Although neutron stars are not easy to see, their huge gravitational pull cannot be ignored. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoGenerally speaking, what kind of "remains" a supernova will produce after a supernova explosion is determined by its position in the main sequence zone "during its lifetime".

Massive main-sequence stars, such as O- and B-type stars, become black holes as supergiants explode as they age. The smaller A- and F-type stars become neutron stars, and the smaller G, K, and M stars are white dwarfs.

Therefore, the gravitational pull of neutron stars is between that of black holes and white dwarfs, which will have a certain impact on the surrounding star fields.

The impact of the neutron star was clearly felt on the last leg of the Tempest's flight. When the destroyer exited the jump flight, the jump position deviated from the airspace calculated by the system by about 100 astronomical units, which was the ghost of the neutron star.

I think it was through this that I discovered the secrets of this area, and set my sights on the K-shaped star field next to it, which had no development value.

In this universe, the combined number of O- and B-type stars accounts for only 0.03% of the total number of stars, so the number of black holes is very rare. The number of Type A and Type F combined is about 2.6%, which is slightly more than the former. Further down, there are only 3% of g-shaped star fields that are rich in habitable planets, and not all of them can give birth to life, so life is really hard to come by. Of all the main-sequence stars, the smallest M-type star occupies 82% of the star's weight, which can be said to be everywhere.

And our universe is still relatively young, only 14 billion years old, most of the stars have not yet reached the end of the years, so the number of neutron stars that have been discovered is less than 2,000, and almost all of them are pulsars, such as more than 100 light years away from Dijing, which cannot emit electromagnetic pulses, is almost difficult to find.

In the Milky Way, the closest pulsar to Earth is Geminga, 800 light-years away, which can only be explored by an autonomous unmanned spacecraft and has not yet been developed. Therefore, not counting the neutron star that was concealed by Admiral Goering, on the sky map of the five major galaxies and the four major countries, only 2 neutron stars have been discovered, which are in the New American Galaxy and the New African Galaxy.

Among them, the neutron star owned by the New American Galaxy is relatively old, and the rare isotopes in its surrounding star fields have also decayed, and it has no development value at all. Only the New African Galaxy is a little better, but it still can't compare with the New Asia one, and it is also jointly owned and developed by the UAC, the Earth Federation and the new European Union.

Then in the vicinity of each neutron star, the number of m-type fields must be much more than that of k-type stars. According to the original law of nature, the M-type star field is rich in heavy elements at the back of the Mendeleev periodic table, while the K-type star field produces common metals at the top of the list, so naturally the M-type star field is more valuable for development.

However, the half-lives of rare isotopes of heavy elements are generally very short, so short that they can not survive 10,000 years before decaying to a very poor level, which is basically not worth collecting. Therefore, there is no difference in economic value between the m-type field next to the neutron star and the m-type field in the general location.

On the contrary, it is a K-type star field that was originally worthless, because the rare isotopes of ordinary metals have a long half-life and can maintain large reserves for a long time, but it has become a hen that lays golden eggs, which is of great strategic value.

When NO discovered this K-shaped star field that the salted fish had turned over, he would naturally secretly conspire with Admiral Goering to take possession of it, rather than hand it over to the UAC state.

There are not many people who understand this knowledge, at least Feng Yu didn't understand it before. Before this trip to the New Asian Galaxy to carry out the "In-depth Explanation" operation, Dr. M, who had just moved to the Awa-Ker headquarters in New Africa to build a mobile suit factory, told him temporarily.

Why did Dr. M tell Feng Yu this, it is naturally because he has taken a fancy to an extremely rare isotope that will be produced in this star field - 52Ti.

Titanium is known as a metal of the space age, with the advantages of light weight and high strength, and is widely used in the manufacture of ships and mobile suits.

However, titanium, as the 22nd number of Mendeleev's periodic table, is very high, which also means that there are huge reserves, not to mention K-type star fields, and even G-type star fields have a lot. However, there are only 5 common isotopes of titanium, namely 46ti, 47ti, 48ti, 49ti and 50ti, and the higher the number of neutrons in the nucleus, the stronger the metal.

Before humans approached neutron stars for the first time, they had no idea that there was such a thing as a natural 52Ti in this world. Prior to this, 52Ti only existed in laboratories and was extremely unstable, decaying into a stable 50Ti the moment it was manufactured, a rare isotope that was short-lived.

However, in the G-type and K-type star fields adjacent to neutron stars, mankind has finally found a super strategic material such as the relatively stable rare isotope of 52Ti.

Yes, 52Ti is a super strategic material, and the super alloy used in the armor plate on Fengyu's super model "Storm" is a 52Ti alloy, so Dr. M specially explained to Fengyu before leaving, "You go to that place, you must help me grab some 52Ti back." The future of our awa-ker is up to you! ”

It's no wonder that Dr. M would elevate this issue to the level of "Awa-Ker's future", knowing that each piece of 52Ti alloy armor plate in the "Storm" is worth more than a fourth-generation AM production model. But the biggest problem is not its high price, but the fact that there is no market, and there is no market for 52ti on the market.

At the beginning, in order to help Fengyu build a super model "Storm", Dr. M used a large number of contacts in the Ministry of Commerce and Trade to squeeze out such a little material from the black market of various countries like squeezing toothpaste, and it is very likely that the source of the material is this K-shaped star field jointly occupied by NO and Admiral Goering.

Even so, the 52Ti that Dr. M collected was only enough for the "Storm" and its spare machine, plus a spare set of armor plates, that is, a total of three sets. Then he made it clear that Fengyu must recycle the Super 52ti alloy armor plates that were damaged during the battle, and not throw them away at will, and he will return the damaged armor plates to the furnace for reuse.

There are six planets in this K-shaped star field, of which the first and second planets are very close to the stars, and with the current scientific and technological strength of mankind, it is not possible to build a space city for mining operations. The fifth and sixth planets are gaseous Jupiteroids, so naturally there are no metal ores, but there is a large amount of helium-3 as fuel for power furnaces, which is also of no mining value.

Helium-3 is not a scarce resource in the universe, so it is usually mined nearby, such as the BH star field that Fengyu once attacked. If helium-3, a space-occupying inert gas isotope, were transported from here, 93 light-years away, the transportation cost would be too high.

So the essence of this field lies in the two rocky planets that are moderately far from the star, the third and fourth planets. On both planets, L4 and L5, there is a metal refinery that is responsible for refining rare isotopes of various conventional metals. In addition, in the orbits of the moons of these two planets, there are a large number of relay mining cities responsible for mining.

Interstellar mining is not a difficult thing in this era, and human beings have the ability to directly mine mineral resources on rocky planets or gaseous planets in space, and they are all automatic mining without human operations. It is then roughed at the Relay Mining City before being transported to a nearby refinery for further refining.

Even if Fengyu destroys all the facilities in this K-shaped star field, it will not be difficult to rebuild it. As long as it takes a few months to repair the Relay Mining City first, mining can be carried out, and the rough metal ingots can be transported to other star fields for finishing.

Therefore, the main purpose of Fengyu's trip is not to destroy the mining facilities here, but to rob!

Rob the high-value rare isotopes of metals, 52Ti, and other metal refining products in metal refineries to replenish Awa-ker's strategic resource reserves.