Chapter 376: Tomorrow's World
The ship's engines are turned off by electric disks, and the hatch slides open. Cal. Danner and Tully's mother had to get off the boat on their own - Carl used to get tired of red tape and always say to the respectful people, "Please treat me like a normal person". But now the person he was going to see put on a posture of "come by yourself", and there was no one in the dock to greet him, he found out...... It's really not nice to be an ordinary person.
Only Mother Tully was unaffected, and as soon as she got out of the boat, she rushed to the metal walls, enviously touching the crystal lines engraved in the transparent walls. Seeing that she can't wait to live here, I'm afraid she would have thrown her daughter or something out of the clouds.
"Hey, after reading this, there's nothing that surprises me anymore." When Carl dragged the embarrassed Mother Tully away from the wall, Mother Tully reluctantly spoke.
She pushed open the door to her room, and stood there with a blank expression. "What's wrong with you?" Seeing Mother Tully's mouth wide open, Carl felt strange as he walked over her side and looked out - and then he, like Mother Tully, was so shocked that he couldn't even move!
"What you just said...... Can I eat it back? ”
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A normal Quarian has a planetary field of view of about 10-20 km.
But just as we can't see the mountains a hundred kilometers away, but we can see the stars in the sky. The field of view has never been fixed, and it has a very strong impact on the environment - for example, now, they think they see about ...... Maybe there is an astronomical unit of distance! That's 150 million kilometers! 110 times the diameter of the sun, 12,000 times the diameter of the earth......
Someone has seen the largest diamond pit in the world. Is it called the "Pepigay Diamond Field" of the wound of the earth? What appeared in front of Carl and the two of them was just that. Bowl-shaped, stepped artificialities hang in the void where stars of all sizes shine. The location where they appear. It is the outermost edge of the bowl type, and you can see the far opposite side when you look forward and look down...... The vision will stretch endlessly until the eye is burned.
"Is it a Dyson ball?" Carl asked, uncertain.
"It's a Dyson ball!" There's only fanaticism in Mother Tully's tone!
This huge crater, perhaps 150 million kilometers in diameter, is made up entirely of a ring of metal rings that are not fixed to each other, and the diameter of the metal rings is gradually shrinking as you go downward. And each metal ring is spinning at a different speed. Let the whole moving bowl make up a wonderful and spectacular sight!
At the base of this crater is a star in the prime of life......
"How could I possibly believe all this I saw? No...... Even if I saw it, I shouldn't believe it! This must be virtual reality. The Dawn is very good at this technique...... "Carl. Danner muttered to himself trying to convince himself that he was going crazy! Carl had only just calculated how much metal it would take to build this miraculous building, and he felt dizzy! Case in point: galaxies like the solar system. If you want to build the simplest ring around the solar sphere (just the most basic part of the Dyson sphere system). Then even if all the material of the nine planets + all the asteroids + comets and meteorites is consumed, it will not be enough!
And now the "big bowl" in front of you can even hold thousands of stars......
"Just kidding, is this really something humans can do?!"
"Don't be stupid!" Mother Tari scoffed at his claims. "It's not virtual reality, it's all real! You can't tell what this place is, do you? Such a dense star, orange-red world, here is the center of the Milky Way! She said with admiration, her eyes full of fascination.
"That's the Dyson ball system! And it's a modified Dyson ball system...... See those stairs? They provide different intensities of energy conversion and utilization. Each layer can be built with a completely different industrial system. Then, because of the difference in energy levels between each other, an inverted energy replenishment waterfall is formed...... It was just perfect. "Huge and beautiful. Everything seen here appeals to her more than anything, even more than a spaceship!
"As for how they did it...... I don't know. She paused and continued, "But let me try to guess...... I guess it's that when the available energy reaches a certain level, it will cause some kind of change that will make it easier to build this world...... No, it's becoming achievable! ”
"Papa~" From behind them, there was a sound of applause. The two of them quickly turned around and saw a beautiful woman in milky white armor, who appeared behind them at some point.
"Sorry, I'm late, I'm Mu Xing." Mu Xing said politely to Carl, but she immediately stepped forward and shook the ...... Mother Tully's hand. "You're Tali's mother, aren't you? The City of Dawn has welcomed many guests, but you were the first to name the key to construction. Welcome to your arrival! ”
"Is it really because of energy?"
"Of course, by the time the Dyson sphere system was a third of the way through, we were finally able to use more than five bahtis of energy at the same time, and we were in fact exhausted by then. But then we found that things suddenly became simpler. With such a high energy level, we can directly obtain metallic hydrogen from the surrounding environment. In this way, the project can continue. ”
"Metallic hydrogen? I should have thought of ...... In the silver heart, only hydrogen is ubiquitous, and it is the most convenient resource to obtain. ”
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Looking at the two men chatting hotly, Karl was speechless—it occurred to him that perhaps the general, after losing his daughter, might even have his wife run away with someone else this time—but now he didn't even have a chance to interject and stop him. As the topic of the two began to deepen in the professional direction, he suddenly became a state where he knew every word, but he couldn't understand it at all.
Karl could only turn his attention to something else.
It was only after the initial shock that he began to look away from "Dyson...... The pit moved away and began to look at the other parts. That's when he saw it. Around him, there are countless geth busy at work. From his vantage point, he could see the side of a battleship under construction. But if you look into the distance. You will find the same battleship under construction, and there are countless more ...... on the periphery of the entire ring
The Dyson Pit is teeming with an endless stream of large and small aircraft, making it look like a busy big city.
"That's ...... Dawn?! He pointed his finger straight ahead, and what he saw surprised him again. It turned out that directly above the "pit", there was a huge battleship hovering! The battleship looks like it's even eighty or ninety kilometers long! She still had a slight hint of the Dawn, but her overall shape had completely changed. You can see it. After the transformation of the Dawn this time, I am afraid that it will be completely militarized!
The six rotors that were once used to absorb energy were partially destroyed in the Battle of the Spear Galaxy. It has now been completely demolished. In fact, it was because Dawn was so badly damaged in the Battle of the Spear Galaxy that it was simply rebuilt and expanded.
Now the Dawn, after removing the rotors and the umbrella head. It completely turned into a fairly regular hexagonal section cylinder.
If there's a fan of the game here. Must yell "old thunder" again...... No, it's the master of masturbation that you TM plagiarized again! Isn't this TM the UNSC's hentai number?! It's just a magnification of dozens of times! ”
Yes, look at the half-covered, hexagonal cross-sectional armor plate above the battleship, which is the signature structure of the Infinity. It's just that after being used on the Dawn, it's obviously even bigger. Just looking at the thickness of the armor plates, it will reach about 100 meters! Not to mention that this is just an outer armor plate...... Such a defense is simply against the sky! What kind of main gun can penetrate it?
Noticing that Carl was looking at the Dawn, Mu Xing also walked over and gave him a brief introduction. She pointed to the front of the battleship, the axial main gun. The chrysanthemum-shaped openings and the layers of coils inside are deeply immersed in the inside, and it looks like the diameter is at least a few kilometers in size!
"The main cannon 'Dawn'. We have learned the lesson that the Dawn main gun could not attack in groups in the past, and newly designed this hybrid main gun that can directly annihilate a planet! …… Or destroy all ships within an astronomical unit. She snapped her fingers, and the armor plates on both sides of the battleship, which were tens of thousands of kilometers away, were actually retracted upward, revealing rows of neat gun muzzles on the lower edge! Those were the Dawn's secondary guns, twenty-four on each side, as powerful as a battleship's main guns. In addition, there are 1,400 Type 7 close-in defense guns, as well as 22 missile phalanx and eight-tube torpedo launchers...... As soon as the Dawn enters the battlefield, she can decide a war! ”
"Why...... Want to tell me this? "Carl. Danner asked, these were originally the secrets of the Dawn, he had only seen the Dawn a few times in the past, but he had never known what the Dawn's parameters were.
"To give you faith, because you have come to find it." Mu Xing said bluntly, and Karl was silent. In fact, after seeing the amazing Dyson pit, he already has enough confidence in the next war against the Reaper.
"Is your engine a fourth-generation negative energy engine?" Tully's mom is more interested in technical details, and at the Dreamera tech show a year ago, the negative energy engine undoubtedly took precedence.
"No, the fourth-generation engine is not yet mature, and we will use it on small warships for the time being." Mu Xing replied. But the fact is that the fourth-generation engine has long matured. When the battleship uses the ubiquitous negative energy, it can completely get rid of the difficulties of logistical supply like the Reaper. But sooner or later, they will return to the original universe to fight, and there is no negative energy field there, so the capital ships still use improved third-generation antimatter engines.
"The Dawn is really too big!" As the Dawn moved towards the location of the three men, Mother Tali couldn't help but let out a sound of admiration. Dawn is now 75 kilometers long, 12 kilometers in diameter, and has a full load mass of 27.5 billion tons! A real behemoth! Leaving the Citadel Station behind completely—the oppressive feeling that obscured the sky and the sun was too strong when it moved.
Of course, the largest man-made creation in the entire galaxy has become a "Dyson pit...... The first pit in the galaxy!
"She's not the Dawn anymore, and she's not the Mothership Dawn." Mu Xing looked at the approaching battleship and proudly introduced. "We call her a newborn ......"
"Fortress of Dawn!"
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PS: You may wish to search for the picture of the UNSC Endless, the shape of the Dawn Fortress is roughly like this, but the volume needs to be enlarged and enlarged.
PS2: A multi-turret, decisive fortress has appeared. (To be continued......)