Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 366 Half a Year
Time flies.

After solving the boss's problem, half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

Everything went according to plan during the past six months, and Chen Ming successfully completed his study of ship technology, biotechnology, combat command technology, and various psychic knowledge.

The research progress of the ongoing Phase Behemoth Patriarch corpse transformation project is also very encouraging.

The research team established by Chen Ming took more than a month to thoroughly understand the condition of the Phase Beast's corpse and gained sufficient understanding of the Phase Beast species.

And within the next three weeks, the disposal of the Phase Beast Chief's body was completed.

Useless organs and tissues, such as the special digestive system used to digest scarlet matter and supply the behemoth with energy, or the brain that had long been dead and slightly damaged were completely removed.

It was distributed according to the contributions made by different institutes in the early research process.

These things are of great value for research in other directions.

Useful organ tissues, such as muscles, bones, and various organs that maintain the life of the Phase Beast, have regained some vitality under the influence of the Zerg's abilities, preventing them from completely rotting.

Although under normal circumstances phase behemoths only exist in phase space, there are no natural microorganisms in phase space.

But for research purposes, the body of the Phase Beast Patriarch needs to be brought back to the normal universe intermittently.

Therefore, it is natural that some microorganisms that may cause the corpse to decay will also be sent into the phase space.

The entire research site of the Phase Behemoth Patriarch experiment is isolated from the outside world, so there is no need to worry about some microorganisms that can only be processed from the phase space causing trouble to the outside world.

However, internal affairs still need to be handled well.

Anti-corrosion is obviously the first priority.

There are some more important special organs on the patriarch's body, such as the long whiskers on the top of the head and the tail, and the patterns on the body that emit light when the giant beast uses its power.

Because these organs and tissues were determined to be the important source of power for the Phase Beast during this period of research, and after the death of the patriarch, these organs that were the source of power were gradually losing their power.

Therefore, these special organs and tissues were specially preserved after being studied by the Psionic Research Institute, using the catalysts produced by the Zerg and the catalytic core that Chen Ming had studied some time ago, as well as the psychic power of a psychic.

In subsequent tests, it was confirmed that these operations had ensured the integrity of the corpse's dimensional power.

Ensures that the corpse's phase power can still be used later.

As for the scarlet power in the patriarch's body, after his death, it had been erased by the power of the phase space and no longer existed.

The impact of this is not that big. In the end, Chen Ming will find a way to add some necessary power to the ship.

The current progress of the battleship project has only just completed the disposal of the patriarch's body.

The next step of research on ship infrastructure construction has just begun.

At present, the general directions of these designs are ready.

The main control system is the first component that the ship needs to consider.

It is the basis for controlling all the structures of the spacecraft, and it is extremely important, especially for capital ships whose scale has reached a certain level.

The computing power of the main control is one of the most important considerations of the main control system.

Compared with computers, the advantages of biological brains are extremely obvious here.

Therefore, a purely mechanized main control structure was not within Chen Ming's consideration at the beginning.

However, since Chen Ming discovered that the brain of the patriarch's corpse was damaged in the earliest stages, it was most likely damaged after entering the scarlet dimension.

This means that the biological brain must be created later in life.

Whether relying on the Empire's existing technology to create a biological brain or using the Queen of Insects to create a biological brain and conduct subsequent testing, it will take a long time.

Just during this period of time, some new changes occurred in sample zero.

One day, Chen Ming suddenly had an idea and placed his personality core "Mechanical Queen" in the mechanical colony to manage the colony and merged it with sample zero.

Sample Zero itself is a half-mechanical, half-biological being, possessing not only the characteristics of an individual Zerg, but also the various features of a mechanical unit.

Therefore, this experiment that Chen Ming came up with on a whim was actually successful, allowing Sample Zero, which had already begun to show characteristics and was different from ordinary Zerg and even the Queen Zerg, to "evolve".

It became a new "Queen of Worms", the Queen of the Mechanical Clan, the real "Queen of Machinery".

It can control the power of the core of personality and help Chen Ming manage the mechanical race in a more flexible and "human" way, or in other words, in a way that "has the humanity that Chen Ming needs."

At that time, Chen Ming thought that it would be possible to replace the computer with one controlled by a machine.

But later, after considering another key issue.

Chen Ming still chose the biological brain.

This key issue is the signal transmission problem.

With the main control in place, the next issue in the design of a battleship is the signal transmission line.

This was also an important issue when battleship technology was being developed.

When Chen Ming first planned his ship, he wanted to use mature line technology to build signal lines.

But soon, as he studied the corpse of the Phase Beast Chief, Chen Ming discovered that the Phase Beast's own neural signal transmission efficiency was higher than all currently known circuits.

In addition, Chen Ming himself had already solved the problem of converting pure electrical signals into bioelectric signals.

So his battleships can fully utilize these nerves as signal transmission lines.

but.

Chen Ming discovered a faster way to transmit signals.

That is, after the Queen absorbed the clan leader's genes, the Zerg nerves that were strengthened have a faster bioelectric signal transmission speed.

Enough to replace the patriarch's nerves.

However, the nerves that the patriarch possesses are absolutely the most suitable for his body, and exchanging a slight improvement for a decrease in adaptability may not be a suitable choice.

At that time, almost all the researchers in Chen Ming's institute were arguing over these two options.

In the end, Chen Ming decided to use Zerg to solve the problem of nerves or signal lines.

Under normal circumstances, if Chen Ming did this, he would definitely be criticized by those who support using the patriarch's original nerves.

But in the end, everyone agreed with Chen Ming's approach without any objection.

Because the Zerg can improve the already fast signal transmission efficiency to the highest level possible.

That is using the hive mind.

The existence of hive thinking allows signals to be completely synchronized during transmission, without the need for a transmission process at all.

It is precisely because of this situation of the Zerg.

Even after Chen Ming merged Sample Zero with the Mechanical Queen, allowing the Mechanical Clan to have a true Mechanical Queen, they could still use hive thinking to eliminate the signal transmission process.

But at present, neither the Empire nor Chen Ming has developed a signal circuit that can rival biological nerves.

Therefore, when there was an adaptable option, the ship's main control system ultimately chose the insect brain, and the signal line also chose the nerves made by the queen insect.

Although the signal transmission inside the ship can rely on hive thinking, the queen's nerves can still be used in some less important places.

This is the current research and development progress of the battleship.

Just these things took Chen Ming half a year.

And then there are many problems waiting for him to deal with, such as energy source, engine, armor, weapons, etc.

Just thinking about it gave Chen Ming a headache, but also excitement.

To be honest, he hasn't felt any challenge in doing anything for a while.

This kind of research, where psychic power can only play a supporting role, is something he can devote himself to wholeheartedly and makes him feel that his life is extremely fulfilling.

The research on battleships will definitely take a long time.

However, Chen Ming is not only busy with the battleship's affairs.

In addition to the progress on the ship, he also made considerable progress in his own abilities.

His power has been completely mastered, and during this period he has been constantly gaining power from the scarlet by contacting the scarlet dimension.

Judging from the strength alone, his psychic power has more than doubled compared to before.

But he looked less and less like a psychic.

Because he usually restrains himself more and doesn't show any expression.

He no longer needs to show off his strength in the empire, and no one will bother him anymore.

Except when it is necessary to use psychic power, such as when his project needs to test some psychic technology that can be used on capital ships.

Other times, others couldn't even tell he was a psyker.

He has passed the time when he needs to show off his talents.

He needs to calm down.

In addition, since his prosthetic ability has been exposed, it doesn't matter to him whether he has a prosthesis or not. He no longer needs more prostheses to cover up anything.

So he replaced all the prostheses, except An Wuping's, with robots.

Only one body with a normal human appearance, which was created previously and has been constantly replaced during this period, is left outside.

Doing so would also reduce the impression that Chen Ming relied on An Wuping to create the bioprosthesis.

Eliminate the extremely small possibility that other people might associate An Wuping with himself because of these prostheses.

Besides.

There are some other things happening during this half year.

Since the fighting power of the mechanical race had completely collapsed, the empire was able to conduct the war very smoothly.

Chen Ming had heard many battle achievements that were talked about by civilians at different times and places.

And matters related to psychics are increasingly appearing in the eyes of ordinary people.

With the preparations made by the Empire, and the current advantage of the Empire over the Mechanical Race in the war, the people of the Empire are excited.

The existence of psykers is really gradually being integrated into the society of the Empire.

There are negative situations as well.

Some places are extremely disgusted with the existence of psychics and are quite unimpressed by the Empire's attitude towards promoting psychics.

It may be the influence left over from some psychics committing crimes in the past or history.

But these are only a minority after all.

Psychics will surely be able to truly appear in the public eye soon.

There is also good news.

Chen Ming’s previous efforts to create the black fog insect race were not in vain.

After Chen Ming's extremely deliberate reminder, the empire actually discovered signs of Zuo Jing's activities around some high-ranking officials within the country.

I started to pay more attention to Zuo Jing's existence again. Although I still haven't found out where the real brainwashed psychic is, I have expected Zuo Jing to revive.

This is no longer the period when the entire empire was like a stagnant pool.

The empire would never allow Zuo Jing to come out and cause trouble at a critical moment.

Of course, there have been bad things in the past six months.

These are the two natural disasters that Chen Ming mentioned that might happen in the future.

The situation of the Mechanical Clan cannot be confirmed for the time being, but the space gap within the Mechanical Clan’s star domain is real.

Although the gap leading to the three dimensions is under the surveillance of the Empire, the gap may collapse at any time.

Therefore, Chen Ming’s current project related to the phase space of the phase beast can be regarded as a key project of the empire.

Even though the relationship between the Empire and him is somewhat delicate at present, the Empire still gave Chen Ming the green light in all aspects.

After all, the other results brought about by this research process can also be applied to aspects related to dimensional gaps.

In addition to funding Chen Ming's research, the Empire has also been working hard on research in this area.

Trying to do what Baiquan and Chen Ming had suggested before, sending the entire empire into phase space, in order to avoid the aftereffects of the invasion of the scarlet dimension.

However, regarding this matter, Chen Ming still had the same indescribable strange feeling as before, which made him somewhat reluctant to send the Zerg into the phase space to develop.

There's not much to say.

In addition, the Empire is also trying to send out sufficient reconnaissance fleets that may never return, in an attempt to confirm the movements of the mechanical race outside.

But this may be a project that will take longer than Chen Ming's project.

In the past six months, these are the things that Chen Ming can remember.

And today.

Chen Ming just received some new good news.

That is, his pioneering fleet made six more jumps in half a year, bringing the total number of jumps to thirteen.

It can only be said that with the addition of the Zerg, the efficiency of exploration and migration has made a qualitative leap.

And the next leap, the fourteenth leap, which is enough to leap to the position set by Chen Ming three years ago, can begin today, at this moment.

Chen Ming returned to the pioneering fleet directly.

He boarded the Supreme Point which he had not returned to for some time because he was busy with the battleship.

Chaofan was also brought to the headquarters by Chen Ming because Chen Ming arranged the site of the battleship laboratory at the headquarters.

So only glory awaits him at the highest point.

"let's start."

Without further ado, Chen Ming came to the captain's room and gave orders to Huihuang.

After receiving Chen Ming's order, Huihuang dispatched the first batch of reconnaissance fleet to the destination of this jump.

After obtaining the result that there was no danger in the jump landing.

A small fleet carrying infrastructure materials caught up with the Zenith, resonated with the Zenith's engine, and began the formal jump.

Of course, neither this time nor the reconnaissance jump just now was a direct jump to the planet of Chen Ming’s destination.

Because Chen Ming originally obtained the coordinates of this location from the Mechanical Clan.

God knows whether there will be troubles from the mechanical race waiting for him at his destination.

Even though the star map that Chen Ming got from the Mechanical Clan showed that there were no Mechanical Clan near this area, and that the Mechanical Clan might not be able to defeat him, he still needed to be prepared.

Caution is of utmost importance.

Therefore, Chen Ming determined the destination of this jump to be a nearby galaxy that was some distance away from the real target and where no obvious problems were found in Qianmian's astronomical optical observations.

The transition was over quickly.

The landing point of the jump is some distance outside this nearby galaxy, and this is done to ensure safety.

After confirming again that there was no danger nearby, Chen Ming drove the Supreme Point towards the interior of the galaxy.

After approaching the outermost planet of the galaxy.

Chen Ming activated the galaxy-level sensor at the highest point and began to scan the galaxy.

He did not find the existence of the mechanical race in the galaxy.

I did find some interesting things.

There are several moving objects in the galaxy.

And far away outside the galaxy, there is an unknown space signal fluctuation.

Based on Chen Ming's understanding of the mechanical race, the things in the galaxy are definitely not mechanical races.

The direction of the space signal fluctuations outside the galaxy is exactly the galaxy where Chen Ming's real target of this jump is.

Chen Ming did not rush to the next galaxy immediately, but first increased the power in this galaxy and scanned the specific situation of the objects moving in the galaxy.

And the results of the scan.

Those objects moving around in the galaxy are all combinations of some kind of spacecraft and engineering equipment. They should be some kind of drones.

Chen Ming even felt that these drones looked familiar, because most of the equipment they were equipped with were mining-related equipment, but they were more advanced and more automated.

Probably some kind of mining drone.

Judging from what Chen Ming scanned at this time, they seemed to have been wandering inside the galaxy.

Mine minerals in the asteroid belt within the galaxy and exposed minerals on the surface of some planets without high-risk environments.

This should be a mineral mining machine left behind by the Shining Civilization, and it is still in operation today.

Judging from the results of the planet scan just now, almost every planet has a large amount of open-air mineral resources, as well as a large number of traces of being mined by something.

Apparently, this was all done by these mining drones.

This galaxy is a galaxy with extremely rich mineral resources, which has been mined by robots left over from the Shining Civilization era and has not yet been completely mined.

Chen Ming immediately captured a mining drone, and after controlling it with his psychic power, he confirmed where these mining drones would return to after collecting enough resources.

It was also the seat next door, the one Chen Ming had reserved more than three years ago.

Chen Ming no longer hesitated.

Let the Supreme Point start the jump engine again and head to the galaxy named ZI-X.

Generally speaking, only colonized galaxies have unique names rather than code names, and the earliest colonists have the right to name galaxies and planets.

Of course, Chen Ming did not need the empire's certification to name such a galaxy that was so far away from the empire.

So when Chen Ming saw this galaxy, he gave it a name directly.

Origin System.

The reason why Chen Ming named it directly was that at the moment the jump ended, a huge galaxy with eight planets and three satellites appeared in his eyes.

Although Chen Ming knew from previous observations that this destination had multiple planets and satellites.

But it was not until he actually came here that he understood the specific conditions of these planets and their value.

This is a perfect galaxy.

Start from the position close to the star and work from the inside out.

They are two volcanic planets with large amounts of precious mineral resources that can be seen from outside the planet. They can serve as military planets, and can also use the high heat of the planets themselves to become a special smelting planet.

Outward, there are habitable planets with habitable satellites. The value of such habitable binary systems is self-evident.

Then there are two ordinary land planets. Although they are ordinary, that is only relative to other planets.

These two planets themselves also have a certain degree of resources.

Moreover, the volumes of these two planets are relatively large, and the planets themselves are also a type of resource.

Further out are a gas giant and an ice giant, which have extremely rich gas resources.

The gas giant even has two moons.

Both satellites are enveloped by a thick atmosphere, but the surprising results of the scans show that the planets have many special pore-like structures.

This allows these two satellites to produce a lot of high-quality gaseous resources.

The outermost one is an equally ordinary-looking icy planet, with nothing special about it.

However, according to Chen Ming's current scanning results, there is an ecosystem on this planet.

These creatures that live in extreme cold have considerable research value.

This is a perfect galaxy.

A self-sufficient, perfect capital galaxy.

According to the classification of galaxy levels that Chen Ming had learned before.

This galaxy is a definite magnitude 6 galaxy.

but.

There was a very serious problem facing Chen Ming.

That is, in this galaxy, there is a wormhole corresponding to the orbit of the star in that habitable binary system.

And it is still moving around the star like an ordinary planet.

"This... should be considered a galaxy of wonders..."

Brilliant replied: "According to the standards of the human empire, yes."

Wonderful galaxy.

Chen Ming once had an understanding.

Its definition is the strange phenomena in the universe that cannot be explained by current technology, which are collectively called cosmic wonders.

Since we cannot deny its existence and we cannot figure out the reason for its existence, it can only be called a spectacle.

And spectacle galaxies are galaxies that contain such cosmic wonders.

There used to be a Harmony Company that had some connection with the boss. The galaxy where their subordinate Vegetation Research Institute was located and whose star had no ultraviolet light was the Spectrum Galaxy.

At first, Chen Ming felt that the existence of this kind of thing was very wrong, but when he thought about it carefully, he realized that he had seen all kinds of psychic powers, so a star without ultraviolet rays was not unacceptable.

The wormhole that is currently moving periodically around a star is clearly a cosmic wonder.

(End of this chapter)