Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 67 - New Civilization History
Chapter 67: Chapter 67 New Civilization History
“Is this question too bold?”
In the central meeting room, a group of high-ranking officials aboard the spaceship were discussing the current enrollment plan.
The university, as an institution for talent cultivation and scientific research, is the crux of a civilization.
Without technology and talent, it’s impossible to restart a civilization.
Moreover, the universities on the spaceship have considerable authority, such as priority in allocating labs, distributing resources, and so forth, a large part of training this batch of graduate students must be directed toward the administrative layer of the spaceship.
After all, this spaceship is too large; once most people enter hibernation, every awake graduate student must be capable of standing on their own.
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“What must be known will eventually have to be known… However, some things still need to be done step by step.”
“I, on the other hand, think it could be done like this…”
Listening to everyone’s discussion, Captain Ma sighed and said in a deep voice, “Ladies and gentlemen, let’s not be confined to conventional thinking…”
“We are already a new civilization; we must produce some new changes rather than follow the old ways and become a civilization like Earth… Otherwise, what’s the point of our journey through the stars?”
Professor Lin, what’s your opinion?”
Next to Captain Ma sat a middle-aged man named Lin Fangzheng, who had been a mathematician three years prior and now was a scholar of New Civilization History.
It was somewhat incredible for a mathematician to be in the decision-making echelon of a civilization, perhaps in any country. A mathematician would at most have a say in economic matters, but here, within the new civilization, it had easily occurred.
The New Civilization School has an important tenet: past experiences profoundly influence future ideologies, so they stand at a critical historical juncture. If they make a mistake now, it will be much harder to correct in the future.
Therefore, New Civilization History is a brand-new field of management science, trying to predict the direction of civilization through mathematical modeling.
Professor Lin Fangzheng sighed and said, “The Captain is right, we have only this small population, at a civilization’s infant stage, and making significant changes becomes much easier. Before the course of the entire civilization solidifies, everyone should think more and assume more responsibility.”
Another person around asked, “What do the calculations predict?”
Lin Fangzheng thought for a moment and said, “This exam has a relatively high probability of being a positive event, consistent with prior experience.”
But, New Civilization History is still too incomplete to deduce complex historical trajectories; we can only estimate a few high-probability possibilities.”
“We need more sample information to perfect this brand-new discipline as much as possible. Moreover, the current mathematical models are too crude; I feel they are far from being refined enough. We also need more talent to join in…”
Everyone fell into deep thought.
This interstellar migration represents a completely new social experiment, different from the previous capitalist or socialist management systems; the entire civilization will take a completely different path.
The New Civilization School, founded by Professor Qi Yuanshan, known as the “Father of Nuclear Fusion,” has been around for over a hundred years, its core idea being to use New Civilization History or “calculations” to deduce and plan the future direction of the entire civilization.
Therefore, the Scientific Council holds the highest authority aboard the entire spaceship. Of course, with our current computational power being far from sufficient, some of the past’s political wisdom is still necessary to manage the spaceship effectively.
For a civilization, Science is akin to External Power, while internal institutions and cultural systems form the more important Inner Strength. So the task for this batch of administrators is heavy, with much to rebuild.
There are even many ultimate goals quite different from the current Earth Civilization, and for now, we are feeling our way across the river by probing the stones beneath, unsure how to proceed.
Captain Ma sighed softly.
This first batch of administrators will have less hibernation time and are likely to wither away within this vast Star Domain, never seeing the future Mother Star.
Therefore, training successors is also a consideration. If the higher echelons become corrupt in such a small society, this cultural phenomenon will spread rapidly to the lower levels, making it impossible to correct.
So, successor training is crucial and must be approached with caution.
He looked out the dim window, feeling uncertain about what lay at the end of the road, unknown.
How to transition from the current system to a more perfect system was also unknown.
“Let’s leave it at that for now; thank you all for your hard work on the recruitment process. The meeting is dismissed!”
Everyone stood up and left the meeting room.
Before leaving, Captain Ma reorganized the various materials on the table, including some of the examination papers.
The legends about Aliens, the “Phoenix Light Event” – the truth had long been scattered in the whirlpool of history.
He didn’t know whether the entire event was real or fake; it was merely a possibility.
Whether an Alien Civilization had ever visited Earth was quite significant; it’s treated as an essential proposition in Cosmic Sociology.
If the event were false, naturally, there’s not much to say – it would be nothing more than a rumor.
But if the event were true…
In the vast Universe, an Alien Spaceship had traveled hundreds or thousands of light years to Earth, causing hardly any ripples before departing again.
Leaving only human eyewitnesses and various rumors behind.
What does it signify?
The process is somewhat similar to humans driving cars across the African savanna.
For the lions on the African savanna, who saw the cars and pointed them out, humans do not care and pay no attention, even though these lions are the strongest on the savanna.
The Universe lacks not for matter; the advance of Science will inevitably become more challenging, so what is lacking is information. Thus, if Alien Spaceships truly came to Earth, why did they not communicate with humans?
Because it was unnecessary.
The humans of the 20th century hadn’t even achieved Controlled Nuclear Fusion, possessing no technology to speak of.
Nuclear bombs? Aircraft carriers? Supersonic fighter jets?
Please, what a joke. For a spaceship capable of traversing light years, these were mere toys.
Therefore, to an Alien Civilization, the Human Civilization of that time might have seemed like nothing more than an Ordinary Civilization, devoid of any significance in communication.
No matter how powerful, a lion is just one of many animals on the savanna, no different in essence from elephants, baboons, hyenas, or the ants on the ground.
With that thought, Captain Ma shifted his gaze out the window.
300 years have passed, and humans have become many times stronger than before, even having overcome the threat of energy, but they might still be regarded as an Ordinary Civilization.
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An Ordinary Civilization that is just a bit more powerful.
Regarding another question on the exam, regarding Science and Ethics…
He smiled slightly. If the ethics of the past are not thoroughly overturned, how can a stronger civilization emerge?
