After Huang Lala's immigrant fleet left, Bai Yi had completely resolved the troublesome issue of the Luofan civilization. Now, he could freely mobilize all the resources of the entire galaxy, no longer restricted as before.
The space construction sub-unit's range of activities has expanded to the orbit of the planet Forgiveness, and the ring-shaped building frame has taken shape, which is the base structure of the atmospheric condenser.
As mentioned earlier, Forgiveness Star is a gas giant. The characteristic of this type of planet is that it has a large volume and mass but a pitifully low density. If there is a large enough ocean, Forgiveness Star can even float on the water.
Forgiveness possesses the thickest atmosphere in the entire galaxy, primarily composed of hydrogen, with some methane, ethane, and nitrogen mixed in. Beneath this 5,000 km-thick atmosphere lies an ocean of liquid hydrogen. Further down, closer to the core, the pressure gradually rises to over 3 million atmospheres, and hydrogen exists primarily in solid form.
Bai Yi certainly couldn't dig out solid hydrogen directly from the interior; he could only absorb the atmosphere of the planet of forgiveness bit by bit, starting from the outermost layer. When the pressure in the upper layer dropped, the liquid ocean in the middle would evaporate due to the lowering of the boiling point. This evaporated hydrogen would then fill the gaps in the atmosphere. At the same time, part of the hydrogen metal at the bottom layer would also liquefy into the ocean.
In this way, Bai Yi can devour the entire planet with just a straw.
This straw is the atmospheric condenser. It draws in the atmosphere through a ring of collection tubes surrounding the planet. The absorbed gases are condensed and compressed before being packaged and shipped to the New Mars depot. There, they are transformed and processed into building materials for the system's defense ring.
However, when the project officially started, new problems surfaced.
Currently, Bai Yi was working on three fronts simultaneously: atmospheric condensation on Forgiveness, planetary harvesting on Luofan, and the spacecraft construction on New Mars. Ultimately, the pressure was placed on the infrastructure on Mars. To receive the minerals sent back from Luofan's new planetary harvester, the subspace portals at the New Mars base were already operating at full capacity.
Now, with the addition of gas transmission from Forgiveness Planet and building materials sent from New Mars, the entire line is already overcrowded, and many materials are stuck halfway because there are no more lines to distribute them.
However, expanding the portal wasn't something that could be done overnight. The operation of the subspace portal required a significant amount of energy, and since the new Mars planetary reactor hadn't yet been built, all energy was still sourced from the dozen or so antimatter reactors on the surface.
Taking redundancy into account, these reactors have now reached their maximum safe power. If Bai Yi wants to continue to increase energy, he has only two options: add more reactors or upgrade to new technology.
After weighing the pros and cons, Bai Yi ruled out the first option. The technology behind those antimatter reactors was simply too outdated. If more were built on this planet, not only would it waste surface area, but the energy pipelines would also be incompatible with subsequent equipment.
Although upgrading the reactor consumes more resources than adding old equipment, the new technology has greater advantages in terms of energy consumption ratio and power. More importantly, the output pipeline of the new reactor can be compatible with the latest models of weapons and equipment, instead of having to pass through several conversion stations for modulation before it can be used as it is now.
There are two routes to upgrade the reactor: graviton reactor and photon reactor. Compared with the two, graviton reactor is more popular in the use environment of high-power large equipment. It is for this reason that Bai Yi finally chose it.
The graviton, also known as the graviton, is a type of boson. It is the fundamental unit of gravitational waves and the smallest structure in space. It has zero mass, an infinite variety of forms, and an infinite range of influence. These mutually attractive particles form the entire gravitational field. When these particles are disturbed in the same direction, they manifest on a macroscopic scale as ripples called gravitational waves.
Just as tidal power plants use ocean waves to turn motors, graviton reactors generate energy through gravitational waves. The reactors gain energy by stealing the gravitational pull of nearby matter. The gravitational effect of the stolen matter decreases, which is reflected by a reduction in its mass.
Unlike antimatter reactors, graviton reactors produce waste during operation. This waste comes from the stolen gravitons, which, after being consumed by the reactor, produce a white powder with extremely low density.
These powders are called zero-mass matter, or simply zero-mass, because of their extremely low mass.
However, these zero masses do not exist permanently. They will disintegrate on their own after leaving the reactor core environment. It’s just that the speed of this disintegration is very slow, and it is difficult for ordinary people to detect it.
A standard commercial graviton reactor produces about one ton of zero mass per month. If left unattended, this powder typically takes 20 years to disintegrate. To dispose of this powder, the Galactic Alliance spends a significant amount of money each year transporting hundreds of millions of tons of zero mass to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
In this era, there are almost no problems with garbage disposal, because the black hole is a super trash can that is not picky about food. No matter what it is, as long as you can transport it, you can dump it in without any worries and will not cause any secondary pollution to the outside world.
With the experience of several previous upgrades, Bai Yi seemed very familiar with the process this time. In just over ten days, the first antimatter reactor had been replaced by a graviton reactor. With the addition of the new reactor, the expansion of the local subspace network was also put on the agenda.
As long as he waited for the next few graviton piles to be completed, Bai Yi could maximize the traffic of the local subspace transmission network at once. By then, not only construction materials, but even drones and small and medium-sized starships could reach any transmission gate in the galaxy through these networks.
"Ding, you have been pulled into the subspace chat channel. Let's love each other and guard the border."
Bai Yi suddenly received a message on his communication channel, adding him to a chat group. Besides himself, there were dozens of other border defenders in the group. However, most of their avatars were gray, and only a few were online.
"Hey, hey, isn't this 9527? I haven't seen it this good in a few years."
As soon as he entered the group chat, someone immediately messaged Bai Yi.
He looked at his full business card.
"Border Guard 9527."
He looked at the other person's name again.
"Ansunya, the daughter of the night."
What is a middle school girl?
Bai Yi was thinking in his mind, but who would have thought that as soon as this thought came out of his mind, a few words from the middle school girl were instantly sent out.
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