The Industrial Capacity to Build a Complete Dyson Sphere
This application came as a surprise to Yue Yuan, because he had never hinted or suggested to the leaders of the Crimson Flame Civilization that they should also participate in the construction plan, and he had never even thought of having individual beings from the Crimson Flame Civilization participate in the mining mission.
Therefore, Yue Yuan specifically sought out the leader of the Crimson Flame Civilization to understand the situation.
After some investigation, Yue Yuan realized that this guy had developed a sense of admiration for humanity after learning about such a massive project, and wanted to involve the Crimson Flame Civilization in it as well.
Yue Yuan wouldn't have believed such words if the Great Commander the Crimson Flame Civilization hadn't been Mind Imprint. However, under the influence of this Mind Imprint, the leader of the Crimson Flame Civilization was determined to follow humanity.
Therefore, his starting point must have been good; he must have been thinking about how to enable humanity to complete the Millennium Project as quickly as possible.
However, the individual life forms of the Crimson Flame Civilization are a different story. Humans don't have the time to Mind Imprint on these massive numbers of life forms, so Yue Yuan was somewhat worried after receiving the application.
But then I thought about it and it didn't seem like a big problem. Since the Crimson Flame Civilization wanted to participate, then let them participate. Anyway, there were Mining Area Patrol Team around, and the mining equipment they used was all made by humans, so I wasn't worried about them being able to Electromagnetic Wave Broadcast into space.
As for running away as a group, that's even more impossible. All the warships coming and going are human-made, and it's very difficult for these individual beings involved in the mining mission to steal the spaceship and escape like in the movies.
After careful consideration, Yue Yuan was honestly tempted by the application to become the Great Commander of the Crimson Flame Civilization.
If the Crimson Flame Civilization could participate, then without a doubt, humanity would save a lot of time in creating new Strong Artificial Intelligence, or even need to create so many Strong Artificial Intelligence. This is because the Crimson Flame Civilization has an overwhelming number of life forms, and their reproductive capacity is very strong. The Crimson Flame Civilization has Public Incubation Room, and within their civilization, such an incubation system is already very well-established. Incubating a group of life forms specifically for mining operations poses virtually no social or moral problems for them.
Based on these factors, Yue Yuan and his Think Tank members discussed the matter and found it feasible. They believed that the Crimson Flame Civilization could take on the task of developing and mining resources on some of the planets. However, they suggested that the Crimson Flame Civilization's resource mining teams should not be allowed to mine a single Star System, but rather they should be assigned to each Target Star System.
For example, if a Star System contains eighteen Rocky Planet, some of them could be allocated to the Crimson Flame Civilization, while the other part could be mined by Strong Artificial Intelligence as originally planned.
Humanity's current population has reached 10 billion, but that's still far too few to simultaneously develop eight Star System. It would be impossible to do so using traditional manual mechanical control. Therefore, from the moment we decided to launch the New Particle Collider project, we never considered using manual methods and instead relied entirely on Strong Artificial Intelligence.
That said, it's impossible for humanity to dedicate all its human labor to mining, but it's not bad if the Crimson Flame Civilization can continue to exist.
This is feasible! The highest levels of Human Civilization have reached a consensus.
Thus, an order was issued from the command center and then disseminated to all manufacturing industries of Human Civilization through the administrative department.
The original plan to create Strong Artificial Intelligence can be scaled back, and the freed-up production capacity can be used to construct various resource extraction equipment, resource extraction Engineering Ship, and so on. Obviously, these are tools provided to the Crimson Flame Civilization's mining teams, who, in order to develop resource mining, naturally cannot send their own Residential Spaceship there.
Such temporary changes to the plan will not have a negative impact on the overall plan. On the contrary, they have greatly improved the efficiency of the initial stage of the construction plan. After all, it is much more difficult to manufacture Strong Artificial Intelligence than to manufacture engineering equipment for resource extraction.
As time went on, the initial phase of the Millennium Project gradually got on track.
The probes clearly show a scene where countless transport ships come and go in the dark night sky, turning the space between the human fleet and the Yellow Dwarf Star a light-year away into a busy shipping lane.
Transport ships laden with resources travel back and forth along this route. On this single route alone, the number of transport ships reaches tens of millions, continuously providing this resource to the human Great Fleet.
In Level 2 Civilization, the bright exhaust plumes of transport ships of this size would surely illuminate the dark night sky. However, Level 3 Civilization are different. The application of Magnetic Propulsion makes these transport ships appear like ghost ships traversing the darkness, silent and stealthy.
The nearest Yellow Dwarf Star was the first to produce resources, followed by a star about twelve light-years away from the human Great Fleet. Resources from that star were also being transported to the Great Fleet in the thirty-third year after the plan officially began.
The other, more distant stars were subsequently explored.
Thus, in the following period, as the eight Target Star System successively produced resources, the human Great Fleet was like an octopus sitting firmly in space, its eight tentacles connecting the eight Target Star System, continuously absorbing various resources from them.
The tentacles of this 'octopus' are made up of a massive number of transport ships and vessels. They are like industrious worker bees, continuously bringing nectar to their hive.
The transport ships and vessels were loaded with all kinds of metals, which would be processed into Particle Collider modules by the headquarters of the human Great Fleet, and then pieced together to form a Particle Collider that was 6,674 Astronomical Unit long.
Metal, metal, metal. We need more metal, we need all the metal! This scene was like the cry of humanity's Great Fleet to those eight Star System.
Building such a long collider requires massive amounts of steel, pushing the demand for various non-ferrous metals to an all-time high. Therefore, humanity must dig and mine relentlessly, excavating every single Rocky Planet in the eight Star System until none remain, emptying them of all their metals.
With such massive demands for resources, those Rocky Planet cores have already cooled may very well end up being hollowed out by humans. Of course, hollowing out a planet is not easy; at least with current human technology, directly drilling into its iron-nickel core is not feasible.
The so-called hollowing out, to put it more vividly, is like human mining teams gradually nibbling away at the entire Rocky Planet, like ants eating an elephant, throwing its material into space, slowly reducing the planet's size, and ultimately achieving the goal of hollowing out the planet.
Such a large-scale project is unprecedented.
The powerful industrial capabilities that humanity has demonstrated in this massive project are actually the most basic industrial capabilities required to manufacture a complete Dyson Sphere, and also the most basic industrial capabilities required to build so-called space wonders.
In other words, to build a complete Dyson Sphere in a Star System, a civilization would need to have the industrial capacity to excavate all the planets in the other six Star System; otherwise, the civilization would not have enough resources to build a complete Dyson Sphere.
Of course, in other words, the moment construction began on the New Particle Collider, humanity had already unknowingly acquired the ability to build a complete Dyson Sphere.