Chapter 228: Measuring the Slingshot! So close yet so far away! Strategic-level megastructure!
"I hope that the template that comes out this time is a powerful production and construction megastructure, a powerful giant ship, or a 'Heavenly Flood' would also be good."

Le Ang thought to himself that among the colonies and resource areas he obtained from the Harvester civilization, there were still many barren star regions.

If you can get "Tianhong Haodang", then using the water to irrigate some planets, transform some planets to cultivate some genetic monsters, take them out for trading, or use them to generate electricity are all good options.

After all, it is a giant corporation in the universe. Fighting and killing are just a means. They can barely make a living by buying and selling giant beasts, high-tech weapons, and doing some cosmic triangular trade.

But Le Ang is not picky. Even if he cannot unlock some construction-type megastructures, giving him some weapon megastructures would be acceptable.

But no matter what kind of giant structure it is, it must be a good thing for Leon, it just depends on how to use it.

[The fifth stage of the Universal Giant Enterprise - the slingshot can be unlocked. The host's current enterprise currency value is insufficient and the template cannot be unlocked. ]

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As the template megastructures of the new stage were updated, Li Ang couldn't help but be stunned on the spot. The megastructures that appeared this time were indeed beyond his expectations!

"You actually managed to swipe this thing out?!"

Li Ang was both surprised and delighted. This thing was more technologically advanced than giant ships and construction-type megastructures, and was a strategic-level megastructure equipment.

Unlike giant ships like the War Moon, the Slingshot cannot cause any damage to enemy units.

Unlike production megastructures like the [Matter Decompressor], the Quantum Slingshot cannot produce any valuable minerals.

Its function is very simple, that is to launch things.

Yes, that's what it means literally!
The so-called quantum slingshot is actually a specific transmission device built on a neutron star or pulsar.

This megastructure can use the energy of a neutron star or pulsar to distort the fabric of space and throw a huge fleet array into a designated coordinate system space.

The distance of the projection is also quite far, basically measured in "light years"!
In the blink of an eye, they traveled thousands of light years and arrived at another galaxy. This is more awesome than any space jump technology.

For a giant ship like Leon's Infinity-class ship, a space jump can only cover a distance of a few light years at most, and once the jump is completed, it must be recharged.

But the quantum slingshot can reach an astonishing thousands of light years, or even tens of thousands of light years!
Condensing the energy of the neutron star into "pulling force" will throw the "stone" of the fleet out.

Such a creative way of interstellar travel is definitely not a "miracle" that can be accomplished by level 2 or 3 civilizations!
By transforming the extremely long distance that isolates countless civilizations into something just a stone's throw away, such a magical megastructure can already lead giant enterprises to the brink of the threshold of advanced civilization.

You know, even the Pioneer civilization in "Pacific Rim", which has reached a level of 2.6, can only achieve long-distance travel by "lottery" using a wormhole device.

Moreover, the number of units that can pass through at one time is extremely limited, and it will not work if you teleport more than a few Kaiju.

If we rely on the Pioneer's wormhole to teleport the fleet and deploy military forces into the enemy area, we can teleport it bit by bit.

The last time Morgan Blackhand led the fleet of Giant Enterprise, he relied on sending in only a few ships and fighter jets at a time to stabilize the surrounding situation first, and then wait for the troops behind to arrive in an orderly manner.

If you encounter enemy troops that have taken precautions in advance, doing this will clearly expose your weaknesses to the enemy.

It would be strange if they were not attacked halfway across the river!
But with the slingshot, the situation is different.

"At the beginning, we can lead by TP. In the future, we can just go around and steal the base in Star Wars!"

Thinking of this, Li Ang was immediately happy.

As a shrewd and outstanding CEO of a global giant, he is good at more than just the operation and development of the giant enterprise.

He is also very proficient in the deployment of military strikes, and knows how to end the state of war as quickly as possible and win the war with a complete victory.

Of course it’s a decapitation operation!
Back then, Li Yunlong used three artillery shells to wipe out the Sakata Regiment in one fell swoop and led his troops to successfully break through the siege.

Today, Leon used a slingshot to airdrop a hundred Infinite Array coalition ships and backstab the heretic's hometown. It would be no problem to behead him!
Obviously, the quantum slingshot can not only be used as a launcher for giant corporate forces, providing the fleet with extremely broad strategic depth, but also an ultra-long-range cosmic version of blitzkrieg.

It can also enhance the response capabilities of the universe's giant companies in various galaxy regions. Wherever there are rebels causing chaos, the news can be reported in the last second, and the army can be reorganized to arrive at the area to quell the rebellion in the next second!
With the slingshot, you can decapitate enemy forces, strike the enemy's weak areas, or key defensive areas.

Retreat can maintain the giant enterprise's sphere of influence to the greatest extent, and make the military threat of the giant enterprise in the universe evenly distributed in various galaxies!

“It feels good…!”

Li Ang smiled contentedly.

However, such an awesome teleportation megastructure also has some minor flaws.

That is, when it ejects the transmission unit, it is not absolutely accurate and cannot reach the designated area 100% like a star gate or wormhole device.

But there will be some unavoidable deviations.

This deviation is probably within a few light years.

However, this small error value is not a big problem for a giant corporate fleet with space jump technology.

Today, the fleets of the universe's giant companies are basically equipped with superluminal engines and can travel freely. An error of a few light years does not delay them from carrying out decapitation operations.

Taking all factors into consideration, the functions and characteristics of the slingshot are quite obvious.

It can support large-scale fleet units, complete hyperspace jumps, respond to commands quickly, and have a large one-time throughput.

This thing is a big bug in the military field.

At this moment, Li Ang had already imagined such a scene in his mind.

A global giant corporation is at war with an alien civilization, and Leon needs to take the initiative to march to the battlefield and fight the opponent in a one-on-one duel.

But the unsportsmanlike alien old man had set up an antimatter cloud barrier halfway, preparing to use this "minefield" to destroy the giant enterprise's fleet.

However, the more insidious giant enterprise fleet directly used slingshots to press TP to teleport to the enemy's home, and won the battle by stealing the home.

Before the front troops even started the battle, their own crystal base was flattened. Who could bear this? !
If it was Li Ang, he would have surrendered 15 times earlier and there would be no way to fight this battle!
But now, the one who is about to take over this strategic megastructure is him, a global giant enterprise.

"It would be great if we could make more of these things. In the future, when we incorporate them into the galaxy map of the giant company, there will definitely be more and more of them. I will always feel uneasy if there are fewer slingshots."

Li Ang said thoughtfully.

Once this quantum slingshot megastructure is exchanged, it will definitely be used in the 003 "Edge of Tomorrow" universe or the subsequent universe of the heavens.

In order to facilitate the maintenance of territory, the territory of the world's giant companies needs more mass slingshots!

Immediately, Leon looked at the resources needed to build the Mass Slingshot. As expected, the construction materials and resources of this giant structure were also astronomical. The resources required to build a Mass Slingshot were almost comparable to the War Moon and a Science Hub!

First of all, the first and most critical step in building a slingshot megastructure is to select a suitable neutron star or pulsar.

The selected neutron stars or pulsars are basically the debris produced when large massive stars collapse rapidly and explode into supernovas.

The properties of this substance are quite magical. A neutron star is only about ten kilometers in diameter, but its mass is greater than that of many stars.

It’s the concentrated essence!
Therefore, the high-intensity energy released by neutron stars also brings the possibility of artificial fixed-point wormholes to human civilization.

Like the pioneer civilization in "Pacific Rim", the stable natural wormhole in the galaxy where their parent star Anti is located may have been transformed from a neutron star.

The extremely high density and hardness of a neutron star come from its own gravitational field, which is the main source of its strength to resist gravitational collapse.

It is also because of this that the gravitational waves and extremely strong radiation emitted by neutron stars will distort the surrounding space structure.

This will cause the ship to travel at sub-light speed. When passing through this area, there will be a significant drop in speed, and various instruments will malfunction, among other dangerous situations!
The most terrible thing is that the outer shield of the Cosmic Corporation's fleet is basically maintained by an interactive deflector device. Once the device fails, the ships without shields will be easily destroyed.

Therefore, the fleet responsible for building the slingshot needs to have a strong shell material for protection, otherwise it will easily go wrong.

The high-strength materials that can resist the interference of neutron stars and enable the construction ships of giant companies to complete engineering projects require at least steel-resistant materials.

"I didn't expect that just building an engineering ship to measure the slingshot megastructure would require such 'expensive' forging materials!"

When Li Ang saw the minimum required materials for building the megastructure on the system interface, he couldn't help but sigh.

Currently, the most commonly used construction material by the world's giant companies is carbon nanomaterials, which are 100 times harder than ordinary steel.

However, carbon nanotubes are still too thin and light for use on ships, and their strength is not enough to support ships in daily combat operations.

Therefore, the strongest metal alloy that giant companies can currently forge and use is resistant steel material, which is a high-strength alloy made of vanadium, lomite, carbon, milane, neutronium and zirconium.

It can withstand extreme heat, extreme cold and tremendous pressure.

For example, the construction material of the scientific hub can be constructed using this kind of resistant steel.

Of course, the difficulty of forging this material and the amount of mining of various raw materials are also relatively rare.

It is quite difficult for today's world giants to carry out large-scale installation.

Because the consumption of building military ships and maintaining various megastructures alone accounts for more than 60% of resistant steel materials.

If you want to build an engineering ship to build slingshots by yourself, you can only take it from the warships!
Without the construction materials provided by the system, it would be necessary to rely on the mining teams of giant companies to collect minerals and for factories to forge resistant steel.

Finally, this batch of resistant steel materials will be turned into engineering ships for building large-scale slingshot structures, which will take at least five or six years!
This is just the first step, not including the subsequent mega-structure construction. If the entire project period is calculated, it will take at least 20 years.

Li Ang doesn't have the time to spend 20 years waiting for a huge building to be completed!
"Even ordinary resistant steel materials are so difficult to make, let alone making neutron armor and dragon scale armor... I'm so angry!"

When he thought about the fact that giant companies were still unable to achieve material freedom and create harder materials, Li Ang suddenly felt that he had a great responsibility.

He has to continue to speed up the development of the giant enterprise!

Then, Li Ang looked at the subsequent construction process of the [Quantity Slingshot] megastructure.

After completing the most basic engineering ship, all that remains to be done is to build an extra-large lens array.

This is a cage-like torsion lens that can condense the energy around a neutron star. The array can extract the energy of a neutron star through torsion.

Finally, this energy forms a stable parabola, throwing the teleportation unit away, thus realizing the passage through the long and distant interstellar space!

This is another incredibly difficult engineering technology, and the subsequent construction is basically based on the improvement of the "torsion lens".

[Quantizing Slingshot] The principles and construction of megastructures are basically these processes. As for how difficult it is to build, it is not that high.

Once Leon unlocks the core technology of this giant structure, it will not be difficult to create a second quantum slingshot.

The most important thing is the materials, shipbuilding, and the metal resistant steel of the giant structure!

If you want to get more resistant steel raw materials, you can either continue to expand your territory, mine more, and build more material decompressors to collect resources.

Or continue to expand the trade system of the universe giant, accommodate more members of alien civilizations, do business with each other, and obtain each other's metal resources.

Of course, the aliens who joined the universe system would definitely be harvested by Li Ang. As for the method...

That must be a complete economic credit system, such as the former US dollar system!

It is with this system that Leon has pulled numerous alien civilizations into the Universe camp, causing them to consciously work hard for the giant company and burn their blood and sweat.

"The only downside to good things is that they are expensive...!"

After understanding the construction principle and basic construction materials of the [Quantity Slingshot] megastructure, Li Ang discovered that after unlocking the quantity slingshot this time, he would also get an additional buff bonus -

[Infinite Beacon]!
This novel buff will allow the Universal Corporation to increase its construction speed by 50% when constructing more megastructures in the future.

The increased construction speed here does not mean speeding up the project progress like in the game, but the system directly provides most of the construction materials.

This can significantly reduce the construction time.

In this way, Leon can build more megastructures at a lower cost.

'No wonder it's the fifth-stage giant enterprise template. I didn't expect it to come with this kind of construction buff!'

Li Ang felt very happy. He looked at the value of the enterprise currency required to unlock the [Quantity Slingshot] and found that it was almost the same as the enterprise currency he already had. Li Ang nodded thoughtfully.

This time he only needs to complete a level 1 mission to unlock this giant structure immediately, but Leon doesn't think it's necessary.

Since we are going to conquer the world anyway, we might as well choose a more difficult task, which will earn us more gold coins from alien friends and more rewards.

Maybe after completing the mission this time, Leon will even be able to unlock the giant building behind at once!
It would be really cool if we could take down all the megastructures in the fifth and sixth stages.

'Now that things have come to this, let's draw a prize first!'

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(End of this chapter)