Long Gravity Ring

A star-devouring megastructure, as the name implied, could swallow celestial bodies. It was a biological megastructure capable of taking an entire celestial body into faster-than-light travel, hence the name star-devouring megastructure.

This differed from the planetary faster-than-light engine on the Dalians' homeworld. This megastructure could swallow a star in a short time and then send the celestial body into faster-than-light travel, without requiring an intensive construction project.

With such a megastructure, the Collectors' material extraction speed would rise to another level. Once they captured a celestial body, they could immediately enter faster-than-light travel without worrying about being struck by the Great Destruction.

The prospect was wonderful, but achieving it would also be immensely difficult.

First, such a megastructure had to be at least celestial in scale. For an object of that size, structural strength could not be guaranteed unless it was a structure like a gravity ring that relied on gravity to maintain its integrity. Electromagnetic molecular materials were far from capable of supporting a celestial-scale structure. Otherwise, planets would not all be spherical; they could be square or triangular.

Precisely because of this, sending a planet into faster-than-light travel required construction based around the planet itself, connecting the gravity rings and faster-than-light structures to it. It could not involve building the megastructure in advance and then fitting it over the planet; the latter was vastly more difficult than the former.

That raised a question: if they could only rely on gravity, how were they supposed to build such an enormous structure?

After much discussion, the Collectors came up with a bold idea: they would try modifying the existing gravity ring structure, making gravity rings more diverse.

It did not matter that celestial-scale structures needed gravity to maintain their strength. They would simply use gravity to maintain their strength.

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