Chapter 368 Nano Forge
The scavenger robot just handed over the control authority directly to Chen Ming. He didn't know what happened to this string of identification codes, and it actually had such high authority.
However, Chen Ming did not suffer in this matter, so of course he accepted the scavenger with a smile.
It also saves him the time to test whether controlling the scavengers counts as controlling the battleship.
After controlling the scavenger, the first thing Chen Ming had to do was of course let the scavenger robot conduct a system self-check, and he relied on the quality inspection data to confirm the status of the scavenger.
And used the highest point to scan the scavenger.
Of course, the first result to come out is the log file during the system self-test.
Chen Ming took a look at the log and quickly asked the scavenger to stop the self-examination.
Because he discovered that these log files had filled up the storage unit that controlled the core of the scavenger's personality.
In addition to the system files kept by the Scavenger itself in the core storage unit, all external storage units are filled with log files of the Scavenger's periodic self-checks.
This allows Chen Ming to only be able to read records from about 30,000 years ago at most.
All older log records have been overwritten.
If the self-test is performed again, more files will be overwritten.
Chen Ming's maintenance can pull up files that have become gray, but there is no way to retrieve files that have been overwritten.
Just like things affected by destruction cannot be repaired using spiritual energy.
After all, this is maintenance, not going back in time.
After the scavenger stopped self-examination, Chen Ming quickly backed up a copy of the scavenger's log, and then confirmed the situation in the log record.
It looks like it was the earliest time to start.
It's a pity that the diary records from 30,000 years ago are not the records that Chen Ming wants to see.
It is not a record that scavengers were created when the Shining Civilization still existed, nor is it a record that scavengers unloaded the weapons and main controls of countless battleships and installed them on themselves.
Instead, there are some very boring periodic and almost constant running back and forth in nearby galaxies, constantly leaving records of a large number of mining robots mining resources and recycling them.
Think about it, since the entire storage unit has been completely filled, the earliest part of the record is of course the first to be overwritten.
Just seeing these extremely detailed records, whether they were words, images or videos, Chen Ming still felt a little overwhelmed.
These completely redundant records took up a lot of the scavenger's storage space, leaving him with no way of knowing what happened earlier.
But there's nothing you can do about it. Don't expect to change things once they've happened. It's better to first see if there's anything valuable in the records you have.
Chen Ming briefly screened the contents of the records.
Filter out the records of what happened step by step over 30,000 years and find only those records where special circumstances occurred.
However, most of them are just records of some ground biothreat mining drones and then being quickly solved. There is no valuable information at all.
There are also things that I have to say.
That is, the scavengers keep all the logs of planets that have mined resources in all nearby galaxies.
It also additionally records the locations of scanned resources buried deep underground that cannot be mined by drones.
These records are saved in the core storage unit and have not been overwritten.
After all, this should be considered the job of a scavenger.
This information can save Chen Ming a lot of time in investigating and locating resources later.
And since scavengers have been to those places, there are also autonomous mining drones that have collected minerals without encountering danger.
Then there must not be too many dangers on these planets that we have been to. If there were, they would have been killed by scavengers long ago.
Even if there is a real danger of not being discovered, it must be underground.
Chen Ming's main method of extracting resources now is the Zerg.
Instead, he hoped for some danger.
After all, danger also presents opportunity.
Although it is not necessarily a good opportunity.
But for the Zerg, it should be an opportunity to eat.
Chen Ming quickly read through the parts of the 30,000-year records that were different from the daily records. He could only say that these records were bland and a bit beyond his imagination.
The 30,000-year-old scavenger robot has been wandering in an area centered on the Origin Galaxy, constantly sending out mining robots, constantly recovering mining robots, and constantly transporting minerals to the habitable planet in the Origin Galaxy.
The repetitive work just kept going on.
Chen Ming felt so bored that he wanted to vomit.
I really don’t know...
Oh, by the way, although the personality core of the machine race is called the personality core, it actually does not have a real personality...
Forget it, that’s it.
It is stated that no valid information can be obtained from the scavenger's log records.
Fortunately, the scanning process for scavengers at the highest point has come to an end.
This allowed Chen Ming to learn more about the scavengers without controlling them.
For example, what Chen Ming could see at this time was the various levels on the body of the scavenger, which was larger than the battleship. It even included the outer shell made of the battleship's weapons and armor. They were really all The real deal.
And all weapons, whether inside or outside, that are installed on the scavenger are connected to the main control system of the scavenger.
This means that all these modified weapons can be used, whether they are main-level weapons or any other ship weapons.
Even after the outermost armor and weapons are destroyed, the scavengers can actively shed the outer "ship" armor and continue to attack with the inner weapons.
It can really cause damage at the main level.
The real combat power should at least be able to face the concentrated fire of dozens of battleships at the same time and fight back. To deal with this scavenger, at least hundreds of battleships would be needed.
This number is somewhat small compared to the thousands of battleships recycled by scavengers to form their own bodies.
However, in Chen Ming's view, the combat effectiveness of several battleships has undergone a qualitative change compared with a single battleship.
And the difference between dozens of ships and several ships is also extremely huge.
But the premise of this is quantity, and quantity represents dexterity.
Although this scavenger has collected at least the weapon systems and main control systems of thousands of capital ships, its firepower is definitely not bad.
But individually, especially a single scavenger of such a large size, it is hard to say how well it will perform in actual combat.
Chen Ming's judgment was also relatively conservative. Perhaps the scavengers would perform better in actual combat.
He just thinks in the wrong direction out of habit.
In any case, the scavengers are the most powerful space combat unit at his disposal.
But Chen Ming did not intend to use it in combat.
The main reason is that there is no occasion that requires this level of combat power.
The secondary reason is because the results just scanned by the Supreme Point are more than that.
On the scavengers, in addition to the bodies pieced together from the wreckage of the spaceship that can be seen with the naked eye, there are countless cutting-edge nanorobots that are more efficient than the nanorobots carried by ordinary mechanical races.
Judging from the models of various additional attachments stored in its core storage unit, these nanorobots are not the nanorobots that were originally equipped when the scavengers were created.
Instead, they were nanorobots collected by scavengers from various warships, and they were continuously optimized and iterated over the past thirty thousand years to create cutting-edge nanorobots.
The existence of these nanorobots gives scavengers an efficient nanorepair system.
At the same time, it also gave the scavengers some nano-weapons optimized by relying on these cutting-edge nano-robots and various spacecraft debris.
Of course it's just a weapon enhanced by nanorobots, not a nano-level weapon.
In space, true nanoscale weapons do not have such good application prospects.
However, main-level weapons enhanced by nanorobots are definitely stronger than normal main-level weapons.
This is enough to further strengthen the combat effectiveness of the scavengers.
But what these nanorobots are more suitable for is obviously another thing that exists in the body of the scavenger.
Nanoforge.
This is an industrial core equipment and an integrated miniaturized nanorobot factory.
But its size is only about ten cubic meters.
It is a special device similar to the purgatory core, synchrotron core and catalytic core.
At the same time, it is also the reason why today’s scavengers were born.
The reason why it is called today's scavenger is because when Chen Ming scanned it, he found that there was something wrong with the structure of the scavenger.
The real basic scavenger did not have such a huge body today. It was originally just a mining drone platform. It did not have a nanoforge at all, nor those thick armors, nor those countless weapons.
The reason why this happened,
It is absolutely inseparable from the Nano Forge
The positioning of the nanoforge is that it can evolve from the initial piece of equipment into a huge factory that can cover the planet, transforming the planet into an industrial colony.
It doesn't matter whether it's an ordinary industrial colony or a psychic industrial colony that mass-produces psychic devices.
Of course, the latter requires psykers to control the nanoforge throughout the process, and it also absolutely requires a large amount of psychic materials to be accumulated.
They could do it in the era when Shining Civilization still existed, but Chen Ming definitely couldn't do it now.
Of course, it can't be done, but it doesn't prevent Chen Ming from figuring out the working principle of the nanoforge through the data stored in the scavenger core.
And the reason why this nanoforge did not appear on the planet, but on the scavengers.
Although this reason is unclear, there is no way to fully explain the matter.
But Chen Ming's scan of the scavenger could at least let him know that the nanoforge appeared on the scavenger because it was damaged.
As for how the nano-forge was damaged and how it got to the scavengers, Chen Ming had no idea.
Anyway, he could tell directly from the scanning results that the nanoforge was damaged and that the nanoforge was taken away by scavengers. I don't know how many years ago, the scavengers of the automated mining platform took away the damaged nanoforge and began to use the nanoforge to strengthen themselves.
Ultimately, a monster is created.
That is today’s scavenger robot.
An object that can gradually evolve a planet into an industrial colony if sufficient materials are provided. Even if it is damaged, the value of its existence is far greater than that of a combat robot.
Chen Ming definitely wants to use the damaged nano-forge inside the scavenger to study the analysis principles and perform actual operations.
It's just that Chen Ming doesn't have the time to do something that takes a long time.
The research process of the capital ships on the empire's side has never stopped, but he took time to spend on this fourteenth jump of the pioneering fleet.
No matter how you say things have priorities, researching the nanoforge is definitely not more important than settling down the real stronghold as soon as possible.
So Chen Ming's idea is to let the scavengers continue their previous work, go mining, and collect all the wreckage of the spacecraft in the galaxy for recycling.
Anyway, important parts of the wreckage in the orbit of this habitable planet have been picked up by scavengers, and the materials consumed to repair them are equivalent to building a new ship.
It’s just that there is no need to spend a lot of basic resources to build the basic framework.
But it's not necessary.
Even if Chen Ming has a capital ship now, he still doesn't have a suitable person to control the capital ship, at least he doesn't have one right now.
It's better to recycle resources and go to nearby galaxies to continue doing what we need to do.
Not only can the scavengers continue to work, but it can also temporarily serve as the guardian of the Origin Galaxy.
Before the colonies and military power of the Origin System became sufficient.
This was until Chen Ming thoroughly confirmed the situation of the galaxy so that the pioneering fleet waiting behind could come over and start the real colonization phase.
Chen Ming gave the scavengers new instructions.
However, the scavenger did not directly implement it, but responded to Chen Ming: "We have not obtained the permission to exploit non-natural resources in the current galaxy."
The "current galaxy" in the sentence the guardian responded to was the name given to this galaxy by the Shining Civilization.
Chen Ming changed it by the way and changed it to the name he named Siyuan.
Of course, this is not the point. The point is that the scavenger's response reminded him of a question.
If scavengers do not have the authority to mine resources, then how do the things dismantled from the battleships be installed on their bodies by scavengers?
"Some restrictions may be ignored during times of war."
War...
Sure enough, there are traces of the destruction of shining civilization.
However, the scavenger's core storage unit does not store any war-related information.
Only information relevant to its essential work is stored by it.
This is really...
Chen Ming sighed and was about to use the identification code to grant permission to the scavenger.
However, he suddenly noticed that the scavengers just mentioned non-natural resources, which meant that natural resources scavengers could mine them.
It's just that the scavengers didn't directly mine all the resources in the galaxy for some reason. Even the resources in nearby galaxies still exist in large quantities, and it doesn't look like they have been mined for tens of thousands of years.
He asked the scavenger again.
The answer given by the scavenger this time was relatively long.
The general meaning is that what Shining Civilization wants is balanced resource development.
It is to let the scavengers conduct a round of surveys in nearby galaxies, and then plan according to the resource proportions of these galaxies to plan a set of routes for balanced resource development.
And this route gradually expanded as the scavengers explored the surrounding galaxies.
Therefore, as the area where resources are exploited becomes larger, the average number of resources exploited in each place will of course become smaller.
It can only be said that the scavengers are only engaged in the initial development of some exposed resources in space and on the planet's surface.
Shining Civilization needs to be able to still produce economic benefits in these places after this initial period.
This is considered normal logic.
After all, for a civilization, compared with directly exploiting resources in one go and relying on resources to create industries and convert industries into economic benefits, the latter must be chosen.
Unlike Chen Ming, they don't need to consider the consequences of mining all the resources at once.
After Chen Ming's Zerg "exploited" a planet's resources, the planet itself had no value.
Not to mention the value of the minerals, this planet is riddled with holes inside and outside, and there are problems with its geological structure. It has no value at all for colonization and development.
Therefore, after the Zerg developed, Chen Ming's approach to some of the developed planets was usually to let the Zerg eat them up without leaving any traces.
Keeping it is also a waste, it is better to completely transform it into the energy of the Zerg.
Therefore, Shining Civilization definitely intends to develop this area for a long time, but it may be due to the war for some reasons that the development process has been hindered, and it has not been officially launched until today.
Only the scavengers are left here repeating the orders left by the shining civilization.
As for the reason why Shining Civilization wants to develop here, Chen Ming is very clear.
So be it.
Chen Ming used the identification code to open permissions to the scavengers.
Watching the mining drones carried by the scavengers unload all the resources, they followed the scavengers to the debris-strewn places on the orbit and began to recover the resources on the ships.
Chen Ming did not continue to pay too much attention there. Instead, he turned the ship at the highest point and scanned every planet and satellite in the galaxy.
Although he knew that the Origin Galaxy was the home of the scavengers and it was unlikely that there would be anything dangerous, he still had to go through the process.
After confirming that there are no problems with the planets and satellites in the galaxy.
Chen Ming set his sights on the celestial body in the galaxy that corresponded to the location of the habitable planet, the wormhole.
This must be the reason why Shining Civilization wants to develop this place, because Chen Ming can tell from the records of scavengers.
This wormhole has been here since at least 30,000 years ago.
The highest point gradually approached the position of the wormhole under Chen Ming's control.
He went to investigate what the wormhole was like.
Several large-scale equipment are being hung at the highest point under the influence of his psychic energy, and are gradually activated under his control, locking the target of the action on the wormhole in the galaxy.
Half a year ago, after obtaining the Star Gate, Chen Ming took advantage of learning battleship technology to learn a lot of knowledge related to Star Gates, singularities, and wormholes.
Not to say that I have completely mastered it, but I have at least learned a rough idea of how to use some equipment and how to investigate a wormhole.
During the period just now, Chen Ming was not only conducting a preliminary investigation and analysis of the scavengers, but also giving him time to dispatch equipment from the empire.
Although since Chen Ming started researching the capital ship, the empire no longer cares about how many things he controls, nor does it care how much equipment is essentially Chen Ming's.
But Chen Ming is about cultivation and character.
When he controls things that are not his, they are only for convenience and will never be taken away for personal use. He will even help repair the equipment.
Therefore, Chen Ming needs to consider whether others are using it when scheduling equipment.
He couldn't just take the equipment away without saying hello.
The time he just spent dealing with the scavengers was also giving others time to complete the current experiment as quickly as possible so that he could move the equipment away.
Several pieces of equipment quickly started operating smoothly, returning various readings from the wormhole to Chen Ming.
Chen Ming is most concerned about only the two most important attributes.
coordinates and stability.
There is nothing to say about the coordinates.
Natural wormholes are two pairs that appear in the universe. There must be another wormhole connected to it that exists in an unknown corner of the universe.
What kind of place is at the other end of the wormhole determines the value of the wormhole.
The stability determines whether the wormhole is stable at the spatial level and whether it can maintain its existence for a long time.
Various factors include the volume and mass of the objects that can be accommodated, the possibility of accidents when extracting singularities, and so on.
It is an important indicator that integrates multiple data.
It's just that Chen Ming found that the equipment failed to analyze the coordinates of the other wormhole connected to this wormhole during the detection.
This is normal.
When the empire was in the pioneering era, it was impossible to confirm what was on the other end of all wormholes by just scanning.
If you want to know what is behind the wormhole, it is best to enter the wormhole directly and reach the other end of the wormhole.
Although troublesome and dangerous, this is an absolutely stable way to figure out what is on the other side of the wormhole.
Fortunately, there is still good news.
That is, after inspection, Chen Ming found that the wormhole, which had existed for at least 30,000 years, was unexpectedly stable.
In other words, thirty thousand years is nothing at all on the scale of the universe.
Such a stable wormhole can accommodate larger objects, which means that the journey after exploring the wormhole will be easier.
High stability also means that it will not collapse randomly. A collapsed wormhole may lead to the destruction of the entire galaxy.
The stable wormhole head also allows Chen Ming to install a special locking device on the wormhole.
It is a technology that the Empire developed a long time ago and has been updated.
Its function is to unilaterally block the process from the other end of the wormhole to this section.
Chen Ming didn't investigate what exactly happened to make the empire create this thing, but it was definitely not a good thing.
So Chen Ming wants to install this locking device on the wormhole as soon as possible,
(End of chapter)