Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1322 - 501: New Conceptions, New Crises

After some deliberation, Ren Zhong decided to first open the report from the Source Star Science Academy.

In fact, before receiving this plan from Source Star, Ren Zhong was already quite satisfied with the landing plan submitted by the Fleet Headquarters Academy.

The Fleet Headquarters Academy used geological data to accurately simulate the evolution of ice ridges on South Nine C and identified several key locations in the high-latitude ring zone on the light-facing side where the temperature is suitable.

The probability of these locations being hit by ice ridges in the next twenty years is less than one percent.

The landing forces will first establish additional reinforced domes in these areas, sufficient to withstand the impact of any unexpected ice ridges.

Subsequently, the landing forces will use these domes as bases to dig downward, initially creating underground cities capable of accommodating millions of people.

Preliminary estimates suggest that the fleet will be able to build a total of eight underground cities within a year.

The development plan for the underground cities will focus primarily on industrial production capacity.

Then, these eight underground cities will simultaneously use large shield machines to expand super alloy pipelines in two directions along the livable temperature ring zone, eventually connecting the livable temperature ring zone through these underground alloy pipelines, forming an underground circular passage.

In this way, Source Star humans can eventually rely on the transportation capacity of the subway within the alloy pipelines to build a series of underground cities like a string of candied fruits.

This circumvents the impact of cold and terrifying cyclonic wind.

Once the first batch of residents are established, they can leverage these underground cities to gradually expand towards the surface and build surface cities capable of resisting cyclonic wind and ice ridges.

During this process, there might need to be some reinforced warships active within the atmosphere of South Nine C, ready at any moment to use tri-phase fusion bombs to destroy large ice ridges that could pose a danger to the cities.

The main energy needs are to be solved by using solar energy capture sails in space, with an energy-collecting fleet forced to approach South Nine Star despite the pressure from Viscount Nan Jiu, to collect stellar energy.

As for the material shortfalls, they will be handed over to the expanding Source Star commercial transport and the pirate-hunting fleet led by Zheng Tian.

Theoretically, according to this plan, the fleet can indeed land on time; however, the living conditions will be quite crowded and it will be difficult to immediately fully exploit the resources native to South Nine C.

Subsequently, it will probably take another hundred years to slowly change the surface geomorphic environment and atmospheric environment.

Ultimately, in the foreseeable future, just a hundred years later, through the efforts of five generations, Source Star humans will have the opportunity to gradually bring South Nine C’s natural environment closer to that of an ordinary solid planet, and gradually unlock its tidal lock state through continuous alteration of the planet’s shape, enabling it to rotate.

Of course, initiating the planet’s rotation will inevitably bring about massive geological transformations, which will greatly damage the underground cities, but repairs are faster than complete reconstruction.

At that time, Ren Zhong’s assessment for the title of Earl will depend on fate, given the objective conditions.

But the proposal from Source Star Science Academy offers a different approach, completely breaking Ren Zhong’s conventional understanding.

Due to Source Star having lost too many resources and backup energy, in the sixty-some years after the fleet’s departure, the Source Star Science Academy has not only accomplished the research and development tasks distributed by Sun Ai through her connection with her clone in the pseudo-network, but also pushed a large amount of technology forward due to their own needs, especially in the flexible application of silicon chip technology and nuclear fusion technology.

Combined with the data sent back synchronously by the exploratory ships of the commercial fleet, the Source Star Science Academy proposed that quickly changing the planet’s morphology should be the priority work before landing.

They placed the planet transformation work before landing, believing that prepping tools carefully does not delay the cutting of firewood.

Through a series of precisely calculated steps, they believe that using chain explosions of ultra-large tri-phase fusion bombs to create intense chain reactions of crustal movement in the planet’s crust can rapidly change South Nine C’s planet morphology, shaping it from a pancake into a relatively regular sphere.

Then, the tidal lock will naturally be lifted, the planet will begin to rotate, and the interminable fourteenth-level cyclonic winds and ice ridges will naturally disappear within a few years of evolution.

Preparations for detonating the planet will take about ten years, as ultra-large amounts of reserve nuclear fusion material must be prepared.

After complete detonation, the planet’s surface will need approximately another ten years to complete all geological and climatic transformations, allowing high temperatures to dissipate, letting the dust generated by the explosions slowly settle, and the violently moving crust to reconnect.