Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 41 Kerotoren's Melancholy (4000, bonus chapter for the new alliance leader 'Memory Pile'!)
This is not surprising. As an exploration ship that needs to travel in space for a long time, its specifications are higher than those of ordinary warships. A typical space exploration ship is likely to be thousands of light-years away from its home planet, replenishing supplies at unimaginable distances and in unfamiliar planetary systems. Therefore, the engineers on the exploration ship have the ability to re-manufacture a completely new exploration ship, provided with the relevant equipment.
Even if the original exploration ship is dilapidated, as long as the internal construction equipment can still operate and sufficient materials can be extracted, they can roughly repair the ship.
This is also why the Tallin thought that if they found the wreckage of other spaceships, they could repair their exploration ship.
And now, these engineers, who can be regarded as elites even among the Tallin, are imparting all their knowledge without reservation. They would likely be subjected to a soul search via psionic powers anyway, so they might as well cooperate and build goodwill.
Of course, not all scholars in related fields on Earth possess extremely strong transcendent powers. Although most of those who can be called master craftsmen possess third or fourth level psionic powers, the vast majority of scholars and engineers only possess basic-level psionic powers.
But even so, this civilization form, with nearly all its people possessing psionic powers, still made Kotalen feel emotional.
At the beginning of the instruction, Kotalen actually had a trace of pride as a pioneer of interstellar civilization. Indeed, Earth may have been a behemoth so powerful that even the Enterprise Alliance did not dare to provoke it before the Silent Era, but now, it was just a civilization that could not even build spaceships.
Powerful psionic abilities can indeed provide convenience for academic research. For one thing, thinking ability will be greatly improved, which is very useful for both doing experiments and manual practice.
However, the help that psionic power brings to academics is only that. Its existence cannot provide any substantive help to professional fields. After all, psionic power cannot help people do calculus.
But now… Kotalen was shocked to find that he seemed to have underestimated Earth's psionic technology.
June 26, 2017, Earth, Central Australian Outback.
It has been about a week and a half since the Tallin civilization's spaceship fell from the sky.
What was placed in front of Kotalen were four small and medium-sized space warship prototypes.
As well as hundreds of transcendent master craftsmen from all over the world.
Not exploration ships, but smaller warships. Moreover, only two of the four ships were newly built from scratch, and the other two were converted from the original experimental ships.
But even so, it was terrifyingly exaggerated.
Kotalen, who had learned various Earth languages, could now hear the master craftsmen chatting and joking around his spaceship.
"With complete design drawings and the requirements for each part, even building a spaceship doesn't seem very difficult." This was the feeling of an old man in a suit with white hair down to his waist. He tapped the spaceship's hull with his cane and then nodded: "The quality is also acceptable."
An old man from Zheng Guo next to him also nodded. He was scanning the outer shell structure of the spaceship with a golden mirror, looking for possible defects: "Yes, the material requirements for this spaceship are not high. It's far worse than my requirements for forging flying swords. The only headache is the energy source. I applied for an energy core from an ancient Jinwu (golden crow) to install it, which requires a Tongling (commander) realm cultivator with Jinwu bloodline to make fine adjustments at any time, otherwise it may explode. The cost is a bit high."
"Sure enough, the industrial base required for spaceships is far from meeting the standards on Earth. Now that our coordinates have been exposed, it is time to vigorously develop related industries." Some people were also lamenting the weakness of Earth's manufacturing industry. He shook his head slightly, his tone heavy: "We can't always rely on us to forge spaceships by hand, can we? We'll be exhausted to death."
Someone solemnly echoed: "That's right. Since the ancient gods and powerful psionic radiation that protected the Earth have disappeared, we must also prepare to communicate with the outside world and not imitate our ancestors by closing the country. It is rare to have such a kind and generous race like the Tallin to lead us. We must not waste this excellent opportunity!"
Hearing their words, Kotalen couldn't help but twitch his limbs slightly, expressing his approval of their evaluation.
But in his heart, he couldn't help but twitch wildly.
Indeed, the industrial base required for spaceships is indeed very high. If the Tallin did not have the materials and spaceship wreckage left by the Enterprise Alliance for reverse analysis and research, it might have taken them hundreds of years to figure it out.
But even with such excellent conditions, the Tallin spent a long time sailing and verifying in their home star system before slowly summarizing the main points and key technologies of spaceship manufacturing and improving their spaceship construction factory located in the planet's orbit.
That was truly a long and romantic epic era. The lives of countless Tallin scholars were dedicated to this field...
But you Earthlings are now creating them out of thin air?!
The incomprehensibility and unacceptability in Kotalen's heart were not incomprehensible to the master craftsmen and experts on Earth.
But how to say it, after all, they are two different civilizations, and things are not calculated like this.
The special alloy shell required for spaceships does require a large amount of materials, but it is nothing for a large industrial country. At least for Zheng Guo and the American Federation, which have already carried out experimental spaceship manufacturing, the supply of materials is no problem. There are even several sets of backup resources.
Perhaps, the processing techniques for various tight parts and special materials of spaceships would be very troublesome to teach to ordinary people, but for psionic users and the nano-level rune engraving technology that Earthlings are already very familiar with, there are always more solutions than difficulties encountered.
As long as there are blueprints and material requirements, they can always find a way to make them for you. The special psionic communication system is directly replaced by a message-sending formation. The electronic technology and operating system are directly copied from the experimental spaceship. It's not like they haven't built spaceships before, they are just not mature enough.
Even the most core power system, if it really doesn't work, can be topped with energy sources left by people or ancient ancestors. Anyway, this kind of thing can be manufactured slowly in the future. These four spaceships are only for emergency use against the Klor.
In general, it is "You have the technology, I have psionic power," the times have changed!
Now, master craftsmen from all over the world are still talking and laughing, introducing how they used various methods to manufacture various special parts and modules according to the blueprints and technical guidance provided by the Tallin.
Regardless of Kotalen's shocked appearance, his four camera eyes were about to explode, and his fully prosthetic body was about to feel his heart stop.
"How can these Earthlings, how can these Earthlings manufacture spaceships so quickly?!"
Kotalen was really puzzled by this. The four-limbed carapace alien, who was about one and a half meters tall, inspected several spaceships inside and out accompanied by several master craftsmen. After he finished the inspection, he had to admit that although the Earthlings' technology still had many immature aspects, and could even be said to have flaws in some aspects, at least these spaceships were all 'qualified products' that could move and operate normally!
Unable to understand, after much distress and a long period of thinking, Kotalen finally woke up.
That's right, so that's how it is, I understand!
His four limbs froze and then danced like a tap dance. Kotalen finally realized where he had gone wrong.
The reason why Earthlings have not manufactured spaceships is simply because they did not need to before, so they did not manufacture them.
Even the gods are the same. They only manufactured personal cosmic magical artifacts and did not manufacture exploration ships and warships specifically for long-distance warfare.
But not manufacturing them does not mean that their craftsmanship is not good enough!
It can even be said that in the hands of those psionic master craftsmen, Earthlings' level in terms of material precision processing and some microscopic-level techniques is not inferior to the Tallin, and may even be better than them!
"That's right, they were originally able to manufacture extremely powerful psionic weapons and transform into unbelievably powerful giant beasts... Like that powerful psionic user named Su Zhou, the scales of his giant beast form are probably unmatched even by spaceships. What was I thinking, that I would think they couldn't manufacture spaceships?"
The giant beast itself is equivalent to some kind of powerful bio-warship!
"Earthlings originally had qualified materials science and processing science, but they just never had experience in this area before."
Summarizing his thinking misconceptions, Kotalen gradually realized that his preconceived way of thinking made him underestimate the Earthlings' technical level.
Without interstellar engineering technology, one cannot explore the stars?
Psionic power is not a joke!
After all, the predecessor of Earth civilization was a powerful individual psionic civilization, and on the surface of this planet, there are naturally hundreds of constant stargates that can link to other worlds, bringing countless colonies.
Therefore, they naturally do not have the desire to explore and develop the sea of stars like other civilizations.
Humans look up at the stars, not only for survival, but more importantly, for a kind of romance.
"In other words, Earthlings have enough materials, processing, and precision parts manufacturing. They only lack a spaceship design drawing to help them shorten the long time it takes to develop qualified spaceships."
Compared to this technology, a suitable spaceship design drawing is the most important hard work that needs to be ground through with time, just like advanced mathematics. It's not like having high psionic power can make you do it. You must have studied knowledge in related fields and then learned it bit by bit.
"I was wrong, I was all wrong..."
Muttering to himself like this, Kotalen suddenly found an example similar to the Earthlings - that is, humans living in tropical areas with abundant food. They are a deformed civilization that has neglected a certain aspect of development due to natural geographical advantages and limitations.
Because food is naturally abundant, there is no motivation to develop, so they have lost the desire and technology to collect food and organize society.
Just like they naturally have constant stargates linking other planets, whether it is colonies or resources, they naturally have everything, so they have no desire to develop technologies such as space spacecraft. But they only lack these.
"And now - we Tallin have just given them the technical essentials regarding spaceship design."
Speaking to himself in his heart, Kotalen suddenly realized with melancholy that he seemed to have done something not very correct.
He looked up at the master craftsmen who were laughing loudly. In the eyes of this Tallin captain, those masters seemed to have transformed into black phantoms that were laughing wildly.
Just like... the hairless demons released from the blue cage by stupid aliens.
Because of the end of the psionic blockade, discovered by other aliens, and forced to protect themselves, the Earthlings' journey towards the sea of stars has taken the first step.
Of course, if it was just these, the manufacturing of the new spaceship would not be so fast.
Thinking of this, Kotalen couldn't help but recall the appearance he saw a few days ago on the back of the moon, those countless spaceship wrecks.
It is precisely because they have long begun to absorb the knowledge of some materials and structural designs in those spaceship wrecks, and then integrate them with the Tallin's technical outline for unification, that humans can do such an exaggerated thing.
As for why there are so many spaceship wrecks on the moon...
Kotalen has a bold guess.
But he doesn't dare to say it, and he doesn't dare to ask it.
"Those Klor, I'm afraid they don't know anything about this..."
At this moment, Kotalen couldn't help but look up at the sky. His gaze seemed to be able to penetrate the clouds and see above the universe.
He even began to feel some sympathy for the Klor who were about to arrive on Earth.
The Tallin dare to guarantee that those dodecahedron dice aliens will never understand what is happening on this planet!
At the same time.
June 26, 2017, 7:23 PM.
Su Zhou, who was having dinner at home with his parents and was praised by his mother 'Worthy of being my son, even aliens can be brought over!', received a notification from Yan Sheng.
"What, it's already built?!"
He exclaimed in shock, but he hadn't put down his chopsticks yet. He used spiritual power to vibrate the air and make a sound: "So fast?"
"Okay, then I'll go over immediately after I finish eating!"