Chapter 26: Compressing Stars

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Escorted by the Arden Spear, the kappa built a ship around a star, and several ships have already been deployed around the star, waiting for the last ship to arrive before the final experiment.

On a command ship outside the engineering ship group, Kawashiro Natori was nervously watching the last engineering ship slowly taking place. His arms were propped up on the console, his hands clenched restlessly.

"Don't worry, Nitori, we've tested it many times." A red-haired woman in a red dress and a red cape gently pressed her hand on Nitori's shoulder.

"But the stars we tested before were all small, not as big as this one." Nitori sighed lightly, "So we can't predict what will go wrong in this experiment." ”

"Relax, even if the experiment fails, it doesn't matter. Didn't the Spirits lend us the Spear of Arden just to protect the monitors on the engineering ship at the end of the day? Besides, we still have ......."

Following the red-haired woman's line of sight, Nitori saw a giant blue beast with a diamond on its chest in the cosmic space outside the ship. It was the god who controlled time, Ti Luka.

"Mengmei, how did you trick Dialuka into helping?" Nitori asked the woman beside him with some confusion.

"What do you mean by tricking to help? This is someone who volunteered to help, not so much our efforts, but Yakumo's favor. Yumemi shrugged indifferently, "We're all small people, and it's very difficult to meet a god like this." ”

Yumemi, whose full name is Yumemi Okazaki, is a very peculiar human being that Kawashiro Hatori picked up in the Thousand Feather Mountains. The reason why she is very peculiar is mainly because when River City picked up Yumemi, Yumemi had already lost her memory, and she couldn't remember everything in the past except for her name and a lot of scientific knowledge.

Nitori takes in Yumemi, who has nowhere else to go, and after realizing that Yumemi has a lot of scientific knowledge, he makes Yumemi his assistant to work for Kappa and analyze the techniques of the star spirits.

Rather than going to the human world and living among humans, Yumemi, who has lost her memory, prefers to stay with Kappa and study the magical technology in Kappa's hands.

"Forget it, it's useless to think so much, it's better to pray that this experiment will be successful."

Once the last engineering ship is in position, the Arden's Spear sails at a constant speed outside the engineering ship group, ready to rescue the engineering ship at any time.

"Now, the Sirius-type star compression experiment begins."

With the command of the load, all the engineering ships were connected by high-energy lasers, forming a huge net to wrap the stars. The ship then shoots disintegrating rays into the star, pointing directly at the stellar core.

The disintegrating light rays pass all the way through the outer flame layer of the star, reach the core of the star, and begin to disintegrate the stellar nucleus, causing the stellar core to spontaneously collapse, thereby compressing the entire volume of the star.

An hour after the disintegration light enters the stellar nucleus, the stellar nucleus has completely disintegrated and begins to slowly collapse inward. The whole collapse process will take a long time, after all, it is such a large star, and in order to fully compress it into a volume that can fit into the pride of Otaris, it needs to be reduced to a few hundred million times of its original size.

In the process of compressing stars, only the initial disintegration of the core, and the final stage of compression, are the most dangerous, when the slightest mistake can cause the star to explode and even collapse the star into a black hole completely.

On the contrary, it is relatively safe in this kind of slow compression process now, and there will be no accidents.

The stellar compression technique was developed by the kappa based on the solar furnace of the pride of Otaris, and combined with the stellar utilization technology that the kappa had envisioned at the beginning, the kappa had already conducted many star compression experiments from childhood to adulthood before the Sirius experiment.

This scorching stellar technology has been repeatedly verified not only to build a super power station, but more importantly to restore the pride of Ortaris.

Unlike the artificial stars used in the Spear of Arden's Solar Furnace, when not activated, the artificial stars do not undergo nuclear reactions, but only store large amounts of what the astral spirits call the solar element. The Pride of Ortaris's Solar Furnace is a compressed star that is still undergoing nuclear reactions even when not in use, so when the Pride of Aultaris has been wandering in the universe for so long, the matter in the star is almost finished.

What's more, after examining the compressed star, the kappa found that there was iron inside the star that could not undergo nuclear reactions, suggesting that the star had not lived long before it was compressed. Iron has the lowest nucleon energy of all elements and is almost impossible to carry out nuclear reactions.

In addition, in order to modify the damage of the Arden's Spear, the Star Spirits on the Pride of Ortaris removed the parts of the Pride of Ataris and installed them on the Arden's Spear. Therefore, the current pride of Ortaris has become a little crippled, and it can only guarantee the most basic space navigation, and it is impossible to fight.

In order to restore the Pride of Ortaris, the Spirits built the Starry Sky Forge, and began collecting materials to repair the Pride of Ortaris. Because the Solar Furnace of the Pride of Ortaris was removed, the Starry Sky Forges initially had to use the Spear of Arden's Solar Furnace as an energy source, but later the kappa began to experiment with stellar compression, sending in compressed small stars.

In order to put the Pride of Ortaris to good use when recovering the Astral Spirit's homeland, the kappa also join in the process of restoring the Pride of Aultaris. Santila has the memories of all the astral phase technicians, and even if she doesn't understand the technical principles used in the astral ark, she can still replicate a practical product.

This made both the Star Spirit and the Kappa feel very relieved, at least they could do simple maintenance, and they wouldn't even be unable to do maintenance.

Seeing the slowly shrinking star in front of him, he bored himself and took out his personal terminal, trying to search for a signal from Gensokyo. However, this is already another plane, another large plane that can be called the realm, and it is impossible to search for the signal of Gensokyo.

"Ah~~! No signal! What should I do now!? ”

Mengmei looked at Nitori with a black line, "Hey, hey! Focus! It's still experimental! At the same time, he knocked on the control panel of Hedu's stomach with dissatisfaction.

Tilting his head and glancing at Mengmei, Hetori still maintained his appearance as an Internet addict girl, staring at the personal terminal in front of him searching for signals, "Isn't it that you don't need to pay attention now." ”

Straightened up and retracted his personal terminal, and muttered in a low voice: "The one that is most prone to problems is not unknown to you from the point in time, and now you can completely relax and relax." ”

"I think the problems in the final stage are probably caused by small problems that accumulate little by little during the compression process. So we need to carefully observe the process of compression. ”

"Okay, I got it." Holding his chin with one hand, he stared blankly at the star in front of him.

The size of the star has dropped a bit, and if it continues to compress, the two engineering ships will collide together. As a result, the engineering ship at a certain node signals to the engineering ship in other directions, and they continue to maintain the laser network, and the engineering ship will leave early.

After the lasers of the other engineering ships were connected, the engineering ship immediately broke away from the laser network of the compressed star and returned to the vicinity of the spear of Arden.

Starting from the detachment of the first engineering ship, more and more engineering ships began to detach from the network as the volume of the star was further compressed.

In the end, only eight engineering ships were left to maintain the size of the star, preventing the star from further collapsing into a black hole.

The departing engineering ships then sent in the controls for the compression star and began to assemble the compressed star into a controllable compressed star.

"In the end, I don't know why some stars turn into black holes."

"yes." Mengmei could only shake her head helplessly.

If she could, she would like to see all the stars compressed and not repeat the tragedies of the previous ones.