Wandering Meteor-Chapter 108: Constant Star Renovation Plan

"Hello Demon Star, my name is Yang Wenye."

As a child, he could naturally call the Sun "Daddy Sun."

But he didn’t know what changed as he grew up; all he knew was that now it felt incredibly awkward and embarrassing to call it that way. So he switched to calling it Demon Star.

In fact, it wasn’t just him, but all Earth People within the Wandering Base found it too embarrassing and too troublesome to keep calling it Daddy Sun during regular communications with Constant Star Lu Chen, thus they habitually referred to it as Demon Star.

The 29-year-old scientist Yang Wenye said, "I have heard that there are two convection zones inside your Constant Star Body. If that is so, could you possibly create a propeller inside the Constant Star using the method you use to create the convection zones? If a Constant Star Storm could be expelled at high speed from this Constant Star Propeller, it should generate a certain amount of thrust to provide acceleration for the Constant Star. This is a method I thought of whimsically; I just wonder if it’s feasible?"

Lu Chen: "..."

It’s not that he was displeased, but when he heard this suggestion, he simply couldn’t help thinking of Earth.

He began to suspect that, perhaps after the bold initiative of transforming Earth, the imaginative power of Earth Civilization had become a runaway horse, to the point that now they even wanted to transform Constant Stars.

However, strictly speaking, the plan proposed by Yang Wenye seemed to have a great deal of feasibility.

So, Constant Star Lu Chen began discussing the possibilities with the scientific team from Earth Civilization.

After careful discussion, a final conclusion was reached.

They decided to start by having Constant Star Lu Chen provide data on the densities and sealed nature of the convection zones, as well as the intensity indices of the Constant Star Wind and Constant Star Storms.

Then, Earth Civilization would begin to calculate how much thrust such a plan could provide and at what rate the Hydrogen Element mass of Constant Star Lu Chen would be depleted while implementing this plan.

Once comprehensive data was collected, they would meet again to discuss the final decision.

Thus, a group of scientists at the Wandering Base established the Constant Star modification project team, led by Yang Wenye, whose main responsibility was to calculate all data related to the Constant Star modification process.

Under Yang Wenye’s leadership, the Constant Star modification team labored for three months, finally calculating all relevant data models for the Constant Star modification, and after dozens of re-verifications, they completely eliminated the possibility of coincidences and unexpected situations.

Finally, with data model support, Constant Star Lu Chen clearly understood the entire Constant Star modification plan.

To implement this plan, he would first have to fortify and seal the inner convection zone, then create a circular channel leading straight to the Constant Star Corona Layer from this convection zone, with at least a diameter of five thousand kilometers.

Because only channels with such a throughput could accommodate the energy generated by his current nuclear fusion reaction. Otherwise, if the channel is too small, it would be burst instantly by too much energy, and potentially even cause unknown impacts on the nuclear fusion zone in the core.

These were some of the rigidity requirements for modifying the Constant Star.

Of course, if the Constant Star modification plan succeeded, the benefits would be immeasurably substantial.

According to calculations by the modification project team, if the plan succeeded, the various particles produced by the nuclear fusion reaction at the Constant Star core would be ejected at high speed from the channel, generating a thrust of up to thirty billion megatonnes.

Given the current mass of the Wandering Star System, they anticipate it could provide an acceleration of 937.5KM per year. If there are no other mishaps, it would only take about 160 years to accelerate the flight speed of the entire Wandering Star System to half the speed of light.

Only, this would lead to a serious consumption of the Constant Star’s Hydrogen.

According to conservative estimates by the Constant Star modification project team, the entire escape process would cause Constant Star Lu Chen to lose about seven percent of its Hydrogen mass.

But the entire escape process would merely last a short four thousand years, while under normal circumstances, seven percent of the Hydrogen mass would allow the Constant Star Lu Chen to maintain nuclear fusion for over a hundred million years.

This rate of consumption is terrifying, but there are gains and losses.

After careful consideration, Lu Chen decided to execute the Constant Star modification plan.

Although the plan would accelerate the consumption of his Hydrogen, as long as it was not fatal, it was not an issue. After all, once they escaped the Galaxy Nebula, he could simply plunder other sources of Hydrogen to maintain his stability.

At this moment, Lu Chen suddenly thought of the law of entropy increase. To reverse entropy increase, one indeed had to plunder resources from elsewhere.

With a soft sigh in his heart, Lu Chen decided not to dwell on these trivial matters. After all, he had no other options at present. This is a Cosmic Rule, for all life forms must do so in order to maintain their existence. There is no good or bad, everything is for survival.

Even if you do not plunder resources, the plundering by others will also lead to an increase in entropy within the system.

This entropy will one day reach you.

Therefore, any far-sighted biological and Celestial Civilizations will take precautions beforehand; after all, if they wait until extinction arrives, then it will be too late.

Following that.

Lu Chen started to throw himself into the work of modifying the Constant Star.

For this plan, neither Wandering, Green Star, nor Earth Civilization could be of any help. Lu Chen had to rely on himself because the temperature of the Constant Star was too high, and technology from a Level 2 civilization could not withstand such high temperatures.

Fortunately, Earth Civilization had provided all the data and steps to Lu Chen, which would indirectly speed up his modification progress.

During the process of modifying the Constant Star, due to the vastness of the engineering work, Lu Chen could no longer prioritize using gravity to accelerate. The Wandering Star System could temporarily only maintain a constant velocity flight at an upward angle at a speed of 1500KM/S.

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Green Star rarely spoke during this period.

Ever since it began orbiting Constant Star Lu Chen in a stable manner, it was almost on the verge of "hibernation."

Because he had lived for so long, there was basically nothing he hadn’t seen, so he was hardly interested in anything in the Universe. The only reason he decided to ride with Lu Chen was that he wanted to witness the spectacular collision of two giant nebulae.

However, one day, the Intention of Green Star suddenly became active.

Because he discovered something peculiar, Constant Star Lu Chen was actually starting to modify its own stellar environment.

When he learned of the Constant Star modification plan from Wandering, Green Star couldn’t help but laugh in silence. He found this Earth Civilization to be quite peculiar, not only able to conceive of modifying its own inhabitable Planet but also daring to set its sights on modifying Constant Stars. In his long life, this was the first time he had encountered such a thing.

Indeed, this imagination was simply out of this world!

Green Star suddenly had a premonition that Earth Civilization could perhaps grow into a Level 5 civilization in the future!

Of course, the boldness and daring of Constant Star Lu Chen also greatly impressed and surprised Green Star. To set about modifying its stellar environment without a moment of hesitation—it seemed that like-minded beings indeed flock together, and these life forms constituted a community of life for a reason.

Musing upon this, Green Star suddenly found an important piece of information in the messages of his Intention.

Looking at Lu Chen, who was busily working in the distance, Green Star actively sent out a Consciousness Wave message: "Demon Star, I’ve just thought of a better acceleration method, do you want to hear it?"