Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 364: Is This About Me?

As expected, this message was not long.

"To the esteemed Bluetoth Civilization, His Excellency Head of State Tom:

We do not know where your fleet has arrived. If your fleet is still in this solar system and receives this message no later than XX Galactic Year, our Cloud Civilization, representing the entire Red Star Alliance, makes a request to you.

The war between the Red Star Alliance and the Space-level Demonic Eye is a conspiracy of the Destroyer Civilization.

Their war with the Perseus Alliance has already ended; the Perseus Alliance was long ago annihilated, and during this process, the strategic weapon known as the Heavenly Disaster of Destruction was not used at all—everything was a facade.

Now, we and the Space-level Demonic Eye, having been deceived, have engaged in a mistaken war. While the war was ongoing and both sides were entangled, the Destroyer Civilization used the Heavenly Disaster of Destruction on both us and the Demonic Eye.

Our Red Star Nation and the Demonic Eye Nation of the Demonic Eye Civilization have both suffered severe damage, subsequently becoming trapped by the Destroyer Civilization and unable to escape.

We and the Demonic Eye have temporarily joined forces, barely holding back the Destroyer Civilization’s attack, and simultaneously trapping them here.

However, the situation remains grim. If this continues, it will ultimately be us and the Demonic Eye who perish.

The only way out is to break free from the Destroyer Civilization’s spatial limitations, restart the Red Star Nation, and escape the current grand universe.

Currently, the only civilization that can help us break free from these spatial limitations is your Bluetoth Civilization."

Upon reading this, Tom’s pupils suddenly constricted.

Me?

Me, helping a Space-level civilization like you break free from the Destroyer Civilization’s spatial limitations and escape?

Is this really about me?

"Of course, we understand that although your civilization has immense developmental potential, it is currently only at the Strong Nuclear level, making it truly impossible to intervene in our war.

But after calculations by the Red Star Civilization’s scientists, we have found a method.

If you and your civilization can trigger a natural supernova explosion within the following coordinate range, our Red Star Nation will be able to break free from the limitations and escape by leveraging its power.

We have detected that the Pegasus G76 solar system is a suitable system for igniting a Type Ia supernova.

We hope that you and your civilization can travel to that solar system and accelerate the process of its supernova explosion, saving our civilization and also saving our alliance.

Although the Destroyer Civilization has restrained us and the Demonic Eye, they are also restrained by us and the Demonic Eye, temporarily unable to disperse their forces outward. You do not need to worry about being affected by the Destroyer Civilization.

If you agree to help us, then one point of particular importance is that you must ensure that the south or north pole of that white dwarf—only one pole is needed—must be aimed precisely in this direction, with a deviation of no more than 0.1%.

Only then can our Red Star Nation be saved. If the deviation is too large, it will either be ineffective or, conversely, save the Demonic Eye Nation.

It is regrettable that during our last encounter, due to alliance rule restrictions, we were unable to provide you with technological data, and in this communication, due to extremely low efficiency, we also cannot send you technological data. If you are willing to help us, you can only perform this mission with Strong Nuclear-stage technology.

But we, on behalf of the entire Red Star Alliance, implore you, please help us.

This is not only for your Bluetoth Civilization, and not only for our Red Star Alliance, but also for all ordinary civilizations throughout the Milky Way that love peace and hope for peaceful development.

Esteemed Bluetoth people, esteemed Head of State Tom, please help us."

...

After reading this message, Tom fell into a long silence.

After a long while, he manipulated the deep space telescope to turn its direction, aiming it at the solar system approximately 100 light-years away, Pegasus G76.

This is a binary star system, with two stars orbiting their common center of mass.

Unlike ordinary binary star systems, one of the two stars forming this binary system is a white dwarf, and the other is a red giant that is already in its old age and has expanded extremely.

A white dwarf is the remnant of a small to medium-mass star after its death. A red giant, on the other hand, is a type of star that, after entering its old age, has exhausted its core hydrogen fuel, developed a layered internal structure, expanded enormously in volume, and experienced a sharp drop in surface temperature.

The Sun, the main star of the Solar System where Human Civilization was born, will also become a red giant billions of years from now. At that time, the extremely expanded Sun could even engulf Mercury and Venus.

The more a star expands, the larger its volume, the lower its density, and its surface gravity will also decrease, which means a reduction in its ability to bind its own matter.

And a white dwarf, as an extremely dense celestial body, has extremely high gravity.

What happens when two such celestial bodies are close together?

Simply put, the matter composing the red giant will be continuously plundered by this extremely small, yet extremely massive and highly gravitational, white dwarf.

Due to the replenishment of matter from its companion star, the mass of this white dwarf will continuously increase.

What is the consequence of the white dwarf’s mass continuously increasing?

This will lead to a continuous increase in internal pressure.

White dwarfs are typically composed of carbon and oxygen elements. Originally, the internal pressure and temperature of a white dwarf were insufficient to support the fusion of carbon and oxygen in its core. But now, with the replenishment of matter from its companion star, its internal temperature and pressure will continuously increase, eventually, upon reaching the Chandrasekhar Limit, the carbon and oxygen elements within it will also begin to fuse.

And because it cannot dynamically adjust its internal temperature and pressure by changing its volume, this fusion, once initiated, will enter an uncontrolled state, ultimately... shattering the entire white dwarf into pieces.

This is a Type Ia supernova explosion.

At this moment, Pegasus G76, which appeared in Tom’s field of vision, was precisely such a star system.

At this moment, this white dwarf, which Tom called Pegasus G76A, had already reached a mass of approximately 1.3 times that of the Sun through accreting matter from its companion star.

The Chandrasekhar Limit varies slightly depending on the elemental composition of the white dwarf. The Chandrasekhar Limit for this white dwarf, based on Tom’s precise observation and calculation, was approximately 1.39 times the mass of the Sun.

It still needed 0.09 times the mass of the Sun to trigger a supernova explosion, which is roughly equivalent to the mass of 30,000 Earths.

At a normal accretion rate, this process would take approximately 100,000 years, meaning this white dwarf would accrete roughly 0.3 Earth masses from its companion star per year on average.

A mere 100,000 years is but an instant for stellar evolution. But for Tom, it was far too long.

Considering the requirements of the message sent by the Cloud Civilization, if he were to complete this mission, Tom would have to do so within a maximum of 500 years.

Excluding travel time and preliminary preparation time, Tom had at most 350 years to utilize.

To inject a mass equivalent to 30,000 Earths into this white dwarf within 350 years, which is roughly one Earth every four days, equivalent to increasing the white dwarf’s natural accretion rate by approximately 300 times—is this... truly something I can do?

Although Tom had always been proud of his industrial capabilities, it was clear that this task exceeded the limits of his abilities.

Moreover... in the Pegasus G76 solar system, apart from those two stars, there simply wasn’t that much mass available to be used.

There were five large planets orbiting these two stars, two of which were slightly less massive than Earth, and one slightly more massive than Earth.

In addition to these three rocky planets, there were also two gas giants, both slightly more massive than Jupiter.

But even for the gas giant larger than Jupiter, its mass was only about 330 times that of Earth. The total mass of the five planets combined was only 660 times that of Earth, far from the requirement of 30,000 Earth masses.

The only way was to enter the atmosphere of the red giant and use stellar matter as the mass source.

Setting aside the harsh environment within the red giant’s atmosphere, just considering its matter density—because of its extremely large expansion, the density of this stellar matter was even hundreds of times thinner than Earth’s atmosphere. To collect enough matter in such an environment and inject it into that white dwarf...

This seemed impossible to achieve.

Tom clearly realized that relying solely on his industrial capabilities would not be enough to accomplish this.

Then... perhaps he could leverage the natural environment?

Mobilizing the computing power of Primal, Tom once again began simulations.

That red giant had already expanded extremely, its internal structure was unstable, and it frequently experienced super-large-scale stellar matter ejections...

The distance between the white dwarf and the red giant was not far...

The white dwarf had maintained stable accretion for over a hundred million years in the past, and its mass was already relatively close to the Chandrasekhar Limit...

Considering all these conditions, after millions of calculations and simulations by Primal, Tom finally let out a long breath.

He had found a method that, in theory, offered hope for him to complete this super-engineering project.

Of course, this was only in theory, and it absolutely relied on natural environmental factors. Whether it could actually be completed still required more data confirmation and continuous adjustments during execution.

After all, a binary star system composed of a star and a white dwarf, involving large-scale matter transfer under complex conditions, was too intricate a model to be 100% accurately simulated by Tom at present.

But regardless, it was worth attempting.

So, at this moment, only one question remained before Tom.

Should he... undertake this mission?

If he undertook this mission, he would have to abandon the pursuit of the Purple Moon Civilization. Moreover, the risks involved in this mission were extremely high.

Setting aside external threats—such as attracting the attention of the Destroyer Civilization, or the Destroyer Civilization simply sending a fleet to annihilate him—the mission itself was full of danger and uncertainty.

This project was simply too massive, with too many uncontrolled variables.

What if, during the execution of the project, an error triggered a nova explosion of the white dwarf, leading to his own annihilation? What then?

A nova explosion is a different type of explosion from a supernova explosion.

When a white dwarf accretes matter from its companion star, those hydrogen elements temporarily accumulate on the white dwarf’s surface.

They could also undergo fusion due to rising temperature and pressure, instantly igniting all hydrogen elements on the white dwarf’s surface, releasing immense energy and radiation, and sweeping away the accumulated hydrogen elements from the surface.

Nova explosions can occur repeatedly. Although their power is far less than that of a supernova explosion, they are still sufficient to be called an "astronomical" level phenomenon.

Even the Electroweak Civilization can observe a nova explosion from thousands of light-years away.

At that time, he, located inside the solar system, would definitely bear the brunt.

Even if he controlled it well and avoided a nova explosion, and even if he eventually triggered a supernova explosion within the stipulated time, then... would he have enough time to escape?

Don’t forget, his current technological level is not sufficient to accurately predict the time of a supernova explosion.

And even the Destroyer Civilization’s strategic weapon, the Heavenly Disaster of Destruction, is only imitating a supernova explosion, and it’s still hard to say whether its true power can compare to the supernova he will ignite in the future.

What if he hasn’t had time to escape far enough before being caught by the energy of the supernova explosion, then...

Tom dared not imagine.

This was a difficult choice, involving his future destiny, and even the future direction of the entire Milky Way’s situation. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"Sigh."

After a long period of contemplation, Tom finally let out a soft sigh.

"Some things, after all, still need to be done."

"Then... set sail! Destination, Pegasus G76 solar system!"

At this moment, the material collection mission was not yet fully completed, and the Flying Star only had a radius of 50 kilometers.

However, due to the relatively short distance of this voyage, not much resources were needed, and a Flying Star of this size was already completely sufficient.

The fleet could now set sail.

Thus, under Tom’s command, countless spaceships began to converge towards the main fleet.

After assembling, the many spaceships, guarding the Flying Star, simultaneously activated their propulsion systems.

Countless tail flames converged, like a giant light dragon dancing freely in the vast starry sky.