Terra 783.

A long, long time has passed on Terra since Ian stopped advancing to the Star God, returned to Terra, and dived into the Aether Sea.

During this period, the Silver Peak Territory was under the control of the General Political Bureau. Director Scott was in charge of the political development of the territory, while Isengard and Xiou were responsible for managing matters related to the Ascendants in the territory and the implementation of policies. If there was a conflict, there would be

Convening meetings to make internal decisions is, in general, a relatively rare bureaucratic system on Terra that favors oligarchs.

The reason why it is said to be rare is because most Terran systems, no matter how they appear, are actually lifelong dictatorships/monarchies.

This is also in line with the hopes of the people of Terra. In Terra, the people do not long for the 'power' and the huge responsibility to fight against 'natural disasters' that comes with power. What they want is a peaceful and stable life, and electoral democracy

The policy instability it brings is unacceptable to them.

When living a decent life, a charismatic leader is the best, followed by a stable leadership team.

Although there are no 'festivals' such as inspection tours, speeches and people-friendly meetings brought by Ian in the past, it is difficult for many old Yinfeng people to adapt, but the General Political Bureau is doing a good job now, and they have gradually accepted this kind of life.

As for the empire, following the actions of the Silver Peak Leader Sun Bird and the Western Empire Emperor Carlos, who did not want to be named, the Imperial Crown Prince Aina Setar was captured and returned.

Forced to inherit the blood of the throne left by his aunt, although he has not yet reached the fifth level, he has become the only emperor of the current empire, bridging the divided empire into one again.

Although he does not look very happy, Aina has indeed traveled among the people for many years. He knows the true appearance of the empire today, not just on the surface, but down to every corner of the grassroots.

Tu also has a very clear understanding of social changes.

This is the strength of the Sun Bird, and Ainabi is better at comparing people's hearts with his condescending bird's eye view. The many decrees he issued generally make people's lives more stable.

With the support of Silver Peak Leader, Long Dao, and the other two fifth-level people in the empire, Aina's authority is still guaranteed. After he also becomes a fifth-level person, Aina may become a more powerful person than his father and grandfather.

Good emperor.

Among the people, everyone is talking about another thing: there is a sun bird who presides over the government affairs of Yinfeng, and the empire also has a sun bird. Everyone says that this is no different from the past, no matter it is

The two Sun Birds are still the first and second empires. No matter where they are, everyone still lives under the wings of the Sun Birds.

As the political situation gradually stabilized, some towering giant structures in the South China Sea were gradually returning to their original appearance.

It is somewhat incredible to say that in terms of materials science, the technology mastered by humans in the Terran Era is far more advanced than that of humans in the previous era of civilization.

In the civilization of the previous era, even if it had mastered some fire technology, the ropes used in the space elevator were just some ordinary nano-carbon fibers. The performance of the ropes entwined with carbon fibers with multiple different crystal structures was unbelievable at that time. It could almost be said to be planet-like.

The strongest, enough to support a giant structure like a space elevator.

But in the Age of Terra, materials stronger than it abound.

Of course, the alchemy of pre-epoch civilizations is also quite advanced, and there are many special alchemical creations. For example, fine gold mithril is essentially a special alchemical alloy processed by pre-epoch civilizations, and Morian steel is an automated

Psionic nanometal materials.

However, the level of ether activity in that era was not comparable to that of Terra today - at that time, the entire Terra might not be able to support the activities of a fifth-level person, but what about now? There are thirty of them in humans alone.

, counting the Warcraft and those large and small super structures, the remains of Fire...

This is also the revival of some kind of spiritual energy.

When creating these materials, Isengard was still feeling that if civilization was lost again in the future, the materials they created might also become 'rare minerals' like fine gold and mithril.

Maybe, because of the special properties of ether, these 'rare minerals' will also be recognized as 'special minerals' by the planet Gaia, automatically generated by ether in the underlying mineral veins... This is the special thing about the ether universe, any 'special minerals'

Materials' may all occur naturally, they only understand now.

In short, Ether is easy to use. You only need to use Ether to change the properties of matter. Even the most ordinary hemp rope can have terrifying properties. Of course, this requires the use of Ether to maintain it continuously, even for fifth-level powerhouses.

It can't be done either.

But if we use alchemy to improve and stabilize the material properties of the already strong materials, we can produce high-performance composite nano-carbon fiber ropes at a few tenths of the cost of pre-era civilizations while reducing a lot of costs.

The 'Enchanted Carbon Fiber Rope' has similar performance.

The quality and cost of materials will gradually enter the marginal effect trap. Spending a thousand times the money may not be able to create materials with twice the strength. But this is just pure material technology. If it is supplemented by developed ether alchemy,

You can have an independent strength multiplication area to refine materials with two or three times the strength at more than ten times the price.

These materials used to be used only for the weapons and armor of the High Ascended, for etheric weapons and other things that only the Ascended could use.

But five or six years after the popularity of Arcane Path, manufacturing this material has become an assembly line.

This is the gift given by the Star Gods to all living beings in the universe. The two major hurdles that can most hinder the development of civilization, materials science and the speed of light, have been built by them using their power to modify the cosmological constants.

Perhaps this is the [Ladder to Heaven] of civilization.

The ladder to space is being built rapidly. The most difficult process is actually how to pull the rope to the equatorial orbit. Generally speaking, it is necessary to launch a rocket satellite, and the satellite will hang down the rope, and then form the backbone of a space elevator.

The Silver Peak Leader does not have particularly powerful rocket technology, and has almost no satellite technology... Terra's electromagnetic signals are still easily interfered, and they can only use virtual signals to communicate.

But the Void Realm signal still has the disadvantage of being unstable. Even though Ian has teamed up with the goblins to use the power of the Light Realm to calm down the Void Realm bit by bit, its use for civilian communication is its limit. A strategy like the space elevator

Architecture cannot be done casually.

They can launch a Crystal from the Heart of Terra as a satellite, but only if there are enough repeaters - they need to place crystal repeaters layer by layer in the middle of the space elevator to allow Terra to

The power of the Heart of Ra extends from the Silver Peak to space.

Currently, the link radius of repeaters in the Heart of Terra is twenty-five kilometers, and large-scale repeaters can extend to three hundred kilometers. However, large-scale repeaters are generally located in the center of the city and are equivalent in size to a five-story castle.

The limit of the repeaters that can be miniaturized and used in the space elevator is 25 kilometers. To connect the top of the space elevator with the control area of ​​​​the Heart of Terra, 3,000 to 4,000 repeaters are needed, and God knows how many rockets will be launched.

and satellites.

But it's not a big problem.

The Silver Peak Territory doesn’t have satellites, but they have dragons!

As a true dragon in the virtual realm, although Xiou did not fly very fast, it was still easy to break through the atmosphere and reach the satellite orbit - she easily placed a giant Heart of Terra crystal satellite where it should exist.

Then lower the rope.

Xio's mother, the King of the Mountain, will take over here. He will use the earth element technology to give this crystal a mass of more than 20 million tons as the counterweight of the space elevator. He will be stationed here as the envoy of Dragon Island.

Until the Silver Peak Leader built a huge space station, even a space dock and a space city here.

Tens of thousands of kilometers of enchanted carbon fiber ropes were lowered directly by the dragon and the powerful Ascendant, and connected to the main base of the space elevator that was originally quite complete. The powerful super individual was originally created by an extremely developed civilization, but now, when a fragile civilization

After being destroyed by natural disasters, powerful super individuals can easily reshape civilization.

This may also be a kind of cycle, an eternal reincarnation.

[The main cable channel link is completed, the control port initialization is completed... and the fixed cable channel is launched]

[Place the Heart of Terra Relay Crystal-Target-3600]

【Start placing】

In the space elevator control room located at Sequoia Base, the huge holographic display screen is divided into three parts. Dazzling data and indicators flash in various small screens and split windows, while on the central main screen

, a vertical 'progress bar' is constantly climbing.

The Heart of Terra has taken over the main control system of the Sequoia Base, and it is now deriving its own tentacles bit by bit to control the entire space elevator skeleton.

As the chief engineer, after confirming that the data was correct, Roland and several dwarf craftsmen from Gantrigam left the main control room and went to the outside world - above the endless South China Sea, a piece of silver suddenly appeared.

The island is the top of the floating Sequoia Base, which was once the 'material transfer platform' and the base of another super building, the 'Mass Accelerator'.

The pre-epoch civilization built two super buildings. The first one was actually a 'mass accelerator', which was used to assist rocket launches and conduct technical experiments.

Because of the dense atmosphere inside Terra, this is not the stage for mass accelerators. Its stage is actually the vacuum of outer space. Pre-era civilizations have built different accelerators around the world. The Republic of Gantrygum has the largest one.

, a special accelerator that utilizes fire technology. It is located on the top of the mountains and shines like a star. It may not even be a simple acceleration device, but a special facility that can affect gravity.

Because they already had the support of the Ascendants, the Silver Peak Leader chose to repair the space elevator first, while the mass accelerator was used to study its structure. The great engineer of Gantrigam was attracted by it and was willing to form an alliance with the Silver Peak Leader.

Study the precious heritage of this pre-epochal civilization.

They all stared in silence at the platform and the Heart of Terra relay that were being rapidly built in the distance. The main frame of the majestic space elevator had been constructed over the past few years, and the blue crystal

Little by little, it was placed by the real dragon and disappeared into the unreachable and vast darkness at the top of the sky.

After a while, as all the repeaters were placed and charged and connected to the main body, all the crystal repeaters suspended in mid-air began to glow faintly, and the powerful psychic pulse penetrated a distance of 90,000 kilometers in an instant.

No matter who it was, at this moment, they felt the gaze of a silver sun, and dense grid shields began to appear around the space elevator - the terrifying ether fluctuations turned into semi-physical shields, protecting the space

The structure of the elevator also protects against external impacts.

"When do you plan to start?"

The dwarf engineer stared at the moment when the giant structure was completed. He had a lot of words in his heart, but because he was a dwarf, he just stared silently, and then said lightly: "What are you going to use it for?"

"today."

Roland said calmly that the young graduate back then was now the Minister of Engineering leading a party. He stared at the tall tower reaching into the sky in front of him and couldn't help but laugh: "I don't know."

After confirming that the cables and cableways of the space elevator are fixed and can be put into use, the core 'elevator' of the space elevator has begun to be assembled and is ready to be put into use.

Noticing that the dwarf master on the side raised his eyebrows and showed an expression of 'Are you fooling me?', Roland waved his hand and said: "This is the plan left by our lord. We are building an orbital space dock and factory in the orbit of Terra, and in

Build an orbital accelerator on it and begin the exploration of 'Shuoyue'."

"This is what our prophet lord wanted to do. We just followed the path he saw - at first, we really didn't understand what he was going to do, or even why he wanted to go to the moon."

"But the process of gradually building a space elevator has taught us a lot... brand-new alchemy, new material requirements, cheap and high-strength weapons, the research and practical application of various psychic virtual operating systems...

"

"These technologies, taken individually and placed in the Silver Peak Territory, each can bring about changes, but for the space elevator, for this plan, we must be perfect and break through the limits before we can complete it.
To be continued...