A city located in the Isidi Planitia near the equator of Mars. This place 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 Planitia.
Although it is called Equator City, in fact there is currently only a small base with an area of less than 10,000 square meters. Compared with Utopia City (former Mars Exploration Base) not far from the northeast of Equator City, it is simply dwarfed.
Utopia City covers an area of square kilometers, has a mass projector, and a large spaceship and spaceport. It currently has about 300 permanent residents.
The reason why the administrative structure of Equator City appeared was mainly for the use of the Soth people. Equator City and the Isi Plain are the resettlement areas of the Soth-Helic Republic.
A vacuum railway from Utopia City to Equator City has been completed at this time. Don't consider the land acquisition and natural environment on Mars. In addition, the gravity is only that of Blue Star, and the Alliance's vacuum railway technology has been very mature and perfect, so the vacuum railway
The construction work is proceeding very quickly.
In Utopia City, on the platform of the main train station, Liao Qingsong, who has been genetically enhanced, is taking Sarah and Sassadin, the consul of the Thos Council.
"Grand Consul Sara, let's go to Equator City first and take a look!"
"Okay." Sara nodded. He had replaced the previous Supreme Consul Helic. The reason why he changed his name to the Grand Consul was to respect Helic and to avoid the name being similar to Huang Haojie's supreme head of state.
Confused.
A group of people took the vacuum train towards Equator City. The train was speeding through the pipe. Sarah looked at the yellow sand in the sky passing quickly on both sides. Although Mars seemed very desolate to the Blue Star people, for the Solo people,
For these people, there is no big problem.
The Sothians have all been transformed by silicon-based symbionts, and can survive for a long time without protection even in outer space.
As for the native viruses of Mars, they do not pose much of a threat to the Sothians. They were an interstellar civilization that colonized two star systems in the past. If they could not handle such small things, they would have been finished long ago.
The genetically enhanced Blue Star people are not as adaptable as the Soth people. The enhanced people need some auxiliary equipment to survive in outer space or on Earth-like planets.
However, the silicon-based symbiosis is not without cost. This silicon-based symbiosis has caused the Sothian reproduction rate to drop a lot. In addition, the Sothian reproductive period is also quite long (equivalent to about a human month).
, this problem caused a sharp decline in the number of Soth people during the exile.
Soon Liao Qingsong took Sara, Sassadin and others to Equator City. After getting off the train station, there was a sparse building cabin outside, and there were many robots leveling the ground and cleaning up rocks.
of.
"This is Equator City. How does Grand Consul Sarah feel?" Liao Qingsong asked, pointing to Equator City under construction.
"Thank you very much for the alliance's arrangement. We are very satisfied." Sara nodded quickly. After saying that, he walked to the ground nearby, squatted down and grabbed a handful of sand, feeling the natural gravel. He had not felt it for many years.
to this natural gravel.
"Grand Consul Sara, please make a list of the living supplies and facilities you need so that I can prepare the alliance as soon as possible." Liao Qingsong interrupted Sara's memories.
"Okay, I will sort it out as soon as possible."
Half a month later, Equator City not only tripled in size, but more than 100 Sothians immigrated here.
Of course, in order to ensure that the Sothians are not doing anything secretly, the Alliance has stationed a 0-person Space Marine Corps here, and there are more than 00 enhanced people who also work and live here.
In Utopia City, there are still a large number of Soth people living and working there, especially the scientific researchers among the Soth people. A large part of them are arranged in Utopia City and the Mars synchronous orbit space station.
Month Day.
An alliance's silicon-based biological research team came to Equator City, and Sassadin, the mayor of Equator City, received them.
Sasadin drove a powerful nuclear-powered electric pickup truck and led the researchers of the research team toward the southwest of Equator City. The convoy traveled about a kilometer along a simple dirt road.
The researchers in the research team were all talking about the mechanical beasts. The leader of the team, Wu Lingren, asked Sassadin, "Is this your mechanical beast breeding farm? Doesn't the mechanical beast need environmental modification or something like that?"
"No need, after we discovered and tamed them, they can adapt to the environment of many Earth-like planets." Sassadin explained.
Wearing an auxiliary space suit, the Wuling man stepped out of the pickup truck and walked towards the breeding farm. In the mechanical beast breeding farm, there were already a large number of mechanical beasts active, and many Sothians were also here.
Mechanical beasts can be said to be a peculiar culture and symbol of the Sothian civilization. In fact, mechanical beasts are only representatives of some of the silicon-based organisms on Planet ZI. The silicon-based organisms on Planet ZI are divided into three major categories: silicon-based animals, silicon-based plants, and silicon-based organisms.
Basic microorganisms.
The mechanical beasts are part of the silicon-based animals, and the Soth people's silicon-based symbionts are part of the silicon-based microorganisms; as for the silicon-based plants, the Wuling people have now seen it, and a large area of several square kilometers of silicon-based plants is right in front of them.
With silver-gray branches and leaves with silver-gray veins on a black background, there are three types of silicon-based plants.
"Captain Wu, the tallest ones are the light crystal trees, the ones with big leaves are the siliceous plants, and the vines on the ground are the iron-nickel vines." Sassadin explained to the Wuling people.
The Wuling people looked through the holographic database and quickly found detailed information on these three silicon-based plants.
[The light crystal tree is a tall silicon-based plant that can grow up to about 300 meters (gravity affects its growth height). Its huge leaves are like solar panels, which can continuously absorb star light energy and condense a layer of light inside the trunk.
A kind of light energy liquid that contains rich energy. After a long period of deposition, the light energy liquid will merge with other elements in the soil to form light crystals, hence the name light crystal tree...]
[Silicon vegetable, a necessity for the growth of mechanical beasts, has silver-gray leaves and is shaped like an enlarged blue star taro leaf. The underground part will bear fruit. The fruit is shaped like bunches of old coconuts. The leaves can supplement the trace elements of the mechanical beasts. The fruit is the biological self.
It is a raw material for repairing alloys. After the mechanical beast is injured, it can be quickly repaired by eating fruits and leaves...]
[Iron-nickel vine...]
These silicon-based plants were cultivated by the Sothian civilization over hundreds of thousands of years. The Wuling people looked at the list of extinct silicon-based organisms in the database and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
After the Soth civilization self-destructed its star, the number of silicon-based biological species carried on the Helic planet was only about that of the parent star. After so many years of interstellar wandering, there are now only less than a few silicon-based species left.
For example, the Light Crystal Tree, there used to be one subspecies, but now only one is left; and there are also mechanical beasts. In the Z-Star era, the types of mechanical beasts alone exceeded the categories, and the subspecies exceeded 10,000, but now there are
There are only a few species left, many mechanical beasts and even entire categories have become extinct.