Chapter 194: The Administrator’s Anomaly (1)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Tomcat, how’s your recent observation data?”
“What else can I do? To be honest, artificial intelligence can already handle most problems, so why do we still need to keep an eye on them?”
In the deep space observation station of the Craybow Interstellar Trading Company, the data recorder who was doing the same boring work day after day had such complaints.
This was what they did every day, even though this profession of being able to observe the universe all the time was what they had yearned for since they were young, and their learning career was also aimed at this profession.
However, once they started working, their enthusiasm and curiosity quickly dissipated like a fire that had met water.
Repetitive behavior was the main culprit that killed the enthusiasm for work. What still supported the work of these scribes was the high salary.
“Sigh… I don’t know why, but the higher-ups have recently asked us to pay more attention to those A and B-type stars…It would be very difficult for a celestial system in that kind of cosmic environment to produce habitable planets, right?”
Rat continued to complain about the change in the center of gravity of the work. In the past, they could fish in troubled waters, but now that they had orders, they had to work harder.
What was even more difficult for him to understand was that his boss, who had always regarded population, labor, and the market as the most important capital, would actually pay attention to something that only celestial scientists would care about.
As everyone knew, stars were constantly releasing energy due to their fusion reactions.
The higher the temperature of the star, the greater the energy it released, and the more intense the light that could be seen.
According to the classification of the stellar spectrum, stars could be divided from the brightest O-type star to the darkest M-type star. The Sun was a G-type star in the middle.
O-type stars were rare in the Milky Way, and there were only a few records of them. However, A and B-type stars were not that rare. Basically, every civilization had one or two of them.
A and B-type stars were the types of stars with extremely high surface temperatures. They had absorbed a large amount of material from the nebula at the beginning of their formation, and their mass was much larger than other types of stars.
Among the massive masses were violent nuclear fusion reactions. Their surface temperature could reach more than 20,000 degrees, while the surface temperature of the sun was only over 6,000 degrees.
Because of this, A and B-type stars were always one of the brightest celestial bodies in the universe. The light they emitted could reach an extremely far distance, and they were already greenish-white in the spectrum.
However, it was very difficult for a celestial system to be born in such a star environment.
It was not that there were no habitable zones. The habitable zones of A and B-type stars were much farther than other stars, but it was not that there were none.
The biggest problem was that these stars were about to enter the next stage of life, and there was not much time left for life to be born naturally.
The overly intense fusion reactions of A and B-type stars caused their lifespans to be very short. They would soon transition to the stage of red giants that used helium as fuel.
At this time, the star’s volume would rapidly expand and choose to have a passionate explosion or a quiet death in a faster time.
The former would explode into a white dwarf in the form of a supernova, while the latter would quietly lose its mass in the stellar wind and become a black dwarf.
No matter which option, it would not be suitable for the birth of life. The time from the formation of A and B-type stars to their death might not exceed two billion years. Such a short time could not even evolve a planet from its original state to its normal state, let alone the birth of life.
Because of this, megacorps like Craybow, which were only interested in the human population and trading market, would never pay too much attention to these star galaxies that did not have life.
They would only sigh when they passed by, “What a bright star!” They would mark it on the star map and leave in a hurry.
However, recently, there might have been some rumors from above that started to make these observers pay attention to the types of celestial bodies that they would never have cared about in the past.
These observers were veterans who had worked for a long time. Naturally, they could tell when to slack off and when to be serious.
It was rare for them to work so hard for so long, but they had never been able to wait for the day when they stopped. This made them guess the truth behind it.
Gossip was a rare way to relieve stress, even in the Interstellar Era.
“I have a friend who is a student of a relative of a staff member working in the Community Headquarters…”
“Let’s get straight to the point. We all know that the friend is yourself. There’s no need to draw so much line between us.”
“Alright, actually, the Community seems to have adopted a topic and decided to build a public Dyson sphere to alleviate the energy problem of the Milky Way.”
“Although the topic has been decided, there has been a lot of debate about where to build it.
“Some people want to build it once and for all on an M-type star that has a lifespan of ten billion years, but there are also people who want to build it on an A-type star.”
“Our higher-ups probably want to see if they can operate on this matter and make a fortune…”
This observer who had connections kept talking about what he had heard. After watching the stars for a long time, occasionally seeing some unique social phenomena in the galaxy was also a good seasoning..