Doctor, I'm really strong!

Ancient gods have descended, huh? Your Colombian news media are certainly avant-garde.

The louder they shout, the more Colombia cares about this matter and the less they want to fall behind in this area.

This is Liu Jiuli's goal: since you don't want to fall behind, then hurry up and catch up, and let's have a Star Wars battle together.

This time, however, the community has all the resources to realize your amazing PowerPoint presentations. Once the community achieves the visions in these presentations, you'll be the ones in trouble.

Section 329: Paradox Interactive Players' Ambition

(I've been so busy lately, so busy, so busy~ So busy ε=('ο｀))) Sigh)

Back then, America's Star Wars hype became the final straw that broke the Soviet Union's back, and now Liu Jiuli is doing the same thing.

However, unlike the big-time con artists in the United States, he actually invests real money in his projects. Every achievement he makes will drive the huge development of related industries. Laser technology alone will play a pivotal role in many fields, and the power of the new laser interception weapon will be enough to make the warship's defense capabilities soar.

In the future, as long as the radar keeps up, any missiles and shells launched by the enemy will be meaningless, and the era of high-performance laser weapons blocking the sky is coming.

It's like the ray level in MUV.

Cough cough cough, just thinking about it, I can't do that level yet, but it's not a problem to penetrate a drone with a single irradiation. However, if they have an anti-laser coating, that's a different story.

The battle between offense and defense continues; it remains to be seen who can reach the highest position.

"This is the current Terra geostationary orbit. Next, we can deploy satellites to provide meteorite warnings."

Kal'tsit held a laser pointer, and the screen displayed what she was explaining.

Dongfanghong-1 is a comprehensive exploration satellite, not only for Terra but also for outer space. Although this all-rounder design limits its specialization, it is still very helpful in understanding the current environment of Terra.

Then you can see a belt floating in the planet's synchronous orbit.

It's the card art that's here to fight!

Ahem, let's get down to business. This is the source of the meteorite catastrophe on Terra—the Star Ring Meteorite Belt.

This thing has nothing to do with the moon; it's still hanging in the sky, enjoying its drinks. To be precise, it was an accident. Multiple asteroids flew towards Earth and collided and disintegrated. Some of the debris fell to Earth, while others remained suspended in planetary orbit. Surprisingly, many of these asteroids also showed Originium crystallization reactions.

Therefore, it is clear that the origin of Originium crystals is not just a failed experiment. The reason why there are no records of this in the previous civilization is mainly because later humans were completely unable to explore these areas, while early humans did not have a deep understanding of Originium and did not have professional detection methods.

“A mere warning isn’t enough. We need the power to destroy meteorites, and ideally, send them to a safe place, like the ocean,” Liu Jiuli said.

Earth (now called Terra) has its own atmosphere. Meteorites that fall into the atmosphere will burn up. Only asteroids that are very large and have high melting points can become lucky enough to land on the ground and contribute to the mineralization of the planet.

Kroos: "With our current technological capabilities, we can do it, but at a cost..."

Liu Jiuli waved his hand and said, "It's alright, the cost is controllable and there's no need to worry about it. What we need now is a good development environment to prepare for the upcoming full-scale liberation war."

The method is very simple: use Originium Arts casting units that control gravity to launch them into Terra's synchronous orbit, and pluck those asteroids one by one. Detonate the ones that are too large to ensure that they will not cause any damage when they fall on Terra. Even if they do, lure them into the sea.

As far as the ocean is concerned, it doesn't care about meteorite impacts that cause the extinction of dinosaurs.

As for whether Haisi will be affected by this, that is not within Liu Jiuli's consideration.

With such a thick barrier as the ocean, those small meteorites are like throwing stones into the ocean; at most, they might cause localized eutrophication or acidification of the seawater, but they are nothing to the overall ecosystem of the planet.

As for the full-scale liberation war mentioned by Liu Jiuli, everyone knows that the community is about to make a big move.

The Ursus Empire, the Eastern Kingdom, and the Yan Kingdom—one of them will surely be swept into the dustbin of history.

The asteroid belt in Terra's geosynchronous orbit is indeed a problem, but it's only in that orbit. Flying out in other directions shouldn't be a problem. We could try building space stations at the North and South Poles first, and then launch artificial satellites to the moon to see what our old neighbor looks like now.

In addition, there are other tasks to be done, such as the deployment of the BeiDou system, resource satellite exploration, and the construction of space mining stations.

Cleaning up asteroids is one approach, but these asteroids themselves are also resources that can be mined, and these minerals can serve as important materials for the construction of the space station.

Some bad things can turn into good things if you look at them from a different perspective.

Asteroids drifting in Terra's geosynchronous orbit are nothing more than free and readily available outer space mines.

The related technical work is overseen by Kroos, which is her forte. By combining industrial technology and Originium technology, her potential has been greatly increased, and she is currently in a state of bursting inspiration every day.

"There's one more thing. The basic unit disassembly of Originium Arts has been completed, and we have obtained the most basic Originium Arts template."

This was a project that Kroos was in charge of before, and after so many years of hard work, the initial vision has finally been realized.

The structure of Originium Arts in nature can be further broken down, and the most basic state of Originium Arts can be achieved through complex programming. In other words, the spring of programmers has arrived.

Once you have a basic template, you can easily add any Originium Arts on top of it by arranging and combining them, which greatly improves the efficiency of using Originium Arts.

The reason why the staff used to become overloaded after a while was that there were too many redundant parts. These parts could not play a significant role. However, after the Originium Arts were activated, they also became active, emitting light and heat, which made the heat dissipation system bloated and complex. After eliminating these redundant parts, the efficiency of the Originium Arts has now increased by a full hundred times!

This is an unimaginable achievement, and can be considered the greatest discovery in Terra's history.

"Well done! This will make it much easier for us to popularize Originium Arts!"

Liu Jiuli was so excited that he slammed his fist on the table. With this achievement, Originium Arts would become as simple as assembling a circuit puzzle (it would indeed be a hundred times simpler than before). Just like wiring a house, once you understand the basic functions, ordinary people can also control and use Originium Arts. But how well you can use it depends on your ability and talent.

Even within the same game like Minecraft, there's a gap between "Minecraft" and "other people's worlds." With the lower limit constrained, the expansion of the upper limit will inevitably vary from person to person.

However, this is within the community. Looking at other countries, Originium Arts remains the exclusive patent of a few, still representing the monopoly of the powerful privileged class.

This means they can't mass-produce it.

Imagine a future battlefield where all the soldiers in the community are skilled in both magic and martial arts, while the opposing side can only muster a few battalions of mages no matter how hard they try. Would there still be any suspense in this battle?

In Yansk's research institute, Rosetta was staring blankly at her hands.

This is from the community's perspective. Based on the construct data obtained from her, a new body was custom-made for her. Unlike her previous body, this body looks no different from an ordinary person's body. She can even feel the long-lost touch and replenish her energy consumption by eating. It has all the functions that a normal human body should have.

What? Can you have children?

Artificial womb technology has also been used, mainly to solve infertility problems that cannot be solved by conventional methods. This technology has been mature for a long time, and it is now even more mature and has been miniaturized.

Whether inside or outside the body, the community that inherited the biotechnology of the previous civilization is at the forefront of the various countries of Terra.

This can be seen from the healing of the little dragon. The problem that Rhine Lab was helpless with was solved smoothly in a month or two with the donor, and they also gained Himeru and Bai Gugu as an bonus.

After fleeing Colombia, the two of them indeed had nowhere to go.

The design in the Arknights manga can only be described as "meeting the needs of the game." In reality, if there were a special experimental subject like Ifrit, Columbia would rather she die at Rhine Lab than let other forces take her over, no matter how precious she is. Even a dead body can be used as an anatomical prop, right? State secrets must never be leaked.

Moreover, it's one thing for the various countries of Terra to do this, but it's quite another to discuss it openly. Given the significant losses in both face and substance, Colombia's choice is obvious.

Rhine Labs is not powerful enough to ignore the government; Raytheon Industries has more authority to speak on this matter.

So is Rosetta an ordinary person now?

NONONO (shakes finger).

Electronic muscles, artificial organs, nano-buffered solutions, and a self-healing, variable exoskeleton—although Rosetta currently looks much like Origami Tobiichi without any fighting ability, a single punch from her carries the power of twenty years of experience, enough to dent the frontal armor of a main battle tank. If she had a thermoelectric blade, she could slice her into pieces in no time.

This is just the combat power of the daily body. It has both centaur form and construct form for combat. The auxiliary AI of the centaur form has been redesigned. It's just that the scene of changing bodies is quite horrifying.

Take the head off, put it back on, and you're done.

However, the head's defense has been greatly enhanced, so strictly speaking, the head is not a weakness. Moreover, Rosetta also has a new combat helmet, which is an additional tactical component that greatly improves her combat power.

These configurations were given directly to Rosetta, and the community provided free maintenance in gratitude for her contributions.

Rosetta, feeling that she would most likely never be able to return, voluntarily applied to join the community. Now she is a regular at the research institute, a tester of new weapons for constructs, and is also responsible for providing relevant experience to researchers studying Punishing.

Don't be surprised; Rosetta comes from an intellectual family and is quite well-educated.

As for the living environment, Rosetta felt that life in Yansk was very good, and it was very similar to where she used to live (both were covered in snow, right?).

Recently, Yansk has been planning a mobile city transformation project, which, simply put, involves creating a larger, fixed city around the existing mobile cities. The current community already has the capacity to do this.

The room was filled with the clear chirping of birds; it wasn't that Rosetta had kept birds, but rather that she had set an alarm clock.

"It's time to go to the research institute."

Rosetta got up and changed her clothes, only to see an acquaintance as soon as she stepped outside.

I recently met a new researcher at the institute; I think his name was Magellan.

Section 330: Too tired to add a title

(Which Arknights character did you all just switch to? (?ω?))

McDonald, Madonna, and Medivh (crossed out) are like Tencent's Magellan, originally a field specialist at Rhine Labs, whose main job was to collect various data at the Northern Observatory.

So how did she join the community?

The matter begins with the community's new round of northward expansion.

Completely unaware, Magellan woke up one morning to find a mobile city nearby, and soon after, the city began large-scale construction. In less than six months, a domed city, Kirov, rose from the ground.

Magellan didn't think too much about it at the time. The North was a cold and lonely place, and it would be nice to have a neighbor.

Then a McCarthyist-like movement occurred within Colombia, because the area where Magellan lived had become new territory of the community. So Colombian authorities naturally considered her a traitor, revoked her Colombian citizenship, and deported her (she was already abroad).

The little penguin didn't find out about this until six months later. She simply couldn't understand how going on a business trip could be considered treason. What was the Colombian government thinking?!

Although Magellan appealed, his appeals were rejected, and he was even subjected to a so-called "loyalty investigation."

Are you crazy?! If you've really betrayed someone, who the hell cares what you're investigating?

Just then, the community offered a helping hand.

On the one hand, the community is also building similar research stations, which are larger in scale and have better technology, but are in dire need of manpower.

On the other hand, Magellan is a good girl who gets along very well with her peers in the community. When the community was building related facilities, she offered many valuable suggestions in the spirit of internationalism and friendly advice, which made everyone like this girl very much and hope that she could stay for a long time.

As a result, not only did they provide a pillow when I was sleepy, but they also included sleeping pills. I have to give a good shout-out to the community.

Magellan, already overwhelmed by the messy affairs within Colombia, only considered it briefly before immediately choosing to join the Community, since it was less troublesome than Colombia.

The result is, "If this place doesn't want me, there are plenty of other places that will. If you won't keep me, I'll go join the Eighth Route Army."

So Magellan immediately switched sides to the Communists, and suddenly the world seemed so vast.

Because her fieldwork required her to travel frequently, Magellan often traveled to cities around the northern continent, including Kirov, Yansk, and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. She was recently on a business trip to Yansk.

Magellan.

"Ah, Rosetta, good morning."

"Good morning, let's go together."

"Okay!"

The two met by chance. Rosetta was undergoing testing of her new body, and Magellan just happened to be passing by. Their chance encounter, coupled with the fact that time allowed, made Magellan very curious about this centaur girl who did not have any obvious racial characteristics.

Especially that mechanical body, how did they do that? Is it a real person?