In Kerudak's parliament building, a senior official of the Fourth Fleet spoke frankly, while the faces of the colleagues beside him were somewhat subtle, between embarrassment and worry. The council looked at us quietly, unable to see what she was thinking in her heart: as the collective consciousness of the entire Yunard family, the council basically did not reveal any individual emotions when thinking about issues.
"Well, that's not a problem," I said cheerfully, "but it will take a while to customize. We need to determine the ecological samples of the planet's inhabitants to ensure that they can survive safely on the colony planet. But... I guess the Fifth Fleet is running out of time. "
"Exactly." The council nodded and said, "I learned about their current situation from Ke Kekina. They lack a stable ecological cycle system. The red line is exhausted. So they need to withdraw from those crumbling spaceships as soon as possible. We only have three colony planets that are about to be delivered. These three planets were originally prepared for the immigrants of the Sixth Column of the Fourth Fleet. The spaceship ecosystem is still usable, so they can wait a little longer and let the friends of the Fifth Fleet land first. But three colony stars cannot solve all problems, and even those three colony stars, because they have just completed the transformation, The survivable area is less than a quarter of the planned area... ”
"Well, I know your plight." I waved my hand and interrupted the other party. No matter how much I heard about these trivial matters, it was useless. thing… "
I thought about it, and there is actually no problem with giving the Fourth Fleet a batch of colonies. To the empire, those things are just a few large stone balls with a radius of thousands of kilometers and a layer of carbohydrates on the surface (mass-produced colonies Stars basically have this specification), we even gave the entire world to the Fourth Fleet, let alone a few more planets, right? But the crux of the matter is that Colonial is special: it needs tuning... tuning, and that takes time.
But the Fifth Fleet couldn't last much longer.
Perhaps by the way, I should explain the way and some rules when the empire made artificial planets.
Colonial planets are used to live in people. This is not nonsense, but a technical project covering a wide range. Life, except for the bug life out of the circle like the Apostles of Xiling and the Protoss, most of life is fragile, and their requirements for the living environment are very harsh and complex, such as temperature, humidity, gravity environment, microbial environment, energy environment, light, The chemical environment, and even the mineral radiation environment for some special species... The combination of countless harsh conditions can ensure the safe survival of a species on this colony planet. When a colony is delivered for use, the accompanying instructions can often reach several terabytes of data and text alone, which shows how complicated it is. Compared with colonizing stars, it is even easier to create a lifeless galaxy: after all, the data you need to consider will not be 99% variable like the ecological environment.
After the military system of the new empire was basically restored, and the rule over the vassal world was stabilized, we began to manufacture various artificial celestial bodies in a planned way. The New Empire has special "factories" for manufacturing things like colonies, and these factories are located in several desolate universes adjacent to the capital world. This kind of desolate universe accounts for about one-tenth of the empire's "world library". They have not evolved life, so they are suitable for various large-scale projects. Sandora ordered several of the highly stable universes to be dragged to the capital world The surroundings are used as a cover for the [true] coordinates of the capital world, and as a large workshop. These large "workshops" are full of giant starports and space structures that work day and night, and the empty space is full of restless multiplication builders and matter-information-energy conversion generators, and their most important production The task is to create various artificial planets for civilian (colonial) or military (copycat version of Star Warships).
The colony stars mass-produced by the Empire are dubbed "standard stars" just like blanks. "Standard star" or artificial celestial body with the scientific name "Standard Artificial Ecological Planet Basic Blank" does not have any life and no ecological environment. They are molded into a suitable size according to uniform specifications, and they are born with precise density, so they also have precision. gravity environment. All material resources on the standard star are distributed according to the blueprint to ensure that users can mine resources according to the blueprint, so that the initial stage of planetary construction will be smoother. Depending on the model, there will be marine grooves with random shapes and distributions on the standard star, but with a precise and consistent total volume, which can be filled with water or other ecological substances according to user requirements when it is delivered for use, but in the storage stage of the standard star , they are all empty inside. Standard stars also have a basic atmosphere, but this basic atmosphere will not be used to support life, they are only used for product testing: checking atmospheric models, global wind tunnel effects, etc. Once the standard star is put into use, the basic atmosphere will be removed, and a new atmosphere will be replaced according to user needs.
According to different models, there are more than one hundred varieties of standard stars: this is still a rough classification, only involving the physical parameters of the planet, not ecological parameters, because there is no ecological environment on standard stars.
The above is all that the standard star has.
These lifeless standard colonial star blanks are fixed by the gravitational stagnation force field, and are neatly placed in the corner of the universe like goods. The size and color are almost the same, as if they were carved out of the same mold. Before they are filled with water (maybe it's other bodies, or nothing at all) and atmosphere, and put in basic life, they only have a color of earthy yellow.
The people who made these civilian planets have a romantic name in the poet population of the vast vassal races: Star Shaper, and the people who take care of these planet dumps also have a romantic name. They are called by the poets: Star Watchers.
The above two poetic names correspond to the workshop director and warehouse manager respectively. Because the working place is remote and accompanied by various automatic equipment on weekdays, they are recognized as the two most difficult occupations in the empire, none of them.
When will Standard Star look more like a cradle of life
After the relevant person in charge of the military department received an appointment application from a lower-level civilization. Oh, this person in charge is called "Shepherd" in the poet's mouth, but the recognized title of these people in charge within the empire is salesperson, and I named them 10086—because most of the planetary application reports are submitted through the data network of.
When a lower-level civilization submits an application for the use of a civilian colonial star to the empire, a special post-processing group will take over a "custom order". Since most of the Xiling apostles have more important military missions, these processing groups There are generally no Xiling apostles here, but it is composed of migrant workers sent by vassal civilizations with certain technical strengths. We hand over the empire's colonial star transformation equipment and technology to them. According to the order requirements, these post-processing groups receive a planet from hundreds of rough blanks in the standard star reserve, and then process these rough planet blanks just like a decoration company does with rough houses: fine-tuning the planet's gravity environment, Increase the atmosphere, start the basic material cycle of the planet blank in proportion, and then release the first batch of lives that have been transformed and will not cause ecological toxicity to the upcoming users. This operation is usually assisted by members of the Goddess of Life. They can Use crazy, unscientific and unmagical magic to catalyze life, and spread member skins on half the planet within a few days. Next, the ecological group on the planet will be completely renewed two to three times to complete the transformation of the basic life group into a complete ecological circle and prepare for the residents. After everything is processed, the ecosystem can run stably and the material cycle can be self-sustaining, this "standard star" can be replaced with the nameplate of "colonial star". number, and near the equator of the planet (sometimes at the north and south poles, depending on the model of the production line), give the colony an anti-counterfeit steel seal with a length of 100 kilometers and a width of 63 kilometers. The content of the steel seal includes the planet model, inspector, factory The serial number and date, and a label that everyone is responsible for caring for the environment (added with a simple idea), and finally handed over to the residents together with the finished planet, there is also a chip containing instructions and quality certificates, and a random Postcards of imperial family characters from the imperial family - the last one is still Qianqian's idea, the meaning is that if you get all the postcards of our family, you can get a free electric frying pan.
I can't fucking figure out why a world leader who has the ability to customize nearly twenty planets wants an electric frying pan, but that's the way it is! Therefore, we indirectly saved the Guangming Factory in the neighboring city Z...
It can be seen from a glimpse of the leopard in the pipe, from which you know that there is Qianqian by your side, what happened to what I experience every day!
According to the above process, everyone must have seen that although the empire has various advanced technologies that can be mass-produced, and even artificial celestial bodies can be manufactured in an assembly line, the ecological colony has to exist due to its special functions and audiences. A "fine-tuning" cycle, no matter how fast we produce this kind of planetary blank, it is impossible to omit the step of ecological fine-tuning in the later stage: after all, more than 80% of the audience for civilian use to colonize planets are those who are older than the apostles. Ordinary races that are countless times weaker, as long as they get involved, the efficient laws of the empire will often be discounted. I predict that even if the plastic star factory jumps in line to change the schedule, the ecological colony star required by the "parliament" will take at least three months before it leaves the factory (this is enough to shock the world, normal ordinary races often want to transform an ecological planet at every turn) The unit is ten years, and the result of the transformation is only that he can barely survive in some resource-rich areas), and the Fifth Fleet will face the first warning red line in ten days.
After deliberation, we have decided that during this period, the empire will directly provide ready-made material assistance: food, water, oxygen, radioactive substances, heavy metals, various ores, man-made organic and inorganic substances... Well, members of the exiles The composition is too complicated, and the list of their daily necessities can almost match Sandora's recipe.
As for the living space of the Fifth Fleet, we also need to solve it. Their spaceships that often leak poisonous gas are really not very safe, and the Fourth Fleet itself is still at the stage where half of the people are still living in the spaceships, so we decided to recruit a group of colonial giant ships from the New Eden Federation to respond. emergency. The Federation's colonial giant ship is not suitable for the crew of the Fifth Fleet to survive, but after turning off the ecosystem and connecting some external atmospheric circulation towers, it can still be used as a temporary residence.
In this way, at least the Fifth Fleet can survive the most difficult four months.
Four months later, the colony planet of the plastic star factory will also be handed over. At that time, everything will be on the right track. For the Fifth Fleet, which has experienced many hardships, as long as they can survive, they will have endless power to build own homeland.
And within these four months, the parliament also has sufficient time to choose a suitable place for the colony that is about to arrive. Just like all electrical appliances have to prepare sockets after they are bought back, commodity colony stars are installed with delivery tubes but regardless of sockets. After customizing the planet, users need to find stars with habitable zones in their own universe, and plastic Star Factory will send their customized ecological planet to the designated place, and the senior workers will be responsible for precise positioning and start-up (the star will be released from the frozen state after start-up), the whole process is free of charge, and the general workers will only Take two packs of cigarettes. Of course, if it is the Protos construction team, because the workers and masters have no words, they don't even accept cigarettes... Why do you say I am talking about this! Even though it's kind of touching...
"In this way, the empire's assistance to this universe will be super-large-scale, and the duration will be far longer than originally expected." After everything was negotiated, Sandora said lightly, "Enough supplies to maintain the Fifth Fleet, and there are still a lot of supplies." Colonial giant ships, and the ecological planets that will be in place later, these things are quite large, and according to my expectations, the Fifth Fleet needs at least ten years of continuous support to pass the basic construction stage: the basic resources they have accumulated before They were all left behind on their home planet when they were attacked. Would the opposition among you accept that?"
"Under special circumstances, we have only one faction: the council itself," said the council. "Although I didn't expect the situation to become like this before, and no one thought that there would be such a big intersection with the empire suddenly, but the situation has come to this point. At this stage, the fifth The survival of the fleet is the most important thing. I think even the most conservative people know their priorities at this time."
It can be seen that when the parliament said this, the faces of the officials behind her were slightly moved. Presumably these people should be conservative members who are cautious about the empire, but these officials did not say anything in the end. After talking in a low voice, I wisely chose the attitude that the world has nothing to do with me. The council was silent for a while, and suddenly looked at me and Sandora: "Actually, all of this should have been expected as early as you have just learned. When you heard the news about the Fifth Fleet, you may have thought that this is a good entry point."
Sandora nodded happily: before I shook my head.
"Speaking of which, I'm quite depressed." Seeing that the business has been discussed and everything has been agreed upon, I curled my lips and couldn't help muttering, "It's like being a thief if I want to help you. This is the first time I've encountered the word 'deliberately'. The case of an auxiliary verb before 'willing to help'."
So this time, except for the parliament and a few people from the empire, everyone laughed in embarrassment—politics is indeed the most nonsensical thing in the world that does not pay taxes.
Due to the time difference between the two worlds, when Sandora and I returned from Kerudak, the lights of K City were already lit up, and the family was all there, and this big house became lively again. Anveena floated out to greet Sandora and me, with a happy smile on her face: what she likes most is when the whole family comes back from a distant different world and gathers together waiting for dinner. In fact, I always feel that this little ghost is quite pitiful, because of her special personality, almost every time the family goes out, she chooses to stay alone, so in her life, "the big empty house—wait for everyone to come back—for a while After the hustle and bustle, the big empty house is ushered in" has become a fixed process.
"I feel very happy," An Weena replied to my thoughts. "It's also a kind of happiness when the master returns home."
Forget it, since she thought so, there was nothing she could do.
"Things went well?" My elder sister saw that Sandora and I had a happy expression, so she said with a smile. I nodded, thinking that my happy expression was indeed because things went well, and Sandora had a happy expression ... probably simply because it's almost time for dinner.
There was the sound of splashing water from the direction of the bathroom, and a few screams from little girls. The most obvious ones were the crazy yelling of the Huscars and the frantic sound of the mercury lamp. With a distressed look: "Sister, you let those bastards take a bath together again?"
"What's wrong with it, to enhance the relationship between the sisters." The elder sister said calmly, "The bathroom is quite big, and those girls also like to play with water."
Sometimes I don't quite understand my sister's logic. She is an expert parent known as a bear killer, but she often turns a blind eye to the fights of those crazy girls. Zhuan Luoli is now...
As soon as I thought of this, I saw the bathroom door opened, and Pandora was the first one to come out after washing as usual, wrapped in a small towel all over her body, and then sat at the bathroom door in a daze like a wooden figure: this is her signature procedure , Wait for it to dry naturally after taking a shower.
"Brother" Pandora saw me and pointed to the bathroom, "it's fighting."
Me: "I know."
As soon as the voice fell, the bathroom door was pushed open again, and the wet mercury lamp jumped out of it, and the towel almost fell to the ground. After seeing me, the doll girl immediately flew Come over and hang on me, while angrily pointing at the direction I came from while writhing around: "Lìlì Na... bastard LìLì Na! It's itchy, it's so itchy..."
I:"… ?"
"Lìlìna said she wanted to rub Mercury Lamp's back." Pandora took the initiative to explain, "Mercury Lamp believed me."
"Then?"
"Lìlìna squeezed shampoo into the keyhole of the mercury lamp."
I:"… "
That crazy girl is a bad scum, bastard!