87: Chapter 87 Mars Terraforming Project

The third step of the plan: the Gene Optimization Project.

The physical fitness of the Xia people was still too poor to adapt to faster acceleration, even after being injected with Level 1 Gene Optimization Fluid.

Furthermore, in interstellar migration, a stronger physique represents higher survival capability.

Research and development for Level 2 Gene Optimization Fluid was about to begin.

At that time, human lifespans would be longer, and their physical fitness would be even higher!

The fourth step of the plan: the Great Mars Development Project.

This step of the plan was relatively easy to achieve, but it required more people and organizations to participate.

On a new planet, opportunities and challenges coexist, as do opportunities and wealth.

The above was the Super God Group's Mars Migration Project!

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The notice for the first step of the plan had been issued, and the application channel was on the Super God Logistics APP.

Additionally, the Super God Logistics APP was renamed the Super God APP.

Preparations for the second step, the Mars Terraforming Project, had already begun.

First was expanding the number of e-class spaceships; in future missions within the Solar System, e-class spaceships would be the main force.

Su Fan returned to the secret base on the Moon.

Inside the base, production was in full swing under the control of the Red Queen.

Su Fan arrived at an open space; today, he was going to exchange and manifest many black technologies.

"System, filter and recommend an e-class spaceship that can quickly capture asteroids."

"The e-class spaceship most suitable for the current situation has been filtered—the starhunter ship," the system replied.

"The starhunter ship is 3,000 meters long, 800 meters wide, and 800 meters high, with a conical shape. It is equipped with multiple cold nuclear fusion power units and multiple stellar-level propulsion engines, possessing powerful motivation and an ultra-fast speed of 3,000 kilometers per second!"

"However, the drawbacks are obvious. Because the multiple power units and propulsion engines take up most of the ship's space, the internal space is small, with only over 100 rooms."

"Furthermore, since it is an engineering-class spaceship, Starhunter One is only equipped with one ED100 Electromagnetic Kinetic Cannon and one EJ100 Laser Cannon to clear obstacles during flight."

The system briefly introduced the basic data of the starhunter ship.

Su Fan's eyes lit up upon hearing this. A speed of 3,000 kilometers per second was equivalent to one percent of the speed of light, which was already quite fast for a Level 2 Civilization ship.

"System, how many influence points is it worth?"

"Only 990,000 influence points!" the system replied. "In addition, if you manifest the production line, it only requires another 99 million influence points."

Su Fan: "..."

He knew that such a good ship certainly wouldn't be cheap; for Level 2 Civilization black technology, the highest price was 990,000 influence points.

"Exchange and manifest it!" Su Fan raised his hand and pointed to the open space in front of him. "Manifest it right here."

The reason he was so decisive was that this was a vital part of terraforming Mars.

In the Solar System, Mars is closest to the Blue Planet, with an orbital period of 687 days, a rotation period of 24 hours and 37 minutes, and an axial tilt of 23.59 degrees, very close to the Blue Planet's 23 degrees.

Mars' radius is half that of the Blue Planet, its volume is much smaller, and its mass is only about one-ninth of the Blue Planet's.

As for the gravity issue, which is more important to humans, Mars is only one-third that of the Blue Planet.

Therefore, the first step in terraforming Mars was to increase its mass.

Once Mars' mass was increased to be similar to the Blue Planet's, its gravity issue would be resolved naturally.

Besides the gravity issue, there was another crucial problem: the atmosphere.

One could say Mars has no atmosphere, but in fact, it does have a tiny bit of one.

The atmosphere is more than 100 times thinner than the Blue Planet's, and ninety-five percent of it is carbon dioxide.

Humans could not survive in such an atmosphere at all!

The scientific community has debated endlessly why Mars' atmosphere is so thin. Some scientists believe that Mars' atmosphere was always like this.

Other scientists believe that Mars once had a dense atmosphere, but because its gravity and magnetic field were too small, the atmosphere was blown away by the solar wind.

Mars' gravity is barely acceptable, but its magnetic field is truly too poor, being only one percent of the Blue Planet's.

Such a weak magnetic field is also regional, distributed unevenly across Mars—present in some places and absent in others.

With such a magnetic field, even if an atmosphere were created for Mars in the future, it couldn't defend against the solar wind, and the atmosphere would eventually be blown clean away.

Therefore, creating a magnetic field for Mars that was not inferior to the Blue Planet's was also very critical.

Regarding this, Su Fan also had a solution after consulting the system.

The method was simple and crude: during the process of towing asteroids to merge into Mars, tow more iron-rich asteroids.

That was the theory, but the actual operation was more complex.

After Su Fan manifested the Starhunter spaceship production line, he exchanged and manifested two special types of plant seeds.

The first plant was High-Oxygen Strong-Survival Algae.

This was a type of algae that could survive in various water qualities and possessed powerful reproductive capabilities. Most importantly, its photosynthetic efficiency was extremely high, and its oxygen production was massive!

Once Mars' basic environment was modified, this algae would be the pioneer for adjusting the atmospheric environment.

The second plant was Strongly Corrosive Moss.

This moss had a powerful corrosive effect on rocks, allowing it to quickly transform rocks into organic soil.

Soil is the foundation for the survival of many organisms, and the Xia people could not live without it.

With the gene for farming inherited in their bones, although the Ternary Food Synthesizer now provided basic synthetic staples, in reality, aside from the initial hype, many people still preferred natural food.

Especially now that the Xia Kingdom and the Super God Group were distributing free money to the public, many people had left the cities where they once worked and returned to their rural hometowns, living a life of picking chrysanthemums by the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the southern mountains.

Because there was no pressure to survive, farming in this situation was a form of enjoyment.

Most Xia people yearned for such a life:

A small farmhouse courtyard, preferably with two floors above ground, one floor below, and a basement; the top two floors for living, and the lower floor for storing tools and sundries.

A small patch of land in front of the yard where they could be self-sufficient by growing some of their favorite vegetables and fruits.

A dog, a cat, a few chickens and ducks in the yard, and a pond of fish.

On a sunny spring day, lying in a rocking chair with a glass of water, a cup of tea, or a favorite drink or wine; a book—paper or electronic—or a favorite TV series, movie, or game.

Swaying back and forth under the warm sunshine, a day would pass just like that.

In the future, every Xia person who migrated to Mars would be able to have such a life!

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