Chapter 347 White Giant Star

When the long time covered the track, and when the vast space concealed the fleet, the huge fleet of mankind finally crossed the distance of 27 light years and arrived at the target star.

The target star is a white giant, with a mass of 2.69 times that of the sun, a surface temperature of 9950±221 Kelvin, a rotation period of 18 hours, and an age of about 280 million years. It is still in the main sequence stage and looks very young, but in fact it has already moved from youth to middle age. Because white giants like this have a large mass, their lifespan is only about one billion years.

Because this white giant rotates very fast, its equatorial rotation speed is also extremely fast. The huge centrifugal force makes its equator bulge outward, and the temperature reaches the maximum value on the surface of the equatorial photosphere, exceeding 10,000 Kelvin.

The intense burning gives it an extremely high surface temperature, and also makes its spectral color look like a huge white day, illuminating the space around it.

Even if you look at the screen, you can feel the surging power in its infinite white light. The strands of stellar wind, which were like real things, were constantly surging, just like the true fire of the sun, burning in the void.

The tail flames of more than 2,000 ships in the human fleet that were slowing down at the same time were like the light of several matches burning together in front of it, which was simply not worth mentioning.

As soon as the fleet completed the deceleration and entered the conventional gravitational capture range of this white giant star, humans felt that they had come to a world of light.

Looking out from the porthole, the warships and spaceships next to them were all illuminated by the light of the white giant star, as if all the warships were bathed in white light.

From the moment people woke up from hibernation, this white giant star became the brightest star in the sky, and as the distance continued to approach, its brightness continued to increase, from a bright star in the starry sky to a scorching sun, and then to a huge fireball that could not be looked at directly.

That was a fireball in the void, the true fire of the sun, a collection of violent energy, and the source of the surging stellar wind. The endless energy turned into photons and released them outwards without cost, dyeing the planets within its range into a vast expanse of white.

The human fleet shuttled through the violent ocean of light and slowly approached the target planet.

The target planet that humans were going to dock at this time was the only rocky planet in this galaxy, and the only planet, 18 astronomical units away from the white giant.

Even though it was so far away, due to the excessive surging of its main sequence star, the temperature of this rocky planet reached hundreds of degrees Celsius during the day, and dropped to below minus 200 degrees Celsius at night.

From such a huge temperature difference, it can be seen that this planet has no atmosphere. In fact, in such an environment, even if there is an atmosphere, it has long been blown away by the surging stellar wind.

Scientists estimate that in such a surging stellar wind environment, if this planet wants to keep its atmosphere, its mass must be at least five times that of the earth. Unfortunately, the mass of this planet is only 1.9 times that of the earth, and the result can be imagined.

As for the reason why there is only one planet in the entire star system, human scientists speculated through on-site observation data and stellar evolution models that those planets that are too close may have been swallowed by its main sequence star in the past long time, while the planets with more distant orbits did not have the conditions to form when the star was first born.

In general, this is a place that is not suitable for life to survive.

However, as a second-level civilization, humans have strong battleship armor made of No. 2 alloy materials, so it is not a big problem to carry out various activities here. Of course, various machine operations are still a little difficult, but they are not impossible.

However, like before on other planets, wearing light armor, that is, light space suits, it is impossible to move on the planet in light space suits, because the star activity of this white giant is too strong, and it is releasing various radiations around it all the time.

In such an environment, throw a Geiger counter over, and the value immediately jumps to explosion, and human light space suits can't resist it at all.

So the moment when the stellar environment data was obtained, humans knew that this time they could only wear tactical armor for the entire exploration activities on the planet.

Only the super strong protection of tactical armor can block all kinds of cosmic rays and ensure the safety of human beings.

The only planet is still a rocky planet, which is very lucky, and humans have no choice. After the fleet arrived at the planetary orbit, it was the same as usual.

Humans are already very familiar with the development of planetary resources. The whole process is roughly the same, but it needs to be adjusted locally according to different planetary environments.

First, launch a large number of artificial satellites to establish a comprehensive planetary detection network, then unmanned detection and data collection, and then unmanned equipment airborne for secondary detection and planetary data modeling, and then various initial base equipment login and deployment.

Then there are multi-faceted explorations on the ground, both manned and unmanned. After detecting various mineral resources, it is to build a mine, dispatch large machinery and equipment, remote control machinery, unmanned machinery and other machinery and equipment to mine, and then load transport ships and transport them back to the ground base, and finally launch them into space with an orbital mass accelerator.

Humans have already fully digested the space elevator technology, but it has not been built yet, so at the beginning, they can only use the orbital mass accelerator.

When humans obtained the space elevator technology from the Guogaimangmang star, they planned to build five space elevators. Now that there is no external interference, they can proceed.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

With the current technological level and mechanical expertise of human beings, when they are completely free, whether in ground base laying, air-to-ground resource transportation, or engineering construction, the efficiency is completely incomparable to that of the Nair people.

After the supply chain of various mineral resources was stabilized, humans built the ground part of the space elevator in one year, and also improved it on the original basis.

The design of the space elevator of the Nair civilization is completely based on long-term use on a certain planet, but humans, as a wandering civilization, will definitely not stay in a certain star field forever.

Therefore, in the design of the space elevator, humans have painstakingly carried out targeted transformation.

First of all, the ground structure of the elevator, humans also made modular and mechanical folding designs for it, and in order to facilitate the entire transportation to space and leave with the fleet, humans also specially reserved rocket joints on the ground large structural components of the space elevator.

In this way, once evacuation is needed, humans can completely take away the elevator cable, install several rockets on the base of the space elevator, and then launch it into space and transport it away together.