Chapter 297: The Family of New Weather (1)

On March 7, the fifteenth year of the ephemeris, the unfamiliar star field, with a stirring in space, the huge stargate suddenly unfolded at the edge of the desolate star system, and slender motherships drilled out of the stargate. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fleet has left the galaxy far away, and the galaxy has long been invisible by now, and the fleet has even left the outermost border line of the five empires.

Just a month ago, the reconnaissance formation that had left the fleet ahead of the fleet had heard a clear subspace communication signal 1,200 light-years in front of the fleet. Judging by the deciphered news, ahead is a powerful civilization called the Byronic Empire.

Generally speaking, only powerful interstellar civilizational empires will use subspace communication to continuously establish their territorial boundaries in space and demonstrate their existence. This is a manifestation of self-confidence in one's own strength. Weak civilizations will not be so flamboyant in the universe, and they are eager to shrink so that all civilizations will not be able to detect them. In the cosmic forest, this is a kind of protection for one's own safety.

It took a full thirty-five minutes for the formation to completely emerge from the wormhole, and then regrouped, escorted by twelve sixth-level fleets, towards the desolate star system not far away.

The opening of the wormhole allows only a single mothership to pass through it, which is slow but very economical. In order to get out of the sight of the Science and Technology Alliance and the Interstellar Police as soon as possible, the fleet barely stopped at all along the way, and all of them sailed in remote star fields, for fear of encountering other civilizations.

As of today, the fleet's energy supply is almost exhausted, and the energy crystals of all levels that were produced before the departure from the galaxy and filled all the space expansion warehouses are now less than thirty percent of the inventory. This may seem like a lot of energy, but if a large-scale space war breaks out, it won't be long before the fleet's energy is exhausted. The reason why the fleet stopped was to go to the star system ahead to replenish energy and resources.

Judging by the news coming from the reconnaissance fleet, this is a desolate single-star system. The entire galaxy is not small, there are more than a dozen large rocky planets alone, and there is a super-Earth that is fifteen times the size of the Earth. But the environment on that planet is not good, and it can even be considered very bad. Judging from the preliminary detection data, there is no life on the planet, but it is possible on the three moons that orbit it.

There are five gas giants in the outer space of the galaxy, the volume is very large, the innermost one is pale yellow, and the surface of the star is divided into obvious zones, which are giant storm regions generated by the rotation of the star. There's even a giant large yellow spot in the very center, twice as large as the Great Red Spot on Jupiter.

The star at the center of the galaxy is a young star three times the size of the Sun, so stable that it will not collapse for at least the next seven billion years. Of course, this refers to in the absence of contingencies. If it happens to be reduced to a battlefield of a seventh-level civilization, it can't hold on for a moment or three, and the entire star will disintegrate under the turbulent spatial fluctuations.

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"I'm back!" The young but powerful voice came back from afar, Li Mingluo got up from the bed smartly, rushed out barefoot, and within a few minutes, the laughter between father and son came back.

A few young and beautiful Amy women gently walked out of the room, and before going out, they stroked their red hair with their hands, although they were not messy at all.

"You've worked hard during my absence, and everything is okay at home?" Li Jiaxin held his son in one hand, walked over, looked at the five wives in front of him and asked with a gentle smile.

"It's okay, it's just that Mingluo is talking about you all day long," the tall and plump lady at the front responded with a smile.

"Don't you want me?" Lee winked teasingly.

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"Dad, are we moving today, I told Meimei, and I will invite her to go with us to see the cherry blossoms when the time comes" Li Mingluo saw that his parents snubbed him, and immediately raised the topic on the side to brush up on his sense of existence.

"Yes, we're moving today! It's ready over there. We don't have to bring anything except our daily necessities, we have all the stuff there," Li Jiaxin put his son down and walked into the main hall as he spoke.

"Where is the fleet now? Stopped? The third lady, who was following Li Jiaxin, asked as she walked.

"Oh, stop. We'll be in this galaxy for a while, probably two or three months. We were busy exploring this galaxy the other day. Our camp has been on vacation for the past few months, so I'll take you out to see it when the time comes, haven't you been out for a long time? Li Jiaxin looked at the beautiful woman and said gently.

Li Jia, who once joined the army at the age of eighteen, is over thirty years old in the blink of an eye, and now he is not only the commander of the major battalion of the Fourth Pioneer Regiment, but also the husband of five beautiful women and the father of three children. In addition to the eldest son Li Mingluo, who is older, the remaining little ones have just been weaned for less than two years.

"Great, finally stopped. My sister-in-law told me a few days ago that the raw materials in the family's special plastics factory have been exhausted and will be shut down soon. I've been worrying about this for the past few days. Now it's stopped, and there is a star system nearby, I think there should be no shortage of raw materials this time" The second lady, who was shrewd and capable at the end, saw that everyone else was silent, and began to pull the topic over.

"There must be no problem, there are five giant galaxies in the star system, and the atmospheric composition is also very good, so it is an ideal raw material collection base. When the time comes, it would be nice to drive our family's small industrial ship over. However, it is estimated that there will be a lot of industrial ships for this operation, and when the time comes, pay attention to safety," Li began to earnestly instruct.

In the interstellar era, high-quality and inexpensive plastic products have not withdrawn from people's lives. For example, the seats, toiletries, decorations, household utensils, etc. in the park are all made of plastic, and many of the unimportant materials in the spacecraft are also made of lightweight and low-cost special plastics. Moreover, plastics are also an indispensable component of many polymer composite materials.

However, during this period, with the advancement of technology, the performance of plastics has been greatly improved, and many plastics even have properties comparable to those of metal materials such as steel. For example, superconductor plastics, thermal insulation plastics, and so on are now used in small civilian spacecraft.

Since all plastics in the earth period were distilled from petroleum and then produced by polymerization. However, in the interstellar era, life planets are very scarce, and some life planets do not even have fossil fuels such as oil, and even if there are, the reserves are too small for human beings now, and they are simply a drop in the bucket and cannot meet the demand.

As a result, the raw materials used to produce plastics in the interstellar age are gases extracted from giant planets, including methane and hydrogen that have already been extracted from the atmospheres of other solid planets, and then produced through catalytic polymerization. In the universe, there are many planets where liquid methane exists, and there are even liquid oceans formed by methane on Titan during the Earth period, which are good sources of materials for the production of plastics. (To be continued.) )