According to Polina's detailed explanation, Dusson finally has a systematic understanding of the specific difficulty of implementing the Alpha plan.

To sum it simply, if Dusson wants to replicate the Alpha program on Newsar, the difficulty is equivalent to the difficulty of Dussand's need to use the technology of the first industrial revolution to complete a manned mission to the moon on Earth without Ipsil Mine.

The difficulty is so high that it is almost impossible.

First of all, to achieve what Dusson called "a large number of scattered Ipsilons entering the specified coordinates at the same time" requires automatic equipment that can accurately snap points to complete heating, extremely accurate Ipsilon processing capabilities, and near-perfect equipment layout. Moreover, this pile of extremely sophisticated equipment must also be able to withstand the tests of the enormous force and centrifugal force that will inevitably occur when transporting, vibrating, and dropping weapons before they are dropped.

Secondly, since the working effect of the Epsilon Ore is to jump 1000 times the volume around the ore, if you want to transfer an entire planet at once, you need to consume at least 1/1000th of the planet's volume of Epsilon Ore.

This may not seem like a big number, but if you really do the math...... This magnitude is basically equivalent to providing an Ipsisaurus ore the size of Titan to complete this "feat".

Even if the whole of Newsar were hollowed out, Dusaud would not have been able to scrape together so much Ipsilon, a mineral that is about as much as silver in the Neussal geological formation.

Polina's explanation revealed to Dussaint the huge cost and difficulty of implementing Project Alpha, and Dussand's first reaction after being frightened by this difficulty was "Why can the empire do it?" ”

This question is not the arrogance of the Traveler, and Dussand, a native of Earth, can hardly find anything to be proud of in the Empire. He asked this question out of his own confusion.

That's an Ipsilosaur mine the size of Titan! Titan is Jupiter's second largest moon with a semi-major axis of about 760 kilometers, and even if an empire of this size had been plotting the Alpha Project since 400 years ago, it would be impossible to gather enough Ipsi Mines for 400 years with steam-powered machinery and captured Allied miners.

The Ipsilon Mine is by no means a big rock that can be seen outside the door, even if it is ...... It was not an easy task to assemble a stone with a volume equal to that of a sphere with a diameter of 1,500 kilometers.

Since this work is not simple, it is not even possible at all...... And how did the empire do it?

"In principle, there must be a need for such a large amount of Ipsiloon ore." Polina didn't have a good answer to Dussand's question, "The Ypsilonite can only transfer matter in a thousand times the space centered on it and exactly the same shape as it. This is the iron law that humans have summed up in the past using the Ipsi Dragon Mine. ”

Polina didn't give an answer, but Dussander felt that there might be something to dig into.

The Empire has used a small amount of Ipsilon Ore to complete the effect that can only be accomplished by "a sphere of Epsilon Ore with a diameter of 1,500 kilometers". This is equivalent to greatly improving the efficiency of the utilization of this valuable strategic material. If it can be applied to the civilian field, it will bring subversive changes to the social economy.

Nuclear weapons are terrible, of course, but nuclear power is the technology that can really change the world.

Seeing off Polina, Dussaint began to sit behind his desk and meditate. There is no doubt that in the field of this superweapon, the Empire is already far ahead of the entire universe. At least the Federation and the Confederates certainly don't have similar weapons - if they had, they should have used them a long time ago.

Such a strategic weapon is very expensive, and of course it can only be used where it can completely turn the situation around. For example, a devastating blow to the capital of the League. There is no doubt that if only the Empire has such strategic weapons, then the entire universe will have to crawl under the Empire's fleet. There will be no point in resisting anymore.

But Dussander could not have accepted such an outcome.

The belief that the empire must be destroyed has always sustained Dussand's spirit and body. If it weren't for this purpose, he might not have been able to hold on a long time ago.

Since Androni's death, Dussander has not shed a single tear. Not because he was indifferent to Androni's death, but that he simply couldn't allow himself to waste time on such a thing.

He must not stop to take out the Empire. Maybe after the empire is completely buried, he can find a place where no one is around, and cry happily.

Sometimes, Dussander really envied his simple-minded dad - slaughtering tens of thousands of employees of a mining complex was even revenge, which was much easier than destroying the empire.

In short, Newsal must also possess a strategic weapon as soon as possible. Such a strategic weapon should have two outstanding advantages: great power and ease of use, otherwise it cannot be effectively used by the current Newsar.

Although 596 and Miss Qiu are of great significance, they can only be regarded as weapons after the Dongfeng 3 is put into service. There is no way to use a strategic weapon, which can only be called a "weapon experimental device".

From this point of view, the Alpha plan to revive the Empire is extremely uneconomical. Not to mention that Project Alpha is still unexplainable in principle, even if the Neusar side has successfully reproduced the experimental decoration of Project Alpha, it is almost impossible to drop this weapon into Orin.

Although the strength of the Newsar fleet is not too weak, it is still unlikely that it will be able to break through the tight defenses of the Imperial Guard. What's more, with the passage of time, the error of the Orin coordinates mastered by the Newsal side will become larger and larger. After the Newsar fleet has developed to the point where it can successfully break through the defense line of the Imperial Guard, they may fly past and find that the original target area is blank.

So, what Dussaint needs now is not a superweapon capable of destroying a planet in one fell swoop. But he did need a weapon that could actually threaten the Empire, make the lunatics feel worried before they did it, and deter the Empire from using Project Alpha against Newsar. In other words, Newsal now desperately needs to elevate himself to a weapon that can hold an asymmetrical strategic balance with the Empire.

As a time-traveler, Dussand's first thought was nuclear weapons, and the power of the big mushroom was definitely enough to deter the Imperials who were still in the age of steam.

But as a person who is also in the age of steam, he wants to make a nuclear weapon...... I'm afraid this is a little less difficult than the Alpha plan.

Two pieces of nuclear material that are heavy enough and abundant enough to collide together at high speed can trigger a nuclear fission reaction. And Dussander believes that in this universe, even the step of high-speed impact can be omitted.

The detonation process can be achieved by using two pieces of Ipsilonite and allowing the two pieces of nuclear material to complete the transition at the same point at the same time.

So...... Where to get weapons-grade nuclear material with a total weight of at least 15 kilograms?