How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 585 Stellar Resource Development Mission (8)

As the speed of osmium ions in the orbit continues to increase, the collectors are gradually increasing the energy level of the electric field in the orbit to ensure that the osmium ions will not rush out of the electric field and hit the inner wall of the orbit.

Raising the energy level is carried out gradually and slowly, and the collectors are cautious and cautious every step of the way.

Gradually, this ring revolving around the star has an obvious gravitational effect, but it is very weak. Standing on the orbit, it feels like standing on the moon. Every step is slow motion, and you cannot Stomp on the ground with too much force, or it will float into space, and it will take a while to fall back on the surface of the ring.

If human bear children are on the surface of the ring at this time, they may feel novelty because of such a low-gravity state, and keep jumping and playing games, but this is not an interesting game, but a very dangerous behavior .

The ring is not the moon, and it cannot be directly linked to the situation of the moon. If you jump too far in one breath, the jumper will be captured by the gravity of the red dwarf. The final result is that you cannot fall back to the surface of the ring, but fall towards the red dwarf. A sea of ​​red plasma flames.

The gravitational force of the ring continues to increase, and the speed of the osmium ion beam is constantly increasing, increasing and increasing again, and the self-decaying speed of the osmium ion is slowing down exponentially, because the macroscopic time is constantly slowing down, for the osmium ion, , it is perfectly appropriate to describe it with the concept of 'a blink of an eye is a thousand years'.

The gravitational force of the ring quickly surpassed the gravitational force of the earth, and gradually moved closer to the gravitational force of Jupiter. The orbital ring is also reducing its size proportionally in this process, just like a data model built by a computer that can be scaled arbitrarily generally.

The reason for this effect is the gravitational force. With the strengthening of the gravitational force, the material density of the ring itself is increasing. To understand it more simply, it is like a lump of cotton. Constantly exert external pressure on this lump of cotton to compact it. The cotton The volume of the ring will become smaller and smaller, but the mass remains the same, and the ring is almost the same situation, but these are not compressed cotton, but atoms.

When the gravitational force of the ring is greater than the central pressure of Jupiter, the tunnel inside the ring suddenly surges a current, which comes from the backlog of liquid metal hydrogen.

The atomic structure of liquid metal hydrogen is 'proton-electron-proton', two protons share one electron, and now the gravitational force pulls the distance between the two protons very close, one proton occupies the original orbit of the electron and squeezes out, so it is A degenerate crystal solid structure like 'proton-proton' is formed, and the electrons squeezed out of the electron orbit form a very strong current.

However, because the protons are locked by the gravitational pressure, the magnetic force formed by this current cannot help but fail to destroy the structure of the proton lattice body, and in turn strengthen the electric field strength.

In the end, a stable, slowly orbiting star, a ring that can still guarantee its own strength even at the scale of a star, and can continuously extract matter from the star, is formed.

At this time, the ring has shrunk by half compared to when it was just built. The diameter of the ring has dropped from the original two astronomical units to one astronomical unit, and the distance from the ring body to the red dwarf has dropped from one astronomical unit to half an astronomical unit.

"finished!"

"uncanny workmanship!"

"How great..."

In the initial stage of gravitational formation, some stellar matter reached the ring, but these are charged particles blown out by the stellar wind. Considering the direction, in the end, except for the stellar wind at the north and south poles of the star, the other part of the stellar wind blows away towards the ring.

From a macroscopic point of view, the overall structure of the red dwarf star plus the ring is like a round UFO, with a very rounded center and bright plasma matter like a cloud of smoke, which then spreads outward until it reaches the position of the ring to be received.

The stellar matter in the form of a plasma cloud, because it is electrically charged, will be deflected to a more precise position on the ring by the strong magnetic field placed in the vertical direction of the ring when it is close to the ring. There is a diversion port at these positions, These plasmas are channeled into an electric field tunnel, accelerated in reverse, and cooled by solid helium.

Everything went as the gatherers originally planned.

"Hurry up! Cool down and keep up!"

"Hurry up and send this batch of used helium to the cooling giant!"

"The cooled stellar matter should also be taken away quickly!"

After about a month, it is almost equivalent to a mass of the earth being extracted from the red dwarf. According to this mining rate, if the supernova explosion caused by the red dwarf's own gravity can no longer continue to restrain nuclear fusion, The red dwarf will be mineable by collectors for 13,750 years.

This is only a red dwarf star, whose mass is only half that of the sun. If it is a blue dwarf star, a supergiant star, etc., it can mine a larger amount of matter.

Many giant structures have been bred, especially cooling giant structures, because accumulation heat is a very fatal problem for the ring, so a large number of cooling giant structures are needed. After the helium is cooled, it will be compressed into a solid state by a high-pressure giant structure Helium resources.

As long as these solid-state helium is needed, it is naturally obtained from red dwarfs. Celestial bodies such as stars, especially stars with small masses, are rich in resources of light substances such as hydrogen and helium.

After mining for a period of time, the collectors in this star system suddenly found that they had become very "rich", and the materials they mined far exceeded their needs, just like a poor ghost who suddenly got After spending hundreds of trillions of dollars in cash, when all the things you want to buy are bought, it turns out that there is still a mountain of money left, which gives people the illusion that "you can't spend it all".

Therefore, there are collectors' proposals.

"Should we stop for a while?"

Since such a huge amount of cash cannot be spent in a short period of time, it is better not to spend it at all, and there is no need to spend it all in one go-this is the idea of ​​the proposer.

This idea quickly resonated with other gatherers. Frugality has always been the tradition of gatherers, and it is enough to only mine resources when necessary.

So how to stop?

The method is very simple. On the one hand, the gravitational ring is reversed to weaken the movement speed of the osmium ion beam moving in a circle in the orbit, thereby reducing the gravitational force.

However, the decrease is not much, because the strength of the ring itself on a macro scale must be considered, so the gravitational force still exists, but it stays at a level equivalent to the atmospheric pressure in the center of Jupiter.

But there's still stellar matter being attracted to the rings, just not as crazy as before.

For this reason, the collectors rely on a strong magnetic field to deflect the stellar matter attracted by gravity to the vertical direction of the torus, and these stellar matter deflected by the magnetic field will fall to the red dwarf again due to the gravitational force of the red dwarf itself. Among dwarf stars, a cycle is formed.

Of course, the collectors will not suffer, not to mention the actions taken for the sake of frugality, the deflection of the strong magnetic field energy of the stellar matter, which comes from the light of the red dwarf star, so that the collectors do not need to take additional energy Come in and maintain.