Homo sapiens.

"Yes, through this multiple consecutive nuclear explosions, we have observed 24 satellites of giant stars. Judging from the spectrum and magnetic field data, these planets are very likely to be the living areas of the six-clawed people."

In fact, Homo sapiens already knew the satellite system of the six-claw superstar by analyzing the corpse of the escaped six-claw man.

However, this is information from 5 years ago after all, Homo sapiens is only used as a reference.

Now through this intensive nuclear explosion, the intelligence analysis center of the Space Reconnaissance Department has confirmed part of the information.

Although this information is also from three years ago, on a cosmic scale, three years is equivalent to three seconds in the Earth's information age.

This is already a very close distance at the size of the universe.

If it weren't for the civil war in the six-claw civilization, Homo sapiens would not be able to observe the accurate situation inside the giant star for a long time.

After all, a giant star is a giant planet, which itself is not illuminated, so there is no way to observe its internal satellites through the sun transit method.

While thinking, Li Qingye listened to Hill's various reports and analysis results.

Then Mang Yin, the head of the Space Defense Department, and Maung Gu, the head of the Earth Defense Department, also appeared here through synchronous robots.

"Chairman." Mang Yin immediately saluted.

"Chairman! Long time no see!" Maung Gu also saluted Li Qingye, but his expression was relatively relaxed, not as stiff as Mang Yin.

Li Qingye put down the document in his hand: "Sit, don't stand."

The two are seated.

Hill's assistant gave the two men a tablet.

Hill, on the other hand, informed the two of them of some key information.

Twenty minutes passed.

Li Qingye didn't procrastinate, and asked directly: "You all know the information about the situation, now tell me your opinion."

Mang Yin expressed his worries:

"According to the moving direction of the six-clawed superstars, they are moving away from the solar system a little bit and drifting towards Vega. I am worried that if the winner of the six-clawed civil war this time is not the previous Supreme Court, then we will be in big trouble."

"I am also more worried about this. If the victors are the radical six-clawed people, and they concentrate their efforts on trying to immigrate to the solar system, then we will have to fight to the death with the six-claw civilization in the future." Maung Gu also expressed his views.

Li Qingye did not think that the six-claw civilization was invincible: "From the current intelligence analysis results, the six-claw civilization still uses nuclear weapons as a means of war, which shows that their technological progress is not great, and may even be stagnant."

After giving him a reassurance, Li Qingye continued to analyze: "Of course, we can't blindly think of good things. Your Universe Defense Department must make corresponding preparations on the premise that the radicals of the six-claw civilization win. You can't live without your heart."

"Yes." Mang Yin sat upright, nodding slightly to Li Qingye.

"Hill, your cosmic reconnaissance department has to work harder. You have been doing your best to detect the situation of the six-claw superstar recently. By the way, where is the scout spacecraft closest to the six-claw superstar?"

Hill thought for a while, and soon found the relevant data: "It is about 1 trillion kilometers away from the earth, and it is still very far away from the six-clawed giant star, but those spacecraft have stopped nuclear explosion propulsion, and are currently in inertial flight. model."

Li Qingye pondered for a few seconds: "Increase the intensity, and then launch 10 cicada-class reconnaissance spacecraft in the direction of the six-claw superstar."

"no problem."

Li Qingye didn't stay in the Space Reconnaissance Department for too long, he still needs to go to other departments to arrange some work.

For example, let the entertainment business department increase its propaganda efforts, and use this civil war of the six-claw civilization to tell all employees that the universe is not safe, and the interstellar war may be just around the corner.

Chapter 632 Levi's Ring

The dense light spots emitted by the six-clawed giant lasted for more than three months.

Until the beginning of the 8th year of Xinghe, the various cosmic monitoring stations did not detect dense light spots, no, there were still occasional one or two light spots popping up.

This is obviously the result of the civil war in the six-claw civilization.

But which side won, the Space Reconnaissance Department did not analyze it.

However, during the three-month fierce battle, the Cosmic Reconnaissance Department detected at least 28.6 flashes of light, which means that at least 28.6 nuclear bombs were detonated during the fierce battle of the six-claw civil war.

It's just terrifying.

You must know that this is not a miniature hydrogen bomb used by Homo sapiens to propel the spacecraft, but a nuclear bomb with an equivalent of tens of thousands of tons, and generally a million tons of equivalent.

This shows how cruel the civil war of the six-claw civilization is.

Homo sapiens company also released a lot of relevant information about this civil war of six-claw civilization within the company, so that all employees can feel a little "six-claw shock".

Moon.

In the Mendeleev crater on the back.

There is a large base here, named Mendeleev Base City.

The base city is mainly engaged in the scientific research of spacecraft and belongs to the space business department. At this time, a brand new engine is being tested inside the base.

Even Mikoyan came over in person, and the person in charge of researching this new engine is Karl.

Engineer Karl was engaged in the research and development of aero-engines before. Later, with the deepening of the research and development of aero-engines by Homo sapiens' major aviation groups and the blowout of various talents, Karl felt that he should start a new business.

As for the development of outer space by the Space Division, coupled with the invitation of old friends, Engineer Karl chose to transfer to the Space Division.

This is more than four years.

Finally got to check the results today.

"Carl, are you sure?" Mikoyan's synchronous robot had a trace of worry on its face.

Because the previous research on the spacecraft engine at the Mendeleev base was not going well, this is not because there is a problem with the scientific research level of Karl and others, but because the direction of their research is very difficult.

The aerospace engine research direction of the Mendeleev base city is a nuclear fusion engine, and it is not a nuclear explosion propulsion engine.

They had studied on the earth for two years before. With the improvement of the development progress of the moon, the space business department moved the research institute to the back of the moon, and Karl's team studied on the back of the moon for more than two years.

During this period, their research has been in a difficult stage.

Today's test made Mikoyan also have to worry.

"Don't worry! I'm confident this time." Carl's synchronous robot was full of confidence.

Through the observation window, the two could see a large engine with a nozzle diameter of about 5 meters being installed on a huge aerospace engine test platform.

A large number of synchronous robots are busy checking the work, preparing for the next first actual test.

The nuclear fusion engine designed by Karl's team uses a variant of the tokamak device.

Specifically, it is to change the closed loop magnetic field of the tokamak device into a closed loop magnetic field combined with an open spiral magnetic field.

Among them, there are six tokamak rings, but only one helix magnetic field. Between the six tokamak rings and the helix magnetic field, channels can be opened or closed.

Among them, the technology of the tokamak ring has been difficult to produce before. It is not that the electricity cannot be generated, but the Q value (commissioning ratio) is too low. Even if the Homo sapiens company has strong technology, there is no way to refresh the Q value to 3.

In addition, miniaturization of the tokamak device is also very difficult.

Until Dr. Levi's improved the tokamak device, using wake field acceleration and magnetic field confinement, plus gamma ray plasma heating technology, recombined the variant tokamak ring.

The modified tokamak ring not only easily heats the temperature of atoms to 12.7 billion degrees Celsius, but also greatly increases the acceleration of atoms by an order of magnitude, and the control accuracy is further improved.

The improved version of the Tokamak ring, also known as the "Levi's ring", has a very fast nuclear fusion reaction, and ordinary hydrogen atoms can be used as raw materials, without the need to extract heavy water and other radioactive elements.

Of course, the Levi's ring can also carry out other nuclear fusion reactions, such as helium nuclear fusion, lithium nuclear fusion, beryllium nuclear fusion, and boron nuclear fusion.

That is to say, in the Levi's ring, after the hydrogen element is put in, hydrogen fusion will first occur, and after the hydrogen is transformed into helium, helium fusion will proceed again, and so on.

This advantage is really too powerful.

It not only increases the Q value of nuclear fusion to 76.2, but also makes the fuel of nuclear fusion no longer limited to radioactive isotopes such as deuterium and helium 3.

This advantage allows the spacecraft to easily obtain nuclear fuel supplies during its voyage in interstellar space.

Although interstellar space looks empty, it is actually dense with a lot of interstellar dust and asteroids.

If the fleeing spacecraft of the six-claw civilization had mastered the technology of the Levi's ring, they would not have been wiped out halfway because they could not obtain supplies.

After all, in interstellar space, the core component of stardust is hydrogen helium. In addition, asteroids contain water ice, which can also be used to extract hydrogen.

The Levi's ring can carry out multiple controllable nuclear fusion, which can squeeze a hydrogen element to the extreme.

Now the earth headquarters has begun to eliminate nuclear fission reactors, and is preparing to fully update them into Levi's annular nuclear fusion reactors.

The Levi's ring has another advantage, that is, it can be miniaturized. At present, the smallest Levi's ring prototype is only about 372 tons.

This weight is miniaturized for Homo sapiens' spacecraft.

After all, the nuclear explosion furnace technology, equipment and auxiliary buildings add up to hundreds of thousands of tons at every turn, and there is no way to stuff it into a spaceship.

This is also the reason why the space business department directly adopted the nuclear explosion propulsion scheme, and did not use the ground furnace nuclear fusion.

Levi's ring-ton equipment can be compressed to hundreds of tons, which is not too heavy for medium and large spacecraft.

That's why Carl engineers dared to use the Levi's ring as the power of the spacecraft.

Of course, since outer space is different from the earth, Carl's team will definitely need to adjust the Levi's ring and redesign and adjust the engine.

At present, Carl's team is the one with the fastest research progress among the various contract engine teams, and has even produced a prototype.

This prototype is a bit heavy, six Levi's rings, plus the helical magnetic field device, the total weight reached 3521 tons, this weight can only be installed on large spacecraft.

After more than half an hour of final inspection, the prototype is finally ready for testing.

Soon Engineer Karl took Mikoyan and others to the control room of the test platform.

Chapter 633 Cycle

"The countdown begins..."

"10...8...0...start!"

Hydrogen is injected into the prototype's six Levi's rings.

However, there is a difference before and after the injection time.

In the first Levi's ring that is injected with hydrogen, the magnetic field quickly binds the hydrogen, and the wakefield devices are activated one by one in an instant, and the hydrogen is quickly accelerated, and then passes through the gamma ray plasma heating device.

The heating limit of 12.7 billion degrees Celsius splits hydrogen molecules into hydrogen ions in an instant, and they are extremely hot hydrogen ions.

The hot and fast hydrogen ions are rapidly approaching the sublight speed.

In less than 36 seconds, the temperature and speed of hydrogen ions in the Levi's ring reached a critical point.

next second.

The hydrogen ion fluid begins to undergo nuclear fusion reaction. This reaction is very intense and rapid. The amount of injected hydrogen elements has been calculated, which just keeps the level of nuclear fusion at a controllable level, and the nuclear fusion reaction will not destroy the equipment. .

As the chain reaction nuclear fusion began to occur inside the Levi's ring, the heat energy in the ring pipe soared rapidly, and at the same time, some high-energy neutrons were ejected in all directions.

At this time, the neutron absorbing layer wrapped inside the pipeline began to receive these high-energy neutrons. This is a nano-absorbing layer composed of lithium carbon materials. Although the thickness is only 12 cm, it contains layers of graphene, two layers A layer of lithium nanofilm is sandwiched between the graphene.

High-energy neutrons cannot break through this layer of neutron-absorbing layer. The high-energy neutrons ejected by nuclear fusion will convert some carbon and lithium into radioactive isotopes.

Therefore, the lithium carbon neutron absorbing layer has a service life, usually only about 75 days, and must be replaced.

This is not a problem on the earth, but on the spacecraft, the problem of replacement and the replenishment of lithium carbon materials must be considered.

As for how to replenish lithium carbon materials, Karl's team has created a secondary recycling technology for nuclear reaction products.

The principle is very simple. During the multiple nuclear fusion reaction of the Levi's ring, lithium and carbon will be produced at different stages, so this part of lithium and carbon can be recycled.

And the recovery system is in the spiral magnetic field device.

After 3 minutes, all six Levi's rings completed the nuclear fusion cycle, and the temperature inside the Levi's ring was firmly controlled at the point of 12.7 billion degrees Celsius through the gold-based thermoelectric conversion system.

A large amount of thermal energy is converted into electrical energy, part of which is used for the system's magnetic field, tail field, and plasma maintenance, and part of it is converted into power.

Here it is the function of the composite spiral magnetic field device.

The auxiliary system continuously injects various material powders into one of the open spiral bodies, and these powders are quickly ionized into plasma, and at the same time, there are magnetic fields and wake field accelerations.

The plasma is accelerated to 25% to 30% of the speed of light.

The blocking ceramic wall set behind the prototype is 1000 meters away from the nozzle of the prototype, still emitting dense sparks, and the surface temperature soars crazily.

Obviously, this is the high-heat and high-speed plasma ejected from the engine nozzle, which acts on the barrier wall.

In less than 10 minutes, the surface temperature of the first barrier wall had exceeded 5000 degrees Celsius. Coupled with the impact of a large amount of high-energy plasma, even high-temperature-resistant ceramic materials began to melt.

Inside the control room of the test platform.

Mikoyan glanced at the power data. The power of this engine is astonishing. The high-energy plasma that is ejected brings a very strong reaction force to the engine itself.

And these reaction forces are the power to push the spacecraft forward.

Mikoyan was very happy: "Karl, it seems that you have succeeded."