People's Federation will live forever

"The former is indeed the technology I once dreamed of. It can give people the opportunity to build larger warships. However, we don't even have enough Twilight-class ships at the moment. What's the point of building bigger ships? There are not enough docks, not enough ports, and no crew. Not enough! Even if there are results, it will take a few years or even more than ten years. I like inertial dampers very much, but what I care about is the present!"

"The latter is more boring. We have wormhole technology, but it is not as useful as expected." Olivia's expression became gloomy, "I also read the report, and these impact point engines are light-years each time The short jump is not as good as our circumsolar accelerator, at least we can go directly to the MUV Earth 17 light-years away!"

"So, what's the use?"

"Commander Olivia, if you just look at it military-wise, it's really useless." Ensig responded politely but fearlessly to Commander Olivia, "What a coincidence, I don't know much about war, but I also know Only half of the battle is won or lost by the front, and the other by the rear.”

"What you just said is also true. Sira has no way to quickly expand the strength of the fleet, because our strength is scattered. Sira has industry, and the earth has beta lair resources and manpower, but we lack the ability to integrate the two. way, why?"

Ensig spread his hands and said helplessly: "Because the wormhole technology of the People's Federation is not yet mature, we need a month of preparation to open a wormhole 17 light-years away, and then we can only open it for a few seconds. The small wormhole on the equator The wormhole may be stable enough, but the energy consumption is so huge that it needs the energy of half a planet to support it, neither can build a second one, nor can it expand the entrance and exit.”

In short, the power of the People's Federation is scattered, and the result of this dispersion is that Sira has to face an entire hostile civilization alone!

The council has prepared for the worst, that is, a bloody battle in Sira, and if it fails, it will withdraw to the earth at the last moment, just asking the earth not to be exposed-this is really sad, but this is the best way.

But—"But suppose, I have a way to solve the traffic dilemma and integrate Sira and the earth, can we have a chance to reverse the situation?"

"?"

"General, please imagine a stable wormhole, which connects to the earth and allows spaceships to travel freely, taking advantage of the massive resources of the beta lair and the automation industry of Sira, the earth becomes a large rear support that continuously provides spaceships and troops. Do we have a chance of resolving the situation if we fight on the front lines of Lara?"

"Yes, but how to do it?" Olivia stood up without hiding her emotion, "Tell me, I want to know right away!"

Ensger politely bowed to Commander Olivia, and when he stood up with his hands on his chest, a holographic image of an instrument popped up on his palm.

"Commander Olivia, the impact point engine is the key to solving this dilemma."

PS: The setting that can be announced now - the Ministry of Industry and Research had an idea for a shaft-gun battleship, which is a warship that uses coil guns to continuously accelerate and launch large-mass shells.However, after calculation, this is a stupid plan. Not to mention that the Hammer of Dawn is much stronger than it. If the physical shell needs to meet the actual combat needs, it must be accelerated to a percentage of the speed of light, otherwise it will not hit people at all.But want to accelerate to the speed of light?How long does it take to accelerate, is it really better than a laser?

Chapter 40. Build big, build big!

If you want to explain the key role of the impact point engine on the wormhole technology of the United Nations, including how it becomes a key, you must emphasize the basic concept, starting from the physics knowledge in junior high school, that is, "time is the scale of space, and Gravity comes from the 'squeezing' of mass in space, like an elastic membrane".

The speed of light, space, time, gravity, and temperature originate from motion, etc. These are originally a system, and they are by no means independent of each other.For example, if you understand this, you should understand that manipulating space is a kind of control over time, because you can think of a way to slow down the speed of light by lengthening the space to slow down time, just like near a black hole, and we may even know that it can be frozen at absolute zero Suspending movement at the speed of light is to stop a piece of space to achieve time suspension-physics is a whole, no single law exists alone, and naturally there are no ways to affect time and space at the same time, yes, I am talking about human beings Linked wormhole technology.

"Wormholes are wormholes. We currently know of three technologies involving wormholes—the rift generators of the Scrin, the wormhole generators salvaged from the distant ancestor spacecraft under the sea, and the impact point engine that we have now."

The three ways of stimulating wormholes do not mean that there are three kinds of wormholes. Although they have different ideas, the core goal of stimulating wormholes is to gather enough instantaneous energy to "smash through" space and tear out a hole—"We used to think it was Tear a hole, but that's just a metaphor, space is never flat, so the essence of a wormhole is more like a dislocation."

Misalignment, the distant point A suddenly shifts to point B, just like twisting a Rubik's cube to conjure up a long distance, this is a wormhole.Although it's not as free to go anywhere as mass effect flight, and it takes a lot of effort to activate a wormhole-you ask the defenders why they don't just jump away when they lose the battle?Because it can’t be done, a short jump of one million kilometers requires several hours of downtime, and the longer the distance, the longer the preparation time, but the mass effect flight can enter the state at any time, and the tactical level is difficult to compare.

However, wormholes still have a strong strategic value of instantaneously crossing the barriers of time and space. Its essence is the imaginary "star gate". suitable.However, there are several prerequisites for using wormholes as stargates.

First, it is two-way traffic.

The second is to be able to connect a long enough distance.

Third, the cost of opening and maintaining this channel is within a controllable range.

Renlian has achieved the first two goals. It comes from the combination of Sijin Technology and Yuanzu Spaceship, both of which are semi-finished products. The latter provides a step to touch this technology, and the former is more advanced for Renlian to stabilize and maintain. The ability to keep the wormholes open, and we do, the Circumsolar Accelerator Array was born to achieve this goal - although it is disappointing that after assembling 8 space stations and preparing for half a month at a time At a high price, the opened channel lasted for less than 10 seconds.

According to calculations, it is almost impossible to maintain a stable wormhole leading to the MUV Earth as a stargate with the current technology, and it needs to continuously provide one millionth of the energy of the solar radiation.

"So we shelved the wormhole project and turned to study mass effect flight. Although the zero-element engine can only reach 1.05 times the speed of light at the moment, it has great potential. It is 3.6 days to sail 1 light year, which basically meets the required deep space navigation requirements, and there is still room for faster improvement in the future, but everyone also knows that it consumes too much element zero, and Renlian currently relies entirely on the supply of beta nests. Lack of self-collection capabilities."

Since mass effect flight is far from being achieved and may not meet the needs of long-distance voyages, the only way out is in wormholes.Now we can finally know why the impact point engine is the key key, because it is the "low-cost opening wormhole" device that Renlian lacks!

"The working principle of the impact point engine comes from its internal linear acceleration array, but if this step is consistent with the principle of our circumsolar accelerator, then the next part is beyond our expectations."

The Acceleration Array of the Impact Point Engine first performs a low-power operation, generating a small gravitational singularity directly inside the engine and continuing to operate.If controllable fusion is wrapped around a small sun, then the impact point engine is wrapped around a "miniature black hole", and the gravity of this singularity is the key source of generating artificial gravity, the inertial damper—not so Many other devices, that is, a single impact point engine has done so many things.

And its more powerful application is that the gravitational force of this singularity can capture the particles of the accelerator, allowing the particles to revolve around themselves to accelerate!

"This is the key point. The reason why we build a circumsolar accelerator is to use the gravitational force of stars to help particles accelerate collisions, and the star is large enough to accelerate the orbit long enough, but the effectiveness of this impact point engine can completely replace it, which means We don't need a circumsolar accelerator anymore!"

Ensig released a holographic model showing the interior of the Impact Point engine. There is a black sphere in the center of this device, which is the singularity. Its gravity is constrained in the device, and then the acceleration array shoots out a tiny particle. , this particle is captured by the singularity and runs around the point of gravity, and then runs faster and faster!

This picture is like a satellite orbiting around a star and forming a star track.

"That's why the impact point engine start needs to be prepared, because it takes time to accelerate."

Ensger continued to play, and the accelerator released more particles on the picture. After rigorous calculation, many particles are running around the singularity quickly but without interfering with each other. Close to the speed of light, that is to say, the mass is getting bigger and bigger!

Then, in an instant, hundreds of thousands of particles, whose mass is already too large to be described, are released and collide together at the same time—this will be a feat that is completely unmatched by the circumsolar accelerator. A terrifying burst of energy can tear open space and open wormholes.

"The principle is the same, respectable leader, speaker and commander, but it must be extremely delicate." Ensger said with emotion, "The impact point engine of the Cape Town is only 100 meters in diameter, but it is comparable to our circumsolar accelerator .No, it is far beyond! They cleverly used gravity to easily accomplish what we can do by relying on nature, and it seems that they have also become great scientific giants!"

Many complex scientific theories still require the two leaders to think carefully, but—"So, Ensig, tell me how your Industry and Research Department will use this achievement? How will you use it to work for the People's Federation? "

Ensig bowed deeply to Li Wei: "It's clear, use it to create a permanent wormhole stargate connecting Sira and MUV Earth!"

No longer relying on the circumsolar accelerator, on the contrary, the circumsolar accelerator will become the energy supply of the new system, using solar energy to support an array composed of multiple impact point engines, tearing open a huge but stable channel, and countless giant ships pass through it as if Distance does not exist.

"Stargate..."

Speaker Michael repeated the word, then closed his eyes and savored what it represented.

"This is something out of a science fiction novel, but since the chief scientist said so, then...the council will fully support the work of the Ministry of Industry and Research, and I guarantee everything!"

Mr. Speaker clenched his fists, unable to restrain the excitement in his heart.Anyone can't help it, because this is a star gate, this thing can connect distant galaxies to each other, and it can be reached in an instant. The speaker of the speaker is finally a veritable governor of the interstellar civilization!

"Thank you for your support. In the next period of time, the Industry and Research Department will deploy a large number of manpower, that is, to suspend scientific and technological research and development in other fields and focus on tackling key problems."

What was once regarded as a joke, as the wildest imagination and the most unrealistic boast, as an artistic imagination, I must realize it all with the mighty power of science.I will stand in the hall of truth, take off the gem of reason from the crown of wisdom and use it as my own eyes to discover more knowledge and unknowns, and these knowledge will turn into the power of this civilization to forge ahead and promote it , hasten it, sublimate it with glory—

The Chief Scientist has long since lost his physical eyes, but his mind has already flown to a distant place, so he continued, making more demands:

"The Ministry of Industry and Research will reverse the impact point engine 24 hours a day and start upgrading our space industry, so I hereby request the military to hand over all captured engineers to the Ministry of Industry and Research. We really need this group of people."

Olivia nodded, she was very straightforward: "As long as it can help your progress, the military will fully support it."

"Thank you, and, I am here to apply for more computing power assistance from the leader."

That is to connect to Li Wei's quantum network and let Li Wei himself join in technology research and development.This matter is just a formality, because these were originally decided by Li Wei.

"Just now, I still can't believe that we have come to such a step, maybe we should make a summary, when this star gate is established, what can we do that we can't do now, that is to say, it can help us deal with this situation. Is there any risk of an invasion? Is a stargate enough?"

Commander Olivia also agreed with the speaker's prudent words, and left this matter to Li Wei, because he has all the information about Sira.

"Sira has a total population of 270 million, but there are 15 billion drones, and 22 independently operating automated factories form three industrial cities, which produce 200 billion tons of steel and [-] trillion kWh of electricity every year.

The lunar base's helium-100 collection and power generation capacity can reach [-] trillion degrees, and it has a comprehensive space industry.

Space is a weak point, the space mining industry has almost been put on hold, and the power generation of solar power plants has just exceeded one trillion degrees. "

"Since the Sira Orbital Elevator has entered the third stage, it can transport 16 tons of industrial products to space every day, the Kada Peak Catapult can transport 3 tons per day, and the Fargos Space Rocket Center can transport [-] tons... Oh, rocket."

20 tons per day seems to be okay. People's Federation has no shortage of energy or even excess energy. What it needs is resources.

"The establishment of the space industry on the earth side is more convenient than Sira, because the resources in the earth's solar system are properly dug out by the beta and then piled up under the nests. The tens of billions of tons in each nest is simply generous. The betas on the moon of the solar system We have dug up all the resources of the moon, and we haven’t retrieved them yet. Since the composition of the moon is exactly the same as that of the earth, we estimate that we can get an astonishing amount of resources.”

Li Ting blinked his eyes, even though he didn't need to do this at all—"The star gate opens, and we can directly build a space industry in Sira and move it to Earth directly. Although there were some delays in the early stage, after the initial stage , we expect the space industry to have a blowout."

"This means that the fleet is ten times stronger than it is now, and the earth will have endless troops to support Sira." Mishaer nodded, but his frown did not loosen, "But before that, we still have to Face it alone with Scylla..."

"Three years, we probably need three years, Sira must persist for three years, the fleet must persist for three years, and we all must persist for three years without failure." Li Ting raised three fingers, "We must do everything we can and use what we can This is the result of my calculations, and it is based on the successful reverse engineering, so that we can see the results after three years."

three years?This is far better than everyone’s expectations. Such a grand project should take ten years in any civilization, but this is the particularity of the People’s Federation. Our leader will personally drive infinite robots to complete the work. We can boldly use AI without worrying about any worries. This is truly regardless of cost, and it is a power unimaginable by ordinary people.

War can drain a civilization's potential, propelling them to new heights...or ruin.

"Three years, the enemy will not do nothing, can the military withstand it?"

Everyone looked at Olivia, because the leader was the most intense before, and in her mouth, the United Earth seemed to bring disaster at any time, and the People's Federation seemed to be doomed.

At this time, Olivia rolled her eyes: "I just said the worst possibility. After all, we soldiers always plan for the worst, don't we?"

The female commander lay down on the chair, lifted Erlang's legs and changed her previous sternness, and said lazily: "We have captured the enemy's commander, anesthetize that Lieutenant General Douglas and his gang of cult followers. Interrogating these senior officers and the intelligence analysis of the enemy ships, I have actually obtained the information on the enemy's military deployment, as well as the... territory star map of the United Earth."

So... Olivia showed a playful smile: "Although it is impossible to directly know how much power the enemy can mobilize, it can also be analyzed from the deployment capabilities. The method of reading the reader's mind is very useful, at least if the memory of Lieutenant General Douglas is correct, I guess that if you want to gather a force that can suppress the People's League and maintain internal suppression, you will need more than two main fleets.. .”

Olivia spread her hands and smiled slyly: "They thought that it would take a month for Sira to make a dozen jumps and sail straight, so it would take at least two years to prepare troops and logistics, so I should ask you, two How much can I expand my fleet within a year?"

PS: The setting that can be announced now——repeat again, the circumsolar accelerator is relayed by a plurality of large space stations for transmission, it is not circular, nor does it mean that a tube is built around the sun, there is no need for a tube in a vacuum.

I didn't intend to link it to others, but this kind of thing is simply the wormhole navigation technology created by the stars at the beginning of the game. The good luck has brought great convenience. Thank you Sijin people, thank you hyacinth, and thank you Douglas Zhong who sent the technology thousands of miles away Yes, I didn't think so much when I wrote it.

Stargate will keep the pace of our empire's expansion very steady, won't it?

Chapter 41 New Space Industry

Buzz buzz, you are a hardworking little bee.

Every week, you are activated in the long and narrow maintenance compartment. When the power is turned on, the six electronic eyes arranged around you are activated together with the micro phased array radar, and the information is transmitted to your computer in the form of data and dot matrix. The core processor is so that you can clearly know what your surroundings look like.

Well, POST begins, I'm glad that your polymer body is still strong and resilient after 60.00 hours of work, we are getting more and more The less metal you use, you have 60.00% less gravity and no metal fatigue than your previous generation, and you use 20.00% less energy, which is awesome, isn't it?Now you "worker bee type 200" has reduced the maintenance time by [-]% compared with type [-], and can work [-] hours more each time, without needling needles, and the UAV of Renlian Engineering does not need to poke needles!

Get up, worker bee, the little electric propulsion engines all over you are not accelerating fast, but enough to make you fly slowly but deftly in the vacuum.Get out of your small box, and your signal receiver is ready, because look at the left side—the solar power plant with wings of several kilometers square, the compound semiconductor film with a conversion efficiency as high as 43% continuously pours out the atmosphere The endless sunlight is converted into electricity without storage, and all of it is sent to the huge drone bee colony by the microwave array.Your receiver converts the microwaves into electricity and stores them in the graphene battery, charging while working, forming a wonderful cycle.

So don't try to rely on the charging time to be lazy and rest. The engineers of the Industrial Research Department have thought about all the ways you can think of, so let me work quickly!

The hives of your worker bees are a batch of refitted Dragon King Whale-class transport ships, just like early human transport ships converted into aircraft carriers, these civilian ships also integrate container-type "hives" and assembly line maintenance systems, parts production and processing The system and other necessary equipment, the drones are maintained by the drones, and the drones are produced by the drones. A few human crew members are only responsible for checking the working status of the management VI and correcting the ship's channel.As the work order was issued, hundreds of re-overhauled worker bees lined up and took off, heading for the huge steel structure building above their heads.

Thick steel beams are interwoven into the main body of the building. These metals are covered with "worker bees", and you are among them. Stretch out two pairs of folded mechanical arms for magnetic adsorption and stabilize your oval. Two pairs of multifunctional robotic arms pop up from the back of the body, and start cutting metal with cutter heads and lasers. In this preset block, functional parts are polished out according to the drawings, such as the pipes for accommodating cables. The raw materials are stored, and the mouthpart-shaped printing equipment is used to produce and lay cables on the spot.Drilling, mortise and tenon, laser welding, and metal debris are attracted to the electromagnet of the recovery drone, and the main structure of the building is also visible to the naked eye.

There are also some large-scale drones that use hydrogen rockets to transport heavy goods to the construction site. Most of these things are preset parts sent by orbital elevators from the ground factory. It took a little time to transport them, but once the installation is complete, everything It's all worth it.Tens of thousands of drones of various types are operating on this fiery construction site, and 12 Dragon King Whale ships are transporting goods from the Eternal City back and forth.You are very honored to participate in this operation, because there are four more construction sites at the same site, which is equivalent to five more buildings with a diameter of about one kilometer in the sky above 4 kilometers away from Thira, and these buildings are only one large building. The "parts" of the complex.

In addition to supplies, you worker bees will work here for more than 1000 hours before the next overhaul, which is almost a cycle of one and a half months. Every time such a cycle passes, these magnificent buildings will be formed a little more, which is second only to the eternity. Buildings the size of a city can be directly seen by telescopes on the ground, and soon they are tied to rockets and propelled to a farther deep space, otherwise they will have to be caught by the gravitational force of Sira and change their course.And the UAVs also follow a little bit closer to the moon, and the L1L2 points near the moon are exactly the stable Lagrangian points.

You don't know how long you have been working, but you can already feel that the moon, the celestial body, is getting bigger and bigger.As the distance has become farther, the frequency of supply ships has also begun to decrease, but the intensity of your labor has also begun to decrease. More and more drones have been taken away by ship, and your work has also begun to become spraying surface durable. Relatively deserted work such as hot materials and laying radiation-resistant panels.Every day you climb the inside and outside of this building countless times, but you have never fully seen it with your own eyes.

You also didn't realize that there was a Raven transport plane flying around you for half an hour. In this shuttle, a man looked at the building like he looked at the product to find the flaws in it.

"That's right, when they're assembled, the grip around our necks can relax a little bit, allowing us to take a breather."

Director Pompeii entered a series of instructions on the terminal, and the unsmiling technocrat stretched his eyebrows as if he relaxed, and muttered to himself:

"Half a year... What a tormenting half year..."

Yes, no one from the Ministry of Industry and Research to the military has had a good night's sleep in the past six months, and the tremendous pressure often makes people breathless.With the panic of "the enemy may come again at any time, we must be prepared", without supervision, everyone works overtime and desperately. The medical department of the People's Federation has to carry out multiple rescue operations every day, myocardial infarction and cerebral congestion. As the most hated disease, we can solve this problem with artificial hearts and nanobots, but unless safety can be determined, anxiety will not be controlled anyway.

For ordinary residents of Sira, they can clearly feel the changes in the council. People's lives seem to have entered another track at once. All industries, especially industrial technicians, have been recruited, although the society is still operating normally. , but the communication between Scylla and Earth began to be regulated, and the review of access became extremely strict. Not to mention, the council became less interested in any topic of social development.

They all know what the reason is. Every Sira resident has been warned by the council. During this special period, they must strictly follow the council’s arrangements. Once there is a change, they must immediately go to the earth for refuge through the wormhole. It is necessary not to let the news leak to the rear of the earth, so as to avoid unnecessary accidents on the earth that has not yet been integrated.

So the wormhole base on the equator suddenly became a gathering place for people. Poseidon Academy simply transferred all the students to teach here. Fortunately, the remaining population of Sira is only a million, and the evacuation operation can be completed when necessary. .All adults are recruited, not only that, but every day a group of excellent earth residents are recruited from the earth through the wormhole to "study" in Sira. These selected personnel are staunch supporters of the People's Federation, so in Still able to work reliably after knowing the truth - the people of the two planets have united again since beta, but this time it's Sira who needs Earth's help.

This is the situation in the past six months. We have been lucky. The enemy has not made any movement in the past six months, and the peace is as usual, so we have time to hurry up and develop, but this does not make people's mood even a little bit happier—even if the public I don't know the enemy's military strength, but the longer the time passes, the more prepared the enemy will be, and the more dangerous the People's Federation will be. They all know the truth, so...

"Still not enough!"

Pompeii sighed wistfully. As the technical director, no one can understand the shortcomings of the People's Federation better than him—"The space industry has been delayed for too long, and it is about to confront an interstellar civilization with a history of more than 300 years, unless It’s really like Chief Ensig said to make a stargate to connect the resources of the two planets, and there is still a battle, but looking at it now..."

He felt a bit bitter, because from the intelligence of the captives, they learned that the enemy possessed a terrible technology called planetary cracking-in the descriptions of the captives, this is a technology that can directly pull at least [-] square kilometers from the planet. The gravity technology of the billion-ton mass land, it is said that this United Earth Government has used this technology extensively to build countless space habitats in the solar system.This is the foundation of a civilization. Pompeii can imagine the strength of the space industry represented by this technology when he closes his eyes. Compared with this...

At the L2 point above the moon, several asteroids with a diameter of several hundred meters are driven by the engine mounted on the body to revolve around the moon.These meteorites come from the asteroid belt. Even if it is the People's Federation, it is not so fast to equip them with engines to travel [-] million kilometers. It is a completely tricky way to let the circumsolar accelerator open a short-distance wormhole and pull it directly into the inner galaxy. , so it took so long to pull over a few yuan, but this is already the limit of what Renlian can do.

Now these meteorites are the reserve of the space industry, just waiting for these newly built equipment to be in place—"It will take another month for splicing, I hope this will be another month without war."

Time: the beginning of the 12th year of Renlian

Location: Tin Moon Middle Orbit

The five core components of the "Comprehensive Space Industry Production Center" have been spliced ​​together. This is a facility that was planned by the Ministry of Industry and Research, but it was launched ahead of schedule because of the war.This facility is a facility that integrates interstellar ports, raw material smelting and processing, and dry docks. It is a solution to the dilemma that Eternal City's industrial facilities cannot leave low-earth orbit and its development is limited.

As soon as the construction of this space industrial city was completed, the giant meteorites hauled from the asteroid belt were put into the fusion centrifuge. Under high temperature, all the elements on the meteorites were extracted and screened out by the centrifuge according to the quality.When the first batch of sorted raw materials went off-line and entered processing, the captive engineers headed by Albert witnessed the project. Although these people said nothing, Albert reported to Director Pompeii afterwards——

"The resource utilization efficiency of the fusion centrifuge is 30.00% higher than that of the United Earth industry, and the automation makes the resource processing speed at least 60.00% higher than that of the United Earth industry."

The report was scolded by Pompey, because such flattering and exaggerated remarks are the last thing needed right now, Albert had better get rid of the flattering habits he developed in the old society!

PS: How is Isaac, what is he doing now, when the time comes, is the Ishimura still okay?

The horn feels a little bit bad, let's update the chapter first, let's see the status tonight, please forgive me.

Chapter 42. In a world of despair, hope is also despair

"Isaac, after I'm gone, you have to take care of yourself. Remember to check if the washing machine in the apartment is broken. Don't let Henrik, the property manager, know about it. "