Pan Wen lay on the bed in the captain's room, thinking of a sentence left by Kareda when he kissed him goodbye:

Union Bank and Development Bank intend to start L3 project in K14!

Among them, the Union Bank is the "Interstellar Union Bank", which manages the deposits of pirates such as Pan Wen, and the Development Bank is the "Planetary Management Development Bank". Different from the pure financial bank of the Union Bank, the main source of income of the Development Bank is the lending planet, and most of the customers are the small and medium-sized countries after the K15, according to recent related news reports, the Development Bank now has twelve planets of its own, including three resident stars, except for a little scattered, it can be said that it is equivalent to a medium-sized neutral country.

K14 is the source of dust-type star crystals, one of only two star crystals in the human domination area, and it was learned from the bank half a year ago that the K14 star was about to be rekindled. With the ability of the Interstellar Union, it was expected by all parties to start the L3 project at this time, but they didn't expect it to start so early, and let the Development Bank participate.

The so-called L3 project, which is not only a comprehensive utilization of stellar energy, but also a third-level civilization energy project, uses stellar energy by building an energy harvesting device that completely envelops the star, which will substantially block the light and heat generated by the star.

The technical difficulties of the L3 project have long been broken, but it has not been popularized for a long time, involving three aspects. First, it is very difficult and dangerous to carry out L3 projects around the stars that have been lit up. Second, once the L3 project is completed, it will completely change the environment in a star system, and the resident star has sufficient energy supply and does not mention it, which will affect the effect of the stellar gravitational well. Third, the star is used as a navigation and positioning marker at this stage, and in the case of possible impact on the gravitational well, it is not allowed to be occluded at all.

Therefore, some countries in need, especially some countries with limited territorial area, only carry out L2 projects for the use of stars, such as the Republic of Florin, which is one of them. The utilization rate of L2 project for stellar energy is only between 1% and 3% depending on the needs of each country and the stars themselves.

Compared with the L3 project, the advantage of L2 is that the super-giant ring collector perpendicular to the ecliptic plane can fine-tune the state of the star through its own actions, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing stellar disasters. In addition, star systems with L2 projects can be used to enhance the irradiation of stars to a certain area through L2 devices to change the state of the planets, which is generally used to catalyze mineral stars and help planets to transform their environment.

Incidentally, the more rudimentary L1 project is not a simple energy provider, but is generally used for scientific research and agriculture. That's right, all the scientific research bases and agricultural bases that mainly use stellar energy are considered L1, and the highest concentration of L1 is naturally MR246, where the blue pirates of the MR star cluster are stationed at the other end of the bridge.

Compared with the self-production and self-use of L1, L2 and L3 devices are the most important sources of antimatter for human society!

Antimatter, or dark matter, has been considered synonymous with destruction since its discovery, but it has had an interesting development process.

Like nuclear fission in ancient times, when the research on antimatter reached a certain level, it was also given a war color, but when particle weapons such as proton cannons, neutron cannons, and plasma cannons appeared on the stage of war and showed excellent low cost of use, the development progress of antimatter weapons came to an abrupt halt and turned to pure civilian use, forming the prototype of the current energy supply system for all residential satellites.

Compared with the existing space warfare weapon system, antimatter weapons have a huge drawback, they cannot have any matter in their shooting path, and even rare free particles in space will cause it to release energy early. The huge amount of energy required for antimatter manufacturing determines that it cannot form a jet like ordinary high-energy weapons, and there is no next step when it encounters dust. In general, the range simply cannot be increased by technological development, and its danger and the various conditions that the battleship itself may encounter also make it impossible to build with shipboard equipment, and the cost of repeated use is too high.

Another antimatter weapon has entered the practical stage, namely the antimatter missile, which, like the Star Destroyer missile, is a guy prohibited by the Interstellar Convention. But it's a little different from the Starbreaker missile, the danger of antimatter makes it the most heavily regulated thing, except in the generator, and any microgram in the process is considered treason!

Some people are always unable to control their ambitions, and even if antimatter is so heavily regulated, there are still top private labs that have some purpose or interest to come up with some until an accident occurs during the manufacturing process of the antimatter made by that lab...... Needless to say, the entire lab is gone. According to the historical records of the Galactic Era, the three multinational companies involved in the laboratory, with a total of more than 20,000 senior personnel, all disappeared overnight, and the enterprises were also bankrupt and reorganized and auctioned off by relevant countries. Later, as the missile interception technology became more and more outrageous, the missile gradually became a suppressive support weapon, and the antimatter missile gradually disappeared.

deviated and returned to L2 and L3 projects.

The reason why L2 and L3 projects are the largest source of antimatter is because the energy collected is too huge, and only by creating antimatter can it be possible to compress such a huge amount of energy to the extent that it can be transported, otherwise there will be transport ships transporting various batteries all over the world.

What the? Small battery capacity? However, stellar energy itself is pure energy, and in addition to being converted into antimatter, there are only two ways to transport it - through a material carrier, or like a laser, it is used to irradiate the target point. L2's lighting adjustment only uses local reflections to provide enough light to the distant planets in the system, and does not put all the energy at the same point.

The question now is, where will the antimatter produced by K14 go if it is going to build the L3 project? Although the mass of the central area of K14 is small, L3 is a complete use of stellar energy, and after ignition, it can supply at least hundreds of national industrial laboratories of Confused Stars. Another question is whether the establishment of the L3 project can reduce or even eliminate the restlessness when the star is re-ignited.

The former question is not something that Pan Wen needs to worry about, since Union Bank has decided to build L3, it should think about the past, it is also possible to convert K14 into an industrial base, there is no technical problem with the remnants of stardust refining and reprocessing into various raw materials, after all, it is the same as the planet is the product of the explosion of the original star.

The latter problem is the main point, the pulse when the star is ignited will have a serious impact on the communication of the existing civilization, and it is not impossible to cause the inter-galaxy communication ability around K14 to be interrupted for decades, and the communication ability is related to the efficiency of reinforcement support on the border, if it is detected by the bugs on the other side of the CT star cluster, it will be fun. Once the blue country is penetrated by bugs, the resistance front is estimated to be useless, and then the KT star cluster will be destroyed.

Then again, if the KT cluster was eaten by bugs, Pan Wen and his teammates' industry D21 would be safe. Compared to infighting, it is obvious that the bugs that can wipe out the human forces of the entire KT star cluster are the great enemies of all mankind, and then it should be the time for the Gabri Federation and the Islamic Empire to show their great power responsibilities, and it is impossible to stretch their hands behind MR246 again, even if there is some friction, it cannot be put on the surface. Of course, the premise for this to happen is that the Starbridge Defense Resistance Front can withstand the moment when the scale of the bugs explodes.

In order for the situation to develop in that direction, is it necessary to interfere with the progress of the L3 project?

Pan Wen lay on the bed and thought about it for a long time, and finally gave up this shady way.

It's not that Pan Wen is sunny, but after consideration, he feels that it is too dangerous to disrupt the L3 process, and if he doesn't do it, he will release another beast, which is the development bank.

The two sides in the K14L3 project cooperation, the predecessor of the Interstellar Union Bank was jointly established by more than a dozen affiliated banks including the Islamic Imperial Industrial Bank and the Gabriel Federal Investment Bank, and has now become an independent bank, and the nationality column of all employees is the "Interstellar United Bank".

To put it bluntly, the Development Bank is a neutral country in the guise of a bank, and it belongs to the type that tends to export force, otherwise those planets can be willingly given to it even if they have made a mortgage? Most countries are very reluctant to develop banks, preferring to bear the higher interest rates of other banks, so development banks have not grown, and like most national banks, they have had some influence in the surrounding areas.

According to the comparison of the strength of the two sides, the United Bank should take the initiative, if because of some open and secret battles and external "strong harassment", the L3 project of K14 has become the thing of the Development Bank. Because the first result of the mess is that the bugs will definitely rush into the KT Star Cluster, and then the Union Bank will be unable to devote all its energy to retaking L3, and the situation will become very favorable to the Development Bank, and if you can't keep it, this will become a second Islamic Empire.

The so-called two monks carry water to drink, and three monks have no water to drink, if there is really a three-pole situation, then you can only wait for the world war!

This kind of speculation is not Pan Wen's conjecture, but the common understanding of many experts on the world situation.

The existing formed states of mankind extend all the way to K40 of the KT star cluster, and K41 and K42 behind them are two very special galaxies.

Due to the relationship between distance and star alignment, from K28 to K40, all countries can jump to K41 at once! K41 can only jump to K42, and there are two behind K42, but K43 is an empty galaxy like K11 and MR250, with only protostars, not even asteroid belts, and only K44 has development potential.

After introducing the terrain, let's go back to K41 and K42.

K41 has three gaseous stars, namely K41G1, K41G2, and K41G3, and they have a total of 320 satellites, of which G1 has two blue stars that can live without modification, and the remaining 180 are natural resource stars with no atmosphere and no ice! K42 has only five rocky stars and an asteroid belt, but four of the five rocky stars are terrestrial planets and one is Gaia!

Planet Gaia refers to a planet with a total area of more than twice that of the Earth, a gravity of less than 1.3G, a planet that can directly inhabit people, and has all the types of minerals discovered by humans today! Only this "treasure trove" is eligible to be directly named Mother Earth.

After understanding K41 and K42, it is easy to understand that the two consecutive star systems not only occupy the transportation arteries for mankind to continue to expand outward, but also have their own treasure troves, and they cannot stop fighting for ownership.

According to the historical footsteps of the Galactic Era, the current K41 and K42 are the same as the MR243 and K11 of the year, and even the environment of this "bridge" itself is many times better. At that time, no matter how tossed and turned internally, as long as it does not affect the safety of the waterway and ensures that the supply of the waterway is not interrupted, mankind can continue to develop outward.

However, the development bank involved in the L3 project is one of the variables.

The DBS is already the largest neutral country in the region now, just because the planets are all reclaimed according to mortgages, and they are all scattered in other people's homes, and it is not easy to get out of neutrality, but if there is the huge industrial productivity brought by the entire L3 project, all problems will no longer be a problem. The process does not take too long, as long as it can occupy L3 for two or three years, use the industrial productivity brought by the L3 project to complete the unification and transfer from a bank to a state, and then announce that L3 will be returned to the United Bank, and the Union Bank has no way to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, and can only watch others sweep away the small countries behind. As for those who can interfere with the invasion by force, those who have power cannot reach it, let alone those who do not.

Whether it is a development bank or another country, once any single country unifies the surrounding area of K41, starts with K41 and K42, and establishes a supply node, it can immediately push to K44, and then the sky is high and the sea is wide outside, and at least more than a dozen star systems to be transformed are waiting, and it will grow into a giant like the Empire and the Federation in twenty or thirty years at most!

If the three poles do not constitute a tipping point, the next powerful thing is coming.

The starting point of the Isis Empire and the Gabrian Federation, which is the location of the Gemini Legend of the previous era, is MR180, and modern hyperspace jumping technology cannot jump to 179! Their development is already in the stage of self-excavation, there is no room for territorial expansion, and the dozens of star systems they occupy may have to come up with five or six industrial talents to compare the production potential of the fully developed K41, and the other two countries combined only have three Gaia planets, one of which withdrew from the ranks of Gaia ten years ago because of mineral relations.

This means that if no one stops the development of the Third Pole, after a certain period of time, the Third Pole is likely to grow into an existence that can unify all mankind! This is what the two countries with the greatest say in the world absolutely cannot endure.

"BOSS, the jump preparation to MR246 has been completed, do you want to come to the bridge?"

Pan Wen's mind was interrupted by a voice from the bridge control room, and he got up and looked sideways at the distant position of K41 on the star map in the captain's room, and shook his head.

"I'll be there shortly."

Next, we have to face those blue-skinned "peers".