Qian Zhenhua saw Han Niba's expression and glanced around at everyone. Seemingly guessing what they were thinking, he said:
"Don't get worked up. It really is extremely difficult, but it's worth it!"
Everyone froze.
Han Niba frowned and said:
"Worth it? Do you know how much time and money it would take us to finish?"
Qian Zhenhua walked up to the screen and signaled for the technician to bring up the situation map of the Kona Star System.
"First, I need to explain a concept to everyone here."
"The Kardashev Scale."
He picked up a stylus and drew a vertical line on the screen.
"This is a classification of civilizations proposed by humanity in the last century, based on the total amount of energy a civilization can harness."
"A Type I civilization, also called a planetary civilization, can harness the energy of an entire planet."
"Great Xia's current level has probably only just reached Type I."
"We only acquired controlled nuclear fusion technology recently, and we're still some way from fully harnessing Blue Star's energy."
"But antimatter technology and our other leading technologies count in our favor, putting us just barely at the level of a Type I civilization."
"A Type II civilization, also called a stellar civilization, can collect and harness the entire energy output of a star."
"Its signature structure is a Dyson Sphere or Dyson Cloud."
"There are also computing and AI requirements: it needs supercomputing systems and super artificial intelligence capable of supporting computations on the scale of an entire star system, simultaneously handling immensely complex tasks such as managing populations and resources across multiple planets."
"The Kona Civilization has strong artificial intelligence, which is clearly sufficient to meet that requirement."
"There's also a requirement for interstellar exploration capability, meaning mastery of cutting-edge spaceflight technologies such