Chapter 179 The Value of the Planet, the Reason for Exploration

Chen Ming said that he wanted to focus on the main business of the colony again.

But there is not much that he needs to do.

After all, this is a long-term job.

Huihuang will take care of the construction of the starport.

Huihuang and Huiyao will complete the task of arranging low-level afterglow individuals to explore together.

HR and Shandiao will take care of the escort.

Only Chaofan can occasionally chat with Chen Ming about research when he is free every day.

But Chaofan's main research direction is spaceships, especially battleship-level spaceships.

Chen Ming's current technical level is not enough to talk to Chaofan about research.

If it weren't for the fact that the research equipment at the highest point is all miscellaneous, which can only be regarded as garbage for Chaofan's previous research equipment.

Chaofan may not chat with Chen Ming for several days.

Of course, Chaofan will still have a good chat with Chen Ming about serious things.

For example, when Chen Ming takes time to learn some spaceship technology before resting every day, Chaofan can easily answer many of Chen Ming's questions.

Chen Ming's learning efficiency has been greatly improved again.

However, Chen Ming does not have much time to study spacecraft now.

Because even if the Zerg and Mechanical Tribes are dealt with, he still has a lot to do.

In fact, Chen Ming's original plan was to study the technology that can be actually applied to spacecraft during the day, and learn cruiser-level technology before going to bed at night.

Make full use of every day's time.

However, this plan was messed up after just a few days.

Because the biological spacecraft was soon delivered to his face, he needed to learn biotechnology.

And Chen Ming has no foundation in biotechnology.

He has to spend time to understand and master the subjects required for this kind of biological spacecraft... It should be considered as genetic engineering and biodynamics.

Perhaps he must also learn all kinds of subjects such as biomaterials, neurology, and chemical biology.

But these should only be the basis for transforming biological spacecraft.

Because the professional names of these subjects are all understood by Chen Ming, who only came into contact with similar knowledge in college.

The biological technology that can really be used on biological spacecraft is probably something he has never heard of.

Chen Ming was quite confident about learning.

Although biology was not a subject he had already learned, his learning ability should be more than ten times higher than others.

He had a learning ability that was personally certified by Huihuang as exceeding the Beta-level Yuhui core.

However, there was still one thing waiting for him to deal with.

He had stood up Baiquan for two days.

So during the day, he still had to learn the command technology of the 14th Corps.

This was also a difficult thing to learn, and he also had no foundation.

And according to Baiquan.

Their special military academy, people who were promoted directly from colleges and universities and had a little foundation had to study for at least five years.

Chen Ming was not worried that five years was too long. If it didn't take a while to learn a technology, Chen Ming would have to worry about whether the technology was fake.

The key point was that Chen Ming was thinking that every day in the five years of the military academy would be filled with dense courses.

Even if he was efficient in learning, learning biology and spacecraft was already very tight, and he had to add the study of command technology.

There is absolutely no spare time.

He must give up some things.

So.

Chen Ming simply handed over the research of technical equipment that can be used for cruisers and lower-level spacecraft to Chaofan.

Originally, Chen Ming planned to do it himself, and rely on studying these things to improve learning efficiency in disguise during the learning process.

Now... it can only be handed over to Chaofan to help.

He is only responsible for learning the realization of the final research results so that he can actually transform them into spacecraft. As for the process, there is nothing he can do.

Although Chaofan is reluctant to do this kind of low-level spacecraft research, it is now limited by the equipment that has not been purchased yet and has nothing to do.

Moreover, Chen Ming does not have the technology of the knowledge level that it currently possesses for him to learn.

The only technology that is worth learning is the blueprint of the new star-level battleship that it personally designed and took away by Chen Ming before.

Even if Chen Ming can help it log in to some research websites within the Empire of Heaven.

Many human technologies on there are meaningless to it and can only be used for reference.

So Chaofan finally agreed, and Chen Ming would use his psychic power to assist in the test.

At this time.

Chen Ming thought about it and simply made a schedule for the future.

In order to avoid several things coming together to completely disrupt his rhythm.

However, he just had this idea, and it took him more than an hour to barely divide the day into several parts for different work and study tasks.

But the final schedule was also quite terrible.

In a sense, he is now even busier than Huihuang except for rest time.

But it is not unacceptable for Chen Ming. What kind of suffering has he not experienced?

High-intensity study is nothing at all.

After arranging the schedule, Chen Ming took a look at the current time.

It was already past nine o'clock in the evening on Earth time.

Then there was obviously nothing to do for the rest of the day.

So Chen Ming called Bai Quan and talked about the time to learn command technology again.

Anyway, he has already dealt with the important things of the mechanical race and the Zerg race, and the rest is the daily mechanical labor, and there is nothing that requires him to spend energy to complete.

Tomorrow he can officially start learning command.

But Chen Ming is not sleepy yet, so in the last time of today.

He simply counted the situation of the temporary base in the past week.

Through the sensors of several cruisers left in the temporary base, Chen Ming could see that the star port had taken shape at this time.

Under the control of Huihuang, the number of Yuhui individuals that the star port could bear was working tirelessly to speed up the construction of the entire star port.

Although Yuhui himself seemed to have no idea what fatigue was.

In short, Huihuang would definitely be able to complete the finishing work of the star port within two days.

The total construction period took less than two weeks.

After all, the star port was the most important facility in Chen Ming's temporary base, and it was a rather simple star port with almost no supporting facilities such as maintenance and repair.

After all, Chen Ming's psychic power could do a lot of things. He only needed a place where the spacecraft could temporarily dock for a period of time and where the materials of the entire temporary base could be stored and allocated.

So in this case, such a simple star port was built.

During the construction of the star port, many spacecraft had already gone out to explore the part of the star port that had been built.

All galaxies with possible habitable planets within a radius of fifty light years have been explored.

There is still a considerable area that has not been explored.

It is still a bit far from the 400 light years that Chen Ming wanted to explore at the beginning.

However, since the construction of the star port is nearing completion, it should be a few days before all the afterglows are mobilized to make the star port run at full capacity and achieve the maximum exploration efficiency.

However, the 50 light years around the radius that Chen Ming has explored so far are basically galaxies that have been explored before.

Only in some galaxies that have not been explored further out did he just find a habitable planet.

There are very few of them, and according to the report of the afterglow individuals who investigated the habitable planet in the galaxy, there are not many valuable things.

However, Chen Ming will drive the highest point to check the situation of the galaxy and the value of the planet.

This kind of habitable planet can at least be assigned to the level of 4 in the judgment of the value of the planet taught to him by the boss before.

As for the value of the galaxy where this habitable planet is located, it has to be judged after specific exploration.

According to the boss, planets can generally be divided into five levels.

Level 1 planets are completely worthless planets, just bare planets lying there.

Unless other valuable planets in the galaxy have been developed, there is nothing else to develop in the galaxy, and there is just a need for some pure land on the planet, otherwise it will definitely not go up.

Level 2 planets have basic development value.

As long as there is enough to earn back the annual investment in it, and can also have at least 50% long-term profit, it can be regarded as a level 2 planet.

The priority of development in the galaxy is also relatively low. At least when there is only one level 2 planet in a galaxy, let alone this planet, the galaxy is not worth entering.

As for level 3 planets, at least there must be more mineral veins or other planetary resources that are easy to mine than level 2 planets.

For example, various volatiles of gaseous planets, or various soil resources, and at least one high-level resource with development value, such as high-level metal materials such as Baiyun Steel.

If there are no high-level resources, unless the number of resources on the planet is really to the extent that it can be seen everywhere and developed at will, the planet will be downgraded by one level.

Level 4 planets are more special.

Because all habitable planets will be assigned to level 4 first, and then decide whether to raise or lower the level according to the specific conditions of the habitable planet.

For example, the planet Ruimu where Chen Ming once stayed, although it is a habitable planet, it has no valuable resources except for some scattered mechanical tribes on it, which is almost a border planet.

And its asteroid ring also causes meteorites to fall on it frequently, so its habitability is not that high.

So as a habitable planet, it can only be a level 3 planet in actual classification.

Of course, there will be some non-habitable planets in the level 4.

But the planets that can compete with habitable planets for this level must be planets with quite rich non-habitable planet resources.

There will definitely be a lot of basic resources and advanced resources, and whether there are resources of special materials that can be developed to a certain extent, at least for a period of time, is also a point that needs to be judged.

Therefore, non-habitable level 4 planets are already very rare.

The judgment criteria for level 5 are relatively the most complicated one.

First of all, the basic judgment is to see whether it is an earth-like planet, the amount of biological resources and the richness of species, and whether the species on the planet itself have special value.

Or see whether there are sources of special-grade materials on the planet that are not limited by the size of the planet, can be developed intensively, and are still sustainable.

But the complicated thing depends on whether there is value in applying the planet to some special fields.

Chen Ming had a special chat with Bai Quan before.

That's why some star region capitals and some military patrol bases are located on dangerous volcanic planets?

Bai Quan did not hide the past at the time, but directly told Chen Ming the reason clearly.

Because the Empire obtained something from the ruins of another civilization that the Empire could not mass-produce.

Cryogenic computing engine.

This is a special device used by that civilization in the defense unit of the border galaxy.

It is a supercomputer that is responsible for the calculation of combat events.

Its uniqueness lies in that it absorbs heat when calculating.

Chen Ming felt that there was something wrong with the existence of this thing at the time, and things that violate the second law of thermodynamics should not exist in this universe.

But Bai Quan would not lie to him for nothing, and Chen Ming thought about what his psychic power could do, and instantly felt that the existence of this thing was much more reasonable.

If the Empire obtained a certain number of cryogenic computing engines from another civilization, it should indeed build patrols or military base headquarters that can use it on volcanic planets.

After all, patrols of a certain scale do need special equipment to provide support.

It is used to plan how to patrol in the ever-changing galaxies, and to assist the commander in commanding when a battle breaks out.

After all, not everyone is a genius who can outline the situation of the battlefield in the entire galaxy in their minds.

Many ordinary officers must rely on the assistance of computers in command, and this kind of low-temperature computing engine has its value.

So since Baiquan has explained the situation so clearly, it is best for Chen Ming's colony to have a volcanic planet with frequent geological activities.

Therefore, this kind of geography... No, it should be a planet with a suitable astronomical location that can be used to install a low-temperature computing engine.

Even if there is almost nothing valuable to develop on the planet except thermal energy, it can be assigned to the special level 5.

There are many other special level 5 planets.

For example, the boss told Chen Ming about a gas giant planet with only basic gas resources.

Because of the suspected existence of gaseous life on it, it jumped directly from the original level 2 to the level 5.

And those suspected gaseous life forms have also been verified by a psychic in recent years, and they do exist.

There is also a huge land planet that is close to the size of an ordinary gas planet. It has terrible gravity and countless giant creatures, so it is also ranked in level 5.

Moreover, the satellite of this planet is also assigned to level 5.

Because there is a giant flying creature on this planet with terrible pressure.

Although they have no ability to survive in space and cannot survive in a vacuum, their bodies will be thrown into space by brute force by their own kind after death.

Those bodies thrown into the space orbit by their own kind are gathered together very accurately, and have gathered into a special flesh and blood satellite in the countless years of the planet's development.

On this satellite, the parasites and microorganisms in the bodies thrown into space have formed an extremely special and unique ecological environment.

It has extremely high research value, so it is also assigned to level 5.

In short, the planets in level 5 are either earth-like planets, planets with great development value, or this special planet that Chen Ming learned from his boss.

In fact, Chen Ming asked Bai Quan another question before.

Did the Empire also get something special similar to the cryogenic computing engine from the ruins of another civilization?

Then Baiquan gave Chen Ming a list directly.

Chen Ming took a casual look and saw a bunch of things that were obviously outrageous to a certain extent, and even directly violated the laws of physics.

However, with the cryogenic computing engine in front, and this is a world with psychic energy, Chen Ming is not unacceptable.

Anyway, he has clearly memorized everything recorded in his mind.

In the future, he will definitely have many opportunities to come into contact with the remains of another civilization.

He may also find the heritage of another civilization that these empires on the list cannot replicate now.

In addition, galaxies also have their own unique system for judging value.

However, the scoring type is considered, whether it is comprehensive, industrial, scientific research or settlement, etc.

Each galaxy has different values ​​when applied to different environments.

This judgment is more complicated, not as simple as a planet.

After all, the value of a galaxy not only depends on the galaxy itself, but also on the distance between the target galaxy and other galaxies, which has to be handled by professionals.

However, one thing is certain, the final value of a galaxy will be determined by which environment has the highest value when the galaxy is applied to different environments.

For example, Chen Ming had been in the galaxy where Raymu was before, and there was only one habitable planet with some value, and the other planets were not very good.

Therefore, in terms of settlement value, it may only be classified as a level 3 or even level 2 galaxy.

However, because the asteroid ring of Ramu has a large number of rare minerals, and the Alturan sky eel group inside the galaxy.

Therefore, in terms of resource mining, it can be classified at a very high level, such as level 4.

Although the sky steel produced by the sky fish is only a high-grade metal material, the sky fish itself can be regarded as a special-level resource.

Therefore, in the end, the value of Ramu's galaxy will be determined to be level 4.

This is what the boss said to him personally.

By the way, the boss also told Chen Ming to send him the data and star map coordinates of all the planets he investigated in the galaxy.

He will help determine the value of the galaxy, and by the way, after a period of time,

help Chen Ming sell the data of these planets.

Of course, Chen Ming also roughly understood some ways to determine the value of galaxies.

He can barely judge the value of the galaxy, but the result may not be very accurate at most.

The value judgment of the galaxy is generally divided into 5 levels. Like the planet, the main thing to look at is the potential for development.

However, one thing is certain. A galaxy with a potential for level 5 development has at least one level 5 planet and at least two level 4 planets, and the total number of planets in the galaxy is 7 or more.

And if there is an extremely special galaxy with two level 5 and three level 4 planets.

And if the number of planets in the galaxy does not exceed 7, the remaining planets are all above level 3.

Then this special galaxy will be called a level 6 galaxy.

And if the number of planets in the galaxy exceeds seven under the premise of meeting the above conditions.

Then the remaining planets can also be called a level 6 galaxy as long as they are not in the habitable zone of the galaxy and have two planets with development value below level 3.

At present, all the galaxies where the capitals of all star regions known to Chen Ming are located are level 6 galaxies.

And this level 6 galaxy is the galaxy that Chen Ming needs.

Of course, a level 6 galaxy is not actually a clear judgment standard.

It is just because this galaxy can achieve a large degree of self-sufficiency in galaxy development only if it has at least these advantages on the planets.

To a certain extent, it can ignore the distance problem of the galaxy communicating with other galaxies with colonies or space stations.

That's why it is called a unique level 6 galaxy.

Chen Ming wants to stand firm in the universe alone outside the empire.

Then a level 6 galaxy as the first colony is necessary for him.

Although level 6 galaxies are rare, they must exist in the universe.

If he can't find it, he will keep looking.

The data of the galaxies he discovered during the search, as well as the money he is trying to make, should be enough to support the expenses during the exploration process.

The reason why level 6 galaxies are so special.

The reason lies in the empire's pioneering road.

In fact, what limits the empire's development is not just the afterglow and the mechanical race that block the road to the outside world, nor the restrictions on the cooling and frequent maintenance of the jump engine, nor the expenses on the road to development.

But the transportation of supplies.

A team to develop and build a colony has at least one thousand people, and more will be needed later.

And the construction of the colony, even if it is only in the early stage, is at least calculated in years.

It's okay for closer ones, but once the distance is far, a maximum distance jump cannot reach it.

That means at least one cruiser full of supplies needs to be maintained before the jump engine can be used again.

And the maintenance of the jump engine is also very troublesome under normal circumstances.

If there is no transfer, the maintenance of the cruiser in the middle will cause the efficiency of material transportation to be extremely low.

But once the transit point is built, unless the investment continues to increase, the construction of the transit point will slow down the construction of the colony in disguise.

But at present, there is obviously no valuable galaxy worth such a large investment in the edge star field.

And it may be threatened by Yuhui and the mechanical race in the middle.

But if it is a level 6 galaxy, there will be no such troubles. After the initial transportation of materials, it can be completely self-sufficient and develop there.

In fact, the development of so many star fields in the empire is also like this, finding another level 6 galaxy in a star field.

Develop this galaxy and build a star gate.

Then expand from this galaxy to the surrounding areas until the star field develops to re-border with the empire.

Only in this way can the impact of the troublesome problem of supply be minimized.

So Chen Ming's psychic power can actually reduce the demand for level 6 galaxies to a certain extent.

His psychic power can basically solve all problems for the transmission of materials.

Therefore, in addition to some people in the empire who are interested in the influence of his psychic power on Yuhui, there are also a group of high-level empire officials who are interested in his psychic power in development.

The boss had mentioned to him that he was now a special person.

That was why he was able to successfully leave the empire without any obstruction from within the empire, as his psychic power had an extremely special effect on Yuhui, the great enemy of mankind.

Some people within the empire wanted to see whether he should use it for development or against Yuhui.

Chen Ming knew this after talking to the boss before.

He also knew the responsibilities that were imposed on him by his psychic power and identity.

That was why he studied so hard. He had to be able to exist independently of the empire. Only in this way could he not be affected by anyone else.

Since he now had a unique advantage, he could not let go of this unique opportunity.

He had to develop and fight for opportunities for himself.