Cyber Heroes

For today's humans, the solar system is still too huge.

The solar system information transmission link does not mean that the eight planets are lined up and then an optical cable is built that runs through the eight planets. That's totally not enough.

Many planets in the solar system orbit, with different orbital periods, and the distances between the closest point and the farthest point vary greatly. When the two planets are farthest apart, they are even separated by a sun and their respective orbital radii.

No signal station could span this distance.

With today's human methods, if you want to transmit signals, you have to orbit the planet and build a number of space cities as transfer stations.

This is an important reason why the Asylum's control power plummets beyond the orbit of Mars.

"Building infrastructure around the orbit of Mars" and "building infrastructure around the orbit of Jupiter" are not the same difficulty at all.

Inside the orbit of Mars, there is still enough sunlight, and humans can survive using solar energy. For many civilians, if they are desperate, they can go to space and unfold solar panels to obtain energy. But when it comes to the asteroid belt, this approach doesn't work. There is not enough solar power. On Earth, the highest-performance solar panels the size of a bucket hat can meet a person's daily consumption for a day. But in space cities, this number is an order of magnitude higher. Moreover, with the density of residents in a space city, there is simply no space for everyone to deploy solar panels.

Once here, residents are already highly dependent on the reactors within the city.

This is why the Chaldean defense forces became highly nervous as soon as Jeanne said something might happen near the reactor.

This is truly the lifeblood of Chaldea.

When reaching Jupiter's orbit, the requirements for infrastructure construction in space cities will continue to rise.

Due to the lack of resources, the knights have not established a prosperous space city group outside the orbit of Jupiter.

Although the area controlled by the knight is a prosthetic body. But whenever Saturn and Uranus and Neptune move farther and farther away, the knights have to face a situation where they are forced to separate. There are even times when the signal between them cannot be connected.

They even need to regularly exchange information with each other at sublight speeds. A spacecraft carries a large amount of storage equipment, then slowly accelerates to a few percent of the speed of light, then decelerates smoothly to reach the target location, and transmits signals to satellites or space cities.

It's just too far.

For this reason, the knights even had to build a large number of observation institutions to monitor the patron fleet. It is also a helpless move for the white ship Yi Cong and the black ship Yi Cong to stay in the asteroid belt all year round. They can only intercept the power of Sanctuary by discovering Sanctuary's deep space fleet early and then intercepting it in the asteroid belt.

Otherwise, the Xia Ke's already weak group power would have to defend two planets separated by a huge distance, plus a small number of space cities.

"The development of the outer solar system is still too difficult." Listening to Li Liang's narration, Jeanne said with emotion.

Tu Xiangshan nodded: [Human beings are still too small compared to the universe. Outside the orbit of Jupiter, the only celestial body that really has great development value is Saturn. For Uranus and Neptune, the development cost is huge, but...]

What is the main development value of Uranus and Neptune?

Mineral vein? That's an ice giant. The "ore" you mine on Uranus may not directly sublimate into gas when brought to Earth.

Methane as fuel? It is considered useful in this era. Tactical missiles and micro missiles are still needed. But in this era, methane is still not enough as a fuel for high-speed navigation.

With the huge amount of cataclysmic fuel mined by Jupiter and Saturn, methane is somewhat insufficient. Spending a lot of nuclear fuel to transport methane to how many astronomical units away... Just thinking about it makes my head spin. Even if there is no natural methane locally, the energy consumed by directly reacting carbon dioxide with hydrogen is definitely less energy than transporting methane across interstellar distances.

At this stage, the only thing the ice giant can provide to humans is its ultra-low temperature environment. For high-temperature superconducting technology, this low-temperature environment is a natural advantage. Other than that, well, it may only have scientific research value.

In fact, this is indeed the case. At the beginning, there were only a few space stations centered on the Scientific Research Knights on Uranus and Neptune. However, the king who was entrusted there wanted to develop for his own sake. The military strength obtained during the enfeoffment will eventually be exhausted. They must have their own sources of troops and their own production system. Otherwise, they would have to be controlled by the kings of their own level - those who were enfeoffed on rocky planets or gas giant planets.

The border kings had no choice but to transport a group of people from the inner solar system to their own fiefdoms and forcibly develop them.

Later, the Seventh God of War killed the future king of Saturn, who controlled Neptune, and King Poseidon, who controlled Neptune. King Uranus, who controlled Uranus, had better luck. At that time, Uranus was far away from the Saturn and Neptune regions. Seeing that the situation was not good, he used the excuse of "supporting friendly forces" and led the main deep space fleet to the Jupiter space domain. At the same time, the Planetary Defense Force also followed behind with a part of the population. After that, the Styx King, who controlled the Kuiper Belt to the Oort Cloud area, was also directly killed.

King Styx has the largest fiefdom, and is the only king whose fiefdom is measured in light years. All the feudal monarchs in the entire feudal era had less territory than he had (after all, even the entire continent of the earth was not enough). Even the jurisdictions of other kings were far smaller than his. The total mass of matter in the area ruled by King Styx plus one unit is dozens of times the mass of the earth.

But truth be told, most of this mass is interstellar dust in the Oort cloud. The small objects in the Oort cloud are only five times the mass of Earth and are scattered within a sphere two light-years in diameter. The matter here is so thin that the Speed ​​King can travel to low sub-light speeds.

The Kuiper belt is dozens of times larger than the asteroid belt (that is, a few moons), but unlike the asteroid belt, which is dominated by rocks and metals, it is mainly composed of icy objects.

The patrons forcibly built cities in such bad places. These cities were occupied by knights. The knights really don't have the resources to move all the population and industrial base to Saturn. The cities under the original rule of King Styx could only develop while waiting for opportunities for large-scale migration.

Considering that Uranus's revolution period is 84.02 Earth years and Neptune's revolution period is 164.8 years, and a hundred years ago in the Seventh Valkyrie Era, when the knights first took control of that place, Uranus was on the other side of the solar system and Neptune was very close...most cities also got It’s just two opportunities for large-scale immigration.