Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 611: Constructing a Small Universe
From every perspective, with the vast database support he now possessed, Xiao Yu was a true polymath. Xiao Yu understood every facet of a society, science, governance, military affairs, humanities, arts, and so on; there was nothing he did not comprehend. Moreover, as the most outstanding scientist originally on Earth, Xiao Yu also possessed exceptional scientific thinking.
However, with the Divine Ark Civilization continuously developing and now commanding hundreds of billions of citizens, Xiao Yu had to admit that among the races of the universe, some people’s scientific thinking truly surpassed his own. Yet this did not cause Xiao Yu to feel frustration or anything of the kind. On the contrary, Xiao Yu was gratified.
This was because Xiao Yu positioned himself more as a leader than as a pure scientist. Science was important, but for Xiao Yu it was only a means, a pathway to enhance the strength of the Divine Ark Civilization. As long as he ensured his position as leader, the more outstanding scientists there were, the better.
In the technological assault on constructing a small universe, several figures emerged whose scientific thinking was at least on par with Xiao Yu’s. One was Xu Junpo, who had a strange background and was still shrouded in layers of mystery; he solved the problem of material exchange between the main and small universes. Another two were Luka Three and Number Five, Senya; they solved the problem of controlled movement of the small universe. Besides these people, Xiao Yu also knew that Luka Two was at least on par with or surpassed him in social psychology; Ares, leader of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance, surpassed him in war and overall strategy; Ruto, the most outstanding scientist of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance, was at least on par with him in spatial science thinking; and Luka Four surpassed him in the scientific thinking of life sciences.
With so much talent, Xiao Yu felt very gratified.
After all scientific difficulties in constructing the small universe were conquered, the construction of the small universe truly moved onto the agenda. Xiao Yu built a vast number of engineering fleets and set out on long-range voyages at a speed of eighty times the speed of light. Xiao Yu had already selected roughly thirty stars, and these stars would be equipped by the engineering fleets with the relevant instruments and then moved to designated locations to gather together. Finally, Xiao Yu would cut this region of space, together with these stars, out of the main universe to form a small universe. These stars and their attendant planets would be the first guests of this small universe.
The first batch of stars to enter the small universe conformed to the following rules. To ensure the small universe’s safety and stability, Xiao Yu could not move just any star inside. For example, late-stage stars and high-mass stars did not meet the requirements, because such stars had little remaining lifetime. Before long they would end their lives with a violent explosion or by slowly expanding and dissipating. No matter which result, for a small universe with a diameter of only one light year, it was unacceptable. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
Therefore, the stars Xiao Yu selected were all yellow-dwarf-level or slightly smaller stars, that is, stars about the size of the Sun. This class of star possessed a long stable period; after their birth, they could have at least eight billion years of steady energy output. At the same time, their spectral types also suited the daylight requirements of the majority of the Divine Ark Civilization’s populace.
Planets had another set of limiting requirements. Xiao Yu planned to place approximately one thousand planets in the small universe; planets would serve as bases supplying resources for Xiao Yu. Moreover, to prevent a situation where other civilizations trapped him in the small universe for a long time with no way out, these planets had to be able to provide Xiao Yu with ample supplies of every type of resource. Thus, some of these planets had to be rich in iron, some rich in silicon, some had to have abundant rare-earth element reserves, and some had to have abundant actinide reserves. Meanwhile, to solve the common problem of insufficient hydrogen and helium reserves on rocky planets, Xiao Yu also moved more than thirty gas giants.
During this period, Xiao Yu’s fleets traveled as far as two thousand light years away to search for suitable planets and stars. The entire relocation operation lasted more than fifty years in total. After more than fifty years, in a relatively empty region of the cosmic void, thirty-two stars had now gathered. These stars possessed orbits that were extremely close relative to one another, and the distance between any two stars generally did not exceed one trillion kilometers. This distance was roughly one-tenth the distance from the Sun to the Oort Cloud of the solar system, making it easy to imagine how high the stellar density was here.
Close distances meant strong mutual gravitational interference between stars. If left unregulated, these stars would slowly form stable orbital patterns by themselves. In the end, some stars would be flung out, and some would form structures akin to stellar clusters. This was precisely what Xiao Yu sought to avoid. Thus, after these stars were transported over, the instruments responsible for moving the stars did not retire; instead, they continued to take on the responsibility of adjusting the stars’ orbits.
At the same time, Planetary engines were also indispensable. In a battlefield of stars, planets were mere trifles. At one moment a planet still belonged to this star, and the next it might be captured away by another star. Such changes were disastrous for intelligent beings living on the planet or for various constructions. Therefore, the planetary engines had to keep running, adjusting planetary orbits when necessary.
This cluster of stars huddled together so densely was a mode of existence that violated the natural laws of the universe; in the natural evolution of the universe, such a situation could not arise. Yet under Xiao Yu’s intervention, this spectacle was ultimately created by him.
More than fifty years passed, and Xiao Yu finally completed the relocation of the stars and planets. During this period, under the leadership of Luka Three, Senya, and Xu Junpo, breakthroughs also appeared in various technologies. The controlled movement technology for small universes and the linking technology between the main and small universes finally transformed from things that could exist only in laboratories into technologies that could be mass-produced. Their energy consumption was reduced by a factor of ten million, while their power increased by a factor of ten million. The small universe controlled movement technology was raised to the point where a small universe with a diameter of one light year, or even larger, could advance at one hundred times the speed of light, while the linking technology between the main and small universes was raised to the point where one trillion tons of matter could be transmitted within one second.
The technologies required to construct a small universe were fully prepared. At this moment, even Xiao Yu could not conceal the excitement in his heart.
Although he now possessed many technologies of a Level 6 Civilization and could be said to be truly a Level 6 Civilization, without a small universe of his own, there was always some hollowness in his heart, and he could not openly and confidently say, ‘Our Divine Ark Civilization is a Level 6 Civilization.’ But after today, this situation would be completely changed. He would become a complete version of a Level 6 Civilization; from every perspective, it would be Level 6.
During the more than fifty years of prior preparation, Xiao Yu had already manufactured in advance more than thirty trillion space-cutting instruments and had pre-positioned them on the surface of this sphere with a diameter of one light year. The distribution and arrangement of these space-cutting instruments followed a certain rigorous mathematical law. After Xiao Yu issued the command, these instruments would start up simultaneously and work in concert to cut this spherical space with a diameter of one light year, together with all the stars, all the planets, and all the artificial facilities within it, out of the main universe, allowing it to form an independent small universe.
Over the past more than fifty years, manufacturing these space-cutting devices had consumed at least seventy percent of Xiao Yu’s computational power. It should be known that Xiao Yu’s computational power was no longer what it used to be, having increased by a factor of ten thousand compared to before. Yet in this construction task, seventy percent of his computational power was still occupied.
There was no help for it; the number of instruments that needed to be built was simply too great. Xiao Yu even simultaneously built nearly ten million foundries and supporting factories on more than five hundred existing planets and had more than twenty billion citizens of the Divine Ark Civilization participate in the construction, only then managing to manufacture all these more than thirty trillion space-cutting instruments within fifty years. To transport these instruments to their designated positions, Xiao Yu even dispatched all the warships under his command, totaling more than forty million, to participate in transportation, barely completing this task before the deadline.
From this, one could also see how immense a project it was to construct a small universe belonging to one’s own civilization. Xiao Yu believed that an ordinary Level 6 Civilization would likely need to spend several thousand years and mobilize all the manpower, material resources, and resources of the entire civilization to carry out construction before there would be any possibility of success.
“Yet the returns are proportional to the investment. The more one invests, the more one gains. The construction of a small universe consumes such enormous effort and resources, but the rewards it can bring to a civilization are also enormous. For such a thing, spending several decades or even several centuries truly cannot be considered much.”
Now, all equipment had been installed in position. The controlled-movement instruments for the small universe and the material transmission instruments had already been placed in that star region in advance. Thirty-two stars and nearly one thousand planets already possessed stable orbits and were quietly revolving there.
“Then now is the time. Begin the cutting operation…” Xiao Yu issued the order.
Thus, under the gaze of the many scientists and Xiao Yu, that distant star region began gradually to blur and ultimately disappeared from the observable universe. Accompanying the disappearance of that star region, matter around that star region exhibited varying degrees of displacement.
