Benjamin ran through this future in his mind, then reined in his flights of fancy, lowered his head, and opened the light screen. He pulled up the complete data from the latest refinement and began calculating the losses item by item.
Strings of numbers flashed rapidly, finally compiling into a single result.
Benjamin stared at that result for several seconds before finally sighing.
Previously, he had been worrying over how to use those fifty billion stars. There were simply too many of them; planning their uses alone would take quite some time.
Now, however, he had a new worry: fifty billion stars did not seem to be enough.
He quickly did a round of mental calculations.
According to his design, the star power extractable from one standard-sized star was roughly enough for a few hundred-millionths of a primary array node. Factoring in energy loss and the additional materials consumed during refinement, on average, several hundred million stars were needed to gather the materials for one primary array node. For three hundred and sixty-five primary array nodes, plus the refinement failure rate and calibration losses, at least over sixty billion stars would be required as raw materials. And that was only for the primary array nodes.
If the one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred auxiliary stars also had to be refined using star power, then even though their material standards were far lower than those of the primary array nodes, the number of stars consumed would still have to multiply several times over.
Fifty billion stars sounded like a lot.
But once they were spread across this grand array, they suddenly seemed rather inadequate.
He calculated it again, this time adding in the variable of "using more high-value auxiliary materials to raise the utilization rate of star power." After several