Wandering Meteor-Chapter 173 - 172 Metallic Star Ring

The vast universe, boundless and extensive.

The Wandering Star System, with a diameter of four astronomical units, is speeding towards the Cosmic Center.

Due to the current speed of the Wandering Star System reaching 1.5 times the speed of light, an interesting scene occurs during its flight.

When the light emitted by Constant Star Lu Chen reaches outside the star system, or when stellar light from the universe shines over, it is quickly left behind by the Wandering Star System. From a cosmic perspective, it appears as if the entire Wandering Star System is running ahead of the light, pulling further and further away, which looks quite magical!

Meanwhile, as the Wandering Star System is speeding through the vast universe.

On a microscopic level, two biological civilizations are not idle—Earth Civilization and Light Synthesis Civilization, in order to promote the Entropy Reduction Law proposed by Lu Chen, revised the content of the Entropy Reduction Law and compiled it into a book, distributed freely across Earth and Green Star, allowing the people of both civilizations to learn for free.

Because of the special status of Constant Star Lu Chen in the Wandering Star System, coupled with the Entropy Reduction Law representing a new cosmic philosophy, it has attracted many people’s eager attention and even sparked an entropy craze within the two civilizations.

Since entering the Wandering Universe era, subjects related to the universe such as astronomy and astrophysics have gradually become popular. Even those not specialized in these fields have, over time, gained a basic understanding of the universe through constant exposure.

This is a change and benefit brought about by the shift in eras.

Besides the inherent curiosity and trend-chasing nature of biological civilizations.

The unprecedentedly developed productive forces of Level 2 civilizations have also liberated workers. Nowadays, everyone has significantly more leisure time, which they can fully and freely use to pursue their hobbies.

In the current era, people have advanced from pursuing material pleasures to seeking spiritual enjoyment.

As the Entropy Reduction Law gradually popularizes within both civilizations, people’s admiration and faith in Father Sun has invisibly increased much, just like the ceaseless flow of a mighty river.

Moreover, people’s impression of Constant Star Lu Chen has gradually shifted from the initial reliable Father Sun, akin to a mountain, to a knowledgeable entity of a Constant Star Celestial Civilization.

People have slowly realized that Father Sun not only has tremendous energy but also profound knowledge reserves.

Thus, in the subsequent global literary creation competition, Constant Star Lu Chen was invited to be a judge.

In this way, during the following years of wandering, Constant Star Lu Chen often interacted with the people of both civilizations through various activities.

Time slowly passed in this atmosphere, and after more than thirty years, the interstellar collider of the second centennial plan was finally completed.

At this moment, about three thousand kilometers above Earth’s orbital path, there circulates a very special device that looks like a metal tunnel orbiting Constant Star Lu Chen along with Earth. It resembles a metallic ring worn on Earth’s head, shimmering brilliantly under the sunlight.

This device is the newly built interstellar collider, with a total length of 9.4 billion kilometers and an average diameter of five hundred meters, capable of accelerating any particle to near-light speed for collisions, thereby exploring new particles in the universe.

To construct this device, Earth Civilization and Light Synthesis Civilization mobilized nearly a hundred thousand space operation robots and spent about thirty years to truly complete this epic interstellar project.

Additionally, a simple space station has been built on this interstellar collider to provide living and working conditions for scientists.

Following the completion of the interstellar collider, the scientific team made rapid progress in research on space energy and space particles.

In one hadron collision experiment, scientists accidentally created a miniature black hole, formed by compressing countless composite particles together, extremely dense, merely the size of a marble. Unfortunately, this man-made miniature black hole existed for a very short time, disappearing after just a few seconds.

Scientists could only observe the brief process of black hole formation and learned about the phenomena of how the miniature black hole affected space, which will aid scientists in unlocking the secrets of space particles.

Moreover, scientists, based on space energy technology principles and Space Particle Device materials obtained from Pirate Civilization, after over thirty years of repeated verification, finally fabricated the first Space Particle Device.

This Space Particle Device is a vortex-shaped device with a diameter of one thousand kilometers, with coils of special cables forming a mini magnetic field inside. When powered, the night-state helium diversion system cools the magnetic components to -271 degrees, turning the magnetic components into superconductors, significantly reducing resistance loss and energy consumption. It then uses this intense magnetic field to absorb the massive energy released by fluctuations of particles in space.

At the same time.

The Battle Star plan is also progressing in full swing.

However, implementing the Battle Star plan proved a bit more difficult than other plans.

Not because of technical issues, although there certainly are technical challenges, but material supply is more demanding.

After all, transforming two massive planets like Earth and Green Star into Battle Stars requires an astronomical amount of metal materials. Even stripping all the metal mines on Earth and Green Star wouldn’t be enough, not to mention the enormous damage that would cause to both planets.

Thus, to solve the raw material issue in the implementation of the Battle Star plan.

After internal discussions within the Wandering Alliance, it was decided to temporarily excavate the metal materials needed for the Battle Star plan from the Wandering itself.

Since Wandering is inherently a Metal Planet, the metal materials extracted from Wandering skip the smelting process, and can be used directly with minor processing.

Furthermore, the most important thing is that losing some planetary mass doesn’t really matter to Wandering, while the Battle Star plan is urgent. After all, during future explorations, Wandering will surely encounter many resources, and the lost mass can then be replenished.

According to the Battle Star plan, both civilizations intend to establish a complete, state-of-the-art planetary defense system on the two planets, approximately 400 kilometers high, nearly equal to the atmosphere, covered with various protective and weapon equipment. The total metal needed is projected to be 16 planetary masses.

That is to say, Earth and Green Star each require eight planetary masses of metal.

Considering that Earth and Green Star each have only about a dozen planetary masses, it’s naturally impossible to extract so much metal.