Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 1085 Huge Area

For today's human beings, the solar system is still too large.

The solar system information transmission link does not mean that the eight planets are arranged in a row, and then a fiber optic cable that runs through the eight planets can be built.That's not enough.

Many planets in the solar system will revolve, and the revolution period is different, and the distance between the closest point and the farthest point is very different.When the two planets are farthest, there is even a sun in the middle, and their respective orbital radii.

No signal station can span this distance.

With today's human means, if you want to transmit signals, you have to orbit around the planet and build several space cities as transfer stations.

This is the main reason why the asylum's control power plummets beyond the orbit of Mars.

"Building infrastructure around Mars" and "building infrastructure around Jupiter" are not at all difficult.

In the inner side of the orbit of Mars, there is still sufficient sunlight, and humans can survive with solar energy.For many civilians, if they are dead, they can go to space and deploy solar panels to obtain energy.But when it comes to the asteroid belt, this approach will not work.Solar energy is not enough.On Earth, the highest performance solar panels the size of a bamboo hat can meet the daily consumption of a person for a day.But in space cities, that number is an order of magnitude higher.Moreover, with the density of residents in the space city, there is no room for everyone to deploy solar panels in the city.

By this point, residents have become highly dependent on the reactors inside the city.

This is why the Chaldean defense forces were highly nervous when Jeanna could say that there might be an accident near the reactor.

This is indeed the source of life in Chaldea.

And when it comes to the Jupiter orbit, the space city's requirements for infrastructure construction will increase.

And due to the lack of resources, the knights did not build a prosperous space city group outside the orbit of Jupiter.

Although the area controlled by the knight is prosthetic.But whenever Saturn and Uranus and Neptune drift away, the knights have to face a situation where they are forced to separate.Even sometimes, the signal between them cannot be connected.

They even need to periodically exchange information with each other in sub-light speed ships.A spaceship carries a large number of storage devices, then slowly accelerates to a few percent of the speed of light, then decelerates steadily to reach the target location, and transmits signals to satellites or space cities.

It's too far.

For this reason, the knights even had to build a large number of observation agencies to monitor the asylum fleet.It is also a helpless move for Baijian Yicong and Heijian Yicong to stay in the asteroid belt all year round.They can only intercept the Asylum's power if they discover the Asylum's deep space fleet early and then intercept it in the asteroid belt.

Otherwise, the weak group of knights would have to separate to defend two planets separated by a huge distance, plus a small number of space cities.

"The development of the outer solar system is still too difficult." Listening to Li Liang's narration in the window, Jean Na said with emotion.

Tu Xiangshan nodded: 【Compared to the universe, human beings are still too small.Outside the orbit of Jupiter, there is probably only one celestial body with great development value, Saturn.For Uranus and Neptune, the development cost is huge, but...]

What is the main development value of Uranus and Neptune?

Lode?That's an ice giant.I am afraid that the "ore" you mined on Uranus will not be directly sublimated into gas when it is brought to the earth.

Methane as fuel?It is also useful in this day and age.Tactical missiles and micro-missiles are still needed.However, in this era, methane is still not enough as a fuel for high-speed navigation.

With the huge amount of catastrophic fuel mined by Jupiter and Saturn, methane is somewhat insufficient.Spending a lot of nuclear fuel to transport methane to how many astronomical units... Just thinking about it makes my brain feel like a hole.Even if there is no natural methane locally, the energy consumed by the direct reaction of carbon dioxide and hydrogen is definitely less than the interstellar transport of methane.

At this stage, the only thing an ice giant can provide to humans is its ultra-low temperature environment.For high-temperature superconducting technology, this low-temperature environment is a natural advantage.Other than that, uh, it may only have scientific research value.

And indeed it is.At the beginning, Uranus and Neptune only had a small number of space stations centered on the Knights of Science.However, the king who was entrusted there wanted to develop for himself rather than for development.After all, the military strength obtained during the enfeoffment will be exhausted. They must have their own sources of troops and their own production system.Otherwise, they would be subject to the kings of their own ranks - those who were entrusted to the rocky planets or the gas giants.

The border kings had no choice but to transport a group of people from the inner solar system to their fiefs for forced development.

Later, the Seventh Valkyrie beheaded the future king of Saturn who controlled Neptune, and the Neptune King who controlled Neptune.King Uranus, who controlled Uranus, had better luck. At that time, Uranus was far away from Saturn and Neptune. Seeing that the situation was not good, he used the excuse of "supporting friendly forces" and took the main deep space fleet to the space of Jupiter. At the same time, the Planetary Defense Force also carried a part of the population to follow up.After that, King Styx, who controlled the Kuiper belt all the way to the Oort cloud area, was also directly beheaded.

King Styx obtained the largest fief and was the only king whose fief was counted in light years.In the entire feudal era, all the feudal monarchs added one piece of land, and the territory was not as good as his nine cows (after all, even the earth's continent is not enough).Even the jurisdictions of other kings are much smaller than his.The total mass of matter in the area ruled by King Styx plus one piece is also dozens of times the mass of the earth.

But truth be told, most of this mass is the interstellar dust of the Oort Cloud.The small objects in the Oort cloud are only five times the mass of Earth and are scattered in a sphere two light-years in diameter.The matter here is so thin that the speed king can drive to a low sublight speed.

The Kuiper belt is dozens of times the size of the asteroid belt (that is, a few moons), but unlike the rocky and metal-dominated situation in the asteroid belt, it is mainly icy celestial bodies.

The asylum seekers forcibly build cities in this kind of rotten place.These cities are occupied by knights.And the knights really don't have the resources to move all the population and industrial base to Saturn.The city under the rule of the original Styx King can only develop while waiting for the opportunity of large-scale migration.

Considering that the revolution period of Uranus is 84.02 Earth years and that of Neptune is 164.8 years, and that Uranus was on the other side of the solar system and Neptune was very close when the warriors first took control of the place a hundred years ago in the Seventh Valkyrie era... Most cities also get It's just two opportunities for large-scale immigration.

(End of this chapter)