How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 424 New Home (Part 1)

You must be careful when approaching a star, not too close, too close will cause your own heat to be too high, and then heat dissipation will be a very troublesome problem. It was not a mothership creature at first, and there were not so many reserve resources to squander. Now it It only has a mass of one kilogram, and if the mass of the exoskeleton and light sail is removed, the mass of resources it can control is even less.

At the same time, Chu must maintain a relatively high speed. If the speed is too low, it will fall into the stars. It has no propulsion organs, and it moves entirely by inertia. There is no way to achieve pulse propulsion, and there is no fuel to allow it. It does so, and therefore must be vigilant enough at first in its distance to the stars.

The problem of the distance to the stars also makes another problem obvious. At first, there is no way to judge the distance between itself and the stars. From its perspective, it can see a huge light cluster standing at the end of the distance. It can only judge by feeling. In the current state, this is a very dangerous thing. The best choice should be to use radar waves, and judge the distance between yourself and the stars through the round-trip time of radar waves.

It's a pity that it couldn't do it at the beginning. At this time, it didn't have such a material foundation, let alone produce radar waves.

The gravitational force of stars at different distances is also different, so you can't waste your current speed too much. Therefore, just after reaching the lighting conditions required to meet your life consumption, you immediately turn the light sail, and it is its own trajectory that is deflected to circle around the star. circular motion.

The hard conical exoskeleton slowly grows a layer of black creep. These creeps can carry out photosynthesis and convert star light into organic chemical energy. The material is the metabolic waste of various cells in the body, which is reprocessed with light energy. , thus changing to initially absorbable and usable nutrients.

So far, the two ghost gates in the interstellar journey have been passed, and it is completely safe.

Let me see where I should make my home.

The development of the ethnic group must have a suitable and good place.

It's better to have liquid water, or even ice.

Water is an essential resource. Development cannot be separated from the material basis. Everything is not created out of nothing. Water can be decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen elements, and these two elements account for a large proportion of organic materials, at least amino acids of carbon-based materials That's it. Besides, the collectors are born from the water, and the environment there is more familiar at first, and the development will be faster.

Just like building a house, people always want to choose a place with good Fengshui and good lighting to build it. At the beginning, they also thought this way. It is not necessary, but it is still necessary to spend some time looking for it.

After entering the star system, it is not difficult to find these planets. The reason is very simple, because there are stars, which are high-power signal transmitters, and stars release high-power pulsed radiation every moment. After these radiations hit the planets, It will cause the temperature of the planet’s light-facing surface to rise. To use this feature, you don’t need to use radar waves at first. You only need to switch your viewing angle to the infrared spectrum, and you can clearly ‘see’ where there are planets from the 3K background radiation of the universe. , and the spectrum will also feed back the heat distribution, from which it can also be deduced whether the planet is a gaseous planet or a solid planet.

This is a solid terrestrial planet... that is a gaseous gas giant... um...

How should I choose? The environment of a gaseous planet is too harsh, and its initial development will be difficult and dangerous. However, this kind of planet generally has some satellites. If the environment is suitable and there is a liquid water environment, it will undoubtedly be the best. The population breeding ground has low gravity and rich resources, so it can be used as a stable resource point.

The problem is that the satellite is too small. Without close observation, it is really difficult to judge whether the satellite orbiting the gas giant is suitable for the development of the group.

Earth-like planets generally have water resources. The difference is only in the physical state. Lava planets are gaseous, habitable planets are liquid, and frigid planets are solid. If it is not a habitable planet with liquid water, it is not good. Conducive to the development of the ethnic group...

In the final analysis, my current starting resources are too few, and a kilogram of mass cannot transform the planetary environment.

After pondering for a while, Chu decided to go to the gas giant to try his luck. If not, he would go to other planets. It adjusted the angle of the light sail and accelerated it with the help of a gravitational slingshot. A planet in this star system.

The journey to the planets is still very far away and takes a lot of time. Chu Chu is very clear about this, even though he does not know the distance between these planets and it, but according to common sense, they are at least ten astronomical units away from the stars, even light There will be a noticeable delay.

During this period, there was plenty of time at the beginning, and it began to use genetic language to design a kind of organism for planet exploration, or a kind of biome.

A kind of carapace was originally conceived, which is made of titanium bones and is in the shape of a sphere with a diameter between one and three centimeters. The center of the sphere is an extremely tiny brain, and it is also a radio communication gate, which can release weak radio signals, because The band frequency used is very low, so it can spread far without too much energy, and the effective communication distance can reach about 20 kilometers without external electromagnetic interference.

Inside this titanium skeleton sphere, besides the central brain, there is another kind of organism, which is also a multicellular organism, but they are very small, only about 3% of the size of an earth flea, and they rely on macromolecular cilia to move , which have a pair of very tiny pincers that drag and pull matter.

After the design is completed, Chu expresses these designs in genetic language to obtain two genetic blueprints, and then according to the information of the genetic blueprint, he performs genetic modification on the cells in his own body, and consumes his own material to obtain two biological embryos.

The thin film of the light sail is composed of fibrous tissue, and the cells cannot be used because the cells cannot withstand the impact of sub-light-speed hydrogen atoms, let alone decelerate. However, the light sail skeleton is indeed an extension of the original limbs. , all slowly swelled into pieces of meat, and each piece of meat is filled with nutrients, providing a suitable maternal environment for the development of the newly designed two biological embryos. .

When they develop to a certain level, they start to use the life field channel to teach them what they need to do, as well as some precautions after landing on the planet.

Time passed by so slowly, without the sublight speed, it would take a lot of time for such a trans-planetary voyage, ranging from months to years, which is quite normal.

Finally, Chu is about to reach the gas giant.