Chapter 360

The first Sorcerer's Stone was successfully made a day later and placed in front of Murphy's desk.

It was a bright red crystal-like stone, smaller in volume than the one Nicolas Flamel had back then. Snape's explanation for this was that the Prime Matter Murphy obtained was less than what Flamel obtained back then.

After testing, this Sorcerer's Stone could stably provide magic power at a rate of 600 "Hubbles" per second.

The so-called "Hubble" is a unit of magic power, named after Haldane Hubble.

One Hubble is approximately equivalent to the amount of magic power required for a Lumos spell sufficient to illuminate an ordinary classroom.

In an extreme state, a magic power consumption of 800 Hubbles per second would not cause the total amount of magic power of the Sorcerer's Stone to decay.

And this is basically equivalent to the normal magic power output of 400 ordinary wizards.

Therefore, with such a Sorcerer's Stone, it can completely drive a magic radar.

This is still under the condition of uninterrupted use of the Sorcerer's Stone. In fact, because the magic power regeneration effect of the Sorcerer's Stone has the characteristic that the smaller the magic power loss, the higher the recovery efficiency, if the Sorcerer's Stone is used intermittently, leaving time for magic power regeneration, its extreme output can be even higher.

This effect is simply explained as when the Sorcerer's Stone consumes 2,000 Hubbles of magic power, it may need 2 seconds to recover, but if it only consumes 1,000 Hubbles of magic power, the required recovery time will be less than 1 second.

I don't know what the principle of this effect is, but based on this effect, trying to increase the frequency of magic power output and stopping can increase the total magic power output.

After calculation, as long as high-frequency intermittent magic power output is performed at a speed of 1 kHz, the magic power output per second of the Sorcerer's Stone can reach more than 8,000 Hubbles, and this is far from the limit of the Sorcerer's Stone.

Using this Sorcerer's Stone, Murphy built the first stable large-scale magic power source in the national laboratory just built in the Soviet Union.

The magic power oscillation frequency is 13,000 Hz, and the magic power output is 46,000 Hubbles per second. It is enough to drive more than ten magic metal production factories and dozens of magic radars.

However, having only this one magic power source is naturally far from enough for the development of magic technology.

While the magic antennas were laid out on the ground, Murphy started another plan: magic detection satellites.

He prepared to miniaturize the magic detection radar and install it on the satellite. After all, scanning the ground from the satellite orbit would basically not encounter any obstacles, which is more convenient than the ground. As long as it is not a synchronous orbit, it is like a super radar scanning the whole world all-weather. Compared with building radar systems one by one on the ground, the cost-effectiveness is much higher.

The technical difficulty is also not great. Many modules can be directly optimized using the geological satellite scheme.

And these satellites can also act as Murphy's magic communication relay stations. Even, when the smelting technology of magic metal and the technology of magic radar continue to improve, it is possible to turn those satellite remote sensing radars into spell amplifiers like Murphy's Crow Matrix, making them space-based weapons.

Of course, there are still many technical problems to be solved to reach that step, but at present, there is no absolute technical bottleneck, and there are still a large number of ready-made schemes in Muggle technology that can be taken for reference.

In the spring of 1995, under the dual effect of continuously improving detection accuracy and continuously expanding detection range, Prime Matter was discovered one after another.

Large Prime Matter was directly used to make Sorcerer's Stones, while for some others with smaller magic power, in addition to being used to make small or even micro Sorcerer's Stones that could be used on magic detection satellites, some were used for research.

At present, scientists have learned some secrets of Prime Matter.

The vast majority of Prime Matter is indeed biological tissue, and after analysis, these biological tissues have similar parts that can be found in animals. For example, they once found half a wolf tooth wrapped in ice in the Alps. Except for being two or three times larger, its shape was almost identical to the teeth of the European gray wolf.

However, once these biological tissues leave their original protection, the magic power loss rate becomes very fast. Once the magic power drops to a certain level, they will lose activity, and then rapidly denature or even rot. The Sorcerer's Stone is the best way to preserve them for a long time.

Therefore, usually, after necessary research, Murphy will also make this part of Prime Matter into small or micro Sorcerer's Stones.

With the energy problem solved, Murphy's magic satellite plan progressed very quickly.

In March, after the first experimental satellite was launched into the sky by a Soviet rocket, the second and third satellites also went up quickly.

At the same time, in order to improve launch efficiency, the Aerospace Research Institute of the Soviet National Science City, which had already been built, cooperated with wizards to explore the possibility of applying almost all wizards' spells such as the Engorgement Charm, Levitation Charm, Undetectable Extension Charm, Waterproofing Charm, Fireproofing Charm, Throwing Charm, Cleaning Charm, Permanent Sticking Charm, etc., to the aerospace field.

The prospects are also extremely optimistic. A Soviet aerospace scientist calculated that even if it is just an Undetectable Extension Charm, it can easily increase the payload of any rocket by 70 or 80 times. Such a terrible payload increase means that one rocket can carry the materials required for an international space station.

The cost of human space exploration has dropped off a cliff.

Since adding the Undetectable Extension Charm requires almost no extra adaptation and modification, after just one month, the Undetectable Extension Charm carrier rocket was officially implemented.

And Murphy's plan to deploy tens of thousands of magic satellites in low orbit to build a magic star chain also immediately had no obstacles.

Thus, starting from April, the Soviet Union began to scatter satellites in space like scattering grass seeds.

The Soviet Union's posture of launching a rocket almost every two days, and then hundreds of satellites per rocket, scared the Americans to the point of mental disorder.

A senior consultant analyzed and believed, "The Soviets believed our Star Wars plan, and what's terrible is that they actually intend to implement it!"

The so-called Star Wars plan is a multi-layered space defense plan proposed by the Americans, with outer space as the main base, consisting of a global surveillance, early warning and identification system, interception system, and command, control, and communication system.

Due to the concept being too advanced, its difficult technical difficulty and astronomical military spending made it not have real feasibility, and it basically became a scam to fool the Soviet Union and intend to exhaust the other side's family background.

However, now, the Soviets are actually going to create the Star Wars plan!

Their posture, is this launching satellites? It is clearly manufacturing a space iron curtain at the speed of frogs laying eggs!

Stabbed in the back by Britain, they haven't recovered yet, and now the Soviets are coming to do this. The United States suddenly feels that this Cold War, which had already begun to see the dawn of victory, suddenly has no future.

By May, Murphy already had more than 300 satellites in low orbit. Although it was not enough to cover the entire surface, it was enough for him to do some things.

"Lucas, connect to the Starlink satellite network and search for the 'Virgin Mary' magic trait."

"Start global hunting now."

(End of chapter)