Super Mothership
Nie Yun once wondered: if the Mechanical Bugs were the repair fluid of the starships, then how exactly would a swarm of Mechanical Bugs repair a spacecraft?
Today, from the materials used in the mech core, he may have found the answer.
He came up with a bold hypothesis.
Could the starships of the Iris Civilization… like the Sea Wolf, also be composed entirely of Mechanical Bugs?
As the creators of the Mechanical Bugs, the Iris people had clearly mastered advanced technology that used Mechanical Bugs as “atoms,” creating materials for different purposes through different “microscopic arrangement methods.”
In other words… all kinds of advanced materials made from Mechanical Bugs were likely the primary material branch of the Iris Civilization’s technological tree!
In fact, the “Heavy Mechanical Bugs” Nie Yun used in his second transformation could also be considered a kind of “advanced material” created by reducing the spacing between Mechanical Bugs, thereby altering their properties.
One could imagine that the civilization’s starships required no conventional repair methods at all. They only needed to send the Mechanical Bug repair fluid to the damaged area…
Step one: connect to the physical interface and complete repair authorization verification.
Step two: the damaged equipment is decomposed and assimilated, becoming one of the Mechanical Bug repair-fluid army.
Step three: reconstruct the material — “I’ll form the head!”
Simple, efficient, energy-saving, and environmentally friendly. Whether damaged or aged, just brush on a layer of repair fluid and it instantly becomes factory-new 24K quality!
And it can even regenerate during battle!
Truly the perfect design solution for home use, travel, planetary destruction, and national annihilation!
Nie Yun’s Sea Wolf was precisely such a “full-mithril concept battleship” built from Mechanical Bugs. As its user, Nie Yun deeply understood just how powerful and outstanding such a warship was.
At the very least, he had never spent even a single cent on fleet maintenance…
That advantage alone was enough to make nations and civilizations that spent astronomical sums annually on fleet upkeep envy him to the point of psychological collapse…
Mechanical Bugs — these were insects that could save money!
Mechanical Bugs: “…” (*￣︿￣)
Seriously speaking, the basic version of “mithril” mastered by Nie Yun was merely a primitive product equivalent to “iron.”
And iron, after further processing, could become “steel,” “stainless steel,” “alloy steel,” “heat-resistant steel”…
For example, the material used in the mech core was a kind of “precision-processed material” whose energy conductivity had been increased a hundredfold.
However, aside from its absurd energy-conduction capabilities, the material’s other performance indicators were actually far inferior to the basic version of mithril.
It was essentially a material that had pushed mithril’s energy-conduction properties to the limit, inevitably sacrificing other attributes in the process — a sort of “special alloy steel” with unique properties and applications.
Nie Yun inferred that since the Iris Civilization possessed a special material with energy conductivity amplified a hundred times, there must also exist other kinds of “advanced mithril.”
For example… materials with hardness increased a hundredfold? Toughness increased a hundredfold? Melting point increased a hundredfold?
One could easily imagine that starships forged from these “advanced mithrils” would be vastly more powerful than the single-structure Sea Wolf!
Overall, setting aside its transformation ability, although the Sea Wolf possessed tremendous combat power, it still only belonged to the level of warships within the same civilization tier.
It had not reached the sort of overwhelming technological gap where a single “Droplet” could wipe out an entire fleet.
Otherwise, why would Nie Yun bother with strategies and schemes? He would have long since driven the Sea Wolf straight through enemy lines, charged to the homeworld, and shoved the muzzle of a cannon against Cruze’s forehead to force him to hand over the Vector Engine.
【Cruze: “……”】
“What a pity. I only obtained the structural blueprint for one advanced material. If I could get my hands on the entire ‘material database’ of the Iris Civilization, maybe my material science could leap directly into the realm of higher civilizations?”
Nie Yun secretly lamented.
For some unknown reason, the Mechanical Bugs that had been discovered and utilized by the had lost their commander, making it easy for Nie Yun to “format and recruit” them.
Naturally, he also acquired the advanced material technologies related to them from their database.
In other words, Nie Yun could now create “bug spheres” from Mechanical Bugs and mass-produce this advanced material.
Which also meant… he was now only one step away from mastering energy crystallization technology!
Inside the mech core, the dazzlingly complex energy circuits made Nie Yun’s eyes shine like a wolf spotting Pleasant Goat.
Most energy circuits known to Nie Yun were generally designed as planar structures, but the circuits inside this mech core completely overturned traditional design concepts, leaping directly from two-dimensional layouts into three-dimensional spatial structures.
More intricate energy circuits ran in parallel, intersected, and intertwined… like a three-dimensional transportation network filled with harmonious beauty, allowing energy to surge through it freely.
So it could be done like this!
It was as though Nie Yun had glimpsed a brand-new world. His thoughts followed the flowing Mechanical Bugs, spreading along the energy circuits, copying the pinnacle technological essence of the Wolf Empire at astonishing speed…
No! Something’s wrong!
This circuit structure, completely different from the technological style of the … was very likely also derived from the !
Thinking about it carefully, it made sense. The Wolf Empire’s overall technological level was roughly on par with , so how could they suddenly produce a black technology like energy crystallization?
If that was the case, then the item the Wolf Empire obtained from the ruins was probably related to energy crystallization technology — and relatively well-preserved at that…
So what exactly was it?
Combining the clues he had previously uncovered, Nie Yun’s imagination began to run wild.
Suppose there really had once been a super-starship of the Iris Civilization that crashed and disintegrated for some reason, with its wreckage scattered toward the Orion Arm. Then perhaps fate had allowed Nie Yun, Gemini, and the Wolf Empire each to obtain one fragment…
In that case, what the Wolf Empire discovered was likely also some kind of ship component!
Nie Yun immediately listed every important component of a spacecraft in his mind. Then, using elimination, he discarded most of the irrelevant parts and finally arrived at the option with a probability as high as 68.9%...
A shield generator!
That was it! The ships of the Iris Civilization most likely used an even more advanced “crystallized energy shield”!
Critical components like that were always heavily protected aboard spacecraft, making it entirely possible for one to remain intact even after the ship crashed and broke apart!
Which meant the Wolf Empire had deciphered the energy-circuit technology of a “crystallized shield generator,” but because their material science was inadequate, they had never been able to mass-produce it.
In the end, they could only settle for the next best thing — using their limited supply of materials to establish the “Star Cross Knights,” a force capable of sweeping across the galaxy?
Repair fluid, Vector Engine, shield generator… were these the three standard components of an Iris starship?
And with the addition of a suspected immortality-related target, perhaps… it was actually a four-piece set?
…
“I’m saying… he’s been touching it for a full half hour already, right? That thing… really feels that good?” complained speechlessly.
He and had been waiting for the Ghost Captain to demonstrate the true technology of the Mechanical Race. Yet the guy had simply stood there motionless the entire time, with absolutely no intention of putting on a show.
At first, they assumed he was engaged in an intense invisible cyberwar against the mech core’s firewall.
But after such a long time, the password-entry box was still floating there pitifully…
Clearly, it had been completely ignored…
Messiah was equally puzzled.
With the processing speed of modern AI systems, let alone a cyber battle, they could have played hundreds of rounds of card games in that amount of time.
Could the guy be plotting something else?
Just then, the motionless Ghost Captain finally moved!
He slowly withdrew his hand and even let out a long breath, looking completely like someone who had just finished a job and clocked out.
The mech core of the Red Dragon immediately retracted, once again protected beneath layer after layer of security measures.
Seeing this, Red Dragon and Messiah exchanged a glance, disappointment obvious in both their eyes.
So even the Mechanical Race’s technology couldn’t do it…
Though disappointed, the two still stepped forward to express their thanks.
“Thank you for your efforts, sir! Even though the core couldn’t be repaired, we appreciate your goodwill!” Messiah said with a smile, trying to comfort him.
“Hm? Who said it wasn’t fixed?”
Nie Yun’s words stunned both of them.
“But the core…” Red Dragon hesitated. You never even opened the core, so how exactly did you repair it?
Yet at that very moment, the Red Dragon’s eyes suddenly flashed.
“Ding! System self-check complete. Core operating normally. Current output power: 100%!”
The two dragons: “……”
Looking at the pair standing there dumbfounded, Nie Yun smiled faintly.
“Who says you can’t repair something without opening it first?”
This move… was the ultimate repair secret technique he had created himself…
The Remote Shockwave Repair Style!
TL Note- Updates might be irregular as someone from my family met with death and I have to attend the rites so I will post while I can ..
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