"When the starry sky becomes a mirror, we will use the core of the earth as a furnace and the tomb as an ark."
In 2089 AD, the dusk of human civilization quietly arrived.
Virtual pleasure paralyzes the soul, exhausted mineral veins extinguish dreams of stars, and the once proud technological towers have collapsed in wars and disasters. Human beings who have lost their innocence of "childhood" are finally shocked to realize that their feet are not the cradle of eternity, but a steel tomb that is closing.
In the countdown to the return to the agricultural era, the Global Alliance launched the ultimate plan code-named "Phoenix"——
Gather the last geniuses to build a [matter conversion machine] that penetrates the earth's crust. The entire earth's ecology is used as a bet, the energy of the earth's core is extracted, and the sand and gravel are refined into the bones of the starship.
If it succeeds, starships will rise from the desert, and the fire of civilization will spread into deep space;
If it fails, the flames in the center of the earth will engulf the continent and write an epitaph for human history.
It's a desperate gamble:
Scientists operate the engine of destruction on the edge of the rift valley, politicians use "happy colonization" to cover up the mourning of the earth, and the vibrations coming from deep in the core of the earth are like the dying heartbeat of the mother planet...
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This is a story about the coming of age ceremony of human civilization. When the doomsday theme indulges in infighting and sinking, it tears a bloody path - it asks: Why are humans always trapped on the earth in desperate situations? The answer here turns into a tragic coming-of-age ceremony.
Phoenix Project - It uses the earth's core as fuel and bets the survival of civilization on an atomic-level gamble. This is not a romantic expedition to the interstellar sea, but the ultimate judgment of mankind's destiny on the edge of the grave: Should it curl up into the embers of civilization, or forge wings in the flames to fly to the stars?
This is also the tragic feeling of it. Extracting the energy of the earth's core to build a material conversion machine is essentially to make the earth the first stage propeller for mankind to escape from the cradle. But when the Kunlun base was casting the "Gold of Rebirth" amid the shock, every gram of ore was soaked in the blood of the earth's core;
The antimatter beam launched by the closed-loop project in the 68th year of the Nirvana Era sutured not only the geological wounds, but also the ethical wounds torn by the Phoenix Project - true maturity is to pay the price for the arrogance of youth.
[The survival of civilization is not the ark given by God, but the starry sky seeping out from the cracks of fingernails when mortals use embers to forge stars.
While other stories pick up the fragments of humanity in the apocalypse, the Nirvana Era smelts the fragments into spears pointing to the sea of stars - the staggering of reconnecting broken bones is the true gait of a civilized coming-of-age ceremony.
There are only a handful of truly hard sci-fi films, but they are so hard that my teeth are chewed out.
This is a story about the coming of age ceremony of human civilization. When the doomsday theme indulges in infighting and sinking, it tears a bloody path - it asks: Why are humans always trapped on the earth in desperate situations? The answer here turns into a tragic coming-of-age ceremony. Phoenix Project - It uses the earth's core as fuel and bets the survival of civilization on an atomic-level gamble. This is not a romantic expedition to the interstellar sea, but the ultimate judgment of mankind's destiny on the edge of the grave: Should it curl up into the embers of civilization, or forge wings in the flames to fly to the stars? This is also the tragic feeling of it. Extracting the energy of the earth's core to build a material conversion machine is essentially to make the earth the first stage propeller for mankind to escape from the cradle. But when the Kunlun base was casting the "Gold of Rebirth" amid the shock, every gram of ore was soaked in the blood of the earth's core; The antimatter beam launched by the closed-loop project in the 68th year of the Nirvana Era sutured not only the geological wounds, but also the ethical wounds torn by the Phoenix Project - true maturity is to pay the price for the arrogance of youth. [The survival of civilization is not the ark given by God, but the starry sky seeping out from the cracks of fingernails when mortals use embers to forge stars. While other stories pick up the fragments of humanity in the apocalypse, the Nirvana Era smelts the fragments into spears pointing to the sea of stars - the staggering of reconnecting broken bones is the true gait of a civilized coming-of-age ceremony.
There are only a handful of truly hard sci-fi films, but they are so hard that my teeth are chewed out.