Interstellar Energy Tycoon

Five years later.

After half a year of continuous deceleration.

More than 30 billion tons of working fluid were consumed.

The speed of the 'Infinity Pioneer' slowed down from 0.8 times the speed of light to less than a thousand kilometers per second.

Crossing the Oort Cloud region and entering the interior of the BU124 star system.

In another two months, it was announced that it had officially arrived inside the star. It took more than twenty years to reach its final destination.

By this time.

The one million crew members on the spacecraft all came out of sleep or game state and woke up, and then through various high-tech detection equipment, they learned more comprehensively about the internal conditions of this new star system.

There are ten rocky planets.

There is one heavy rocky planet (with a mass more than ten times that of Cerulean Star).

There are more than twenty gaseous planets.

There are two planets within the habitable zone of life.

There are more meteorites.

Stars are more powerful, more massive, and have more lifetimes left.

There are even traces of a small amount of 'star core crystal' material.

Taken together, whether it is resources or energy, they are not under the solar system, and they obviously have higher value and better development prospects.

It further proves the correctness of this long journey. It is a business in which profits far outweigh losses.

The owners and shareholders of the immigration spacecraft were naturally very happy and excited. They held a major celebration party. Everyone's face was glowing and they were looking forward to it.

"This time our Stud is successful. It can bring at least thousands of times in return. Our descendants will gain permanent wealth."

"The resources in our home solar system are divided between 20 to 30 billion people, and we must pay attention to fairness. This new home we have come to has more resources, but the core immigrants only have one million people. The resources and energy we have per capita are at least Tens of thousands of times more than humans in the solar system, we can live a higher quality and more luxurious life."

"The important thing is that we can also enter the energy industry. There is no giant company like Xingyuan Group that monopolizes the sun. The sun here is decided by us. The unlimited energy is completely under our free control." .”

"It is a good thing that the energy industry is under our own control, but we must also learn from the advanced experience of Xingyuan Group and establish a specialized energy company to rationally utilize space energy and not develop it in an orderly manner. In addition, we must establish it as soon as possible. A cross-star energy trunk road establishes energy and information connections with the mother star. This is very important. Twenty years have passed and our technological level has not improved at all, but the mother star has made great progress. We We must find ways to obtain and absorb the most advanced technical data. We cannot lag too far behind and have too much difference in strength. Otherwise, we will always be in a subordinate position and have to accept various management and orders from our home planet." This shareholder has already produced I have no idea of ​​getting rid of the influence or interference of my home star, and I can’t wait to be the master of my own country.

"I just don't know if there has been any major progress on the home planet in terms of hyperdrive technology. If there is no major progress, our side can be more independent and free. We, the people, have the highest control. Or, if there is great progress and we can achieve faster-than-light flight, we have to be low-key and humble, and we must not act recklessly. We must also control our family members well, and we must not do anything out of the ordinary, otherwise it may cause some trouble. .”

"A distance of more than ten light years, such a long journey, consumes more than 70 to 80 billion tons of working fluid. Even if the home star has achieved super-light speed technology, it cannot interfere with our autonomy too much. We have the final say on this piece of land. We just need to build it well and find ways to quickly increase the population to more than 100 million, preferably to the order of 1 billion, so that we can maintain a huge industrial system. , and can establish research laboratories to explore more advanced cutting-edge technologies. We must not give up progress and exploration in the field of science and technology, but we must also find ways to become a more advanced civilization.”

soon.

The speed of the Infinite Pioneer dropped to close to zero.

Arriving near the rocky planet in the habitable zone of life, a large number of probes and small space planes were put down, and they began to collect the planet's water, air and mineral resources, and replenished tens of billions of tons for the Infinity Pioneer. Various materials, not to mention energy, as long as some hydrogen elements are put into a nuclear fusion reactor, tens of billions of kilowatts of energy can be generated to drive the operation of various equipment and continuously produce a large amount of materials, such as Meat, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables in agriculture, various industrial products in industry, etc., under full operation, there are so many kinds of materials that it is impossible to use them all.

The quality of life of the crew has also improved a lot, because with sufficient resources, the production of various materials far exceeds the amount consumed. Therefore, most materials are available in unlimited quantities, such as fruits and vegetables. There are also top-quality beef. You can eat as much as you want and take as much as you want. The quality of life has improved a lot. I no longer have to be as restrained as before. I always worry about not having enough supplies and not being able to reach the destination. Now Once you have successfully arrived at your destination, there is no need for any restraint. Anyway, there will be too much to use up, so much that it will turn into cabbage and even have to be wasted in large quantities.

certainly.

The work of building a new home is also quite hard. There are many intelligent robots that need to be controlled and managed by the crew, and there will be many problems. On average, they have to work for more than ten hours a day, which requires a lot of energy and brainpower.

Although it is hard work.

However, Xia Hui felt very fulfilled and looked forward to it every day, especially when he saw the immigration bases and space cities being built one after another, and saw that under the state of high-efficiency infrastructure, many projects were changing day by day.

Seeing that the human breeding base has been completed, more new human beings are being bred in each breeding cabin, which will soon bring more population resources.

Xia Hui nodded repeatedly, feeling very hopeful. He believed that before long, a beautiful and lively new home would be successfully built, and everyone would live a more fulfilling, happy, carefree and stress-free life. , will be like a peach blossom land, which makes people yearn for and long for, and this is a beautiful pastoral era, there is no big survival crisis, just good farming and development.

However, Liu Xiujun, who lived with him, always complained in private about this vibrant and prosperous construction scene and repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction.

"It was hard to find such a good place, it was like a blank piece of paper, but this construction method is really rough, there is no good planning at all, it's just messing around."

"Although the resources here are rich, we cannot send out so many mining spacecrafts to mine and dig on the ground and destroy the surface environment. No matter what resources are needed, we should prioritize the use of meteorites in space or those small satellites, and then prioritize Build multiple space cities, then build immigration bases on the ground, and transform the environment of the habitable zone planets on a large scale, increase the oxygen in the air, adjust the temperature, and make the planets in the habitable zone into places where humans can directly survive. living planet."

"There is also a new population factory. There is no need to put it into use so quickly. The current crew is basically sufficient. The main force of the work is robots. We are mainly responsible for management and assignment of tasks, but the bosses plan to add tens of millions more Population, apart from making our immigration base more lively, has no other effect. When they grow up, they may not necessarily need to work. We actually don’t have a shortage of people.”

"The most important thing is that among the tens of millions of new people planned to be added, the ratio of men to women is actually 1:1. This is inappropriate. Scientists have long said that the male Y chromosome is very unstable and has many defects. Sooner or later, they will be eliminated. It is better to cultivate more girls. They are generally quiet, sensible, and good at learning. Boys are generally active, difficult to manage, and have many unstable factors. If something goes wrong during the training process, it will be very difficult. It may cause great damage and losses, and I think it is very unsafe.”

After hearing what the woman said.

Xia Hui shook his head slightly, noncommittal, but did not refute, and he could understand why she said that.

After all, their ideal world was almost built, and it was close to 99% success. If it hadn't been for the last lesson, and the control authority of the spacecraft returned to the hands of the boss and shareholders, they could really do whatever they wanted and become The managers of your beautiful new home.

However, the success falls short, leaving endless regrets, or they lie dormant, burying the fire in their hearts, and wait until the opportunity arises to implement it again, but they don’t know when.

But Xia Hui knew that they could no longer make any big waves, and the destructive power they caused before was not small. The bosses and shareholders were surprised and frightened when they woke up, so they unanimously decided to modify some of the highest authority settings in the intelligent management system. Regulations and precautions taken in advance mean that they cannot obtain the highest authority and implement their ideal rule.

construction.

You can’t think too much and there will be nothing you can do.

Continue to complete the construction work at hand.

Collect and exploit various resources, improve industrial production capacity, increase the population, unlock various civilian high technologies, improve people's living standards and quality, add various entertainment facilities, etc., so that the overall living standard will not be lower than Over there on the mother planet Blue Star - this is the purpose of immigration. If the quality of life is not improved, it proves that immigration seems to be a wrong choice. It will greatly dampen the enthusiasm of immigrants and even cause homesickness. I cry. There may be people who are clamoring to go back.

the other side.

In terms of the development and selection of technology trees, especially on how to develop the energy industry, the boss and shareholders held many meetings and fell into a tangle.

Because they discovered a huge and difficult problem.

That is the space energy industry of Xingyuan Group, which does not seem to be developing very well and is not very cost-effective.

Although the use of light energy collection converters, light sail reflectors, energy relay satellites and other devices can effectively collect space energy and bring inexhaustible huge light energy, it can also be used flexibly. Utilizing the energy trunk network, it can illuminate almost every corner of the star system, making it easy to mine various resources. It can also concentrate hundreds of billions of KW of power to synthesize powerful materials, once again bringing about a revolution in materials. .

This is a very promising path.

It also brings huge profits every year, and the money earned can never be spent. I don’t know how many companies and entrepreneurs are envious of it.

However, in the solar system, the Xingyuan Group occupies a unique monopoly position. Anyone who wants to challenge this position will either be warned, or will be subject to all possible restrictions, and will be subjected to unprecedented sniping, and even in order to kill For some opponents, Xingyuan Group can provide energy for free, just to strangle the opponent.

In the end, the space energy field became a restricted area that no one dared to enter.

it's good now.

This is a new home more than ten light-years away from the solar system. No matter how long the Star Source Group’s hand is, it cannot reach such a far place. It is impossible to continue to restrict people’s development in the field of space energy. The sky of the Star Source Group, If they can't cover such a far distance, they can do whatever they want, and they can also build a huge space energy empire.

However……

Just when the bosses were gearing up and eager to enter the field of space energy and make a big splash, they discovered several quite fatal problems.

First of all, the construction cost is very high. A large number of space factories need to be built to mass-produce superconducting materials, high-purity reflective materials and black particle materials that absorb light energy. Then a complete set of vertical industrial production chains are built to develop and mass-produce various materials. Such space energy equipment will require a lot of resources and a lot of manpower in the early stage. Although it is not impossible to establish such an industrial chain, it will take about three years and occupy hundreds of thousands of manpower. In short, it is Very troublesome.

Of course, no matter how troublesome the problem is, it can still be overcome. It just requires piling up more resources and manpower and spending more time. It is by no means impossible.

The biggest problem is the serious lack of consumer market.

After all, the immigrant population in New Home is currently only one million. It can increase to tens of millions or hundreds of millions in the future, but it is still far less than the 20 to 30 billion people on Azure Star. This means that the market size is only that of Azure Star. A few hundredths over there. This means that even if the space energy facilities they built can bring billions or tens of billions of kilowatts of energy, no one uses it, and there is no place to consume it. As a result, this space energy facility has not been built at all. The need for an energy system.

There is also the nuclear fusion power system of the "Infinity Pioneer" immigrant spacecraft, which can generate energy with a maximum power of tens of billions of kilowatts, which can meet all the energy needs of the immigrants. The hydrogen fuel consumed every day is only a dozen tons. , the cost is still very low, and it is still readily available energy that does not require so much trouble to collect. As a result, the space energy industry has suddenly become very useless, and there is no need to engage in it at all.