"Sir, these particles seemed not to obey the law of conservation of mass. I couldn't effectively detect what exactly happened to an object before and after, but the change did happen."
In the laboratory, Harry held a bundle of alloy plates around five centimeters long and no more than one centimeter thick.
Though the bundle now weighed less than two hundred grams, if these alloy plates were restored to their original size, their actual mass would be one hundred tons.
This was technology more magical than magic itself. As for where that lost mass went, perhaps it was temporarily stored in the Quantum Dimension—who knew?
Paired with a suit, it allowed the user to adjust their mass at will. Sometimes, a punch carried the mass of an adult; other times—such as when fighting on Thomas the Tank Engine's tracks—it carried the mass of a toy soldier figurine.
By using Cross Particles and suitable methods and Instruments to irradiate these materials, they could be kept in a compact, lightweight state, then restored after being transported to the space construction site. It was extremely convenient.
With this, transport capacity would no longer be a bottleneck in space development. A single Engineering Ship could carry several million tons of Alloys and other materials.
These material-carrying Engineering Ships became mobile warehouses. Just ten or twenty spacecraft could hold all the materials needed for a Star Base, while the remaining nearly two hundred Engineering Ships could work around the clock.
Of course, using Cross Particles for transportation was not cheap—but what was more valuable than time?
"It's fine if we can't figure it out. Recalculate the construction schedule for Odyssey Base. Let's see how long the new schedule is."
"Odyssey" was the code name for the Solar System Base. As humanity's first Star Base, its