The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2056. Wathian Core Industrial Zone (Center)

In fact, the launch of the Dyson ring is not today, today is just the completion of the complete closed loop of the Dyson ring.

The construction of the Varthian Dyson Ring is divided into eight phases, with each phase containing more than 7,000 subdivisions for construction. After each stage is completed, the energy extraction device will be started immediately to bring more energy to the Vathian planet to maintain more industrial facilities.

These eight stages of energy extraction devices correspond to the eight super laser emitters on the Dyson ring.

When the energy in the first stage began to be extracted, this extremely huge energy began to be used elsewhere - the planet Vex.

The Vickers planet is an uninhabited planet and is not suitable for living creatures. The reason is simple. The astronomical environment around this galaxy is very harsh.

In the Vickers galaxy, there is only one solitary planet like the Vickers planet. The other planets were either deprived of by the surrounding celestial bodies, or became countless fragments in mutual collisions, and eventually evolved into the asteroid belt at the edge of the galaxy. And even this asteroid belt will not last long. It is expected that it will be sucked away by the surrounding stars within tens of thousands of years.

The surrounding celestial bodies?

The Vickers galaxy lies on the edge of a nebula called Mensua Nebula. This nebula can be said to be one of the most terrifying places in the Model Sector. At the core of the nebula is a large star cluster composed of countless blue giant stars and black holes, which generates extremely powerful cosmic radiation. Ordinary spacecraft will be destroyed by the radiation just by approaching here.

There are almost no formed planetary systems in the nebula, or there are not many planets at all. Most of them have been torn apart and absorbed by those super-massive blue giant stars and black holes.

In addition to the extremely massive star cluster in the center of the nebula, there are a large number of white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, neutron stars, micro black holes, and even a large number of variable stars scattered around the nebula. There are traps almost everywhere around these stars. If you don't pay attention, you will end up being shattered to pieces.

The Monsua Nebula was once a secret hideout for many interstellar pirates, but they only dared to build their space stations around the nebula. However, with the rise of the Dawn Principality and the continuous development of the Model Sector, these interstellar pirates have basically been eliminated.

Now, the Monsua Nebula has become a base for supplying a large amount of raw materials for the production of Dyson rings to the planet Vathian. Next to the planet Vickers, the United Mining Group has already built countless huge mining and smelting centers here.

The Principality of Dawn first spent a huge amount of money to build the first phase of the Dyson ring using the materials it mined on a daily basis. The first-stage Dyson ring is then used to provide energy for this experimental ‘matter decompressor’ to mine white dwarf star matter.

For the material decompressor, the United Mining Group applied to Grand Duke Tang Xiao of the Dawn and obtained the technology only after receiving his personal approval. It also spent a huge amount of materials, manpower and financial resources to develop and complete it. The technology of the material decompressor is already an extremely advanced technology in the vast database of the mothership!

This device sounds very simple. It is specially used to mine minerals in ultra-high pressure environments.

But this alone is scary enough, because the complete version of the matter decompressor can directly mine black hole matter!

However, at this stage, the material decompressor used by the United Mining Group is still a rudimentary version and can only decompress matter on stars with relatively less formidable gravity, such as white dwarfs.

White dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes are all stars formed by the collapse of matter after stars age. What they have in common is that they all have very strong gravity, extremely high density, and extremely high mass.

Even the white dwarf with the lowest density and mass among them has a gravity equivalent to more than 180,000 times the standard gravity of Coruscant!

Under such ultra-high gravity and ultra-high pressure, even atoms of matter cannot exist and are crushed into free electrons. The substances that exist in such an extreme environment cannot be obtained under normal external conditions.

The basic structure of a material decompressor is composed of a low-pressure part and a high-pressure part, and also includes high- and low-pressure pipelines, high-pressure pumping devices, etc. that connect the two parts. When mining material on a white dwarf, the material decompressor will first bring the high-pressure chamber close to the surface of the white dwarf, then subject a small portion of the carried medium to artificial ultra-high pressure treatment, and then send it into the high-pressure chamber through a high-pressure pumping device in the high-pressure environment. White dwarf surface.

Afterwards, the material decompressor will perform isobaric and isothermal treatment of the high-pressure medium so that the high-pressure medium and the white dwarf surface are at the same temperature and pressure. After that, the high-pressure pumping device stops working and the low-pressure valve opens. At this time, the high-pressure medium will gradually decompress. At this time, the material in the high-pressure part will continue to rush toward the low-pressure part, forming a decompression wave.

At this time, a huge amount of material will continuously pour into the low-pressure chamber from the high-pressure chamber, causing a detonation effect. This process will generate huge amounts of energy and matter.

To give an inappropriate example, if you mine a gold coin from the white dwarf star, what will eventually be ejected from the low-pressure chamber is 200,000 gold coins!

This also leads to the need for the high-pressure cavity and the low-pressure cavity to be able to withstand such huge material expansion and energy explosion. Ordinary materials cannot do this, and can only be restrained by magnetic fields. In this process, a huge amount of energy is required to compress the material to the extreme and then send it to the surface of the white dwarf star.

And what comes at a huge price is huge efficiency. This efficiency can no longer be called mining, this is clearly ore spraying! ! At this time, what restricts the mining efficiency of the material decompressor is actually the lack of the United Mining Group’s own mineral transport ships! !

Not only that, there are many rare materials mined from white dwarf stars. For example, the materials used to build the other seven stages of the Dyson ring were mined from the white dwarf by the material decompressor.

The surface temperature of a white dwarf can even reach tens of thousands of degrees Celsius, which is several times the surface temperature of an ordinary star. The materials used to make the Dyson ring are naturally the best.

And originally, facing the massive amounts of white dwarf material mined, it would take a long time to analyze, research, and test before we can get the best alloy ratio. However, fortunately, in the Dyson Ring database, There is such a ready-made ratio!

Therefore, such a virtuous cycle is formed between the Dyson Ring on the Vathian Planet and the United Mining Group with the Vickers Planet as its core. The Dyson ring provides a huge amount of energy for the material decompressor, and the huge amount of resources produced by the material decompressor provides a strong guarantee for the further construction of the Dyson ring.

And now, the United Mining Group, which has almost unlimited resources, has asked their huge research team to start the next topic - the decompression of neutron stars!

Compared with the Vazian Dyson Ring, the DS-1 battle space station currently being built by the Galactic Empire is simply an ant under the elephant's feet. The 200-kilometer-diameter spherical combat space station and the 9.17 million-kilometer-long, 19,000-kilometer-wide Dyson ring are not things of the same dimension at all.

However, except for the 8 energy extraction devices, the other parts of the Dyson ring are actually repeated stacking of materials. Compared with the DS-1, it seems like building a brick wall or photolithography chip.

Interestingly, based on Tang Xiao's description, the Supreme Command of the Dawn Principality made a model of the energy required to blast the Alderaan planet with a cannon, and then used it to calculate the relationship between the DS-1 battle space station and the Vathian Dyson ring. Boom result.

The protective performance of DS-1 cannot be calculated, but it can be calculated that it takes an average of 67 shots for DS-1 to completely disable the function of the Vazian Dyson ring. And instead of directly destroying it, it triggers the explosion of the Dyson ring energy extraction device, thus spreading to the entire structure.

Before that, DS-1 had been destroyed by the Dyson Ring's super laser weapon.

It's a pity that the Dyson ring cannot be moved.

This is why the Principality of Dawn dares to hold a grand celebration to celebrate the closure of the Dyson Ring - the Vathian Planet is now even safer than the Dawn Planet!