Planet Builder

"Xinggang! I want to build a spaceport!" He Xingzhou thought to himself, what is the human race lacking right now, lack of battleships, lack of planetary mining ships, lack of space bases!

These man-made objects are extremely massive and need to fly in space for a long time, aren't they the best choice for space elevator counterweights?

"Ten space elevators can build ten massive objects!"

According to He Xingzhou's plan, how many space fleets does mankind need? unlimited!

Therefore, ten star ports are not too many! Some of them can be used as a star port for space warships, and there are also space ports for commercial trade, industrial ports for engineering construction, and spaceship construction factories.

It is somewhat unrealistic to build a large star port at one time and launch it into space. He Xingzhou still intends to use modular technology to manufacture Xinggang modules. These modules have the ability to fly in space to form Xinggang.

In this way, even if there is a malfunction and is attacked by the enemy, Xinggang can quickly return to normal.

He found the corresponding technology on the quantum optical brain to unlock:

"Spend 10 units of energy to unlock the spaceport control system."

"Spend 30 units of energy to unlock the space power transmission device."

"Spend 50 units of energy to unlock the Space Dock technology."

...

He Xingzhou used the accumulated energy to unlock a lot of related technologies, and he immediately began to design the spaceport.

"Personnel movement, cargo, space industry, spaceship manufacturing, starship maintenance, space defense..." Before the Blue Star civilization had no space cities, these tasks had to be completed by the spaceport.

It can be said that the spaceport is a simplified version of the space city.

"Lumi, generate design drawings!" He Xingzhou shouted, and in front of him, there were 10,000 simple design drawings of spaceports.

This is Lumi's intelligent procedural generation, which is not necessarily correct. In this way, He Xingzhou can quickly select a model for transformation.

"It's much more convenient, Lumi, and I will upgrade you to silicon-based life in the future, then I'll save a lot of trouble." He Xingzhou said.

"Thank you master, Lumi also wants to have life!" Lumi said happily.

Her current emotions are just set emotions, not real emotions.

He Xingzhou saw in the virtual world that there are many silicon-based civilizations there. And silicon-based civilizations are often stronger than ordinary civilizations before they are at the same level!

Because their productivity and execution are stronger!

As for advanced civilization, every creature has super intelligence, and these advantages of silicon-based civilization disappear.

In just a few days, He Xingzhou has completed the first draft of the spaceport!

He directly sent the first draft to the Interstellar Construction Department, and asked the designers to improve and modify them together. Some mature modules were directly produced and launched.

The spaceport would have to be built earlier than the ground portion of the space elevator, so that the cables and cars could be pulled.

...

In the virtual universe of the subspace, He Xingzhou came to the Interstellar Construction Club again. Today is the day when the rookie competition starts.

Xu Zhilan entered the virtual universe for the first time and was curious about everything. Just like when He Xingzhou first arrived, she also had "100,000 whys" in her heart?

"These aliens are too strange, but fortunately there are humanoid races." Xu Zhilan communicated with him, "otherwise I wouldn't dare to communicate with them!"

"It doesn't matter, this is a virtual universe, you can do anything. It just can't expose the information of our civilization and provoke unnecessary enemies." He Xingzhou said.

"Mmmm." Xu Zhilan followed him closely.

In the Interstellar Construction Conference, the competition hall was already full of people, all of whom came to participate in the Interstellar Builders and Companions.

"Chengfeng, you're here." He Xingzhou came to the group of newcomers, and several people greeted him.

They are all first-level civilizations, and there is no direct contradiction. Except for a small number of maverick alien races, most aliens will maintain surface courtesy.

"There are 100,000 people participating in this competition!" Yan Xin said excitedly, "One hundred thousand civilizations, if we, the primary civilizations, were not here, maybe we won't see ten civilizations until the civilization perishes!"

"Yeah, take this opportunity to learn and communicate more, maybe our civilization can evolve together!" said the interstellar builders next to them.

"Progress is relative. Some civilizations are too weak to communicate." A discordant voice came.

He Xingzhou had a hunch and came to him again.

Sure enough, there were four people around, looking like a sea beast, a fish-man, a person with a big snail shell, and a female siren with a strange appearance.

As soon as he saw their competition identification, He Xingzhou probably understood the identity and purpose of these people.

"First-class builder, dugong, currently has 90 points. Ready to participate in the competition."

"First-class builder, Facy, the current score is 87. Ready to participate in the competition."

"First-class builder, voiced, the current score is 85. Ready to participate in the competition."

"First-class builder, Siren, currently has 80 points. Ready to participate in the competition."

These four people are the representatives of the sea beast civilization, the murloc civilization, the conch civilization and the sea monster civilization.

I came here to find He Xingzhou because of what Bai Ningxiang mentioned.

In order to gain more support from the Black Sea Civilization, they need to compete with the Blue Star Civilization.

"Chengfeng, you have quite a few enemies. Last time you were a member of the Subaru Star Society, and this time there are a few more civilization representatives." Yan Xin complained, "We should not find so many enemies for our primary civilization."

He Xingzhou said helplessly: "I don't want to either, they all found it by themselves, I'm just lying on the gun!"

The dugong said to He Xingzhou, "Are you the representative of the Blue Star civilization?"

"We've all entered the competition!" said Facy, "I heard that you are very strong? This time the winner must be born between the four of us. If you are wise, you can retire yourself, and we can form an alliance of friendly civilizations. ."

Duoyin glanced at the builder's points on He Xingzhou, it was only 0 points. He lost interest and said, "This kind of opponent, there is no need to waste time on him."

"I'm very interested!" Siren's shape is a woman's body and fish tail, very similar to a mermaid, and is a branch of the Black Sea civilization.

Her body is hot, and her skin is extremely smooth, like a layer of oil. From an aesthetic point of view, like Bai Ningxiang, it is very in line with human aesthetics.

But Bai Ningxiang is a combination of sexy and cute, while Siren is a combination of sexy and bewitching.

She approached He Xingzhou and smiled: "Bai Ningxiang, the main civilization, is very optimistic about you, why is this? Could it be that the little girl has a crush on you?"

Xu Zhilan took a step forward and prevented her from approaching He Xingzhou.

He Xingzhou said, "Isn't the rude talk session over? You can do it according to your ability."

"It will only make you despair!" said the dugong.

At this time, the Angel of Order appeared in the arena, and she announced: "This rookie competition will start in ten minutes."

"Each person will get a unique key, with this key, the warp communicator will be able to scan the surrounding space. It scans more than a star system, and the warp communicator needs to perform a scan before the game starts. Scan, after the start of the game, do a scan every year to count your technology points."

Everyone received a private message with the key in it.

Danzi said on He Xingzhou's shoulder, "Do you want to start scanning now?"

"Open!" He Xingzhou said decisively.

Xu Zhilan said: "After being scanned by them once, it knows all the information of our civilization. Through the alliance of order, it can grasp all the information of these civilizations."

Siren let out a coquettish laugh, her voice was very charming, she said: "Of course it will. But the Order Alliance can't despise us low-level civilizations!"

"We are inferior to ants in their eyes! They are too lazy to look at us."

Xu Zhilan ignored her. She was hostile to Siren and always felt that there was something wrong with this female siren.

The Warp Space Communication Device started the first scan, and a ranking list appeared on the field.

There are the names and rankings of 100,000 contestants. Before there are no technology points, they are ranked according to the points of Interstellar Builders.

Now He Xingzhou's ranking is at the bottom, the 100,000th! Because his points are zero, the registration time is the latest.

He Xingzhou glanced at it and saw many familiar names.

Dugongs were ranked 13,041, Fissi at 18,744, voiced at 23,131 and sirens at 36,478.

There are also two members of the Pleiades Society, Rafael of the Procyon civilization, ranked 54,575th; Gray Wolf of the Sirius civilization, ranked 1,320th, the highest ranking among several "acquaintances".

The Green Goblin, who sold classes before, was ranked 18730; Yan Xin, who was next to him, ranked 87576.

Seeing the current rankings, Yan Xin complained: "No wonder the newcomers can't win in this rookie competition. The points of the builder represent the initial technological strength of the civilization, there is too much difference!"

"Rookie competition, officially started!" Angel of Order said, a technology point appeared behind all the contestants, currently all 0.

He Xingzhou found that none of these people chose to go offline, but continued to stay in the competition hall.

In just a few minutes, some people's technology points began to grow, from single digits to dozens, hundreds!

Their rankings also rose rapidly, to within the top 10,000.

Dugongs, Fissi, Voiced, Sirens, Rafael, Grey Wolf, and Green Goblin are all like that.

Xu Zhilan wondered: "Isn't it that a planetary mining ship only adds 1 technology point, and a space battleship with a speed of 10% only adds 10 points? Do they have some skills to accelerate so fast?"

"Of course there are skills!" Tamu, the dwarf old man, appeared next to them and said, "You don't know, before the start of the game, the planetary mining ships and space battleships were deliberately damaged, and then quickly repaired at the start of the game, you can directly add a bunch of technology points. !"

"So, this rookie competition seems to start with 0 technology points, but in fact it is directly to compete with the existing technology strength?" Xu Zhilan frowned slightly, "This is even more unfair!"

"Little girl, how can there be absolute fairness in this world?" Tamu said with a smile, "All participating members understand this."

He looked at He Xingzhou and said, "How about you, do you want to buy my secret book, it can help you get extra points quickly, 3,000 Universe Coins! How to deliberately damage these technological creations is all skillful, improper operation, and bad luck. Points will be deducted!"

"You have a lot of opponents now!"

"No." He Xingzhou still refused, Blue Star Civilization did not have the time to play tricks.

"You're still a little sensible," said the dugong. "Even if you use these means, you can't compete with me!"

"Not necessarily, see you in a year." After He Xingzhou finished speaking, he took Xu Zhilan off the assembly line.

"This guy is a bit interesting!" Tamu said with a smile.

"It's boring!" Facy shook his head, "We have to compete between the four of us."

Siren smiled and said: "The three brothers want to let some younger sisters, our Kraken civilization is not good at building!"

"Stop pretending!" The voiced voice said, "Who doesn't know that your siren is a genetically modified branch of the main civilization race? There are many people in the main civilization who are supporting you! This time, they must have given you technical help again. !"

"Since several brothers know about it, don't argue with us!" Siren said, "When our Kraken civilization becomes the new main civilization, we will definitely not treat you badly!"

"Don't talk nonsense!" said the dugong, "What means do you have, even if you take it out, you will know by comparison, whose civilization is stronger!"

He also went offline and started hosting civilization building activities.

...

He Xingzhou returned to the Blue Star Civilization and immediately began to support the construction work.

While improving the design of the spaceport, he oversaw the construction of the ground station of the space elevator.

In the sea to the south of China, near the equator, a ground station for the largest space elevator is being built.

This is a vast ocean and needs to be reclaimed.

He Xingzhou rarely opened the live broadcast, and tens of millions of viewers poured in to say hello to him:

"Commander He is here!"

"It feels so nostalgic!"

"What are you going to live stream this time?"

He Xingzhou said: "Audience friends, now we are going to go to the site of our space elevator and reclamation."

After finishing speaking, the camera flew around, and the nano armor was attached to He Xingzhou and flew to the project site.

"Fuck, this armor of Commander He is handsome!"

"Yeah, is this Meteor Armor? Upgrade it!"

"Flies faster than a rocket!"

Before the audience could chat, He Xingzhou had already started to slow down and arrived at his destination.

When he looked down, the audience was horrified!

Looking down at the sea from the sky, it is a piece of darkness, and the originally blue sea has been completely filled!

They had seen this scene before, it was the doomsday scene when the Zerg attacked humans!

And now, on the sea, it is not the Zerg, but the engineering ship!

The number of engineering ships is estimated to be more than 100,000, filling the sea! Even the two nuclear-powered aircraft carrier fleets are helping with transportation!

Dredgers excavate the sediment on the bottom of the sea, and then spit out a yellow dragon of sediment, which is sprayed on the construction site; engineering ships are built on the spot; transport ships come and go, transporting building materials from other places.

In the sky, there are countless engineering mechas and engineering aircraft flying; under the sea, there are also deep-sea engineering ships, which are building deep-water ports and consolidating the foundation of islands.

Have people ever seen such a scene? When the Great Wall of Steel was built, the density of engineering machines used was less than one-tenth of that here!

Not only on the sea surface, but also under the sea and in the sky. The entire space is a construction machine, which is working in an orderly manner under the deployment of the intelligent system.

"It's amazing!" people exclaimed.

"If this building is built, a building with more than 100 floors can be built in one day!"

"Our industrial level has improved again. I remember that there were not so many ships to fight Zerg before!"

"A lot of them are remodeled from warships, and there are those mechas, have you seen them? Some of them are military mechas, as well as the logo of the Xuanwu army!"

"666, I haven't started yet, you've already moved bricks!"

"I graduated from college and am going to move bricks in the sea. The future is bright! Brothers!"

"How long will this take to build?"

He Xingzhou said: "As expected, this artificial island will be completed within a month, and its area will exceed 1,000 square kilometers! It is not only a ground station for space elevators, but also a maritime logistics center!"

"In one month, build a man-made island of more than 1,000 square kilometers in the sea?" The audience was excited.

"Niubi, we didn't even dare to think about it before! Now I think it's really possible!"

"uncanny workmanship!"

He Xingzhou continued: "After the ground station is built, in the second month, we will build a tower with a height of 15 kilometers, which can be regarded as the base of the space elevator!"

"Its height will exceed the current tallest building in human beings. Of course, I don't know how long this record will be maintained, because we will have even more magnificent buildings!"

"More than 36,000 kilometers of carbon nanotube cables, space elevator cars, space stations, spaceports, we are all building at the same time."

"It is estimated that in ten months, we will complete the construction of the first space elevator."

"At that time, I will broadcast live again!"

"If you are interested, you can follow it through news or TV programs. If you want to participate in the project team, you can also register online..."

He Xingzhou also launched a wave of advertisements, and now the project team is in urgent need of manpower.

In addition to this space elevator, nine other space elevators are also being manufactured simultaneously.

His advertisements are very effective. It is said that the number of people who signed up for the project on the Internet on that day exceeded one million!

...

After a life span of hundreds of years, He Xingzhou has no sense of a few months. It's like it takes a few months to get into work.

During this time, he has been busy with the improvement of the spaceport, as well as the design and launch of space communication satellites.

Every day, more than a thousand space communication satellites are launched to other planets and corners of the solar system.

Given their low speed, it will take many years to make a satellite communication system all over the solar system.

He Xingzhou is planning to study ultra-high-speed thrusters in the next step, so that the speed of human space vehicles can be increased to at least 10% of the speed of light.

There is news from the Interstellar Construction Department that the first space elevator of Blue Star Civilization, Tianti No. 1, is about to be completed!

In low-Earth orbit, they have successfully built ten large-scale space stations. The spaceport has currently laid a cornerstone formwork, which is sufficient to meet the requirements of counterweights, but as the spaceport is open, it needs to continue to be built.

"President, tomorrow is the completion ceremony and the trial operation ceremony of the space elevator. Please preside over the ceremony." Xiao Mao sent a message.

"Okay!" How could He Xingzhou be absent from the completion of another planetary surface megastructure?

The next day, early in the morning, He Xingzhou came to the Tianti artificial island.

Ten months ago, it was still a vast ocean.

And just ten months later, a man-made island of 1,000 square kilometers has appeared here, and its area has exceeded that of Singapore before the cataclysm!

Ports, airports, residential areas, industrial areas, etc. have also been built on it, and it has completely become a bustling modern island!

He Xingzhou called the live broadcast as scheduled, and the audience poured into the live broadcast room.

The live broadcast at this time, in addition to the screen and holographic projection live broadcast, also joined the virtual world live broadcast system!

That is, if the audience has a virtual world device at home, they can have the same perspective as He Xingzhou, or get an immersive feeling through the sensors of the live broadcast robot!

In the virtual world, when they actually saw the island, they were already attracted by the scenery on the island.

"The construction here is so fast? I remember the last time I watched the live broadcast, it was the sea!"

"I can't tell it's an artificial island at all, the trees have grown so tall!"

"The speed of this infrastructure construction, I don't have to say."

"What a tall tower! Only the clouds have reached its feet!"

They saw that the most striking thing on the island was the huge base and tower of the space elevator!

The fifteen-kilometer-high tower is ten times as tall as Mount Tai!

It is the overlord of the planet, five times as tall as the Aura king!

Even the Aura King, who made all mankind feel despair at the beginning, is just a dwarf standing here.

"Unfortunately, this is not a super weapon, or you will be trampled to death when you hit Planet Overlord!" Someone commented.

Wearing armor, He Xingzhou flew up the tower, passed through the clouds, and came to the top of the tower, where there was a sky square.

In the sky square, there are tens of thousands of engineers and workers who are waiting for He Xingzhou to preside over the completion ceremony!

When He Xingzhou came to the sky square, everyone spontaneously gathered to say hello to He Xingzhou.

"Hello everyone!" He Xingzhou's armor came with a loudspeaker. He looked at the expectant faces and said, "Thank you to all the workers, engineers, and designers of the space elevator project team for their work day and night for the past ten months. !"

"Today, finally ushered in the completion of the first human space elevator!"

"It will be our bridge to space, and below, we will conduct the first trial operation of the space elevator!"

Below the space ladder, the staff have prepared supplies weighing a thousand tons. These are some of the materials needed to build the spaceport. If you use the current rocket or aerospace plane to transport it, it will take at least ten round trips!

And this thousand tons is not the maximum carrying capacity of the space elevator.

Its maximum carrying capacity is five thousand tons, which is equivalent to the carrying capacity of a conventional freighter!

And the round-trip speed is fast, and it can run non-stop!

Engineers such as He Xingzhou and Xiao Mao got into the car in person. They are all armored, so even if the car fails, they can fly out in time.

He Xingzhou started the countdown: "Ten, nine, eight...three, two, one, Tianti No. 1, start!"

When he finished reciting, the switch of the car of Ladder No. 1 turned on, along with the cable.

This 36,000-kilometer-long cable is all made of carbon nanotubes. From people's perspective, it looks like a rope thrown from the sky by the gods. Pull it and you can go straight to the sky!

The tower is like the acceleration channel of the super high-speed rail. At the first two seconds, the audience can still see the appearance of the tower. After two seconds, the tower changes into a flickering phantom!

He Xingzhou explained simultaneously: "Audience friends, the lift of the car can reach the same speed as the launch vehicle. In ten minutes, we can reach space!"

"The bottom of the car is also equipped with rocket thrusters and anti-gravity devices to ensure our safety. Even if there is an accident, the car can become a small aircraft and land smoothly on the ground!"

When he speaks, the audience can experience the same perspective and feelings as him in the virtual world through neuromechanical devices or brain wave sensing devices.

Although we have entered the new century, most people have never actually taken a rocket or an aerospace plane.

This feeling of rapid ascent is a hundred times more exciting than riding a roller coaster!

Standing in the car, the earth is rapidly moving away from you! If you look down, you will soon see that there is only a small black spot left on the sea level, that is the location of the artificial island!

And looking forward, the clouds have long been under the car, and you can see the arc of the blue star!

"It's so exciting, I feel like I'm going to fly!"

"Ahhhh! I have acrophobia, but I want to experience it again!"

"Haha, give the virtual sensor helmet to my brother, he's already scared to pee!"

"You guys are really good at cooking and playing!"

"I flew straight up!"

"God, it's so cool, you can go to heaven at home!"

After eight minutes, the car began to decelerate. He Xingzhou looked up and could already see the location of the space station and the spaceport.

At this time, they had all entered low-Earth orbit and were in a state of weightlessness.

"Hey in weightlessness!"

"Haha, this is the feeling of flying!"

"Have you been in space yet?" the audience experienced in real time.

The intelligent voice of the ladder reminded: "The ladder is slowing down and is about to enter Tiangong No. 1."

Tiangong is the name of the previous Shenzhou space station, and the new large-scale space station directly continues its name. This is the sequence one of the ten large-scale space stations.

The astronaut on Tiangong-1 is also sending a communication: "Report Commander He, this is the Tiangong-1 space station, astronaut Nie Zhou will report to you!"

"Hello, Nie Zhou, please open the space station."

"Received, the space station navigator has been opened!" Nie Zhou replied.

The space elevator can lead to two destinations, the space station and the spaceport. Because the spaceport was not completed at this time, they first went to the space station to visit.

There is a reception cabin in the space station, and the car can go directly to the reception cabin to unload cargo and pick up people. At the same time, you can enter the space station to visit.

The car stopped steadily in the landing cabin, the airtight door outside the landing cabin was closed, the air valve was opened, and the air was filled here.

He Xingzhou, Xiao Mao and other engineers "get off" together and come to the reception cabin.

It was not the first time for Xiao Mao and others to come here. As the designers of space elevators, they naturally wanted to observe the construction in space, so they quickly adapted.

On the other hand, He Xingzhou himself was not used to the feeling of a weightless environment for a while, so he could only rely on the automatic control system of the armor to assist his walking.

"It's a little embarrassing, I'm not proficient in spacewalking." He Xingzhou touched the handrail and floated forward in the reception cabin.

"Haha, it turns out that Commander He can't either!"

"Me too, I'm practicing swimming!"

"This virtual world is so immersive, I feel like I can't walk at all!"

"I went to space too!" The audience felt the same way.

"Good commander He! Hello engineers!" The two astronauts from the space station have opened the passage between the landing module and the space station and come to report.

Xiao Mao joked to Nie Zhou, "We came up by elevator, are you envious?"

"Envy! I can't be envious!" Nie Zhou also laughed. "With this space elevator, can we astronauts also be able to take the elevator to and from get off work every day?"

He Xingzhou smiled and said, "It is indeed possible, ten minutes up and ten minutes down, which is shorter than commuting in the city!"

"That's great!" said Hong Wenbo, another astronaut. "It's more convenient than working at the space base!"

They walked together to the Tiangong-1 space station.

The space here is huge. In the past, the space stations launched by humans were very small in order to reduce the mass!

And here, there are more than a thousand cabins, and even the smallest cabin is more than ten times the size of the previous International Space Station!

Like the air carrier, in addition to the various scientific research cabins required for work, there are living areas, entertainment areas, industrial manufacturing areas, and more.

The required energy now comes from the huge solar panels outside; in the future it will come from the nuclear fusion power station in the spaceport!

Theoretically, it can be used for human life for more than 100 years!

It's just that the current human has not evolved to the space race, and living in a weightless environment for a long time will cause problems in physical fitness. If it is a child, it will also lead to poor bone development and become deformed!

The Ministry of Biotechnology is already conducting relevant genetic modification experiments so that humans can better adapt to weightless, low-gravity or high-gravity conditions so that they can emigrate to other planets in the future.

"There is nothing to see in the cabin. Commander He, we can see the scenery outside the cabin here!" Nie Zhou took him to the observation cabin.

Here is a fully transparent cabin, you can see the surrounding cosmic stars with the naked eye!

On one side is the bright sun. Without the refraction and blocking of the atmosphere, the sunlight is extremely dazzling and cannot be seen directly by the human eye.

On the other side, is the vast and boundless universe!

He Xingzhou looked over and saw that in the boundless darkness, countless stars were shining, and each one was a star from countless light-years away!

An endless emptiness, endless loneliness emerged in his heart, and because of the feeling of weightlessness, at this moment, his whole person seems to have lost his body, only his soul is left, floating in this boundless universe!

Seeing from the video and seeing it in the virtual world, contacting the starry sky with reality, are completely two experiences!

He Xingzhou was stunned for a few seconds before he sighed: "The boundless universe, how mysterious and unknown!"

He pointed to the bright galaxy and said, "Maybe, at this moment, an alien from another civilization is also looking at us!"

"We're looking for them too!" Nie Zhou said, "Our space telescope has been capturing the light from surrounding galaxies."

He Xingzhou still looked out the window and said, "One day, I will pave those stars into a starry sky road, and then follow this starry sky road to the depths of the universe, and see hundreds of millions of light-years away. What's it like!"

Xiao Mao said with admiration: "Commander He's idea is beyond the reach of ordinary people! Now, I will take this space elevator to the moon!"

"Hahaha!" He Xingzhou laughed, "This is a qualified interstellar builder! Don't worry, you still have more tasks to do!"

"When the ten space elevators on the Blue Star are completed, the next step is the moon, and then Mars! You will be too busy by then!"

"With experience, it's easy to say!" Xiao Mao said, "Tianti No. 1 is completed today, and within two months, the other nine will also be completed! In a few months, we will go to the moon to start construction!"

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