Arknights? Colonization Ark!

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But if it's unstable, what's the point of having that thing? It seems that the idea of ​​the Ultimate Originium Staff is out of the question for the time being.

But come to think of it, the form of Originium Technique should have nothing to do with the size of the Originium itself.

After temporarily putting his research on hold, Zhang Miao had to go back to the assembly work.

These days, apart from sleeping, he has been on the road working non-stop. He tries his best to use high-intensity work to prevent himself from thinking about other things. Anyway, there is still a lot to do, such as mining.

There aren’t many means of mining as a colony, or for that matter, there aren’t many means of mining in the entire empire.

Either the planet is set on fire as a firecracker, and then the mining ship uses gravity beams to carry it to a nearby smelting base station that is specially warped to. After the ingots are cast into metal ingots, they are transported to various places via nearby waterways.

Or use underground penetrating bombs directly to hit the core of the earth and penetrate the magma.

He also has underground penetrating bombs, but these would cause devastating damage to the local geological ecology, so they would only be used on planets that have no colonization significance.

After all, no one would build a direct path from their bedroom to a septic tank.

Or the last method is to develop a bionic mechanical drilling worm based on the Zerg's tunnel worm.

Although everyone hates bugs, it has to be said that their physiological structure is very feasible. The artificial muscle fiber structure in the personal armor of most countries was learned from the insect swarm.

These guys can be said to have developed every inch of their bodies to the extreme.

I even heard that there are some perverts in some dark areas... Ahem! I am getting off topic.

The insect that Zhang Miao bought himself can only be considered small or medium-sized.

The diameter of its body is only more than 20 meters and its length is about 170 meters. It can be said to be the largest mechanical vehicle in his ship. In order to save space, it has to be split into more than a dozen sections and then assembled at the destination.

As for why he had to drive the gravity crane himself to assemble the worm instead of letting Lexington do it.

I would like to ask which model maker would buy the whole set instead of buying the parts and assembling them himself?

What I want is the sense of accomplishment after assembly!

Chapter 38: Dig!

The entire body of the burrowing worm is basically made of tungsten-rhenium alloy, and the front end uses sub-outer layer electron bonding technology.

The strength of any material essentially depends on the cohesion that maintains the solid crystal lattice, and the shortest link in the crystal cohesion is the one that maintains the solid crystal lattice.

Even non-crystalline solids are actually a disordered mixture of different types of crystals and crystal deformation structures, and are not completely devoid of crystal structure at any scale.

The higher the cohesion, the higher the material's melting point, hardness, and strength limit technical level can be.

Under normal circumstances, materials are made by forming chemical bonds with the outermost electrons to provide solid cohesion.

Therefore, if we want to further improve the theoretical limit of the material, we must allow atoms with large positive charges to form chemical bonds with electrons that are closer to the nucleus. In other words, we must start forming bonds from the next outermost electrons.

Theoretically, if the second outermost electrons of the heaviest row of elements can form bonds and provide cohesive force, then after deducting the repulsive force of the outermost electrons and the electron degeneracy pressure, it can still achieve a Pascal-level strength limit and a million-Kelvin melting point. Going one step further, zero-element armor, that is, neutron material.

Therefore, tungsten-rhenium alloy is generally used.

This material is also the highest strength material available for civilian use. Most of the army's current protective equipment uses this technology. Even Zhang Miao's nuclear fusion reactor uses this material.

This material can ensure that the mechanical worm can move freely underground. No mineral rocks can stop it. It can easily dig a hundred kilometers a day at full power.

In the past, it was the army's equipment, and its main purpose was to break through those building areas or ruins buried deep underground, which often contained a large amount of technical information or other things they needed. Firing directly into outer space might result in the loss of both people and money.

Using it for mining now would be a waste of resources, and its price is basically the most expensive thing he has ever bought, even higher than the reactor and shield generator.

Moreover, this kind of equipment is clearly a top-notch electricity consumer, and each section requires a large fusion battery to power it separately.

His current power generation capacity is not enough for others to start up the machine, so he can only use it sparingly. The amount of electricity consumed by letting it run underground for hundreds of kilometers is enough to make Zhang Miao jump with heartache.

But for the sake of future development, we have to spend what we need, and every penny spent now must be earned back many times over in the future.

This time it was used to dig a mine that was fifteen kilometers deep underground, and then expand it in all directions like a spider web.

In order to ensure that the ground will not collapse or be too close to the underground river due to excavation, every step of the movement must be accurately calculated by Lexington and subsequently reinforced. When the mine is no longer needed in the future, it will be filled back with slag.

This mine is not just for the source stone mine. The underground minerals are much richer than those on the ground. The ore reserves and quality are much higher than most open-pit mines.

Salt, iron, copper, tungsten and even gold, these minerals that will be in great demand in the future, will not be easily produced if you rely solely on open-pit mines. This is because these open-pit mines are unevenly distributed, and some mines do not even exist in your area, so you can only rely heavily on the outside world.

By going directly underground, this situation can be avoided.

The only problem is that geological disasters may cause large-scale collapse of the mine, necessitating the need to dig again.

But for these unmanned mining machines, it is just a waste of time.

With the installation of the last large head, this terrifying mechanical behemoth revealed its hideous appearance on the land of Terra.

Dozens of large high-strength alloy cutting wheels are evenly distributed around the huge crushing mouth in the center on the front end. They will crush all the rocks blocking the way and send them into the crusher in the middle. They are broken into small pieces and then sent to the tail through the transportation channel. Moreover, each section adopts a multi-layer ring structure, which can be expanded to several times the original length to support the mine tunnel from collapsing while the head continues to move forward.

Until the subsequent supporting structure is built, it will continue to stretch forward section by section, so it is called a worm.

The future construction of underground transportation tracks and underground cities in the colony also depends on this thing.

Even if Zhang Miao wanted to, he could drive this thing directly into the mobile city from underground, and then drill inside it upside down like Jerry eating cheese. Of course, the power consumption would be astronomical.

Moreover, we are still in a permafrost area. In order to prevent the tunnel from being damaged by frost heave and thaw settlement, subsequent construction must be carried out immediately and the basic construction must be completed before the temperature rises.

When Zhang Miao started the behemoth through the terminal, it moved towards the predetermined location. The power of the machine depended entirely on the several hundred thousand horsepower motors installed in each section. Its body weighing several thousand tons carved a deep groove on the ground.

It was more than ten kilometers east of the colonial ship, which was the best location after calculation.

Then its head hit the ground, and when dozens of crushing wheels started to operate, the shaking of the soil beneath the feet could be clearly felt even from several kilometers away.

The iron-hard permafrost is as easy as tofu in front of the crushing wheel made of high-density tungsten-rhenium alloy. An entrance is easily drilled out of it, and a large amount of crushed soil and ice debris are discharged from the tail, and then transported to the open space through the transport pipeline connected to the tail. Judging from the current efficiency of the worm, it is not a problem to dig out millions of tons of debris a day.

It cannot be said that the surface soil dug out is completely useless, it can only be said that it is of no use at all.

They contained very little humus, not even many soil particles, and most of them were ice debris. They could only be transported to a distant place and piled up, so that Zhang Miao could use them as targets when he was bored one day.

At the current efficiency, it shouldn't take long to dig to the location of the source stone mine. Since it's not a vertical excavation, the distance will be farther.

The excavated holes will be sprayed with liquid nitrogen by drones to ensure the stability of the ice layer, and then the configured building cement will be used for supporting operations.

The production of this type of cementitious material is also quite simple. It is made of a series of industrial waste materials such as metal slag and mineral ash that have been burned in recent days. It has low cost, high strength and moderate density. When combined with a quick-setting agent, it can build a large number of high-strength hardened road surfaces in a very short time.

However, it is not very comfortable to use for building houses, so special polymers are still used in general construction. Cement and the like are generally not considered unless there is a severe shortage of industrial equipment.

Chapter 39: Ursus's Response

Everything we do now is preliminary preparation for future construction.

All the felled trees will be recycled and made into carbon fiber cloth, which will be processed into various carbon fiber materials according to subsequent needs.

The soil in which these trees are rooted is much stronger than that of pure desert permafrost, so it needs to be taken back for sterilization and fertilization, and will be used later to build farmland on this permafrost.

Soilless cultivation is good, but if production is expanded, the power consumption will increase rapidly, which he cannot afford now.

Moreover, these arable lands need people to cultivate them. If people without relevant experience are allowed to engage in soilless cultivation, I am afraid that as many plants as they are raised will die. It is better to let them engage in large-scale land farm cultivation.

It doesn’t matter if the yield is a little lower, because there is plenty of land anyway, and the genetically edited grain seeds can still produce 1,000 kilograms per mu even if you just sow them on the ground.

The premise is that you don't get sick. Once this thing happens, a large number of people will die, and it is hard to prevent, because you have no idea how many unknown viruses there are in the universe. Every time you arrive at a new life planet, you may encounter a new ecology. Even if you can produce a countermeasure medicine in a short time, you will at least face a round of harvest failure.

As for soilless cultivation and the like, it won’t be too late to gradually update them once their cultural level has improved.

He was not familiar with this matter, but it was recorded in history books that not long after the empire was developed, a scientific research team encountered a new civilization that had just entered feudal society.

Out of goodwill and social research, the research team helped the people of that civilization enter space civilization at an extremely fast speed, with complete industrial facilities.

The result was that civil war broke out right after the people left.

When the research team goes there one or two hundred years later, they will find that they are already fighting a wasteland war with all kinds of worn-out high-tech weapons. Their productivity has basically rolled back to the primitive society, and they even do things like worshiping the god of missiles and tying fighter plane fragments to wooden poles to use as spears.

After several rounds of review and reflection, the conclusion is that the basic education and moral standards have not been improved, and we are only focusing on improving productivity and technology.

The idea of ​​dividing the land and becoming an emperor was still in the minds of those people.

Having learned this lesson, Zhang Miao would never let this group of people use whatever he had.

Go and go through 25 years of compulsory education first. He has plenty of textbooks.

Anyway, he has plenty of time. If converted into a hundred years of life, he can even be considered an underage boy who has just turned eleven years old.

Although he looks like a man in his thirties.

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After spending more than ten hours, a bunch of engineering vehicles finally opened up an underground tunnel more than ten kilometers long to the source stone mining area. The low efficiency of clearing and stabilizing the pipe wall seriously delayed the excavation speed of the burrowing worms, and even dozens of transport vehicles could not keep up with the pace.

Under normal circumstances, these transport vehicles are not needed because the transport pipe at the tail of the worm should lead directly to the ore factory, but now it is the slag cleaning process, and those things are waste materials that need to be cleaned up, so inefficiency before mining the ore is inevitable.

As the first ton of origin stone ore was crushed and transported to the surface, the pipeline was officially connected to the smelter. The crude ores that had undergone primary crushing would quickly undergo electromagnetic separation through the electrostatic area. The origin stone with good conductivity would be left behind, and the useless slag would be screened out and made into building cement according to its composition or further screened and smelted.

After opening up the Originium mine, the worm will turn and head to the next mining area under the control of Lexington, while the rest of the mining equipment will enter the site one after another to collect the Originium mine.

At this rate, after several months, the entire permafrost plain will be transformed into a web of mine tunnels connecting countless mineral veins.

By that time, all Zhang Miao needed to worry about was how to expand the industrial zone and mining equipment.

But this is a dream. His current electricity is not enough to allow him to mine so recklessly. Besides, it would be a waste if the mines are not used up. He can only treat it as a resource reserve.

While the underground development operation was still going on, Lexington sent a message that was not unexpected.

The people of Ursus began to prepare to attack the Reunion Movement.

This was expected. After all, if a guerrilla group attacked a city, it would be a waste for the authorities not to take any action.

But some things are hard to say, after all, their efficiency is really strange.

It wasn't until the third day that the industrial zone received support from the local garrison and reinforcements from the city.

Instead of living in harmony, the two sides engaged in a long standoff in the city and almost came to a gunfight.

When the backstage of both parties learned the news, they rushed over immediately.

When Mrs. Rennankamp learned what had happened here, she was dumbfounded.

He didn't come to reinforce simply because he wanted to see the new nobles suffer. At most, they would lose some Originium. It is impossible for the Integration Movement to occupy a mobile city.

But he never expected that Sonov was dead, and no one had collected his body. The corpse, which looked like a human, was abandoned in the mine. The cold wind from the frozen soil was blocked by the mobile city, and the stench of decay filled the noses of the onlookers.

No matter how stupid this guy is, he shouldn't have stayed there and waited to die. The mobile city is so big, and these new nobles are notoriously afraid of death. He should have run away along the escape route long ago. How could the Snowfield Guerrillas chase after a noble like you?

Why the hell are you trying to be a hero at this time?

Aren't you harming people?

So you've been a coward your whole life, and then you showed courage when you should have been a coward, just to cheat me?

Kampf now wanted to pull that guy's mother out of hell and give her a good greeting.

This is different from accidental events such as natural disasters. If the guerrillas are not attacked, it means that this route is no longer safe, and every mobile city passing through here is likely to be attacked.

Don't worry about whether the guerrillas have the potential to attack the mobile city, the new nobles will not miss any opportunity to attack them.

He could imagine that these damned bitches would make a big fuss about the matter and send it to the Imperial Parliament with exaggeration, and then the old nobles would throw themselves out to take the blame in order to give in.

The lightest punishment would be a demotion and stripping of military power. In a more serious case, he might be forced to retire, which he would never accept.

Looking at the arrogant mayor in front of him, he must be planning to peel off a layer of skin from his body.

Khalinsk is the name of this city. It has a small population. It is just a small city with more than 500,000 people.

Therefore, the mayor did not feel very sad about Sonov's death. Instead, he wanted to say that it was a good thing for him to die.

If there is one less mouth to feed, they can get a little more. Especially since the industrial zone is a lucrative job, everyone would have some ulterior motives.

Who knows how much this guy Sonov ate secretly without telling anyone?

Chapter 40: Hello, zai ma?

The conflict between the new and old nobles is known to everyone who has a certain status in the empire, because they have to choose sides, and those who are neutral often do not have a good ending. In recent years, when the contradictions between the two sides have become increasingly acute, the wavering fence-sitters will be the first to die.

Now the meritorious nobles have no wars to fight, and no wars mean no path to advancement.

The new nobles took advantage of the fact that these guys were still not able to come to their senses and ate up most of the cake of the Source Stone Industry. With the money, they bought many titles and official positions from the old emperor, further suppressing the interests of the old nobles.

Especially when the Sixth Army under their control was annihilated by the Fifth Army of the new nobles, the balance had already begun to tilt.

The situation is getting worse day by day. If I make things worse at this critical juncture, it would be like I am complaining that my coffin is not closed tightly enough.

The old nobility wanted war, but not civil war

Kampf broke out in a cold sweat when he thought of this.