"We need habitable planets. A large number of habitable planets, enough to evacuate the entire Fifth Fleet from their spaceships."
In Kailudak's parliament building, a high-ranking official of the Fourth Fleet spoke frankly. His colleagues beside him had a subtle expression on their faces. It was a mixture of embarrassment and worry. The Parliament looked at us quietly. It was impossible to tell what she was thinking. As the collective consciousness of the entire Uhnad race, the Parliament would not reveal any personal feelings when thinking.
"Hmm, that's not a problem," I said readily. "But it will take some time to customize. We need to first confirm the ecological samples of the planet's inhabitants to ensure that they can survive safely on the colonized planet. But … I think the Fifth Fleet is running out of time. "
"That's right." The Parliament nodded. "I found out about their current situation from Cocokina. They lack a stable ecological system. The resources on the spaceships are not enough to make ends meet. They will inevitably reach the red line of exhaustion in ten days. So, they need to evacuate from the crumbling spaceships as soon as possible. We only have three colonized planets that are about to be used. These three planets were originally prepared for the immigrants of the Sixth Column of the Fourth Fleet. However, the ecological systems of the Sixth Column's spaceships are still usable. They can wait a little longer and let our friends from the Fifth Fleet land first. But three colonized planets can't solve all the problems. Moreover, the three colonized planets have just completed their modifications. Their habitable zones are less than a quarter of the planned zones … "
"Mm, I understand your predicament." I waved my hand to interrupt her. There was no point in listening to these minor details. "Indeed, the living space of the Fourth Fleet is still a problem. But things like colonized planets …"
I began to think about it. Actually, giving the Fourth Fleet a batch of colonial planets was not a problem at all. To the Empire, those things were just a few large boulders with a radius of a few thousand kilometers covered in a layer of carbohydrate. We had already given the entire world to the Fourth Fleet, so how could we give them a few more planets? But the problem was that colonized planets were special. They needed to be adjusted … adjusted, and that would take time.
But the Fifth Fleet could not hold on for long.
Perhaps I should explain how the Empire created artificial planets and some of the rules.
Colonial planets were for people to live in. This was not nonsense, but it was a technical project that covered a wide range of areas. Other than the Shiring Apostles and the Protoss, most life forms were fragile. Their requirements for living environments were harsh and complex. Temperature, humidity, gravity, microbes, energy, light, chemical, and even mineral and radiation environments for some special species … Countless harsh conditions had to be combined to ensure the safety of a species on a colonial planet. When a colonial planet was delivered for use, the data and text alone could reach several terabytes, which showed how complicated it was. Compared to a colonial planet, it was even easier to create a lifeless galaxy. After all, the data you needed to consider was not 99% variable like the ecological environment.
After the new Empire's military system was basically restored, and after the vassal worlds' governance was stabilized, we began to systematically create all kinds of artificial celestial bodies. The new Empire had specialized "factories" to create things like colonial planets, and these factories were located in several desolate universes adjacent to the capital world. These desolate universes accounted for about one-tenth of the Empire's "World Vault". They had not evolved into life, so they were suitable for all kinds of large-scale projects. Sandora ordered a few of the more stable universes to be dragged around the capital world, as a cover for the capital world's real coordinates, and as a large workshop. These large "workshops" were filled with giant spaceports and space structures that worked day and night. The empty space was filled with Proliferation Builders and matter-information-energy conversion generators. Their most important production task was to create various kinds of civilian (colonial planets) or military (knock-off version of planetary battleships) artificial planets.
The mass-produced colonial planets of the Empire were jokingly called "standard planets", just like the rough blanks. The "standard planets", or the scientific name "standard artificial ecological planet base blanks", were artificial celestial bodies without any life or ecological environment. They were shaped according to a unified specification, and were born with a precise density, and thus a precise gravitational environment. All material resources on the standard planets were distributed according to the blueprint to ensure that the user could mine resources according to the blueprint, so that the planet's construction would be smoother in the early stages. Depending on the model, the standard planets would have ocean grooves of random shape and distribution, but the total volume was exactly the same. When it was delivered for use, it could be filled with water or other ecological substances according to the user's requirements. But during the storage stage of the standard planets, they were all empty. The standard planets also had a basic atmosphere, but this basic atmosphere would not be used to sustain life. It was only used for product testing: to test atmospheric models, global wind tunnel effects, and so on. Once the standard planet was delivered for use, the basic atmosphere would be extracted and replaced according to the user's requirements.
Depending on the model, there were more than a hundred types of standard planets. This was just a rough classification, and it only involved the planet's physical parameters, not ecological parameters, because there was no ecological environment on the standard planets.
That was everything about the standard planets.
These lifeless standard colonial planet blanks were fixed by the gravitational stagnation force field, neatly placed in the corner of the universe like goods. Their size and color were almost the same, as if they were carved from the same mold. Before they were filled with water (or other liquids, or nothing at all), the environment, and the atmosphere, as well as the basic life, they only had a yellow color.
The people who created these civilian planets had a romantic name in the poets of the vassal races: Star Sculptors. The people who looked after these planet dumps also had a romantic name. They were called by the poets: Star Watchers.
The two poetic names corresponded to the workshop director and warehouse manager. Because their work was remote and they were accompanied by all kinds of automatic equipment, they were recognized as the two most miserable jobs in the Empire.
When would the standard planet look more like a cradle of life?
After the relevant person in charge of the military received the appointment application from the inferior civilization. Oh, this person in charge was called "Shepherd Star" by the poets, but the recognized title of these people in the Empire was salespeople. I gave them the name 10086, because most of the planet applications were submitted through the data network.
When a subordinate civilization submitted a civilian colonial planet application to the Empire, a special post-processing team would take over the 'custom order'. Because most of the Shiring Apostles had more important military missions, these post-processing teams usually did not have Shiring Apostles. Instead, they were made up of workers sent by the vassal civilizations with a certain level of technical strength. We handed over the Empire's colonial planet modification equipment and technology to them. These post-processing teams would pick up a planet from the hundreds of blanks in the reserve of the standard planet. Then, like a renovation company, they would process these crude planet blanks. They would fine-tune the planet's gravity environment, increase the atmosphere, start the basic material cycle of the planet blanks according to the proportion, and then release the first batch of life that had been modified and would not cause ecological damage to the incoming users. This process was usually done with the help of the members of the Goddess of Life. They could use insane and unscientific divine spells to catalyze life, and in a few days, half of the planet would be covered with member skin. After that, the planet's ecosystem would be completely updated two to three times, completing the transformation of the basic life group into a complete ecosystem, and preparing to welcome the new residents. After all the processing was completed and the ecosystem was running stably and the material circulation was self-sustaining, the 'standard planet' could be replaced with the nameplate of 'Colonial Planet'. The star sculptor or the workshop director would personally give it a factory number and stamp a 100-kilometer long and 63-kilometer wide anti-counterfeiting stamp near the planet's equator (sometimes at the north or south pole, depending on the model of the production line). The stamp would include the planet's model number, the inspector, the factory number and date, and a sign that everyone was responsible for protecting the environment (Qian Qian's idea). Finally, along with the finished planet, the residents would also receive a chip with instructions and a certificate of quality assurance, as well as a random postcard of a royal family member of the Imperium. The last one was still Qian Qian's idea. The meaning was that if the residents collected all the postcards of her family, they would be given an electric frying pan.
Even if I die, I can't understand why a world leader who has the ability to customize nearly twenty planets would want a frying pan. But it's decided! We had indirectly saved the Radiant Family's power plant in Z City …
From this, you can tell that I have a Qian Qian by my side. What kind of things do I have to go through every day!
Based on the above process, I believe everyone can see that although the Empire has such advanced technology that it can mass-produce artificial celestial bodies, due to its special function and target audience, a 'fine-tuning' cycle has to exist. No matter how fast we can produce the planet, it is impossible to skip the later steps of ecological fine-tuning. After all, more than eighty percent of the target audience of a civilian planet are ordinary races that are countless times more fragile than the Shiring Apostles. As long as we are involved with them, the efficient law of the Empire will often be compromised. According to my estimations, even if the planet-shaping factory were to cut the queue and change the schedule, the colony planets requested by the 'Parliament' would take at least three months before they could be produced. (This is already shocking enough. A normal race would usually take ten years to modify a planet, and the result of the modification would only allow them to barely survive in some resource-rich areas.) Meanwhile, the Fifth Fleet would have to face the first red line in a dozen days.
After some discussion, we decided that during this time, the Empire will directly provide ready-made material aid: food, water, oxygen, radioactive materials, heavy metals, various ores, man-made organic matter and inorganic matter … Well, the composition of the exiles is too complicated. Their daily necessities list is almost on par with Sandora's cookbook.
As for the living space of the Fifth Fleet, we also need to solve the problem. Their spaceships that often have toxic gas leaks are not safe, and the Fourth Fleet is still in the stage where half of the people are still living in the spaceships. So, we decided to first recruit a batch of colonization ships from the New Eden Federation to deal with the emergency. The colonization ships of the Federation are not suitable for the survival of the crew of the Fifth Fleet, but after turning off the ecosystem and connecting some external atmospheric circulation towers, they can still be used as temporary residences.
This way, at least the Fifth Fleet can safely survive the most difficult four months.
Four months later, the colonization planets of the planet-shaping factory should also be delivered for use, and by then, everything will be on the right track. For the Fifth Fleet, who has experienced many hardships, as long as they can survive, they will have endless power to build their own home.
And in these four months, the Parliament will have enough time to choose a suitable location for the colonization planets that are about to be delivered. Just like how all electrical appliances need to be equipped with sockets after they are bought, the commercial colonization planets are only responsible for delivery and installation, but not sockets. After the customization of the planet, the user needs to find a star with a habitable zone in their own universe, and the planet-shaping factory will deliver the customized ecological planet to the designated location, and senior workers will be responsible for the precise positioning and rotation (after the rotation, the stagnant state of the planet will be lifted). The whole process is free, and the workers will usually only charge two packs of cigarettes. Of course, if it is the Proteus construction team, because the workers have no mouths, they won't even charge cigarettes … Why do you think I bring this up! Although this matter is quite interesting to talk about …
"This way, the Empire's assistance to this universe will be super-large-scale, and the duration will be far longer than originally expected." After all the discussions, Sandora said faintly, "Enough supplies to maintain the Fifth Fleet, a large number of colonization ships, and the ecological planets that will be in place later. These things are quite large, and according to my expectations, the Fifth Fleet will need at least ten years of continuous support to get through the basic construction stage: the basic resources they have accumulated before have been left on their home planet when they were attacked. If that's the case, can the opponents accept it? "
"Under special circumstances, we only have one side: the Parliament itself," the Parliament said. "Although we didn't expect the situation to become like this, and no one thought that they would suddenly have such a big intersection with the Empire, the survival of the Fifth Fleet is the most important at this stage. I think even the most conservative person knows what's important and what's not at this time. "
When the Parliament said this, I could see that the few officials behind her had a slight change in expression. These people must be the conservative members who have a cautious attitude towards the Empire. However, these officials didn't say anything in the end, but after a whisper, they wisely chose to take the attitude that the world has nothing to do with me. The Parliament was silent for a while, then suddenly looked at me and Sandora. "Actually, all of this should have been expected by you. When you first heard about the Fifth Fleet, perhaps you thought that this was a good entry point."
Sandora nodded happily: before I shook my head.
"Speaking of which, I'm quite depressed." Seeing that we've finished our discussion and everything has been settled, I couldn't help but mutter, "Trying to help you is like a thief. This is the first time I've seen the word 'scheming' used as an auxiliary verb in front of the word 'helpful'."
Thus, this time, apart from the Parliament and a few people from the Empire, everyone present laughed awkwardly. Politics is indeed the most nonsensical thing in the world that can't be taxed.
Due to the time difference between the two worlds, when Sandora and I returned from Kailudak, K City was already brightly lit. Everyone was there, and the huge house was bustling with activity once again. Anveena floated out to welcome me and Sandora, a happy smile on her face. She loved it the most when the whole family returned from the distant world and gathered together to wait for dinner. Actually, I always felt that this little ghost was quite pitiful, because of her unique personality, almost every time the family went out, she would choose to stay behind alone. Thus, in her life, "An empty big house — waiting for everyone to return — after a period of liveliness, an empty big house" became a fixed routine.
"I feel very happy," Anveena answered my thoughts. "Waiting for Master to return home is also a kind of happiness."
Forget it, if that's what she thinks, then there's nothing I can do.
"Things went quite smoothly?" Big sister saw that Sandora and I had a happy expression, so she said with a smile. I nodded my head, thinking that my happy expression was indeed because things went smoothly, and Sandora's happy expression … was probably purely because it was almost time for dinner.
The sound of running water came from the direction of the bathroom, and there were a few girls' playful screams. The most obvious ones were Visca's crazed shouts and Mercury Lamp's exasperated voice. My face instantly became distressed, "Big sister, you let those clowns bathe together with you again?"
"What's wrong with it? It's to improve the relationship between sisters," Big sister said lightly, "The bathroom is quite big, and those girls also like to play with water."
Sometimes I didn't quite understand big sister's logic. She was obviously an expert parent who was known as the naughty child killer, but most of the time she turned a blind eye to those crazy girls' playful behavior. Not to mention anything else, I didn't even dare to imagine that the third-advancement loli Liliana had already …
Just as I thought about this, I saw the bathroom door open. As usual, Pandora was the first to finish bathing. She was wrapped in a small towel, and then she sat in front of the bathroom door like a wooden statue: This was her signature process, after bathing, she would wait for the natural air to dry.
"Brother," Pandora saw me and pointed at the bathroom, "They're fighting."
I: "I know."
Just as I finished speaking, the bathroom door was pushed open again. Mercury Lamp, who was dripping wet, jumped out from inside, and her towel almost fell to the ground. After seeing me, the doll girl immediately flew over and hung on my body. She angrily pointed in the direction she came from and twisted her body, "Liliana … Bastard Liliana! It's so itchy, so itchy … "
Me: "…"
"Liliana said she wanted to scrub Mercury Lamp's back," Pandora took the initiative to explain, "Mercury Lamp believed her."
"And then?"
"Liliana squeezed shampoo into Mercury Lamp's keyhole."
Me: "…"
That crazy girl was so evil, she was a scoundrel!
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