Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 179 The value of the planet, the reason for development

Chen Ming said that he wanted to return his attention to the business of the colony.

But in actual business, there wasn't much that required him to take action.

After all, this is a long-term job.

Brilliance will take care of the construction of the star port.

The task of arranging exploration for low-level Afterglow individuals will be done together by Glory and Glory.

HR and flashing will take care of the guarding matters.

Chaofan had nothing to do every day and could occasionally chat with Chen Ming about research matters.

It's just that Chaofan's main research direction is spaceships, especially capital ship-level spaceships.

Chen Ming's current technical level is not comparable to Chaofan in terms of research.

If it weren't for the fact that the current research equipment at the Supreme Point is all miscellaneous, compared to the research equipment used by Chaofan before, it can only be regarded as rubbish.

Chaofan probably wouldn't chat with Chen Ming for several days.

Of course Chaofan would still have a good chat with Chen Ming about serious matters.

For example, when Chen Ming took the time to learn some spaceship technology before taking a break every day, Chaofan could answer many of Chen Ming's questions very easily.

Chen Ming's learning efficiency has improved a lot again.

It's just that Chen Ming doesn't have much time to spend on learning about spaceships now.

Because even if the matter of the Zerg and Machine Tribe is dealt with, he still has a lot to do.

In fact, Chen Ming's initial plan was to study technologies that could actually be applied to spacecraft during the day and learn cruiser-level technologies before resting at night.

Make the most of your time every day.

However, this plan fell apart within a few days.

Because the biological spacecraft was quickly delivered to his face, he needed to learn additional biotechnology.

Chen Ming has no foundation at all in biotechnology.

He had to take the time to understand and master the subjects that this kind of biological spaceship needed... which should be considered genetic engineering and biodynamics.

Perhaps in addition, various disciplines such as biomaterials, neurology, and chemical biology must also be learned.

But these should only be the basis for transforming biological spaceships.

Because the professional names of these subjects are all familiar to Chen Ming, who has only been exposed to similar knowledge in college.

The biological technologies that can really be used on biological spaceships are probably things he has never heard of.

Chen Ming is quite confident in learning this matter.

Although biology is not a subject that he already knows something about, his learning ability should be more than ten times higher than others.

He has a learning ability that has been personally certified by Brilliance and is rated as a beta-level afterglow core.

However, there is still one thing waiting for him to deal with.

That is, he has been letting Baiquan fly for two days.

So during the day, he still had to learn the command skills of the Fourteenth Legion.

This is also a difficult thing to learn, and he also has no foundation.

And according to Baiquan.

In their specialized military academy, those who go straight from college, and those who have some basic skills, have to study for at least five years.

Chen Ming is not worried that five years is too long. If it doesn't take a while to learn the same technology, Chen Ming still has to worry about whether the technology is adequate.

The key is that Chen Ming is thinking that every day of the five years in the military academy may not be filled with dense courses.

Even if his learning efficiency is high, he is already very busy learning two things: biology and spaceships. As a result, he also has to learn command skills.

Absolutely no spare time.

He had to give up something.

and so.

Chen Ming simply handed over the research of technical equipment that can be used by cruisers and lower-level spacecraft to Chaofan.

Originally, Chen Ming planned to do it himself and rely on studying these things during the learning process to improve learning efficiency in a disguised manner.

Now... I can only leave it to Chaofan to help deal with it.

He is only responsible for the realization of the final research results so that they can be actually transformed into the spacecraft. As for the process, there is nothing he can do about it.

Although Chaofan is reluctant to do research on such a low-level spacecraft, it is currently limited by the equipment that has not been purchased yet and there is really nothing to do.

Moreover, Chen Ming did not have the technology at the level of knowledge he currently had on hand for him to learn.

The only technology worth learning was actually the blueprint of the new-star battleship that it personally designed that Chen Ming had taken away.

Even if Chen Ming can help it log in to some research websites in the Empire of God.

Many of the human technologies on it are meaningless to it and can only be used for reference.

So Chaofan finally agreed, and Chen Ming could just use his spiritual energy to help with the test.

Now at this point in time.

Chen Ming thought for a while and simply came up with the next schedule.

In order to prevent several things from coming together and completely disrupting his order.

It's just that he just had this idea, and in the end it took him more than an hour to reluctantly divide the day into several chunks and allocate them to different work and study tasks.

But the schedule that finally came out was also quite miserable.

In a sense, he is now even busier than Brilliance in addition to rest time.

But it’s not unacceptable to Chen Ming. What kind of hardship has he never experienced?

Merely intense study is nothing.

After finishing the schedule, Chen Ming took a look at the current time.

It was already past nine o'clock in the evening Earth time.

Obviously there is nothing much that can be done for the rest of the day.

So Chen Ming called Bai Quan and told him again about the time to learn command techniques.

Anyway, he has now taken care of the important matters of the mechanical race and the Zerg race. What is left is daily mechanical labor, and there is nothing that requires his energy to be completed.

Tomorrow you can officially start learning to conduct.

But Chen Ming is not sleepy yet, so he spends the last time today.

He simply made statistics on the situation of the temporary stronghold in the past week.

Through the sensors of several cruisers left at the temporary base, Chen Ming could see that the star port was beginning to take shape.

Under Brilliant's control, the number of Yuhui individuals with the limit of the star port's capacity is working tirelessly to accelerate the construction of the entire star port.

Although Yu Hui himself doesn’t seem to know what fatigue is.

In short, Huihuang will definitely be able to complete the finishing work of the star port within two days.

The total construction period took less than two weeks.

After all, the starport is the most important facility in the temporary base of Chen Ming, and it is also a rather crude starport with almost no supporting facilities such as maintenance and repairs.

After all, Chen Ming's spiritual power can do many things. He only needs a place where the spacecraft can temporarily dock for a period of time and where the materials for the entire temporary stronghold can be stored and deployed.

So under this circumstance, such a simple star port was built.

During the construction period of the star port, there were already many spaceships going out to explore based on the part of the star port that had been completed.

All galaxies with possible habitable planets within a radius of fifty light years have been explored.

There is still considerable scope that remains unexplored.

It's still a bit far away from Chen Ming's original idea of ​​exploring the surrounding four hundred light years.

However, now that the construction of the star port is nearing completion, it should only be a few days before all the afterglows are mobilized to operate the star port at full capacity and achieve maximum exploration efficiency.

However, the 50 light-year radius that Chen Ming has explored so far are basically galaxies that have been explored before Diopter.

Only further out in unexplored galaxies did we find a habitable planet.

The number is very small, and the reports of the afterglow individuals of that habitable planet in the galaxy are not very valuable.

However, Chen Ming would also drive to the highest point to check back and confirm the situation of the galaxy and the value of the planet.

This kind of habitable planet can be assigned to at least level 4 in the judgment of planet value that the boss taught him before.

As for the value of the galaxy where this habitable planet is located, we can only make a judgment after detailed investigation.

According to the boss, planets can generally be divided into five levels.

A level 1 planet is a completely worthless planet, just a bare planet lying there.

Unless other valuable planets in the galaxy have been developed, there is nothing else in the galaxy that can be developed, and pure land on some planets is needed, otherwise it will definitely not go up.

Level 2 planets have basic development value.

As long as you can have enough planets to earn back the annual investment and have at least 50% additional long-term profits, you can count it as a level 2 planet.

The priority of development within the galaxy is also relatively low. At least when there is only one level 2 planet in a galaxy, let alone this planet, the galaxy has no value in entering.

As for level 3 planets, they must at least have more mineral veins or other planetary resources that are easy to mine than level 2 planets.

For example, various volatiles from gaseous planets, or various soil resources, and there must be at least one high-level resource with development value, such as high-level metal materials such as dolomite steel.

If there are no high-level resources, unless the amount of resources on the planet is truly ubiquitous and can be exploited at will, the planet will be downgraded by one level.

Level 4 planets are quite special.

Because all habitable planets will first be assigned to Level 4, and then it will be decided whether the level can be raised or lowered based on the specific conditions of the habitable planets.

For example, Ruimu, where Chen Ming once stayed, although it is a livable planet, it does not have any valuable resources except for a few scattered mechanical races on it, which is almost a border planet.

Moreover, its asteroid ring also causes meteorites to often fall on it, so the habitability is not that high.

Therefore, as a habitable planet, it can only be a level 3 planet in actual classification.

Of course, there will also be some uninhabitable planets in level 4.

But the planets that can compete with habitable planets for this level must be planets with considerable resources for non-habitable planets.

There will definitely be a large number of basic resources and advanced resources, and whether there are resources for special materials that can be developed to a certain extent at least for a period of time is also a point that needs to be judged.

Therefore, level 4 planets that are not habitable planets are already very rare.

The judgment standard for level 5 is relatively the most complex one.

The first basic judgment is to see whether it is an Earth-like planet, the amount of biological resources and species richness, and whether the species on the planet themselves have special value.

Or see if there is a source of special-grade materials on the planet that is not limited by the scale of the planet, can be developed with high intensity, and can be developed sustainably. But what is complicated depends on whether the value of planets is applied in some special fields.

Chen Ming had specifically talked to Bai Quan about something before.

Why do some capitals of star regions and some military patrol bases choose to be placed on dangerous volcanic planets?

Bai Quan did not cover up the past at that time, but directly and clearly told Chen Ming the reason.

Because the empire obtained something from the relics of another civilization that the empire has not yet been able to mass-produce.

Low temperature computing engine.

This is a special device used by that civilization in the defense units of border galaxies.

It is a supercomputer specially responsible for calculating combat events.

What's unique about it is that it absorbs heat while operating.

At that time, Chen Ming felt that there was something wrong with the existence of this kind of thing. Things that violated the second law of thermodynamics should not exist in this universe.

But Bai Quan would not lie to him when he was full, and Chen Ming thought about what his spiritual power could do, and instantly felt that the existence of such a thing made a lot more sense.

If the empire obtains a certain number of cryogenic computing engines from another civilization, it should indeed build patrols or military base headquarters that can use them on the volcanic planet.

After all, large-scale patrol teams do need specialized equipment to provide support.

It is used to plan how to patrol within the ever-changing galaxy, and to assist the commander in commanding when a battle breaks out.

After all, not everyone is a genius and can outline the battlefield situation in the entire galaxy in their mind.

Many ordinary officers must rely on computer assistance in command, and this low-temperature computing engine has its value.

So since Bai Quan has explained the situation so clearly, it is best for the colony after Chen Ming to have a volcanic planet with frequent geological activities.

Therefore, this kind of geography... is wrong, it should be a planet with a suitable astronomical location that can be used to install a low-temperature computing engine.

Even if there is almost nothing valuable to develop except heat energy on the planet, it can be assigned to a special level 5.

There are also many other special level 5 planets.

For example, the boss told Chen Ming about a gas giant planet with only basic gas resources.

Due to the gaseous life that is suspected to exist on it, it jumped directly from the original level 2 to the level 5.

And those gaseous life forms that are suspected to exist have been verified by a psychic in recent years, and they indeed exist.

There is also a huge terrestrial planet that is close to the size of an ordinary gas planet. It has terrifying gravity and countless giant creatures, so it is also ranked in Level 5.

Moreover, the satellites of this planet are also assigned to Level 5.

Because there is a giant flying creature on this planet with terrifying pressure.

Although they do not have the ability to survive in space and cannot survive in a vacuum, their bodies after death will be thrown into space by their peers using brute force.

Those corpses thrown into space orbit by the same kind were gathered together very accurately, and over the countless years of the planet's development, they had gathered into a special flesh-and-blood satellite.

On this satellite, the parasites and microorganisms in the corpses thrown into space have formed an extremely special and unique ecological environment.

It has extremely high research value, so it is also assigned to Level 5.

In short, the ones in level 5 are either earth-like planets, planets with great development value, or special planets that Chen Ming learned about from his boss.

In fact, Chen Ming asked Bai Quan another question before.

Did the empire get something special similar to a cryogenic computing engine from the ruins of another civilization?

Then Bai Quan gave Chen Ming a list directly.

Chen Ming took a casual look and saw a bunch of things that were obviously outrageous to a certain extent and could even directly violate the laws of physics.

However, with the cryogenic computing engine at the forefront, and this being a world with psychic powers, Chen Ming was not unable to accept it.

Anyway, he clearly remembered everything he recorded.

There will definitely be many opportunities for him to come into contact with the relics of another civilization when he develops in the future.

It is also possible that he will find the legacy of another civilization that none of the empires on the list can now replicate.

In addition, galaxies also have their own unique system for judging value.

However, consider the type of score, whether it is comprehensive, industrial, scientific research or settlement, etc.

Each galaxy has different values ​​when applied to different environments.

The determination of this is more complicated and not as simple as the planet.

After all, in addition to the galaxy itself, the value of a galaxy must also consider the distance between the target galaxy and other galaxies. This must be left to professionals.

But one thing is certain, the final value of the galaxy will be determined by which environment has the highest value when the galaxy is used in different environments.

For example, Chen Ming had been to the galaxy where Rui Mu was located before, and there was only one habitable planet of any value, and the other planets were not so good.

Therefore, in terms of settlement value, it may only be classified into level 3 or even level 2 galaxies.

However, because the asteroid ring of Ruimu contains a large amount of rare minerals, as well as the Alturan sky eel swarm inside the galaxy.

Therefore, this aspect of resource extraction can be classified into a very high level, such as level 4.

Although the sky steel produced by Kongyu is only a high-grade metal material, Kongyu itself can be regarded as a special-level resource.

So in the end, the value of Rui Jupiter's galaxy will be recognized as level 4.

This is what the boss said to him personally.

By the way, the boss also told Chen Ming to send him the survey data and star map coordinates of all the planets in the galaxy he investigated.

He will help determine the value of the galaxy, and after a while,

Help Chen Ming sell the data of these planets.

Of course, Chen Ming also had a general understanding of some methods of determining the value of galaxies.

He could barely judge the value of a galaxy, but at most the result might be inaccurate.

The value judgment of galaxies is generally divided into five levels. Like planets, the main consideration is the development potential.

But one thing is certain, a galaxy with level 5 development potential has at least one level 5 planet and at least two level 4 planets inside it, and the total number of planets in the galaxy is 7 or more.

And suppose that there is an extremely special galaxy with two level 5 stars and three level 4 stars inside.

And when the number of planets in the galaxy does not exceed 7, all the remaining planets are above level three.

Then this special galaxy will be called a Category 6 galaxy.

And if the planets inside the galaxy meet the previous conditions, the number of planets inside the galaxy exceeds seven.

As long as the remaining planets are not in the habitable zone of the galaxy and have two development values ​​below level 3, they can also be called level 6 galaxies.

Currently, the galaxies where the capitals of all star regions are located are known to Chen Ming, and they are all Level 6 galaxies.

And this level 6 galaxy is the galaxy that Chen Ming needs.

Of course, level 6 galaxies are not actually an explicit criterion.

It is just because this galaxy can achieve a large degree of self-sufficiency in the development of the galaxy only if it has at least the advantages of these planets.

The problem of the distance between a galaxy and other galaxies with colonies or space stations can be ignored to a certain extent.

That's why it is called a unique level 6 galaxy.

Chen Ming wants to stand alone outside the empire and gain a foothold in the universe.

Then a level 6 galaxy as the initial colony is a must for him.

Although level 6 galaxies are rare, they must exist in the universe.

If you can't find him, keep looking.

The data on the galaxies he has discovered during his search, as well as the money he is trying to earn, should be enough to support his expenses during the exploration process.

The reason why level 6 galaxies are so special.

The reason lies in the pioneering path of the empire.

In fact, what limits the expansion of the empire is not just the afterglow and the mechanical race that block the road to the outside world, nor is it the restriction that the jump engine requires cooling and frequent maintenance, nor is it the expense on the road to development.

But the transportation of supplies.

A team to develop and build a colony must number at least a thousand people, and more will be needed in the future.

And the construction of the colony, even in the early stages, was at least measured in years.

It's fine if it's closer, but once the distance is far away, it can't be reached with an extreme distance jump.

That means that there is at least one cruiser loaded with supplies that needs to be maintained before it can use the jump engine again.

The maintenance of the jump engine is also very troublesome under normal circumstances.

Without transfers, the maintenance of mid-route cruisers would result in material transport being incredibly inefficient.

But once a transfer point is built, unless investment continues to be increased, the construction of the transfer point will slow down the construction of the colony in disguise.

But currently, there are obviously no valuable galaxies worthy of such a large investment in the edge star field.

Moreover, you may be threatened by Yuhui and the Machine Tribe along the way.

But if it is a level 6 galaxy, there will be no such troubles. After the initial material transportation, it can be completely self-sufficient and develop there.

In fact, the development of so many star fields in the empire is also like this. Find another level 6 galaxy in a star field.

Develop this galaxy and build a stargate.

Then from this galaxy, it began to expand to the surrounding areas, until the star field developed and re-bordered the empire.

Only in this way is the appropriate method to minimize the impact of the troublesome problem of supply.

Therefore, Chen Ming's psychic power can actually reduce the demand for level 6 galaxies to a certain extent.

His spiritual power can basically completely solve all problems in the transmission of materials.

Therefore, in addition to some people in the empire who are interested in the influence of his spiritual energy on Afterglow, there are also a group of high-ranking officials in the empire who are interested in the power of his spiritual energy in development.

The boss would only mention those things to him before that made him a special person now.

Because of this, he was able to successfully leave the Empire without any obstruction from within the Empire, despite the fact that his spiritual energy had a very special effect on the human enemy Afterglow.

Some people within the empire want to see whether he should use it to develop or target Afterglow.

Chen Ming knew this from his previous chat with his boss.

He is also aware of the responsibilities that his psychic powers and identity impose on him.

That's why he studies so hard. He must be able to exist independently from the empire. Only in this way can he not be affected by anyone else.

Since he now has a unique advantage, he cannot let go of this unique opportunity.

He has to branch out and get a chance for himself.

(End of this chapter)