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Even if Shen Qingyuan's consent was obtained and all departments were required to do their best to cooperate with the Scientific Planning Committee, completing this project was still not an easy task. In fact, the project was in trouble at the beginning.

There is still a big gap between mastering the principles and owning the physical objects. Just like in the ancient times of the earth, humans have already mastered chemical energy, but the diesel or gasoline engines used to drive cars were not finally manufactured until the industrial revolution.

Now, humans have mastered the electromagnetic interaction force that has undergone some mutations in that special environment, but manufacturing propulsion equipment that meets the requirements still requires a large amount of resource investment.

The design team composed of top material scientists, engineers, mechanics experts, physics experts, etc. has been engaged in busy work. Under Huang Yuan's arrangement, more than twenty such teams were established in total, and each began to design the thrusters. In the future, after a series of tests and evaluations, the design with the best performance will be selected and then mass manufacturing will begin.

In addition to these design teams, theoretical exploration and research on the overall architecture of the super planetary accelerator also continues. At least ten teams of astrophysicists have begun to study the best way to merge planets and build models for simulations. In addition, more teams have begun to conduct the most detailed research on all aspects of the physical data of Messenger Stars.

This is undoubtedly a huge project. Every detail and minute step of such a project, such as the materials used in the accelerator, its installation and transportation process, the interaction with the planet, and even the weather and atmospheric circulation that originally existed on the planet, Satellite systems, magnetic field systems, etc., every detail needs to be considered, and every detail requires several specialized scientific research teams to explore and study. Even though scientists have temporarily given up on basic science research and tens of millions of people have put all their energy into the current project, Huang Yuan, the commander-in-chief of the Messenger Project, still feels that there is not enough manpower.

This is just a matter within the scientific community. Expanding to the entire human civilization, there are many more things that need to be dealt with. For example, advance energy reserves - obviously, after two planets merge to form a brown dwarf, the extraction of fusion energy will be very inconvenient, so people need to reserve enough energy for more than two thousand years in advance - this is a huge task. project. This not only requires mobilizing the power of almost all energy companies, but also requires more detailed planning in transportation, storage, etc. Or the reserve of various mineral resources, the demolition of various equipment originally built on satellites, the construction of large space factories, and a series of tasks. Each task will consume a huge amount of human and material resources, and requires the participation of at least tens of millions or even billions of manpower. So the frequency of regular meetings of the Government Affairs Committee was changed from once a week to once a day, and later to twice a day, barely keeping major matters from being backlogged.

The entire Phoenix Galaxy turned into a busy construction site in a very short period of time. Countless spaceships shuttle between different planets, countless people in a hurry travel between different spaceships, and indescribable amounts of data are transmitted back and forth between major institutions relying on the newly laid super-light speed communication network.

Four months after the announcement of Plan MESSENGER, rough details of the energy reserve plan were also released. In this plan, scientists once again showed their madness to everyone.

"It is impractical to rely on gas tanks or giant energy ships to store enough fusion fuel for an entire civilization to use for more than two thousand years. Although the main energy source of the super accelerator used to propel the Messenger Star comes from the radiation of the Messenger Star, the migration fleet can also Obtain part of the energy supplement from the Messenger Star, but after removing this part, we will still need a total of five billion tons of fusion fuel. This is equivalent to one hundred times the total mass of the Earth's atmosphere, and the energy released after fusion is approximately equal to that of the sun The total energy released in twenty-five years. To store so much fusion energy, we need at least one billion super energy spacecraft of the largest size. This is undoubtedly unrealistic, so we can only find solutions from other directions way."

At the Government Affairs Committee, Dr. Huang Yuan once again told the committee members about his crazy idea: "There is a simple and convenient plan, which is to store these fusion raw materials on an existing planet. After selection, A suitable planet has been found, which is what we usually call the desert star. It is the largest satellite of the new Saturn, and its mass reaches 54% of the Earth. It originally had no atmosphere, We can collect those fusion fuels in the form of gases, and then release them directly to the surface of the desert star, using the gravity of the desert star to fix the gases... Yes, we will artificially create an atmosphere for it that is almost entirely composed of fusion fuel. At the beginning of the voyage, we will take it with us to obtain enough fusion fuel to last us for more than two thousand years."

Compared with the huge project of fusing two gas giant planets to create a star and then directly taking the star away, this plan shocked the committee members in no way, which even made the committee members unaware for a moment. What should I say? I can only look at each other.

After a long time, Han Luochang murmured and asked: "I remember that hydrogen gas will continue to escape from the planet's gravitational field because its mass is too low."

Huang Yuan immediately replied: "That's true. But this is a geological concept, and its time scale is extremely long. It only lasts two thousand years. No matter how high the escape rate is, it will not have an impact on the whole."

General Lei Zhen asked: "How do you ensure that the Desert Star will not be thrown away or swallowed by the planet during the planetary fusion process?"

Huang Yuan said: "This problem is easier to solve. We only need to build about a hundred planetary engines on it. In conjunction with the orbit adjustment of the new Saturn, it can easily break away from the gravitational field of the new Saturn and become a planet." A planet orbiting the Phoenix star. After the planetary fusion is completed and becomes stable, we can adjust its orbit again and bring it back to the orbit around the Messenger star."

The committee members looked at each other again. Wu Wei couldn't help but sigh: "Sure enough, scientists are the craziest guys."

Huang Yuan turned a deaf ear and continued: "We can also put the remaining resources that need to be reserved on the Desert Star. It will become a giant warehouse that our human civilization carries with us, no matter how much material we have. In this way, we It will save at least 500,000 resource spacecraft construction tasks. Overall, the execution of this task will not increase the difficulty of the task, but will allow us to save a lot of manpower and material resources."

"In that case, there is nothing more to say. I approve of this plan."

"I agree."

The advisory committee composed of eleven members unanimously approved the request to carry out this mission, so many energy spacecraft rushed into the atmosphere of new Jupiter and new Saturn at the fastest speed, and began to collect fusion energy. Just one month later, at least 10 billion tons of gas appeared on the desert star, which even caused some breeze.

The transformation of Desert Star is just one detail of the entire huge plan. Apart from this, more people and more spaceships are busy. One year after the Messenger project was proposed, Team 7 took the lead in completing the structural drawings of the planetary accelerator and successfully built the first prototype. After that, more than 20 teams proposed their own construction plans.

These plans have similarities and differences. Various advanced technical concepts collide, inspire and mix with each other, and a next generation of manufacturing solutions with more advanced performance and higher efficiency are born.

The remaining aspects are also progressing steadily and are progressing smoothly. As Huang Yuan said initially, this project only involves new technologies, but not new science. This means that any technology required for engineering is within the scope of the existing theory, and at most it only needs to be modified or reorganized.

Another night comes to an end, and morning comes as promised. As usual, Dr. Huang Yuan opened his eyes as soon as the bell rang, washed briefly and then left the bedroom.

There are endless things waiting to be dealt with every day. Although he has long been separated from the front line of scientific research and Huang Yuan is not involved in daily administrative work, the entire messenger plan is still inseparable from Huang Yuan. Because only Huang Yuan is proficient in and understands every detail of the Messenger Plan and knows the technology involved in every link. The most important thing is that only Huang Yuan knows how to proceed with the plan.

Even Huang Yuan himself lamented that the pinnacle of his life would be that moment of inspiration. To this day, except for Mo Xiangsheng and himself, no scientist dares to claim to understand the data and formulas he wrote down.

Specific research projects are important, but without themselves, they will not even know what to research. Only you know the direction of the future, and this is the gift brought to you by that flash of inspiration.

A spaceship quickly left the capital city, taking Huang Yuan, Mo Xiangsheng, and some accompanying people to New Saturn. The planetary accelerator is about to enter the mass production stage. Huang Yuan is really worried if he doesn't go on an on-site inspection.

The huge gaseous planet outside the window has occupied most of the field of view, and hurricanes and lightning all over the planet's surface can even be seen. But at this moment, a trace of flame quietly appeared in a corner that no one noticed.