The group chatted one after another, and after a while, they talked about the arcane creatures that filled the nebula and the hunted astral shark!

William suddenly stopped, and said in a surprising voice: "I think the routine of frantically hunting and killing arcane creatures and selling them is very low-level!" Eventually, it will be industrialized. The empire's civilization built on arcane technology is already crumbling, and if the arcane energy withers, the entire empire will collapse in an instant! ”

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"What do you mean by that?"

"It's not simple, isn't it the same as the absence of oil in the oil era?"

The empire is an interstellar industrial civilization, but it has elements of fishing and hunting civilization and nomadic civilization. The biggest reason is that the energy structure is deeply dependent on Austria.

The energy structure of the empire is dualistic, one of which is nuclear fusion technology and the other is Austrian technology.

The relationship between the two is like that between oil and coal. Coal can be used for power generation and coking, but it is rarely used as a fuel for transportation.

After the Odyssey Universe developed a series of new technologies, they discovered that the energy density produced by nuclear fusion was not enough to power the new instrument!

An analogy is an example of how well this phenomenon can be understood!

Coal was not dense enough and was only used as a fuel to power vehicles such as steam trains, steam rollers, and steam ships in the early industrial world! But if you look at the world today, what kind of transportation is still powered by coal? Kerosene for the Space Shuttle, Gasoline for Cars, Heavy Oil for Ships, Diesel for Tanks and Tractors! In addition to the power generation industry, the steel industry, and the chemical industry, there is nothing to do with coal!

In the Odyssey Universe, fusion raw materials are widely available, and fusion fuel on a gas giant can supply a planet's daily use. But there is no Ao Neng well like an oil well!

So the Empire has its sights on the Arcanes! Just as the industrialized countries of the coal and steel era had their eyes on whales.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the modern oil industry had not yet developed, but the Industrial Revolution had already begun. Many machines and guns need lubricants, and the amount of these lubricants is huge, and the lard is not enough, and the whale grease has become a stable source of lubricants. Where there is market demand, there is supply. After coming and going, the whale fell into bad luck.

Whale wax and whale oil derived from blubber are used as substitutes for petroleum products and are often used to lubricate delicate machine parts. It is used in the tanning industry, and is also used in tempering baths (for steelmaking) and as lubricants. After hydrogenation, it can be used as a raw material for edible and manufacturing soap, candles, etc.

In a sense, a 19th-century whaler saw a whale as a swimming oil well. During the industrial period, it was with the lubricant such as whale oil that those machines successfully produced so many products and created a lot of wealth for those industrial countries.

At the height of the whaling industry, there were 640 whaling ships in the country. This was more than the number of whaling ships in all other countries of the world combined at that time. The output value of the industry exceeded 10 million US dollars, which was one of the top five industries in terms of GDP contribution at that time, and the monopoly of the international whale oil market in the United States was just like the monopoly of oil in some Middle Eastern countries now, so it can be said that the whaling industry was the Silicon Valley and real estate at that time!

Whaling is a very cruel industry. The sea was red with blood, the carcasses of whales and dolphins were scattered, and the deck was littered with chunks of meat.

The whole history of whaling is a history of imperialist slaughter!

There is a hot word in the network of the Odyssey universe, called overfishing of Arcane creatures - it refers to the hunting activities of Arcane creatures in the Empire, resulting in insufficient populations of Arcanic creatures living in the universe to reproduce and replenish the population. The Empire's Arcanon Biotech industry has hunted more life than the ecosystem can balance to compensate, resulting in the ecological degradation of the Arcanon system within the nebula.

The empire is demanding more and more from the universe as it marches into the universe. When the demand exceeds the limit of what the ecosystem can handle, the "fishery resources" in the nebula begin to shrink gradually, and the arcane creatures will go extinct. In recent years, with the rapid growth of the empire's economy, the demand for one of the precious energy sources of the Acanon has increased, and the number of Acaneng creatures has been overhunted in many fishing areas.

The Empire once had several hunting grounds like the Nebula of Makura, but it was in this uncontrolled indiscriminate hunting and killing that it was degraded!

The empire is also a last resort, and the top management is definitely not stupid, they have seen this result a long time ago, but they invariably choose to leave the problem to the next generation - as long as nothing happens during their own tenure!

Blue Feather pondered for a moment: "Since the Makura system is an ecosystem, we have to develop it as an ecosystem!" Ludwig, aren't you our manager? Make a plan. ”

"It's not easy! Industrial farming is it! The purpose of industrial aquaculture is to reduce costs, through the stable input and output of production materials, high-frequency production plans, large-scale market supply, the cost of aquatic products will be reduced, and a mature industrial aquaculture model.

To sum up, it is necessary to meet the three elements: "better, faster, cheaper", that is, "better quality of aquatic products, faster production and supply, and cheaper market prices".

"The first step is to fish sustainably!"

"Fisheries management is based on data, and only on the basis of accurate fishing data (time, location, species, catch, individual size) can we obtain a more accurate assessment of the status of fishery stocks and develop appropriate fishing strategies. We need to find out the characteristics of the populations in the Makula Diffuse Nebula, the best example."

Due to the lack of technical means and related research, the empire has not been able to achieve industrial farming due to the lack of technical means and related research, and the various interest groups are involved.

"The second step is to increase the growth rate"

Use technical means to shorten the growth cycle of Aoneng creatures. For example, start the breeding project and select specific varieties of Aoneng organisms for breeding; control the temperature inside the nebula so that they maintain a high level of metabolism and prohibit them from going into hibernation; High frequency feeding of high-nutrient feed, which can be the residue of Aoneng Bio after processing, to improve the energy supply rate and conversion rate;

"Didn't the rotten country feed cattle beef and bone meal to speed up their growth? We can learn too! Give the Aoneng creatures leftovers to speed up their growth and development! ”

Lan Yu was taken aback: "I remember that they made mad cow disease, will the Arcane creatures have a similar problem!" ”