Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1554: Chapter 583: Openly Repairing the Road While Secretly Crossing the Chen Cang, the Despicable and Shameless Earl Red Blade

Yang Misi has been in the Nanxiang Star Cluster for more than ten years now.

Although Sun Ai has covered up some information, the Red Blade Clan is, after all, a conspicuous giant, so they still have to selectively release some reasonably packaged material to fool the "Empire Super Network".

Thus, whether in Duke Wenle Mansion or in the Chosen Guard, many people know that Yang Misi has gone back to his old trade again in the Nanxiang Star Cluster, tinkering with dark matter development technology.

But people didn’t take it seriously.

It’s really not that others look down on Yang Misi.

It’s that dark matter development technology has long since hit a bottleneck.

At the main institute of the Royal Academy of Sciences, they still pour massive funding and astronomical amounts of manpower and materials into this project every year, yet results are slow to appear, but it’s impossible to abandon a project of such importance.

So even those who have only read a bit and have some brain cells know how difficult it is to revolutionize dark matter utilization technology.

Even if the project lead is Yang Misi, giving him a slightly higher chance than others of breaking through the barrier, there still shouldn’t be any real achievements within a mere decade or so; this is something where the timeline has to be stretched to units of ten thousand years.

Now Yang Misi has joined only a small-scale private R&D institution under an Earl Mansion; there is no reason this could produce any results.

Yet against all odds, he did it.

According to the technical parameters Yang Misi has released, the brand-new dark matter development technology can raise efficiency by at least a factor of one hundred over current technology.

Yes, a hundredfold, and that’s a lower bound.

For many human technologies, not to mention a hundredfold— even just a 50% boost in efficiency is enough to trigger a qualitative change, let alone a hundredfold.

The biggest change brought by a hundredfold-efficiency new technology is that it effectively overturns the Dyson Giant Structure Project.

The Dyson Giant Structure Project uses stellar radiation energy as its source; its advantage is that once built, it can keep operating until the star’s extinction, a true one-and-done deal.

As long as one is built, it’s enough to support an Earl’s hereditary line in flourishing prosperity.

But its drawbacks are equally obvious: it is too gigantic, its construction cost is too high, it consumes too many resources, maintenance costs are not low, and once completed it is extremely difficult to break apart and relocate.

The resources required to construct a complete Dyson Giant Structure Project are enough to arm a mid-tier Earl Level fleet.

This is the fundamental reason why, even within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, aside from a few Earls such as Nanxiang Marquis Liu An who possess a small number of complete Dyson Giant Structure Projects, no one else can get their hands on this thing.

The vast majority of nobles, even if a number of Viscounts join forces, can only manage to build some incomplete, small-scale Dyson projects.

Dark matter development technology is different; it has traits like miniaturization, discreteness, and high mobility.

The reason previous dark matter development technology could not fully replace the Dyson Giant Structure Project lies precisely in its high equipment manufacturing cost, its relatively low collection efficiency, high maintenance costs for the devices, fast consumption of expendables, and other drawbacks, which restricted it to small-scale deployment in regions lacking stars, preventing full-scale rollout.

But now, the hundredfold efficiency and lower maintenance costs of Yang Misi’s new dark matter technology have pushed it through a complete and thorough qualitative transformation.

If it can be rolled out across the board, then given time, it could even entirely replace the Dyson Giant Structure Project and become humanity’s next-generation core energy supply method.

This single technology alone is enough to shock the entire Mechanical Empire.

Then there is the new waste metal recycling and reuse technology, which is likewise a revolutionary existence.

In fact, over at the Source Star Science Academy, they have already refined this tech to the point of an almost truly unbounded recycling process. The reason it’s called "almost" is because Source Star Science Academy has already run tens of thousands of recycling cycles in the lab without seeing an end point, so no one dares to draw a final conclusion.

The reason Red Blade Science Academy has scaled the technology way down and only released a massively weakened version is, on the one hand, for "toothpaste-squeezing" style disclosure; on the other hand it is to avoid the Royal Family getting too jealous and resorting to drawing on every last shred of credit to forcibly seize the成果. At the same time, it’s also because Ren Zhong already holds an unimaginably huge scrap metal garbage star in his hands, and once that is paired with infinite recycling, the latent military capability in Earl Red Blade’s hands would become somewhat too terrifying, enough even to shake the very foundations of the Royal Family’s rule.

Therefore, Ren Zhong has only announced to the public one more complete iteration, a mere ten more recycling loops than the current cutting-edge technology of the Empire.