Over the next two weeks, Luo Fan frequently sent communication requests to New Mars. Besides communicating, Bai Yi also found time to teach Luo Fan's UN Secretary-General Liu Shasha how to play Landlord.
Luofan civilization naturally had its share of board games, but their rules were often simple and uninteresting, with fewer and fewer card types. So, when Liu Shasha learned how to play Landlord (a card game), this high-class entertainment from a more advanced civilization quickly spread across Luofan through the United Nations.
Of course, this had nothing to do with Bai Yi, he was just bored for the moment.
"De de de de de de de de de de de de..."
Bai Yi hummed a tune randomly and continued to plan his new Mars base.
After days and nights of hard work by the builders, a huge cylindrical structure 25 meters high was erected.
The outer layer of the structure is a meter-thick layer of charged armor. These alloys, made of ordinary materials, have been specially processed to greatly increase the structural strength by charging energy. In some extreme cases, their strength can even rival that of battleship armor plating.
Although this enhancement is not permanent and will quickly dissipate once the energy is interrupted, it is perfect for protecting the reactor that serves as an energy source itself.
The antimatter pile is accompanied by an antimatter production machine, housed in a separate explosion-proof dome. The machine contains a vacuum chamber where antimatter is produced using a charge-coupled device and then confined in a special container using particle traps.
This produced antimatter is periodically fed into the reactor, traveling along magnetic confinement lines to the core, where it annihilates with conventional matter. This reaction results in a 100% mass loss, meaning that all the matter involved is converted into energy. In contrast, nuclear fusion causes a mass loss of less than 2%.
It is precisely because of this huge gap in energy levels that antimatter reactors have an incredibly high cost-to-energy ratio compared to conventional energy sources. It is estimated that for every unit of energy consumed to synthesize antimatter, 1,500 units of energy can be produced through the reactor.
For example, the one in front of Bai Yi. Once it is running at full power, the energy it outputs will far exceed the combined power of more than a dozen nuclear fusion reactors currently in use.
However, although the antimatter reactor looks very powerful, looking at the entire Galactic Alliance, this type of reactor is still only considered to be civilian.
Since the production of the core does not require mature technology, the production of antimatter itself does not require any special raw materials. Therefore, despite the technology having been iterated several times, these reactors, which seem to be inefficient now, still have tens of millions of them operating in various corners of the Milky Way, and new ones are built and put into operation every year.
"Get ready to light the fire." Bai Yi muttered to himself.
He even specially made a big red button and a misshapen stand-in for this ignition.
The main body of the stand-in was modified from a single-door refrigerator. A rotatable camera was installed on the top of the refrigerator, and a mechanical tentacle with claws was installed on each side. There were no legs at the bottom where the legs were originally, but two tracks.
It highlights the shoddy workmanship and industrial waste.
It’s not that Bai Yi doesn’t want to make a human figure, it’s just that there is no relevant data in the border guard database, and his own attainments in art are too poor. Apart from the number of facial features, none of the other aspects of the people he made are good looking.
After putting on the bionic skin, it looks more like a mimic insect that failed to transform than a human.
Bai Yi regained his composure, not considering it any further. He clenched his right fist and slammed it hard on the big red button.
Snap——
The arm broke with a sound.
Bai Yi:!
The moment the button was pressed, a humming sound filled the air. The armor activated first, energy from the nuclear reactor pouring into the armor. Light blue streams gradually emerged from the armor's surface. These streams of light began to drift across the armor's surface, gradually fading before disappearing completely. As this process progressed, the armor itself gradually shifted from its original beige color to a slightly bluish-white.
By the time the armor was fully charged, the humming sound in the air died down. Antimatter clumps, engulfed by the magnetic field, began to enter the core one by one, annihilating with conventional matter.
The blinding white light produced by the reaction is countless times brighter than the fireball of a nuclear explosion, but these photons and high-energy radiation are firmly confined in a ring-shaped energy flow. The small amount of energy that escapes is bounced back by the total reflection layer when it hits the inner wall of the core.
A huge flow of energy gushed out of the reactor like a majestic beating heart, continuously injecting vitality into the new Mars base, which had been stagnant in development.
Feeling this powerful energy, Bai Yi brought several facilities online that had been shut down due to energy shortages. This included the new toys he had prepared for colonizing and transforming other planets.
Bai Yi’s new toy is a huge electromagnetic acceleration cannon.
A slender cannon barrel rested on a massive hexagonal base. The term "slender" was merely a visual effect from a distance; in reality, the muzzle's inner diameter exceeded ten meters, and it was encased in a line of U-shaped electromagnetic acceleration coils. Its sheer length made it appear incredibly slender from a distance, raising concerns that it might break under its own weight.
The scientific name of this thing is the intrastellar short-range mass projector, also known as the planetary cannon.
It was actually a gigantic electromagnetic cannon, just like any other electromagnetic cannon, which accelerated and fired projectiles through electromagnetic effects. The only difference was that Bai Yi's planetary cannon didn't fire projectiles, but landing capsules.
The first planet, which is the one closest to the star, was named Lava Star by Bai Yi.
The planets in this galaxy are currently registered in Bai Yi's system in order of their distance from the star as Lava Star, Luo Fan, New Mars and the gaseous Forgiveness Star.
Among them, the lava star is very close to the star and rotates very fast, completing one circle every two hours, so its surface is baked particularly evenly.
The average surface temperature of the lava star is as high as 1200 degrees Celsius, and the entire planet is almost completely molten except for the poles.
The mechanical swarm cannot work normally in such an extreme environment, and Bai Yi lacks large transport aircraft capable of transporting bulk cargo, so he chooses the Earth Cannon as a way to reach the Lava Star.
Although this will slow things down at the start, everything will be fine once the portal is established.
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