Chapter 662: Fortress (I)
Galaxy 15 years.
In interstellar space 0.083 light-years away from the solar system.
It is pitch dark here, and there is no other light source around except the distant stars.
open.
Deep.
silence.
This is the eternal theme of this starry sky.
At this moment, an irregular asteroid with a radius of about 288 kilometers slowly floated past.
The escape velocity of this celestial body is only 13.5 kilometers per second, and its direction of movement is not towards the solar system, but away from the solar system.
In fact, the movement trajectories of celestial bodies in the starry sky are unpredictable.
Suddenly, a Spark spacecraft flying from the Kuiper Belt of the solar system slowly approached the asteroid until the flying speeds of both parties were consistent and entered companion flight mode.
The civilization fire storage compartment of the Spark spacecraft was opened, and then a carrier rocket carrying the civilization fire was ignited and launched, flying towards the asteroid 12 kilometers away.
Less than 3 minutes.
The carrier rocket carrying the spark of civilization successfully landed on the surface of the asteroid.
Then the transport cabin of the carrier rocket popped open, revealing the spark of civilization inside. It was an improved version of the spark of civilization, with the addition of the Sapiens company's version of life metal, and used the spark spacecraft's nuclear fusion power system to transmit electricity over long distances.
Soon, a large amount of life metal particles spread to the surface of the asteroid like a tide.
The dark surface of the asteroid welcomed its first visitor in billions of years.
The Spark spacecraft's Chi-NA auxiliary system can quickly plan development plans by scanning the composition of the asteroid.
A dozen synchronized robots were activated.
Then one of the cabinets storing the synchronized robots automatically popped open.
Zizizi... a white mist came out of the cabinet, and the frozen synchronized robot was quickly thawed. The human face on its head also slowly moved for a few minutes, and finally the robot opened its eyes:
"Have we reached our destination?"
Zhang Yu's synchronized robot floated out of the cabinet.
At this time, other team members also came online one after another.
"team leader!"
Zhang Yu looked at the others and said, "Let's start working according to the assignment!"
" Speak !"
In the control room of the spacecraft, Zhang Yu carefully examined the specific conditions of the asteroid.
At the same time, a small transport spacecraft carrying six synchronized robots flew out from the Spark spacecraft and landed on the asteroid.
The asteroid is named "Stonefish".
After reading the details of Stonefish Planet, Zhang Yu smiled: "Not bad! Stonefish Planet actually contains 1.2% iron and 2.9% aluminum plus other resources, which is much better than other asteroids in interstellar space."
"Indeed, this saves us a lot of effort." Deputy captain and construction engineer Barus also laughed.
The resource situation on Stonefish Star has indeed reduced a lot of their troubles.
After all, the core components of dark stars in interstellar space are mostly water ice, dry ice, and silicates, and the content of metal elements is very small.
"Report, Cage and his team have successfully landed on the Fish Eye Crater on Stonefish Planet."
Zhang Yu turned around and ordered, "Tell them to start controlling the nanorobots to build a landing platform."
"receive."
Although the Spark spacecraft's escort flight is semi-inertial and only needs to use auxiliary thrusters occasionally to modify the flight direction, the Spark spacecraft's working fluid is limited, and they should try not to waste it if possible.
In less than 23 hours, the landing platform in the Fisheye crater was transformed.
After receiving the news, Zhang Yu immediately commanded the Spark spacecraft to land on Stonefish Star.
When the Spark spacecraft successfully landed on Stonefish Planet, it meant that the work of transforming Stonefish Planet had begun in full swing.
The first facility to be built was a water extraction plant, followed by a manufacturing plant for the nuclear fusion power system.
The combined operation of the spark of civilization and the metal of life can replicate most of the current technologies of Homo sapiens, which naturally includes controlled nuclear fusion power generation technology.
17 days later.
After the first nuclear power plant on Stonefish Star was put into operation, the productivity of the nanorobots and controllable microorganisms that obtained abundant electrical energy exploded exponentially.
At this time, inside the command center of the Stonefish Star Fortress.
Zhang Yu looked at the star map within the radius of Stonefish Star of 500 million kilometers. This is a very high-precision star map. All the asteroids larger than 1 meter are recorded in it.
All I saw was a star map covered with densely packed spots of light, which were the asteroids floating around.
Vice Captain Barus spread his hands helplessly: "Captain, there are no large asteroids within a radius of 500 million kilometers."
The large asteroids they refer to are those with a radius of 100 to 1,000 kilometers, while those with a radius of 1,000 to 3,000 kilometers are called dwarf planets.
Celestial bodies with a radius of 10 to 100 kilometers are medium-sized asteroids; celestial bodies with a radius of 1 to 10 kilometers are small asteroids; celestial bodies with a radius of less than 1 kilometer are micro asteroids.
At this time, in the star field of Stonefish with a radius of 500 million kilometers, there are only 27 medium-sized asteroids, 428 small asteroids, and 58,397 micro asteroids.
Zhang Yu was not surprised that the surrounding resources were so scarce. After all, this was an empty interstellar space. He casually circled four medium-sized asteroids:
"Let's focus on mining these four medium-sized asteroids first!"
These four medium-sized asteroids have relatively high metal content and have become the priority mining targets of the Stonefish Star Fortress.
"No problem, I'll arrange it right away." Nozomi Kaneda, who was in charge of remote mining, nodded.
Half an hour later, a 5,000-ton mining ship flew towards the target at a speed of 100 kilometers per second.
Zhang Yu began to prepare for the manufacture of weapons and equipment.
"Ebony Spring!"
"Captain, what's the matter?" Wu Muquan, who was in charge of combat readiness, floated over.
Zhang Yu didn't waste any words: "Which weapon ?"
Wu Muquan, who had been prepared, replied calmly: "Plan 53, this is the best arrangement at the moment based on our fortress' resources."
"Okay! Get ready! I always feel a little uneasy without weapons to keep me safe."
"Captain, have you also developed a fear of insufficient firepower?"
Zhang Yu shrugged. "There's nothing we can do. The nearest border fortress is 72.3 billion kilometers away, and there's nothing around. We don't have any cover here, so who knows if an enemy will suddenly show up."
This is also one of the troubles with the Dark Star Project and the Interstellar Fortress Project.
In interstellar space, any first-level civilization with relatively advanced technology can more or less sense the existence of dark stars.
Once the enemy's spacecraft passes near the solar system, it will definitely give priority to mining the resources of the dark star as supplies.
As for why we don’t directly enter the planetary system to collect materials, the reason is naturally for safety reasons.
Aliens are definitely not that stupid. They usually don't enter a planetary system directly without finding out the internal intelligence of the unfamiliar planetary system.
