How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 419 - 420 Sub-light Journey (Part 1)

Chapter 419: Chapter 420 Sub-light Journey (Part 1)

"After all aspects of data debugging, each segment begins to charge and increase the strong magnetic field, and begins to make the final countdown, 4998..."

"...,,, 2043..."

"...10, 9...3, 2, 1, 0, launch!"

Through the initial speed brought by the initial gunpowder propulsion, the metal enters the strong electric field area at a speed of 230m/s per second. Under the acceleration of the strong electric field, the speed is still rising sharply. The scenery in the corridor that generates a strong electric field becomes blurred from a clear picture, and the scenery is like floating light and shadow, but only the corridor in front is not good. Change.

10km/s...

This speed has exceeded the first cosmic speed of the planet, and thinking that the second cosmic speed is close, but at this time, the uniformly increasing metal body has not yet left the accelerated electric field of the corridor, and the speed is still steadily rising.

100km/s...

The corridor is a vacuum environment. If it is filled with gas, this kilogram of metal body will quickly wear out in just a few minutes. After all, moving at such a high speed, air can be roughly understood as a solid.

At this time, from the perspective of the metal body, the surrounding scenery has changed from a blurred floating light to countless thin lines. Only the scenery in front has not changed, and the acceleration continues.

1000km/s...

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/s...

At this time, the metal body has circled eight and a half circles around the equator, and is completing the ninth circle of motion. At this time, looking at the outside world from the perspective of the metal body, the countless thin lines around it have become more and more blurred, almost invisible to the naked eye, and the brightness of the scenery in front of it has increased, like a light bulb that is gradually lighting up. , from bleak to dazzling.

The acceleration continues.

The metal in the strong electric field is a living body. The metal exoskeleton with titanium as the main body is constructed into a cone shape, which is very similar to the appearance of the titanium snail, but it is very different internally. It does not have a solid propellant organ like a titanium snail, and there is a brain that dominates the main body.

Unlike traditional cells, in order to adapt to the acceleration from conventional speed to sublight speed, the collectors have designed a new form of cell. Its cytoplasm is a concentrated solution of polymers. The magic of this liquid is that ordinary stirring is presented as a liquid, but if it is smashed with force, it will appear as a solid. .

The main reason why the concentrated solution as a liquid has such properties is that there is no linear relationship between the shear stress and shear strain rate of the concentrated solution itself.

Cells use this liquid as the cytoplasm. During the acceleration period, the internal whole will present solid properties, thus avoiding the tearing of internal cells. If ordinary cells are used to accelerate to sublight speed, I'm afraid that when they are separated from the sublight speed orbit, the metal is just an empty shape structure, and the inside is already a paste of corpse. Body.

During the acceleration period, it is necessary to ensure the activity of each cell. Cells also need to breathe and nutrients. In the final analysis, they are biological, not mechanical, and machinery does not have such distress.

In order to solve this problem, each cell is added with a vesicle design. During the acceleration, each cell inside the metal can maintain its life by consuming nutrients inside the vesicles.

There is no design to store too many nutrients inside this organism. Due to the scale reduction effect of relativity, from the perspective of metal objects, the travel time to the target star system does not take five years, and it will be shorter, so there is no need to expand the storage of nutrients.

Under normal conditions, in the process of accelerating in the sublight track, the naked eye will form black vision due to recoil, resulting in the inability to see the outside world and even anything in front of it.

In the final analysis, the eyes also need to undergo a chemical reaction of liquid matter to enable the organism to see everything around it. During acceleration, the strong recoil will squeeze the liquid matter at the micro-scale of the visual system, resulting in temporary blindness or blurred vision. The specific situation is determined by the recoil strength at that time.

To solve this problem, the collectors used two sets of vision systems, one is a traditional vision system and the other is an abiotic vision system, which is the same principle as the monitor.

During the acceleration, all the cells inside the metal body will show solid properties, and even the blood will be solidified, and the cells of the eyes are naturally no exception. Therefore, the biological visual system is basically in a strike state, and then the creature will spontaneously activate another set of visual senses.

In the sensory part of the eye, there is a set of ion networks inside the cell. Under normal circumstances, the flow of cytoplasm causes them to play the ability to receive visual information, which can be different during acceleration. Non-Newtonian fluids such as polymers will appear solid state at this time, so these ion channels can To play a role.

The captured electromagnetic waves are transformed into 1 and 0 digital signals, which are transmitted to the brain through neurons, which processes this information by itself.

However, even so, in this acceleration state, the accelerated metal body cannot determine its current position by observing external electromagnetic waves, because the speed has been raised too high.

Fortunately, there is no way. If the metal body wants to know where it is, it only needs to feel the force it bears. Because part of the sub-light speed orbit is the circumferential acceleration track of the equatorial, so after the speed increases, the metal The body also has to withstand a strong centrifugal force, which can roughly judge its position.

If the centrifugal force exists, it means that the metal body itself has not been separated from the annular part of the sub-light orbit. When the centrifugal force disappears and the recoil still exists, it means that the metal body has entered the vertical part of the sub-light orbit. After a period of time, it will reach 90% of the speed of light and leave the accelerated orbit. Enter the deep space of the universe.

When the centrifugal force and recoil force all disappear, this is when the accelerated strong electric field that has reached the sublight speed and has been separated from the sublight orbit has embarked on a journey to the target star system.

The acceleration stage is controllable, so although there is a strong centrifugal force and recoil, it can only be regarded as thrilling. The real risk of this journey is that after reaching the sublight speed, the metal body embarks on a journey to the distant star.

The group in that stellar system, please - the supreme will.

"I will get there safely. It's all for the ethnic group."

The danger of the journey did not arouse the negative emotions in the heart of the metal body. At this moment, its heart is surprisingly calm, enduring the discomfort caused by acceleration and waiting for the state to recover.

In fact, it has not waited long. With the acceleration of speed, the shrinkage effect is also increasing, and the acceleration of several months seems to be less than a day from its perspective.

When the force exerted on the whole body disappeared, it knew that the extremely dangerous journey had begun.