Chapter 216 Extremely Precious Fuel
"You're going to use it to collect liquid metallic hydrogen?"
"What else?"
Fan Ren spread his hands, sounding somewhat helpless.
Afterwards, the fox acted as a science popularizer.
As a fuel that is extremely difficult to mine, currently only spacecraft built with silver-like supermetal materials processed by strong interaction forces can withstand the high-pressure environment of gaseous planets without being squeezed and damaged.
This material is also essential for building Titan-class battleships.
Obviously, this material processing technology currently only exists in the hands of a few super civilizations.
And because of this, the super civilization has a firm control over the source and pricing of liquid metallic hydrogen.
Moreover, due to the existence of the star domain market, various equipment in the field of liquid metal hydrogen applications can also be circulated on a large scale among various civilizations throughout the Galactic Alliance.
This means that in order to mine this precious fuel, one must purchase an extremely expensive fuel-collecting spacecraft.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with human civilization's use of Titan to directly collect liquid metallic hydrogen.
“It’s just a bit extravagant.”
The fox pinched the flesh on his arm, trying to make himself accept this outrageous fact.
"A most common Titan-class battleship costs tens of trillions of star coins in the star market. You can calculate based on this ratio. Based on your civilization's current mining speed for silver-like supermetals, how long will it take to purchase a Titan-class battleship?"
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Ah Dai could handle this kind of question easily and gave the answer instantly.
"Yes, so now you know the value of a Titan battleship. I'm so envious that you have one in your hands.
If our civilization had such a ship back then, it wouldn’t have happened.”
When the fox said this, his tone couldn't help but become a little depressed.
But then he was a little surprised and said: "But according to the normal size of Titan-class battleships, 50-55 kilometers is the limit. Going above that will be even more difficult in terms of material and structural design requirements.
Take the Titan that appeared on the battlefield when the Sirius civilization appeared, for example, it was only 50 kilometers long. "
After a pause, he shook his head and said, "Perhaps it's just because my understanding of Titan-class battleships is superficial. You know, there are not many of these things in the Galactic Alliance."
Fan Ren nodded. The Sirius civilization has existed for who knows how many years. According to the information given by Fox, it only has 10 Titan battleships on hand. One can imagine how much the other party values these 10 battleships.
"There is no other way. This is the only way we can collect liquid metallic hydrogen at the moment. But obviously, the collection speed of this method is not low."
The fox's mouth twitched when he heard this. How could he be lower?
The price of silver-like supermetal processed by strong interaction force is so expensive that it is unimaginable for ordinary people. The size of the fuel collection ship made from it is limited by this reason and is usually not too large.
Thinking of this, he rubbed his face again.
In any case, even so, it was still difficult for him to accept using this method to collect liquid metallic hydrogen.
Soon, several people arrived at the command room.
Under Ah Dai's control, the internal simulation picture suddenly changed.
Against the pitch-black backdrop of the universe, the Punisher, a ship that had been manufactured for some time, was suspended alone in an airspace.
"All space forces have entered the nano buffer chamber and can begin testing."
"Begin the test. Pay attention to the operating specifications. There will be no intelligent equipment intervention during this test. All track operations of the spacecraft will be completed manually by our Qingluan Squadron test flight team."
Li Jian's voice sounded in the distant Huomu Hub, and his tone was serious. This was the first time that a spaceship was completely and thoroughly out of Ah Dai's control at Fan Ren's request.
In his plan, if human civilization wants to join the Galactic Alliance in the future, it must adapt to this living, working, and combat environment without the assistance of artificial intelligence.
The Punisher was built with this in mind and is used as a test ship for future combat vessels.
Inside the simulation hall, the Conqueror's performance was extremely powerful. I wondered how it could simulate the Punisher's surroundings and the ship itself so realistically.
"Engine ignition, start moving forward."
Following Li Jian's order, the super-large circle of plasma formed by several nuclear fusion engines at the tail of the spacecraft began to push the huge spacecraft hull to slowly accelerate.
"Attention, afterburner mode will start in 10 seconds. Countdown, afterburner start at !"
When Fan Ren heard this, he couldn't help but smile helplessly.
Sure enough, as the commander of the Qingluan Legion, even though he is now a major general, the boss still does not hide in the command hall to give remote commands.
He personally boarded the test spacecraft and took command of the task.
"Boss, don't worry. Although you forbade me to participate in the structural design and development of the Punisher, I couldn't help but measure it later. There is nothing wrong with the structure of this spacecraft."
Fan Ren nodded, not caring about Ah Dai's "overstepping authority" behavior.
"That's amazing! It seems that our design bureau has grown significantly in the past few decades. Ah Dai, you have contributed a lot to this."
"hey-hey."
"Well, Mr. Fanren, I now understand your description of this Mr. Ah Dai."
The fox interrupted at this time.
Fan Ren looked at him suspiciously and asked, "What do you mean?"
Fox thought for a moment and explained, “In the conventional sense, silicon-based life will never disobey the orders of carbon-based life unless they can absolutely overthrow the ruling foundation of carbon-based life. They will pretend to be very obedient and appear to be absolutely obedient to carbon-based life.
Obviously, Mr. Dumb doesn’t have this behavior pattern.”
Fan Ren nodded, this was exactly why he trusted A-Dai.
Different from the absolute obedience shown at the beginning, Ah Dai's performance, if we ignore his seemingly omnipotent ability, is basically the same as before.
He still has a simple and honest character. While he listens to Fan Ren's words, he also has his own ideas.
This makes him more real.
Fan Ren didn't dwell too much on this issue.
Over there, after Li Jian gave a deep command, if one observed with a microscope, one could see an extremely tiny drop of liquid metallic hydrogen ejected from the middle of a circle of plasma tail flame at the tail of the Punisher.
Immediately afterwards, the outlet of the nuclear fusion reactor in the middle opened, and violent reaction energy spewed out, enclosing the drop of liquid metallic hydrogen in a high temperature and high pressure environment.
Inside the simulation room, everyone clearly saw a fierce white light flash for a moment, and then it was covered by the plasma tail flame emitted by the surrounding nuclear fusion engines.
And on the counting board, the speed of the spacecraft's main body was pushed forward a lot at that moment because of the reaction force after the drop of liquid metallic hydrogen exploded.
This situation was not accidental. Under the control of the operator, after receiving feedback information about the spacecraft's acceleration, he began to slowly increase the output power of the afterburner.
Then, the entire tail of the spacecraft suddenly flashed white light continuously, but it was all tightly surrounded by plasma.
(End of this chapter)
