Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1342 - 508: Emergence

This new enterprise has changed the traditional model of human resources dispatch trade, beginning to accept external orders, or even target-oriented piece orders. These orders are primarily focused on scientific research projects, with Source Star human resources concentrating on assisting various forces in solving technical challenges. These services are primarily marketed as fast and convenient, without any political conditions attached, with the only drawback being the high price.

Over the years, Source Star research teams and graduates emerging from human resources trade have already made a good name for themselves within the Nanxiang Star Cluster. With Ren Zhong leading the fleet back, the situation is destined to change, forcing many forces to painfully watch these highly efficient researchers return to Source Star human bases. Now, this new project seems to open a gap again.

If external forces choose to invest, by participating in investment promotion activities and becoming shareholders of the Source Star human resources trade company, they will be able to negotiate cooperation at more favorable prices and with higher priority.

In contrast to the open attitude shown by the establishment of the human resources trade company, South Nine C Star has suddenly announced the closure of its borders, prohibiting any external forces from coming within ten million kilometers of South Nine C. Meanwhile, the higher-ups among Source Star humans have also stopped engaging in any external affairs.

Moreover, the Source Star Fleet has adjusted its formation, with some Annulus Ships appearing above the high-temperature focal point on the sunward side, and began spraying odd dusty substances onto the surface of South Nine C.

These substances have an extremely low density and, once sprayed, spread out and transform into a thin misty cover surrounding the sky of South Nine C. Buffeted by the stellar winds from South Nine Star, they hover at an altitude of three million kilometers closest to the surface of South Nine C, twirling around its movement, and regroup above the low-temperature focal point on the lee of the planet, forming a giant garlic-shaped structure.

At the sharp apex of the garlic, hundreds of Annulus Ships form a formation, stretching out a massive gravity capture network to collect the flying dust and transport it to the sunward side, where it is sprayed and deployed again, in a cycle.

Whether visible light, radiation waves, or scanning information streams, after passing through this cloud-filled obstruction, will undergo severe diffuse reflection, becoming unidentifiable, as if observing flowers amidst the fog.

The planet has suddenly become mysterious.

Outside, no one knows what is happening within those ships orbiting South Nine C.

Inside the fleet, Ren Zhong is in awe of the genius ideas of the scientists.

He previously planned only to use the driven swarm of white ants to appropriately alter the planet’s geology, followed by a massive chain detonation of hydrogen bombs to hammer the final nail.

But he overlooked two issues. Firstly, a synchronized chain explosion capable of altering the planet’s geology within the atmosphere will release a vast amount of heat energy in an extremely short time.

This heat energy will spawn a storm on the planet, quickly turning its atmosphere into boiling water, leading to significant atmospheric escape. A scientific team within the Fleet Science Academy, after analysis, believed this explosion would reduce South Nine C’s atmospheric total mass by at least 20%, an unacceptable major loss. Hence, scientists began pondering how to prevent atmospheric escape.

The same scientific question was simultaneously shared with Source Star Science Academy.

Consequently, under Sun Ai’s covert guidance, numerous scientists from both locations began to contribute intellect to this significant issue.

During this time, the prior scientific team not only did not fully resolve the issue but also presented a second problem: the issue of re-releasing atmospheric heat energy. Although the planet’s soil and oceans can absorb heat energy, utilizing conventional heat exchange to reduce the post-explosion surface temperature below 50 degrees would require at least a century.

High temperatures would pose tremendous difficulty to landing operations and subsequent rapid population growth.

Just then, the outcomes from the Source Star Science Academy once resolved two issues at once, while incidentally addressing a third issue spawned by the need for secrecy.

They developed a high molecular organic synthetic material. The repulsive forces between its molecules can even allow the inter-molecular distances to expand larger than gas molecules, making its density far lower than normal gases, enabling it to float above South Nine C’s atmosphere.