Compared with the antimatter required for interstellar navigation, which can often be calculated in millions, tens of millions, or even billions of tons, an antimatter factory with an annual output of 1,000 tons is undoubtedly extremely tiny. Overall,
In other words, it can even be considered that it has no effect on civilization at all.
But its significance is not ordinary at all, but very important.
Because at this stage, human civilization still uses the production line on the armed mining ship brought from Veragash to produce antimatter.
That is a production line with an annual output of approximately 100,000 tons of antimatter.
On this basis, human civilization
Thousands of copies of this production line have been made, but even now, as for any design details of this production line, even the diameter of a heat dissipation pipe, the direction of the wiring, the diameter of the hopper, and the power of the temperature control equipment
None have been modified.
What did this production line look like in the solar system?
Today, almost a thousand years later, what is it still like?
Not a shred of change.
It’s not that people are unwilling to modify,
But I really don't dare to modify it, for fear that if I modify it a little, it may cause inexplicable malfunctions and problems, and eventually lead to a major accident.
This kind of thing is not without precedent in history.
Even when a huge amount of antimatter is needed to prepare for interstellar voyages, the total output is increased through the construction of numerous antimatter factories. As for increasing the output of a single production line, for example, upgrading an annual output of 100,000 tons to an annual output of 20
Tens of thousands of tons, that's something I can't even dream of.
This is because we only know what is happening, but do not know why, and do not fully digest and absorb the relevant technology.
But it's different now.
This antimatter production line with an annual output of 1,000 tons was designed, installed, laid, debugged, and produced by humans completely independently! Human civilization fully masters the relevant technologies of this production line!
However, after understanding the antimatter production line with an annual output of 1,000 tons, what about the one with an annual output of 10,000 tons in the future? One hundred thousand,
What about millions or even tens of millions of tons?
For this significant and far-reaching project, Zhao Changxing personally participated and specially coordinated the formation of a theoretical demonstration team composed of up to 100,000 top scientists.
No less than one million top-notch skilled workers have been deployed, and the green light has been given in terms of logistics, resource supply, etc.
This kind of ability to "concentrate efforts to accomplish big things" is probably only possible by human civilization. At least as far as people know, none of the alien civilizations that have been contacted have this ability.
Therefore, a dwarf planet existing in the middle of the orbits of the two planets h1-2 and h1-3 has become the focus of the entire human civilization during this period of time.
A large number of giant cargo ships comparable to the Voyage spacecraft began to frequently travel between the dwarf planet and the major planets, transporting huge amounts of people and materials. People even built a special ship in orbit around the dwarf planet.
The space city where the scientists and engineers, technical workers, and logistics service personnel involved in this project live, and the corresponding planting bases, livestock breeding centers, commercial centers, hospitals, etc. are all available. Even nurseries, elementary schools, middle schools, and universities are all available.
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This desolate and barren dwarf planet, which originally had little value, suddenly became the core of civilization due to the strategic adjustment of human civilization, and the entire planet also underwent earth-shaking changes.
Many supporting factories have risen from the ground, ground transportation is extending in all directions, mountains have been bulldozed, basins have been filled, and even its only small satellite orbiting around it,
For the safety of space routes,
It was also directly installed on a high-power planetary engine.
Pushed away directly.
However, under the premise that the entire civilization is going all out to provide support and the government of human civilization attaches great importance to it, the construction of this antimatter production factory with completely independent property rights for human civilization is still full of ups and downs.
Some process problems have not been solved for a long time, some research has not been able to break through, supporting factory conditions are frequent, and casualties and accidents continue.
In the most serious accident, a serious antimatter leak occurred in a supporting production line during the trial production process - ten grams of antimatter was accidentally leaked, and during the reaction with positive matter, an amount equivalent to
The energy of the explosion of more than 400,000 tons of TNT explosive.
Such a huge amount of energy would take this factory as its core and destroy all man-made buildings for dozens of kilometers around it. The earthquake caused by the explosion spread throughout the planet, causing collapse and damaging countless factories, roads, and bridges.
More than a thousand people died in this accident.
Even so, this is also the reason why the lethality of this explosion is greatly weakened in a vacuum environment. If such a serious explosion occurs on the surface of a planet with an atmosphere, such as the earth, then the affected area, as well as the casualties
I'm afraid there are only a few people there.
Regarding this incident, nearly 10 billion people throughout human civilization fell into grief and mourning. After this, the joint investigation team dealt with a total of more than 900 people responsible for the accident, and the project commander also resigned.
The technology of "large-scale production of antimatter" has once again demonstrated to human civilization its qualifications to become the dividing line between second-level civilization and third-level civilization.
But life still has to go by, and things still have to be done. The overall strategy of human civilization to impact the third-level civilization cannot be stopped because of this incident.
Under the ruins and pain caused by the explosion, people wiped away their tears, regrouped, and once again devoted themselves to the struggle.
This time, Zhao Changxing moved around, trying his best to mobilize more energy from various important projects in the civilization and put it into this project.
More space cities, laboratories, bases of various types, etc. have appeared in the orbit of this dwarf planet. The number of spacecraft traveling back and forth has increased much more than in the past.
Under this situation, countless people struggled for another twenty years before finally solving various problems in the construction process and finally completing the construction of the factory.
When the antimatter sealed in the strong magnetic field container left the assembly line and entered the storage factory, the media reporters responsible for broadcasting this scene shed tears of excitement. Many engineers and technical workers in spacesuits cheered and waited in the audio and video
The audience in front of the media cheered.
"Now, we can proudly say that our human civilization has finally truly become a level three civilization..."
The breakthrough of civilization is never like what is described in some literary and artistic works. Once enlightened, the whole will undergo a qualitative change and the combat power will be greatly increased. The real breakthrough of civilization comes from the accumulation of small things bit by bit.
Unknowingly.
Yesterday, human civilization was still a second-level civilization. Today it is a third-level civilization. But it would be nonsense to say that the overall strength of human civilization today has grown by leaps and bounds compared to yesterday.
Everyone knows that today's achievements are just the beginning. In the future, with this dwarf planet as the center, the antimatter-related industrial system will need to undergo leap after leap and complete transformation again and again.
At this moment, for Zhao Changxing, in addition to the crucial antimatter-related industries, there is another project that he devotes huge attention to.
Comprehensive improvement project of military science.
Zhao Changxing and everyone in human civilization do not hope that when facing external challenges, human civilization will always have to go through great hardships, take huge risks, and rely on the sacrifices of tens of millions of people to usher in the challenge.
The ultimate victory.
No one hopes that human civilization will always have to fight with the weak against the strong, and soldiers will always have to make huge sacrifices to defeat the enemy.
If possible, people still want to see the scene of flooding the enemy with a torrent of steel and countless battleships.
This is also what Zhao Changxing hopes for. Therefore, in compliance with public opinion and the general trend of civilization development, the human government has proposed this equally crucial super project.
A comprehensive project to comprehensively improve military science and comprehensively enhance the combat effectiveness of human civilization.
It ranges from the development of new weapons, new generation engine development, spacecraft armor, structural innovation, to a spy satellite, a military satellite, an interstellar mine, etc. Everything that involves the military field is covered by this plan.
within the field.
To this end, Zhao Changxing specially designated a dwarf planet outside the orbit of the H1-5 planet, about 6.7 billion kilometers away from the H1 star, as the residence of the Academy of Military Sciences. With reference to the antimatter project, the dwarf planet also carried out large-scale research here.
Construction has included space cities, planting and livestock bases, numerous laboratories, numerous ports and other facilities.
The "Expedition" space carrier captured in the Iron Blood Nebula was also towed here and began to be inspected and searched by thousands of human scientists. Of course, in this process, captured aliens of various races were indispensable.
Stars cooperate.
There are hundreds and tens of millions of technologies that can be obtained from the Expedition space carrier. Among these many categories of technologies, the one that is most on people’s minds and makes civilization leaders including Zhao Changxing think about it day and night.
, it is “vacuum cannon” related technology.
Vacuum cannon is another important iconic technology of level three civilizations in addition to large-scale production of antimatter. Compared with other types of weapons, this weapon also has more powerful combat capabilities.
It can even be said that without mastering this technology, human civilization will never be able to engage in an upright and direct battle with Level 3 civilization.
Now, after countless military industry experts have worked hard for hundreds of years to finally build the No. 1 prototype, it is finally time for field testing.
A spacecraft slowly flew out of the port, slowly adjusting its posture and moving forward slowly. At this moment, 1.3 million kilometers away from it, an asteroid with a diameter of about 160 meters has been tug