Chapter 261: Warp Engine Technology
Nanotechnology Engineering. The unlocking of this technological knowledge allowed Fan Ren to understand the new direction of nanotechnology in future development.
As a technology with extremely wide application domains in current human civilization, nanotechnology engineering can not only produce nano-coats that allow carbon-based organisms to live in harsh cosmic environments to adapt to frequent space activities.
Moreover, in the medical domain, nanotechnology science and technology also plays a huge role in extending the lifespan of carbon-based life.
For example, up to now, humanity has already been able to use nanotechnology medical techniques to increase humanity’s overall average lifespan by a full 70 years.
Not only that, nanotechnology and the most recently appeared quantum engineering can be combined in the future scientific research domain.
For instance, by precisely controlling quantum dots at the nanoscale, the preparation and control of qubits can be achieved.
And this is also the premise for researching quantum computing.
Although humanity currently does not have a strong demand for computer computing power, Fan Ren can fully predict it.
As time progresses, when Venus Base, Mercury Base, Io Base, and other rocky planets are all explored by humanity and begin collection of mineral sources.
Accompanied by the establishment of metal refinement, processing, and other factories built one after another near these bases, if one wants to make these projects connect smoothly and minimize resource waste and project duplication.
Then there are only two methods: one is to use A’dai’s photonic computer to achieve management and operation of the entire project.
The other is to rely on humanity’s own computer’s massive computing power to minimize the occurrence of these problems as much as possible.
And now, with the analysis of these two disciplines, humanity’s subsequent R&D work on quantum computers will also proceed much more smoothly.
After spending nearly a day thoroughly digesting and absorbing this information, Fan Ren finally turned his gaze to the warp engine technology unlocked by space science.
It came without any effort!
As early as a long time ago, Fan Ren had always had some complaints about this technology category that seemed to have made no contribution to him or to human civilization’s development.
But as humanity’s involvement in space deepened further, and after Fan Ren’s discoveries such as the Conqueror, battles with the Hans Civilization expeditionary force, and involvement in various matters of the Galactic Alliance, Fan Ren gradually realized that the system’s technology unlocks generally occur as his understanding of various technologies progresses.
On the other side, it was as if there was an invisible hand subtly pulling him and human civilization toward connections with the ancient pre-human civilization.
And now, as humanity’s demand for interstellar navigation in space intensifies, warp engine technology—a technological product that, while not expensive on the starfield market, must be used on warships on a large scale—has also been unlocked.
It has to be said that this mysterious seed of civilization seems to be subtly pushing him and human civilization deeper into space.
But at the same time, this will also bring another problem.
Warp engine technology exists as a criterion for fourth level civilizations.
So, if current human civilization publicly uses this technology, will it attract covetousness from other civilizations?
Fan Ren closed his eyes, his sharp brows slightly furrowing. Although his mind was absorbing the technical data on warp engines, he diverted a small portion of his energy to analyze this matter.
It cannot be denied that this product, which is cheaper in price compared to afterburners, spaceship armor repairers, and many other ship equipment, although inexpensive, has extremely massive sales on the starfield market currently due to being essential short-term equipment for galaxy navigation.
From the Galactic Alliance’s development situation, precisely because of its low selling price, the adoption rate of this device in ships of all second level and above civilizations in the Galactic Alliance has reached 99%.
Only a very small number of spacecraft responsible for intra-atmospheric flights do not specifically install this propulsion system.
And it can be inferred that human civilization will also follow this development path henceforth.
After all, compared to navigating billions of kilometers in days or even requiring over a month for super-large ships, the warp engine serves as a device product for targeted superluminal movement within a galaxy.
This will inevitably facilitate space development, which is beyond doubt.
Just from Fox and Mai Er’s performance on the road when they previously accompanied the trip to Sirius Prime Star, it can be observed that humanity’s current method of galaxy navigation relying solely on conventional propulsion systems is truly difficult for these Galactic Alliance intelligent lifeforms to get used to and accept.
From this, it can also be imagined what astonishing sales the warp engine has in the starfield market.
Moreover, because only fourth level and fifth level civilizations can manufacture it, very few civilizations currently possess this technological product.
And this brings another advantage: low competition!
After all, compared to the massive market of billions of civilizations in the entire Galactic Alliance, the output from those few fourth and fifth level civilizations is negligible.
Fan Ren even knows that precisely due to insufficient output, the production of warp engines is first allocated in appropriate amounts to each arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Subsequently, further appropriate quotas are made between star domains within each arm based on the demands of each star domain.
This is also why Fan Ren could directly purchase this equipment on the starfield market of Sirius Prime Star previously.
It is because in this star domain, due to the existence of the Sirius Civilization, the other civilizations within a light year radius centered on Alpha Centauri in the rear are all trapped in resource shortages, making the war crisis not intense.
For example, the Hans Civilization’s fleet size, taking battleships as an example, is only just over 100,000 ships.
Even including other types of ships, their overall ship count is merely nearly one million ships.
This quantity level is pitifully small compared to the hundreds of years since they entered second level civilization.
But Fan Ren knows that the Hans Civilization currently has a large number of empty hulls of various ships in docks, waiting for the required equipment to arrive before undergoing overall ship installation, debugging, and finally factory commissioning to troops.
But the problem is that the Hans Civilization’s resource depletion has made it impossible to procure equipment for these subsequent empty hulls.
And this phenomenon appears to be the common situation among the other seven second level civilizations in this star domain currently.
This also results in warp engines having steady and unremarkable sales in this star domain, always with surplus inventory available for sales.
But this is also good.
As he thought about it, a slight smile appeared on Fan Ren’s lips.
