Chapter 309: 218: The Unavoidable Name_2<div>
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The newly established Summit Research Institute developed alongside the Whale Group, showing an astonishing burst of power.
The gathering of mad scientists radiated a terrifying passion for academia. They absorbed The Madman’s Conjectures Collection at breakneck speed.<div>
These lunatics, who straddled the line between madness and genius, came together and sparked countless brilliant ideas, transforming into a technological turbocharger for civilization.
In 2203, a hundred years after theunch of Elite Army 005, humanity once againunched the muchrger and more advanced Summit 001. The ship headed straight for the outskirts of Pluto’s orbit and started revolving around the Sun in its orbit. Although this Summit 001 was designed as a manned vessel, it still carried no crew, just a significant amount of nt and animal life.
The mission’s goal was to deepen humanity’s understanding of deep space beyond the Sr System, collect intelligence for future colonization of other star systems, and be a stepping stone for future endeavors.
However, the n went awry…
In 2257, an idental gamma-ray sweep wiped out the entire ecosystem on board Summit 001. Most of the ship’s equipment and backup supplies were destroyed, and all of the intelligent robots ceased to function. The spacecraft was reduced to a heap of scrap metal floating through space.
Humanity once again realized the fear of the vast and unfathomable depths of space and came to understand that the sma flow of the sr wind was Earth’s second protector, after the atmosphere.
Humbled by these events, humanity no longer arrogantly imagined they could easily venture into another star system. Instead, they began to hunker down and focus on exploiting the resources within the Sr System.
In the same year, the first Mars Base waspleted, an astonishing 130 years ahead of schedule from the previous timeline.
Over the next 200 years, by 24.80, humanity had established a sophisticated and extensive space transportationwork with a presence on Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ganymede, and Saturn’s Titan.
On Mars alone, there were eightrge bases with a total poption of over 70 million. Thebined poption of the others and satellites ranged from several million to several hundred thousand.
In the same year, Frankie, a talented scientist at the Summit Research Institute, finally began his performance.<div>
Arge amount of metal on the unnamed underwent a chain reaction due to an “ident” in his privateboratory. The movement of electron vortices in the metal structure became non-random and followed a pattern, causing the satellite to vibrate continually. The resulting vibrations created a never-ending series of frequency waves.
These frequency waves were the “Morning Wind.”
Frankie feigned innocence, iming it was a marvelous ident. However, in his memoirs, peopleter discovered he had written the following statement:
“Morning Wind was the masterpiece that Harrison rk and Carrie Thomas sacrificed half their lives to create, and Dr. Ryan Lai devoted his free time to. Having paid such a huge price just to create a 90-minute audio clip? Impossible! Harrison rk must have had a hidden purpose, and I am the one to fulfill his will. I’ll make sure everyone in the Sr System hears this song, and there’s no covering your ears.”
In any case, people were speechless about his actions, but they didn’t actually do anything.
Since the Morning Wind, at near Cosmic Background Radiation levels, produced no sound, it caused no disturbance. The difficulty of repairing the Unnamed was too great, and those living there experienced no ill effects, so people eventually epted the situation.
By this time, humans already possessed advanced technology, so if someone wanted to replicate Frankie’s actions, they could have easily aplished it.
However, it seemed that Frankie yed a key role, as the famous fanatic fan of Harrison rk had to wait for his achievements to unravel.
One yearter, in 2481, Summit 002, a massive spacecraft created at the cost of all of humanity’s 50 years of umtion and consuming vast resources, left Jupiter’s orbit on its way to Proxima Centauri, 4.2 light years away, after 224 years of hibernation.
The cone-shaped Summit 002 was 3,752 meters long, with a diameter of 733 meters and a weight of 85 million tons.
Summit 002 housed 86,927 people and millions of preserved gically-engineered eggs, forming humanity’s first expeditionary colonizing vanguard.<div>
With 9,300 high-energy particle engines, Summit 002 could reach one-seventh the speed of light within three years, advancing at this speed under the shielding of its repulsive maic field.
The energy reserves on Summit 002 were sufficient to propel the ship through space at high speed for 3,000 years.
If everything went ording to n, Summit 002 would reach Proxima Centauri b in 40 years, modify the, and establish the first colony outside the Sr System.
With unprecedented determination and courage, humanity charged into the depths of space once again.
Leaving behind the past, never looking back.
At this time, people were unaware that the end was near, but with the necessary conditions in ce, they resolutely ventured into the unknown even though the road ahead was long and uncertain.
Deep in their genes, the boundless drive for exploration and knowledge urged these 86,000-plus volunteers to respond to a calling from the universe itself..