Compared with the antimatter required for interstellar navigation, which is often measured 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. On the whole, 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 Villagash to produce antimatter.
That is a production line with an annual output of approximately 100,000 tons of antimatter.
On this basis, human civilization has made tens of thousands of copies of this production line. But even now, as for any design details of this production line, even the diameter of a heat dissipation pipe, the direction of the line, and the location of the hopper The diameter and power of the temperature control equipment have not been modified.
What did this production line look like in the solar system back then? Today, almost a thousand years later, it still looks the same, without any change.
It's not that people are unwilling to modify, but that they really don't dare to modify, for fear that if they modify even a little bit, it may cause inexplicable malfunctions and problems, and eventually lead to major accidents.
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 only increased through the construction of numerous antimatter factories and quantity. As for increasing the output of a single production line, for example, upgrading a production line with an annual output of 100,000 tons to an annual output of 200,000 tons, that is something that one would not even dare to dream about.
This is because we only know what it is, but we don’t know why it is, and we have not fully digested and absorbed 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 completely independently by humans! Human civilization fully masters the relevant technology 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? What about one hundred thousand, one million, or even tens of millions of tons?
For this significant and far-reaching project, Zhao Changxing personally participated, specially coordinated and established a theoretical demonstration team composed of up to 100,000 top scientists, mobilized no less than one million top technical workers, and made great efforts in logistics, resource supply, etc. Green light.
This ability to "concentrate efforts to accomplish big things" is probably something that only human civilization can achieve. At least none of the alien civilizations known to people and that have been contacted do not have this ability.
Therefore, a dwarf planet existing in the middle of the orbits of the two planets h1-2 and h1-3 became 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 have even built a space city in the orbit of this dwarf planet specifically for the scientists, engineers, technical workers, and logistics service personnel involved in the project to live in, as well as corresponding planting bases, livestock breeding centers, commercial centers, hospitals, etc. , also available. There are even nurseries, elementary schools, middle schools and universities.
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 it has been directly installed for the safety of space routes. The high-power planetary engine pushed it 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 make breakthroughs, supporting factory conditions are frequent, and casualties continue to occur.
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 explosives.
Such a huge amount of energy will destroy all man-made structures dozens of kilometers around this factory as its core. The earthquake caused by the explosion spread throughout the planet, collapsing and damaging countless factories, roads, and bridges.
More than a thousand people died in this accident.
Even so, this is also because in a vacuum environment, the lethality of this explosion is greatly weakened. If such a serious explosion occurred on the surface of a planet with an atmosphere, such as the earth, then the affected area and the number of casualties would probably be more than this.
Regarding this incident, the entire human civilization, with nearly 10 billion people, has fallen into grief and mourning. After that, the joint investigation team dealt with 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 on 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 spaceships 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 reserve factory, the media reporter responsible for broadcasting this scene shed tears of excitement. Many engineers and technical workers wearing space suits cheered, as did the audience waiting in front of the audio and video media.
"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 its combat power will be greatly increased. Real breakthroughs in civilization come from small accumulations bit by bit, and happen unconsciously.
Yesterday, human civilization was still a second-level civilization. Today is the 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 proposed this equally crucial super project.
A comprehensive project to comprehensively improve military science and comprehensively enhance the combat effectiveness of human civilization.
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, the cooperation of captured aliens of various races is indispensable.
There are hundreds of millions of technologies that can be obtained from the Expedition space carrier. Among these many technical categories, the one that is most on people's minds and that civilization leaders including Zhao Changxing think about day and night is the technology related to "vacuum cannon".
Vacuum cannons are another important iconic technology of level three civilizations, in addition to the 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 frontal 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 spaceship 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 towed there in advance by a tugboat.
