coobybook Chapter 150: Devouring the Planet Phase 2
Chapter 150: Devouring the Planet Phase 2
April 2058, Earth Era, Uranus.
[Home, home, this is Galactus 3, we have arrived at the designated location. ]
[Home received. Please check the space situation and carry out the work as planned. ]
【clear! 】
There are nearly thirty satellites orbiting Uranus, which have been revolving around Uranus quietly and in an orderly manner for billions of years.
On this day, an "uninvited guest" arrived in the satellite orbit.
A silver planet, several sizes larger than Titan, the largest satellite of Uranus, came from the depths of the deep dark space and headed straight for Titan.
After approaching Titania, this planet, which was made entirely of silver-gray metal, suddenly opened up like a hamster ball and turned into a hemispherical shape, revealing a huge space with a glittering light inside, swallowing up the entire Titania with a diameter of more than 1,000 kilometers.
The spherical surface then closed again and returned to a complete sphere, replacing the original position of Titania, and slowly revolved around Uranus like a silver-gray satellite.
【Capture of Tianwei-1 completed.】
【Start the processing program. 】
Dazzling arcs of electricity burst out from the interior of the silver-gray planet. Countless giant lightning bolts several kilometers or even dozens of kilometers thick, carrying terrifying energy, bombarded Tianwei's first moon. The huge satellite seemed to be immersed in a sea of thunder and lightning.
Under the continuous bombardment of endless lightning, Tianwei gradually became red, hot, and melted into magma. It began to fall apart from the surface and disintegrated at a speed visible to the naked eye.
[Processing progress 0.01%…0.02%…0.03%…]
[…100%. Processing completed! ]
Two months later, Tianwei disappeared, and the silver-gray planet that "swallowed" Tianwei grew larger.
Then the silver-gray planet began to move again, heading towards the next Uranus satellite.
"Reporting on the situation of Galactus 3."
"Energy system is normal."
"The structure of the star is stable."
“The Celestial Processing Shop is running great.”
Each indicator and parameter was quickly fed back to the commander of Galactus 3.
Liu Peiqiang read all the reports carefully before he felt relieved to give the order to start swallowing the second satellite.
Looking at the man-made objects under his feet, he saw that they exerted unfathomable power, melting and decomposing a huge star, separating it into pieces of metal, elements, and compounds, and then under the reshaping of the light beam force field, they became structural components and became part of Galactus 3.
Liu Peiqiang couldn't help but marvel at the magical power of this creation.
[As expected of a special being that can travel across the multiverse, such a powerful creation, if it were only relying on humans, I wonder how many centuries it would take to create it...]
In 2054, on the day of celebration for the completion of the first phase of the Sky-Repairing Project, the Traveler appeared again and presented Earth civilization with a celestial-level artifact called the Star Devourer.
Used to help humans carry out the second phase of the sky repair project.
[Planet Devourer] is both a spaceship and a celestial-level processing plant. It can travel at a maximum speed of 5 percent of the speed of light and directly process celestial bodies that are no larger than two-thirds of its own size.
——The diameter of [Galactus] is 5000 kilometers, and its total mass is about 0.05 Earths, almost as big as Mercury.
In fact, the United Government later discovered that the creation named Galactus 1 given by the Traveler was transformed from Mercury. The orbit of Mercury was empty, and one of the eight planets in the solar system was suddenly gone.
At the end of 2054, Galactus 1 (the initial machine) was sent to Jupiter by the United Government to exploit the resources of Jupiter's satellites.
The powerful ability displayed by [Star Devourer] is shocking. Just as its name, Star Devourer, it can really devour planets.
After swallowing Io and Europa, Galactus 1 almost doubled in size. After swallowing Ganymede, the largest satellite in the solar system, it achieved self-replication and produced a new Galactus.
The technology on Galactus far exceeds the imagination of Earth civilization. It is incredible that an artificial planet can eat, grow and reproduce itself like a living thing.
Humans who have seen Galactus "eating" and "producing" have an illusion that it is not a machine but a giant living bacterium.
One becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight...and the number increases by two, just like bacteria.
Liu Peiqiang was fortunate to be selected by the United Government to become the commander and captain of Galactus 3.
Although Galactus is highly intelligent and can operate almost fully automatically, it still requires a large number of humans to man key positions to ensure that this dangerous creation does not escape human control.
Apart from anything else, if Galactus runs around and hits the Earth, it will be much more serious than the lunar crisis that year, and the Earth will be doomed.
There are 3 million people on Galactus 110, which is equivalent to the population of a modern city. With so many people distributed on a creation that is half the size of the Earth, it is actually very sparsely populated, with an average "living" area of nearly square kilometers per person.
What does it mean? It's like a county-sized place, and you live alone...
In 2056, Galactus 2 was completed and sent to Saturn to mine the resources of Saturn's satellites.
In 2058, Galactus 3 and 4 were taken offline at almost the same time and were sent to Uranus and Neptune respectively to collect satellite resources for self-replication.
——The "reproduction" cycle of Galactus is about two years.
It is estimated that by 2060, the number of Galactus satellites will reach 8, and 6 of them will be sent to Neptune to officially mine Neptune.
Yes, Galactus is actually a set. It can operate independently when separated, and when combined together, it can form a system for mining large celestial bodies.
Theoretically, only two Galactus can be used to mine a celestial body as large as the Earth. Six Galactus can be used to mine Neptune. The larger the mass of the celestial body, the more Galactus are needed.
When there are enough Galactus, humans will be able to mine Saturn and Jupiter, and dismantle all celestial bodies in the solar system except the Sun, Earth and Mars, and transform them into Galactus or resource bodies.
During this period, the Earth and Mars will serve as processing plants, converting the resources collected by Galactus into components of the [Solar Fusion Controller].
Galactus itself can also be disassembled and turned into raw materials for production.
The second phase of the Sky-Repairing Project is expected to take 30 years to complete the dismantling of Neptune, Uranus, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter in turn, and build a [Solar Fusion Controller] around the Sun.
The [Solar Fusion Controller] will be built about 1500 million kilometers (about 0.1 astronomical units) from the sun, just at the edge of the solar atmosphere known as the Alvin boundary.