CXnovel #894 - Interstellar Wilderness Exploration
#894 - Interstellar Wilderness Exploration
To construct such a massive engineering project capable of encircling an entire planet and encompassing its defense is naturally no easy task.
Leaving aside the technological complexities, the sheer scale alone would likely exhaust all the shallow metal ore deposits on the planet, and even that might not be enough.
Only civilizations with mature interstellar travel and construction capabilities could undertake such a project.
In just over half a year, under the guidance and strategic control of the AI Xiaowu, the Star Ring is now taking shape. The basic framework is essentially complete, and the remaining internal construction is proceeding in an orderly manner.
According to Xiaowu's plan, in at most another month or so, the Star Ring defense line, a major component of Xianlin Star's near-star defense system, will be able to complete its final touches.
In addition, the construction and establishment of various defensive measures in the surrounding space of Xianlin Star, satellites, and within the star system are also underway. By then, the entire star system's defense system will be further improved.
Besides constructing these interstellar defense measures, the AI Xiaowu hasn't chosen to remain solely on the defensive. Instead, it's simultaneously focusing on internal fortification and external exploration.
Since half a year ago, it has dispatched numerous exploration ships and intelligent robots towards the surrounding star regions, building as it goes.
Just like when Liang Yue led Stark and his group on their first space voyage, they conducted interstellar exploration while deploying pre-prepared interstellar signal towers along the way, establishing their own communication network.
Leveraging the star chart Liang Yue obtained from Xandar, as well as the nomadic journey map found in the remains of the Transformers, the AI Xiaowu quickly established a communication system and simple monitoring and early warning facilities in the star region surrounding their own star system.
Furthermore, Xianlin Star's geographical location is at the junction of the Milky Way's interstellar civilization exchange zone and the barbaric star regions.
The so-called barbaric star regions don't mean there are no civilizations, but rather refer to regions that are remote, not valued by the "civilized world," or star regions that have not yet been explored.
These regions may still contain certain civilizations, even advanced interstellar civilizations.
However, possibly due to racial characteristics or cultural habits, they rarely interact with civilizations that have developed commercial and cultural exchanges.
But it's not as if there's no interaction at all.
For example, the Xianlin Star that Liang Yue auctioned off may very well have been personally sent to the auction by a clumsy civilization from the barbaric star regions.
When their own civilization reaches a certain stage of development, what these civilizations pursue may no longer be continued technological upgrades or the pursuit of racial evolution, but rather, due to the foundation of their own culture, they head straight towards certain metaphysical directions.
They have relatively advanced biotechnology and mature interstellar navigation capabilities, but this civilization is not easy to interact with, prefers to be independent, and is keen on conducting biological experiments in some of the Milky Way's barbaric star regions.
However, because this civilization's reach has not continued to extend outward for a long time, always staying within its own territory, and its daily actions are low-key enough.
Unless attacked, they almost never proactively engage in profit disputes or wars for supremacy with other civilizations, so they were no longer valued by advanced civilizations in the Milky Way such as Xandar...
Anyway, the Milky Way is vast, and there are still large areas of unexplored wilderness. At this stage, it is enough to accommodate these interstellar civilizations to act recklessly without restraint.
In short, being situated in the frontier region between the civilized star region and the barbaric zone, without any conspicuous civilization constraints on the side, the AI Xiaowu naturally wouldn't waste such a superior geographical location.
It also scattered a batch of exploration ships towards the barbaric star regions. So far, Xiaowu has quietly found more than a dozen life-bearing planets in these edges of the galaxy.
Among them, the planets that have given birth to intelligent races are temporarily skipped over.
Because Liang Yue had set an exploration principle in advance: try not to disturb or plunder planets with native intelligent life, and focus on observation.
But besides that, there are still as many as eight life-bearing planets that are completely in the wilderness stage.
Moreover, although most of these planets have more or less discovered traces of humans, relics, or even the existence of residual alien laboratories, they do not actually belong to any specific force!
In the Milky Way, no civilization has ever stood up to declare sovereignty over these eight planets.
That is to say, in addition to Xianlin Star, these eight life-bearing planets have now automatically been assigned to his Liang Yue!
At least, that's how the AI Xiaowu understands it~
Therefore, after confirming that there is no native intelligent life on these life-bearing planets, Xiaowu almost immediately cleaned up the planets themselves.
Eliminating some hidden dangers, such as the nanometer-scale super-biological virus storage on Xianlin Star before.
Then, it quickly used these eight life-bearing planets as strongholds, and began to establish corresponding local defense forces, military industrial bases, and other facilities to ensure the substantive occupation of the planet and its star system!
The construction progress is naturally much slower than on Xianlin Star, but it is still gratifying.
At this moment, the AI Xiaowu has established a complete communication network system and corresponding interstellar grid engineering between these nine life-bearing planets.
Now that Liang Yue is on Xianlin Star, he can remotely observe those planets through the AI Xiaowu's link. Other people need to obtain certain permissions.
Of course, currently Meng Xiaoyu, Aunt Liu, and others do not know about Xiaowu's achievements in exploring the barbaric star regions during this period, including Elizabeth, Betty, and Alwen.
Although they are Liang Yue's close companions, they themselves don't have any permission issues, but so far, they don't seem to have noticed this problem...
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After broadly finalizing a wave of various basic technology production lines and the introduction of various categories of goods for clothing, food, housing, and transportation, Liang Yue and others immediately began to implement this work one by one.
At this time, Liang Yue also rarely gathered the travelers on Xianlin Star, as well as several scientific expedition teams from various countries who had crossed the portal, for a preliminary consultation meeting.
The main content of the meeting was to divide the area of the Great Plains where the Tree of Life is located, that is, the entire safe zone, into various functional areas.
Such as breeding and grazing areas, planting areas, commercial office areas, leisure and living areas, industrial areas, research and development areas, college areas, residential areas, and so on.
As the main area for human social interaction and life on Xianlin Star in the future, the participants naturally attached great importance to this and actively spoke, had friendly discussions, and put forward their own suggestions for the construction of the safe zone.
Moreover, many people felt that this matter was not small, and it would be best to bring it back to Earth, invite enough professionals to discuss it, and then talk about the implementation issue after a specific planning plan was put forward.
Of course, the person who makes the final decision must be Liang Yue~
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