How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 420 Sublight Journey (Part 1)

"All aspects of data debugging are completed, each section starts charging to increase the strong magnetic field, and starts the final countdown countdown, 5000, 4999, 4998..."

"...3654, 3653, 3652...2047, 2046, 2045, 2043..."

"... 10, 9... 3, 2, 1, 0, launch!"

After the initial velocity brought by the initial gunpowder propulsion, the metal object enters the strong electric field area at a speed of 230m/s per second. Under the acceleration of the strong electric field, the speed is still rising sharply. It was a blurry, fleeting scene, only the corridor in front remained unchanged.

10km/s...

This speed has already surpassed the first cosmic speed of this planet, and it is expected to approach the second cosmic speed, but at this time, the metal body that is increasing at a uniform speed still has not escaped from the accelerating electric field of the tunnel, and the speed is still steadily increasing.

100km/s...

The tunnel is a vacuum environment. If it is filled with gas, this kilogram of metal body will be quickly consumed in just a few minutes. After all, moving at such a high speed, the air can already be roughly understood as a solid.

At this time, from the perspective of the metal body, the surrounding scenery has changed from a blurry floating light to countless thin lines. Only the scenery ahead has not changed, and the acceleration is still continuing.

1000km/s...

...

1x10^5km/s...

At this time, the metal body has already circled Ming's equator eight and a half times, and is completing the ninth circle. It can be seen that the brightness of the scenery ahead increases, like a light bulb that is gradually turning on, from dim to dazzling.

Acceleration continues.

The metal object in the strong electric field is a living body. The metal exoskeleton with titanium element as the main body is built into a cone shape, which is very similar to the titanium screw in appearance, but it is very different inside. It is not like a titanium screw. The solid-state propulsion organ, where there exists a brain that dominates the subject.

Different from traditional cells, in order to be able to adapt to acceleration from conventional speeds to sub-light speeds, the collectors designed a new form of cells. Its cytoplasm is a concentrated solution of high-molecular polymers. The magic of this liquid lies in ordinary stirring Appears as a liquid, but if smashed hard, it will appear as a solid.

The main reason why the concentrated solution as a liquid has such properties is because the shear stress of the concentrated solution itself and the shear strain rate are not linear.

The cells use this liquid as the cytoplasm. During the acceleration period, the interior as a whole will show a solid state, thereby avoiding the tearing of the internal cells. If ordinary cells are used to accelerate to sub-light speeds, the metal objects will only This space has an external structure, but the inside is already a mass of paste corpse.

During the acceleration period, the activity of each cell must be ensured. Cells also need to breathe and need nutrients. After all, they are living things, not machines, and machines do not have such troubles.

In order to solve this problem, each cell is designed with a vacuole. During acceleration, each cell inside the metal object can maintain life activities by consuming the nutrients inside the vacuole.

This organism is not designed to store too many nutrients inside. Due to the scaling effect of the theory of relativity, from the time perspective of metal objects, the travel time to the target star system does not need to be as long as five years, and it will be shorter, so there is no Need to expand nutrient storage.

Under normal conditions, when the naked eye accelerates in a sublight orbit, it will form black vision due to recoil, making it impossible to see the outside world or anything in front of it clearly.

In the final analysis, the eyes also need a chemical reaction of fluid substances to enable organisms to see everything around them clearly. During acceleration, the strong recoil force will squeeze the microscopic fluid substances in the visual system, resulting in temporary blindness or Vision is blurred, depending on the strength of the recoil at the time.

To solve this problem, the collectors used two sets of vision systems, one is a traditional vision system, and the other is a non-biological vision system, which is the same principle as a monitor.

During the acceleration period, all the cells inside the metal body will show solid properties, even the blood will appear to be coagulated, and the cells of the eyes are naturally no exception, so the biological visual system is basically in a state of strike, and then the biological will spontaneously Activate another set of visual senses.

In the sensory part of the eye, there is a set of ionic networks all over the inside of the cells. Under normal circumstances, the flow of cytoplasm causes them to exert their ability to receive visual information, but it is different during the acceleration period. Polymers, these non-Newtonian fluids, are here At that time, it will be in a solid state, so these ion channels can function at this time.

The captured electromagnetic waves are converted into digital signals of 1 and 0, which are transmitted to the brain through neurons, and the brain processes the information by itself.

But even so, in this accelerated state, the accelerated metal body cannot determine its current position by observing external electromagnetic waves, because the speed has been increased too high.

Fortunately, this is not impossible. If a metal body wants to know where it is, it only needs to feel the force it bears. Since a part of the sublight orbit is a circular acceleration orbit around the equator, after the speed increases, the metal The body also has to bear a strong centrifugal force, and by virtue of this, you can roughly judge your own position.

If the centrifugal force exists, it means that the metal body itself has not left the equatorial part of the sublight speed orbit. When the centrifugal force disappears and the recoil force still exists, it means that the metal body has entered the vertical part of the sublight speed orbit. After a period of time, it will Reach over 90% of the speed of light and break away from the accelerated orbit to enter the deep space of the universe.

When the centrifugal force and the recoil force all disappear, at this time, the accelerated strong electric field that has reached the sub-light speed and has left the sub-light speed orbit has embarked on a journey to the target star system.

The acceleration stage is controllable, so despite the strong centrifugal force and recoil force, it can only be regarded as a near miss. The real risk of this journey is that after reaching sub-light speed, the metal body embarks on a journey to the stars.

The races in that star system are left to you - the Supreme Will.

"My will to get there safely, all for the sake of the Clan."

The danger of the journey did not arouse the negative emotions in the heart of the metal body. At this moment, its heart was surprisingly calm, enduring the discomfort caused by the acceleration, and waiting for the state to recover.

In fact, it didn't wait long, as the speed increased, the scaling effect also intensified, and the acceleration of several months was less than a day from its perspective.

When the force applied to the whole body disappears, it knows that the extremely dangerous journey has begun.