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Pandora galaxy.

The stellar ecliptic plane, the habitable zone of life 1.5 astronomical units from the central star.

A planet that had never existed in this galaxy before suddenly appeared in this star system.

"This artificial planet is finally completed!"

Feitian, in the bridge control room, looking through the portholes at the planet below, Navigation Officer Belekov, who has been responsible for the construction of artificial planets over the years, has a bright smile on his face.

"Thank you for your hard work, Corvo."

Patting Belekov on the shoulder, Yun Xinghe nodded to him.

Building an artificial planet is not an easy task. It is not as simple as stacking a lot of meteorites, ice cubes, and comets together in an orderly manner.

A planet suitable for human habitation must meet these necessary conditions.

1. Sufficient water resources. Water is the source of life. There is no doubt about the importance of water.

2. A breathable atmosphere with strong atmospheric pressure, air oxygen content, and UV-resistant ozone layer must meet human survival standards.

3. The geomagnetic field. If there is no geomagnetic field outside the atmosphere to resist the invasion of solar storms, no matter how thick the atmosphere on the surface of the planet is, it will be blown into a vacuum.

In addition, the geomagnetic field can also resist most harmful cosmic rays and high-energy particles. A planet without a geomagnetic field can be said to have no potential for transformation.

4. The appropriate autobiographical period and revolution period, the elliptical radius of the revolution orbit, and the angle between the Tropic of Cancer and the ecliptic plane are very important to the formation of the four seasons of the year.

All of the above factors require a lot of mathematical calculations and multi-variable calculations on supercomputers.

On the Feitian, only Berekov, the mathematical genius, can do this job well.

Berekov did not disappoint everyone. In just over 20 years, he built an artificial planet with a diameter of 8,800 kilometers and a surface area of ​​243 million square kilometers.

There are environments such as the artificial sea, the atmosphere, and the geomagnetic field.

The autobiography period is 22 hours, and it takes 413 days to orbit the star.

After the transformation of the ecosystem is completed, this planet will be enough to accommodate 10 billion people to survive on it.

"This...how is this possible?"

When officials from the Federal Space Exploration Agency learned that the members of the Feitian had transformed such a huge habitable planet in just over twenty years, they immediately exclaimed and then shook their heads suddenly: "It's impossible. , this is absolutely impossible!”

If they had not learned about the existence of the floating stone element later, they would never have believed that the efficiency of planetary transformation could be so fast.

Because according to estimates, the workload of building an artificial planet from scratch would require an expedition team of several people and a small spacecraft to complete, and the transformation project would take at least a hundred years.

So when the Feitian arrived in the Pandora galaxy, the Feitian reported to the Starry Space Exploration Bureau: There are no habitable planets in the habitable zone of life in this star system (Pandora is concealed), but there are a large number of meteorites in the meteorite belt, hoping to drag the meteorites to the habitable zone. When he was trying to build a habitable planet by himself, scientists from the Starry Space Exploration Agency immediately persuaded the Feitian to give up this plan and asked Yun Xinghe and the others to try their luck in the next star system after replenishing the spacecraft with fuel and materials.

The scientist said: "Forget it, building a planet requires moving trillions of tons of material. Each move must span at least several astronomical units. With the efficiency of a spacecraft, it can be completed in a thousand years. Without such a huge workload, this kind of work requires the cooperation of tens of thousands of engineering spacecraft to be possible."

But Yun Xinghe still wanted to give it a try, not wanting to waste this galaxy with huge potential for transformation.

As a result, it took only twenty-eight years for Feitian to complete the workload that the scientist estimated would take thousands of years to complete.

The efficiency has been improved dozens of times.

Floating stone.

The floating stone that can eliminate gravity is the main reason why Yun Xinghe and the others were able to build an artificial planet in such a short period of time.

This is the strategic value of the floating stone. One mole unit of UN element can offset the mass within 10 cubic meters of space. On the surface of a long block of meteorite weighing 100 million tons, as long as 1 million are evenly spread The unit's floating stone, this meteorite, can be pulled away effortlessly.

Yunxinghe first produced 100 "Cartman-class" unmanned transport ships with a length of no more than 100 meters, as well as a batch of space gravel crushers, space mold boxes, space net bags and other equipment for Belekov, and then gave him 100 million units of Belekov's floating stones... The combination of these things can transport tens of billions of tons of meteorites every day.

In addition, in the later period, the Feitian, the most powerful one, also helped haul hundreds of billions of tons of "heavy cargo". It is no wonder that the transformation efficiency is not exaggerated.

Even if you have enough "float stones" in your hand, asteroids with a diameter of less than a thousand kilometers can easily drag away the one they are interested in.

It can be seen that the value of the floating stone has a promising future only in the aspect of transforming the star system environment.

"This man-made planet has entered the stage of automated transformation. Hundreds of thousands of purification devices and millions of greening robots will complete the remaining transformation work according to procedures. Two hundred years later, the Federation's immigration spacecraft and interstellar fleet will arrive. After this galaxy, you can have a comfortable place to stay.”

"We can leave with peace of mind and go to the next stop on our journey."

Berekov, who seems to have lost some weight after working hard for more than 20 years and expending a lot of mental and physical energy, said relaxedly.

Feel free to leave?

Hearing this word, everyone including Yun Xinghe shook their heads slightly, not very optimistic.

Can you really leave with peace of mind?

An artificial planet, coupled with billions of moles of floating stone, can really make their human compatriots give up coveting the planet Pandora.

You must know that 90% of the pumice elements on Pandora have not been mined, and more than 70% of them are distributed in the deep crust and mantle of the planet, making it very difficult to mine.

The old man in his mind also told Yun Xinghe: In order to maximize the mining of floating stone elements, the Pandora planet in another parallel universe was completely crushed by the ore mining company of the Blue Star Federation, and almost every molecule was selected. After reading it again, I will never let go of even 0.00001 mole unit of the floating stone element in this planet.

Because, even in the entire galaxy, there are very few planets containing the element Pandora, and a planet like Pandora with a reserve of more than 100 million moles of the element Pandora is simply unheard of.

Not to mention the Blue Star Federation, if an alien civilization learns of the existence of Pandora, it is estimated that it will immediately send out a fleet and sail at a very high speed to seize this planet before the Blue Star Federation mines the last unit of floating stone elements!

In order to grab more, they may even go to war with the Blue Star Federation!

In front of the floating stone, tree gods, Lanwei people, giant birds, giant beasts, and millions of species of animal and plant resources are not worth mentioning.

In the face of such huge interests, no matter how noble an individual, no matter how principled and moral a government is, they have to think about it day and night: Should they choose admirable noble sentiments or immeasurable interests?

They are also valuable assets in the humanistic spirit.

The same is true money and silver in front of you.

Which one to choose?

"Sooner or later, the Lanwei people will lose their home. Sooner or later, Pandora will become a beautiful memory in people's minds. In that parallel space, after Pandora was destroyed, the Blue Star Federation spawned many cultural works such as movies, TV shows, and games. It is very Popular, the actions of the Federation Fleet and RDA Mining Company have also been criticized and can be said to be notorious. However, these moral pressures have not affected their mining efficiency at all. Even stimulated by Pandora, the Blue Star Federation has devoted itself to interstellar development. The number of people has increased explosively.”

"Morality can restrict some behaviors of people, but it can never restrict the pursuit of interests."

The old man in his mind said.

"In other words, no matter what I do, I can't change Pandora's ending?" Yun Xinghe asked.

"You just have to make sure the ending isn't too bad."

Yun Xinghe smiled bitterly and said: "I regret coming to Pandora now. I would rather go to a desolate galaxy and open up an ordinary colonial star for the Federation than bear such moral pressure... I originally planned to have a happy life. journey."

"This is a normal thing, kid. The ending of Pandora will at least not be as bad as that of the parallel space. The Lanwei race should be preserved and become a minority that joins the Federation... For your sake, The Federation will not kill them all."

"Grandpa, don't laugh at me!" Yun Xinghe's bitter smile became even worse.

"Be happy, kid, and be ready to go again. The next stop of the journey will be more interesting. You will see a very interesting intelligent civilization. This civilization will open your eyes and make you think about life."

"Another intelligent civilization?"

Yun Xinghe's eyes lit up and he began to look forward to it.