A is in StarCraft, just disembarked from the Zerg Prince spaceship.

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Demanding autonomy doesn't mean you have to be an idiot.

Commander-in-Chief Qi coughed and reached out to press the holographic projection button.

Suddenly, the entire conference room floated in space, and the Earth spun before their eyes, flashing blue light.

"Ahem... Minister Hawke, thank you for your help. Ahem..."

All the generals first looked at Commander-in-Chief Qi.

He looked sick; his face was dark, and he was coughing.

Commander-in-Chief Qi waved his hand, indicating that everything was alright and the meeting should continue.

"You should still take care of your health first," Minister Hawke said, taking the projector controller.

Sigh, although male insects are not uncommon on Earth now, the insects of Lyrnia just can't stand seeing male insects working while sick.

"Thank you." Commander-in-Chief Qi nodded.

Minister Hawke took over control of the projector, connected it to his personal computer, and imported the planetary barrier construction plan prepared in advance by his colleagues in the technical department.

A steel ring suddenly lit up above the Earth's equator, quickly encircling the planet, hovering and slowly rotating, like a steel ring around the blue planet.

This shape is familiar to everyone present; Earth had star rings hundreds of millions of years ago.

4.66 million years ago, when Ordovician marine life emerged from the water, they may have witnessed a breathtaking scene from the sky.

A giant ring stretches across the sky.

Those were the planetary rings that Earth once had.

A star ring is a ring of material that orbits a planet and is composed of many small pieces of rock, ice, dust, and other materials.

In the early stages of planet formation, most of the surrounding primordial stardust aggregated to form planets. A small portion of microparticles, which did not aggregate, were attracted by Earth's gravity and maintained a balanced orbit at a specific distance around the planet, forming star rings.

When asteroids, comets, or other celestial bodies collide with a planet or its satellite, they produce a large amount of debris. Under the influence of the planet's gravity, this debris can also form star rings.

However, the rings of planets orbiting the inner layers of the Sun are very fragile.

Every so often, the sun unleashes solar radiation storms. The rings of the inner orbiting planets are relatively close to the sun and are easily dispersed by these solar radiation storms.

In the solar system, rings are preserved starting with Saturn. Saturn's rings are the most spectacular, with a very large and complex system. In addition, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also have their own ring systems.

Earth's ring system disappeared hundreds of millions of years ago, but now the Zerg are proposing that Earth rebuild a steel ring system.

Commander-in-Chief Qi gestured for him to speak: "Minister Hawke, may I ask you to introduce this device?"

"Of course." Minister Hawke zoomed in on the projection, and a giant Earth appeared before everyone.

"The mechanical star ring is the carrier of the planetary barrier. The entire star ring is composed of large, precision metal components."

Minister Hawke turned on the switch and demonstrated: "The planetary barrier, as the name suggests, releases a special energy field from the mechanical star ring when protection is needed. It can quickly form two eggshell-shaped energy shields with the Earth's equator as the center line, enveloping the entire Earth and providing protection."

The energy barrier is like a semi-transparent bubble enveloping the entire planet, surrounding Earth.

The human generals quickly whispered among themselves in discussion.

This hypothesis has been proposed for Earth before, but due to technological limitations, the maximum protective shield that can be built so far is still only enough to enclose a single city.

The Earth is too big; planetary barriers are a technology that humanity cannot currently achieve.

A Type I civilization is still too backward; most of the truly cosmic-level engineering technologies can only be accessed when a civilization upgrades to Type II.

It's okay, if you don't understand, just learn; if you don't understand, just ask.

The technology minister humbly inquired, "So, what can this planetary barrier block?"

Physical? Non-physical? Electromagnetic? Energy? Shock wave? Radiation?

Hawke ripped open the top button of his military uniform and stood up casually: "Words can't describe it, I'm not very good at talking, so I'll just show you."

A miniature projection of the solar system appeared in front of him.

Minister Hawke simply plucked a small asteroid from its outer orbit and threw it at a model of Earth to simulate an asteroid hitting the planet.

The scene was even more familiar to everyone present.

The once dominant species on Earth was wiped out by an asteroid.

Now, this asteroid hurtling straight toward Earth at an astonishing speed is dozens of times larger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, and is almost the size of the moon.

"Hiss..." Someone gasped.

Although humans now have the technology to destroy asteroids, the speed is simply too fast. If it were to collide with an asteroid, it might shatter half of the Earth.

But it failed to crash into it.

The silver ring rapidly expanded its barrier, and the asteroid collided with that bubble-like barrier.

That barrier may seem illusory, but it is actually indestructible.

With a loud "bang," the asteroid struck it, shattering into a shower of fireworks.

There was no sound in space, but everyone seemed to hear the deafening roar of the shockwave.

The smoke dissipated slightly.

The protective shield remained intact.

All the debris and shockwaves were blocked outside the barrier.

Then the barrier wraps around all the debris in Earth's orbit, assembling it into a ball, and then launches it toward Jupiter.

Asteroid debris was captured by Jupiter's gravity, fell onto Jupiter, and became part of Jupiter.

The Earth is completely unharmed.

Even the shockwave couldn't penetrate it.

"Wow, that's really good!" The technical director clapped enthusiastically.

With Earth's technology, it wouldn't be difficult to destroy an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, but the fragments would still fall to Earth due to gravity.

If an asteroid were completely shattered into fragments, the dust and debris would mix into Earth's atmosphere, causing dust clouds to linger and severely impact Earth's ecosystem.

The intelligent barrier that can automatically intercept planets and capture fragments of them and send them elsewhere is truly remarkable.

Moreover, this is a protective shield that covers the entire Earth, providing protection anytime and anywhere, so we no longer need to activate emergency crisis response measures when a meteorite is heading towards Earth.

"Don't rush to clap, this isn't over yet. This is just the basics, there's more." Minister Hawke gestured with his hand to indicate that it was just the basics, and then activated the second disaster mode.

[Natural disaster, round two.]

[Imagine a solar storm suddenly erupts, increasing energy radiation to one hundred times its current level—]

The moment this hypothesis was put forward, the generals present could no longer sit still.

A solar storm refers to a coronal mass ejection (CME) of the Sun, which releases a large number of charged particles and electromagnetic radiation.

There is a certain safe threshold for the intensity of radiation that humans can tolerate.

If energy radiation were increased a hundredfold, it would be an extremely intense catastrophic event.

Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere are its main natural barriers, blocking most radiation.

But if the radiation increases a hundredfold, will this protection be sufficient?

It's not enough, because existing magnetic fields are completely incapable of deflecting such a powerful stream of charged particles.

The Earth's magnetic field will be crushed, the atmosphere will be blown away, and more radiation will reach the ground.

The Earth's magnetic field will be compressed into near-Earth orbit by an extremely powerful stream of charged particles, and the energy of the Van Allen radiation belts will increase a thousandfold. The electronic equipment of satellites, space stations, and other spacecraft will all malfunction within seconds and fall from the sky.

Within 24 hours, the total global ozone concentration will decrease by 80%, and the Earth's surface will be directly exposed to solar ultraviolet radiation, with ultraviolet intensity exceeding the existing safety threshold by at least 200 times.

The unstoppable geomagnetic induced current will cause massive transformer meltdowns worldwide, and the power systems in more than 90% of regions are expected to collapse within 24 hours, triggering secondary disasters such as urban water and power outages and refrigeration system failures.

More than 90% of ocean surface plankton will die within three days, causing a disruption to the global food chain; the photosynthetic system of ground plants will be destroyed, the surface temperature will rise sharply, and almost all ground plants will die.

Unprotected humans exposed to radiation will develop acute radiation sickness within half an hour, with a mortality rate exceeding 90% within a day.

Simply put, almost all civilizations perished, and more than 90% of life on Earth would die.

Life on Earth depends on the sun for survival.

A small change in the sun's behavior could destroy almost all life on Earth.

--but.

If there is a planetary barrier.

A powerful radiation storm struck, and before the people on Earth were even aware of it, the monitoring system detected the crisis and quickly transmitted a danger signal to the mechanical ring.

Upon receiving the signal, the central control system on the star ring immediately initiates an energy conversion program, releasing the stored energy according to a specific pattern and frequency to form a protective shield against cosmic radiation storms.

The protective shield expanded outwards, grew larger, and quickly enveloped the entire atmosphere and most of the geomagnetic field, becoming opaque.

When a cosmic storm strikes, the atmospheres and radiation storms of other planets, which are not protected by planetary barriers, fight to the death. It all depends on whether the thickness of the atmosphere is enough to survive the storm, whether the storm passes first, or whether the atmosphere is blown away first.

Earth is like a yolk returning to the protection of an eggshell, like the planet returning to its initial state when it was formed, enveloped by the primordial nebula, remaining steadfast amidst violent cosmic radiation storms.

The most dangerous 24 hours of the cosmic radiation storm passed before the shield was reopened.

The surrounding planets, their surfaces and atmospheres were in disarray, a scene of utter devastation.

The inhabitants of Earth were completely unaware of this, only complaining that it had been cloudy all day yesterday and that the weather had been really bad lately.