The Sumol galaxy.

Three years ago, this galaxy, which was considered "barren", "dangerous", and "worthless", is now filled with countless spaceships, a large number of floating spaceports are being built at a rapid pace, and many huge spaceships as huge as mountains are constantly coming and going.

And all this was only because of the decision of a conference three years ago, the most influential group in the world of all mankind......

"Ring World? Are these scholars crazy?"

Inside a spaceship, a worker stared at the vast void in front of him and smacked his tongue.

At the moment, this massive galaxy with a radius of more than 200 billion kilometers has become a huge construction site.

In front of him, in the dark and dead void, those trillion-sized unmanned machines were methodically cleaning up everything in this star system. Asteroids, comets, and space junk scattered throughout the galaxy that are thought to be an obstacle to space construction are being filled into material decomposition furnaces to be recycled into useful materials.

According to the blueprint of the scientific conference, with the blue giant star with a radius of 40 million kilometers - Sumol as the center, no matter with a size scale of more than 100 nanometers is allowed within a radius of 200 billion kilometers, which means that in the vicinity of the blue giant, anything larger than an atom is not allowed to exist.

Only in this way can the construction process of this highly demanding megastructure be absolutely guaranteed to be undisturbed.

This demanding requirement means that even the most basic solar ejection of the blue giant star must be under human control, so the scientific council is already asking for the construction of a large gravitational restraint device large enough to restrain the blue giant.

This massive restraint with a radius of more than 50 million kilometers alone would need to consume a conservatively estimated mass of more than 10,000 Earths.

Such a huge resource demand is beyond the capacity of this star system, so under the signing of the scientific meeting, the gaseous and solid planets in several nearby star systems will be dismantled and used to build this massive device.

An adjective that destroys the world is too small for a project of this magnitude.

Such a project would be unaffordable for any human nation, but the scientific council clearly did not think so.

This massive gravitational restraint device is not just used to restrain the blue giant, it will also make full use of all the energy released by the blue giant star, and become a facility that matches the ring world.

Yes, in the Old Earth era, the Dyson sphere that scientists fantasized about at that time was just an accessory to this huge project.

"We're going to put the reins on the stars. ”

At the scientific meeting, Inshina said.

The gravitational restraint device is the reins that will harness the massive star, restraining its every furious reaction, trapping it, suppressing it, and finally making the berserk beast with a diameter of more than 40 million kilometers bow down to humanity.

The sun, which once stood high above all things, will now be held in the palm of the hand by man.

After that, the ring world will actually start to be built.

Relying on the huge energy supply transmitted from the reins of Sumor, many unmanned spacecraft and unmanned machines will dismantle the planets and materials in dozens of nearby star systems, and then build an unprecedented project around the ring world step by step.

According to Inshnana's calculations, in order to build this "annular world", within a radius of 300 light years, the celestial systems of 75 star systems will be affected to varying degrees, the planets in 21 star systems will be completely dismantled, and 4 stars will be forcibly extinguished and dismantled to use their huge matter, and these 4 star systems will also be removed from the universe.

Based on this request, it is said that more than 1 trillion trillion unmanned machines are faithfully fulfilling this goal.

The ice-rock asteroids, rocky asteroids, and comets in the Sumer system have been gradually cleaned up, and now, they will also remove the nearby non-conforming objects within 1.5 light-years. And the dismantling tool specially prepared for those huge planets, the planet-level matter decomposer, is also being built.

In the future, these material decomposers, which are more than 100 miles in size and dozens of times larger than Mount Everest, will decompose those gaseous planets and solid planets into the needed matter one by one.

And right now, there is already a completed planetary material decomposer in the works.

In the worker's line of sight, it could clearly see in the space above a rocky planet orbiting the Sumol blue giant, a shuttle-shaped planetary material decomposer was levitating, aiming its slender tip at the planet.

From that slender end, a huge pillar of light like a laser continued to eject, and the huge pillar of light bombarded the planet, causing chaos in the planet's already fragile atmosphere.

But the workers knew that it was not a laser, but countless nano-scale autonomous machines.

These autonomous machines, which are only larger than atoms, are constantly gushing out under the command of the planet's material decomposer, stripping those atoms from the matter when they come into contact with the matter, and then sending them back to the decomposer. This efficiency is obviously slow, but the number of these autonomous machines is too many.

How many of these autonomous machines are in the pillar of light, which seems to be tens of kilometers thick, and which is only the size of an atom? The workers do not know, and they do not bother to know, because it is very difficult to read out the number.

In front of this material decomposer specially prepared for the planet, a mountain is nothing more than a matter of breathing. But even if it is such a matter decomposer, it will take a long time to decompose such a huge planet.

"How long do you think we'll stay here?"

The worker stared at the massive device that was slowly decomposing the planet, and asked his friend without looking back.

Behind him, his friend shook his head.

No one knows, except for the scientists at the scientific conference, how long they will be here to build the ring.

Century?

Millennium?

Years?

They don't know.

"I think we should make a home here. ”

Friends look somewhere.

There, unmanned machines are in full swing to build space habitats, which are equivalent to space habitats of small planets, which can theoretically accommodate tens of billions of people, and are the living spaces built by human countries in order to increase population.

But here, more than 100,000 of these space habitats will be built for workers to temporarily inhabit.

These places will be where workers and AIs will live in the future, and from now on, they and their descendants will live out their lives, old ages, sickness and death in this system.

"It's crazy though...... But it feels particularly interesting. Friend, do you think we're going to create the world?"

Faced with the workers' questions, the friend shook his head.

"No, we are already in creation. ”

......

A long history, an unprecedented mega-project.

With the supreme scientific conference as the leading institution, and with the help of many human nations, this unprecedentedly large and huge project is being perfected little by little. Stars are dismantled, stars are extinguished......

A thousand years later, Innana died.

It has been genetically modified many times and has a long lifespan, but it is not infinite after all. He did not accept the suggestion to sleep in the cryopod, he wanted to create the world with his own hands, and so, in the 700th year, the arrogant and conceited university passed away peacefully.

2,000 years......

3,000 years ......

In the third millennium, the stellar control device was completed.

When the stellar control device was officially launched, the scientific meeting celebrated ten eternal days for this, and the project on the ring world was one-third complete, and the remaining two-thirds were waiting for the scientific conference to be completed.

4,000 years ......

5,000 years......

In the fifth millennium, this magnificent project was interrupted.

A war, an unprecedented war dominated by psykers, broke out. Scientific conferences have lasted for nearly 10,000 years and have seen countless wars, but none of them can be compared, and even transcendent scientific conferences have to be dragged into them.

6,000 years......

The war is not over.

7,000 years......

The war is not over.

8,000 years ......

The scientific conference that had existed for 10,000 years was dissolved, and this huge intermittent project was completely interrupted.

9,000 years......

The war is not over.

10,000 years......

The war is not over.

......

The Sumol system.

One of the greatest unfinished projects ever built in the human world, where the glory of humanity once was, is now a joke, a mockery, and whenever people talk about the impossible, they always say, "Wait until the moment Sumol is built." ”

In the vastness of the void, the reddish-orange star Sumol was silent in the void, and only those magnificent frames silently testified to its past glory.

And now, a moment has come to change Sumore's fate.

"Emperor, this is Sumor. ”

In a majestic spaceship, a man in military uniform stood with his hands in his hands, gazing at the massive stars in the distant void and the grand devices that surround it, with the ministers of the Empire standing beside him.

Seemingly driven by some kind of desire, the emperor, who had pacified six thousand years of war, and the most powerful psionic of all time, was unexpectedly interested in Sumor.

"It is said that 4,000 years ago, due to the outbreak of war, the project was stalled for a long time, and in order to prolong the short life of the blue giant, the Supreme Scientific Council changed the reaction mode of Sumor through the star control device, and controlled its reaction to low efficiency. So the current Sumol is not a blue giant, but a giant strange red dwarf. ”

"Can it be restored? ”

The man in military uniform said lightly.

The minister thought for a moment and said.

"Yes. But during the 6,000-year war, the scientific council was long disbanded, and much of the technology was lost, and although we were able to reactivate Sumol through the star control device, once activated, we didn't know how to revert it back to red dwarf mode. ”

As he spoke, the minister shook his head helplessly.

As Inshinai said more than 10,000 years ago, the scientific progress of mankind has stagnated, and even after more than 10,000 years, human beings have not much difference in science and technology from that time, and even regressed.

So much repetitive research and waste that technological progress is almost a matter of luck. It is often a lucky scholar who is inspired by a certain person in a star region thousands of light-years away to make a certain technological progress, but this technological progress is difficult to spread throughout the galaxy.

Listening to the minister's words, the emperor said softly.

"Activate it. ”

"But...... But ......"

"Didn't you hear me? ”

The Emperor turned around, his pupils blooming with a strange brilliance, and the energy in his eyes that was constantly growing and dying was the embodiment of the Emperor as the most powerful psionic person in the entire universe.

With a single look, the Emperor can tear apart a spaceship, and in some legends, the Emperor has even destroyed a planet with his psionic powers, disintegrating it into powder. Of course, this is just a legend, and the emperor never recognized it.

"Minister...... The minister immediately complied. ”

The minister said with sincere fear.

It didn't take long for the originally dim stellar control device to begin to brighten again, and after thousands of years, the stellar control device was back in operation.

Under the influence of ancient technology that even the scholars of the empire could not understand, some kind of wonderful changes were taking place in the stellar control device, and any psionic person present could clearly feel the convergence of the huge energy in the void, and as the strongest psionic, the emperor naturally understood it better.

Thousands of pillars of light erupted from the nodes of the star control device, pointing directly at the star encased in the star control device.

The star, which had been quiet and stable, began to stir, and its energy response continued to rise, gradually changing its color from a slightly dull red to a bright one, and finally to a dazzling blue.

The bright blue shone inside the spaceship, and the faces of many ministers changed as they looked at the furious stars that were spewing the blazing sun.

Like a quiet kitten suddenly tearing off its coat and turning into a violent beast, this 40 million kilometers away furious beast is restless, the star control device seems to be unable to trap this giant beast at all, and the violent reaction is even affecting the spaceship hundreds of millions of kilometers away.

"Your Majesty, the star control device is out of control! Please leave, it's too dangerous here. ”

A minister said urgently.

The Emperor was unmoved, but remained staring at the stars in front of him.

The furious beast struggled, but the star control device remained unmoved, and continued to steadily devour the sun that the star spewed out, transforming it in some kind of wonderful way. It was as if the steel chains on the giant beast's body were trapped, no matter how the giant beast struggled, but the seemingly slender steel chains never moved.

After a long time, the beast gradually quieted down, locked in by the stellar control device that bound itself.

Silently watching the scene in front of him, the emperor spoke again.

"Restart the Ring World Project. ”

......

One day seven hundred years ago, on a certain planet.

"Kid, do you know that our ancestors weren't actually natives of this planet, our ancestors used to be in the sky. ”

"Heavenly?"

The ignorant child raised his head and asked curiously.

He was wearing a linen shirt, which was already a very delicate garment on a human planet that was still stuck in the age of cold weapons.

During the long interstellar war, many planets were forced to retreat to the primitive wilderness era, and the child's ancestors took a spaceship to escape the war, but finally accidentally fell on this planet and never left.

"Yes, we live in the stars. ”

The old man whispered.

"Which star?"

"Sumol...... Our ancestors created the world there. ”

The old man looked at the stars in the sky and muttered inexplicably.

The young child didn't understand what he was saying, but nodded and repeated.

"Su ...... Mohr?"

Reading this somewhat tongue-twisting word, for this word that I don't know very well, the smart child who has been smart since childhood inexplicably remembered it.