Chapter 584: Stellar Resource Development Mission (7)
The implementation of the blueprint means that construction can be started, and the construction of the ring will make this star system lively again, and when viewed at a stellar scale, you can see many objects the size of dust moving in the star system.
The larger of these objects are the giant creatures that the gatherers have transformed, each of which is taller and more majestic than the Oriental Pearl on Earth, even if it lies flat on the ground, it can reach as high as the stratosphere.
Transporting organisms travel back and forth between each megastructure, pouring the material they carry into the megastructure, which in turn transfers some of the matter to the transporting organisms.
In the network channel built by the collectors, each individual communicates information with each other.
"Liquid metal hydrogen is not enough, give me some more."
This is an application from the collectors who are in the process of giving birth to the orbital module.
"It's being made, it's being made, don't rush ......"
After forcing the giants to recover from the clan that gave birth to the orbital module, they turned around and began to urge the other clans to speed up.
"Hey! Isn't hydrogen salvage good yet? ”
There is no way not to rush, and the high-pressure giants also need enough hydrogen to make metallic hydrogen.
The exploitation of hydrogen resources mainly comes from the salvage of orbits near the star, this star system has been almost dismantled by the collectors, there are no planets, and there are no large meteorites, and the collectors can only replenish the material by salvaging the remains of the last star construction failure.
What the colossal structure got was a helpless reply from the salvage team.
"The intensity of the rays on this side of the star is too high, and it is very troublesome to deal with the accumulation heat, and it is difficult to salvage......"
The salvage team soon began to urge the people on the other side as well.
"Solid helium for cooling is not enough ......"
"Wait a few more weeks, it's already being shipped to you."
The reply is a group of megastructures at the edge of the star system, a new type of megastructure that collectors call cooling megastructures, as the name suggests, are giants that cool material resources.
They resemble a flat kite, with a large ball of flesh in the middle, which functions as a receiving, delivering, and processing matter, and then the other parts, with six skeletons extending out and supporting a circle of flesh membranes that look like the membranous wings of bats.
The whole body of the cooling giant is as white as snow, the reflectivity of this color is the highest, the heat absorption is the worst, the substance will be processed into molecules after entering the meat ball, these processed molecular clusters will be sent to the meat membrane, the meat membrane is very thin, there is a sandwich in the middle, only a small number of molecular clusters pass through, in this way, the substance will be spread into a plane in the form of a small number of molecular clusters, and the cooling is cooled by thermal radiation.
"We're still going to have to expand the area, and both when and after the ring is built, the demand for solid helium as a coolant is going to be huge."
"We also need to be more efficient in cooling."
"Then we need to expand the cooling area."
Thermal radiation is the least efficient of the three forms of heat transfer, and the collectors thought that since the efficiency is the lowest, then use the area to win, so that all the molecules of a mass of matter are cooled at the same time, so as to achieve higher efficiency, and the way to improve the cooling efficiency is also very simple, just expand the cooling area.
"But recompressing the helium mass requires enough pressure, and that's a problem that needs to be addressed."
"Can't deliver a cooled helium mass to a high-pressure megastructure?"
"Against, that means we're going to have to spend a lot of unnecessary energy on material transportation."
"We can breed new high-pressure structures close to us."
"That's it."
On the other side, there is an extra circle of cylinders in the orbit of the star, which are in about the same orbit and have an error of less than three kilometers, which forms a large circle with a diameter of two astronomical units.
The orbital module is divided into three parts, the innermost side is the tunnel for the movement of the particle beam, that is, a circle of metallic hydrogen, and then the outer layer is the skeletal organism, which is more restrictive in the transportation of matter, but this part is mainly used to resist the gravitational pull of the particle beam and support the upper layer is the outermost circle of organic cell organisms.
At the moment, they are docking, and the distance between them is getting smaller and smaller.
"Careful, careful, careful......"
"Take your time......"
The docking of the orbital module is almost the same time, because this takes into account the difference in the velocity of each individual, which leads to the emergence of new variables, the first to dock into a complete body is the outermost organic cell part, which is considered the most fragile proofreading, followed by the organic bone part, which takes a longer time to dock, because although the bone is alive, its own structure limits it is not as active as the organic cell part.
Finally, and most critically, the most important part is a circle of liquid metal hydrogen, which is combined into a single unit after encapsulating the bones for docking.
"Okay! It's docked! ”
The collectors reported excitedly, and the collectors responsible for coordinating the overall situation replied to them.
"Don't rush to generate an electric field first, first self-check to confirm the connection between each other, we want to succeed at the first time."
"Start counting!"
One by one, the orbital modules that make up the ring begin to self-check the number in the channel.
“1!”
“2!”
“3!”
……
When the last orbital module completes the self-inspection report, the co-ordinator begins to declare the matters that need to be paid attention to when entering the next stage of the project.
"Note that when the gravitational pull increases to the point where it begins to contract, you should remember to adjust yourself appropriately to ensure the activity of your cells."
"Understood!"
The orbital modules replied, and the statement continued.
"Also, remember to unfold the strong magnetic field to the outside, so that the stellar material can be deflected to your side, rather than passing near you."
"Understood!"
The co-ordinating collector thought about it, confirmed that everything that should be said was basically said, and then asked one last question.
"Is the solid helium used for cooling all full?"
"Yes!"
The orbital modules replied unanimously, and at this time, when everything was ready, the coordinating gatherers began to give orders to their kindred.
"Very well, now start accelerating the electric field, get ready for ...... Hasten! ”
Metallic hydrogen is injected with an electric current that cools the thermal build-up of living organisms from solid helium, a process that generates an electric current.
A small electric field is formed in this fragile ring orbit, and after such an electric field is formed throughout the ring, the osmium ions are introduced into the orbit for acceleration.
At the beginning of the acceleration, the velocity of the osmium ions is not high because the electric field is not strong, but this is only the beginning, because there is no resistance in the vacuum, the velocities will only continue to superimpose, and eventually these osmium ions will accelerate to a velocity value very close to the speed of light, at that time, the gravitational pull close to that of a black hole is formed.