Voyage of the Stars

This project is extremely difficult, but humans did not rush into it without any preparation. On the contrary, during the voyage, humans worked together and basically completed all the preliminary preparations.

For example, design, site selection, intelligence and other work can all be completed at this stage. Therefore, when arriving at the target star field, the project really started.

This time, due to space construction, the human fleet did not choose one of the stars in the target star field as a stopping point. Instead, after arriving at the target star field, it chose to slow down directly in deep space, allowing the entire fleet to stop. Stopped in the void of space.

The relative speed of the Grand Fleet remains relatively stationary with the stars in this star field.

The entire fleet consists of approximately 200 million ships of various types, just hovering in space. Of course it’s not deep space, at least not in the eyes of today’s humans.

After completing the deceleration, the nearest star to the Grand Fleet was a yellow dwarf, about a light-year away.

This yellow dwarf star has been clearly explored by the advanced exploration team. It contains as many as 20 planets, including 16 rocky planets, four giant gas planets, and a total of 130 gas planets in orbit. satellites, and countless other irregular asteroids.

It is the star system with the richest resources in this star field.

The human fleet chose to stop near this star because of the convenience of supply. The Grand Fleet will receive resources from nearby star systems at this location, then process them into various components, instruments, and equipment needed to build a new particle collider, and then transport them out for assembly in space by the next step of construction machinery. .

After all, human beings have completely become a wandering civilization, so they strive to be modular in the design of all creations. The same is true for the construction of new particle collider. Although it is very difficult, it has become a problem for everyone from the engineering department to ordinary people. consensus.

This is a particle collider with a length of 6,674 astronomical units. Humanity does not want to build such a huge robot and turn it into a disposable product.

Therefore, movable modular design is very important.

In fact, after overcoming a series of basic manufacturing difficulties for a long snake-shaped collider, it is not difficult to modularize it, especially since its acceleration components are actually the same. The difficulty lies in requiring that these components can be disassembled and moved. Walk.

This requires that a thruster must be installed on each module and each module must be able to withstand the strong acceleration brought by the thruster. Even if the thruster does not need to be installed directly, it is still required to reserve a location for the thruster installation.

These two requirements alone raise the difficulty of building a new particle collider from 1 to 100. To do this, the engineers had to take alloy No. 1 into consideration as a frame for each intermediate component. If we just create a particle accelerator that is permanently placed in the starry sky, there is no need to use Alloy No. 1, but there is no way.

Even if it reaches the peak of level three civilization, the manufacturing of No. 1 metal is still more difficult than ordinary metal, which results in an increase in time cost. But for humans, the increased time cost is acceptable. After all, no one wants to build an immovable collider.

The project officially entered the actual construction stage. When the fleet completed its deceleration, the eight new strong artificial intelligences created during the voyage had already set off. They took their respective construction spaceships and headed towards their respective goals.

Along with them are patrol teams assigned to tasks. Together with eight strong artificial intelligences, they will serve as the first batch of resource mining teams to develop the eight star systems selected in the plan.

Of course, if you want to develop eight star systems at the same time, eight strong artificial intelligences are not enough, because there is more than one rocky planet in each star system. If there were only eight strong artificial intelligences, then humans would have to mine planets one by one. If so, it is conceivable that the plan to hollow out the planets in the entire star system would not be completed within a thousand years.

So it is the first batch. After the first batch of resource mining teams set off, the human fleet still needs to continue to create more strong artificial intelligence, so that they can continue to go to their respective target star systems to mine resources from other planets inside.

The previous Xiao Hui was one of them, but her main job was to provide various supplies to the human fleet and the resources needed to create more strong artificial intelligence in the early stage, rather than to develop the entire star system, so she was placed here. Inside the nearest yellow dwarf star.

Of course, it is impossible for Xiao Hui to mine the resources of the entire star system alone. This is not a problem of ability, but a problem of communication system delay.

This is the reason why humans need more strong artificial intelligence.

The planets in the star system cannot be together. Basically, each planet is tens or even hundreds of astronomical units apart. At such a distance, it is impossible for a strong artificial intelligence to control the mining equipment of the entire star system. They At most, it can only be responsible for the task of mining on a single planet.

Yes, strong artificial intelligence controls resource extraction equipment.

It is true that humans have the ability to build nano-mining robots like Xiao Hui, but the technological content required to build that thing is too high and time-consuming. Therefore, all new strong artificial intelligence in the new particle collider construction plan are not based on This is standard manufacturing, but as before, a host carrying strong artificial intelligence is manufactured and installed on the spacecraft.

Then this strong artificial intelligence will control its own spacecraft and supporting resources to develop various engineering ships and go for mining.

This is the most efficient way.

Humanity plans to equip resource mining teams with strong artificial intelligence to support them based on the number of rocky planets in each star system.

For example, right now, after the first batch of mining teams set off, the human fleet has already started organizing the second batch of mining teams. Before resources were replenished, the human fleet used stocks. At the current rate of construction, the inventory can hold out until new resources mined by Xiao Hui arrive.

Everything is planned.

With the new government's order, the entire human civilization was mobilized, and the number of volunteers for the mining patrol team reached the level of reservation. Perhaps everyone knows that humans will stay in this space for a long time this time, so they have begun to consciously look for the joy of future life.

Almost immediately, the leader of the Red Flame Civilization also sent an application to humans, asking for people from the Red Flame Civilization to join in this major construction.