Voyage of the Stars

The name of this white giant star is a long series of numbers in the star map given by the Nair people. After humans arrived, they did not change the name. They just called it the White Giant in verbal terms, and the only planet in it was called the Great White Star.

Here, let humans constantly have new plans, new tasks, and new goals. In this way, while humans are destroying the Great White Star, they are also absorbing various resources from the Great White Star for construction and development.

In this way, time quickly came to the twentieth year since humans arrived here. During this period, mankind completed the construction and put into use five space elevators. After that, fifty space docks were fully put into use. In the past ten years, one hundred new space elevators equipped with large electromagnetic rail guns were built. A Lake-class battleship.

Of course, the Tianqin also completed the main gun replacement during this period of time.

If we had followed the previous plan of the Nair people in the First Star Region, at this time, the Nair fleets from the Second Star Area and the First Star Area would have arrived at the white giant star where humans are located, but now there is no trace at all. .

Human detectors distributed around the white giant star did not detect any fleet slowing down.

Of course, humans actually don't know that the Nair people have such a plan, and sending out detectors to warn them is just a routine operation.

And precisely because of ignorance, the overall behavior of the Nair people at that time also gave humans the impression that they were relatively friendly, so humans did not take these factors into account too much in their construction plans here, and everything went according to plan.

In this stage of the plan, humans plan to stay here for about a hundred years. The purpose is very clear. The first is the internal development of civilization, mainly to promote scientific research, technology, and cultivate talents. Needless to say, this goes without saying. The second is improvements and new additions in creation.

That is the previous shipbuilding plan, the Hundred Years Thousand Ships Plan. After a thousand battleships are completed, humans will leave here and start space navigation again.

As for the purpose of the voyage, at this stage, it is naturally to find a star system rich in rocky planets, then stop and develop, strive to master true nanotechnology, and upgrade the technological level to a third-level civilization, which is the pinnacle of aerospace-level civilization. .

Having said that, it does not mean that humans will not conduct research in the field of nanotechnology here in White Giant. On the contrary, as long as experimental conditions exist, human research and various experiments in the field of true nanotechnology have never stopped.

After all, everyone knows that science and technology are the only means for human beings to survive in the universe.

Ever since, human beings have been developing and creating in this way.

A hundred years have passed by in a hurry, and mankind has successfully completed the shipbuilding plan, but there is still not much progress in true nanotechnology.

However, it is not without gains. A hundred years of research have also allowed human scientists to understand what the technological barriers of the third-level civilization are.

Scientists believe that as long as humans continue to improve their manufacturing processes and improve manufacturing precision, one day they will be able to break through that boundary and truly have the ability to manufacture various nano-products.

Among other things, the previous nano-repair robots have been miniaturized due to continuous improvements by humans in recent years, and the repair function has also been initially realized. Although the repair effect cannot be compared with the original armor, but But the battleship shell can be stitched back from the hole state.

Human nano-repair robots can now be built as big as glass marbles, and have also realized the repair function of some specific objects, such as battleship shells, internal pipes, lined partitions and other large objects, while for mechanical structures, However, the repair function of precision objects such as circuit lines and various types of equipment cannot yet be realized.

These nanorobots are not omnipotent, but each type of nanorobot corresponds to a certain repair object.

Just like the spherical nanorobots currently piled up in a certain nanorobot warehouse of the Tianqin, they have only one function, and that is to repair the outer armor of the Tianqin.

The method used is high-temperature jet welding. The process is that when a large hole appears in the outer armor of Tianqin, these glass marble-sized nanorobots will follow the program and stretch out its eight legs with magnetic adsorption functions from the warehouse, and then Along the way, like a swarm of ants, they crawled toward the damaged area, holding hands and feet, and then melted themselves.

After completing self-melting, the metal jet inside it instantly melts its hands and feet, and hot metal flows are ejected from the inside out to melt and bond each other. Afterwards, just like large-scale welding, the gaps are filled up.

Because this thing has eight legs and a flat body, it looks somewhat similar to a spider whether crawling or outside, so people named it nano spider.

It is a full-time nano-repair robot.

Because its constituent material is neither No. 1 alloy nor No. 2 alloy, if the Tianqin is really damaged during the battle and is repaired by them, it will only be a temporary repair, that is, it will not cause the battleship to directly lose its combat effectiveness or It just sank directly.

But even so, it has greatly improved the survivability of human warships.

Scientists also want to further reduce the size of nano-spiders and adapt them to more functions, but they have encountered precision problems that cannot be solved by current human technology.

This is understandable. After all, the so-called breakthrough of technical barriers does not mean a breakthrough from scratch, but a process of slowly accumulating technology and improving one's various mechanical precision, manufacturing precision, and process precision step by step.

If I had to describe it, it would be that mankind has now dug a small hole in the technological barrier of level three civilization. As the saying goes, a thousand-mile embankment is destroyed by an anthill. Scientists believe that as long as they continue to polish this anthill, they can eventually break down the technical barriers step by step.

Because of this small breakthrough, humans who originally planned to leave after completing the construction of the battleship stayed for a few more years. The purpose was obvious. It must be to mass-produce these nano-spiders and then store them in various battleship warehouses.

However, it was also at this time that a human detector located outside the white giant galaxy discovered a bright light.

The picture returned by the detector was quickly recognized. That bright light was definitely the tail flame of the fleet.

The universe is so vast. Even if humans place many detectors outside the star system, they cannot cover everything. Moreover, for some unknown reason, this fleet started to slow down when it got very close to the Hengxin system. Therefore, when the human detectors discovered its tail flame When the light shines, the fleet has entered the gravitational capture range of the white giant star.

It was only fifty astronomical units away from the only planet where the human fleet was located.