I Am the Swarm

Looking at the past from the perspective of the sporangia, the huge planet A7 has already blocked all the sight ahead. On the oval sphere, layers of different color blocks make it look like a layer cake.

Its rotation speed is very fast. The sphere is more than a thousand times larger than the origin star, and it takes less than half of the rotation time of the origin star. As a result, the traces of the color block rotation on it can be clearly seen.

In front of or around the huge sphere, several small dim spheres can be vaguely seen, and the figure of one of them is gradually enlarged. It is the target of this sporangium--A7B25.

Because this satellite is in the outer periphery of A7, it became the first object of the A7 system to be patronized by the swarm. Its size is much smaller than Huangyue, only about one-tenth of Huangyue's size.

Originally, the insect swarm only needed one shot of sporangia to occupy it, but due to some reasons, each satellite, regardless of its size, suffered at least two meteorites during this contact.

The power system inside the sporangia started to start. Unlike the previous jet-type deceleration and direction-changing system, over the years, there have been more and more swarm intelligences. With their help, some technologies have also been upgraded.

For example, the current hydrogen power system in the sporangia.

The sporangia originally had a plug-in component of the hydrogen balloon, and the rat man Morgan used this to scare Sarah for a while.

The new power system consists of two storage chambers and a reaction chamber, one of which is composed of special algae cells that can produce hydrogen, and the other storage chamber is connected to the ecological circulation system in the body.

When working, the chloroplasts in the ecological circulation system in the body release a large amount of oxygen and enter the storage cavity. At the same time, another chamber also produces a large amount of hydrogen gas.

The two gases are transported to the reaction chamber through special pipes, where a chemical reaction takes place. The inner wall of the reaction chamber is made of a variety of heat-resistant and heat-insulating materials, which can withstand this high temperature and prevent them from damaging other organs in the body.

The reaction will generate huge energy, which will be ejected through special pipes, relying on the reverse propulsion, to drive the sporangia to fly or change the course.

At the same time, a large amount of water will be produced after the reaction of the two gases, and the water will be transported back to the ecological cycle system for repeated use.

The new power system is stronger and more powerful than the pure jet power system. With it, the sporangia can even fly like a spaceship, without relying on the launch device to take off and land between the red moon and the yellow moon.

However, this system is a bit too tasteless. Because its speed is too slow, in the space environment, even if it is accelerated to the limit, it can only reach a level of less than 3km/s, which is just enough to escape the gravity of the moon.

This speed is much slower than the Ratmen's rocket speed, which makes its positioning very awkward. Short-distance space travel and the entire system related to the swarm meteorite launcher are very mature, faster and more efficient. For long-distance, although the recycling of this system can make full use of the resources carried. But it is not a perpetual motion machine after all. At its speed, even the origin galaxy cannot "float" out, and its energy will be exhausted.

Moreover, the revolution speed of the origin star can reach 30km/s. Once this "spaceship" breaks away from the gravitational system of the origin star, it can never fly back by itself.

However, it represents another system after all. The swarm can't always rely on shooting, it must need a set of conventional navigation technology, maybe this system is the beginning of the swarm spaceship.

It happened that planet A7 had to wait until two years ago to launch the swarm meteorite due to orbital problems. Rowan arranged this system as a deceleration device to observe its performance.

At the same time, in order to prevent accidents, another meteorite with a primitive jet deceleration device was launched. This is also the main reason why each satellite suffers at least two rounds.

The lichen tissue outside the sporangia has reserved fumaroles and observation holes in advance. Among them, the fumarole located on the head began to violently eject energy outward, and the speed of the sporangia began to slow down.

The intelligence body and the blade of the docking team are busy, the distance between the origin star and the A7 planet is too far, and there are too many variables, which leads to the inaccurate calculation in the early stage.

They recalculated the trajectory of the sporangia based on the real-time shared field of view. From time to time, the fumaroles on both sides of the sporangia will eject some energy, slightly changing its course.

As the sporangia and A7B25 continued to approach, the speed of the sporangia gradually decreased to 5km/s. In the next two minutes, its speed will continue to drop to 2km/s, and will continue to decrease, and finally it will collide with A7B25 at a speed of 1km/s.

A7B25 is also in an extremely cold environment, which can be seen from the frost covering its surface. However, it is farther from the star than A6, so it is reasonable for A7B25 to be a big ice lump.

The landing process was without any surprises or dangers. The swarm had the experience of landing on the A4 and A6 planetary systems, and they were already familiar with it. Apart from landing on an icy planet and reducing the speed to a very low level, there is nothing else to pay attention to.

A piece of ice and stones flew, and the lichen structure in the front half of the sporangia was blown to pieces, but the inside did not suffer much damage.

After a while, the creep seeds were spit out and awakened, and then the creep seeds connected to the swarm network, which meant that the landing was successful. The seeds of a swarm base have been planted, just waiting for its development and expansion.

Soon after, another sporangium carrying a jet braking device landed 200 kilometers away. After a while, the creep seeds it carried also went online successfully.

The intelligent body members of the docking group collectively breathed a sigh of relief, their feelings were richer, while the blades remained calm.

In the following time, A7B3, A7B7, A7B9, A7B15, A7B21 and A7B23 all successfully landed one after another.

Perhaps it is because A7 is a huge gaseous planet, and several satellites have thin atmospheres. But because it was too thin, it didn't have any impact on landing.

Miraculously, the landed satellites all contain extremely rich water resources. Even on A7B15, the root system of the creeper penetrated less than 10 meters into the rock formation, and abundant liquid water was found.

Abundant water resources allow creep to reproduce and expand faster, and with the supply of a large amount of resources, the base of the swarm will also be established faster.

The landing work of several satellites has been completed, and the next step is to serve the main course. A total of fifteen sporangia will contact the planet A7 one after another within an hour.

Rowan reassigned several teams that had completed their missions, and added them to fifteen teams responsible for the landing of sporangia on A7.

It is the first time to land on a gaseous planet, and it is still so large, and the swarm is the first time. I believe that there will be a lot of data to be collected by then, and the manpower must be sufficient.

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