Advanced scientific breakthroughs were always first applied to military purposes. That was an undeniable reality of human technological development.
America's research into this Gravity Bomb was no exception.
Although the lack of breakthroughs in fundamental physics had kept America's research into gravitons moving slowly for years, efforts to weaponize the bomb's main functional component-the "Graviton Collector"-had progressed rapidly.
Researchers at America's Area 13 had spent nearly ten years deciphering the Graviton Collector's basic operating principles and had even reverse-engineered a theoretical model of the device!
It remained only a theoretical model because, while it was feasible in principle, the enormous gap between their materials science and manufacturing techniques and those of the alien civilization kept it firmly on paper. They could not even build it in a laboratory. That was also why the superweapon "Thirteen" could not be replicated at all.
It was like giving ancient people blueprints for a handgun. Even if they could understand them, they would never be able to make one. The gap in basic industrial capabilities was simply too great.
To Nie Yun, however, this model meant something entirely different!
The light suddenly faded from the eyes of Nie Yun's avatar, and he seemed to fall into a daze. He was mobilizing vast amounts of processing power to optimize the device, using Mechanical Insects as its base material and energy crystals as its power core, while combining Earth's technology with the alien technology from the Lunar Ruins.
The Secretary of Defense and the other two men beside him watched in bewilderment.
This fellow had just spent one minute scrolling through a technical document of more than two hundred pages from beginning to end, then gone motionless as though stunned.
Had he entered some legendary state of enlightenment?
Just as the Secretary of Defense was about