Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 385 High Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation Beam

When Chen Ming's shuttle arrived at the space station outside the wormhole.

He has already taken the initiative to announce the existence of planetary consciousness on Gaia.

Although the Empire has never discovered anything like this, this is not news that is too secretive or important to be announced.

If Chen Ming took the initiative to speak out, it would actually play a very positive role in promoting research in this area.

After all, Chen Ming was really curious about how such planetary consciousness came into being.

Therefore, whether it was the army closest to Chen Ming or the distant Fanchao Research Institute, or even some other organizations, they basically sent psychics to confirm what Chen Ming said.
After confirming the background of each psychic, Chen Ming basically let them go. As long as they were under his surveillance, he allowed them to do research.

The result is of course obvious.

The value of planetary consciousness and the uniqueness of Gaia itself is higher than the value of any planet ever discovered by the Empire.

So some psychics stayed with Chen Ming, and left behind some accompanying personnel.

Stay for a long time to conduct research.

These people always need accommodation; they can’t always live in the spaceship dormitory.

Moreover, Chen Ming has not yet completely completed the climate transformation of the planet Gaia.

It is not advisable to build too many buildings on the surface. At most, only some buildings that need to be landed for investigation or research can be built on the planet.

Therefore, whether it is outsiders or the climate transformation department and some other staff who are busy here on Gaia.

Most of them need to temporarily live on the other side of the wormhole opposite to the Gaia galaxy, in the urban area attached to the Origin Galaxy's No. 1 Scientific Research Center.

Although the actual distance is not far, it is only a matter of going through a wormhole to the upper orbit and then to the lower orbit, but it is still a bit troublesome to go in and out of the planet's atmosphere every day.

So someone applied to Chen Ming for permission to expand the wormhole space station and transform it into a place where people can temporarily live.

Chen Ming is not an unreasonable person.

It just so happened that this wormhole space station had been running for some time and its stability was basically no problem, so he agreed to this request.

The wormhole and the space station frame were isolated a little, and the wormhole space station in the Origin Galaxy and the wormhole space station in the Gaia Galaxy were transformed to expand a large additional area.

Chen Ming made some casual modifications so that people could live in it. He also opened up modification permissions within a certain range to people who were qualified to live here and equipped it with several robots.

This allows them to make any changes without affecting the framework, functions and safety of the space station itself.

As a result, in just over a month, the wormhole space station has become what it is now.

Not only the wormhole space station in the Origin Galaxy, but also the wormhole space station in the Gaia Galaxy on the other side is the same.

I can only say that this is pretty good.

He has seen enough cold space stations, and an environment like this is more in line with his perception.

This also gave Chen Ming some ideas about the future plans for the planet Gaia.

He wanted to make Gaia, the planet behind the wormhole, a comprehensive planet and the true capital of this star field that belonged to him.

Gaia's ability to regulate the ecological climate can affect everything from the macro to the micro, taking into account almost every corner.

It can almost be said to be the most suitable planet for human beings and all living things to survive.

As a psychic, Chen Ming uses a body that was created artificially, and can feel the positive effects of the planet Gaia on him both physically and consciously.

For ordinary people, even if their perception is not that sharp, they can still enjoy feelings on such a planet that they have never experienced on other planets.

Therefore, Chen Ming is considering making the functions of the planets more independent, so that each planet can specialize in its own functions.

To put it simply, it means truly turning Gaia, which has the No. 1 scientific research center, into a pure scientific research planet.

Think of Gaia, which is still undergoing climate recovery, as a planet that helps the neighboring planet support its population.

Although the population of the scientific research center is currently too small to fit into one street, it will always be beneficial if the future direction is well planned.

There is a wormhole in the galaxy, so the Gaia galaxy and the Origin galaxy can be regarded as the same galaxy.

The convenience brought by this can be fully utilized.

The cultivation of technical talents cannot only start from people who are already researchers.

But this will take a long time and cannot be seen in a short period of time.

But Chen Ming thought so and planned to do so.

The reason was still what he had always thought.

He needed a colony, or a group of colonies, a star region that could continue to exist after he left.

Rather than an organization that would collapse without him.

This is what he wants.

Chen Ming didn't stay on the space station for too long.

There may be many people in the entire empire who don't pay much attention to current affairs who don't know his identity, but it is unlikely that no one knows him in his territory.

So he walked around the space station a few times and then left.

He turned around and got on the shuttle he came in, went inward along the space station port, and entered the wormhole.

Pass through the wormhole and reach the other end of the wormhole.

A planet with almost transparent azure and deep azure colors appeared before his eyes.

This is exactly what the planet Gaia looks like today.

In two months, the planet Gaia has returned to its former appearance from being almost a pure snowball.

Gaia plants have grown in every corner of the planet, and every inch of blue is the outward manifestation of Gaia plant coverage.

And every patch of blue is proof that the planet's oceans are regaining vitality.

The existence of Gaia plants can almost be said to have directly advanced the initial stage of climate modification, which might have taken several months to a year, by 80%, allowing climate modification gases that originally took time to spread to expand to the entire planet at an unprecedented rate, penetrating into every inch of land and every drop of water on the planet.

Of course, the planet's overall climate is still relatively cold, and recovering from the severe cold is not something that can be achieved simply by environmental modification gases.

Cooperation in other areas is also needed.

For example, returning the material in the asterism's ootheca to the star itself, and more work to be done by the Environmental Transformation Department.

Over the past two months, the ootheca of the star-eating organism has been thoroughly studied by Chen Ming and the special star research project team of the Fanchao Research Institute.

The return of stellar matter is more difficult than the absorption of stellar matter by the planet-eater.

The difficulty lies not in the method of return, but in the speed of return.

He needs to slowly release the material in the egg sheath before it can be completely returned to the stellar material. It is estimated that it will take about half a year.

He still needs time to let this matter progress slowly.

Of course, although it is said to be slow, in fact, the changes of stars are still very drastic.
As a result, the work of the Environmental Transformation Department will be affected.

Although they have previous experience and the cooperation of Gaia's planetary consciousness, they generally just need to follow the steps.

However, the drastic changes in the state of stars require someone to monitor the state of stars at all times to adjust the specific implementation plans of subsequent environmental transformation projects.

Currently, about half of the staff in the entire Climate Transformation Department are responsible for this matter, and the other half are researching the Seed of Life project.

There's nothing wrong with doing this.

There are enough people left to do what they should do, and Chen Ming will not restrict them from doing anything.

However, as the minister in charge, he needs to run back and forth frequently, taking care of the Seeds of Life project and paying attention to climate change.

Chen Ming saw everything the minister did. He wanted to realize his ideals, but didn't want to let Chen Ming down.

The result was that he had to run back and forth every day, and he could only stop and rest for three or four hours every two days.

His mental state is very bad and he is even relying on drugs to support himself.

Drug use is barely considered normal behavior.

When some research projects reach a critical stage, many researchers will take drugs to stay awake and keep their brains highly flexible in order to speed up.

Just like Chen Ming used to use a neural overclocker to ensure that his mental state remained good.

But this certainly can't go on for a long time.

And the minister seemed to be planning to do this for a long time.

If it weren't for the soothing effect that the planet Gaia had on the human body and consciousness, and if it weren't for the fact that he would occasionally take a nap for an hour or two next to the fairy tree in the name of research, he would have collapsed long ago.

So Chen Ming simply acquiesced to his behavior, which was considered as a small back door for him.

His purpose today was to come here to check the progress of climate transformation and the growth of the fairy tree.

The progress of climate modification is obvious.

The planet's oceans have completely thawed and Gaia plants have covered the entire world.

If we don't pursue perfection, Gaia today can be considered a habitable planet with a relatively cold climate.

But Chen Ming pursues perfection, so he has to continue.

Everything is normal.

As for the fairy tree.

As Chen Ming's shuttle left the wormhole space station in the Gaia galaxy, it gradually landed above the equator of the planet.

You can also see that the fairy tree, which was only half a person's height two months ago, has now grown to three meters, the height of a floor.

It may not seem too high, but compared to before, the growth of the fairy tree in the past two months is obvious.

This is the planet Gaia.

The existence of the fairy tree is beneficial to it, so it will naturally nourish the fairy tree in return.

Just as Chen Ming's shuttle was approaching the fairy tree.

He noticed that there was a shuttle docked near the fairy tree. It seemed that he had met Tian Zhan, who came to the tree at a fixed time every day to obtain the Gaia plant seeds given by the planetary consciousness.

This was something that was decided after Chen Ming communicated with the planetary consciousness.

After all, these seeds can be used to study the Seed of Life Project, and the composition of the seeds can also be used to determine the climate status of the planet.

Of course Tian Zhan would actively come over to pick up seeds every day.

Chen Ming's shuttle landed next to the shuttle on the ground and saw Tian Zhan standing under the fairy tree, looking relaxed but obviously in a bad mental state.

"how are things?"

"Very good, it's never been better."

"I'm asking how you are?"

Tian Zhan looked a little embarrassed, but he was unwilling to use some of his energy, which was now being put into the two things he was doing, to rest.

Chen Ming didn't have much to say, so he advised as usual: "Take more rest. There's plenty of time to work on the project. If you're about to collapse, you don't know how long you'll need to rest. You'll lose all the money you make every day later."

Tian Zhan could only give Chen Ming a somewhat stiff smile and said, "I understand."

"besides……"

Chen Ming suddenly reached out and plucked a handful of fairy leaves, put one into his mouth, and stuffed the rest into Tian Zhan's hands.

Tian Zhan looked at the fairy leaves that filled his hands and even fell on the grass beside him, and said uncertainly: "This... is not good..." Chen Ming pointed at the fairy tree and said: "It is willing."

Tian Zhan looked in the direction Chen Ming pointed, but he could only see the fluorescent white branches and leaves swaying in the cold wind.

Since Chen Ming said so, there is no way he would refuse to accept it.

After meeting He Tian Zhan.

Chen Ming did not continue to stay on Gaia.

Instead, he took off on a shuttle and went to the next planet.

There are five planets in the Gaia galaxy.

A Gaia planet, an icy planet at the edge of the galaxy with a harsh climate.

One of the other three showed signs of life, but unfortunately, this planet did not recover after Chen Ming began to return stellar matter and the planet's climate gradually recovered. The entire planet had lost its vitality.

The remaining two planets are ordinary planets with certain resources that can be developed.

therefore.

Chen Ming arranged some mechanical people to come to one of the planets.

His idea was very simple, which was to give a chance to the mechanical people he had.

To be honest, the situation of the mechanical race is not very good.

Because their expansion speed is not enough compared to the Zerg, or it is not enough at all.

The expansion of the Zerg is so terrifying that it can devour and transform everything in the world, and all of them can become the cornerstone of the Zerg's expansion.

And for the mechanical family to expand, they must at least have metal materials.

The Zerg around the Origin System have already expanded to a terrifying extent.

However, the development of the mechanical race can only be said to be that the mechanical colony that Chen Ming left behind as a bridgehead at the border of the empire has almost developed the galaxy, and by the way, it has also slightly developed several surrounding galaxies.

There is no comparison.

Therefore, Chen Ming thought about it and decided not to have that bridgehead.

Move the mechanical people away.

The significance of the bridgehead itself is to provide security for Chen Ming to transport things into the empire.

But since Chen Ming can now maintain communication with the legion's star gate 24 hours a day, the significance of this bridgehead is not great.

On the contrary, development will be restricted near the empire.

It would be better to bring the mechanical race to a new place, start from a mechanical colony planet, and develop from scratch.

The Mechanical Clan alone would definitely not be able to defeat the Zerg, so Chen Ming also planned to merge the Mechanical Clan and Yuhui.

Although the combined number of the two is still not as large as that of the Zerg, and there will be some minor problems with labor resources, Chen Ming has already thought of a solution.

He also felt that the Zerg's expansion was too rough, and he really needed some sophisticated development methods.

Once the two colonies are completely stabilized and there is a stable rear area, it will be time for him to officially start his new plan.

After all, the mechanical clan and Yuhui were the capital that helped Chen Ming establish himself in the early days.

There is no way he would give up on developing in this area.

Chen Ming's purpose of this trip has been achieved.

Just when he was about to return to Research Center No. 1, a phone call suddenly came.

Chen Ming picked up the phone and chatted with the person in charge who was in contact with him on Fan Chao's side.

I roughly know that Fan Chao is going to hold a technology conference.

It seems that there has been progress on the Dyson Sphere Project team's side.

Ever since Chen Ming brought back the body fluid of the Star-Eating Body, the Dyson Sphere project has been put back on the table and was taken over by the Anti-Chao Institute.

As far as Chen Ming knows, they have a psychic who can quickly carry out and complete a scientific research project.

Just like before, after Chen Ming proved the conflict between the phase space and the scarlet dimension, Fan Chao developed a device that could send a small space station into the phase space in just one day.

Fan Chao can develop this large-scale phase space technology in just one day.

I didn’t expect it would take two months to learn the Dyson sphere technology.

Although Chen Ming was not clear about the psychic's abilities, the Dyson Sphere Project seemed to be really getting underway.

The reason for calling him over was clear, to optimize the equipment created by Dyson sphere technology.

Chen Ming would definitely go and see this kind of thing.

While his Zerg can devour planets for energy, they cannot devour stars.

Even though the Queen can make Zerg units secrete star-eating fluid, allowing Zerg warships to enter the shallow layer of a star and operate for a period of time, it is still not enough to devour and transform the star's energy.

If the planet is eaten, it will be gone, so the existence of the Dyson sphere is still valuable.

"I'll be there in a minute."

After giving this reply to the person in charge at Fanchao, Chen Ming hung up the phone and thought about what else he needed to do.

So he took out the communicator to communicate with the survivors.

He hadn't used this thing in a while.

Ever since Chen Ming discovered the Star-Eating Body, the survivors took the initiative to reveal that they had discovered Chen Ming's discovery of the Star-Eating Body and that they had secret surveillance of some places.

There was not much communication between Chen Ming and the survivors.

The survivors didn't seem to take any action and just quietly conducted two transactions with the Empire.

In both transactions, the Empire took away the survivors' battleship-class ship design technology and energy weapon design technology.

Those who survived took away the empire's techniques in painting and music.

Other than that nothing happened.

The survivors seem to have become a little more honest.

Thinking of this, Chen Ming felt that for the time being he had no need or reason to look for the survivors.

So he put away the communicator and prepared to go to the Fanchao Research Institute.

at the same time.

The survivors' space station.

The communicator used to contact Chen Ming was quietly placed on a somewhat rusty metal table.

In the darkness of the space station, a voice said, "Chen Ming still hasn't contacted us. He doesn't need us anywhere, but we need him to come to us."

In their estimation, if another civilization discovered a small group of remnants of a completely decadent civilization.

Not to mention trying every possible means to find them and rob them, at least we will try our best to get something from them.

This gives them the opportunity to create a situation that works in their favor.

But who would have thought.

Human civilization seemed to be as aggressive as non-civilized ones, as if it didn't care about them at all. It continued to conduct transactions once a month according to the agreement between them, and nothing else happened.

It can only be said that after all, the most critical communicator is in Chen Ming's hands, and Chen Ming doesn't use it every day.

The most he would do was to send out some spacecraft to conduct a very superficial reconnaissance of the surrounding galaxies, and would not get involved in any danger, at least not until his colony was stabilized.

This has led to the current predicament of the survivors.

They were thinking about whether there was any way to make Chen Ming ask something of them or have some ideas about them.

From the darkness of the space station came a voice more forceful than the last time: "We need to create opportunities for contact. The more contact we make, the greater our chances."

"Most of the Guardians are in planetary orbit or dormant on the surface. His current reconnaissance method will not trigger the Guardian's response mechanism at all."

"Even if it is triggered, it won't pose a threat to him."

"The human empire is almost catching up with us in some aspects, thanks to the relics left by our civilization."

"Is there any guardian who can withstand the attacks of those biological warships, take the initiative to attack, and still pose a sufficient threat?"

The space station fell silent.

At this moment, the survivor codenamed Nano, who was in charge of communicating with Chen Ming, said, "Ghost."

three days later.

Chen Ming cooperated with the Empire to complete some experiments and optimization of modular equipment for the Dyson Sphere Project.

Even if the Empire didn't ask him to do something like this, he would probably take the initiative to join in the fun.

By the way, Chen Ming also listened to Fan Chao's plan.

I can only say that everyone involved in the project has very creative ideas.

There is not even a shadow of a genuine Dyson sphere, but there are already Dyson sphere projects in habitable galaxies that may be theoretically feasible.

Because a Dyson sphere is a giant device that completely covers a star and confines all light within the Dyson sphere for conversion into energy.

If a Dyson sphere were to be built, the galaxy would become like one that had been sucked by a planet-eating object, or even worse.

Therefore, the location of the Dyson sphere must be a galaxy with few resources and no habitable planets.

And the concept of habitable planet Dyson sphere.

When building a Dyson sphere, the star is not completely covered, but a track is left at the intersection of the ecliptic plane of the star and the galaxy.

In most galaxies, the planets in the galaxy exist on the ecliptic plane of the galaxy.

Therefore, as long as a track is left on this interface that allows the stellar energy to continue to radiate, all the planets in the galaxy can receive the light that they are supposed to receive.

Although this will result in lower energy output from the Dyson sphere, it can allow habitable planets to continue to exist within the galaxy, which is a means to maximize resource utilization.

It's a good idea indeed, but a little too ambitious.

However, the Empire and Fan Chao were not carried away by the excitement and decided to advance the Dyson sphere plan step by step from the basics.

The actual operations that the empire is investing in have little to do with Chen Ming, and he doesn't want to have much to do with it.

The more you enjoy, the more you have to bear.

Everything he touches will be under his control, and he doesn't want to be responsible for maintaining the empire's Dyson sphere.

So he just ran away and returned to the world that belonged to him.

Anyway, when the Dyson Sphere Project goes smoothly, he will find a way to make this thing himself.

It’s hard to say exactly how long it will take.

Just a few hours after Chen Ming arrived at the Origin Galaxy, he received a piece of news that he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

Near the Gaia galaxy, he sent his fleet to detect stars in a nearby galaxy where he had left reconnaissance equipment, and a special high-frequency electromagnetic radiation beam appeared.

(End of this chapter)