Super Mothership

solar system.

The nine planets revolve around the core of the galaxy like the stars and the moon, like eternal loyal guards.

The only light source in the solar system emits endless light and heat, dispelling the eternal darkness of the boundless universe, illuminating the entire galaxy, it burns itself, ignites the solar system, and ignites the flame of civilization on earth.

The sun, the central celestial body of the galaxy, occupies 99.86% of the total mass of the solar system, and the remaining 0.14% of various celestial bodies and interstellar dust, etc., revolve around the sun, and the sun revolves around the center of the Milky Way.

It is a star where hot plasma and magnetic fields are intertwined, with a diameter of about 1.39 million kilometers, equivalent to 109 times the diameter of the Earth, and a volume of about 1.3 million times that of the Earth.

From the perspective of chemical composition, about three-quarters of the sun's mass is hydrogen, and the rest is almost all helium. The use of nuclear fusion to release light and heat into space is the well-deserved energy heart of the solar system!

All activities on earth are inseparable from the energy provided by the sun. In recent years, with the development of earth science and technology and the huge demand for electricity consumption, the photovoltaic industry has grown rapidly, and the utilization rate of solar energy by countries on the earth is also getting higher and higher. .

With the incessant Nie Yunhei technology increasingly eroding the daily life of the earth, the long cosmic distance and high temperature can no longer stop the people on earth from letting go of their thoughts, so they turned their attention to the sun!

In fact, Freeman Dyson put forward a theory as early as 1960, the so-called "Dyson sphere".

He believes that the energy contained in a planet like the earth itself is very limited, far from being enough to support the development of civilization on it to an advanced stage, and in a star-planet system, most of the energy comes from stars!

But the radiation of stars is actually wasted. At present, the solar radiation energy received by the planets in our solar system only accounts for less than one percent of the total.

Therefore, a highly developed civilization must have the ability to surround the sun with a huge spherical structure, so that most of the radiant energy of the sun is intercepted. Only in this way can it support this civilization for a long time and make it develop to a sufficient height.

When civilization develops into the interstellar era, it must have entered full electrification, and the demand for energy will reach a very alarming level. Therefore, ensuring energy supply and improving energy collection efficiency are major issues that every civilization that enters space must face.

Nie Yun, who entered the interstellar era, inevitably turned his attention to the utilization of solar energy.

The "Prometheus" project was publicly tendered by Captain Ghost, proposed by top scholar Lawrence, and certified by the ghost department cloud scientific research institution. The Earth Defense Force joined and supported the first galaxy-level project of human civilization!

Prometheus is the god who steals fire for mankind in Greek mythology, and what Prometheus plans to steal...is the endless energy of the sun!

Speaking of this plan, its proposal and implementation have its "historical reasons"...

Originally, Nie Yun's time into space was too short. Even if he used the crazy mining of mechanical insects to build a colony base, he didn't occupy much territory at all. For the solar system, it was not even a drop in the ocean.

With the current scale of solar system development, energy has not yet become a factor restricting the development of Earth civilization.

In the cosmic colony bases on major planets and asteroids, Nie Yun has built controllable nuclear fusion energy centers of varying sizes, and the abundant nuclear fuel in the universe is sufficient to provide the energy needs of the bases.

However, with the large-scale entry of Earthlings into the universe, hundreds of millions of robot troops have been put into use, various infrastructure constructions have gradually been rolled out, and energy demand is increasing exponentially!

Among them, the major energy consumers include various mining heavy industry equipment,

Smelting centers, shipyards, quantum computer centers, and the daily routine of mechanical bugs, etc...

According to statistics, the current size of the small robot army in the solar system has reached about 350 million, and about 1 billion humans are using these avatars in turn to enter the universe through virtual helmets to engage in various industrial and recreational activities.

Even if the energy consumption of each robot is not high, such a huge number, coupled with 24-hour non-stop operation, still needs to consume a huge amount of energy every day for charging.

The smelting center is an energy black hole. All industrial construction and infrastructure, including the daily rations of mechanical insects, are inseparable from metals. The largest building in each colonial base is the smelting center.

Countless minerals are collected and put into smelting centers for high-temperature smelting. The large amounts of steel and parts produced are sent to various production lines to manufacture robots and industrial equipment, which require a lot of energy.

The emerging space shipbuilding industry needs to consume massive amounts of metal. The importance of the shipbuilding industry to the interstellar age is definitely far greater than the age of navigation!

For the stability of the rear, Nie Yun has not released the construction license of the warship for the time being. The warship shipyard currently only has the exclusive shipbuilding base of the Earth Defense Force in the asteroid belt.

The ordinary warships produced here are basically delivered to the Earth Defense Force.

As for the super warships of Mechaworm material... well, that doesn't require a shipyard at all.

The current solar system can be said to be loose on the outside and tight on the inside. It seems to have no military power, but in fact, mechanical bugs are too capable of pretending to be pigs and eating tigers.

When needed, Nie Yun can let the mechanical worms behind him pull out a fully mechanized super fleet in just a few hours.

In this regard, the ever-changing liquid metal warships can be said to be born with the stealth skill of "sneak".

At present, most of the mechanical insects are secretly swallowing and multiplying in secret areas that are not open to the public. The number of mechanical insects is equal to Nie Yun's strength. As long as they don't stop eating food, Nie Yun's strength will steadily expand...

If he wasn't worried about the security of the wormhole defense line, Nie Yun wouldn't even want to garrison the Sea Wolf there just in case. After all, the resources near the wormhole were not rich.

However, the two warships stationed in the wormhole are not idle. There is a lot of metal mined in the fortress and the nearby celestial body. Except for the construction of war weapons, every once in a while, some steel will be transported to the two warships for them. devour.

If Gemini's radar is accurate enough, it will find that the two warships are slowly "fat"...

Compared with the cheating mechanical bug warships, the manufacture of ordinary warships is much more serious.

The shipbuilding base in the asteroid belt has been continuously expanded, and dumplings are being made at the rate of one ship per month, and the speed of shipbuilding is still increasing.

In addition to the first "Soyuz" that was launched, another warship has also been completed. At this moment, a batch of supplies is being transported to the wormhole to join the defense front.

The military shipbuilding industry Nie Yun temporarily does not allow countries and forces on the earth to interfere, but in order to stimulate market competition and promote the development of the industry, Nie Yun took the initiative to open the construction application of civilian shipyards,

Some powerful countries or forces, which do not want to have strong ships and cannons, and traverse the stars and seas?

Even if you can only build civilian ships, it is a kind of technology accumulation, not to mention that you can get certain technical support from the ghost captain. Naturally, no one wants to let go of such a good thing.

However, things like space shipyards are heavy assets and high-end, and they can't work without certain technological strength and economic strength. Therefore, only the four major forces of Europa, the United States, Maoxiong and Huahuajia have their own independent shipyards. , and after completion, it can only produce small spaceships below the 10,000-ton level.

Many consortium forces and Fortune 500 companies have also applied for the construction of more than a dozen small shipyards to produce thousands of tons of small spaceships through shareholding or joint fundraising.

The major forces of the earth do not have many unlimited coins on hand. In order to meet the market demand, Atlantis has also established a special banking institution to provide special low-interest loans to the outside world, which further accelerates the development of the shipbuilding industry.

As the development of the solar system continues to expand, the issue of resource complementarity between various colonial bases has also been put on the agenda. The hidden demand for transport spacecraft is huge and coveted, with massive orders and thousands to tens of thousands of tons per ship. With different tonnages, no amount of production capacity can fill the black hole of sharply increasing demand.

With the current production capacity, the orders of the governments of all countries are all placed until 2025, which is not even a non-governmental organization that cannot even get the orders.

And with it, the demand for materials skyrocketed.

According to the prediction of the code name, they need to expand the current number of smelting centers by at least 2 times to meet the market demand, and the supporting energy centers must also keep up, and the fuel demand will also increase!

In addition to these infrastructure projects, with the popularization of virtual technology, billions of human beings have poured into virtual communities, countless streams of consciousness need massive computing resources to process, virtual laboratories also need to consume a lot of computing resources, plus countless automation Production lines and equipment, the computing power occupancy rate of code names continues to rise to new highs.

The quantum computer center on the moon has continued to expand, and now occupies an area the size of five football fields.

Such a huge quantum computer center consumes a lot of energy all the time, thanks to the abundance of nuclear fuel resources on the moon.

Of course, the above-mentioned series of resource consumption were also within the expectations of Nie Yun and the code name. With the current energy collection efficiency, it is sufficient to meet all needs, and there is still a surplus of about 10% to 20%.

But life is always full of surprises, and Nie Yun still ignores the amazing spending power of certain groups...

Science and technology research and development has always required a lot of social resources, including energy. However, what Nie Yun did not expect was that the energy consumption of these scientists began to rise steadily, until they broke through the sky...

For a long time, Nie Yun, who insists on prospering the state with science and technology, has carried out policy inclination and financial subsidies for scientific research, so the cost of electricity consumption is basically zero.

I have to say that this move stimulated the enthusiasm for research and development of Yu Lao and the guys, and accelerated the technological development of Earth civilization.

But it turns out that scientists are the closest group to madmen, and mad scientists without restrictions are a group of old rogues!

Nie Yun's indulgence allowed Yu Lao and other scientists to use energy without any scruples. Just the "energy plasma research" organized by these guys last month accounted for the total energy consumption of the month. 3% of the amount!

That's almost a month's worth of electricity for a colony!

However, these guys are not at home and I don’t know Chai Migui. Some time ago, they actually applied for a series of similar super-large quantum collisions, super-high temperature plasma, super-long-range fortress-level laser guns, super-heavy gravitational collapse, etc. Beginning with "super" , a very high-level "super" experiment.

One today and two tomorrow. It seems that the future plan is still increasing in arithmetic progression. I am afraid that if it is not for lack of manpower, these guys will turn all the celestial bodies in the solar system into laboratories...

Then the big housekeeper codename found that the speed of his own energy increase was not keeping up with the speed of energy consumption...

Not long ago, Nie Yun, who was working hard on the front line, was stunned when he received the system prompt "Insufficient energy, please recharge as soon as possible" from the rear!

I have nuclear fusion! You actually told me that I owe money? !

Do I have to start using a strategic resource like energy crystals before the front line starts?