Crisis Under the Ice
And as the shaking began to intensify during the night, Steven needed to officially move the base from under the ice to over the ice to make it work, or else a really big ice quake would come and Steven would be too late to cry, he didn't want to experience the greatness of nature and never underestimated the effect that nature's greatness would have in 2x the earth's gravity.
The establishment of the thermal power station allows Steven to have more energy for the next step, the nearest underground mine is an iron ore mine, only 12 kilometers, and 30 kilometers farther away there are copper and tin companion mines, all of which are relatively simple to mine, the burial ground is not particularly deep.
Together with the internal modifications, the number of vehicles that burned high-energy gas as a source of power, the use of electrical energy has reduced the transportation effort, but it has also preserved the few high-energy gas, while laying the foundation for the sustainable development of Steven's base.
The tens of meters of ice on top of the command center was also melting in earnest, and a large hole was beginning to take shape. Steven tested the planet and found that it was 0.1% carbon dioxide and 45% oxygen and 50% nitrogen, the high oxygen and low carbon dioxide environment was the main reason why the polar regions were so cold, and the nearly hundred meters of ice was very good evidence of this. The planet is also relatively far from its star through electronic astronomical telescopes.
Such a thickness of the ice layer also let Steven feel a great sense of crisis, after all, the ice age said glacier is not a joke, is a large number of ice with the role of gravity, from the high place to flow to the low place, the direct large equivalent of ice to move.
In case to Steven to so a moment, now Steven's power can be cool half, in addition to the base can fly, but other but will be destroyed by the glacier flow a little bit not left. What's more, the information conveyed by the SCV in the mining, a large number of cracks in the ice is not a joke.
The only thing that could make Steven, the starbase owner, look at as an enemy was a natural disaster, otherwise even if it landed in the age of dinosaurs, the dinosaurs were relatively little threat to Steven, and it was assumed that as the worst of the human race the SCVs were fearless of the regular carnivorous dinosaurs.
Tyrannosaurus rex single area is also only a few, directly open the command center Tarzan pressure plus high temperature spray, want to do as much as possible, only the cold polar natural disaster and the blocked environment makes Steven helpless.
Time slowly advances forward, in the blink of an eye, 2 months have passed, into April, along with the light little by little reduced, from the original polar day to the polar night.
The cold also began to intensify further, from the original minus 10 degrees to minus 30 degrees, it was also after 2 months of development, after consuming almost 2000 units of silicon crystals, the construction of Steven's smelting plant and mines as well as the heavy industrial production base was completed.
The SCV also utilized the latest in stainless steel, yes stainless steel. With the help of a small amount of carbon molecules in the atmosphere, the general principle of plant respiration was utilized to extract it from the air, and then smelting the alloy was involved, directly obtaining the most basic raw material of stainless steel.
Stainless steel this low-end material has enough hardness, can be competent in a large number of engineering and mechanical use.
Command center also because of sufficient energy, rare with the help of a wind and snow is not very big night, flew out of the ice pit.
Naturally Steven was much more comfortable psychologically, as a large amount of resources began to pile up in the warehouse in a thriving manner, and the 4 SCV's leaving the factory every day made Steven's confidence in the future grow stronger and stronger.
Of course, along with the operation of the base, Steven is also more and more dissatisfied with this small light brain in the command center, always feel that the arithmetic power is not very enough, only such a small scale and production line, has spent 10% of the arithmetic power, that is to say, the production of another 10 times the expansion, then this light brain will be completely insufficient.
Steven also needed a bigger mainframe for his holding place. Not to mention that there was a little guy eating his arithmetic power while sending out mechanical messages.
Every once in a while, he would coldly send out a phrase like SCV is ready, or steel refining is complete, making Steven annoyed to hear it.
Lack of resources and productivity Steven naturally hit the doctrine on the silicon crystal, the previous light brain is like a regular home computer, or XP version.
What Steven wanted was the kind of large-scale mastermind that could drive a whole bunch of computers for compound operation and superb arithmetic power in an internet cafe. That way Steven would also be able to get out of this little place that was compressing him all the time, and then incidentally block out that little ball of light's garbled and repetitive commands.
If Steven was playing a game, then it was natural for him to pay attention to every detail, but Steven was now operating a huge production system, so he naturally didn't want to receive the hourly bombardment of information from below, but rather conserve his energy and arithmetic power, and put his resources into more development and design innovation.
The only one with design innovation in the base right now was him. It wasn't that Steven hadn't thought about opening a gene pool, coupled with the digestion of a large amount of knowledge, it wasn't difficult to change the gene pool's knowledge input, what made Steven feel bad was that this current situation wasn't suitable for cultivating humans.
The instability of the external environment, coupled with the arrival of the polar night. The ice quake underground began to become unstable with the passage of time, as well as the originally slight vibrations. Every day Steven had to check all the parts once at 6am.
Although the comparative earthquakes were small, but coming every day would cause some mistakes and omissions in the parts. Coupled with the fact that there was no steady supply of organic material, Steven definitely didn't want to make trouble for himself with the whole puzzles.
All Steven had to do now was keep piling up resources and building production points, then expand outwardly, and when the satellites went up, Steven would also be able to draw on the rest of the high-energy gas or simply build a new stronghold on a safe land mass and move himself over there or whatever would be best.
The cold was intensifying, and with the sun gone forever, Steven's projections had it that this planet had a radius twice that of Earth, a mass eight times that of Earth, and a self-propagation 0.5 times that of Earth, which meant that whereas a day here was two times the time of Earth's, this planet still self-propagated relatively quickly in comparison to the other large Earth-like planets.
However, the corresponding meteorite impact rate of this planet would be far greater than the meteorite impact rate faced by the Earth.
The command center was also captured by this planet in this way, otherwise it might have gone to chat with the star.
The year-long polar night made the region more dangerous, and Steven's space vehicles began to form in the heavy factories, which were originally used for tanks and all kinds of production machinery, in the absence of silicon crystals and high-energy gas, Steven chose the simplest chemical fuel propulsion.
No satellite for Steven on this planet he is a blind man. As for the launch site aspect, Steven had built out the intercontinental nuclear launch pad for the Ghost directly so that it would act as a very good shape launcher for the time being.
All of the projects were moving forward at a brisk pace, though a wave of malice from the depths of the earth was firmly locked in place, and the uneasiness brought on by the Polar Night began to leap at Steven's heart. Steven at this time suddenly wanted a person to accompany, 2 months of loneliness makes Steven very difficult, the only side can tease only a cold program deputy, before Steven was able to absorb a large amount of knowledge for their own use.
But now Steven was done absorbing, it was all applied knowledge, as for the large amount of academic knowledge there was no storage at all. Steven was able to use, learn, and push back, but without the large amount of academic accumulation in front of him, Steven had a kind of airy loft feeling.
Originally Steven's this command center is used for war, a large amount of knowledge also belongs to the war science and technology piece, all the weapons can be built, but can not build conventional livelihood supplies.
Naturally a large number of marginal disciplines were not transmitted to this light brain, and in the future it would have to rely on He's own development.
After 10 days of construction and production, the Polar Night had also arrived completely, immediately following the Polar Night was a class 10 blizzard, the water vapor from the distant sea directly transformed into huge hailstones, piece by piece smashing into the poles and SCVs, bringing great damage to the SCVs, and making the work that was already difficult to sustain even more difficult.
The satellite launch rocket was also fully assembled, and the silo was leaning into the ice, Steven hadn't wanted to stay in this place for a long time, so this launch pad was also disposable.
Steven's only goal was to move out of this damned area as soon as possible with a large amount of supplies. If this place was the same as Antarctica, a huge ice-covered continent, then it was only fair to move to the very edge as well. If that wasn't possible, Steven also had the option to ditch everything he already had now and just fly to another continent.
The vibrations from the depths and the data Steven had recently received already had Steven ready to run at any time, and the arrival of the ice storm had crushed the last illusions in Steven's mind that this place was not a good place to stay.
The satellite was standing by in the silo, waiting for better weather to launch, when a seismic wave came from the farther polar center.
The moment the seismic wave was received, Steven had all the SCV's take all the supplies they could carry up to the command center, racing the entire command center to full capacity. At the same time, he ordered all the engineering vehicles to run directly in the opposite direction of the seismic wave with a large amount of resources.