Chapter 248 Exponential Self-Produced Materials, Planetary-Class Giant Ships May
"How dare you take this out?"
Yan Xia is far away from /Star City, more than 300 light years away, but the tachyon communication technology can deliver information to Yan Xia within 1 and a half months.
"Just worry."
Ella appeared. At this time, she was a short-haired, dark-skinned cowgirl, wearing a tube top, revealing her six-pack abs and deep waistline, and a pair of denim hot pants and a pair of leather boots.
In fact, Ella's so many costumes are not all for Yan Xia to see, but because part of her consciousness is in the virtual world, this costume is actually its state in the virtual world.
It has been learning and improving through the virtual world, especially about human nature.
At this time, it is actually more like a life than a life, but as an artificial intelligence, it is very demanding on itself. 99.99999% is not enough, it must be 100%.
But it is not easy for a thing or a thing to reach 100%.
Just like absolute zero, just like the speed of light!
"椘is worried that / Star City itself is not under its control, / Star City's life can also solve the problem of Gais's glory by dividing consciousness, / Star City itself is not a life, but an object, whoever has the higher authority will listen to him."
Yan Xia also felt that it was almost certain.
"椘 hopes that we can find a way to unlock the secret key. It does not want to hide this. It also knows that we will do this. It has become cunning, this guy."
The Federation needs / Star City, which is the unsolvable advantage of in negotiation.
"Knowing how to share benefits and risks is at least good for us, isn't it?"
Ella and Yan Xia smiled at each other.
"Then, let's go back to the technology itself. We should have discussed / the technology used in Star City before." Yan Xia went through the information he received and found many technical blind spots, which required professional materials scholars to analyze.
Of course, Ella can do it, but what Ella analyzed cannot be applied well. It's not that Ella can't do it, but Ella will not put computing power in these places.
Since the federal scholars can solve it, let it be handed over to the federal scholars.
"Yes, the material of Star City is very strong and has modular properties at a microscopic scale."
"It can even become a superconductor under certain conditions. Although most elements can do it, it is not demanding."
"The most important thing for us is strength, and there is another important feature."
Easy to process.
Easy to process items means that costs can be reduced and mass production can be done.
You can make a material that is invincible in the universe, but you can only make 1g. What's the use?
It's not enough to make armor for a larger bug.
You said that making a weapon that can destroy the entire universe with 1g is still relatively strong, but this is a material, not a weapon.
"Olive Branch can use this material to make a giant like Star City. The accumulation of time is important, but the characteristics of this material are the main thing."
Even if the Olive Branch civilization has a history of hundreds of thousands of years, it is very terrifying to use hundreds of thousands of years to make a Star City.
You should know the size of Star City, 238 astronomical units long, 1.1 astronomical units wide, 58.58 trillion square kilometers, these numbers can still have a strong impact on Yan Xia.
1 astronomical unit is 149597870 kilometers. How long is the giant ship that the Federation is currently manufacturing? Less than 1000 kilometers. The width of the star city can accommodate more than 165,000 giant ships, not to mention the terrifying length.
Even if the manufacturing cycle of a giant ship is 10 years, it will take at least 100 trillion years to build a star city.
The time doesn't match at all.
"It turns out that the material itself is an assembly line, incredible."
The information provided by the Olive Branch explains the characteristics of this special material. Because it is modular, and it is modular at the microscopic level, the Olive Branch Civilization thinks that if these produced materials can be used as factories in the first place, then can the manufacturing efficiency be improved?
This is successful.
This means that this material can produce itself exponentially.
Under the application of this material, the time required to build a star city is——
"700 years!?"
After seeing this number, Yan Xia couldn't help but exclaimed.
It's too short.
He couldn't imagine how fast it would be to produce giant ships with this.
Wouldn't it be possible to produce tens of trillions of giant ships soon?
"It's not calculated that way. This material is still just a material and does not have strong versatility. / The core structure of Star City is definitely not made of this material."
"The effect of this material itself is actually the same as that of biological warships, solving the problem of shell production cycle."
Yan Xia nodded. He was too excited when he saw this number just now. After calming down, he knew the disadvantages of this material.
If the Federation is only a level 1 or lower civilization, this material can indeed be competent for most positions, but advanced civilizations have many requirements for materials, and one material cannot be all-round.
If that kind of universal material is really born, then the Olive Branch Civilization will not be only level 2, but level 3 or higher.
"Then can we eliminate biological warships?" Yan Xia asked.
This is a good question.
Since the problem of long manufacturing cycle of metal shell has been solved, can biological warships be replaced?
"No."
"Biological warships have their own special characteristics. Time cycle is one aspect, and energy consumption is another aspect."
"Although this material technology shortens the cycle, the energy consumption has not changed at all. In fact, to maintain the energy supply of these small things, we need to manufacture special energy supply devices. The loss rate of this functional device has reached 1:14, which is crazy."
Ella found this loss rate unacceptable.
This is equivalent to exchanging money for time.
Ella is using other computing power to study whether the loss rate of this energy supply device can be reduced, but found that it is almost impossible in a short time.
If the materials of the Olive Branch Civilization need to be manufactured at an extremely fast speed, it means that hundreds of thousands of the smallest material units are combined into a production line, because they are too small and are at the nanoscale. The factory of tens or hundreds of nanometers is not complicated in itself, which means it is very rough. This is the main reason for the high loss rate.
So how to make this factory more refined?
It is necessary to increase the size of the factory, so the production cycle will not increase.
It takes longer to manufacture a factory composed of hundreds of millions of materials than a factory composed of hundreds of thousands of materials, but the production efficiency of these two factories has not increased much, because most of the structures are designed to reduce energy loss rather than increase production.
The production drawings provided by the Olive Branch Civilization are already the best performance ratio, and there is no better solution than this.
So the Federation should be more cautious in producing this thing. The huge loss rate may cause the Federation's energy to shrink significantly, from level 2.3 to level 2.2.
From this point of view, Yan Xia and Ella also realized that if the Olive Branch Civilization gave up this technology, it might have been a level 2.5 or even level 2.6 civilization, and most of their energy might have been consumed in the manufacture of Star City.
Although it is a bit exaggerated, and the development of civilization cannot be judged from only one aspect, this thing certainly cannot be mass-produced as imagined.
"However, it should be enough for us to manufacture a real planetary battleship, right?"
Ella replied: "Of course, the structural strength has been achieved, and although the cost is a bit high, it is not unacceptable."
That's enough!