Technological Hegemony

Secret net.

As the reading progressed, Luo Jia gradually gained a preliminary understanding of the stars. Unlike the cosmic worlds imagined in most science fiction works, the basis for the existence of groups in the universe is not countries, but civilizations.

Civilization is a concept higher than a country. A country is a group of people, and civilization is more picky about people. It must be a group of people with common cultural beliefs, common values, and common historical heritage gathered together to be called civilization. .

"Just like the current Earth, it is not so much a dispute between China and the United States as it is a dispute between two different civilizations, the East and the West. People living among the stars may have long realized that the ideology of the country is too narrow and lacks cohesion. Therefore, the highest pursuit is to build civilization, and if one day, we also go to the stars, it should be in the form of earth civilization." Luo Jia thought quickly in his heart.

As for the history of the stars, it seems a bit confusing. The major civilizations were born in the first era, that is, the Germinal Era, and developed and grew stronger in the Brilliant Era. Because the mechanical civilization was too powerful, the War Era came. The defeat of the county will completely defeat the mechanical civilization.

It is said that after the fall of the former overlord, the major civilizations should usher in development and growth, but the fact is just the opposite. After the fall of the mechanical civilization, the major civilizations fell into endless wars and destruction, and the stars were dim. was wiped out, and other civilizations gradually declined, so the Fourth Era is called the era of civilization annihilation.

Now is the fifth era, which is also a new era in the mouth of historians. The major civilizations have gradually stabilized, new trade and routes have been opened up, and civilizations have re-expanded outwards after experiencing decline.

Shua~

Luo Jia, who was reading countless messages, suddenly heard a voice. He followed the voice, and it turned out that someone had entered the secret net, and it was Hei Jian who came.

Luo Jia didn't take the initiative to say hello to Hei Jian, and maintained his high-end image as a navigator, acting as if nothing had happened.

Seeing Luo Jia startled, Hei Jian immediately showed surprise on his face, walked a few steps forward, and greeted Luo Jia very respectfully.

"Mr. Luo Jia!"

Luo Jia turned her head, glanced at Heijian, and said calmly, "Oh, it turned out to be you."

"What a coincidence, I was planning to store your reward on the message wall, but I didn't expect to meet you." Hei Jian said.

Fusion technology has arrived!

Luo Jia thought excitedly,

"With a little guidance on the channel, the history of energy civilization and controllable fusion technology will be available. This kind of transaction is too happy. The transmission of the golden dome is very slow, and the knowledge that is transmitted is not controlled by me. Secret network transactions are more free , as long as I have enough resources, I can exchange a lot of things here."

Luo Jia was pleasantly surprised, but said calmly on the surface: "So, you have already passed the gravel belt of the Full Moon galaxy?"

"En!" Heijian nodded heavily and said, "It's passed, and the fleet is now parked outside the Forgotten Galaxy."

"The Forgotten Galaxy on the border of the two star counties of Stranglethorn Vale and Venal?" Luo Jia touched his chin and said to himself: "It's not very safe there, you'd better not stay longer, you must know the reason why the Forgotten Galaxy It got its name because there are many dangers in the galaxy, few ships dare to go deep, everyone walks around, and after a long time, it is gradually forgotten."

These are the original words on the star map, spoken by Luo Jia, who immediately stunned Hei Jian.

"As expected of a top professional! Mr. Luo Jia must be the most powerful navigator among the stars, he knows everything!" Hei Jian thought to himself.

Looking at Luo Jia's eyes full of awe, Hei Jian swallowed a mouthful of foam, frowned and said: "To tell you the truth, the mission I got was to go deep into the Forgotten Galaxy, find a space station that was destroyed in the Forgotten Galaxy, and then go to the Forgotten Galaxy. Bring back from the ruins something very important to us."

"Student Heijian, your situation is very dangerous. I'm afraid the person who asked you to enter the Forgotten Galaxy to find people has no good intentions." Luo Jia was slightly stunned, thinking to himself, "The danger level of the Forgotten Galaxy has reached three, and it is easy to enter. It's hard to come out."

With some mystery, Luo Jia said lightly: "I wish you good luck."

thump~

After saying this, Hei Jian felt his heart sink suddenly, and his face was cloudy and uncertain.

"If possible, I hope you can guide me, and I will pay for it!" Hei Jian said eagerly with a sincere expression.

"It's a very wise decision. Only when you are alive can I continuously obtain information and knowledge from the secret network, so student Hei Jian, you must not risk your life." Luo Jia seemed to be thinking a little bit.

No matter how strong the secret network is, there must be talented people who have value. If Luo Jia is left alone in the secret network, with no transactions and no information, it will be terrible, so Luo Jia actually hopes that the secret network will gradually prosper. Only in this way can you maximize your own interests.

"Yes." Luo Jia remained indifferent on the surface, and nodded slightly.

"You agreed!?" Hei Jian was overjoyed, "I don't know what kind of reward you want this time?"

Luo Jia thought for a while, "As far as I know, you are a fleet commander?"

"Yes, I graduated from the Command Academy, specializing in ship maneuvering, fleet command, space positioning, space navigation, danger avoidance, frequency analysis, etc." Hei Jian replied, and burst out a long list of obscure words by the way. professional name.

"You can exchange your professional knowledge." Luo Jia said solemnly.

Hei Jian was slightly taken aback, Luo Jia's current behavior was like running to the West Point Military Academy in North America to ask for his textbooks.

Under normal circumstances, people will definitely not give it. After all, if others find out the commander’s study materials and details, it will definitely not be a good thing for any civilization. The first thing Black Sword does when he enrolls is to swear an oath in public to protect the academy. knowledge and secrets.

"no problem."

But between living and keeping secrets, Hei Jian chose the former without hesitation. After all, for most people, living is more important. As for secrets, dead people have no secrets.

"Pay half first, and pay the other half when you get out of the Forgotten Galaxy alive." Luo Jia said.

"No, I can pay the full amount immediately. You are a great leader, and I absolutely respect and trust you." Hei Jian said very sincerely.

"Young man, you really have vision." Luo Jia thought to herself.

It happened that Hei Jian carried a full set of books of the Command Academy with him so that he could read them at any time during the voyage. He saved the new chronicle of energy civilization, controllable fusion data and blueprints, and the full set of textbooks of the Command Academy on the secret network at one time.

"This is the path marker for entering the Forgotten Galaxy. If you still want to enter the star area under the galaxy, you'd better discuss it first, and don't go there rashly." Luo Jia confessed to Hei Jian and told him some fixed markers.

Each galaxy contains many star regions. Luo Jia intends to let Black Sword go to the Forgotten Galaxy first, and then use drones and radar equipment to conduct reconnaissance. If any star region is suspicious, he will come to ask himself for details. After all, the Forgotten Galaxy is very big.

Hei Jian calculated in his mind the time it would take to enter the Forgotten Galaxy and the initial exploration, and then made an appointment with Luo Jia to meet at the secret net in forty-eight hours.

...

After completing the transaction, Luo Jia immediately returned from the secret net, closed his eyes and lay down on the sofa. Sure enough, several new folders appeared in his mind. .

"It can be regarded as a supplement to the Golden Dome's knowledge system. After all, the Golden Dome is also a partial student. It is a mess in mechanics, but it has no accumulation of life sciences, botany, and space science."

"Compared to the passive acceptance of the golden dome, the secret network transaction is more proactive, and can be exchanged for urgently needed information. Unfortunately, I haven't met Lan Yu these few times. It would be great if I have the opportunity to make a deal with him. Lan Yu comes from plants. Civilization, I don’t know if plant civilization has knowledge about metabolism control, the life science department of the Wen family brothers seems to be a bit difficult recently.”

After thinking wildly for a while, Luo Jia withdrew her thoughts and began to study furiously.

The information in the brain cannot be extracted directly, so Luo Jia is like a knowledge transfer station. If Shen Lang wants to learn fleet command, Luo Jia must first learn the fleet command in his mind, and then teach it to Shen Lang.

The same is true for other disciplines. You must first understand and master it before you can lead the tough guy team to carry out scientific research. This has been the case for seven years.

The world says that Luo Jia is an all-rounder, which is rare in the world.

But people in the world don't know that most of the time, Luo Jia is actually forced.

"It turns out it can still be like this!"

"As expected of an energy civilization, this set of designs should be prepared for high-power laser cannons, right?"

"The reason why civilization becomes civilization must have its advantages. The control technology of energy civilization is really amazing."

Luo Jia soon entered a state of selfless learning, and the energy civilization's controllable fusion plan made him feel enlightened.

...

ding dong~

At three o'clock in the morning, Dr. Xie Tian heard a crisp notification sound. He drank the coffee in his cup and picked up his mobile phone to watch. Only when important work emails arrived, the mobile phone would make a sound.

"It's Mr. Luo, he is really a night owl, after a while, it will be dawn."

Dr. Xie Tian muttered, when he opened the email, he saw Luo Jia's usual opening words.

"Dr. Xie, I have an idea and I want to discuss it with you."

Whenever Luo Jia wants to point out the way forward for his subordinates, he will always start like this, maybe it is an email, or maybe it is calling the person in charge to the office to make side comments. Anyway, Luo Jia always has a way to guide the research and development in the right direction.

"Stellar imitator!"

Seeing the content of the email, Xie Tian immediately exclaimed. As we all know, there are not many options for achieving controllable fusion. At present, the more realistic solutions are concentrated in the tokamak. The whole world, including Xingchen Technology, is focusing on this solution.

However, Luo Jia suddenly sent an email, proposing an unpopular stellarator plan.

So far, there are two difficulties in controllable fusion. One is the fusion reaction. Xingchen Technology plans to establish a base on the moon and send a robot mining team to mine helium III on the moon at a low cost, and then react with deuterium and helium III, etc. When the time is right, Star Technology will also launch deuterium-tritium reaction, deuterium-lithium reaction and so on.

In short, there is no problem with fusion technology. The real trouble is control. If the reaction between deuterium and helium III is to release beasts, humans still need a strong cage to lock the beasts and prevent them from causing harm.

Tokamak is a kind of plasma cage. If this technology wants to succeed, it must first get out high-temperature and high-current plasma.

The stellarator is like a twisted cannabis flower, composed of layers of irregular superconducting coils. Compared with the tokamak, it is directly a cage.

From a technical point of view, the tokamak has a circular current to generate a polar magnetic field. The stellarator does not need a circular current, and the superconducting coil itself generates a spiral magnetic field.

In order to maintain the current, the tokamak needs to use ohmic induction and various non-inductive methods to drive the circular current, including but not limited to neutral beam injection, low clutter, etc. The stellarator does not require circular current, so it is not limited .

Anyway, from the perspective of technology and indicators, the stellarator is far ahead of the tokamak, but it also has a fatal problem, because the magnetic field generated by the stellarator is not toroidally symmetrical, and the magnetic induction intensity oscillates periodically. Mark has one more spiral corrugation, and the actual operating performance is extremely poor. In recent years, the scientific research community has given up the stellarator plan and turned to the tokamak in an all-round way.

To what extent?

In the past 30 years, countless tokamak research devices have been built all over the world, but only one stellarator has been built. The 7W-X project was made by the Germans who are known for their brains. All other countries have stopped doing this stuff. .

"My God! Mr. Luo wants to solve the problem of spiral corrugation! Also solve the problem of non-circular asymmetry of the magnetic field!?"

"If these two problems are really solved, the stellarator will be successful. The tokamak research that the global scientific research community spends billions of dollars on tokamak research, one counts as one, will be abolished!"

Xie Tian jumped up from his chair excitedly. If it wasn't for the words "Top Secret" written on the email, he even wanted to open the window and announce it to the world.

The goal of Star Technology is not a tokamak, but a stellarator!

...

Energy Civilization, Western Theater.

After locking the door, Major General Rafaty opened the safe and took out a stack of documents. The front of the volume was impressively printed with the badge of Investigation Six and the words "Top Secret".

Sit down, turn on the desk lamp, Major General Rafaty read the files, and the dusty records for many years appeared in front of his eyes. Pictures, videos, words, and thrilling scenes appeared in his mind like a movie.

As we all know, in the massive war with the mechanical civilization, the energy civilization lost a mobile super space station, the Starlock, in the Forgotten Galaxy, which was one of the worst losses in their history.

The mobile space station, nicknamed the moving castle, although the energy civilization is not famous for its construction, their mobile space stations are far inferior to the mechanical civilization in terms of quantity and quality, but the star lock is equipped with the most powerful energy protection among the stars at that time. shield, with a total power of up to 170 billion standard units.

In order to maintain such an astonishing energy shield, the Starlock used a precious energy core, which was one of their only five energy cores, and its value was immeasurable.

Bai Chuan, Pai Pai, Han Shui, Hong Lian, Mo Xing, the one lost with the Star Lock, is exactly the Mo Xing among the five guardian cores. According to the legend, Mo Xing is completely black, but there is a silver star in the center that appears and disappears from time to time. .

After the war, the headquarters sent people to the Forgotten Galaxy several times in an attempt to retrieve the Black Star, but due to the complex environment of the Forgotten Galaxy and its dangers, it ended in failure. No.

The files in the hands of General Rafaty are the information of the fleet sent to the forgotten galaxy, and the sighting reports they sent back before they disappeared. The report mentioned many times that there seemed to be black shadows hovering around the fleet, but due to interference Seriously, the electronics don't work, so it's not clear if it's being tracked

Those experienced captains mentioned in the voyage logs that from the moment they entered the Forgotten Galaxy, they felt creepy, as if they were always being watched by invisible eyes.

Lafayette closed the files, and found that the captain has far superior physical fitness, well-developed nervous and sensory systems, and has a strong anticipation of danger. Their weird feeling about the Forgotten Galaxy is probably true.

After finding the photo of Mo Xing, Lafaty sent it to Heijian through the military channel, but he did not tell him that the dark stone was one of the five guardian cores of energy civilization. With Heijian's identity and experience, he could not know about it. No one in the entire exploration fleet knows the secret.

Soon, the system showed that Black Sword had confirmed the search mission, and Lafaty turned and left without saying a word, his face still stern.