The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 277 Wedding Flight and Development of Tethys

There are problems, big problems. Even if he couldn't determine it with just a few words, Lin Yi could see something was seriously wrong.

Combining all this, Lin Yi had a terrifying guess - whether the other party's society had long been infiltrated by an unknown, most likely artificial intelligence (AI), and even brain-computer interface, which was also deliberately promoted by the other party. , a way to penetrate the real world?

I don’t know if the Ezki civilization has fantasy settings about “mind control”, but at least in Lin Yi’s case, he has not only encountered and killed them, but he has even done such things himself.

This strange, but indeed special chip created by biotechnology seems to be designed to facilitate self-destruction after an accident. Its dissolution speed is faster than the autolysis of cells under Lin Yi's control, resulting in him only intercepting part of the information and structure. detail.

But having said that, this dissolution method can be learned. If it is discovered after doing something, it will be easier to destroy the corpse and eliminate traces.
The whole thing is a chip device with a biological structure. According to the existing information, except for the use of living biological materials, it is no different from the mechanical structure. The use of biological materials is only to facilitate self-destruction.

In addition, because the self-destruction was too fast, Lin Yi couldn't read any more information. He could only speculate that this kind of thing was a way for a virtual existence to penetrate the real world and control the Ezki people.

The situation is becoming more and more complicated. While dealing with the earth's affairs, the second plan proposed at the same time as the construction of Centaur Samsung is also being carried out simultaneously - that is, it is called strategic transfer at best, and it is called resource volume at worst. Escape plan.

Since the advent of the Star, the production center of armed space battleships has been transferred to the Centauri Tri-Star System. The production capacity on Gondwana and Laurentia, Mars and the asteroid belt has been used to build these special spaceship.

Different from the main starfly and the escort starfly, the new grade is based on the crab body horseshoe crab. It has a wider hind body and only four spouts. It is not similar to the previous two combat starfly. They are arranged in pairs at the top, middle and bottom, but arranged horizontally.

Lin Yi also did not retain the long and narrow end of the hind body and the tail spines of the crab body horseshoe crab, which made this brand new grade, which he called the Pioneer Star Hao, look even more strange.

But overall, the body length of the Pioneer Star is the same as that of the main Star, which is based on the fifty-oared battleship horseshoe crab. Due to the wider body brought by the crab-body horseshoe crab, its volume is much larger than that of the main Star. Less means that it can store more propellant.

Due to their different uses, they do not have complex attitude adjustment nozzles like the two combat-use stars. Instead, they focus on linear acceleration, and their wide rear bodies provide ample storage space for fusion fuel.

If necessary, Pioneer Star can use a method similar to afterburning for a long time. That is, the fuel is directly passed through the reactor without participating in the fusion reaction. Instead, it is directly used as a propellant and is heated and ejected by the astonishingly high temperature of the fusion reactor.

The remaining space, excluding the basic observation system and hyperspace engine and other necessary facilities, is all used to store concentrated nutrients - to be precise, the rear body of this star is covered with large and small compartments similar to the cornerstone air chamber. The ratio of loaded nutrients and fusion fuel can be adjusted.

This allows Pioneer Xinghao to choose between small payload, long range and short range, and multiple payloads, depending on the distance of the destination. But even so, its basic fusion fuel and working medium storage tank can still support its voyage across multiple star systems. As you can tell from the name, the role of this level is to carry out long-distance colonization and sow the seeds of the nest group to more distant places, similar to the former pioneering mothers.

It is envisaged that this kind of pioneering planet will have the functions of a scientific research ship, a transport ship in the Ezki exploration fleet, and a large spacecraft that can be called a colony ship as revealed by the other party, to complete exploration and expansion simultaneously.

Then there are terrestrial planets like Gondwana that are perfectly suitable as main resource stars, or simply discover living planets, which will crash-land directly on the surface and develop rapidly. And if it is an Earth-like planet with relatively poor conditions such as the asteroid belt or Laurentia, you can also drop "seeds" from a long distance and continue to look for a suitable place to pupate.

Since this expansion method is still similar to the "nuptial flight" reproductive expansion method of eusocial insects such as ants or termites in later generations, this long-distance and large-scale expansion plan is still called "nuptial flight".

The first batch of pioneering stars set off immediately after completing the replenishment of fuel and nutrients, heading for unknown star systems to explore and expand along the hyperspace route in a completely different direction than heading to Centauri Tristar.

At the same time, among the three stars in Centauri, excluding Gondwana and Laurentia, the only remaining Jupiter-like planet, which he called Tethys, also entered Lin Yi's mind at that moment. within the field of vision.

Let’s not mention the two large satellites Tymon and Tethys for the moment. The large amount of light nuclear material inside the gas giant planet is a natural fusion fuel. This means that setting the star port in the orbit of Tethys will Greatly save Xinghao's maintenance costs.

At this time, the distance between Tethys and Gondwana, the main shipbuilding center, is not far. Although it is not the best window period, it is almost enough. With the power of the nuclear fusion engine of the star, it will not be necessary to fly there. for how long.

At this time, the first biological space elevator on Gondwana has taken shape. A steady stream of nutrients is slowly flowing into space along the sky-high pipes made of carbon nanofibers, and is stored in the huge graptolite-shaped space station. middle.

The sac-like structure around the graptolite-shaped space station is essentially a variation of the former pupal sac mother nest, using stronger materials and updated designs inherited from the space biological template to adapt to the space environment.

The size of these space pupal sacs can easily accommodate the main starflies, and today's pioneering starflies can barely produce them. In addition to the mass-produced main stars, some pioneering stars have also been produced from the pupa sacs, preparing to replace those space creatures that have been basically consumed for the next step of construction.

This includes the construction of several other biological space elevators, and more importantly, the construction of a large star port in the synchronous orbit of the Tethys star, the development of the Tethys star satellite, and so on.

The first batch of pioneering stars have been produced, and construction is continuing on multiple fronts. Everything must be accelerated to gather enough military power before the enemy's possible army arrives.

(End of this chapter)