The Star-Swallowing Megastructure, as the name suggests, is a biological giant that can carry the entire star faster than the speed of light, so it is called the Star-Swallowing Megastructure.

This is different from the superluminal engine of the planetary home planet of the Dali people, this kind of megastructure can complete the swallowing of stars in a short time, and then move the stars faster than the speed of light, without the need for intense construction work.

With this kind of structure, the Gatherers will be able to mine matter at a higher level, and they will immediately enter the speed of light after capturing the stars, without fear of being hit by great destruction.

The expectations are great, but the difficulty of achieving them is also enormous.

First of all, this kind of giant structure must at least be the size of a celestial body, and an object of this size, unless it is a structure that relies on gravity to maintain its strength like a gravitational ring, the structural strength cannot be guaranteed, and the electromagnetic molecular material is far from being able to meet the size of a celestial body, otherwise the planet cannot be a sphere, it can be a square or a triangle.

Because of this, to make planets faster than light, it is necessary to rely on the planets to build, and connect the gravitational rings and faster-than-light structures with the planets to achieve faster-than-light speed, rather than building a megastructure in advance and then putting it on the planet, the latter is much more difficult than the former.

Then the question arises, since it can only rely on gravity, how can such a huge structure be constructed?

After some discussion, the collectors came up with a bold idea, which was to try to modify the structure of the existing gravitational ring to make the gravitational ring energy more diverse.

It doesn't matter that celestial scales need gravity to maintain the strength of the structure, then use gravity to maintain the strength of the structure.

According to their conception and calculation, it is feasible to construct a long gravitational ring, cut a ring-shaped gravitational ring from the middle, and connect the cuts at both ends to the straight acceleration pipes to form an oval similar to a playground track, so that it is a long gravitational ring.

The essence of the gravitational ring is that the internal relativistic black hole and the proton pipe structure have reached a balance, and the inertia of the internal high-energy particle acceleration becomes the strength of the structure itself.

In the process of designing and constructing a long gravitational ring, collectors encountered many problems, one of which was that in the construction, the gravitational ring must be built as a whole, and the special structure makes it impossible for collectors to complete it by splicing.

In the past, the annular gravitational ring was quite simple, only need to use the acceleration pipe to roughly form a circle, and then make the electric field of the outer acceleration pipe wall stronger than the electric field of the inner pipe wall, and the annular gravitational ring will gradually take shape.

This time, however, it is not only the curved structure, but also the straight length.

This is a relatively small problem, it is not very difficult to solve, as long as the acceleration pipe is made elliptical at the beginning, and the internal electric field distribution is adjusted to a certain extent, the problem is not big.

The real troublesome problem is that after the long gravitational ring is built, the two parallel and straight ones will have a force close to each other because of gravity, and the annular gravitational ring can be ignored because it is a gyratory moment, but on the parallel acceleration pipeline, this problem is highlighted.

As the ability of the accelerating particles increases, the gravitational pull becomes stronger, while the two side-by-side straight acceleration pipes have no force other than the moment of inertia.

Therefore, it is conceivable that with the extension of the length of the long gravitational ring, the straight acceleration pipe will inevitably not be able to keep it straight, and will show a concave tendency, which will make the part connected by the annular acceleration pipe and the straight acceleration pipe become overwhelming, because the entry angle of the accelerating particles is wrong, and the annular part needs a stronger electric field force to deflect the accelerating particles.

This problem was not solved until a collector proposed to fill the middle of the pipe with negative matter, and the universal repulsion force could be neutralized by gravity, and because of the position, it would not produce a faster-than-light effect.

With the long gravitational ring, the Star-Swallowing Giant has a basis for realization, after all, it is the size of a planetary level, and the molecular material is as soft as a boiled noodle, and it will rot when touched.

The construction of long gravitational rings is not easy, especially in the size of the planet, because the strength is not guaranteed, and the acceleration pipe is as soft as a rope.

However, the planetary gravitational ring is well constructed, which is also part of the star-swallowing megastructure, and with the combination of multiple long gravitational rings and another ring-like structure, a complete star-swallowing giant can be constructed.

"It's not a big difficulty, and the acceleration pipeline is always restless."

"Don't worry about it so carefully, when the particles are accelerated, they will be honest, this situation is only temporary, just like the construction of stellar rings."

"Stellar rings have stars as a gravitational source to provide an initial stable position, and these straight acceleration pipes don't have such a special environment."

As the particles pass through the inside of the accelerated pipe, and the particles get faster and faster, moving closer to the speed of light, the distortion of the structure, which even the gatherer finds struggling to maintain, becomes less and less.

Then, the gatherers saw that the long acceleration pipes they had built were slowly beginning to shrink, like the annular gravitational rings, which were also half the size, and then stopped shrinking, and the moments reached equilibrium.

"Wonderful." The leader of the cluster looked at the finished product in front of him and commented.

"The existence of long gravitational rings means that we can not only build objects at planetary scales, but even stellar ......"

The length of the long gravitational ring is not very long, equivalent to four times the diameter of the Earth, and because it is a prototype, too many huge size collectors are worried that it will not be able to control it.

But the size of the first work doesn't mean anything, and the Wright brothers' planes never exceeded the speed of sound, does it mean that later planes can't exceed the sound barrier?

Gravity is a force that can work on a celestial scale, and with proper design, it is not difficult to construct a straight strip of stellar star size.

Just as the gatherers were in full swing to build the star-swallowing giant, an alarm suddenly rose, and the movement of the stars interrupted all the actions of the gatherers.

A new round of supernova is about to explode!

"Damn! It only took such a short time to be discovered! ”

There was no need to hesitate, the leader of the cluster immediately gave the order.

"Stop everything now! Evacuate all! Faster-than-light ready! ”

All the gatherers immediately left behind the megastructure they were building and the material resources they were collecting, and desperately set sail for the next destination star that the cluster leader had passed on to them.

The supergiant swelled suddenly, drowning out the gravitational ring and other unbuilt debris that the gatherers had built, as well as the only planet, and then there was a contraction, and a massive amount of material rushed towards the middle part of the supergiant, compressing dramatically.

Eventually, with a violent eruption, the plasma storm swept through everything with an extremely large amount of energy.

After the violent mass storm, all traces of the Gatherer were erased, leaving only a black hole in the open area, proving that a supermassive star once existed here.