Warhammer: Rebuilding the Golden Age Starting with Farming.

Only reactor walls forged from adamantite can withstand the terrifying temperatures and pressures generated during heavy element fusion, as well as the reaction force strong enough to tear reality apart when the subspace engine is activated.

If ordinary plastic steel or ceramic steel is used to build the inner wall of the reactor, it will explode the moment it is ignited.

Secondly, there is super diamond.

It is similar to the process of making refined gold, but not exactly the same. It is not the kind of carbon used to make diamond rings, but a kind of artificial crystal formed under extremely high pressure.

However, in Andy's view, the super-solid properties of super diamonds suggest that they could also be the product of certain special celestial bodies, which is a matter of opinion.

Needless to say, its refractive index and hardness far exceed those of natural diamonds.

Without it, the subspace energy generated by the engine would spill out and blast the entire ship into another dimension.

pity.

These two things cannot be produced by a molecular reconstruction instrument.

Pure gold is an isotopic synthetic alloy, involving processes at the atomic nucleus level, while super diamond, although produced by molecular processes, requires an extremely high-pressure environment, and the energy field pressure of the reconstructor is far from that level.

Andy paced back and forth in the warehouse.

He didn't want to give up just like that.

Since the orthodox approach is not working, why not try the unorthodox approach?

Andy began frantically searching the database for keywords: [subspace engine], [alternative materials], [variant design].

A massive stream of data swept across his retina.

Most of the proposals were rejected outright because they required materials that were even rarer than adamantite.

It wasn't until Andy stumbled upon a technical document marked "non-standard" that things changed.

That was a research report on "the application of psionic conduits in warp engines".

The report's author is unknown; it might be the graduation project of some federal research fellow.

The research team mentioned in their report that the essence of a subspace engine is to guide subspace energy.

Traditional subspace engines use superconducting coils to transmit energy, but this requires extremely low temperatures and expensive superconducting materials.

Another approach is to use materials with psionic conductivity to replace superconductors.

Andy kept scrolling down until he saw a sample that looked very much like a [subspace energy conduit].

The researchers even wrote a detailed parameter description specifically for this purpose.

One of the attributes caught Andy's attention:

[High-dimensional energy compatibility: Extremely high.]

[Alternative suggestion: It can be used to replace traditional cryogenic superconductor coils as an energy transfer medium for subspace engines.]

A thought flashed through Andy's mind.

Psychic conduction properties?

The difficulty in building traditional subspace engines lies not only in the core materials but also in the extremely complex superconductor transmission system.

To maintain superconductivity, the engine needs to be equipped with a massive liquid helium cooling system, which results in a huge engine size, complex structure, and shutdown if the cooling fails.

But if...

"What if I abandon the traditional superconductor coil design and instead use a current-carrying tube derived from this irregularly shaped material?"

"This type of flow guide can operate at room temperature and does not require a cryogenic system!"

"This means that the engine's structure can be simplified by at least 30%, and its size can be reduced significantly!"

"Moreover, this type of conduit itself has subspace affinity, making its energy transfer efficiency higher than that of rigid superconductors!"

This is simply a brilliant idea!

Using alien materials and combining them with the architecture of humanity's golden age, create a hybrid engine!

Andy immediately opened the design software and began modifying the drawings.

He removed the original bulky superconducting coils and replaced them with an energy circuit woven from Netherworld conduits.

As the lines were reconnected one by one, a brand-new subspace engine model gradually took shape in the holographic projection.

Its structure is more compact, its energy circuits are more organic, and it even possesses a strange biological aesthetic.

[Simulated test run...]

Energy transfer efficiency: 145%.

Heat loss: reduced by 60%.

Stability assessment: Extremely high.

Become!

This is the "Andy version" of the subspace engine!

Unique, unreplicable, and with outstanding performance!

Completely unconcerned about whether he had plagiarized someone else's paper, Andy looked at the perfect blue holographic model in front of him, and a huge sense of accomplishment surged in his logical core.

In this way, he found a new technological path.

If built according to these blueprints, the performance of this engine will absolutely crush other Imperial products of the same class.

however.

Just as Andy was about to save the blueprint and issue the production order,

His finger stopped in mid-air.

Our gaze returned to the core of the blueprint.

There, on the inner wall of the reactor, the label still reads: "Required Material: Adamantite".

The energy-focusing lens array is still labeled with the material required: super diamond.

The Phantom Material has solved the problems of transmission and superconductivity.

But it doesn't solve the problem of the reactor exploding.

No matter how good the conduit is, the core reaction chamber still needs to be made of refined gold to withstand high temperature and high pressure.

No matter how fast the transmission is, the energy output port still needs to be focused using a super diamond.

These two hard indicators are the red lines of the laws of physics; when you put them together, wow! There's really no way to get around them!

Andy looked at the two red material requirement boxes.

The excitement I felt just now was like a bucket of cold water poured on a red-hot iron plate, instantly turning into helpless white smoke.

Harmful!

"What am I so happy about...?"

Andy grumbled, his voice echoing in the empty warehouse.

No matter how well the blueprints are drawn, they are just waste paper without materials.

Do you think you can just get your hands on these two pieces of junk, adamantite and super diamond?

High-end strategic materials of that level can probably only be found in ancient ruins and the most advanced casting worlds.

Andy plopped down on the box next to him, staring blankly at the perfect, but unworkable, engine model.

"Looks like we still have to go out and look for it."

Andy turned off the holographic projection, and the warehouse fell into darkness again.

Since we can't build it ourselves, we have to find something that's readily available.

I've only been here for less than a month, there must be a lot of good things on this planet.

For a new ship that doesn't even exist yet, Andy will do anything to make it happen, even if it means digging his teeth.

Chapter 98 Space Well and the Reiss Alien

Eight kilometers west of the core industrial area of ​​Horisonburg lies an unexplored wasteland.

The heavy clanging of metal shattered the silence of the wasteland.

With each step Kolber took, his two-hundred-kilogram alloy combat boots crushed the concrete fragments on the ground into powder, accompanied by a pleasant hissing sound from the hydraulic power system.

"Vanguard" type assault power armor.

Andy used the Type-IV neural bundles generated by the Alien Technology Analysis Station, combined with the high-strength armor plates produced by the Material Molecular Reconstruction Instrument, and the servo joints cut by the precision machining center, to finally assemble this killing machine.

Kohlberg's original height was 1.95 meters, but after putting on this armor, his height increased to 2.3 meters, and his sense of power became explosive.

Unlike the T-9000 exoskeleton he wore before, he no longer needed to adapt to the hydraulic transmission system if his movements were too large.

Now, this armor is his skin, and he can do whatever he wants with it.

Besides being shocked by the equipment, Kolber felt an almost fanatical admiration for Andy.

Before meeting Andy, Colbert was just a black boxer in the "Bone Shattering Pit," relying on his brute strength and fearless ruthlessness to roll around in blood and mud, all for the sake of winning half a piece of moldy corpse starch.

At that time, his life was as fragile as paper, and his dignity was a joke.

Andy pulled him out of the pile of corpses, not only feeding him but also giving him the strength to crush everything, turning him from a barbarian who could only throw punches into the vice-captain of the Storm Squad.

From the moment I put on this power armor.

Kohlberg swore that his life belonged to Andy, and that he would tear anyone who stood in Andy's way to pieces.

"Hey, Lao Ke."

"explain."

Jaden's somewhat noisy voice came through the communication channel.

"Do you think mutants who eat too many radioactive cockroaches will poop fluorescent poop?"

Kolber: "..."

Jaden walked beside Kolber. Because he was so short, only a little over 1.7 meters tall, his shoulders didn't even reach Kolber's elbows.

Although this short guy looks unserious, he was nicknamed "King of Rats" before joining Deep Space Industries.

He used to specialize in crawling through various abandoned ventilation ducts in the hive capital to smuggle contraband parts and intelligence. When it came to drilling, reconnaissance, and intuition for danger, few people in the entire bottom hive could compare to him.

It was precisely because of his quick wit and excellent combat skills that he was noticed by Andy and eventually promoted to captain of the Storm Squad.

Andy originally built 20 power armor suits in the first batch, and the Storm Squad expanded to 32 people. Logically, Zetton, as the captain, should have had one.

But after he put it on, he found that his limbs were too short to reach the control gloves and boot soles of the power armor. It was like a child wearing adult clothes, unable to move at all.

At that moment, Jaden awkwardly laughed it off, saying that he preferred to be more flexible, and gave the spot to someone else.

He obediently put back on the lightweight Stormtrooper shell armor.

"do not know."

Kolber's voice came through an external speaker, with a metallic thud.

"Focus, Jaden, we're in uncharted territory."

"I'm very focused!"

Jaden held the gun, his eyes darting around.

"It's so boring! Why do we have to do this kind of hard labor?"

"Doesn't Boss Andy have hundreds of those 'Black Spirit' spiders? And also drones flying in the sky?"

"Why not just let those lumps of iron scan the maps? Why make us wad through all this trouble?"

Kolber stopped, his electronic eye scanning a collapsed building ahead.

"Because machines are inanimate."

Kolber answered very simply.

Andy had indeed tried having Xiao Liu command a swarm of drones for map surveying before.

The resulting report was simply unreadable!

As a subspace navigation AI, Xiao Liu was initially given a try-it-out mentality by Andy, who thought that things couldn't get much worse than expected.