Nanospider

The name of this White Giant Star was a long string of numbers on the star map provided by the Nair People. After the arrival of humans, the name was not changed; they simply referred to it as the White Giant Star, while the only planet within it was called the Great White Star.

Here, humanity constantly comes up with new plans, new tasks, and new goals. In this way, while destroying the Great White Star, humanity also extracts various resources from it for construction and development.

Thus, time quickly passed to the twentieth year since humanity arrived here. During this time, humanity completed the construction and put into use all five Space Elevator, and fifty Space Dock were also fully operational. Furthermore, over the next decade, one hundred new Lake-Class Warship equipped with Large Electromagnetic Railgun were built.

Of course, the Lyra also completed the replacement of its main guns during this period.

According to the original plan of the Nair People in the First Star Region, the Nair People fleets from the Second Star Region and First Star Region should have arrived at the White Giant Star where humans reside by now, but there is no sign of them at all.

Human probes deployed around the White Giant Star also failed to detect any fleet slowing down.

Of course, humans were actually unaware of the Nair People's scheme; sending out probes as a warning was simply routine operation.

Because they were unaware of this, and because the Nair People generally appeared quite friendly to humans at the time, the humans' construction plans here did not take these factors into account, and everything proceeded according to plan.

In this phase of the plan, humanity intends to stay here for about a hundred years. The objectives are clear: first, the internal development of civilization, mainly advancing scientific research, technology, and cultivating talent—this goes without saying; second, improvements and additions in creation.

This refers to the previous Shipbuilding Plan, the "Centennial Thousand Ships Project." Once a thousand warships are completed, humanity will leave this place and embark on another space voyage.

As for the purpose of the voyage, the current goal is naturally to find a Star System rich in Rocky Planet, then stop and develop properly, strive to master True Nanotechnology, and elevate the technological level to Level 3 Civilization, which is the pinnacle of Aerospace Civilization.

That being said, it doesn't mean that humanity doesn't conduct research in the field of Nanotechnology in White Giant Star. On the contrary, given the experimental conditions, humanity's research and various experiments in the field of True Nanotechnology have never ceased.

After all, everyone knows that science and technology are the only means for humanity to survive in the universe.

And so, humanity has continued to develop and manufacture.

A century has passed in the blink of an eye, and humanity has successfully completed its Shipbuilding Plan, but there has been little progress in True Nanotechnology.

However, it wasn't without its gains. A century of research has helped human scientists understand exactly what the Technology Barrier of Level 3 Civilization are.

Scientists believe that as long as humans continue to improve their manufacturing processes and increase manufacturing precision, one day they will be able to break through that barrier and truly enable humans to manufacture all kinds of nano products.

Putting aside other things, the Nanomite Repair Robot that were previously used have been made smaller and more compact thanks to continuous improvements by humans in recent years, and their repair function has also been initially realized. Although the repair effect cannot be compared with the original armor, it can still stitch the hull of the warship back together from a hole.

Human-made Nanomite Repair Robot can now be made as large as glass marbles and have achieved repair functions for some specific objects, such as large objects like warship hulls, internal pipes, and inner linings. However, they cannot yet repair delicate objects such as mechanical structures, circuits, and various equipment.

These Nanobots are not omnipotent; rather, each type of Nanobots is designed to repair a specific object.

Just like the mountains of spherical Nanobots currently piled up in a Nanobots warehouse on the Lyra, their sole function is to repair the Lyra's Outer Armor.

The method used is high-temperature jet welding. The process is that when a large hole appears in the Outer Armor of the Lyra, these glass marble-sized Nanobots will extend their eight small legs with Magnetic Force adsorption function from the warehouse according to the program, and then crawl along the way like an ant colony to the damaged area, hand in hand and foot in foot, and then melt themselves.

After completing its self-melting, the internal metal jet instantly melts its limbs, and hot metal streams spray out from the inside out, melting and bonding them together. Then, like large-scale welding, the gaps are filled.

Because this thing has eight legs and a flat body, it looks somewhat like a spider, both when crawling and when it's outward, so people named it the Nanospider.

It is a specialized Nanomite Repair Robot.

Because its constituent materials are neither Alloy No. 1 nor Alloy No. 2, if the Lyra is indeed damaged in battle and repaired, it will only be a temporary repair, meaning it will not directly render the warship combat-ineffective or cause it to sink.

Even so, it greatly improved the survivability of human warships.

Scientists want to further shrink the individual Nanospider and adapt them to more functions, but they have encountered precision problems that cannot be solved by current human technology.

This is understandable, since breaking through Technology Barrier is not about achieving something from scratch, but rather a gradual accumulation of technology and a step-by-step process of improving the precision of various mechanical components, manufacturing processes, and techniques.

If we had to describe it, it would be that humanity has now chipped a small hole in the Technology Barrier of Level 3 Civilization. As the saying goes, a thousand-mile dike can be destroyed by an ant hole, and scientists believe that as long as we keep working on this ant hole, we can eventually break down that Technology Barrier step by step.

This small breakthrough caused the humans, who originally planned to leave after completing the warship construction, to stay for several more years. The purpose was obvious: to mass-produce these Nanospider and store them in the various warship warehouses.

However, it was at this very moment that a human probe located outside the White Giant Star galaxy detected a bright light.

The images transmitted back by the probe were quickly identified; the bright light was definitely the exhaust plume of the fleet.

The universe is so vast that even with many probes placed outside Star System, it is impossible to see everything. Furthermore, for some unknown reason, this fleet only began to slow down when it got very close to the Hengxin system. Therefore, by the time human probes detected its tail flame, the fleet had already entered the Gravity capture range of the White Giant Star.

They were only fifty Astronomical Unit away from the sole planet where the human fleet was located.