Advantages and Disadvantages

The arms and legs of Atmospheric Creature are composed of segments of "cartilage." When in a dormant state, these "cartilages" are only connected by the Atmospheric Creature's body tissues, making them extremely fragile.

However, after the power is turned on, these "soft bones" will generate a special electromagnetic field, and these fields will attract each other to form an overall constraint field.

At this moment, the entire tentacle is essentially enveloped by the entire binding field. Without overwhelming power to instantly break the binding field, it would be impossible to breach the tentacle's defenses.

Therefore, when the Wind God attacked the suspected dormant Atmospheric Creature, their bodies were quite fragile before they could react, and more than a dozen of them were instantly torn to pieces.

But when they realized what was happening, they activated a restraining force, and these tentacles transformed into indestructible whips, powerful in attack and difficult to destroy.

At the same time, these arms and legs, along with the main body, also serve as a special propulsion device. When the magnetic field of the arms and legs is working, it can create an ionized gas—plasma—within them. This plasma is then transported to a special organ in the main body, which can use the interaction of electric current and magnetic field to accelerate the plasma axially and generate a very high specific impulse.

The internal magnetic field forces propel these plasmas, causing them to be ejected at high speed from the tail cavity of the main body, propelling the body forward at an accelerated pace.

Because thrust is proportional to the square of the current, the efficiency of the thruster is higher when the current and power are as large as possible. Therefore, Atmospheric Creature can freely adjust their speed by regulating the output power.

Furthermore, due to the extremely high temperature of the plasma, Rowan and his team unexpectedly discovered that the aerogel material that makes up Atmospheric Creature has excellent heat resistance and insulation properties.

At the same time, it can also insulate against low temperatures.

Aside from its relatively poor defensive capabilities, it is well-suited to be the primary material for crafting Swarm space units.

Furthermore, Rowan and his team discovered that these tentacles were like external components for Atmospheric Creature. As long as their heads and main bodies were not damaged, even losing some tentacles would not cause significant harm to the main body. Moreover, the tentacles possessed an extremely strong regenerative ability after being damaged; as long as the energy was replenished, they could quickly grow back.

This explains why, although the Atmospheric Creature appeared to be seriously injured when they were playing, none of them died.

The head of Atmospheric Creature is encased in a large piece of "cartilage," which can form a restraining field on its own. When activated, the field forms a protective shield on the head, helping them resist air resistance.

Therefore, under normal conditions, they can only swim in the air like fish, at a fast but not outrageous speed. However, once the power is activated, air resistance will no longer be a problem, and the power from the power source will allow them to reach an extremely high speed.

The Atmospheric Creature's architecture doesn't even need any modifications; it can be used directly as a space template. The Swarm -like Atmospheric Creature hatched on the far side of the Red Moon can easily adapt to the environment there.

Rowan didn't know why these naturally occurring space creatures weren't scattered throughout the entire Origin Star System. This was a topic that the Intellect could study, as he was also somewhat curious.

However, while Atmospheric Creature have many advantages, their weaknesses are also quite obvious.

First, if the other party has the same means, it will cause a magnetic field conflict, canceling or weakening the effect of the magnetic field. This is why they can easily damage their wrists and feet when they fight each other.

Secondly, they lack organs capable of storing large amounts of energy, resulting in extremely poor sustained combat capability. It's like a car with a fuel tank only the size of a beverage can.

Although Atmospheric Creature can store some energy, their numbers are not large. Therefore, in order to maintain the daily needs of their enormous bodies, they spend most of their time floating in the air, absorbing various forms of radiation.

At the same time, whether they are flying at high speed, using their tentacles to attack or defend, their energy will be consumed rapidly as soon as they start using electromagnetic means.

Moreover, their energy output ceiling is very high. For example, the plasma propulsion system has a higher output power and a higher thrust, resulting in a faster speed.

For example, their tentacles constrain the magnetic field. The more energy they transfer, the stronger the constraint field becomes, and the more resilient and powerful their tentacles become. Under normal conditions, their tentacles might break when pulling an object weighing one or two tons, but with the transfer of energy, they can even pull objects weighing hundreds of tons without breaking their tentacles.

The amount of energy output can be easily discerned from the frequency, brightness, clarity, and scale of the blue Electric Arc flashing on their surface.

However, perhaps due to the lack of natural predators and a comfortable environment, these Atmospheric Creature have very low intelligence, making them completely unable to control their energy output.

After charging for half a day, playing around for a few minutes and then giving up—that's just basic stuff.

Those dozens or even hundreds of Atmospheric Creature played with the Spore Sac meteorite for less than an hour before returning to their respective homes. It wasn't that they didn't want to continue, but rather that they ran out of power.

Similarly, it's not that they didn't want to preserve the Spore Sac meteorite for later use, but rather that because they lacked an electromagnetic field, their tentacles simply couldn't hold onto the Spore Sac meteorite, leaving them with no choice but to give up.

Rowan now understood why these Atmospheric Creature, despite possessing the ability to traverse the space environment, had remained confined to the A7B5.

However, Rowan didn't have a good solution to the shortcomings of Atmospheric Creature templates. Although he had some genes for energy-storing cells, the energy-storing capacity of these cells was not much stronger than that of Atmospheric Creature.

Furthermore, they also have some compatibility issues. Although these cells can store electricity, they cannot directly absorb the energy from them to power themselves. Therefore, if the genes of these energy-storing cells are added to the template of Atmospheric Creature, an additional nutrient supply system would be needed, which seems somewhat counterproductive.

However, Rowan not only had ample time but also a large research team, and he didn't believe he couldn't develop a decent energy storage organ. Even if it took hundreds of years to solve these problems, he was willing to wait.

After all, for him now, without the obstruction of intelligent civilizations, it's only a matter of time before the Swarm conquers the entire Origin Star System.

As time passed, all the moons of Planet A7 were occupied by the Swarm. Occasionally, Intellect would use the Swarm Network to control the bodies produced there, conducting research and experiments.

For example, sending Swarm- like Atmospheric Creature deep into the interior of Planet A7.

As more information is gathered, the mysteries of Atmospheric Creature are gradually being unveiled.