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Chapter 1490: The Colony Star System (Thanks to 20240518162_bD for the 700 reward!)
Chapter 1490: The Colony Star System (Thanks to 20240518162_bD for the 700 reward!)
Morningstar now understood.
The five stars marked by Chant all had colony planets.
To understand why these five stars were marked, we need to delve into the "colony star system" of Triangulum:
The Crystal Blue Collective has over ten thousand colony planets in Triangulum, evenly distributed in the habitable zones of the outer stars of the system.
However, the number of colony planets wasn't always this high.
Initially, there were only one or two, which gradually grew to a dozen. Over the course of millions of years, the number expanded to two thousand.
After reaching two thousand, the development of these colony planets entered a stagnation period.
For nearly a million years, no new colony planets were added.
These two thousand colony planets are known as the "first batch of colony planets."
Gryla-13, where they are located, is also part of this first batch.
Over the following million years, the Mechs built and managed these colony planets, enslaving and exploiting carbon-based beings.
As the population of carbon-based beings grew, they began to produce a steady stream of psynergy.
A significant portion of this psynergy was transported back to the Jinglan system, while the remaining quarter was retained on the colony planets for research by the Mechs.
Psynergy, a substance originally unrelated to the Mechs, is unique to carbon-based beings and can only be absorbed and utilized by them.
Silicon-based beings, being essentially large chunks of metal and electronic components, are naturally incompatible with psynergy and should theoretically be unable to use it.
However, the Mechs' nearly million-year research effort paid off.
Around two million years ago, the Mechs finally discovered a method to harness psynergy!
Although this method was rudimentary, it allowed them to power large numbers of Mechs and create a batch of high-level Mechs.
These high-level Mechs were created by blending silicon and psynergy, resulting in a new type of Mech. Jinglan gave them a new name: Psynergy Mechs.
The Psynergy Mechs are a new subgroup within the Mech family.
The two Planetary Ais controlled by Su Yu are actually standard Psynergy Mechs.
For example, the Third-Rank Planetary Mechanoid has a massive starlight stone as its power core.
When Su Yu first saw this starlight stone, he was completely stunned!
This starmetal stone measures a staggering 45 cubic meters, equivalent to 4,500 units of starmetal stone. Selling it alone would fetch 450 billion saint silver coins!
With the starmetal stone as the core, the spiritual energy mechs emerged.
On Gryla-13, especially among the mechs of the eighth rank and above, about 70% to 80% are now spiritual energy mechs.
The discovery of how to use spiritual energy gave Jinglan the impetus to expand its colonies.
The higher-ups among the Jinglan mechs quickly made a decision—dramatically increase the number of colonies from 2,000 to 10,000!
The more colonies there were, the more spiritual energy could be produced, and the spiritual energy mech population would grow even more.
However, before the expansion could begin, a problem arose: the spatial gate resources were insufficient to support such a large-scale expansion.
Previously, each of the 2,000 colonies had 3 to 5 spatial gates connecting to other colonies.
Once the expansion began, the spatial gates would immediately become inadequate, unable to provide the same number of connections as before.
To solve this problem, the mechs came up with a clever solution: each of the 8,000 new colonies would only have one spatial gate!
Each new colony would be connected to a single original colony, allowing for a rapid expansion while conserving spatial gate resources.
With a solution in hand, the Jinglan mechs immediately began implementing it.
Soon, 8,000 new colonies entered the site selection process. Once the locations were chosen, single-channel spatial gates were built, connecting each new colony to one of the original 2,000 colonies.
These original 2,000 colonies were then renamed "Hub Planets."
Each Hub Planet would connect to 3 to 5 of the new colonies.
Gryla-13 officially became a Hub Planet during this period.
...
In the control room, Su Yu pointed to five stars marked in red on the star map and said earnestly, "These five stars' colonies are only connected to Gryla-13 via spatial gates. They are practically in our grasp.
I've reviewed the records. Although these five colonies don't have any planetary-grade mechs or carbon-based beings, the number of mechs and carbon-based life forms is still considerable.
We should go and take them now. Occupying these five colonies will be absolutely safe."
"I agree with your plan", Chant nodded in agreement.
However, she then added, "But as I mentioned earlier, even with these five planets, it's still not enough!"
Five planets wouldn't fill Su Yu's "pool." Advancing to the Star rank wouldn't be that easy.
Hearing Chant's words, Su Yu smiled mysteriously. "I know it's not enough, but I have a secret weapon—Dixin!"
(End of Chapter)
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