A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 246 The Civilization Representative is Too Confused

After the Behemoth behemoth set sail for its target planet Reka, the planetary creatures, under the instructions of Lu Shang, successively dispatched swarms of bee creatures to various untouched planets within the Hengxing system.

These bee swarms differ from the Behemoth behemoths. The Behemoth behemoths were hatched for war, so a large amount of resources were invested. The bee swarms sent to other planets are smaller in size.

These bee colonies do not have a uniform appearance, but they have the same general structure: a nuclear fusion reactor plus a pulse propulsion and solid helium container for cooling.

The solid planets in the star system have very harsh environments. They are either too cold or too hot. Some have ridiculously high wind speeds, exceeding four or five times the speed of sound, which can blow flesh to shreds. Others have extremely corrosive atmospheres, so that not only can living organisms not survive for long, but even metallic bodies cannot survive there.

However, these problems are not a big deal for the Babel Tower bee colony.

Planets that are too cold have large nuclear fusion reactors set up in their cores, and then the heat is sent to the surface through the cooling and evaporation of water, thus warming the entire planet's surface.

If it gets too hot, low-temperature materials are used to accelerate the cooling of the Earth's core, or the cooling and evaporation of water are used to send the heat to the surface for normal cooling. However, unlike cold planets, hot planets will have a large number of biological reflective plates placed in their orbits, and many biological reflective films will be erected on the surface, like Dyson spheres, to wrap around the planet, reduce the intensity of starlight on the planet, and thus lower the overall temperature of the planet.

The powerful gas giant doesn't need to enter a raging cyclone. It can simply allow the swarm of organisms to float in the thinner region of the gas giant's atmosphere, like an orbiting satellite, and then lower a pipe from above to directly extract the gas from the gas giant.

Solid planets with highly corrosive atmospheres are also easy to deal with. The Babel bee swarm is quite chemically capable. After a simple analysis of the main components of the planet's atmosphere, they directly contacted several other solid planets and instructed them to produce large quantities of chemicals that could neutralize the corrosive atmosphere. These chemicals were then loaded into cannonballs and launched directly at the target planet using large bio-electromagnetic cannons set up on the planets.

After a period of time, the corrosiveness of the planet's atmosphere will decrease to a level that the bee colony can tolerate due to molecular chemical reactions.

Next comes the expansion of the extraction of materials from various planets. The way the bee colony expands its production capacity is simple and direct: increase the size of the extraction colony. With more people working, the production capacity will naturally increase.

However, to join the ranks of interstellar civilizations and enter the realm of faster-than-light civilizations, simply mining planetary materials is far from enough; the swarm must also utilize the planet's resources.

Therefore, after reaching a certain production capacity and scale, under the instruction of Lu Shang, the planets in the Hengxing system, except for Reka Star, which were colonized by the bee swarm, aimed their large bio-electromagnetic cannons on the surface of the planets at Hengxing and launched a large number of bee swarm organisms towards Hengxing. These bee swarm organisms were not large in size individually, but their numbers were very large.

Whenever a star rises above the planet's horizon, an array of large bio-electromagnetic cannons begins a continuous salvo, continuing until the star sets below the horizon. The fired projectiles rain down into the sky, and that area is shrouded in the shrill sound of falling projectiles for a long time every morning.

However, no shells will fall; these biological shells are all hurtling towards the star from below.

From a broader perspective, these solid planets appear to form a river between themselves and the stars. This river is not composed of liquid water, but rather of a large number of biological projectiles.

Once the bio-projectiles get close enough to the star to deploy their solar sails, they change their direction of motion. From a macroscopic perspective, this creates an extra ring around the star's orbit. This ring is loose, like Saturn's rings, and is merely a sensory illusion caused by light. In reality, the bio-projectiles are not connected and are quite far apart from each other.

During this period, several stellar flares erupted, interrupting the swarm's radio communications several times.

However, it's not a big problem, as they are living organs, because the parts damaged by the star flare can heal themselves in a short time and restore the radio communication network.

While Lu Shang was directing the swarm of bee-like creatures near Hengxing to work overtime on a massive project, the Ska civilization, which had already become a swarm satellite civilization, asked the question that had been troubling them the most.

"Honorable Tower of Babel bees, could you tell us what you wish to build near the stars?"

"Create a gravitational ring," Lu Shang replied.

"A gravity ring? What's that?"

The Ska people had never heard of such a thing. Although the name suggested that it was related to gravity and that it was a ring-shaped structure, that was all they could think of.

Lu Shang didn't mind that the Skaians knew this; he asked, "Do you know about the ring singularity of a black hole?"

"Is this... related to what's being built near the star?" The Skaians were tense and uneasy. They didn't understand why they were suddenly being brought up with black holes. Did the Babel bees plan to build a black hole near the star?!

The Skaians, on the other hand, felt increasingly uneasy as they thought about it. Combining this with the "gravitational ring" that Lu Shang had mentioned in front of them, and the Skaian representative who represented the connection between the Skaian civilization and Lu Shang, they suddenly felt their hearts skip a beat.

Lu Shang didn't know what the Ska people were thinking, and he continued, "Strictly speaking, the two are quite similar."

"You have also discovered the nuclear energy formula. You should understand that the essence of nuclear energy is the conversion of mass into energy, which is then released in the form of heat and light."

"A conclusion can be derived from the nuclear energy formula—mass is energy; it is the same thing in different states."

"Therefore, we can deduce that when one object merges with another, its apparent mass and gravitational force will increase; similarly, when an object gains energy, its apparent mass and gravitational force will also increase."

"Therefore, by simply creating a particle accelerator that orbits a star and continuously accelerates the particles inside, we can use the star-encircling particle stream, which is extremely close to the speed of light, to form an artificial strange ring and directly extract stellar matter from the star through gravity."

A gravitational ring, as the name suggests, is a ring-shaped object that can generate strong gravitational force.

According to Lu Shang's plan, the gravity of this ring would be so strong that it would be able to directly extract star matter from the bottom up.

In this way, the Babel bee swarm only needs to wait and cool down the stellar material it extracts in star orbit to obtain a large amount of material.

During the cooling process, these plasma-state stellar materials can also generate electricity, achieving two goals at once.

The representatives of the Ska civilization were completely stunned upon hearing this, their legs trembling uncontrollably.

Good heavens, a colossal creation orbiting a star!

If something goes wrong, or if this colossal creation disintegrates and collapses, then the Ska civilization will become nothing more than a story!

(End of this chapter)