Ten days' time.

The Star has already visited several surrounding star systems and conducted a simple survey.

As for a more detailed assessment, we will not do it now. After all, the mission of the Star is only to ensure the safety of settlements and surrounding star systems.

As for the spread of colonization around the Alpha star system, that is not part of the mission.

After confirming that there were no highly intelligent civilizations in the surrounding star systems, in addition to leaving the four mecha brigades behind to protect the tens of thousands of people in the vanguard, the Star directly embarked on its return journey.

Next, I won't come again for a long time.

After all, there is only one zero-point energy module, and the equipment and personnel that the Star can transport each time are very limited.

Therefore, according to the plan, after returning this time, the zero-point energy module will be transferred to the newly built super immigrant ship, which will be responsible for the task of continuously transporting various materials and personnel to the Large Magellanic System.

You know, that is a giant ship that can transport 300 million people one way.

The most important thing is that according to the design, this colonial ship also has a huge cargo warehouse. If it does not contain anything else, it can even fit four Qingluan-class frigates into it at once.

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Just as the Star was setting off to return to the Milky Way.

Canglan star orbit.

The first airport.

Fleet headquarters, conference room.

At this moment, the five absolute bosses of Canglan Star are gathered here.

Canglan Star Resistance Army, leader Su He.

Fleet Command, Commander Mu Zhengfeng.

Canglan Star Security Department, Commander Lu Weiming.

Canglanxing Scientific Research Institute, Director Ling Ruoxuan.

As well as the newly established Warship Design and Construction Coordination Department, Director Liu Feng.

"I just received the news that the Star has begun its return journey and is expected to arrive in the Canglan system in twelve days. After that, I will have to trouble Mr. Liu to transfer the zero-point energy module to the Humpback Whale immigration ship."

"no problem."

Liu Feng nodded and said.

To him, this is a trivial matter.

However, although things in the Large Magellanic Cloud were going very smoothly, no one here showed any excitement.

If you want to talk about the reason, it is...

There is only one zero-point energy module, and it cannot be used at full capacity.

Even though the newly built Humpback Whale can transport 300 million people at a time, the round trip from the Canglan System to the Large Magellanic Cloud takes nearly twenty-five days.

In other words, in one year, more than 4 billion people will be transported to the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The Floodlight star system alone has nearly ten billion humans, and the entire Orion Arm has even hundreds of billions of humans.

It would take at least a hundred years to rescue everyone and send them to the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Therefore, in terms of current transportation capacity, it is obviously not up to expectations.

"Mr. Liu, apart from the zero-point energy module, is there really no other way to make the spacecraft cross the sea of ​​stars and reach the Large Magellanic Cloud?"

"It can't be said that there isn't..."

"Huh? Mr. Liu has an idea? Please just tell me!"

"It's just an idea now. After building the hyperspace engine for the Humpback Whale, I have some new ideas. I am currently designing a new hyperspace engine. If successful, it can significantly reduce the energy demand."

"This is great. We don't care about the resources needed by the hyperspace engine. We don't have enough resources to rob the four major civilizations. We can also rebuild the immigration ships, as long as we can solve the energy problem."

Hearing this, Su He was also a little excited.

I asked casually, Liu Feng actually had a solution?

"Don't get excited yet. I just have some ideas at the moment. It's hard to say whether it will succeed in the end."

"But even if it succeeds, with the current energy technology, I guess it can only barely support the continuous operation of the hyperspace engine at low power."

"In other words, it is impossible to reach the Large Magellanic Cloud in 12 days like the Zhejiang Star. It is estimated that it will take 2-3 months to travel."

After pouring cold water on Su He, Liu Feng slowly explained.

It is said to be the second generation hyperspace engine, but in fact it is more appropriate to call it an improved version of the first generation.

Because there is no overall improvement in performance, but a focus on optimal control of energy, even at the expense of some performance in order to achieve this goal.

Coupled with the problem of not being able to operate at full power, it is said that it will take two or three months to reach the Large Magellanic Cloud. This is already the most optimistic estimate.

Although Su He was a little disappointed, he had to say that this was much better than the current situation.

Besides, if the efficiency is slow, then increase the quantity.

We will just build ten Humpback Whale-class super colony ships. If that's not enough, then twenty or thirty...

Anyway, this thing is not as technically difficult as a battleship, and it is easy and short to build.

As long as the production of the hyperspace engine can keep up, we can build as many as we want.

However, when it came to the output of the hyperspace engine, Su He couldn't help but sigh slightly.

Last time, it consumed a lot of resources from Canglan Star, plus the resources stolen from the Flood Star System, and it finally took a month to build such a machine.

It is equally difficult to produce more.

"How about letting Xingchen become a pirate after the Star comes back this time?"

"Be a pirate?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard Liu Feng's sudden words.

"Have you forgotten how I obtained resources in order to build a hyperspace engine for the Star?"

"Uh...Scorpion Pirates?"

On the side, Mu Zhengfeng seemed to understand and asked immediately.

"That's right, let that kid Liu Tao be the second officer on the Star. This kid's other abilities are not very good, but when it comes to how to plunder, he is more professional than anyone else."

"After all...he has been a pirate since he was born..."

"In those years, we just relied on the bankruptcy of so many second- and third-level civilizations to grab the resources needed for a hyperspace engine. Now that we have the Star, isn't it easier?"

They really almost forgot.

The Scorpion Pirates were born to rob the resources needed to build a hyperspace engine. Who else knows better than them what resources to rob from where?

Just like Liu Feng said, they accomplished this task by relying on a team of second- and third-level civilization rags.

If Jiang Xingchen and Liu Tao cooperate...

hiss...

There's something going on!

You know, before we only grabbed the flood star system, one was because many resources were available in the Canglan System, and the other was because the flood star system was the most important trade hub in the first half of the Orion Arm, and the various resources in reserve were also

Quite comprehensive.

But if you take action later, it will be different.

The Canglan system is now short of all resources, and the Floodlight star system has been robbed.

In other words, figure out where each resource is stored in the future, and then grab it in a targeted manner.

The star systems around the Death Nebula are fine, Su He has the corresponding information, but other places...

That is the specialty of the Scorpion Pirates.

"I agree with this suggestion."

"I agree too!"

"agree!"

"agree!"

Regarding Liu Feng's proposal, the other four people directly raised their hands in agreement.

"That's it. I will issue an order soon to transfer Liu Tao to the Star as the second officer."

Seeing that the matter was unanimously approved, Mu Zhengfeng also spoke.

"Next, we have to discuss the issue of the Starry Sky Zerg."

After talking about Liu Tao, Su He's expression suddenly became serious.

"According to the latest information I have received, the largest of the insect mounds that we fought with the four major civilizations outside the Death Nebula..."

"Evolving!"
To be continued...