Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 499 Silicon-Based Organisms
Mars - Equator City.

A city located in the Ishidi Plain near the Martian equator. It should have been a crater a long time ago. After a long time, part of the edge of the crater was eroded and turned into a small plain connected to the Utopia Plain.

Although it is called Equator City, there is actually only a small base with an area of ​​less than [-] square meters, which is nothing compared to Utopia City (former Mars Exploration Base) not far to the northeast of Equator City.

Utopia City covers an area of ​​27 square kilometers, has a mass projector, and a large spaceship port, and now has a permanent staff of about 2600 people.

The reason why the administrative system of Equatorial City appeared was mainly for the people of Sousse. Equatorial City and the Ishidi Plain were the resettlement areas of Sousa-Halik Republic.

A vacuum railway from Utopia City to Equator City has been completed at this time. Don’t consider land requisition and supplementation and natural environment on Mars. In addition, the gravity is only 2/5 of that of Blue Star, and the alliance’s vacuum railway technology is very mature and perfect. So the construction of the vacuum railway is going very fast.

In Utopia City, on the platform of the main train station, Liao Qingsong, who has undergone genetic enhancement, is bringing Sarah and Sassadin, the consul of the Sous Council.

"Grand Consul Sarah, let's go to Equator City first!"

"Okay." Sara nodded. He has replaced the former Supreme Consul Hailik. The reason why he changed his name to the Grand Consul is to respect Hailik and to avoid matching the name of the Supreme Head of State Huang Haojie. confused.

A group of people took the vacuum train to Equator City. The train was speeding through the pipeline. Sara looked at the yellow sand passing by quickly on both sides. For Sri Lankans, there is no big problem.

The Soth people have all been transformed by silicon-based symbionts, and they can survive for a long time without protection even in outer space.

As for the native virus of Mars, it is not a big threat to the Sous people. They were an interstellar civilization that colonized two star systems before.

The blue star people after genetic enhancement are not as adaptable as the Soth people, and the enhanced people need some auxiliary equipment to survive in outer space or terrestrial planets.

However, the silicon-based symbiont is not without cost. This silicon-based symbiont has caused the reproductive rate of the Soth people to drop a lot, and the reproductive period of the Soth people is also quite long (equivalent to about 24 months for humans. ), this problem led to a sharp decline in the number of Sosians during the exile.

Soon Liao Qingsong took Sara, Sassadin and others to Equator City. After getting off the train station, there were sparse buildings and cabins outside, and there were many robots leveling the ground, cleaning up rocks, etc. of.

"This is Equator City, how does Grand Consul Sara feel?" Liao Qingsong asked, pointing to the Equator City under construction.

"Thank you very much for the alliance's arrangement. We are very satisfied." Sara nodded quickly. After speaking, he walked to the nearby ground, squatted down and grabbed a handful of sand, feeling this natural gravel, which he hadn't felt for many years. to this natural grit.

"Grand Consul Sara, give me a list of the living supplies and facilities you need, so that I can make the alliance prepare as soon as possible." Liao Qingsong interrupted Sara's memory.

"Okay, I'll sort it out as soon as possible."

Half a month later, Equator City not only tripled in size, but more than 300 Sous people were immigrated here.

Of course, in order to ensure that the Soth people did not do things secretly, the alliance stationed a 50-member Space Marine Corps here, and more than 200 enhanced people also worked and lived here.

In Utopia City, there are still a large number of Soss people living and working in it, especially the scientific researchers among the Soss people, a large part of them are arranged on Utopia City and the Mars synchronous orbit space station.

7 month 26 day.

An alliance silicon-based biological research team came to Equator City and received them as the mayor of Equator City, Sassadin.

Sassadin drove a nuclear-powered electric pickup truck with surging power, and led the researchers of the research team to the southwest of Equator City. The team drove about 19 kilometers along a simple dirt road.

The researchers of the research team were chatting about the mechanical beasts, and the team leader Wuling asked Sassadin: "Is this your mechanical beast farm? Don't mechanical beasts need environmental modification?"

"No need. After they are domesticated by us, they can adapt to the environment of many terrestrial planets." Sassadin explained.

Wearing auxiliary space suits, the Wuling people stepped out of the pickup truck and walked towards the farm. In the mechanical beast farm, there are already not a few mechanical beasts active, and many Soss people are also here.

The mechanical beast can be said to be a peculiar culture and symbol of Soss civilization. In fact, the mechanical beast is only a part of the silicon-based creatures on the zi planet. The silicon-based creatures on the zi planet are divided into three categories: silicon-based animals, silicon-based plants, Silicon-based microorganisms.

Mechanical beasts are part of silicon-based animals, and the silicon-based symbionts of Soss are part of silicon-based microorganisms; as for silicon-based plants, the people of Wuling have seen it now, and a large area of ​​silicon-based plants of several square kilometers is in front of them.

With silver-gray branches and leaves with silver-gray veins on a black background, there are three silicon-based plants in total.

"Captain Wu, the tallest ones are Guangjing trees, the ones with big leaves are silicon vegetables, and the vines on the ground are iron-nickel vines." Sassadin explained to the Wuling people.

The people of Wuling looked through the holographic database and quickly found the detailed information of these three silicon-based plants.

[Light crystal tree is a tall silicon-based plant that can grow up to about 3400 meters (gravity affects its growth height). The huge leaves are like solar panels, which can continuously absorb the light energy of stars and condense a tree in the trunk. A kind of light energy liquid that contains rich energy. After a long period of deposition, the light energy liquid will fuse with other elements in the soil to form light crystals, hence the name light crystal tree. ...]
[Silicon vegetables, necessary for the growth of mechanical beasts, the leaves are silver-gray, shaped like enlarged blue star potato leaves, the underground part will bear fruit, the shape of the fruit is like a bunch of old coconuts, the leaves can supplement the trace elements of mechanical beasts, the fruit is the biological self The raw material for repairing alloys. After the mechanical beast is injured, it can be quickly repaired by eating fruits and leaves. ...]
[Iron nickel vine grass...]
These silicon-based plants were cultivated by the Sos civilization for hundreds of thousands of years. The people of Wuling looked at the list of extinct silicon-based organisms in the database, and they couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

After the Soss civilization blew up its star, the silicon-based biological species carried on the Herik planet was only about 36% of the parent star, and after so many years of interstellar wandering, the 36% of the silicon-based species is now less than 6% %.

For example, there were 14 subspecies in the light crystal tree before, but now there are only 2 left; there are also mechanical beasts, in the Zi star era, there are more than 53 types of mechanical beasts, and there are more than 3.76 subspecies. And now there are only 439 species left, and many mechanical beasts have even become extinct.

(End of this chapter)