"Mm... reasonable."
Some resources had special production requirements. They did not consume much themselves, but demanded an enormous amount of energy. From this, he could roughly determine the technological limit of the Mechanical Core.
It was at the level of a veteran Intermediate Civilization, still short of an Advanced Civilization.
Advanced Civilizations had resource utilization rates comparable to the insect swarm. They possessed a technology called Foundation Particle Conversion, which could convert any material into its most fundamental state.
The Interstellar Alliance called them Foundation Particles. They could convert 10 grams of sand into any other material of the same mass!
10 grams of gold, 10 grams of Advanced Alloy, or even 10 grams of neutron matter!
There was no distinction between Basic Resources, Primary Resources, or Intermediate Resources. Of course, to convert Foundation Particles into an advanced material such as neutron matter would require more energy than the power reserves of an entire Primary Civilization could provide.
The Doran had once observed a Foundation Particle Conversion process. That Advanced Civilization had drained more than a thousand dying stars before barely managing to convert them into a spherical mass less than ten meters in diameter.
"At its current level, the Calamity Hub's technology is enough for me to use for a very, very long time. At least until I master the technology of a veteran Intermediate Civilization, I only need to consider its production capacity."
Jiang Xiao wore a broad smile as he mentally filled all five production lines.
The first three production lines were used to produce thirty Laser Modules, while the other two produced a type of Electromagnetic Explosive Rifle, with a planned quantity of one hundred.
This Electromagnetic Explosive Rifle was a large-caliber semi-automatic rifle he had pieced together based on the X-21's data. Within seven hundred