At the same time, the birth of Lagrange Point also inspired many sci-fi creators.
For example, the influential mobile suit Gundam series, many colonies are built on Lagrange point orbit. In Gundam 0079, the Side 3 large colonial space station, where the Principality of Ji Weng is located, runs stably around the L2 point of the Earth and the Moon. There are huge factories as high as S.E.E.D These 120 large colonial space stations with a length of 60 kilometers are all built in the L5 space domain of the Earth and the Moon.
In addition, there is a sci-fi imagination that has never stopped since ancient times, "anti-earth", which is also related to Lagrange point. Philolaus, a philosopher of the Pythagorean school in ancient Greece, once imagined that there was an "anti-earth" revolving around the "central fire" at the center of the universe on the back of the sun invisible to the earth. Because it is just blocked by the "central fire", we will never see it.
This place coincides with L3 point of Lagrange theory. The L3 point of the solar-terrestrial system is always on the back of the sun, so it is always difficult to observe. The imagination brought by the unknown makes some sci-fi works set "anti-earth" at L3. For example, American science fiction writer Lebeck and painter Mike Williams collaborated on the series of comic books Twin Earth, and 20 1 1 the film Another Earth directed by mike cahill and starring William Mapper.
Favored by science fiction and applied to space exploration, since18th century, people who look forward to the universe can't ignore the beauty endowed by space, mathematics and reason.
Netease's space theme strategy game "Endless Lagrange" is also a space epic based on this scientific fantasy.
In this game, the mysterious nature of gravity balance makes the Lagrangian point appear an incomprehensible celestial phenomenon, that is, an "unstable space point" will appear at the Lagrangian point, connecting two different spaces and making navigation between different galaxies possible.
As a creature, human beings always have a strong curiosity about the world and are tireless in exploring the sky. Unfortunately, there are not enough means of extraterrestrial detection, and the universe is still too vast and desolate for us. In this game, everything has broken through the unstable space phenomenon brought by Lagrange point.
Establishing a gate at Lagrange point opens the way to other galaxies. The stargate will bring a new passage, and the passage will bring a new world, so trade, resources, living space and new things will follow. This is a geographical discovery at the cosmic level, and the development of history will take a different path because of this.
In the story of Endless Lagrange, human beings have embarked on a road of exploring, exploring and prospering the universe. The universe suddenly changed from a desolate and unknown place where life was forbidden to a magnificent, vast, rich and prosperous place of hope. The gate in Lagrange system is like the stars in the sky, and it has been built into a huge interstellar network.
But this prosperity, as Lagrange's title says, depends on a fragile social balance.
And the first thing to change is to break the balance.
Just as the thirst for endless overseas wealth during the geographical discovery suddenly connected the world into a whole, discontent, contradictions, conflicts and wars suddenly emerged, and human ambition, greed and curiosity went hand in hand.
So in the game, after the prosperity of this world, disputes and wars also follow. Although all kinds of stargates and starports have made trade prosperous, they have also made the outside world more powerful than ever.
In order to safeguard the interests and powers that have been gained, and also to participate in the next competition for resources, various forces have begun to expand their armament. For example, the second base of Sirius formed a powerful interstellar fleet under the arms expansion, which was called the "new invincible fleet" in history.
Contradictions and suspicions, interests and power make the bubble of prosperity explode at the touch of a button.
The war that swept across the Milky Way broke out, and the fleet across the Milky Way was submerged by gunfire, which shattered the efforts made by human beings in the exploration of the Milky Way. The offensive and defensive battle of the Bersai galaxy is the only battlefield that has left a complete record. Not long ago, the second base of Sirius, the "New Armada", was also wiped out in this war.
Civilization collapsed in an instant.
The huge and fierce war made the interstellar network built by Lagrange system almost collapse, countless stargates and space stations were abandoned, the pace of external exploration stagnated or even regressed, and some galaxies that had established close ties were directly lost.
With the fall of Pompeii, this endless war finally stopped, and mankind took a rest for a while, and the revival period began. With the help of the 20-year revitalization plan of the solar system, the strength of the earth circle has gradually recovered. Alien forces are gathering, among which the Antonio consortium, which has assembled giants in various fields such as machinery, military industry, scientific research and finance, has developed the fastest. It was at this time that after the antonios consortium applied for exploration and signed the Weiyang Convention, the players appeared as a new generation of explorers, BLACKPINK.
This is the historical context in the game "Endless Lagrange". Starting from the technological innovation brought by Lagrange Point, a magnificent space epic is gradually unfolding. What is more commendable is that the game does not describe this history meticulously, nor does it convey to the players the idea that this is a glorious past.
On the contrary, they introduced all the previous developments to us from the macro perspective of God and in an objective and cold tone as a milestone. In the detailed description of history, nothing was said except the events that brought about the key turning point.
Braudel, a famous historian of the Yearbook School, believes that history can be divided into three periods: short, medium and long. In a short time, we will focus on the development of political and military events in a short time, but Braudel prefers that historians should study historical trends in a long time.
From the discussion of periodic fluctuations in the middle decades, we can further discover the development trend of the whole civilization and the basic social, economic and cultural structure that lasted for a hundred years or even longer.
Therefore, the description of the past history in the game is so restrained, because big waves wash sand and the tide recedes, you can know who is swimming naked. On the cosmic scale, the change of the world in an hour cannot be a footnote to this grand historical development. Because of this, the highly generalized historical description of the game focuses on the changes of the times, which can not only create an epic feeling, but also leave room for players to think and imagine.
Most players don't care about the past history in the game. Of course, they should be happy and dominate the universe. Therefore, this narrative technique also allows players to have a broad enough stage, without constraints, and the next period of history is controlled by the players themselves.
In the course of each season, every time the player troops in the whole galaxy complete a phased goal, such as defeating a certain number of privateering fleets, they can unlock a phased reward. At the end of the season, according to the victory conditions reached by the players, different endings can be unlocked, such as Lagrange conqueror who occupied the main road of the stargate, galaxy separatist who expanded his territory to dominate the galaxy, and glorious pioneer who explored the unknown universe.
Players are the masters of the game, and the historical trend they bring is the next direction of this galaxy.
And those players who cling to the past and want to explore secrets can dig up files about the past in the process of exploring the ruins of the present universe. Players can get a data file by constantly unlocking new content during the game. These data files will allow players to find fragments about the past from various topics such as history, humanities, galactic pattern and Lagrange.
For players, the road to the revival of the galaxy is a completely open choice.
The player is a completely chaotic variable, because the player is an outsider, who will neither follow the historical development of the past nor yield to the changes of the status quo.
The endless stream of whimsy and complicated social relations that leave this world is an unpredictable development of this world.
I think this is another purpose of the game production team to adopt this narrative method, leaving the history to the players to write, and also to see if the players will embark on the same road as pioneers before this world.
Before the Renaissance, there was a powerful empire in the game, Hittite Galactic Empire, which was full of 1/3 of the Milky Way. After the collapse of the empire, the forces, big and small, reborn on the body of the empire, such as Mars Corps, Eagle Wing Guard, Eudini Kush Corps, Star Liberator and Defender Corps, still have a great influence on the fate of the whole galaxy.
The turbulent transformation of the galaxy has brought new forces, various chaebols, scientific and technological military groups, private looters and so on. Many forces are entrenched in the galaxy.
This is because the vast Milky Way is a free and diverse stage. Long-term mutual communication and unique customs naturally give birth to many different ideas and different behaviors.
Old forces, emerging warlords, and later players gathered on this stage. Who will set the next milestone is worth looking forward to.