Chapter 229 Dyson Sphere Program! The Long Night!
After learning about the relevant information of the [Quantum Slingshot] megastructure and the resources required for its construction, Li Ang turned his attention to the system's Roulette of the Heavens.
Thanks to the completion of the Level 2 mission this time and the [Singularity Power Station] of the Science Hub megastructure, a guaranteed draw opportunity of Level 9 was provided.
This time, Li Ang had a draw quota of 1 guaranteed payout of Level 10, 1 guaranteed payout of Level 9, and 10 draws of Level 8 and above.
A total of 12 consecutive draws, two guaranteed draws!
‘We, Lao Li, have fought for so long, and this wave can be considered rich. ’
Li Ang smiled.
Immediately, he immediately started the Roulette of the Heavens draw, and secretly guessed in his heart what prize pool items might appear this time.
His Level 10 guaranteed payout items came from the world of Stellaris, so Li Ang guessed that the "Golden Legend" that was revealed this time should be a megastructure or some kind of super weapon.
Maybe it will be a Dyson Sphere or a Burning God Weapon.
The guaranteed gold items at level 9 come from the world of Halo Infinite.
The last time a "Golden Legend" item from the Halo world was guaranteed, Li Ang got an Infinity-class battleship.
Maybe this time, it will be the Halo Array from Halo, or some other super battleship.
However, no matter what the lottery result is, as long as there is a system guarantee, Li Ang's mentality is still relatively stable.
The Zhutian Prize Pool is not the prize pool in the cheating Mihoyo game, which has no big or small guarantees, and even the guarantee can be wrong!
The golden legends that can appear in the prize pool must be good things.
Either they are late-stage items that can be upgraded, such as matrices and gene seeds.
Or they are super powerful megastructures or battleships, weapons, such as ring worlds and Infinity-class battleships, and Scorpion Tailed Lion biological viruses.
There is basically no situation of wrong guarantees, which makes the experience quite good!
As Leon's thoughts fell, the rapidly spinning Roulette of the Heavens also stopped, and all the items drawn this time were presented in the interface.
[This time, the 12 consecutive draws of the roulette have obtained:
Dyson Sphere (10-level guaranteed golden legend·Stars·Quantum Architect)
CSO Super Aircraft Carrier·Long Night Halo·Star Alliance)
Hyperion Battlecruiser (StarCraft·Tyran Federation)
Centurion Exoskeleton (Warhammer 40K·Mechanicus Tech Priest)
Max Power System (Ultraman Tiga·Dr. Eight-tail)
PROJECT-X Dark Matter Energy Gun (Sector 9·Big Prawn Civilization)
Full set of VR equipment and holographic system technology (Ready Player One·IOI Company)
Medical Bed (Wolverine 2·Yashida Company)
Bat Motorcycle (Batman·Dark Knight·Wayne Group)
Hex Robot (Yuxing·Construction Robot)...]
‘What the hell? ! ’
When Leon saw that the guaranteed items were the Dyson Sphere and the Long Night, all the items that appeared later seemed so dim.
He tried his best to suppress the urge to shout with excitement, and blinked his eyes again and again to make sure that he had not seen the prize pool items wrong.
Soon, Leon was sure that he had not seen it wrong, and had not drawn the wrong items. The two guaranteed items were the Dyson Sphere and the Star Alliance's super aircraft carrier, the Long Night!
‘This wave is really going to take off. Where are the Trisolarans? Roll over here and use them as power generation materials! ’
After calming down his excitement, Leon continued to check the system screen and carefully browsed the newly drawn megastructure [Dyson Sphere].
First of all, the construction conditions of the Dyson Sphere in "Stellaris" are relatively clear.
That is, it cannot be built on a star system with habitable planets, because the Dyson Sphere will completely block the star and drain all its energy.
This will also cause all the planets in the star system to lose their energy source, leading to the loss of vitality and becoming completely barren and frozen planets.
Turning a planet that was originally suitable for habitation and colonization into a worthless dead star is somewhat a waste of resources and not cost-effective.
After all, in the vast universe, it is still quite rare to have a few good habitable planets in a galaxy.
Most galaxies are actually relatively barren and desolate environments, so there is no need to build a Dyson sphere in a galaxy with habitable planets.
In addition, Dyson sphere megastructures cannot be built near black holes, neutron stars, and pulsars.
As for the reason, it is quite simple, that is, these three things are simply "cosmic street urchins". Near the star field where they are, either the gravitational field is distorted or the dimension is folded.
Otherwise, the super-high radiation and energy overflow will cause the surrounding space to be abnormal and messy.
In short, no matter which of these three stars is easy to mess with, especially putting megastructures near them!
Therefore, for safety reasons, it is best not to build a Dyson sphere in a galaxy with a black hole, a neutron star, or a pulsar.
Lest a greedy black hole swallow the Dyson sphere one day, or a neutron star pulse cause the Dyson sphere device to malfunction.
Finally, galaxies with binary or triple stars are not suitable.
The reason is also very simple. The orbits of binary and triple stars are more complicated and difficult to predict.
They do not have a relatively stable orbit like the planets in a single star, and several large celestial bodies are intertwined and rotate with each other.
In most cases, the orbits of celestial bodies in multiple stars cannot be predicted.
The most classic example is the hometown of the Trisolarans.
There are three stars in the galaxy where they are located. The entire galaxy is in turmoil due to the series of twitching and weird orbits of the three stars.
In such a chaotic galaxy, building a large-scale Dyson sphere may be smashed to pieces by the stars one day.
Therefore, the most suitable galaxy for building a Dyson sphere is preferably a single star without black holes, neutron stars, pulsars, and relatively desolate galaxies.
This condition seems to be more stringent, but in fact, it can still be found in the vast universe.
The task of finding a suitable galaxy point can be left to AI Europa.
‘Building a Dyson sphere is much easier than measuring a slingshot. Just pick a suitable location to build it. ’
Leon nodded thoughtfully. The slingshot needs to build engineering ships and building structures. The amount of work required to build it back and forth is much larger than that of the Dyson Sphere!
In addition, the Dyson Sphere project is the same as the last ring world. Since it is a giant structure that was obtained for free, all Leon has to do is to have people assemble and piece it together, and then complete it for use.
The entire project period may only take two or three years, or even shorter!
After all, the Dyson Sphere is an item drawn from the heavens, a ready-made giant structure, and there is no need to forge materials or build various devices.
‘The guaranteed gold is so good. With this thing, a large amount of energy output can be saved! ’
The more Leon looks at the Dyson Sphere, the more he likes it. The main function of this thing is to extract the energy of the star and then provide energy for power generation.
The construction principle of the Dyson Sphere is very simple, and it may even be the simplest in the entire giant structure, that is, to wrap the star with solar panels.
Then absorb all the light and heat in the star and convert it into energy and collect it, squeezing out the energy of the entire star with a 100% energy conversion rate.
Of course, the principle of this thing is easy to explain, but it is very difficult to build it!
With the current capabilities of the Universal Corporation, it is not necessarily possible to build a Dyson sphere megastructure.
Even if it is barely built, the cost is too high, just like building a ring world, it will greatly delay the development time of the giant company.
But the truth is still the same, expensive things have only one problem, that is, expensive!
The existence of a Dyson sphere megastructure can maintain the energy expenditure of the entire huge fleet for the Universal Corporation.
As for how much fleet expenditure is, it is only five times the size of the existing fleet of the giant company.
That's right!
Just such a Dyson sphere megastructure can support the consumption of more than a thousand endless arrays, which can make the number of the giant company's navy more than five times!
This is really the favorite treasure of the giant company's navy.
'Wuhu, take off! '
At this time, Li Ang was so happy that his mouth was almost grinning to his ears. He originally thought that the template for the fifth stage would be a Dyson sphere.
But I never thought that I would get it right away and win it with the guaranteed payout.
A free megastructure is really good!
After calming down his excited heart and controlling his shaking hands, Li Ang finally set his sights on another heavyweight item, which is——
The CSO supercarrier from the Star Alliance in the "Halo" world, the Long Night!
In Li Ang's mind, the priority of this golden legendary megastructure is no less than that of the 10th-level golden legendary Dyson Sphere megastructure.
Because this thing can be regarded as a T1 megastructure in any sci-fi plane!
Even the 3,000-kilometer supercarrier of the Reaper civilization in "Independence Day" is not necessarily stronger than this megastructure. In fact, in single combat, the CSO aircraft carrier is slightly better.
"The ceiling-level battleship in Halo, the flagship of the Covenant, the top-level 5th-level aircraft carrier...!"
Through the Long Night mothership displayed on the system panel, Leon seemed to have imagined the huge flying colonial ship that could not see the end, or the asteroid-level fortress city.
It can be said that in the world view of "Halo", the CSO aircraft carrier is basically a crushing posture except that it cannot compare with the giant "Mantle of the World"!
Without the slightest hesitation, Leon immediately switched the interface and began to carefully check the relevant attribute information of the Long Night.
[CSO super aircraft carrier: The Long Night
Note: The top flagship of the Covenant camp in "Halo"
Length: 28,960 meters
Width: 11,447 meters...]
At the beginning of this look, Leon was shocked by the scale of the Long Night. Originally, he only knew that this giant ship was relatively large, but he was not very impressed by how large it was.
It was not until he saw the exact data that Li Ang realized what a huge ship the Long Night was.
Its length alone reached nearly 30 kilometers, which was equivalent to half a full marathon.
Its exaggerated width of 10 kilometers was equivalent to the length of two Endless-class ships. Once this thing came out, it would directly replace the Endless-class as the mothership of the giant enterprise!
Not only that, the weight of the Long Night also reached an astonishing value of 152 billion tons, and the gravity resistance was simply maxed out.
Its hull armor was composed of extremely expensive, strong and heat-resistant nano-laminated boards, and tough materials stacked together.
For example, the Needlefish-class battleship in "Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans" uses this kind of nano-layer armor.
The Long Night has such a huge body, so the armor must be as light and strong as possible.
And nano-laminated board is a good choice. The strength of this material is not much worse than that of resistant steel, and the performance of the two is almost the same.
Of course, with such a huge volume and weight, the Long Night naturally needs to be equipped with anti-gravity engines, and it must be equipped with 3.
This can help the giant ship to resist its own strong gravity, ensure the normal operation of the ship, and drive forward on a daily basis.
'I didn't expect that the performance of the Covenant's super-light engine is higher than the super-light engine device newly developed by the giant company! '
At this moment, Li Ang suddenly noticed some interesting details through the data on the system panel.
That is, the super-light engine used by the Covenant in "Halo" is another special structural technology.
In terms of performance optimization, it is infinitely close to the super-light engine of the Infinity-class giant ship.
You know, the Infinity-class hyperdrive was removed from the Forerunner ship, and it can be called the most advanced engine device in Halo.
The gap between the two is roughly equivalent to Nvidia's RTX4D's RX7900XTX graphics card.
Both graphics cards are top-notch devices, but Nvidia's 4090 is still better than the 7900 in terms of extreme performance.
The performance improvements brought by different architectures are somewhat different, and the Covenant's hyperdrive engine is like this.
As of now, the performance of the hyperdrive engine developed by the Universe Giant Enterprise is a bit lower than that of the Long Night.
If the engine level of the Long Night is a 4090 graphics card, then the self-developed hyperdrive engine of the Universe Giant Enterprise is the second-rate RTX4070Ti.
To say how much performance is different, in fact, in daily use, this gap is not noticeable.
Unless the performance is maximized and the full consumption is maximized, the difference between the two can be felt.
The gap between the Infinity and the Long Night's superluminal engines, as well as the self-developed engine device of the giant enterprise, is such a situation.
When they are in the sub-light speed state, they basically run at the same speed, but when it comes to the full speed, the Long Night arrives at the finish line first.
This is a fact, so practice more if you are not good at it.
However, Li Ang is quite optimistic about this, and he is not dissatisfied with the Long Night or its own superluminal engine technology because of this.
Because the superluminal engine developed by the Universal Giant Enterprise is a device based on hyperspace navigation technology, this thing will have some flaws in the early stage.
After all, the technology is not perfect enough.
But with the subsequent optimization, it will be constantly updated and iterated.
When the technology is fully developed, it will not be a big problem to outperform the superluminal engines of the Infinity and the Long Night under the extreme state.
