Chapter 229 Dyson Sphere Program! The Long Night!
After learning about the relevant information of the [Quantum Slingshot] megastructure and the resources required for its construction, Leon turned his attention to the system's Roulette of the Heavens.

Thanks to the fact that this was a level 2 mission completed, as well as the [Singularity Power Station] in the scientific hub megastructure, a guaranteed level 9 lottery opportunity was provided.

这次李昂手中的抽奖额度，有1次10级的保底出金，1次9级的保底出金，和10次8级以上的抽奖次数。

A total of 12 consecutive draws, two guaranteed!

"We, Lao Li, have fought for so long, and now we are rich."

Li Ang smiled.

Immediately, he started the Roulette draw and secretly guessed what kind of prize items might appear this time.

His level 10 guaranteed gold items came from the world of Stellaris, so Leon guessed that the "golden legend" that was revealed this time should be a giant structure or some kind of super weapon.

Maybe it would be a Dyson sphere or a Burning Heavenly Weapon or something like that.

The guaranteed items for level 9 come from the world of Halo Infinite.

The last time a "Golden Legend" item from the Halo world was guaranteed to be released, Li Ang got an Infinity-class battleship.

Maybe what might be unveiled this time might be the Halo Array from "Halo" or some other super-giant ship.

However, no matter what the lottery result is, as long as there is a system guarantee, Li Ang's mentality will remain relatively stable.

The Zhutian Prize Pool is not the prize pool in the cheating Mihoyo game, and there are no such things as incredible big and small guarantees. Even the guarantees can be wrong!

The golden legends that appear in the prize pool must be good things.

Or it could be a late-stage item that can be upgraded, like a matrix or gene seed.

Or they are super powerful megastructures or ships and weapons, such as the Ringworld and Infinity-class ships, as well as the Manticore bio-virus.

There is basically no situation of deviating from the guarantee, so the getting started experience is quite good!

As Leon's thoughts came to mind, the rapidly spinning Wheel of the Heavens stopped, and all the items drawn this time were presented on the interface.

[This roulette 12 consecutive draws have obtained:
Dyson Sphere (Level 10 guaranteed Golden Legend, Stars, Quantum Architect)

CSO Supercarrier·The Long Night (Level 9 Guaranteed Golden Legend·Halo·Covenant)
Hyperion Battlecruiser (StarCraft Terran Federation)
Centurion Exoskeleton (Warhammer 40K Mechanicus Tech-Priest)
Max Power System (Ultraman Tiga, Dr. Eight-Tails)
PROJECT-X Dark Matter Energy Gun (District 9, Prawn Civilization)

A complete set of VR equipment and holographic system technology (Ready Player One IOI Corporation)

Medical bed (Wolverine 2 Yashida Company)
Batmobile (Batman, The Dark Knight, Wayne Syndicate)
Hex Robot (Yuxing Construction Robot)...】

‘What the hell? ! ’

When Leon saw that the items that were guaranteed to pay out were the Dyson Sphere and the Long Dark, all the items that appeared later seemed so dull.

He tried his best to suppress the urge to shout with excitement and blinked his eyes vigorously to make sure that he had not seen the prize pool items mistakenly.

Soon, Le Ang confirmed that he did not see it wrong and did not draw the wrong item. The two guaranteed prizes were the Dyson Sphere and the Covenant's super aircraft carrier, the Long Night!
"This wave is really about to take off. Where are the Trisolarans? Come over here and use them as power generation materials!"

After calming down a little from his excitement, Leon continued to check the system screen and carefully browsed the newly-drawn megastructure [Dyson Sphere].

First of all, the conditions for building the Dyson Sphere megastructure in "Stellaris" are relatively clear and definite.

That is, it cannot be built on a star system with habitable planets, because the Dyson sphere structure will completely block the star and drain all of its energy.

This will cause all the planets in the star system to lose their vitality due to the loss of their energy sources, and become completely barren and frozen planets.

Turning a planet that was originally suitable for living and colonization into a worthless dead star is somewhat of a waste of resources and not cost-effective.

After all, in the vast universe, it is quite rare and uncommon to have several good habitable planets in a galaxy.

Most galaxies are actually relatively desolate and desolate environments, so there is no need to build a Dyson sphere in a galaxy with habitable planets.

In addition, Dyson sphere structures cannot be built near black holes, neutron stars, or pulsars.

The reason is quite simple, that is, these three things are simply "cosmic street urchins". Wherever they are, the gravitational field is either distorted or the dimension is folded.

Otherwise, the extremely high radiation and energy overflow would cause the surrounding space to become abnormal and chaotic.

In short, any of these three celestial bodies is not easy to deal with, especially if you place a megastructure near them!

Therefore, for safety reasons, it is best not to build a Dyson sphere in a galaxy with black holes, neutron stars, and pulsars.

To prevent the greedy black hole from swallowing the Dyson sphere one day, or the pulse of a neutron star from causing the Dyson sphere device to malfunction.

Finally, galaxies with binary or triple stars are not acceptable.

The reason is very simple. The orbits of binary and triple stars are more complex and difficult to predict.

They do not have relatively stable orbits like the planets in a single star, with several large celestial bodies entangled, intersecting and rotating with each other.

In most cases, the orbits of celestial bodies in multiple stars cannot be predicted.

The most classic example is the hometown of the Trisolarans.

There are three stars in the galaxy where they are located. The entire galaxy is in turmoil due to a series of twitching and weird movement trajectories of the three stars.

In such a chaotic galaxy, if you build a large-scale Dyson sphere, you never know when it will be hit by a star and shattered into pieces.

Therefore, the most suitable galaxies for building Dyson sphere structures are preferably single stars without black holes, neutron stars, pulsars, and relatively desolate galaxies.

This condition seems rather harsh, but in fact, it can still be found in the vast universe.

The task of finding suitable galaxy points can be left to AI Europa.

"Building a Dyson Sphere is much easier than building a slingshot. Just pick a suitable location and start building it."

Li Ang nodded thoughtfully. To build a slingshot, one needs to build an engineering ship and a building structure. The amount of work required to complete the project is much greater than that of a Dyson sphere!
In addition, the Dyson Sphere Project is the same as the last Ringworld. Since it is a giant structure that was built for free, all Leon has to do is to have people assemble and piece it together, and then complete it for use.

The entire project period may only take two to three years, or even shorter!
After all, the Dyson sphere is an item drawn from the heavens, a ready-made giant structure, and there is no need to forge materials or create various devices.

'The guaranteed payout is so good. With this thing, I can save a lot of energy output!'

The more Leon looked at the Dyson sphere, the more he liked it. The main function of this thing is to extract energy from stars and then provide power for electricity.

The construction principle of a Dyson sphere is very simple, and may even be the simplest of all megastructures, which is to wrap a star with solar panels. Then absorb all the light and heat in the star and convert them into energy for collection, squeezing out the energy of the entire star with a 100% energy conversion rate.

Of course, the principle of this thing is easy to explain, but it is very difficult to make it!
With the current capabilities of the world's giant companies, it may not be possible to build a Dyson sphere structure.

Even if it is managed to be built, the cost is too high. Just like building a ring world, it will greatly delay the development time of the giant enterprise.

But the principle is still the same, there is only one problem with expensive things, and that is that they are expensive!

The existence of a Dyson sphere megastructure can sustain all the energy costs of an entire huge fleet for a global corporation.

As for the fleet expenditure, it is only five times the size of the giant company's existing fleet.

That's right!

Just such a Dyson sphere structure can support the consumption of more than a thousand Infinity-class arrays, which can more than double the number of the giant company's navy!
This is truly the favorite treasure of the navy of giant companies.

'Wuhu, take off!'

At this moment, Leon was so happy that his mouth corners were almost stretched to his ears. He originally thought that the template for the fifth stage would be a Dyson sphere.

But I never thought that I would hit the jackpot and win it by relying on the guaranteed payout.

The huge structure that I got for free is so delicious!
After calming his excited heart and controlling his trembling hands, Li Ang finally turned his attention to another heavyweight item, which was -

The Long Night, the Covenant CSO supercarrier from the Halo world!

In Leon's mind, the priority of this golden legendary giant ship is no less than that of the level 10 golden legendary Dyson sphere megastructure.

Because this thing can be considered a T1-class giant ship in any science fiction dimension!

Even the 3,000-kilometer super carrier of the Reaper civilization in "Independence Day" is not necessarily stronger than this giant ship. In fact, in a one-on-one fight, the CSO aircraft carrier is slightly better.

"The ultimate battleship in Halo, the flagship of the Covenant, and a top-notch Tier 5 aircraft carrier...!"

Through the Long Night mothership displayed on the system panel, Leon seemed to have imagined the flying colonial ship that was so huge that the end could not be seen, or the asteroid-sized fortress city.

It can be said that in the world view of "Halo", the CSO aircraft carrier is basically in a position to crush all the competitors, except that it cannot compare with the giant structure "HMS Halo"!
Without any hesitation, Li Ang immediately switched the interface and began to carefully check the relevant attribute information of the Long Night.

[CSO Supercarrier: The Long Night
Note: The top flagship of the Star Alliance in Halo
Length: 28960 meters

Width: 11447 meters...】

As soon as he started to look at it, Leon was shocked by the scale of the Long Night. Originally, he only knew that this giant ship was relatively large, but he did not have a very deep impression of how big it was exactly.

It was not until he saw the exact data information that Leon realized what a huge ship the Long Night was.

The length alone is nearly 30 kilometers, which is equivalent to half a full marathon.

The exaggerated width of 10 kilometers is equivalent to the length of two Infinity-class ships. Once this thing comes out, it will directly replace the Infinity-class as the mothership of the giant enterprise!

Not only that, the weight of the Long Night has reached an astonishing 1520 billion tons, and the gravity resistance is simply at its maximum.

Its hull armor is made of extremely expensive, strong and heat-resistant nano-laminates, which are composed of layers of tough materials.

For example, the Nephilim-class battleship in "Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans" uses this kind of nano-layer armor.

The Long Night has such a huge body, so the armor must use materials that are as light and strong as possible.

Nano-laminate is a good choice. The strength of this material is not much worse than that of resistant steel, and the performance of the two is almost the same.

Of course, with such a huge size and weight, the Long Night naturally needs to be equipped with anti-gravity engines, and it must be equipped with three of them.

This will help the giant ship resist its own extremely strong gravity and ensure the normal operation of the ship and its daily driving forward.

'I didn't expect that the performance of the Star Alliance's hyperdrive is higher than that of the newly developed hyperdrive device by the giant company!'

At this moment, Li Ang suddenly noticed some interesting details through the data on the system panel.

That is the hyperdrive used by the Covenant in Halo, which uses another special structural technology.

In terms of performance optimization, it is infinitely close to the superluminal engine of the Infinity-class battleship.

You know, the Infinity-class hyperdrive was removed from the Forerunner ships, and it can be said to be the most advanced engine device in "Halo".

The gap between the two is roughly equivalent to Nvidia's RTX4090 graphics card and AMD's RX7900XTX graphics card.

Both graphics cards are top-notch devices, but Nvidia's 4090 is still better than the 7900 in terms of extreme performance.

The performance improvements brought by different architectures will be somewhat different, and this is the case with the Covenant's hyperdrive.

As of now, the performance of the hyperdrive engine developed by the Universe Giant Company is slightly lower than that of the Long Night's engine.

If the engine level of the Long Night is a 4090 graphics card, then the self-developed hyperspeed engine of the global giant is the inferior RTX4070Ti.

As for how much performance is worse, in fact, you can't notice the difference in daily use.

Unless you push the performance to the maximum and push the total consumption to the maximum, you can only feel the difference between the two.

This is the case with the gap between the Infinity and the Long Night's hyperdrive engines, and the giant company's self-developed engine devices.

Normally when they were sailing at sub-light speed, they all ran at the same speed, but when it came to full speed, the Long Night was the first to reach the finish line.

This is true, if you are not good at it, just practice more.

However, Leon was quite optimistic about this, and was not dissatisfied with the Long Night or his own superluminal engine technology.

Because the superluminal engine developed by the giant company is a device based on hyperspace navigation technology, it will have some flaws in the early stages.

After all, the technology is not perfect yet.

But with subsequent optimization, continuous updates and iterations.

By the time the technology is fully developed, it should not be a big problem to outperform the Infinity and the Long Night's superluminal engines under extreme conditions.

(End of this chapter)