Wandering Meteor-Chapter 198 - 197: The Wandering Alliance’s Gains and Growth

After the construction of the Neutron Star Defense Line was complete, there were no significant resources left within the Ring Nebula, and Constant Star Lu Chen led the Wandering Star System towards the outer parts of the Ring Nebula, following the established route to the Cosmic Center.

Now, the Wandering Star System was completely different from before, divided into inner and outer layers.

The inner layer consisted of the orbit zone formed by Constant Star Lu Chen, Earth, Green Star, and Wandering, with a diameter of about 5 astronomical units.

Due to the massive growth of Constant Star Lu Chen’s mass, his stellar body experienced considerable growth in diameter. The radiation output from his luminance increased exponentially, and thus both Earth Civilization residing on Earth and the Light Synthesis Civilization residing on Green Star had to migrate their orbital paths outward.

Firstly, to maintain their original living environments.

Secondly, to give Constant Star Lu Chen room for growth.

To keep the radiation level that reached the planetary surfaces relatively constant, Earth on the first orbital path migrated to three astronomical units away, Green Star on the second orbital path to four astronomical units, and Metal Planet Wandering to five astronomical units.

Also migrating at the same time was the interstellar collider, which orbits in sync with Earth.

The interstellar collider is currently the most powerful collider within the Wandering Alliance and is essential for scientific research, so it was one of the first to undergo migration and modification.

In fact, when this project was first constructed, Earth Civilization had considered the possibility of such circumstances, which is why the interstellar collider was designed in sections that could be assembled together. This is currently the most rational structural approach for mechanical devices, making maintenance or upgrades much more convenient.

The outer layer of the Wandering Star System was the Neutron Star Defense Line, with a diameter of 1.5 astronomical units.

However, it should be noted that the previously mentioned three astronomical units for the orbit of the first neutron star does not refer to the distance from Constant Star Lu Chen, but rather the distance from the outer layer of the Wandering Star System, which is three astronomical units from Wandering.

After all, the Neutron Star Defense Line is there to protect the entire Wandering Alliance; naturally, it would orbit at the outermost edge. To avoid any potential influences the neutron stars could have on the Wandering Alliance, the scientific team, after calculations, suggested that a minimum separation of three astronomical units is required.

Thus, the current diameter of the Wandering Star System is 9.5 astronomical units.

The inner layer is 5 astronomical units, and the outer layer is 4.5 astronomical units, which is more than three times larger than before.

However, the orbital speed of the inner orbit zone of the Wandering Star System is not fast. Although the orbit has been extended and the orbital speeds of Earth and Green Star have been increased several times to ensure an orbital period of one year, this speed is still turtle-paced compared to the orbit speed of the neutron stars in the outer orbit zone. The neutron stars have been calibrated to orbit at half the speed of light for defense purposes.

From a cosmic perspective, the inner orbits spin gradually while the outer orbits rotate quickly, yet they do not affect each other. This unique and independent structure resembles a sophisticated Star Disk instrument, which is awe-inspiring to behold!

This battle against the Ring Nebula.

Not only has the Wandering Star System grown, but the Metal Planet Wandering on the outermost layer has also increased in size.

During the war, Wandering absorbed a large number of cosmic battleships from the Ant-man Civilization and also absorbed a lot of Metal Elements while carrying out extermination missions, ultimately reaching a planetary mass that broke through the milestone of one thousand and arrived at 1300 planetary mass!

However, since Wandering is a Metal Planet with greater density, its diameter is only about four times larger than Earth’s.

Both Earth Civilization and Light Synthesis Civilization have also made advancements.

The first is the acquisition of the Eternal Life Technology from Ant-man Civilization. After some time of research, they too realized Eternal Life.

The second is that after the scientists’ long and tireless research on space, the Space Acceleration technology within the Wandering Alliance has now reached triple the speed of light, the same as the speed of the Planet Battleships from the previously eliminated Earth Core Civilization.

The third is a further understanding of Black Holes and Gravity. Although it is still largely conjecture at this stage, science always starts with speculation. This lays a solid scientific foundation for the Wandering Alliance to become a Level 4 Civilization and to master the Unified Force.

Lastly, there is the leader of the Wandering Alliance.

Also the Constant Star at the center of the Wandering Star System, Lu Chen.

Originally, before entering the Ring Nebula, Lu Chen was at 8860 Constant Star Mass. However, after a frenzy of absorption, it swallowed over a hundred stars, most of which were newly formed.

After absorbing these new stars of various sizes, Lu Chen’s Constant Star Mass eventually broke through the ten thousand barrier, growing to 16200 Constant Star Mass and officially becoming a Medium-mass Star, having increased by a whopping 7340 Constant Star Mass from before.

Now, the diameter of Constant Star Lu Chen’s body is 14 million kilometers. With the explosive increase of Constant Star Mass, the density also increased to about four times that of before, implying that to counter the greater pressure from the added mass, the rate of nuclear fusion at the star’s core must have considerably increased from previous levels.

The current Nuclear Fusion Rate is about three times what it was before.

As the Nuclear Fusion Rate increased, the temperature of the core region reached 50 million degrees, and the temperature of the corona layer reached 8 million degrees.

Furthermore, as Constant Star Mass broke through the ten thousand barrier, becoming a Medium-mass Star, Lu Chen can now amplify Gravity Increment to a force of three hundred thousand even without using the Unified Force Stone.

If needed, Lu Chen can effortlessly capture his own emitted photons.

This is also one of the reasons that Lu Chen could easily capture and control those three neutron stars.

Because Lu Chen’s current mass is greater than that of the neutron stars and, combined with Gravity Increment, he can naturally complete the capture effortlessly.

However, although Lu Chen’s mass growth was significant, he was not satisfied with the speed of his growth. It’s just regrettable that the Ring Nebula has a diameter of only about five thousand light-years and is considered a small nebula. Additionally, since the Ring Nebula is not very old, most of the stars birthed within its arms are new stars.

Thus, considering the small size and scarcity of Hydrogen resources in the nebula, not only were the number of stars formed limited, their mass was not significant either. None surpassed three thousand Constant Star Mass. If Lu Chen’s absorbed Hydrogen mass and quantity were to be calculated, the average mass for each new star within the Ring Nebula would be only about seven hundred Constant Star Mass.

In fact, there were stars exceeding three thousand Constant Star Mass within the Ring Nebula.

However, those were old stars, located at the core of the Ring Nebula and bound by the powerful Gravity of the central Black Hole, which even Lu Chen did not dare to recklessly disturb. So, after absorbing all the new stars within the arms, Lu Chen led the revitalized Wandering Star System back on the cosmic journey to the Cosmic Center.

Gradually, amidst the obscure darkness of space ahead, a massive cosmic wall standing tall slowly emerged before the eyes of the Wandering Alliance.