Planet Builder

"It's natural," says Horsen.

He looked at He Xingzhou and said, "If the Blue Star civilization joins the Star Trade Group, our Star Trade Group can give you a three-hundred-year discount on interstellar logistics costs and provide corresponding navigation protection."

In the star trade group, not all civilizations have interstellar transportation and logistics capabilities.

This business is mainly done by the three major civilizations, because they have advanced warp spaceships and their military strength is strong enough.

For ordinary civilizations to trade, they must pay their corresponding fees to carry out.

"Old friend, the Blue Star civilization is a potential civilization that the Orion Royal Court wants to win over. Is this condition still a little worse?" Shiraishizao said again.

Huo Sen smiled bitterly and said, "This is already the greatest authority I can give. Blue Star civilization is also a second-level civilization in the final analysis. Even if it grows, it will be thousands of years later."

"And now the situation around the star trade group is very tense, and they can't come up with more resources."

He Xingzhou thought in his heart, although the benefits given by the Orion Royal Court are many, the price is to make the Blue Star Civilization their vassal. In fact, blood loss!

The benefits given by the star trade group are not many, but they are more free.

He Xingzhou said: "If we want to join the Star Trade Group, the Star Trade Group must at least protect the safety of the Blue Star civilization."

"We are on the edge of the Pleiades civilization, which is the sphere of influence of the Orion Royal Court. Once we join the Star Trade Group, they will inevitably be regarded as enemies." He Xingzhou said to Huo Sen, "The Star Trade Group must be able to guarantee this! "

Horsen stood up, thinking while talking to important figures in his civilization.

After a while, he said: "The principle of the star trade group is that each civilization protects itself. Unless it is an affiliated civilization, we will protect it."

"But..." He changed his voice, "Your situation is special. The coordinates of Blue Star Civilization are at the junction of the Star Trade Group and the Orion Royal Court."

"If you join the Star Trade Group, we are naturally obliged to maintain your safety."

"I can guarantee now that if you join. When a civilization that is one level higher than your civilization level makes a move, the Star Trade Group will send troops to support!"

He Xingzhou is still dissatisfied. If it is really advanced civilization, I am afraid that they will be wiped out before the rescue arrives.

He continued to negotiate with Horsen, but he never achieved much.

After some negotiation, the two sides agreed to discuss again in a few days.

He Xingzhou negotiated with Baishizao and others.

Shiraishizao said: "The Star Trade Group will not give more benefits, unless you are willing to become their affiliated civilization or alien colony."

"It's impossible," He Xingzhou said.

"The best situation is for the Star Trade Group to send a patrol fleet to intimidate the Orion Royal Court in the nearby star field." Bai Shizao said, "This should be done by our Black Sea Civilization."

Speaking of this, he looked helpless, "Unfortunately now, we are so busy fighting with each other that we don't have the heart to care about these things."

He Xingzhou said: "I am worried that if I join the Star Trade Group, the Orion Royal Court will take action against us."

"That's for sure." Bai Shizao said, "The Orion Royal Court has been fighting frequently for nearly a hundred years, and it will be destroyed if it does not surrender."

"You have no choice."

He Xingzhou also understood this truth. It seems that both sides are more polite to Blue Star Civilization now.

Once he joins one side, he will definitely beat the other side.

If it is not added, it will be swayed left and right, and it will be dried by both sides.

...

He Xingzhou consciously quit the virtual universe and has been discussing with the commanders.

"We have fought in the solar system for so long, with so many sacrifices and bloodshed, definitely not to surrender to other civilizations! Otherwise, we would directly become a subsidiary civilization of the Black Sea Civilization at the beginning!" The commanders' opinions were quite unanimous.

"Submitting to the Orion Royal Court is absolutely impossible!"

"Since this is the case, then we have to think about it, how to protect ourselves after rejecting the Orion Royal Court?" He Xingzhou also agreed to join the Star Trade Group.

"If the Orion Royal Court sends an advanced civilization, we're afraid we won't have a chance." He Hongwei said, "To be on the safe side, we should establish a survival base far away from the solar system. Even if the solar system is destroyed, we can still make a comeback."

"This is a backup method." Cui Weimin said, "In my opinion, if the Star Trade Group can guarantee to fight against the enemy's third-level and above civilization, and against the second-level civilization, we still have some confidence."

He Xingzhou nodded and said: "At least our sub-light speed warships are powerful, and civilizations below level 2.5 are not our opponents!"

He can now say this with confidence. Everyone is fighting in the civilization arena of the virtual universe, and has roughly understood the average level of the second-level civilization in the universe civilization.

In the civilization competition below level 2.5, the Blue Star civilization has never failed!

The power of Dyson rays is comparable to stellar weapons of destruction!

The reason why you can't beat civilizations above level 2.5 is that there are two important thresholds for civilization to reach level 2.5!

That is the application of antimatter energy and the development of warp warships.

When antimatter and matter meet, annihilation occurs, and the mass of positive and negative matter will all be converted into energy, and its energy conversion efficiency is higher than that of nuclear fusion!

The antimatter annihilation energy is ten billion times that of the chemical reaction of hydrogen oxidation, and three hundred times that of the thermonuclear reaction of the core of the sun!

Such energy utilization efficiency will make a qualitative leap in the entire civilization!

The warp engine is to allow the warship to enter the subspace and achieve a speed that "exceeds" the speed of light. Once it exceeds the speed of light, its strike capability far exceeds that of sub-light speed warships.

Two factors have led to the huge gap between the 2.4-level civilization and the 2.5-level civilization!

"In any case, we still have a hundred years of buffer time." He Xingzhou said, "No matter what decision is finally made, we must seize the time to expand our territory in this hundred years!"

"Strive for breakthroughs in antimatter extraction and utilization technology, as well as warp engine technology!"

"As long as there are these two points, our confidence will be much stronger, and the choice will be wider!"

"The commander-in-chief is right. In the final analysis, we have to be strong enough ourselves. It is better to rely on ourselves than relying on the sky and the earth. We will drag them for a hundred years first, and we will talk about everything after a hundred years!" Everyone agreed.

As a result, Blue Star Civilization was negotiating with both the Star Trade Group and the Orion Royal Court, but neither was confirmed.

Because it was a draw period, neither side made any moves.

Blue Star Civilization dispatched warships to explore nearby star systems and mine resources. Neither the Pleiades Society nor the civilization of the Star Trade Group had seen it.

Taking advantage of this effort, Blue Star Civilization rapidly expanded its sphere of influence.

In the Science Department, He Xingzhou personally participated in the research and development of antimatter extraction and utilization technology.

On the quantum optical brain, He Xingzhou unlocked multiple technologies related to antimatter at one time.

"Consume 100,000 energy points to unlock the antimatter particle magnetic trap technology."

"Consume 150,000 energy points to unlock the anti-particle reducer and anti-matter capture technology."

"Consume 200,000 energy points to unlock the antimatter reaction control technology."

"Consume 250,000 energy points to unlock the annihilation reaction energy converter technology."

...

"We have been conducting research on antimatter for nearly two hundred years." On the super star ring, He Xingzhou was communicating with Xu Tengbin and others.

One of the major research projects of the circumplanetary particle collider is antimatter research.

In particle collisions, antimatter is created. And the mass of antimatter produced when particles collide with the circumplanetary particle collider is still quite a lot.

"Antiparticles have weak magnetism. Using this feature, we can use magnetic traps to achieve short-term, low-mass capture. But long-term, high-mass capture is still a problem." Xu Tengbin said.

"Try the combination of an antiparticle decelerator and a magnetic trap."

Particle accelerators are for particle collisions. This antiparticle decelerator is a magnetic field that cools, decelerates and accumulates high-energy antiprotons and positrons, and eventually forms a large number of antihydrogen atoms bound by the electromagnetic field. The temperature of these "cold" antihydrogen atoms is only a few degrees higher than absolute zero. Easier to "catch".

The research team began to design and manufacture antiparticle decelerators and antiparticle magnetic traps, and installed them on the circumplanetary particle collider.

A few months later, they began a formal capture experiment for "antimatter".

"Particle collider, start!" Xu Tengbin started the collider, and the two beams of particles approached the speed of light infinitely through the accelerator orbiting the planet, and then collided together.

They have carried out this experiment many times before, all of which were to study the God particle.

This time, the antimatter produced when the particles collided became their main target.

The antiparticle appears in the collision, it starts to escape quickly, and once it encounters the corresponding positive particle, an annihilation reaction occurs, converting all the mass into energy and bursting out.

And the antiparticle decelerator comes into play, the magnetic field cools and gathers the particles, the antiparticle escape velocity is greatly slowed down, and the magnetic trap gathers them together, using the vacuum magnetic field to bind them.

"Over one kilogram of antiparticles has been captured."

"There are so many, it seems that our initial plan has been successful!" Xu Tengbin said with joy, the energy that an antiparticle of this mass can explode has exceeded their space hydrogen bomb and other weapons!

Even the release of the Purgatory Ray Cannon is enough!

"It's still too little." He Xingzhou was still dissatisfied. The capture of antimatter is of great significance, but the mass is too small to allow the Blue Star Civilization to complete the large-scale application of antimatter.

"The Ring Planet Particle Collider should collide with particles day and night, collect antimatter, and become an antimatter maker!"

"Then we have to build a special antimatter space magnetic warehouse for storage, and a special antimatter transport ship for transportation, so that it can be used on a large scale."

A week later, He Xingzhou ordered the construction of a larger annular antimatter production factory in outer space of Jupiter.

Its mass and volume will be more than a thousand times larger than the super star ring!

Only in this way can antimatter be used more fully in human society.

"After reaching level 2.5 civilization, all kinds of antimatter reactors, warp engines, large space giants, space weapons, the antimatter that needs to be consumed every moment is astronomical." He Xingzhou planned the future.

Blue Star Civilization is also facing the risk of war. If the war starts, the demand for antimatter will increase hundreds of times!

Expanding the antimatter factory is a must, it's not enough.

This problem troubles not only them, but countless civilizations as well. In the trading area of ​​Galaxy City, antimatter is the most popular transaction, and it can even be used as star currency to buy resources from other civilizations.

Powerful civilizations often control their subordinate civilizations through the control of antimatter.

"Without a stellar furnace, there will never be enough antimatter!" He Xingzhou really wanted to start designing and manufacturing a stellar furnace immediately, but they don't have this technology yet.

"Anyway, occupy a few more star systems first."

...

The expansion of the Blue Star civilization and the interstellar trade began to accelerate.

Five years later, the nearest star system to the solar system, the Proxima Centauri star system, a human interstellar pioneering fleet came here.

Captain Huang Sheng looked at the light on the screen, it was the light from Proxima Centauri, and after years of sailing, this was their close approach to the star again.

Compared with the sun, its light is much dimmer. This is a red dwarf star with not much stellar energy.

He looked forward: "I don't know if there are aliens!"

"Don't think about it, there is a high probability of not. The Tianhe Civilization has already detected this star system, and there is no life." Xiong Manni said.

"Maybe they didn't find it!" Huang Sheng was very excited and ordered: "The reconnaissance ship is fully dispatched, and together with the scientific research ship, all large celestial bodies in the entire star system will be detected aside!"

"Received!" In the fleet, ships spread out one by one, searching in the star system.

Like the intelligence of the Sirius civilization, there are no aliens in this star system, but there are planets for resource mining.

"Proxima b, the mass is about 1.3 times that of Blue Star, and the distance is 7 million kilometers from Proxima Centauri. The ecological environment is harsh, no life has been found, and it can be transformed." This is the news from the pioneering fleet.

"Transform Proxima b into a habitable planet as the first colony of our outer star system." He Xingzhou instructed.

Although Proxima Centauri is relatively scarce in resources, it is a star system.

With the current strength of Blue Star Civilization, it is easy to transform a planet!

The exploration of the Proxima star system is only the beginning. The commanders of the major planetary fleets of the Blue Star Civilization are now embarking on the journey of interstellar development.

Another year later, the exploration fleet led by Meng Hai came to the Nanmen II star system, which is 4.4 light-years away from the solar system. There are two stars here, Nanmen II A and B. Similarly, this place has also become a colony of the Blue Star civilization.

Next is the Wolf's Star System, which is 7.8 light-years away from the solar system, the Rutan's Star System, which is 8.7 light-years away from the Solar System, and the Rakai Star System, which is 10.7 light-years away from the Solar System...

The expansion speed of the Blue Star civilization made the surrounding neighbors unable to sit still.

In the Procyon star system, since the failure of the expedition to the solar system, the Procyon civilization has slumped. The new leader Kedel has been supervising the actions of Blue Star Civilization. Seeing the rapid expansion of Blue Star Civilization, Kedel was completely panicked.

Their "research" fleet has encountered the Blue Star Civilization fleet several times, and the performance of the other party's ships has far surpassed them.

They don't even have a Star Destroyer, and the other side already has a lot of sub-light-speed battleships.

For this reason, he was very worried, and the entire civilization was worried that Blue Star Civilization would call one day, after all, they had hatred.

Kedel, together with the new leader of the Sirius Civilization and members of other civilizations of the Pleiades Society, reported to the main civilization, hoping that the Pleiades civilization would respond to this.

In the virtual universe, all members of the Pleiades Society gather here. There are a total of 132 star systems, and the leaders of a total of 38 civilizations are discussing the behavior of the Blue Star civilization.