The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 218 Electromagnetic Railgun

This weapon structure was the electromagnetic gun that was envisioned in the early years when developing levels such as the Saw Ant and the Mortar Spider.

At that time, Lin Yi's idea was to use special muscle structures called electric plate pillars on later generations of electric eels and other power-generating fish to generate electricity, and use wire-like structures in the body to guide the current to the claws of the mortar spider. On the launch track, a strong magnetic field is generated between multiple guide rails, and the Ampere force of the magnetic field is used to accelerate the projectile to an astonishing speed.

It is not a coil gun that has lower requirements for material properties, but a rail gun that is more convenient for the realization of biological structures. As long as a pair of appendages are filled with energized structures and connected to the electric plate column structure, a biological electromagnetic can be easily made. Railgun.

However, the power generation capacity of the electric plate column cannot meet Lin Yi's needs very well. To launch projectiles, an astonishing number of electric plate column structures are required to be stacked in series and operate simultaneously to emit current.

In this way, although the electricity met the demand, the nutrients consumed were staggering, and the effect was not much better than the chemical charge artillery. For Lin Yi at the time, the gain outweighed the loss.

In addition, gene linguistics had not been fully realized at that time, and gene editing capabilities were limited, so the complex electromagnetic rail gun structure was not suitable. Therefore, the final Mortar Terror used traditional chemical-charge artillery instead of the more advanced electromagnetic gun.

However, part of the research at that time was still used as a technical reserve and was left in the genetic sequence storage of the mother nest, waiting for the opportunity to use it in the future - for example, now.

Today, the emergence of the biological fission reactor structure can provide inexhaustible biochemical energy for large-level individuals in the nest, and then drive the electric plate column structure to convert it into electrical energy. The biological electromagnetic gun accelerates the projectile to a higher speed. The large amount of energy needed has been found.

Especially the astonishing grade of the space biological template provided by Bao in the end - according to the assumption, the biological fission reactor structure will be the standard configuration of space biological, otherwise it will only rely on the mixture of photosynthesis, radiation synthesis, chemical energy synthesis and other systems. It is difficult for an autotrophic synthesis system to drive the huge bodies of space creatures.

After installing a large-scale biological fission reactor, the energy supply of space organisms will become redundant, and this redundancy is completely enough to drive a large number of electric plate and column series structures supporting such a biological electromagnetic railgun structure.

It is envisioned that a space creature equipped with a biological fission reactor will have an astonishingly huge electromagnetic railgun structure installed on the central axis of the body, making it a true biological space battleship that can launch an astonishingly high-speed projectile to attack the enemy.

Although Lin Yi currently has no enemies that need to be attacked by the electromagnetic railgun structure, this does not mean that this brand new biological electromagnetic gun structure does not have other functions - especially when breakthrough 2 in materials science allows its size to be unrestricted. Down.

Unlike gunpowder cannons, the acceleration process of electromagnetic guns is relatively uniform and can accelerate objects to a very high speed - at the level that early fission reactors can drive, this speed can theoretically reach the earth's first cosmic speed.

Although there are various reasons for this process, especially the severe friction caused by the earth's atmosphere, the projectile cannot reach the theoretical maximum speed, which makes it unrealistic to directly accelerate objects from the earth to exceed the first cosmic speed and launch it into space.

But on Mars, where the atmosphere is thin and the gravity is smaller, all this may not be impossible - if a very large electromagnetic railgun, or a very large electromagnetic acceleration orbit, is built on the ground, the carpet tumors, nutrients, etc. By shooting directly into space, it can achieve a greater carrying capacity than traditional launch vehicles.

Since what is launched into the sky is only basic carpet tumors or nutrient capsules, and there are no complex and sophisticated instruments and equipment, it can completely withstand the strong overload force, making this simple and crude launch plan theoretically feasible. After thinking about it, while the bionuclear fission reactor was being built, the structure of the bioelectromagnetic railgun that was in the technical reserves was also dug out again, and further researched and modified in an attempt to put it into practical use.

Some time later, the first experimental biological nuclear fission reactor of the nest was completed on the surface of Mars. Its overall shape still maintained a shape similar to that of the terrestrial mother nest, with the main part extending underground.

Fissile materials also come from Mars, and the engineer mined uranium-235 deposits nearby. Therefore, he directly placed a brood group here and began to experimentally build a nuclear reactor structure.

Two biological fission nuclear reactors the size of two mother nests were slowly ignited under the protection of a circle of Mars mother nests. The uranium fuel rods inside began to react, and the atomic nuclei fissioned, producing a large amount of neutrons and heat energy, starting a chain reaction.

It's not that it can't be made smaller, but Lin Yi is not confident about the structure of the first test, leaving a lot of redundant results. Under normal circumstances, its size can be reduced to the size of a terrestrial mother nest.

Through the senses of those cells, Lin Yi could vaguely sense that the surging energy was being continuously produced from the reactor, and was converted into chemical energy that could be used by living things, and was transported to every mother nest and every creature through the bacteria carpet. cell.

Then came the experiment on the control rod structure. The scale structure opened and closed to control the rate of the fission reaction and adjust the reactor power.

After some experiments, it was tentatively confirmed that the first bionuclear reactor of the nest group was almost certain to be successful - the next step was to reduce the size, increase the power, and cooperate with other structures.

Biological wire structures based on the nervous system and large-scale electric plate column structures that can convert chemical energy into electrical energy have also begun to be designed and integrated with the carpet structure to achieve large-scale conversion of chemical energy and electrical energy.

Since there is currently no reliable battery structure, Lin Yi's method is to use a large number of series-connected electric plate columns and muscle tissue to instantly generate electricity, instantly generating a large amount of electrical energy to drive the expected launch of the biological electromagnetic railgun.

In a sense, compared to generators, the electric plate column structure, which is more suitable for instantaneous output rather than continuous power generation, has more advantages when driving structures such as electromagnetic guns.

Moreover, because the biological fission reactor directly uses cell synthesis to convert thermal energy into chemical energy absorbed by the cell tissue, eliminating the need to boil water, the overall energy conversion is more efficient, allowing the fission reactor to also have the ability to drive an electromagnetic gun. .

A large-scale electromagnetic acceleration orbital structure based on a large fission reactor, a large number of electric plate column muscle structures and a power transmission system has been put into development - once successful, the pace of space exploration by the nest will be further accelerated.

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