But no matter what, life had to continue.
People began to try to forget about the Earth and start a new life while hiding their communication channels.
Without confirming the level of the Earth civilization in this time and space, it was unwise to expose their existence.
In any case, survival was the most important factor.
This was agreed by all the crew members.
The colonization ship entered the synchronous orbit of Gliese 581 and began to drop probes into the twilight line of the planet.
When the probes landed and brought back the ground data, the colonization ship then dropped the airdrop cabin of the orbital paratroopers, followed by the infrastructure unit, and then the living cabin carrying the colonists. This was the beginning of the "Colonial Era."
Although a year had 37 days, because the planet didn't have the concept of day and night, to commemorate the blue mother planet, people still used the 24-hour time of the Earth and the solar system calendar to calculate the years.
There was no sea in this world. The fresh water came entirely from the glaciers on the planet's back and the freshwater lakes scattered on the twilight line, as well as the underground rivers that intertwined like blood vessels.
There were large fungi and low shrubs on the surface, and the oxygen content in the air was very abundant. It was very comfortable to breathe in the air of this world. This world seemed to be specially made for humans.
This world was beautiful. Many magnificent natural landscapes couldn't be seen on Earth.
The rivers that flowed from the back to the sun evaporated into a thousand-mile-wide fog wall under the high temperature. The sunlight was deflected here and converged into a rainbow that never dissipated. There were also the strange-shaped vegetation and giant fungi that covered every inch of soft soil on the twilight line. From a high altitude, it looked like a carpet of green and red.
There was life on this planet, although it was very thin.
In fact, from a long time ago, the observer of this planet, Steven Vogt, made a prediction. Personally, he thought the probability of life on this planet was 100% and he had no doubt about it.
It turned out that he was right.
The twilight line was densely covered with vegetation and a large number of strange-shaped small and medium-sized arthropods, forming a simple ecosystem.
The colonists felt relieved because they weren't alone.
Living units were built one after another, and ecological farms rose from the ground. Then the road network spread out and connected them into a city. Mining vehicles shuttled like ants, engineering vehicles transformed the landscape, and biologists eagerly collected unheard of genetic maps. The giant sun that never set was like the sun at dawn. People worked hard to build a new home and sang the praises of a beautiful future.
Just like the colonists who set foot in America.
However, they were not European criminals, but human elites from Asia. Whether it was ideology or science and technology, they had enough confidence to look down on that unbearable past. Utopia was built under their hands. There was no war or crime. Everyone was brothers and sisters.
The conflict had been resolved in the Old World.
The seeds of human civilization would sprout anew on this soil.
Of course, there were still difficulties.
For example, the metal minerals on this planet were abnormally thin, and the reserves of iron, aluminum, and rare earths were unimaginably low. The miasma that floated up from underground would lower a person's immune system and could even cause illness.
However, these problems could be solved. The metal minerals could be solved through the space mining module of the space colonization ship. The miasma that troubled the health of the colonists was just the spores of a special fungus. Biologists quickly developed a disinfectant that restrained its reproduction and easily solved the problem.
However, apart from these, there was a more serious problem.
That was the solar wind.
The planet did not have a stable magnetic field and had almost zero resistance to the particles thrown from the red dwarf.
The distance between the planet 581g and the star was only 0.15 astronomical units, which was only 0.15 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. The solar wind that blew from the red dwarf from time to time was like blowing directly on the face of humans. Without the protection of the geomagnetic field, all electronic equipment could only be used in an electromagnetic shielding environment.
It was as if thousands of EMPs were bombarding the planet.
In order to improve accuracy, some physics experiments involving the atomic level had to be moved to the space colonization ship.
Later, in order to prevent the solar wind from the red dwarf from damaging the space colonization ship, people re-accelerated the space colonization ship and drove it away from the Sun. At the same time, it moved from the synchronous orbit of the planet to the synchronous orbit of the star. In this way, the space colonization ship was always separated from the "Sun" by a planet. This could avoid the frequent harassment of the solar wind on the space colonization ship while ensuring the normal progress of scientific research.
The production and life of humans who were extremely dependent on electronic equipment were severely affected. Even after people used the magnetic field shield to solve the solar wind problem, the impact still existed.
After all, no matter how wide the magnetic field shield was, it was impossible to cover the entire planet.
Fortunately, humans were very adaptable.
After adapting to these difficulties, everything gradually became smooth. All of the cities were built under the electromagnetic shield. Looking down from space, they looked like umbrellas that were opened in the twilight line, and humans lived under the umbrella.
Everything was so beautiful.
Until they discovered the "natives" on the planet.
They were a group of very aggressive creatures. In terms of social form, they were very similar to ants. There were female insects responsible for reproduction, combat insects responsible for hunting, and worker insects responsible for digging holes.
Generally speaking, they all lived 20 to 30 kilometers below the surface of the Sun. The geothermal temperature here was enough to offset the extreme cold on the surface, and it could melt the ice embedded in the ground into water.
It wasn't until later that people discovered that the tens of millions of rivers of different thicknesses under the surface were the masterpiece of these insects. Their race had existed for millions of years, or their civilization had existed for at least hundreds of thousands of years.
A civilization older than all of the human civilizations combined.
Although this civilization was not "civilized."
Originally, because the living space between the two sides was too far apart, one was on the twilight line, the other was on the dark side underground. Perhaps both sides regarded each other as "insects". Humans had been living on this planet for a hundred years without discovering their neighbors.
Until the living space gradually ran out, humans began to have the idea of underground and extended their hands to the "canals" of the insects.
The moment the two sides came into contact, it was destined.
War was inevitable!
Logically, against a group of flesh and blood insects, the technologically advanced humans would not be at a disadvantage. However, the reality was far from as simple as people imagined.
Human soldiers armed with Gauss rifles cleared the insects on the surface with lightning speed. Scientists developed a virus to exterminate these insects, and the orbital satellites dropped by colonial ships launched earth penetrators to clear the underground nests.
Everything went smoothly, so much so that everyone was optimistic that it wouldn't take long for them to take over the underground canals that the insects spent tens of thousands of years to dig.
Until a swarm of insects swept through the border city.
Millions of arthropods swarmed into the human city without fear of death. They swept through the entire human colony along the Dusk Line in a devastating manner.
The explosion dyed the sky red, but it still couldn't stop the swarm of insects.
The scene was like the end of the world.
Everyone was stunned. They never thought that the insects they crushed would explode with such powerful combat power. Although their cannonballs could easily penetrate these fragile bodies, they were still powerless against the swarm of insects.
Whether it was biochemical weapons or genetic bombs, humans tried everything they could to eliminate these insects. Instead, it facilitated the evolution of these insects. Just like how humans used hundreds of years to eliminate mosquitoes and cockroaches, these insects were endless.
In order to fight against humans, the insects, under intense natural selection, split into individuals with similar genes but different traits. The original mother insects, war insects, and worker insects further differentiated and finally evolved into an existence that humans couldn't ignore.
The spitter's acid could corrode through the armor of tanks, and the shredder's diamond-like claws could tear through the carbon nano bulletproof vests of human soldiers. The hundred-meter-long insects were inlaid with metamorphic rock shells. Like earthworms plowing the ground, they turned human cities into ruins. In the end, humans even had to limit the use of nuclear and biochemical weapons to prevent these insects from evolving further.
A civilization that had existed for hundreds of thousands of years erupted with its heritage. This was a civilization that humans could not understand. It used its unique cruelty to declare its sovereignty over this planet.
It took humans 18 years to reach adulthood, but these insects only needed a week at the slowest. They devoured the bodies of their own kind and used the organic matter to breed new individuals. It turned out that in the end, people didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Using human market economics to measure the logistics of this insect civilization, the "cost" of a mutant that could tear through carbon nano armor was even lower than the magazine of a Gauss rifle.
These creatures that didn't know what death was tested the logistics of humans with their tide-like numbers.
Squeezed by the insects' living space, humans once retreated to the low-Earth orbit space station. Even with advanced technology, they didn't have the resources to transform it into combat power. They had to admit the fact that they were at a disadvantage in the war against these insects.
Fortunately, although some insects could fly, they couldn't fly out of the atmosphere.
People created a term to describe all these mutated and evolved insects – mutants.
Just like that, the "war era" that lasted for a thousand years began.
The war between humans and mutants.
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