The moment the mobile base deployed, its built-in field generators created a vast hemispherical expanse amid the ice and snow.
The invisible field repelled the swirling frost and snow. Time and space seemed to have frozen, save for a forest of steel rapidly spreading across the ice.
The first antimatter reactors to be completed began releasing immense quantities of energy. Flickering plasma arcs erupted from the tips of towering spires, ionizing the atmosphere within the field.
Ever-extending alloy pipelines shot deep underground. Beneath Ganymede's ice layer, more than two hundred kilometers thick, lay an underground ocean roughly a hundred thousand meters deep. Such an enormous body of seawater contained abundant materials. Some of the alloy pipelines transformed into filters, continuously extracting the resources they needed from the sea.
Even more alloy pipelines spread like the roots of colossal trees. They plunged deep into Ganymede's silicate mantle and iron core, drawing materials from within.
"Even though this isn't the first time I've witnessed such a sight, I'm still awed by the power of technology. Humanity wielded this power—power like that of gods," Barabas Dantioch sighed.
Individual strength was utterly insignificant before the collective power of such a civilization. Surging nanobots began multiplying exponentially, efficiently replicating themselves with Ganymede's abundant resources and the immense energy of antimatter, then directly producing the equipment and structures required.
Weather control devices, essential for transforming a planet's atmosphere, appeared once more. Their continuously rotating spherical tops controlled Ganymede's atmosphere, making its chaotic atmospheric circulation manageable and conducive to production.
The raging frozen hurricanes quickly subsided. Ganymede's ice fields became quieter than ever before, while rapidly generated greenhouse gases formed an insulating barrier in the atmosphere, trapping solar radiation and thermal radiation from the planet's surface.
In the darkness, buildings filled with technological elegance lit up in