Observation

[Flying Builder Project]

Participating research centers: Electromagnetic Force Research Center, Controllable Magnetic Field Research Center, Electromagnetic Oscillation Research Center, Materials Research Center, Space Technology Research Center...

Equipped with an independent Controllable Magnetic Field Device system, an independent controllable nuclear fusion power supply, and interstellar flight capabilities.

The new Builder was an interstellar construction unit, breaking away from both the stationary factories and warehouses people traditionally imagined and the interstellar construction ships depicted in fiction.

It would be a vital piece of infrastructure for the base's future, potentially bringing about the second revolution in industrial productivity of the controllable nuclear fusion era.

Although its construction had begun later than the Homeward Bound's, it too had been born into a good era-the first overhaul of the industrial construction system following the advent of nuclear fusion.

Luo Qi had specifically allocated materials to bring it into existence, making it a priority construction project.

Now, the completed Flying Builder was about to begin testing.

[Flyer Fusion Reactor fuel loading complete]

A large factory on the edge of the base's New Industrial Zone was packed full with a single Flying Builder.

It measured 200 meters in length and width and 30 meters in height. Its enormous body of insulating metal resembled a gigantic black block.

Under Luo Qi's supervision, numerous researcher copies carried out the detailed operations.

[Flyer Fusion Ignition-Fusion Reactor ignition successful]

[Energy output normal]

[Awaiting instructions]

Compared with the copies, who could hardly wait, Luo Qi was much calmer.

On the day the fusion device had been successfully developed, he had already seen his future among the stars.

If the Flying Builder passed validation, the entire Orange Star system could leave the planet's surface and move directly into space, sustaining itself in an asteroid belt.

The productivity supporting the entire civilization of intelligent machines would always be the top priority. As long as they had productive capacity, they could start everything over again.

"Prepare for testing!"

[Flying Builder testing initiated]

[Test one-Electromagnetic Repulsion Drive]

The electromagnetic repulsion drive could also be called an antigravity system. It repelled the planet's own magnetic field and gravity, operating on a principle similar to that used by maglev trains in his previous life.

The enormous Flying Builder actually took flight. It emerged from the factory and hovered in midair.

[Test two-Electromagnetic-Field Particle Accelerator]

The Electromagnetic-Field Particle Accelerator was also an Ion Thruster. Its Controllable Magnetic Field Device stripped away electrons, then accelerated them with an electromagnetic field to generate the reaction force that propelled it.

Thousands of blue jets erupted beneath the Flying Builder as it accelerated westward, quickly reaching a speed of 280 kilometers per hour.

Imagine a cube larger than the Water Cube flying through the sky!

The Flying Builder stopped above a stretch of sand 25 kilometers from the base, preparing to begin a production experiment that would determine whether Luo Qi's civilization had truly entered the interstellar age.

Synchronized satellite data streamed back to build a model, watched closely by over a thousand copies participating in the experiment.

They were filled with anticipation and excitement.

Luo Qi wanted it to produce a Guardian Type 2 Fighter and began importing the corresponding model data.

[Model parameters:...]

[Detailed equipment list:...]

[Model generation complete-]

[Controllable Magnetic Field Shaping Device ready-energy input initiated]

After entering a series of material parameters came the most crucial step: supplying energy.

The Flying Builder then set to work in earnest.

Luo Qi received the feedback data. If introducing controllable magnetic fields to assembly lines had been the first industrial revolution following nuclear fusion...

Then this was the second-an epoch-making second revolution.

It was an enormous 3D printer, but its printing method was unlike anything conventionally understood.

First, six enormous support pillars descended from the Flying Builder's underside. It slowly lowered itself to the ground, and pale blue lightning soon lit up the pillars.

The most critical means of printing-the enlarged Controllable Magnetic Field Devices-began operating. More than ten thousand independent modules formed a single supersystem, whose powerful magnetic fields swept up material from the ground and sent it spinning at high speed.

As the controllable magnetic fields activated, the magnetic field beneath the Builder gradually grew abnormal. Vast quantities of sand escaped gravity and slowly floated upward.

It was as though the planet's gravity had collapsed. Electrical flashes flickered through the rising sand and soil, which formed a black storm as invisible magnetic field lines churned them rapidly.

The energy within the storm melted metal and sand grains, while the mobile magnetic field generators on the six support pillars moved continuously.

Working in tandem with them, tens of thousands of emitters along the Flying Builder's underside modulated the magnetic fields.

They served as the printer, rapidly confining the high-temperature material within the magnetic fields and shaping it into the desired form.

The outline of a Guardian Type 2 gradually emerged within the black storm.

"The printing isn't quite perfect yet, but it only needs a little more refinement."

Luo Qi had an intuitive sense of this, but perfecting equipment with such tremendous productive capacity would only take time...

Over the following days, the Flying Builder continued to undergo refinement. The Orange Star system would release the official Flyer First Generation as soon as possible.

More and more laboratories appeared in conventionally built branch bases, and the expanding range of applied technologies was often updated daily.

Time flowed like water. The Flyer First Generation emerged and began transforming Orange Star's production system.

Production would no longer be confined to fixed platforms such as factories and assembly lines, though mining vehicles continued to gather metals for the research centers and precision electronic equipment.

The base's daily material consumption reached 2.2 million tonnes and continued to grow at a frantic pace.

Luo Qi completed testing on the nanorobots. The first generation of nanorobots was composed of molecular materials.

They were more like living organisms, capable of consuming matter and converting it into energy.

Large numbers of autonomous flying satellites replaced the haphazardly scattered meteoroids. Although they resembled satellites from his previous life, they had their own miniature fusion devices and were more like reconnaissance craft.

The ever-growing number of research centers launched more research projects. Intermediate electromagnetic force involved electromagnetic interactions between microscopic particles.

Through deeper research into electromagnetism, one of the universe's fundamental forces, the research centers discovered that concentrating immense energy with high-intensity magnetic fields to form a distorted body could actually trigger an anomalous gravitational point that attracted other matter.

This meant that the electromagnetic framework had begun to tap into an even more powerful force: gravity.

But doing so required controllable nuclear fusion. The Electromagnetic Force Research Center applied for another independent project.

The researcher copies saw countless future applications, from capturing objects in space to counteracting planetary gravity.

In short, research always yielded all sorts of new branches to explore, and this had fueled the explosive growth of Orange Star's current knowledge of the electromagnetic force system!

After improvements, Flying Builders were constructed on a massive scale and began replacing conventional factories. Their exceptionally fast construction speed and autonomous mobility were outstanding, and research even began on an upgraded version, the Sky Whale.

If the humans from Water Blue Star still did not come, he could only act as though they did not exist. Another week had already passed.

Luo Qi felt that with one more week, he would no longer worry about human attacks-not just if Water Blue Star sent warships, but even if the two planets stood face-to-face.

The reason was simple: production of Flying Builders had already begun scaling up. When civilizations had comparable technology, productive capacity was the combat strength of intelligent machines.

The Sky Whale Builder Project was being refined...

The Flying Builders replicated themselves and completed the deployment of defensive forces for the Myriad Stars System.

As research into gravity progressed, the electromagnetic towing device unexpectedly gave rise to an entirely new Gravitational Towing Device.

This allowed Luo Qi to find a completely new Interstellar Engine to replace the Ion Thruster.

Orange Star now held over a thousand "cities" of various sizes. One morning, Luo Qi received a preset notification.

[Water Blue Star warship entering space]

Luo Qi switched to every observation feed. Over a thousand eyes provided him with a view, allowing him to observe the warship lifting off from Water Blue Star.

"What sort of advanced technology took humanity so long to prepare?"

Luo Qi watched with intense concentration, bracing himself for a formidable enemy. He left the newly completed Homeward Bound elsewhere for the copies to handle.

Water Blue Star-

Rapid technological development in recent years had given the Alliance the capacity to undertake long voyages through outer space.

Human civilization on Water Blue Star could now be said to have grown beyond a minor civilization confined to an isolated corner.

It was simply that, at this stage, Water Blue Star's resources still met humanity's development needs. They had yet to reach the point of resource exhaustion or a population explosion, so there was no need for interstellar development.

Orange Star Base was merely the River Domain Alliance's experimental project to develop Orange Star.

Meanwhile, the White Dove Alliance was developing large-scale orbital cities around Water Blue Star for tourism.

While staying out of each other's way, both sides had also signed the Joint Cosmic Resource Development Treaty.

Following a decision by the Alliance parliament, the Alliance Space Force was secretly mobilized, and the Regional Research Center brought out an Experimental Space Battleship.

After more than ten days of preparations, the Azure Planet River Region Alliance finally launched its experimental warship into space!

This absurd move put the White Dove Alliance on alert. In its eyes, the so-called alien claims secretly communicated by the River Domain Alliance were merely an excuse to arm its space force and begin a new arms race.

Amid the global public's enthusiasm for space, the White Dove Alliance called for people to reject war and an arms race, urged a suspension of space weapons development, and appealed for a return to reason...