244: Chapter 244 Ideal Star

Currently, the dyson sphere of Cangming No. 1 was not like that, nor was its main body a satellite carrying solar sails. Instead... it was a giant net-like structure composed of micro-intelligent robots. This mesh structure could capture all matter, including air molecules, and subject them to Nuclear Fusion reactions within the net. Humans could then set the specific substances they required.

For example, if they needed carbon...

They only needed to subject hydrogen elements to continuous fusion to turn them into helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, and then carbon...

Through this method, humanity could obtain all the resources they desired. Cangming No. 1 did not need these resources, so they would serve entirely as supplies for humanity.

Furthermore, the issue Gao Yuan worried about—that the area was too large and the contraction speed too slow—was not a concern at all...

These nano-intelligent robots would expand on their own while absorbing materials!

The speed of expansion would proceed in a geometric progression.

Progress might be slow in the early stages, but once the base number became large, it would be much faster.

It was like the classic mathematical problem of rice grains on a chessboard: sixty-four squares, one grain on the first square, two on the second, four on the third! So how many grains would be on the sixty-fourth square?

The answer surpassed everyone's imagination. The number of rice grains on the sixty-fourth square was a twenty-digit number, approximately over two hundred billion tons! Enough to feed a billion people for five hundred years!

Therefore, with fission-style manufacturing, the scale would grow larger the later it got. But why would it still take five hundred years? Because when the expansion speed exceeded the movement speed of the nanobots, the expansion would hit a bottleneck and could no longer accelerate!

Enveloping a nebula with a radius of ten light-years would take a long time...

It was like a bacterium trying to eat a blue whale; even if it could divide infinitely, it would still take a long time.

Right now, Gao Yuan was that bacterium trying to eat the blue whale!

Humanity had to consume this nebula. The interstellar matter on the outskirts of the nebula was sparse, only slightly denser than the atmospheres of some planets! However, the further inward one went, the higher the concentration of matter and the higher the temperature.

So there was almost no difficulty in the early stages, but later on, the difficulty increased. The core region of the nebula was already almost indistinguishable from the interior of a star! No matter how bold humanity had been before, they had only thought of enveloping the sun to absorb energy; they had never thought of eating the sun.

Now, Gao Yuan wanted to eat a sun that had not yet fully formed...

Gao Yuan didn't know if the net formed by these nanobots could withstand temperatures of hundreds of millions or even billions of degrees.

But since Cangming No. 1 was confident, Gao Yuan had no objections.

Now, everyone was to join this game of 'eating the sun'.

In the early stages, the nanobots could be controlled by a single supercomputer, but once the quantity reached a certain magnitude, control had to be partitioned. Gao Yuan calculated that he would need at least ten billion super photonic computers to link into this massive material net, with each photonic computer controlling over a billion kilometers of the mesh structure.

Ordinary computers simply couldn't handle such complex calculations. They could only constantly partition different regions, eventually forming a massive computer network that was even more complex than the cells of a human brain!

The amount of matter required to form a giant nanobot sphere with a diameter of ten light-years was astronomical. However, in the later stages, this net would become smaller and smaller until it shrank to the size of a planet!

The energy and matter absorbed earlier would all be used for expansion; there wouldn't be surplus materials until a hundred years later.

Gao Yuan also needed to plan the use of these materials in advance.

He intended to create a giant planetary warship; a single nebula was a single star.

How much material would ultimately be produced by eating this nebula? Gao Yuan didn't know...

But it would certainly be a lot.

So he had to research and develop a type of super planetary warship in advance.

A warship larger than an ordinary planet.

Or rather, this was a fortress planet—a planet with power systems, defense systems, and a meticulously designed interior.

With such a planet, wherever they went in the future, that would be home!

Building an Ideal Star according to the will of humanity!

Such an unprecedented Ideal Star required a vast amount of preparation. Now, Gao Yuan was going to bring everyone on board to start constructing the Ideal Star a hundred years in advance!

In a hundred years, every detail would be perfectly designed, and then they would begin the actual construction using the materials collected by the nanobot network.

Five hundred years later...

Perhaps the most unique planet in the entire universe would be born...

This would be a home star belonging to humanity.

Whether it was temperature, humidity, or various environments, everything would be optimal. Moreover, it would possess powerful mobility, defensiveness, and offensiveness!

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The more Gao Yuan thought about it, the more excited he became. So he went to the Academy of Sciences and explained his plan.

Everyone was shocked by his magnificent plan.

Humanity building a planet with the nature of a warship according to their own will?

Although it sounded sensational, there was actually a very high probability of success.

"Marshal, this plan of yours is too grand..."

"In the future, humanity will no longer be wandering. Carrying our own ideal planet, that's called traveling!"

"Right, we can create an atmosphere according to our own wishes, create detection satellites orbiting the planet, and even install high-power Nuclear Fusion satellites for lighting and heating!"

"Build a super underground transportation system inside the planet; that way, global transportation efficiency will increase a hundredfold! And it can withstand all sorts of extreme conditions!"

"Build a hundred-thousand-meter-high super particle emitter to serve as the ultimate weapon. Even a celestial body as large as the moon would disintegrate if hit by a single shot! Never mind those warships!"

"A type of light membrane can be installed on the outer edge of the entire atmosphere. It can not only maintain temperature but also collect various cosmic rays to analyze the space environment and monitor any possible signals!"

Everyone began to chip in and add to the plan!

Gao Yuan nodded...

"The Ideal Star Project will be handed over to the Academy of Sciences for preliminary setup. Afterward, the entire plan will be broken down so that everyone can participate! In five hundred years, humanity will set out once again!"

"Understood, Marshal. With the Ideal Star, our lives in the future might be even more comfortable than in the Meteor City Cluster!"

Gao Yuan nodded...

It was indeed possible.

Now, he had Gao Gan lead the people from the Space Physics Laboratory to begin practical operational research on the Cangming No. 1 dyson sphere project, and to start work as soon as possible!

A month later, the initial ten super photonic computers were put into use. The laboratory produced the first ten nano-material robots. They boarded a warship and arrived at the outskirts of the nebula. This giant nebula was vaster than the sky.