Even with Shen Qingyuan's consent and the need for all departments to do their best to cooperate with the Science Planning Committee, it was still not an easy task to complete the project, and even the project was in a predicament at the beginning.

There is still a big gap between mastering the principle and owning the physical object. Just like in ancient Earth times, humans had already mastered chemical energy, but the diesel or gasoline engines used to propel automobiles were not finally manufactured until the Industrial Revolution.

Now, mankind has mastered the electromagnetic interaction forces that have undergone some variations in that special environment, but it still requires a lot of resources to manufacture propulsion equipment that meets the requirements.

The design team, consisting of top materials scientists, engineers, mechanics, physicists, etc., has been busy with work. Under Huang Yuan's arrangement, more than 20 such teams were set up in total, and each began to design the thrusters. In the future, after a series of tests and evaluations, the best performing design will be selected and then large-scale manufacturing will begin.

In addition to these design teams, the overall architecture of the superplanetary accelerator continues to be explored and researched theoretically. At least ten teams of astrophysicists have begun to work on the best way to fuse planets and build models for simulation, while many more have begun to study the most detailed physical data on various aspects of the Courier star.

This is undoubtedly a huge undertaking. In such a project, every detail, every subtle step, such as the materials used in the accelerator, its installation and transportation process, the interaction force with the planet, and even the weather and atmospheric circulation, satellite system, magnetic field system, etc., which originally existed on the planet, every detail needs to be considered, and every detail needs to be explored and studied by several specialized scientific research teams. Even though scientists have temporarily given up on basic science research, and tens of millions of people have devoted all their energy to the current project, Huang Yuan, the commander-in-chief of the Messenger Project, still feels that there is a shortage of manpower.

And that's just something within the community of scientists. Expanding to the entire human civilization, there are many more things that need to be dealt with. For example, the early energy storage – obviously, after the two planets converge into a brown dwarf, fusion energy will be very difficult to exploit, so people need to reserve enough energy for more than 2,000 years in advance – is a huge project. This requires not only the mobilization of almost all energy companies, but also more detailed planning in terms of transportation, storage, etc. Or the reserve of various mineral resources, the demolition of various equipment originally built on satellites, the construction of large space factories, and a series of other tasks. Every task will inevitably consume a huge amount of human and material resources, and will require at least tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of manpower to participate. As a result, the frequency of regular meetings of the Council was changed from once a week to once a day, and later to twice a day, so that there was barely a backlog of major matters.

The entire Phoenix system has been turned into a busy construction site in a very short period of time. Countless spaceships shuttle between different planets, countless people in a hurry come and go with different spaceships, and the indescribable amount of data is transmitted back and forth between major institutions by the newly laid faster-than-light communication network.

Four months after the announcement of the Courier program, the approximate details of the energy reserve program were also announced. In this plan, the scientists once again showed their madness to everyone.

"It's impractical to rely on gas tanks or giant energy ships to store enough fusion fuel for an entire civilization for more than 2,000 years. While the main source of energy for the superaccelerator used to propel the Courier Star comes from the radiation of the Courier Star, and the Migration Fleet can also obtain a portion of the energy replenishment from the Courier Star, we will still need a total of 5 billion billion tons of fusion fuel after removing this part. This is equivalent to 100 times the total mass of the Earth's atmosphere, and the energy released after its fusion is about equal to the total energy released by the Sun in 25 years. To store so much fusion energy, we need at least a billion of the largest size super energy spacecraft. This is undoubtedly unrealistic, so we can only look for solutions in other directions. ”

At the government council, Dr. Huang Yuan once again told the members about his crazy idea: "There is a simple and convenient plan, and that is to store these fusion raw materials on an existing planet. We've picked and found a suitable planet, and it's what we usually call the Desert Star. It is the largest moon of the new Saturn, reaching 54 percent of Earth's mass. Originally, it didn't have an atmosphere, so we could collect fusion fuel in the form of gases and release it directly onto the surface of the desert star, where the gravitational pull of the desert star would be used to fix the gases...... That's right, we're going to artificially create an atmosphere that's almost entirely made up of fusion fuel, and we'll take it with us at the beginning of the voyage to get enough fusion fuel for more than 2,000 years. ”

Compared with the huge project of fusing two gas giants to create a star and then directly take the star away, this plan brought the committee members no less shock, which even made the committee members not know what to say for a while, and could only look at each other.

After a long time, Han Luo Chang muttered, "I remember that because the mass of hydrogen is too low, it will constantly escape from the gravitational field of the planet. ”

Huang Yuan immediately replied, "That's true. But this is a geological concept with an extremely long time scale. It's only 2,000 years, and no matter how high the escape rate is, it won't affect the whole. ”

General Lei Zhen asked, "How do you make sure that the desert star is not thrown away or swallowed by the planets during the process of planetary fusion?" ”

Huang Yuan said: "This problem is easier to solve. We only need to build about a hundred planetary engines on it, and with the new Saturn's orbital adjustment, it is easy to break free from the gravitational field of the new Saturn and become a planet orbiting the Phoenix Star. Once the planets are merging and stabilizing, we can adjust its orbit again to return to its orbit around Courier. ”

Again, the committee members looked at each other. Wu Wei couldn't help but sigh: "Sure enough, scientists are the craziest guys." ”

Huang Yuan turned a deaf ear and continued, "We can also place the rest of the resources that need to be stored on the Desert Star. It will become a huge warehouse that our human civilization carries with us, no matter how much material can be placed. In this way, we will be able to save at least half a million resource ships in the construction task, and in general, the execution of this task will not only not increase the difficulty of the mission, but will save us a lot of manpower and material resources. ”

"In that case, there is nothing more to say. I agree with this plan. ”

"I agree."

The advisory board of 11 members unanimously approved the mission's request, and many energy spacecraft rushed into the atmospheres of the new Jupiter and new Saturn as fast as they could, and began the collection of fusion energy. Just a month later, at least 10 billion tons of gas appeared above Desert Star, which even caused some light winds to appear on it.

The transformation of Desert Star is only a detail of the larger project. Beyond that, more people and more ships are busy. A year after the Courier program was proposed, Team Seven was the first to complete the drawings of the planetary accelerator and successfully built the first prototype. After that, more than 20 teams came up with their own construction plans.

There are similarities and differences in these programs. Advanced technology concepts collide, inspire and mix with each other, resulting in the next generation of more advanced and efficient manufacturing solutions.

The rest of the area is also progressing steadily and well. As Huang Yuan originally said, this project only involves new technology, but not new science. This means that any technology required for engineering is within the scope of existing theories, and at most it needs to be deformed or recombined.

Another night was over, and the morning arrived as promised. As always, Dr. Huang Yuan opened his eyes as soon as the bell rang, washed up briefly, and left the bedroom.

There will be endless things waiting to be dealt with every day, although he has long been out of the front line of scientific research, and the daily administrative work does not need to be involved in Huang Yuan, but the entire messenger project is still inseparable from Huang Yuan. Because only Huang Yuan is proficient and understands every detail of the messenger plan, and knows the techniques involved in every link. Most importantly, only Huang Yuan knew how to proceed with the plan.

Even Huang Yuan himself sighed a little that the pinnacle of his life would be that moment of inspiration. To this day, apart from Mo Xiangsheng and himself, no scientist dares to claim to understand the data and formulas he wrote down at the beginning.

Specific research projects are important, but without themselves, they don't even know what to study. Only you know the direction of the future, and this is the gift that the flash of inspiration brings to you.

A spaceship quickly left the capital city, taking Huang Yuan and Mo Xiangsheng with them, as well as some escorts, to New Saturn. The planetary accelerator is about to enter the mass production stage, and Huang Yuan is really a little uneasy if he doesn't go to the field to investigate.

Outside the window, the huge gaseous planet has taken up most of the field of vision, and even hurricanes and lightning can be seen all over the planet's surface. But at this moment, a flash of fire quietly appeared in a corner that no one was aware of.