The world-devouring dragon

Sumer star system.

Three years ago, this star system that was considered "barren", "dangerous", and "worthless" is now filled with countless spaceships, and a large number of suspended spaceports are being rapidly constructed. Many huge such as Huge spaceships in the mountains are constantly coming and going.

And all of this is just because of a meeting three years ago and a decision made by the most influential group in the world...

"Ring World? Are these scholars crazy?"

In a spaceship, a certain worker stared at the vast void in front of him and clicked his tongue.

At this moment, this huge star system with a radius of more than 200 billion kilometers has become a huge construction site.

In front of him, in the dark and silent void, those unmanned machines measured by the trillions were methodically cleaning up everything in this star system. Asteroids, comets and space junk scattered in every corner of the star system and considered to be an obstacle to space construction are being filled into material decomposition furnaces to be recycled into useful materials.

According to the blueprint of the scientific conference, with the blue giant Sumol with a radius of 40 million kilometers as the center, no matter with a size exceeding 100 nanometers is allowed to exist within a radius of 200 billion kilometers, which means that near the blue giant, Nothing natural larger than an atom is allowed to exist.

Only in this way can the construction process of this highly sophisticated giant building be absolutely guaranteed to be uninterrupted.

This stringent requirement means that even the most basic prominence ejections of this blue giant must be under human control, so scientific conferences are already calling for the construction of a huge gravitational constraint device capable of restraining the blue giant.

This huge constraint device alone with a radius of more than 50 million kilometers will consume a conservative estimate of more than 10,000 Earth masses.

Such a huge demand for resources is no longer what this star system can bear. Therefore, with the signing of the scientific conference, the gaseous planets and solid planets in several nearby star systems will be dismantled and used to build this huge device. required.

Destroying heaven and earth, such an adjective is too small for a project of this level.

Such a project is unaffordable for any human country, but the scientific conference obviously does not think so.

This huge gravitational restraint device is not only used to restrain the blue giant, it will also make full use of all the energy released by the blue giant and become a supporting facility for the ring world.

Yes, in the ancient earth era, the Dyson sphere imagined by scientists at that time was just an accessory of this huge project.

"We're going to put the reins on the star."

Inschnay said at the scientific meeting.

The gravitational restraint device is the reins. It will control this huge star, restrain its every violent reaction, trap it, suppress it, and finally let this violent beast with a diameter of more than 40 million kilometers stand in front of humans. Bow.

The sun that once stood high in the sky, overlooking all things, will now be held tightly in the hands of mankind.

After that, the construction of the Ring World will actually begin.

Relying on the huge energy supply transmitted from the reins of Sumer, numerous unmanned spacecraft and unmanned machines will dismantle the planets and materials in dozens of nearby star systems, and then gradually surround the ring world, An unprecedentedly large project was built.

According to Inschnener's calculations, in order to build this "ring world", the celestial systems of 75 star systems within a radius of 300 light years will be affected to varying degrees; the planets in 21 star systems will be completely demolished; 4 Stars will be forcibly extinguished and dismantled to utilize their massive matter, and these four star systems will also be eliminated from the universe.

Based on this requirement, it is said that more than 1 trillion unmanned robots are faithfully fulfilling this goal.

The icy rock asteroids, rocky asteroids, and comets in the Sumer galaxy have been gradually cleaned up. Now, they will also clear out substandard objects within 1.5 light-years nearby. And the dismantling tool specially prepared for those huge planets-the planet-level material decomposer is also under construction.

In the future, these material decomposers, which are more than 100 kilometers in size and tens of thousands of times larger than Mount Everest, will decompose gaseous and solid planets into the required materials one by one.

Right now, a completed planet-level material decomposer is under construction.

In the sight of the workers, it can clearly be seen that in the space, above a rocky planet orbiting the Sumer blue giant, a shuttle-shaped planetary material decomposer is suspended, using its own slender Point the tip at the planet.

From the slender end, huge light beams like lasers continued to be ejected. The huge light beams bombarded the planet, causing chaos in the planet's already fragile atmosphere.

But the workers knew that it was not a laser, but countless nanoscale autonomous machines.

These autonomous machines, which are only larger than atoms, are constantly pouring out under the command of the planet's material decomposer. After contacting the material, they peel off the atoms and then send them back to the decomposer. Such efficiency is obviously slow, but the number of these autonomous machines is too many.

How many such self-disciplined machines, no bigger than atoms, are there in the seemingly tens-kilometer-thick beam of light? The workers didn't know, and they didn't bother to know. After all, just reading out the number was very laborious.

In front of this material decomposer specially prepared for the planet, a mountain is just a matter of breath. But even with such a material decomposer, it would take a long time to decompose such a huge planet.

"How long do you think we'll be here?"

The worker stared at the huge device that was slowly decomposing the planet and asked his friend without looking back.

Behind him, his friend shook his head.

No one knows, except the scholars at those scientific conferences, no one knows how long they will stay here to build this ring world.

century?

millennium?

Ten thousand years?

they do not know.

"I think we should settle down here."

The friend is looking somewhere.

There, unmanned machines are busy building space habitats. These space habitats are equivalent to the size of small planets and can theoretically house tens of billions of people. They are living spaces built by the human country to increase the population.

But here, more than 100,000 such space habitats will be built for temporary shelter of workers.

These places will become the places where workers and AI will live in the future. From now on, they and even their descendants will spend their life, old age, illness and death in this galaxy.

"Although it's crazy... but it feels very interesting. My friend, do you think we are going to create the world?"

Faced with the worker's question, the friend shook his head.

"No, we are already creating the world."

…

A long history and an unprecedented giant project.

With the organization led by the Supreme Science Conference and the help of many human countries, this unprecedentedly huge project is being perfected bit by bit. Stars were dismantled one by one, stars were extinguished...

A thousand years later, Inschnaina passed away.

After many genetic modifications, its lifespan is very long, but it is not unlimited after all. He did not accept the suggestion of sleeping in a cryo chamber, he wanted to create this world with his own hands. Therefore, in the 700th year, this arrogant and conceited scholar passed away peacefully.

Two thousand years...

Three thousand years...

In the third millennium, the Stellar Control Device was completed.

When the star control device was officially launched, the scientific conference celebrated ten eternal days. One-third of the ring world project was completed, and the remaining two-thirds were waiting for the scientific conference to be completed.

Four thousand years...

Five thousand……

In the fifth millennium, this magnificent project was interrupted.

A war broke out, an unprecedented war led by psykers. Scientific conferences have gone through nearly ten thousand years and have seen countless wars, but none of them can compare to it. Even the transcendent scientific conferences had to be dragged into it.

Six thousand years...

The war is not over.

Seven thousand years...

The war is not over.

Eight thousand years...

The scientific conference that had existed for ten thousand years was dissolved, and this huge and intermittent project was completely interrupted.

Nine thousand years...

The war is not over.

a thousand years……

The war is not over.

…

Sumor galaxy.

The largest unfinished project in the history of the human world, once the glory of mankind, now a joke and a mockery. Whenever people talk about impossible tasks, they always say: "Just wait until Sumer is built."

In the vast void, the star Sumer, which exudes red-orange light, is silent in the void. Only those magnificent frames silently prove its past glory.

But now, a moment has arrived that changes Sumer's fate.

"Emperor, this is Sumer."

In a majestic spaceship, a man in military uniform stood with his hands behind his hands, staring at the huge star in the distant void and the grand devices surrounding it, while the ministers of the empire stood beside him.

As if driven by some kind of desire, the emperor who had quelled six thousand years of war and the most powerful psyker in history was unexpectedly interested in Sumer.

"It is said that four thousand years ago, due to the outbreak of war, the project came to a long stagnation. In order to extend the short life of the blue giant, the Supreme Science Conference changed the reaction mode of Sumor through the star control device and controlled its reaction to a low efficiency. Next. Therefore, the current Sumer is not a blue giant star, but a huge strange red dwarf star."

"Can it be restored again?"

The man in military uniform said calmly.

The minister thought for a while and said.

"Yes. But during the Six Thousand Years War, the scientific conference has long since been disbanded, and many technologies have been lost. Although we can activate Sumor again through the star control device, once activated, we don't know how to return it to the red dwarf star. pattern.”

As he said that, the minister shook his head helplessly.

As Inschnaine said more than 10,000 years ago, human scientific progress has stalled. Even though more than 10,000 years have passed, humankind's technology is not much different from that time, and has even regressed.

There is so much repetitive research and waste that technological progress relies almost exclusively on luck. It is often a lucky scholar who is inspired by a predecessor in a star region thousands of light years away, and a certain technology can be advanced, but it is difficult for this technological progress to spread throughout the galaxy.

After listening to the minister's words, the emperor said softly.

"Activate it."

"But...but..."

"Didn't you hear me clearly?"

The Emperor turned around, a strange light blooming in his pupils. The energy that was constantly rising and dying in his eyes was the embodiment of the Emperor's status as the most powerful psyker in the universe.

With just a look, the Emperor could tear apart a spaceship; in some legends, the Emperor even relied on his psychic powers to destroy a planet and disintegrate it into powder. Of course, this is just a legend, and the emperor never admitted it.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty will do as you please immediately."

The minister said with sincerity and fear.

Not long after, the originally dim star control device began to regain its brightness. After thousands of years, the star control device was operating again.

Under the influence of ancient technology that even imperial scholars cannot understand, the star control device is undergoing some wonderful changes. Any psyker present can clearly feel the gathering of huge energy in the void, and as the strongest The emperor naturally understands the psychics better.

Thousands of light beams spurted out from the nodes of the star control device, pointing directly at the star wrapped by the star control device.

The star that was originally running quietly and steadily began to become restless, and its energy response continued to increase. Its color gradually became brighter from a slightly dull red, and finally transformed into a dazzling blue.

The bright blue light shone inside the spacecraft. Looking at the violent star spitting out blazing prominences, the expressions of many ministers changed.

It was like a quiet kitten suddenly tore off its coat and transformed into a violent beast. This 40 million-kilometer-long furious beast was restless. The star control device seemed unable to trap the beast at all. The violent The reaction is even affecting spacecraft hundreds of millions of kilometers away.

"Your Majesty, the star control device is out of control! Please leave, it is too dangerous here."

A minister said anxiously.

The emperor was unmoved, but continued to stare at the stars in front of him.

The furious beast was struggling, but the star control device remained unmoved and continued to steadily devour the prominences ejected by the star, transforming them into some kind of wonderful transformation. It's like a fine steel chain trapping a giant beast. No matter how hard the giant beast struggles, the seemingly slender fine steel chain never moves.

After a long time, the giant beast gradually became quiet, and was firmly locked by the star control device bound to itself.

Watching the scene in front of him silently, the emperor spoke again.

"Restart the Ringworld Project."

…

One day seven hundred years ago, on a certain planet.

"Child, do you know that our ancestors are not actually natives of this planet. Our ancestors used to be in the sky."

"Heaven?"

The ignorant child raised his head and asked curiously.

He was wearing linen clothes, which were already very exquisite clothes on this human planet that was still stuck in the cold weapon age.

During that long interstellar war, many planets were forced to return to the primitive and barbaric era. The children's ancestors took a spaceship to escape the war, but in the end they accidentally fell on this planet and could never leave again.

"Yes, we live on the stars."

The old man said softly.

"Star? Which star?"

"Sumor...where our ancestors created the world."

The old man looked at the stars in the sky and murmured inexplicably.

The young child did not understand what he said, but nodded and repeated in a vague understanding.

"Su...Moir?"

Reciting this somewhat convoluted word, the child, who has been smart since childhood, inexplicably remembered this word that he didn't understand very well.