Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 692 Star Destroyer Mining

After arriving at the new star system, humans were like beggars who had been hungry for many days. They would rush to the rocky planets they saw and start mining there on a large scale. In order to improve mining efficiency, they even used many weapons that were originally used in war.

Yes, it is true that humans have the nano-mining robot Xiao Hui, and it is also true that the minerals mined by Xiao Hui will directly turn into various metal elements. However, if Xiao Hui is allowed to mine with his own abilities, he will still have to find and dig holes on the planet. Especially when digging holes, he needs to dig down little by little, just like what happened when human power saw the planet where Silver Mist was located.

For humans who are already hungry for resources and urgently need to upgrade all of their civilization's creations, this efficiency is a bit low, so after some discussion, humans decided to use star destroyers to open mines.

Today, humanity's only star destroyer is installed on the Lyra.

There are two main sequence stars in this star system. One is a very common red dwarf star with a mass of about 0.4 times that of the sun. This type of star has a long life span and can maintain a stable state for about 2.5 billion years. The other is an A-type star, which has a white surface and a mass of about 25 times that of the sun. Because of its large mass and volume, its fuel burning rate is also fast, so it is also brighter. If compared with the sun, its brightness is times that of the sun, but its life span is much shorter, about only about billion years.

Therefore, if you look at this star system from far away in space, you will not see a binary star system, but only the brighter star. In fact, most star systems in the sky are not single stars, but more are binary star systems, followed by triple star systems, then single star systems, and finally extremely rare systems with more than four stars.

Therefore, the star system that humans came to is the most common star system in the universe. It has two stars. The small red dwarf has a very small mass, so its trajectory looks like a planet of the larger star. However, through orbital calculations, we can know that they are actually moving around a common center of mass in the void.

Of course, this center of mass is based on the local star system as a stationary reference system. If their orbital speed in the Milky Way is also taken into account, then this center of mass will also move.

However, no matter which reference frame, humans have a way to accurately calculate their trajectory, so the fleet's activities into the galaxy are naturally no problem.

There are a total of fourteen planets in its entire system, three of which are gas planets, located in the seventh, ninth and fourteenth orbits respectively, and the rest are all rocky planets. In addition, the three gas planets have many satellites. The eleven rocky planets also have 1 to 3 satellites each. All in all, there are more than one hundred satellites of different sizes, which can be said to be rich in resources.

According to the normal metal abundance in a star system, this star system is definitely enough for human use. There are rocky planets that can obtain various heavy metals, and there are gaseous planets that can extract gaseous substances such as hydrogen, helium, sulfur, methane, and carbon dioxide. It is simply an ideal place to obtain resources.

This binary system does not have an asteroid belt or Kuiper belt like the solar system. The space in the entire system is relatively clean, and there are no comets. This is probably due to the large mass of the A-type star and the three gas planets in the planetary orbit. Astronomers speculate that they have cleared the nearby orbits with their own gravity over a long period of time.

As soon as the human fleet entered the star system, all engineering ships and mining ships were dispatched. The residential spaceship cluster of the main civilization headed directly for the gas planet on the seventh orbit. The reason is that this place happens to be located in the middle orbit of the galaxy. No matter where the main human spaceship cluster follows this gas planet to orbit, it will be relatively close for resource transportation.

Humans plan to place various engineering platforms outside the orbit of this planet, and then concentrate resources to begin upgrading creations here.

After some exploration, humans discovered that most of the planets in this binary star system have cooled cores, and only a few planets near the inner cores still maintain their hot cores due to gravitational pull and stellar heating.

After obtaining the data, humans chose to target the planet in the orbit of the fifth planet for the first violent mineral mining.

The island-sized Tianqin soon arrived near the star, but did not enter the planet's far/near Earth orbit. Instead, it arrived about one astronomical unit away from the star, and then pointed its huge gun at the planet that was slowly orbiting the binary star system just like it had been for countless billions of years. "The warp engine has been shut down, and the conventional power has been fine-tuned. The Tianqin has arrived at the destination, 168,320 kilometers away from the target, and the battleship's attitude has been adjusted!"

“目标行星编号：红白—5号行星。行星具体参数如下：质量8.7457*10的24次方KG，平均密度5998千克每立方米，直径15560公里，公转轨道.自传轨道半轴长.”

"All functional facilities are operating normally, and the antimatter energy system's rated output force field acceleration rail has entered pre-start status!"

"The antimatter warhead of the Star Destroyer has been loaded into the chamber. All data of the Star Destroyer is normal."

"The Star Destroyer is ready!"

Inside the Lyra, reports were heard from the internal communications of various departments. At the same time, the Lyra's fire control system also locked onto the target planet.

This planet is slightly larger than the Earth, and its core has cooled. It is a dead planet, and there is no atmosphere on the surface of the planet. It is a typical rocky planet in the universe. There are two satellites in its orbit, one is a regular sphere, and the other is not a regular sphere because of its small mass.

Humans planned to blow it up with one shot, and then dispatch mining ships and nano-mining gray replicas to collect resources from its planetary corpse. Obviously, this is a very rough way of mining, which directly turns the environment on the planet into the same as the resource mining of asteroids in space, which is very convenient for wandering civilizations.

However, only a civilization like humans that possesses star destroyers can do this.

“天琴号推进系统重新启动，抗后坐力阻尼器数值正常.请全体舰员进入人体超频模式.歼星炮开炮倒计时10、9、8、7、6”

After a while, the star destroyer cannon entered the launch countdown.

The Tianqin has two driving modes. One is that 8,000 pilots connect to the consciousness connection system together and drive the warship from a third-person perspective. This mode is very convenient, but it is usually used in combat. In general, another driving mode is used, which is the traditional multi-person cooperative control mode.

This mode is actually not much different from the third-level civilization, that is, people in each position are responsible for their own part with the cooperation of artificial intelligence, which is why various voice broadcasts appear.

The warhead of human star destroyer cannon is antimatter. In the shell, the antimatter is used as the warhead and is sealed in the head of the shell by powerful gravitational potential well technology. From the appearance, the shell looks more like an intercontinental missile familiar to humans.

(End of this chapter)