Chapter 1048 - 90: Divine Retribution (Double-Length)

The technological advances in the space industry not only pertain to materials science and engineering but also heavily rely on computation technology for systems to function correctly.

The High Knights may not have received a full modern education, but their work in space fills them with awe for computational technology, which to them is almost a prophetic science:

In the vastness of space, correcting the retrograde motion of the Crystal Palace 34 minutes ago requires a single spatial-temporal correction computation amount approximately equal to 10^20 floating-point calculations, involving the three-dimensional position, velocity, acceleration, angular momentum of the Crystal Palace, the gravitational distribution of the Earth-Moon system, solar wind, cosmic ray interference, orbital drift error correction...

Furthermore, the time synchronization precision must reach the microsecond level, and the computational power needed for such complex engineering demands is astronomical in scale, requiring an energy supply that spans the entire city’s power plants, with the power plants serving half the city’s servers, and only the most advanced computers will suffice!

Even with a quantum computer, such a computational load is not something that a small computer room can handle!

However, Lille has not given up, and the mocking laughter seems to also mock Bansa, who can’t say anything before being overshadowed by Dawei striding through the corridor, his imposing figure leaving Bansa speechless...

High Knights call themselves Space Children, especially those born in the universe. They almost don’t feel the constraints of gravity in fetal form, and their first movement after birth is not crawling on the ground, but waving their arms in a zero-gravity environment...

There is a significant difference in their physical structure, ideology, and worldview compared to Earthlings.

But ultimately, compared to Earthlings, as fellow humans, they still need to wear spacesuits in space, carry oxygen reserves, require propulsion equipment and various propellants for thrust, and face cosmic rays...

Many limitations make it difficult for them to have long lives, and diseases are not uncommon, with many being born needing prosthetics to maintain normal physiological functions.

But Dawei, the Transformer, doesn’t have this problem.

Cosmic rays would take thousands of years to corrode his steel body, oxygen is not a necessity, and internal and external pressure balance isn’t needed at all; where there is a star, solar energy can be converted to kinetic energy...

A steel body is the form most desired by High Knights—

And Lille’s form is the same.

Bansa suddenly had an incredible thought: maybe he really could succeed?

The fact is, he indeed could succeed.

Lille discarded High Knight August, leaving behind the other High Knights who weren’t completely dead, and headed straight for the control room—

[Lille: What’s the situation below? David, report.]

[David: I don’t know... They have a group of large individuals, should be High Knights. One of them couldn’t beat us and blew up the space station. One structural component was damaged, the space station is deforming, and parts of the building might disintegrate...]

[David: The gang leaders feel a bit pained, numerous wealthy individuals and valuable artworks have flown out—]

[David: By the way, no one has been injured so far.]

[Lucy: But physical conditions are somewhat abnormal.]

In short, after a fierce battle, some High Knights detonated the base building before dying, for reasons unknown.

Although they won, the physical strain seems a bit high...

No matter how much they simulated, after all, it was their first time in space, and their first space mission was a combat mission.

But this battle must be fought to the end:

[Lille: Immediately proceed to the damaged structure location, new mission.]

[Bansa: What are you going to do?]

Bansa felt an unusual atmosphere and couldn’t help but communicate with Lille—

He desperately wanted to know what Lille planned to do!

Lille remained silent, only continuing modeling and calculations.

...

Pushing a space station is extremely difficult, especially when this space station itself lacks substantial propulsion capability.

But the Crystal Palace is a huge luxury good, with its role as command and communication relay being just a small part of it—

The European Space Agency’s command system has very high precision, unique worldwide, but cannot possibly be precise to the millimeter, which means Lille only needs to retain those parts of the Crystal Palace essential for the communication system.

As for the less important parts, Lille could directly fake the space station’s status by controlling the electric current...

Whether the space station is intact is not important; what matters is making the Crystal Palace system believe it is intact.

This way, the propulsion issue can indeed be solved: in the right place, using the right method, directly having the station’s entire part detach with a certain vector, stopping the Crystal Palace’s operation—

Once the mass is reduced, Lille could use a spacecraft to "carry" the Crystal Palace.

The only issue is the calculation, which Bansa believes is an insurmountable challenge...

But for Lille, it’s not a problem: Night City is busy repelling a ground invasion, and no matter how capable Lille is, he can only carry a quantum computer server the size of a human body...

However, in the Marvel World, he has an entire complete world, a powerful and newly born industrial empire.

It’s even fair to say that this newly emergent nation has a computational capacity many tens of times greater than that of Cyberpunk World companies!

And they’re also following this voyage to the Moon!