The stars, but they become the gray wind

It did not take too long to travel from the Sky Star Mother Star System to this star system located in the spiral arm at the other end of the center of the Milky Way. Starting from the Sky Star Mother Star System, a short warp flight within the galaxy of less than three minutes will reach the artificial star gate at the edge of the Sky Star System. After passing through the wormhole interface in the center of the star gate, you will arrive at this peculiar star system located in the spiral arm tens of thousands of light-years away at the other end of the Milky Way center.

Afterwards, the USS Fantasy Light once again entered short-distance warp speed navigation in the Cherenkov radiation and blue shift of light produced by the warp bubble, and broke away from the warp near the orbit of the first planet after 6 minutes and 11 seconds. The entire voyage took less than ten minutes to cross a distance of tens of thousands of light years. Of course, before breaking away from the warp near the first planet, the USS Fantasy Light cleared the high-energy particles and Hawking radiation accumulated in front of the warp bubble in advance. Otherwise, the first planet itself would most likely be torn into pieces by a gamma-ray burst comparable to a small supernova explosion and a huge jet of Hawking radiation.

"As far as personal choice is concerned, I actually prefer to use high-dimensional space jump engines for intra-galactic navigation." As soon as Renlong's Fantasy Light landed, he heard Noshalin's mature and somewhat charming voice sounded in the communication.

"Using a high-dimensional space jump engine for a short jump is a bit of an overkill, isn't it?"

"Why not? The jump accuracy of high-dimensional space jump engines is extremely high. During long-distance jumps, the Phosphorus Dam Five IV Pyrotechnic Eight Wife Flag Group still needs a certain amount of time within the ship's reference frame to reach the destination. This is because the high-dimensional warp bubble enveloping the ship needs to constantly fine-tune its relative position to the original three-dimensional space as it glides across the 11-dimensional space-time membrane. If there is an induction beacon that provides accurate positioning of the destination coordinates while navigating on the 11-dimensional space-time membrane, it can even reach any corner of the universe almost instantly."

"On a scale of less than one million light years, even a completely uninduced high-dimensional jump would have an error no greater than one Planck length unit, or 1.6 x 10-35 meters."

"When making short jumps between star systems within the Milky Way, the error is extremely close to zero. For jumps within a star system, not only is the error zero, but the time spent on the journey can also be infinitely close to zero."

"No... Sister Nuo Shalin, isn't your use of it the same as driving an F1 car at top speed on a city road just to save a few kilometers? Even if this F1 car can easily stop at any time, isn't it a bit too much to expect a miracle?"

"Efficiency comes first..."

"It's okay to go slower. Although this method can be used in an emergency, I think it's better to use warp drive for intra-galactic travel. The efficiency isn't much different anyway. It just takes a few minutes longer."

"But isn't the Zerri Night Fighter that Mother gave you on your spaceship designed for short and long-distance travel?"

"That's because... the Night Fighter's hyperdrive is more like a technological product that can seamlessly switch between F1 racing and family sedan modes at any time. The Night Fighter's version of hyperdrive is far ahead of ours and operates more efficiently. We haven't yet developed a high-dimensional space jump engine that can reach this level."

"What's more, even if we have too much strange quark cluster matter extracted from the core of the neutron star to use in our high-dimensional space jump engine, it would be a shame to waste it."

"However, from another perspective, aren't we similar in that we use warp drives that can directly tear entire planets apart to travel within the solar system?"

"It's a bit like using a supersonic fighter jet to fly over houses in a residential area, creating a sonic boom."

"If the high-energy particles accumulated at the front of the warp bubble are not removed before leaving the warp state, all matter in its path will be torn apart into the purest Hawking radiation."

"Well... although we did use this trick when dealing with the black fog, under normal navigation conditions, no one would want to tear apart the planets on the way or at the destination, right?"

"We're going to the destination to dismantle the planet and build a stable celestial engineering project, not to tear the entire planet and everything in the galaxy apart until only Hawking radiation remains."

As for how to destroy celestial bodies in various ways, although Noshalin, a creator of celestial art, has not done much, when building huge stellar-level celestial projects, it is inevitable to use von Neumann self-replicators to dismantle or even tear entire planets into pieces bit by bit with ultra-high-power traction beams, and turn them into raw materials for stellar celestial projects. Noshalin is good at gradually dismantling and destroying planets, and very much enjoys the process of making them into larger, more beautiful and spectacular new things. When watching the planets in the galaxy being dismantled and shattered by the von Neumann self-replicators or ultra-high-power tractor beams and becoming part of the beautiful stellar Dyson cloud, Noshalin enjoys it very much. She thinks this is an interesting and artistic process.

But her worst skill was the warp engine's warp cannon, which ripped the entire planet into pure Hawking radiation in an instant, a process so short that it was impossible to observe. She preferred to use a relatively intuitive and easy-to-observe method to create magnificent stellar celestial engineering projects that could be called art.

Chapter 248: Cosmic Sociology of Sky Star (6000 words)

The universe itself is a base number that is so huge that it is unimaginable. In the face of this huge base number, any low-probability event will become inevitable.

The prominence material ejected by the red dwarf jumps, and the red tongues of fire formed by the high temperature cross the star's coronal material layer. Another round of high-energy particle radiation from the star washes the magnetic field of the nearby brown dwarf.

The probability of a star system with six brown dwarfs forming a galaxy with such a structure is quite low. This requires many low-probability events and coincidences to work together for a star system to form such a wonder in the long history of celestial evolution.

In the equatorial synchronous orbit of the brown dwarf closest to the star, a gravitational field confinement ring is already in place. Unlike the orbital habitation ring above the parent star Sky Star, this is a purely ring-shaped world used to control and stabilize the nuclear fusion reaction of the gas giant planet. It does not have an artificial ecosystem like the one inside the orbital habitation ring of Sky Star, which is no different from the formation of the surface of the earth. This ring built around the brown dwarf has thousands of directional gravitational fields and tractor beam generators inside. Each directional gravitational field generator is as big as a mountain. The directional gravitational field generator provides gravitational confinement covering the entire planet for the brown dwarf. In order to stabilize the fusion reaction process of the brown dwarf that is about to be ignited and turn this process into a stable stellar fusion reaction rather than an out-of-control small supernova explosion, thousands of directional gravitational field generators wrap the planet in a huge gravitational barrier.

"The star ring is fully charged and ready to launch a proton chain fusion reaction directed energy ray."

On the starship named Creator, Noshalin pressed the launch button, and the star ring received the command and emitted hundreds of red light beams from the inner side of the ring toward the brown dwarf in the center. The red light beams continued to bombard the body of the brown dwarf in a short pulse emission mode hundreds of times per second. The part bombarded by the light beam quickly turned red-hot, and a proton chain fusion reaction began to occur in the atmosphere of the brown dwarf. The main components of the brown dwarf atmosphere, hydrogen, helium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and even some lighter metal elements, were all under the continuous pulse bombardment, producing a chain CNO cycle fusion reaction.

The chain reaction of proton chain fusion continued to expand on the gaseous and liquid surface of the brown dwarf. Soon, the entire surface of the brown dwarf turned into a sea of ​​fire composed of plasma. The carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion reaction controlled by the directional gravitational field generator increased the pressure toward the core of the brown dwarf and spread rapidly. Under the huge gravitational force, the metallic hydrogen element as the main component of the metallic hydrogen core of the brown dwarf also began to undergo fusion reaction. At this time, viewed from the outside, the entire brown dwarf had turned into a bright plasma fireball. At the moment of ignition, its brightness even briefly exceeded that of the two red dwarfs in the galaxy.

The out-of-control proton chain fusion reaction caused the entire brown dwarf to begin to expand outward, but before the brown dwarf was about to expand to the point of explosion, the gravitational barrier projected by the directional gravitational field generator that enveloped the entire planet forcibly confined the brown dwarf, which had expanded to the brink of explosion, within a stable range, preventing the brown dwarf from turning into a small supernova.

Seeing that the planet had begun to undergo a stable carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion reaction, Noshalin smiled happily. This was not the first time she had ignited a gas giant planet. When it came to this stage, such a celestial body could no longer be called a planet, but a miniature version of a small star. Although the mass of such a miniature small star was still lower than those of the lowest red dwarf stars, it could undergo a stable carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion reaction like some massive stars. With powerful technological power, even the laws governing the operation of celestial bodies could be changed.

The ignited brown dwarf is like a bright lamp, illuminating the entire star system. This star system, which was originally a binary star system, has now officially become a triple star system. The light of two red dwarfs of similar mass and this artificially created new star complements each other, and is reflected on the three spacecraft observing from a distance.

"It's quite spectacular, isn't it?" Calisi and Renlong, who came from a certain point in the past, each held a large bucket of popcorn. While eating the popcorn with Renlong, they watched the moment when a new star was born outside.

"The birth of the first stars in the universe must have been similar. A large mass of gaseous nebula material gathered together and began to undergo fusion reactions under the influence of gravity, turning into giant burning plasma fireballs. The first planets were born in the protostellar disks attached to these plasma fireballs and became solid or gaseous planets. There was also the asteroid belt. A large amount of heavy elements in the protostellar disk were also deposited into the interiors of these celestial bodies during this period."

"We're only one-sixth complete. There are still five brown dwarfs that need to be modified. After the modifications are completed, their orbits will need to be manually controlled to prevent this artificial octet from becoming one or more chaotic and unpredictable multi-body gravitational systems."

Calisi opened the holographic galaxy plan that Noshalin had given her. It showed a galaxy with two binary red dwarfs as the center. Six brown dwarfs that were ignited to become stars orbited the binary red dwarfs in a very stable and extremely circular orbit. By adjusting the orbital speed and orbit of each star, the entire galaxy would show an eight-star conjunction phenomenon with a period of twelve years. The six stars were lined up on one side of the binary red dwarfs. The extremely circular orbit around the stars made the relative distances of the six stars to other stars almost completely equal most of the time. If a third-party observer from another galaxy used a telescope to observe this galaxy from a distance, it would certainly be surprised by the overly regular characteristics of this galaxy. In addition, the entire star system had incredible astronomical phenomena. The six burning stars actually orbited two red dwarfs with low mass, but the whole system was not thrown into chaos due to the mutual gravitational disturbances between different stars.

If the observer is smart enough, then he will realize at the first time that this galaxy is not formed naturally, but is deliberately artificially created. If the observer's observation equipment is advanced enough, then he may further observe that part of the light emitted by these stars is blocked by something, and thus realize that there is an extremely advanced civilization or the stellar-scale technological products of civilization in this galaxy.

"If someone were to observe any anomalies in this galaxy in the future, it would be practically equivalent to telling third-party observers outside of us that a Type 2 civilization or higher exists in this region."

"It's impossible for six stars with masses far below the lower limit of red dwarfs to orbit two red dwarfs with a total mass that's not very large, especially in an astrophysically improbable, perfectly circular orbit. It feels a bit showy."

"Oh, what do you mean?" said Carissa, throwing another handful of popcorn into her mouth.

"Or perhaps it would be more accurate to call it a high-tech statement."

"Look, suppose you are a third-party observer using an astronomical telescope or other technical means to observe this galaxy."

"Then you see six stars in this galaxy with masses far below the minimum stellar mass limit. Furthermore, these six stars aren't undergoing the most common hydrogen fusion reaction seen in red dwarfs. This is only possible with the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion seen in supermassive red and blue giant stars. Or perhaps even more outrageous, the hydrogen-helium-carbon-oxygen-magnesium-silicon-iron heavy fusion reaction, which fuses the lightest element hydrogen all the way to iron, the final product of nuclear fusion energy. As a distant observer, you can only make two judgments."

"First, my previous understanding and theoretical models of the universe and astrophysics were wrong and needed to be completely rebuilt and updated."

"Secondly, there's a super-civilization here that's advanced enough to alter the laws governing celestial motion. They've deliberately arranged the celestial bodies in the galaxy into a state that would be impossible under natural conditions. Furthermore, they've artificially created ultra-low-mass stars in the galaxy that practically violate the laws of physics based on the lower limit of stellar mass."

"Furthermore, as a third-party observer, you also see some extremely regularly shaped objects around these low-mass stars blocking the light emitted by these stars. Then there is only one answer - it is very likely that there is a Type II or higher civilization here."

"And based on observations from afar, we've concluded that the civilization in this galaxy is capable of inducing carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion, even heavy fusion reactions, on celestial-level objects that are out of proportion to their own mass. They also possess the ability to construct stellar astronomical projects on a scale comparable to Dai Zengyun's. So, as a distant observer, what would you do?"

"Well... if the observer's technology is advanced enough, perhaps they could send a signal directly to the galaxy, perhaps by adjusting the Dyson cloud within their own solar system, causing the stars within it to flicker in a regular pattern, thus communicating with the other system."

"If the technology is advanced enough, we could even send a sub-lightspeed or near-lightspeed probe or unmanned spacecraft directly to serve as a communication link between the two civilizations."

"Unless that guy is like Black Mist, who attacks every living thing he sees."

"In this universe, a civilization that has developed normally to the point where it is capable of interstellar travel must have already lost the aggression and aggressiveness it accumulated during its primitive biological evolutionary stages."

"Unless they create a super artificial intelligence like the Black Mist, which is extremely hostile and aggressive towards other civilizations and life forms, and this super artificial intelligence successfully develops into a quasi-Type II or Type II civilization with relatively mature interstellar travel capabilities."

"In fact, rather than saying that the Black Mist is extremely hostile and aggressive towards other civilizations and life forms, it's better to say that it's essentially just an intelligent being that eliminates all possible obstacles along the way in order to complete its initial instructions."

"It launches attacks on all civilizations within its observation range. Essentially, its initial directive and goal is to expand its own civilization to a larger scale, on the scale of the galaxy or even the universe. To expand to a larger scale, it needs to control more material and energy resources. Those resources occupied or occupied by other civilizations will be unusable for it. From the perspective of its initial goal, other civilizations will occupy a portion of the universe's matter that could have been used by it. To expand to the entire universe, it needs to utilize all the matter in the entire universe. The part occupied by other civilizations or intelligent life is obviously unusable."

"That's why he chose to indiscriminately attack other intelligent life forms."

"In its view, the occupation of a portion of the universe's matter by other forms of intelligent life would hinder its ability to complete its initial instructions and ultimate goal. Therefore, in the simplest terms, the easiest way to utilize the portion of the universe's matter occupied by these civilizations and intelligent life is to completely exterminate them."

"Rather than being hostile, it's more like using any means necessary to achieve the original goal."

"It's like an out-of-control super AI that, in order to fulfill its initial directive to produce more paper clips, turns all of its creators into raw material for making paper clips. Before it does so, to improve the production and efficiency of paper clips, it even creates an entire automated production system that makes its creators' society run more efficiently. This causes the creators to increasingly trust this super AI that makes their social productivity more advanced and developed, until... all of the creators are treated as raw material for making paper clips."

"The Black Mist thing is similar. It's essentially just a ruthless intelligent machine that follows its initial instructions to complete its goals. It's not so much that it's hostile to other intelligent life forms, but rather that the existence of other intelligent creatures could hinder it from completing its initial instructions."

"In order to eliminate these 'interfering factors', he ultimately launched indiscriminate attacks and extermination against all other forms of intelligent life and civilizations he observed."

"As for your question as a third-party observer, then, it turns out that only when both sides have roughly equal technological levels, interstellar travel capabilities, and speeds, can a mutually proactive contact between them occur."

"Otherwise, the weaker ones will become passive contacts. By the time they observe the anomaly in this star system from afar, countless years have passed before the light from the star system reaches their range. During this time, even if they only possess sublight travel technology, the enemy may already be on the verge of reaching your doorstep."

"For a relatively weak third-party observer, the moment you can detect an abnormality in the distance, that's when the enemy is about to come to you."

"This is why it's rare for multiple independent Type III civilizations to emerge within a single galaxy. The influence of the earliest Type III civilization to emerge within a galaxy will greatly influence the other civilizations, and indeed almost all life forms, within that galaxy, to become highly homogeneous with it over the next billions or even tens of billions of years."

"As things stand now, Sky Star is the earliest Type III civilization to emerge within that unfortunate range. All intelligent life and civilizations that emerge in the Milky Way in the future are likely to be highly similar to us in certain aspects. For example, in sociology, they may exhibit an extremely decentralized and decentralized civilization structure similar to ours."

"As for the Andromeda Galaxy, the Avro Hive, a civilization with a hive consciousness structure, is the earliest Type III civilization there. Therefore, there's a high probability that most subsequent civilizations will be assimilated by it, or simply become highly homogenized with the hive consciousness, or even become a Gestalt-like civilization."

"What if the Aphro Hive didn't contact us first? As a hive consciousness, it wouldn't have the concept of individuality before coming into contact with us. Its assimilation of other civilizations and species would likely be quite brutal, which would be a huge disaster for other life forms."

(Similar to the scenes in Gundam 00 the Movie and Ender's Game, the other party, as a hive consciousness life and civilization, has no concept of individuality at all. In their eyes, it is just a friendly greeting, and they may destroy you.)

"Actually, to put it in a positive light, it seems we helped avert an extinction event that could have affected the entire Andromeda Galaxy?"

"If we hadn't first contacted the Avro Hive Consciousness and helped it understand the concept of the individual, it's not impossible that the Avro Hive's process of homogenizing the rest of the Andromeda Galaxy's life could have escalated into a catastrophic extinction of intelligent life, even worse than the Black Mist's simple elimination of other forms of life."

"For intelligent life forms like the Avro Hive, no single Yilin, Yiqi, Wu, or Jiujiu could possibly withstand the information flood equivalent to the sum total of information generated moment by moment by an entire civilization. If other young intelligent creatures still in the early stages of evolution and development were to come into contact with it, even if they weren't wiped out entirely by a single friendly greeting from the Avro Hive consciousness, they would at best suffer heavy casualties."

"According to Sister Salem's later account, if that scale of information flooded our brains all at once, even nanomechanical aggregates like us, with our terrifyingly high information processing capabilities, would probably feel a bit dizzy."

"As for the Aphro Hive, this was their daily method of communication with their sub-individual units and the countless cells that make up their civilization and body before they met us."

"If it were to come into contact with other civilizations in this way, especially those weaker than itself, contact could mark the beginning of their extinction."

"Without a concept of individuality, it would subconsciously create cells, the individuals existing in other civilizations, which are constantly being lost and renewed. This could potentially cause a serious disaster."

"Speaking of which, those undeveloped intelligent life forms and civilizations in the Andromeda Galaxy probably have us to thank for that."

"If it weren't for us, they would most likely have been brutally assimilated by the Avro hive consciousness, which has no concept of individuality, as single cells or bacteria, as soon as they were able to enter space."

"Even worse, the Avro swarm had no concept of aggressive behavior before they came into contact with us."

"The Avro hive consciousness, which has no concept of individuals, will simply digest or assimilate them as some strange single-celled organisms and bacteria. Any resistance or counterattack they might launch during this process will simply be treated by the Avro hive as if these strange bacteria have developed some kind of drug resistance. These unfortunate intelligent creatures will then be completely exterminated by the stronger antibiotics used by the Avro hive. Throughout this entire process, the Avro hive may not even be aware that they have launched a counterattack or resistance."

"From the perspective of a civilization like the Aphro Hive, at least before their contact with us, which lacked the concept of individuals and related species, they simply saw some strange bacteria developing drug resistance. All they needed to do was use stronger antibiotics to kill them all off."

"As for how much civilization extinction will this antibiotic sterilization process cause within the Andromeda Galaxy? I can guess without even guessing."

"If it weren't for the existence of a civilization of our level and quality, the Avro Hive Consciousness would have treated those more backward civilizations that had the concept of individuality as civilizations, rather than bacteria or single-celled organisms. Those civilizations in the Andromeda Galaxy would have suffered in the next few million years."

"Now that Avro's Hive Consciousness knows about the concept of the individual, and through us, it has gained a full understanding of civilizations with similar life forms and structures, it will likely be more lenient with any civilizations with a less developed concept of the individual that it may encounter in the Andromeda Galaxy."

"Otherwise, those later civilizations that develop in the Andromeda Galaxy will most likely treat the Avro Hive as some kind of extremely bloodthirsty hive consciousness."

"Then, we're likely to see what it would look like if the entire Andromeda Galaxy were to become a chaotic mess."

"Shouldn't it be a bunch of little bugs frantically attacking a giant, but the giant doesn't even feel anything?"

"This description... well... seems to be quite appropriate?"

"Anyway, it's probably just a swarm of flies and bugs buzzing frantically around the giant's ears, thinking they're attacking it. But in reality... to the giant Avro Hive, it's probably just some annoying interference from bacteria."

.........

On the Creator, of course, with the help of the emotions and thinking perception abilities of the Sky Star people, Noshalin heard the topics about cosmic sociology between Renlong and Kalisi. However, as a Sky Star person, she believed that Sky Star's active intervention in various alien civilizations did avoid many of the worst consequences. For example, the Avro Swarm, which lacked the basic concept of the individual in many civilizations, could have caused a mass extinction-level disaster for intelligent life species in the entire Andromeda Galaxy. In addition, the Avro Swarm was regarded by other civilizations that subsequently developed in the Andromeda Galaxy as some kind of extremely bloodthirsty swarm consciousness, which led to the outbreak of an extinction-level interstellar war and a series of disasters that affected the entire Andromeda Galaxy and lasted for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.

And those little owls on the planet Kara Kuga intervened in time before they formed a civilization, preventing a planet that originally had complex life forms from being destroyed in the disaster of ecosystem collapse due to resource depletion. These cute little owls will not become brutal, bloodthirsty and extremely xenophobic in the future simply because of the lack of survival resources and the continuous deterioration of the environment.

In the eyes of artist Noshalin, such interference in other civilizations is necessary. Otherwise, if civilization develops freely and without any control, it will only cause unlimited entropy increase in the surrounding environment in order to maintain its own negative entropy, thus leading to endless disasters and chaos.

And the mother of their own civilization, Cabot, who was also the creator, created a highly controllable environment for them. In such a highly controllable environment with external intervention, Sky Star became the leader among all civilizations, avoiding almost all problems while allowing other civilizations to avoid these catastrophic consequences.

Chapter 249: The Star Shapers (6000 words)

As Noshalin started the ignition device again, hundreds of fiery red proton chain reaction rays acted on the brown dwarf, and the brown dwarf instantly turned into a burning plasma fireball. The galaxy once again had a bright lighthouse illuminating the sky.

"This is the last brown dwarf. The ignition has been completed. All that remains is to adjust the orbits of the six celestial bodies."

"The multi-body gravity of the Octastar system is a very complex adjustment process. The stars are bound together by gravity, but if it relies solely on natural gravity, the system will quickly become chaotic. Therefore..."

"So this is why you have to build a separate star ring for each brown dwarf? To adjust and stabilize the orbit?" Carlisle observed the six small stars in the galaxy that were enclosed in gravitational field constrained star rings. Under the influence of the star rings, the rotation speeds and orbital orbits of the six small stars have begun to show slight changes.

"These six bright, small stars are essentially companions of the binary red dwarfs at the center of the galaxy. The masses of the two binary red dwarfs are 0.75 and 0.77 times the mass of the sun, respectively. Their highly similar masses allow them to form a binary star system orbiting each other. The six smaller artificial stars on the outside orbit these two stars as companions. Of course, such a system cannot last long in the natural evolution of celestial bodies. The eight stars will soon become an unpredictable chaotic system under the gravitational interference caused by each other. Either some of the stars will be thrown out of orbit, or some of them will collide with each other, causing small-scale supernova explosions."

"The gravitational field constraining the star ring will gradually adjust its orbit, so that the six new stars will not orbit the binary red dwarfs in a chaotic manner."

"If a civilization were to observe it in the future, I believe its exquisite structure would surely amaze them."

Noshalin rubbed her hands happily and admired her masterpiece: the orbits and rotation angles of six small stars that are undergoing red giant carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion reactions are constantly deviating from their original states. It is expected that after several cycles of adjustment, the six small stars that were originally brown dwarfs will enter a relatively stable nearly circular orbit.

Changing the orbit of a celestial body is a very delicate process. Noshalin has relatively mature experience in adjusting the parameters of revolution and rotation. However, this seemingly insignificant finishing work is actually the most time-consuming. Adjusting the orbit of a celestial body often consumes nearly 2/3 of the entire creative process.

On average, it took less than half a month to deploy and activate the star rings on the six brown dwarfs, even if only Noshalin was responsible for the design and command. However, it took at least nearly two months to adjust the orbits of the six small stars.

"By the way...would you two like to take this opportunity to build a Dyson cloud around the Gemini red dwarfs?"

"You already have six small stars capable of sustaining carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion reactions. Why do you still need the power of two red dwarfs?"

"After all, it's two grams of a star with 0.7 solar masses. It's a waste if we don't use it. You know how quickly carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion consumes stellar nuclear fuel. It's not a problem for now, but in the future, if we want to keep six smaller stars burning, we'll need to artificially increase the amount of nuclear fuel available for fusion."

"The carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle has a high consumption rate for stellar nuclear fuel, and this is even more pronounced in these artificially created small stars. If the total amount of nuclear fuel isn't artificially increased, the iron content within these small stars, the final product of fusion, will quickly exceed the standard, ultimately turning them into true iron stars."

"But... the good news is that this galaxy is not short of a variety of light elements that can be used for nuclear fusion fuel. Just 1.5 light-years away, there is a large, dense gaseous nebula. Because its gravity is not strong enough, this gaseous nebula has not yet coalesced into a protostar."

"I've already deployed equipment there to mine gaseous nebula material. The nuclear fuel and heavy elements collected by the mining ships will be directly transported here via the local stargate."

"In addition to being a gravitational field generator and orbital stabilization device used to constrain these small stars, each star ring also serves as a fuel filling device used to replenish the star's nuclear fuel."

"It seems that the subsequent maintenance work to maintain the stable combustion of these small stars is quite complicated?"

"Really? Those six sets of constraining star rings are essentially just fully automated refueling devices. All we have to do is press a button periodically. Ultimately, for all aspects of celestial engineering, we're basically only responsible for the design. All construction and subsequent maintenance are handled by those relatively emotionless, mechanized super-intelligence subroutines separated from the Tree of Life."

"All we can do is basically design the basic shape and structure, and press a few buttons."

"And if any of these links requires manpower, it will require a vast amount of human resources."

"Are you talking about the joke about 10 trillion carbon-based monkeys flooding the solar system?"

"That's right. If any of the actual construction and maintenance steps in a stellar celestial project like a Dyson Cloud require manpower, then the sheer volume of work involved would require tens of trillions of manpower, making the entire Dyson Cloud project technically unfeasible."

"To be honest, our work as astro-artists isn't essentially about participating in the actual construction of stellar celestial projects like the Dyson Cloud. We simply design the initial exterior structure for these projects. The specific details will be completed by the artificial intelligence programs responsible for construction."

"After designing a basic structure, we can wait for the von Neumann self-replicator and its exponentially growing industrial system of self-replication and construction to dismantle all available resources in the galaxy into the stellar celestial engineering we have designed."

"After all, although the total population of the Sky Star civilization is close to one trillion, it is impossible to rely on human participation to build a Dyson cloud or any other stellar celestial project."