Super Mothership

Chapter 216 New Energy in the Interstellar Era

(TL:By Rafael,valhallatls.blogspot.com)

The underground world of the moon.

In the underground space of the main mining base, located in the center of the deep mine that leads directly to the moon, suddenly “puff” like a waterfall, silver liquid metal poured out!

These are the mechanical insects weighing about 500 tons that Nie Yun separated. They carried out dredging and leveling operations along the mine all the way. At this moment, they finally completed the task and arrived at this underground base.

This means... Nie Yun's energy crystal for underground space is about to enter the stage of large-scale mining!

After a large amount of liquid metal landed, it immediately turned into nearly 10,000 small robots, and began to drill into all corners of the core area of the base with short legs to repair equipment, replace parts, and upgrade mining technology.

The original ant robot production workshop was replaced with Nie Yun's small robot growth line, and the spherical mining vehicle manufacturing plant was restored and re-opened.……

After tens of thousands of years of silence, this base has regained the aura of civilization!

The huge base covers an area of hundreds of kilometers. Even if such a large number of robots enter it, it is like a mud cow entering the sea. It only occupies a few key functional buildings and core areas, and it is no longer able to expand. It will be a while before the resources in this base are completely digested.

Repairing and transforming on the basis of the original base is much faster than Nie Yun's re-establishment of the same scale of mining capacity. If you count the existing underground mining sub-bases, the mining system left by the aliens will save Nie Yun a lot of time.

The large amount of steel materials in the base also provides sufficient swallowing materials for the mechanical insects. Although the aging is a bit serious, it is like instant noodles that have been soaked for a long time. Except that the taste is not very good, Nie Yun said that the mechanical insects are not picky eaters.

However, the mechanical worm only eats steel. If you look at it from this point of view, then it is a bit too picky eater!

“In the future, I have to think of a way to change your stinky problem. It was used to by your parents when you were a child!"Nie Yun expressed dissatisfaction with this characteristic of the mechanical worm.

Mechanical worm: “......”

Nie Yun still doesn't have a firm conclusion on why mechanical insects only eat steel. At the current level of microscopic observation, even if the scanning tunnel microscope with the largest magnification is used, it can only observe a single atom by non-visual means at most.

However, nuclear-level mechanical insects have a diameter of between 10-15m and 10-14m, and their volume only accounts for one-thousandth of the atomic volume. Even at Nie Yun's speed of scientific and technological development, it is not possible to observe atomic nuclei in the short term. It can be done.

If it comes to how to shorten this time, Nie Yun said that he can only look forward to visitors from afar. After all, people are not rich without windfall.……

……

Soon, the first batch of soil containing trace amounts of energy crystal particles was collected. They were directly put into a liquid pool of mechanical insects. After the decomposition and swallowing of mechanical insects, ten minutes later, a cube of energy crystal with a side length of only 1 cm slid out from the discharge port below. .

From the point of view of cutting, transportation and convenience of use, the shape of the cube is undoubtedly the most suitable. Nie Yun has planned to use this type of energy crystal as the standard energy block used by his machinery.

Although it is very small in size, the energy contained in it is comparable to a small nuclear fusion power station. If installed on a small robot, it can run at full power for thousands of years.

However, Nie Yun would naturally not be extravagant enough to use this precious energy crystal on this kind of small machinery. This kind of high-density energy substance can only reflect its true value on high-power weapons and equipment!

For example, just after obtaining graviton technology, this kind of energy crystal is installed in the core component of the gravity bomb!

From the point of view of consumption, the graviton acquisition device is quite normal, but the energy consumed by the shield is simply astronomical!

Even if Nie Yun has the miniaturization technology of nuclear fusion, if nuclear fusion is used instead of energy to maintain the operation of this nuclear shield for a long time, then the volume of fuel consumed alone is enough to fill the entire bomb.

If you look at it from the perspective of interstellar navigation, the quality of nuclear fuel that a space battleship can carry is limited. If you encounter a battle, even if you use the shield, the protection can be greatly improved, but after a battle, your fuel reserves will have to be consumed.

In this case, the endurance and combat capabilities of warships will be greatly limited, and even a huge logistics fleet will be required to follow in order to operate remotely.

Look at the history of the development of modern human science and technology, from the coal of the steam engine to the fuel of the internal combustion engine, to the electrical energy in the era of electrification, and the era of nuclear energy that has not yet fully arrived.

The stage of scientific and technological development of civilization is closely related to the energy and matter currently used!Every industrial revolution can be said to be a large-scale popularization of new energy sources!

Judging from the structure of the gravity bomb, this foreign malicious civilization not only possesses graviton technology, but also has developed the technology of using energy crystals.

In addition, the Lunar relic civilization and the Iris civilization, the maker of mechanical insects, both have mining and internal records of things like energy crystals.

The commonality of the three shows that things like energy crystals are not uncommon in the universe!And it is also used by higher civilizations as an advanced energy source of nuclear energy.

In Nie Yun's view, energy crystals...are the new energy sources necessary for the interstellar era!

This kind of material cannot even be analyzed and constructed by mechanical insects, which means that it can hardly be manufactured by ordinary means. It is a non-renewable energy source. If you look at the oil war, you will know that if its quantity is scarce, it will inevitably become a cherished resource that everyone is fighting for!

Then to a certain extent, the reserve of energy crystals can greatly affect your interstellar war potential.

It was precisely when Nie Yun saw the amazing development potential of this kind of thing that he stepped up the pace of mining, and even prepared to leave a nail here even if the war was lost and the solar system was lost!

……

Just as the development of multiple bases on the moon was gradually spreading out, the recovery mechanical insects of the two alien probes finally approached the target!

Near the two Lagrangian points, two miniature thrusters began to jet in the opposite direction and slowly slowed down to approach the wreckage of the two detectors.

As the two sides got closer and closer, the two thrusters began to deform and expand, and soon transformed into two thin film-like capture nets of about one kilometer.

20 kilometers......10 kilometers......5 kilometers……

The distance between the two sides approached rapidly. In the end, the giant net came into contact with the wreckage. Under the action of inertia, the extremely tough capture net bounced back and wound up directly after being hindered by the wreckage, wrapping several pieces of wreckage layer by layer. All in.

Soon, the mechanical worm penetrated into the wreckage of the detector, and visible to the naked eye, a silver spot began to expand on the wreckage.……

TL Note- Space fishing?

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