The surrounding stars are going to suffer again. There are currently over 100 million Grim Slayer and 100 million Wind Master. If they were all to be refitted, it would probably consume a lot of resources. Even if only the Grim Slayer were refitted, the resources consumed would still be considerable. The Grim Slayer is a behemoth with a length of 5,000 meters and a diameter of 1,300 meters.
According to the research of Academician Li Youwei and a group of academicians, the Grim Slayer does not need to replace all its armor layers with these macroscopic particles for the time being. The macroscopic particles only need to maintain a thickness of about one meter. Of course, this is the most economical approach at present. If possible, replacing them all would be the best option.
Calculations show that a single Grim Slayer has a surface area of over 20 million square meters. Modifying one meter of a Killer would also result in approximately 20 million cubic meters of surface area, requiring over 40,000 large energy spheres. One hundred million Grim Slayer would require 4 trillion large energy spheres. Even with the remaining two hundred million Grim Slayer under production, only 12 trillion energy spheres would be needed. This demand is only a small fraction compared to the 240 trillion energy spheres required to create a space vortex, which is acceptable for the fleet.
The fleet has now begun the refit and modification. The armor layers of the Grim Slayer are all modularly assembled. In order not to affect the performance of the entire warship, the Reversed State Cube was not directly attached to the surface of the Grim Slayer. Instead, the outermost two layers of armor of the Grim Slayer were removed. With the Reversed State, even if all the armor layers of the Grim Slayer are removed, its defensive energy will not be reduced in the slightest.
Without welding or rivets, the Reversed State cubes attract each other like magnets, adhering to the outside of the Grim Slayer. Once these Reversed State cubes are connected, separating them again requires the use of large machinery from the fleet. This bond is dozens of times stronger than that of ordinary steel.
A steel bar with a diameter of two centimeters can be bent by the strength of an ordinary person if it is more than ten meters long. Even the strongest alloy in the fleet, once it exceeds 100 meters, with one end fixed, can be swung several meters by an ordinary person. However, this long strip composed of Reversed State small cubes, which is as long as the Grim Slayer, at 5000 meters, has one end fixed and cannot be moved even slightly by the strength of an ordinary person.
However, for secrecy and durability, an additional layer of high-strength alloy armor, over two meters thick, is added to the outside of the Reversed State Armor layer. After all, the Reversed State Armor is composed of small cubes. Although attacks cannot destroy the small cubes, they may cause them to disintegrate. With the addition of the extra armor layer, this situation will not occur. The impact force will not directly affect the small cubes, and the defensive capability will be greatly improved. Newly produced Grim Slayer will place the Reversed State Armor layer in a more reasonable position, and their defensive capability will be stronger than the first batch of Grim Slayer produced.
The Reversed State Armor layer is extremely lightweight. The total mass of the Reversed State used to completely cover the entire hull is less than one kilogram. If conditions permit, if the entire Grim Slayer were to be built using this Reversed State, the mass would probably not exceed 200 kilograms. This reduced mass means greater mobility. In the chaotic battlefield where warp drive is not possible, this mobility will greatly enhance combat effectiveness and gain the initiative on the battlefield.
The Wind Master don't need any modifications; Wind Master will be used as bait. Their fate is already sealed, but they will also perish on the path of battle, not silently fade into oblivion.
The conversion of giant stars was already underway 300 years ago. With 6 trillion conversion devices in operation, 6 trillion energy spheres are produced every hour. Now, Hu Yu's headache is not the conversion problem, but the transportation and packaging problem. The conversion is very fast. With a scan of the magnetic field lines, the star's matter is converted into energy and gathered together.
However, these massive amounts of energy spheres could not be processed effectively in a timely manner. For the first 200 years, the fleet focused entirely on producing conversion equipment, even halting the production of the Grim Slayer. For the next 300 years, it resumed full-scale production of the Grim Slayer. The more warships there were, the greater the chance of winning. Therefore, only a small portion of the machines were engaged in the encapsulation of the energy spheres. Now, the entire space around the star is filled with energy spheres. If it weren't for the special frequency adjustment during conversion, these things would be like bombs, capable of destroying this space at any moment.
This year was full of good news. Academician Xiao made a breakthrough, and the Artificial Human Plan was also successful. The so-called artificial humans are not clones. In several planetary systems near that space vortex, Hu Yu decided to deploy at least 5 billion people to confuse the Xuan Star Civilization.
The fate of these 5 billion people is certainly to be destroyed. Of course, one cannot sacrifice one's own people, even clones, because clones are no different from humans. They also have their own consciousness, feelings, thoughts, and emotions. Therefore, Academician Xiao was asked to create a completely new kind of artificial human.
Academician Xiao has created many artificial humans over the years, but none of them are conscious or able to move, which does not meet the requirements. Hu Yu needs to be able to move, be exactly the same as a normal person, and have no abnormalities detected at all, but he cannot be conscious or have emotions.
This stumped Academician Xiao. Implanting Little Crab into the brain would allow the body to move, but that was clearly not feasible. If the Xuan Star Civilization were to dissect it, they would immediately discover the problem. Implanting a chip into the brain would be even less effective. Despite studying so many consciousness entities, Academician Xiao still had not succeeded in giving a living organism consciousness.
Academician Xiao had tried to transform ordinary organisms into human-like forms, but this was merely a superficial transformation; their movements were completely uncontrollable. Hu Yu also felt this wouldn't work; the traces of the transformation were too obvious. Given the Xuan Star Civilization's understanding of humans, they would immediately notice it without needing any further analysis.
Luo Zhigao had suffered several attacks from the Xuan Star Civilization and Mu Star Civilization, resulting in population losses. They must have conducted research on humans. Therefore, this artificial human must be indistinguishable from humans, or if there are differences, they must be less than one in ten thousand.
This is almost an unsolvable equation, but after 500 years of effort, Academician Xiao finally found a way to control the activities of artificial humans using external electromagnetic waves by meticulously studying the data and characteristics of human brainwaves. The new artificial humans are conceived from biological embryos using cloning technology. However, in the early stages of gestation, the brain's DNA is specially processed so that it can function normally, but no brainwaves are generated.
The androids created in this way are also unconscious. After creation, their DNA is restored, which means they are brain-dead from the very beginning. Although this is somewhat unacceptable from an ethical and emotional standpoint, what does this matter in order to complete the Trojan Horse Plan?
In the space age, imposing too many constraints on oneself will only hinder progress. We must discard all rules and regulations, break all worldly norms, and abandon anything that impedes the advancement of civilization. Only in this way can civilization develop at the fastest speed and gain the right to survive.
The resulting human is physiologically alive, but once removed from the embryonic implantation device, it must immediately rely on external electromagnetic waves to enter the brain, activate it, and keep it active. However, at this point, the brain is still unconscious, and all activities are controlled by the electromagnetic waves.