrowind Empire.”
After giving new instructions, it took Harrison two whole hours to complete his psychological adjustment and reluctantly step out.
He briefly reviewed some other important historical materials.
For example, after the Solar Dome disappeared from the Solar System in 2589, it reappeared in the Proxima Centauri System in 2599.
With nearly 50 million people migrating from the Solar System to the Proxima Centauri System, after more than two hundred years of development, by 2599, the Proxima Centauri System had a population of over 10 billion.
At that time, humans had already completed the Fifth Generation Dyson Membrane in the Proxima Centauri System, encompassing ? Centauri A, ? Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri.
The Rigil Kent System, which included Proxima Centauri, was second only to the Solar System’s human civilization, and due to the presence of the three-star system, it had abundant energy and was considered to have great potential.
However, all of this came to an abrupt end in 2599.
The Solar Dome became the Proxima Centauri Dome and resumed the deployment of ZS Bacteria.
This time, humans were prepared, implementing strict isolation from the start and quickly eliminating the infected space stations and ships. As a result, the Proxima Centauri humans swiftly extinguished the threat of ZS Bacteria in less than five years.
The outcome seemed favorable, but the time the Proxima Centauri Dome spent manipulating the rules to maintain the existence of the ZS Bacteria was too short, and it seemed the energy was not exhausted.
Since then, the Proxima Centauri Dome has not disappeared, enveloping the star system till the present day.
People in the Proxima Centauri System could no longer receive external information, their potential was suppressed, and their development abruptly slowed.
This situation is slightly different from the Solar System in the previous timeline.
In the Eighth Timeline, the leaders of the Solar System people were not even sure if the departing humans had successfully established colonies and were unwilling to expose their existence, so they never revealed their proprietary technology.
In this timeline, however, Proxima Centauri insisted on announcing its research results to the outside world with radio signals, hoping to help the humans of the Orion Arm.
However, unbeknownst to them, the civilization of Proxima Centauri had already fallen several generations behind the Orion Arm Humans technologically and was simply unaware of how far they had fallen behind.