Chapter 620 Taking Root
Saturn.
Saturn's ninth moon.
This is a rather peculiar planet because it is not Saturn's biological son, but was adopted later.
The satellite has a diameter of 200 kilometers and its surface is composed of rocks and water ice with relatively low reflectivity. It is 12.9 million kilometers away from Saturn.
Cold.
Dark.
Desolate and lonely.
It is the theme color of Saturn's ninth moon.
However, on this quiet, dark and cold planet, a comet hit the surface of Saturn's ninth moon.
The comet with a radius of 50 meters instantly created a large impact crater.
The civilization spark wrapped in the comet shell has a special protective layer inside to prevent damage to the core civilization spark during the impact.
Just after completing the impact mission.
About 37% of the protective layer of the civilization's fire was shattered, ensuring that the civilization's fire could stay safely at the bottom of the crater at this time.
[Impact buffer protection ends…].
[Magnetic field detection system activated... Gravity field detection system activated... Electromagnetic wave passive receiving system activated...].
[External information has completed the first phase of detection and started analyzing the planet...Analysis completed, the planet rating is as follows...].
[The planet has low gravity; it is far away from the main sequence star, so the light intensity is insufficient; it is far away from the main planet, so the resonant tidal heating is insufficient; the core is too small to generate geothermal heat; the star body is mainly composed of silicon, aluminum, calcium, oxygen, and hydrogen, and is suspected to be the nebula remnant of the early evolution of the star system...].
[Start selecting options…].
[The first option: energy—radioactive materials…].
The spark of civilization analyzed the data, selected development plans, and absorbed heat energy from the bottom of the crater.
The heat energy at the bottom of the crater is one of the few energies that can be used by the civilization at this time. However, the nuclear battery that comes with the civilization can only supply a small amount of heat every day, which is only roughly equivalent to 1 million calories.
Of this amount of calories, except for 300,000 calories needed to maintain and sustain the fire of civilization, the rest was used to adjust the flight trajectory.
Now that the artificial comet has successfully landed, the remaining 700,000 calories can be used to produce working cells and affiliated microorganisms.
The environment of this planet has no solar energy, geothermal energy, tidal thermal energy, or wind energy, and even the gravitational potential energy seems fragile.
Therefore, the problem facing the spark of civilization at this stage is how to obtain stable energy. Although the four attached nuclear batteries can be used for about 200,000 years, the energy supply is too small.
Why did the experimental team choose a planet with such harsh environmental conditions?
The reason is naturally to simulate avoiding the habitable zone of the planetary system.
According to the situation of the solar system and hexagrams in Homo Sapiens, the probability of life existing in the habitable zones of other planetary systems is higher than that in the middle and outer layers of the planetary systems.
The probability of producing life can be roughly divided as follows: habitable zone planets > large satellites attached to middle-layer giant planets > middle-layer terrestrial planets > outer-layer terrestrial planets > large asteroids > extreme inner-layer terrestrial planets.
The experimental group naturally has to take this situation into consideration.
Suppose now that the Homo Sapiens company wants to launch the spark of civilization to an unfamiliar planetary system, should the spark of civilization be launched directly to the planet in the habitable zone of that planetary system, or to the large asteroids or dwarf planets in the outer layer of that planetary system?
The answer is naturally the large asteroids or dwarf planets in the outer layer.
The habitable zone is good, but it is also very dangerous.
If the other party's level of civilization is similar to that of the six-clawed civilization 50,000 years ago, then entering the habitable zone in disguised form as a comet would be like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth.
Even if the other party's technological level is similar to that of the free world in human civilization, a disguised comet running around in the habitable zone can easily be discovered and studied by the other party.
As an interstellar stowaway and interstellar bug, the first principle is to keep a low profile.
In the early stage, sneak into the outer planet of the planetary system quietly, and then develop slowly while collecting various information about the planetary system.
If there is no first-level civilization or quasi-first-level civilization in the planetary system, we can let go and copy a few more civilization sparks, and advance little by little into the planetary system.
If a first-level civilization, or a quasi-first-level civilization, is discovered, then it will be necessary to accurately analyze the technological level of that civilization. If its overall technological level is not as good as that of Homo sapiens, then continue to survive and prepare to conquer this civilization.
If it is discovered that the technological level of this civilization is significantly higher than that of Homo Sapiens, the self-destruction program will be activated to completely eliminate all traces of this civilization in the planetary system.
In addition, Sapiens also plans to further research composite magnetic monopole crystals, striving to extend the current service life of magnetic monopole crystals, which is only about 20 years, to hundreds or even thousands of years.
After all, communication across planetary systems can only rely on magnetic monopole crystals, which cannot be produced individually. They must be produced as a whole and then used separately.
This means that magnetic monopole crystals can only be produced within the solar system and then installed inside the spark of a civilization.
Once the spark of civilization is launched, the service life of the magnetic monopole crystal communicator on it will be irreversibly reduced, and it will be used less and less every day.
Therefore, the service life of the magnetic monopole crystal must be prolonged as much as possible.
For interplanetary voyages that can take hundreds of years, magnetic monopole crystals, which currently have a service life of only 20 years, are completely useless.
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At this time, the spark of civilization on Saturn's ninth moon absorbed the heat from the bottom of the crater and quickly stored this extra heat energy through special energy storage cells.
This kind of energy storage cell is still modeled after the six-clawed people. After all, the living environment of the six-clawed people is extremely harsh, especially during the millions of years before the development of technology. They rely on a special kind of energy storage cell to survive the ice and fire disasters.
This type of energy storage cell is standard in the six-clawed giant star ecosystem, and many local animals and plants have similar energy storage cells.
In fact, when it comes to developing asteroids and large satellites, the Hexapod Civilization is much better than Homo Sapiens. This is the blessing brought by time.
After all, even if it is a pig, it should have become a spirit after tens of thousands of years.
What's more, the six-clawed people have tens of thousands of years of experience in space development. They have summed up a lot of experience and relevant technologies on how to develop and utilize various asteroids and large satellites.
Although not all of these technologies were acquired by the Homo Sapiens Company, after all, the escape spacecraft was only one of the 46 kingdoms of the Six Claws Civilization.
However, the above technologies and experiences have greatly promoted the development of Sapiens in the space field.
After learning from each other's strengths and making up for each other's weaknesses, the spark of civilization now has the ability to develop on various asteroids, large satellites, and dwarf planets.
Energy storage cells are just one small application.
The intelligent system of the spark of civilization has now selected the fastest development plan.
At the bottom of the crater, 682 meters away from the core of the civilization's spark, there is a tiny gypsum vein, which was formed by the planet's geological extrusion. According to the data from magnetic field detection, it can be analyzed that the gypsum vein can produce about 400 tons of high-purity gypsum.
Soon the spark of civilization will grow a tentacle and extend toward the gypsum vein.
In less than 17 hours, the tentacles were inserted into the gypsum veins. Gypsum crystals of various sizes were collected and then transported to the core through the transport pipes inside the tentacles.
The core dug several small holes underground, used a special type of cell to strip the calcium from the gypsum, and then formed an organic body .
Then one of the nuclear batteries acts as a neutron source, firing neutrons at the gypsum nest, creating radioactive substances rich in calcium 45 and calcium 47, which can be used as raw materials for new nuclear batteries.
