Chapter 557: Prepare to Grab Things
Now that the Pilgrim leader has expressed his intention to join us and help us develop technology, the next part is easy to handle. After a brief communication to confirm the treatment they hoped to receive and their needs, the matter was temporarily settled, but we still need to do something before taking the pilgrims away.
The location where the pilgrims are now is the alien ruins beneath Mei Lin's family estate. According to general rules, ruins discovered by various countries should be under the control of their own governments. For example, although Longyuan is in charge of the development of my country's Fourth Special Zone, in fact the Fourth Special Zone does not belong to Longyuan, but to the state. We just contracted the development project. The ownership rights of the Fourth Special Zone still belong to the state, and the state can take back this development right at any time if it wants.
However, although roughly speaking, this is the case, reality is not a textbook, and many things will not develop as imagined. Although according to general rules this monument should belong to the U.S. government, in fact it has been under the control of the Rothschild family for hundreds of years, and in the process the Rothschild family has grown from these monuments. Certain technical achievements have been achieved.
Because the U.S. government did not know that the Rothschild family owned such relics before, this matter did not break out. But now, the Rothschild family has taken the initiative to expose the base to everyone's sight. If the Rothschild family continues Having this base will make the US government look bad. Although politicians are usually shameless, this kind of thing can be done but not said. You can be shameless, but you can't directly shout: "I'm shameless, so what do you do?"
Therefore, since everyone now knows about this base, it must be at least nominally owned by the US government. This way nothing unpleasant will happen.
Of course, these are internal issues of the U.S. government and the Rothschild family and have little to do with me. However, now that I have to move the pilgrims away, this matter is not that simple.
To move a group of aliens like this, I at least need to figure out who is in charge of them now. certainly. What I mean by who controls them is that they are currently under the control of a certain force, not that who can command the pilgrims. After all, from a civilization level, the pilgrims can completely crush humans. Not to mention the humans on earth, even the creators are dwarfed in every sense in front of the pilgrims.
In fact, in addition to the problem of transferring the pilgrims, I also have a problem that I need to talk to Meilin. That's the base he was talking about before.
I have to say that the Rothschild family is really lying on the golden mountain begging for food! Of course, it doesn't mean that their family is poor. On the contrary, if the Rothschild family were poor, no one in the world would dare to say that they were rich. When I say begging for food on a golden mountain, I mean they have a complete set of creator colony bases. As a result, I had no idea how to use this thing, and ended up wasting such a good thing.
If that main base had not always been under the control of the Rothschild family, but was discovered by me a few years ago, then with my Dragon Clan authority. You can control this base to expand and start automatic expansion.
This main base of the creators is actually an industrial platform, which includes a complete set of automated industrial equipment and mining, smelting, casting, and finishing facilities. Just let this thing unfold on the surface of some planet. It can automatically search for the distribution of various elements on the planet, then formulate a reasonable development plan and use prefabricated mining robots to start mining resources and continue to copy and produce more collection robots. Then the base will proceed step by step. Develop the entire industrial production line and eventually replicate most of the industrial production capabilities of the creator civilization.
In other words, if this base is fully expanded. Eventually it will be possible to produce anything the creators can build. As long as the creators can produce anything, this base can eventually be completed. Of course, I mean what the creators have mastered the technology to produce when the base is built.
I had read the logs and downloaded the base's control file when I entered that base before. According to the control documents, if this base relies on its own strength to expand on a deserted planet, and if there are no native creatures to interfere with the development process, then it will actually only take five months for the base to reach 100% expansion. This means that this base will be able to produce anything in five months.
In addition, if the base does not develop itself, but there is external help, for example, you prepare a large number of metal ingots that have been initially smelted and various classified resources, and then let the base directly use these things for production and Manufacturing, then this progress will undoubtedly be greatly accelerated. Moreover, in fact, the base's development progress is actually the slowest in the initial stage. Once the first batch of mineral mining is completed, the base will begin mass production of engineering robots, and the subsequent production speed will surge at a rate of doubling every day. , Therefore, if a large amount of resources are prepared in advance to allow the base to skip the initial collection stage and directly start mass production of engineering robots, then the base's deployment progress will be very fast.
According to my estimation, if this base is under the control of Long Yuan, even if we do not report to the country for resource allocation, we should be able to complete the deployment of this base within three months by relying on our own strength. If our government also participates in using national strategic reserve resources to accelerate production, I think all the development work can be completed in two months, and then we can mass-produce various creators' technological products.
Of course, we cannot copy the common devices of our creators, because they have no use for us at all. If we get this thing, the first step is to fully expand it and restore its industrial production capacity, and then the next step is to concentrate on crazy production of thrusters.
The thrusters used on the creators' spaceships are a kind of propulsion mechanism that we still don't understand what the principle is. This thing is huge in size, but its thrust is also quite scary. If we can produce this kind of thruster ourselves, then we really don’t need to carry any rocket thrusters, because not only does this thruster surpass our chemical rockets by several galaxies in terms of thrust, but more importantly, this thing is The way of obtaining energy is really outrageous.
Although this kind of propeller is very large, it is not just a propeller. The main reason why it is large is that this thruster also comes with a mass-to-energy converter. This mass-to-energy converter and the thruster itself are connected together and are a complete module.
The biggest feature of this mass-to-energy converter is that it can convert all matter with mass into energy, and then drive the propeller to generate thrust.
To put it simply, even if you throw a stone into this converter, the thruster will gain huge energy. Although it is unlikely that we will have the opportunity to mine on a certain planet during the immigration process. But if we use this kind of thruster, we can capture the meteorites found along the way and stuff them directly into the mass-to-energy converter matching the thruster, and then we can get huge energy.
In fact, if this kind of thruster can be mass-produced, we can even conduct mining operations during the immigration process. For example, we can build a mining ship specifically. There are no passengers on this ship, only a set of crushers and a huge digging shovel, a huge cargo hold and a small control room. As for the rest. Ten or eight Creator Thrusters can be installed. In this way, the mining ship will have a thrust-to-weight ratio that is dozens or even hundreds of times that of the immigrant ship. Naturally, its acceleration and deceleration capabilities are beyond the reach of the immigrant ship.
With this kind of mining ship, we can accelerate the mining ship at full speed, fly in front of the fleet, and then find any planet or large meteorite. Then land directly on it, use a crusher to break the entire surface of the planet or meteorite, and then use a bucket to stuff the broken stones into the cargo bin. By the time the cargo hold is full, the immigrant fleet should have overtaken the position of the mining ship. But even if it exceeds it, it won't be too much. Because we are not collecting specific minerals, but randomly throwing things into the cabin. Anyway, with that mass-to-energy converter, no matter what you dig up, even the most ordinary rocks can still be used as fuel. So the mining speed must be very fast, because you can dig directly on the surface. No need to drill holes down. Moreover, mining ships are inherently much faster than settler ships.
When the immigration fleet flies over, the mining ship can quickly catch up with it at full power, and then directly hand over the collected stones and other things to the fleet transportation boat used by the fleet to distribute fuel. These stones are given to each immigrant ship as fuel, and after the mining ship unloads the stones, it can continue to accelerate, surpass the fleet and go to the front to continue mining.
According to this model, theoretically we can collect all the way and fly forward. In this case, the fuel will be unlimited. And unlimited fuel is really important to interstellar immigrants. Without considering fuel, we can always avoid danger whenever we find it on the road, because fuel is no longer a condition that limits us, and we don’t have to be afraid to use fuel out of fear that we won’t be able to slow down when we get there. If we relax the fuel restrictions in this way, not only will the speed of our immigration ships be greatly increased, but more importantly, the safety will be improved.
in addition. The target planet is still unknown to us. Although the data collected by our remote sensing satellites can infer that it is a planet suitable for human habitation, none of us have ever been there, and no one knows what it will really be like there. Guaranteed.
Previously, due to fuel restrictions, we only had one chance to gamble. If we find that there is no place to live in after we get there, then humans will have no choice but to wait to die. However, if there are thrusters from the creators, the situation is different.
If there is enough fuel, there is no need for us to fly to the destination in one go using inertial flight. If necessary, we can even find a mineral-rich planet halfway through and let the fleet enter orbit first to circle the planet, and then send mining ships and transport ships with industrial equipment to build a temporary industry on the planet. Facilities are then mined and smelted on site to produce a large number of brand new spacecraft parts, which are then transported to space to overhaul all spacecraft in our fleet. We can even build a few new ships directly here, and then transfer the human dormant capsule to the new ship when everything is ready, and then get back on the road.
Anyway, the material circulation system can ensure the unlimited reproduction of human beings in the dormant cabin, as long as there is no problem with the energy of the spacecraft.
If we can really stop and take a rest halfway, then the safety of our immigration plan will undoubtedly make a qualitative leap. This was not possible before mainly because our thruster technology was not good enough. The main power on the spacecraft was the rocket boosters. These boosters consumed 80% of the fuel when the spacecraft was launched into the sky. The remaining part not only To deal with all kinds of troubles during the journey, it also has to cooperate with the super electromagnetic engine to help slow down the spacecraft when it finally reaches the destination. It can be said that according to the original plan, our fuel can only be said to be barely enough. This is the result of the fact that we have already reduced the population halfway, dismantled part of the spacecraft, and then concentrated the fuel for use.
If the number of spaceships is not reduced and the fuel is concentrated halfway, the fleet will not be able to slow down at all based on the existing fuel and will definitely overshoot.
Therefore, this kind of thruster is of great significance to us.
Of course, this base of the creators can not only produce thrusters, it can actually be used to produce various combat units.
The leader of the pilgrims has told me about the Zerg problem before. Of course we will make some preparations after knowing this situation, but to be honest, judging from the technology on earth, it is really not easy to intercept the Zerg. Don't forget that these guys are a headache for all the major civilizations in the universe.
Even those bugs that civilizations at the same level as the Pilgrims and Creators can't deal with. With our current technology and military strength, it's okay to encounter only a few or five of them. But once we are entangled by a large army, we will basically die. deal. If we dragons don't care about humans, we might be able to survive by running away. But humans... the consequences are serious anyway.
But it would be different if we used the creators' bases to produce some weapons in advance.
We certainly don't need to arm those immigration ships and turn them into space battleships. Firstly, it's not necessary, and secondly, it's simply impossible. Immigration ships are all thin-skinned and stuffed with large fillings. Although they are not meant to explode when touched, they are definitely not resistant to beatings. Besides, the creators may have a great production base, but our resource extraction may not be able to keep up with demand. Therefore, during the period before immigration, we mainly focus on producing thrusters, and the resources freed up for weapons are not expected to be too many.
How to use limited resources to generate maximum combat effectiveness is our problem.
Thinking about it this way, I really have a lot of things to solve in the United States. Of course, we need to get the base first. I hope the U.S. government doesn't get involved. Otherwise, once this matter starts to be messed up, we don't know how long it will last. Even with Pilgrim’s technology now, our immigration fleet can be launched more than a year later, but time is still super tight, so it’s good to be even one day earlier. (To be continued ~^~)