How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 460: Antimatter Propulsion (Part 1)

Hogu they colonized more than one star system.

This is mainly because the success rate of the initial sub-light speed voyage was not high. In order to make up for the low probability, Hogu and the others carried out sub-light speed travel in multiple star systems.

It's not that they don't want to launch a large number of organisms into the same star system to increase the probability of success.

It’s just that the direction change of the light sail needs the feedback signal of the destination star to complete it. If multiple organisms are launched towards a star system at one time, this leads to the need for feedback signals from multiple destination stars. However, due to the launch position , launch time, launch angle, scale effect and many other reasons, it is easy to cause accidents such as disordered overlapping of redirection commands.

This is like the reason why the ground console sends random instructions after the rocket takes off. In this case, the rocket can successfully enter space and enter orbit. It must be a lucky star. The astronauts on the rocket must have practiced in ten lifetimes Good people.

Based on these reasons, Huogu and the others adopt the strategy of colonizing multiple star systems, and launch a sublight-speed colonization movement towards all single and double star systems with planets within a radius of 25 light-years around the starting star system.

And there are hundreds of such star systems within 25 light-years, and the collectors lived up to expectations and completed the colonization of that star system, and established antimatter giant structures and star tracks in that star system, bringing antimatter one after another. transport back to the starting star.

The star-like objects observed by the empire on the cosmic background are not actually celestial bodies, but sub-light-speed organisms using the annihilation of anti-hydrogen gas mass to slow down, because the annihilation of matter and anti-matter will release a huge amount of gamma rays, Moreover, the sublight speed organisms are also very close to the initial star system, and in the observations of the Serenes, they are no different from the stars in the background of the universe.

However, such artificial stars will not last for a long time. After a period of time, the decelerated antimatter is consumed, and the speed of sub-light-speed organisms also slows down. The inexplicably extra luminous celestial bodies in the background also disappear.

The final result of this vision is that the empire is terrified.

Compared with the suspicion on the empire's side, Huogu's side is troubled by other things.

One after another, the sub-light speed organisms have successfully crossed the distance of several light years to more than ten light years and returned to this star system, while those over twenty light years are still rushing back one after another.

Hogu and their antimatter resources have slowly accumulated from a few hundred tons at the beginning to hundreds of thousands of tons today.

This is a good thing! What are the mere Serenes? So much antimatter thrown directly into the star can form a black hole, artificially triggering a supernova explosion!

But there is also a problem in front of Huogu—how to use these antimatter resources?

Antimatter is too dangerous. Once in contact with positive matter, an annihilation reaction will occur immediately, releasing extremely high energy. But because of this, it is not easy to use. The key is the strong penetrability of gamma rays to organisms. The target is too strong, or the organism is too fragile. Under high-energy radiation, even if the cells do not die, the internal genes are easily destroyed by the impact of the radiation particle stream.

If it's better, there will be some weird mutations, such as an extra leg, an extra head, etc. If it's worse, it means that the gene can't be used.

If it's the empire's side, simple dead tools are easy to solve, but Hogu's side is organic organisms, flesh and blood, which has a great impact on them.

If the needs cannot be met, we must find ways to change——in order to make use of the wealth transported back across the light-year scale by the collectors of other star systems, Huo Gu must make adjustments and reorganize the organisms around antimatter. redesign.

Let me think about it first...

Hogu was considering the type of creature to design, and after thinking for a while, he decided to give priority to designing attacking creatures.

Then we will start to make some adjustments to the mothership organisms.

After thinking about it, Hogu gave an order to all the collectors engaged in mental activities in the communication.

【I join too! I also join! I want to join such an interesting thing! 】

Alright, Ming, you join too.

After brainstorming, Ming's joining will be of great help to Huogu and the others, and Huogu naturally has no reason to refuse.

In the criss-cross thinking network, a thought-simulated antimatter cluster stands in it, and then it is covered with a horizontally lying Penning ion trap container.

The problem of energy can be solved slowly later. We are now considering how to apply antimatter to propulsion, and give priority to solving the problem of speed.

Huogu made such demands on Ming and the other collectors. Naturally, he had his reasons for such demands. Whether it was attacking, defending, or escaping, the side with the speed advantage always took the higher initiative.

The most important thing is to escape. The antimatter gave Huo Gu a basic condition for them to reach sub-light speed without the help of star orbits. Perhaps it seems useless to escape, but in the face of the survival of a civilization, it doesn’t matter whether they are worthless or not. As long as they can survive As long as everything is possible, there is still a chance, and death is the end of it.

Ming and the collectors agreed, and began to try to 'add' some external parts to the antimatter, so as to use the antimatter in the container.

At the very beginning, the collectors imagined that one side of the container was opened, and there was a nozzle inside the container, which would spray out a small amount of antihydrogen gas clusters, and after triggering the annihilation of positive and negative matter, the energy would be released from the gapped side of the container , resulting in a strong thrust.

No, that won't work.

After observing this design, Huogu said that such antimatter propulsion is not ideal. The reason is very simple. After a hole is missing on one side of the container, the original airtight and uniform electric field structure is broken. The body moves at a high speed in the universe, and the strong magnetic force is difficult to block the antihydrogen gas cluster. The main reason is that the acceleration is too high and the inertial pressure is too strong, and the antihydrogen gas cluster will be forced out from the opening, resulting in a large number of antihydrogen gas clusters loss.

It is not enough to seal the gap again, so that the energy of the annihilation of positive and antimatter will not generate thrust to the organisms in the universe, because the energy is all transferred to the cover that seals the gap.

Because of this, the gap part must exist in order to be able to release the energy.

So the question is, how to design to solve such a problem?

[Actually, this problem can be solved like this. 】

Ming revealed his own ideas, but it was not a completely new design structure, but a modification based on the original designs of the collectors.