Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 386 - 384: Brain Auxiliary Memory Chip

Chapter 386: Chapter 384: Brain Auxiliary Memory Chip

The brief two and a half years of maintenance time had passed by hastily...

The human military had almost turned Riley Star upside down but still couldn’t find more traces of the "Enlightener Civilization." It was as if they arrived swiftly and left just as quickly, leaving behind only an elusive breeze.

Since the maintenance and repair work on the Kunlun Mountain was completed, humans couldn’t possibly keep surveying this planet indefinitely, and the entire fleet was prepared to set sail once again.

However, these past two years had seen quite satisfactory technological developments.

First and foremost was the appearance of the first "Hawkhawk-III Type" destroyer in this world.

The design work for the "Hawkhawk-III Type" destroyer had begun during the past decades of travel and, through an urgent breakthrough effort by several science groups during the more than two years of manufacturing, even more powerful magnetic fields had been applied to every corner of the spaceship.

Utilizing Super-magnetic A material, the "Hawkhawk-III Type" spaceship achieved improved performance in interstellar ramjet engine technology. Its maneuverability would become even better, and weapons such as electromagnetic guns and ion cannons would become more powerful, faster, and with higher velocity.

A rough estimate suggested that a single "Hawkhawk-III Type" could rival the firepower of two previous "Hawk II" models!

This was a significant advancement because the population on Kunlun Mountain was limited and prior to another industrial upgrade, there was only a finite number of spaceships they could maintain.

Currently, the human military’s strength totaled four Hawk destroyers and 26 Haiyan-III type escort ships.

A Hawk-type destroyer required a standing force of three thousand soldiers, and a Sea Swallow-class frigate required two hundred, bringing the total standing force to seventeen thousand.

This was just the standing army; soldiers also needed to hibernate, take shifts, and return to the Mother Ship for rest and recovery. It wasn’t feasible for them to be engaged in long-term military missions in the vast universe. Taking this into account, the total number of soldiers on rotation nearly reached one hundred thousand.

Adding to that, Kunlun Mountain itself needed a large number of soldiers to unleash its true strength. The firepower of Kunlun Mountain was far more formidable than these small to medium-sized spaceships, and with a large number of logistical personnel, engineers, and various development staff included, the related military population exceeded five hundred thousand!

This level of military strength was already at the limit that society could sustain; there couldn’t be more.

It was not possible for the entire civilization to relentlessly pursue militarization, where everyone became soldiers or maintained spaceships or became military engineers; such a scenario was clearly unrealistic.

Maintaining the normal operation of all walks of life and sustaining social stability was far more crucial for humans. If spaceships were manufactured without sufficient population or maintenance capabilities to keep them operational, they would quickly fall into disrepair...

Therefore, what people could do was improve quality as much as possible, rather than quantity.

If it was merely a matter of quantity, various mass-produced drones could compensate.

Moreover, significant improvements had been made to the Kunlun Mountain, the Mother Ship. After all, if the "Hawkhawk-III Type" could use stronger magnetic fields, then the Mother Ship could also upgrade its military equipment accordingly.

In addition, the installation of magnetic field generators meant that interstellar particles would cause less wear on Kunlun Mountain, allowing the Mother Ship to accelerate to higher speeds. From the original 10% of the speed of light, it could now rise to about 11%. One should not underestimate this 1% difference in light-speed—it was a considerable achievement. Kinetic acceleration to attain its current state was indeed not easy, and one couldn’t ask for too much.

During this pre-departure meeting, Zhang Yuan summarized the achievements of the past two years, as well as the main directions for the next breakthroughs.

"...Next, there are mainly two items we need to address. First, is the miniaturization and normalization of the Super-magnetic A material.

"If this magnetic field technology could be applied to unmanned drones, the performance of the drones would undergo a qualitative transformation."

"If even larger magnetic fields could be used in industry, it would also drive the upgrade of certain industries... Especially in the plasma metallurgy system under super high magnetic fields, as well as the research and development of special metal materials. This area is of utmost importance."

"Even though the theory of subatomic material science has not made a breakthrough... However, we do not insist on it, let’s just develop what we can to the best of our abilities."

Material science is the material foundation upon which humans rely for survival and development, as well as the core of all technological and industrial advancements; continually developing new materials is an important gauge of the societal technological level and future scientific progress.

Many technological developments are, in essence, advancements in material science. Only after humans smelted bronze and black iron did we enter a new era.

The successful research of ultra-pure silicon and gallium arsenide led to the birth of large-scale and very large-scale integrated circuits, raising computer processing speeds from several hundred thousand times per second to hundreds of billions of times; the core part of the turbine engine is the turbine blade, which must operate at high temperatures around 1500 degrees. It requires high-temperature resistance and high-pressure endurance. After 40 years of effort, in 1980 the United States formally developed a qualified duplex nickel-based alloy, making the birth of the turbine engine possible.

Of course, these are all old news. Under super high magnetic fields, arranging all the atoms in materials in an orderly sequence to achieve higher performance is an important current issue.

Many people in the meeting room were silent, and no one was issuing a military order-like guarantee that breakthroughs would occur in the next few decades. Indeed, it is difficult to build this fundamental structure; it requires a multitude of geniuses, as well as divine inspiration, and even a bit of good luck.

At this point, Zhang Yuan paused for a while, then continued, "Do not think that our civilization is already strong enough to easily sustain everyone. We are far from it. Can we construct a Dyson Sphere? We can’t."

"Can we excavate a metallic planet to build a planetary spaceship? Perhaps it’s possible, but it would take tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years!"

"Our development path is long and arduous."

"Second, is the research on brain-assist Memory Chips. The materials in the laboratory are sufficient, enough to be wasted until the next stopping point... So please don’t worry about the issue of resources."

"Next, I would like to invite Professor Luo from the Human Brain Research Institute to introduce the latest advancements of the brain-assist Memory Chips!"

Brain-assist Memory Chips!

The crowd below stirred slightly, many reporters also refocused their attention, showing interested expressions. At every summary meeting, this is what they are most interested in.

Ever since Professor Li Zhendong cracked a part of the memory code in the neural network decades ago, the research on brain-assist Memory Chips also happened to make some minor breakthroughs...

In fact, research on human brain chips has been ongoing for several thousand years, with many applied results already on Earth. For example, the Love Chip, which can make a person feel the sweetness of first love when seeing a specific lover. These chips control the infidelity rate across society, significantly reducing things like unwritten rules and greatly increasing the societal level of integrity.

There’s also the Concentration Chip that can make people engage in certain jobs more happily... Some boring study no longer feels so tedious, but rather filled with enjoyment.

In fact, these chips work by controlling the secretion of certain hormones in the brain, that is, by regulating the conditions that produce "happiness" to achieve a certain goal. The principles and actual operations are not particularly difficult.