The Imperial Chancellor, with a dragon's stride and a tiger's poise, marched into the eting hall of the imperial conference.
As the Chancellor entered the room, the Iridium Star's senior ministers all stood up and paid their respects. Bai Zhongqi walked to his chair, nodded slightly to everyone, and then the cabinet mbers took their seats.
Bai Zhongqi cut straight to the point, saying, "I assu you have all seen the ssage just returned by the Insight. We have discovered a new habitable planet in the Centauri Alpha Galaxy, and there exists intelligent life with a relatively low level of civilization. This is a very good opportunity for the United Empire of Iridium Star, an opportunity to expand the territories of our Empire."
Bai Zhongqi glanced at their expressions; not a single one showed much excitent. For the United Empire of Iridium Star, which possessed over two hundred administrative stars and countless undeveloped resource planets, the discovery of a new habitable planet wasn't sothing to get too worked up about.
"President Mo, please give us a brief overview of this habitable planet."
President Mo Laitong of the Scientific Research Institute nodded, cleared his throat, and addressed the cabinet mbers, "This planet has been nad the Erald Sea Star by Mr. Xiu Ping, the captain who first discovered it. The planet orbits around Centauri Alpha B Star, with an orbital period of approximately 241 Earth days, and a rotation period of about 33 Earth hours.
Its volu is 76.5% that of Earth, but due to its lower density, the gravity is only slightly less than Earth's, at 9.5 m/s^2. It has three moons revolving around it, all smaller than Earth's moon, which causes strong and sowhat irregular tidal phenona on the planet.
The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are situated at 33 degrees latitude north and south, which ans that its temperate zones are narrow and the tropical and polar regions are much larger."
Seeing the old scholar appeared to be ready to discuss more about celestial characteristics, Bai Zhongqi quickly interrupted him, saying, "Talk about the land conditions and the local civilization."
"Ah, very well. This planet has vast ocean areas with abundant water resources, where the sea density is relatively low, similar to freshwater. The landmasses only comprise one-fifth of the global surface. Like most habitable planets, this one also has tectonic plates. There are three continents, but only two are inhabited by indigenous populations.
We've deciphered so of the languages of the natives and discovered that the more advanced societies on the planet call their continent the Northern Continent, while the one still in the savage tribal commune stage is called the Southern Continent. These indigenous people hold legends about another landmass, which is the uninhabited Legendary Continent.
The Northern Continent lies in the mid to high latitudes of the northern hemisphere, with an area of 27.22 million square kiloters. Most of this land is covered by ice fields, and the mountain ranges on the western coasts block the warm westerlies, resulting in a mariti diterranean climate on the southern coasts, though it is cooler and less intense compared to Earth's diterranean climate.
The Southern Coast Region of the Northern Continent has about 4.7 million square kiloters of plains and hills, which are the civilized developnt areas. Their technology levels are equivalent to 17th to 18th century Earth. There are about ten major countries, mostly monarchies, and noble territories are scattered throughout the region.
The population living in the Southern Coast Region accounts for over 70% of the entire population of the Erald Sea Star, approximately 120 million people. They resemble Earth's Caucasians but with clear differences."
South of the continent are the Desert Archipelago near the Tropic of Cancer, barren and devoid of life. Beyond the archipelago lies the Southern Continent, covered with extensive rainforests and grasslands, most of which falls in the tropics. The coastal areas here have favorable natural conditions, ho to a significant number of tribal societies from the South Continent.
Their race resembles the East Asian race on Earth, but their complexions are similar to the Malay race, though they are taller, with reddish-brown hair and indigo-colored eyes, and their facial features are quite distinct from those of East Asians on Earth.
With the South Continent rich in gold mines and favorable agricultural conditions, the natives of the Northern Continent have begun to colonize it. They have established sporadic colonies along the northern and western coastal areas of the South Continent and enslave the inhabitants as labor.
The Legendary Continent, located on the opposite side of the Northern and Southern Continents, is nearly 60 million square kiloters in size, larger than any continent on Earth, stretching across the northern and southern hemispheres. It is uninhabited by humans and ho to many distinctive species.
On this point, I would like to suggest that we collect the genetic materials of the unique species we've never seen before on this continent."
This is where different ideas exist due to different backgrounds and considerations. President Mo, being a scientist, values the local biological resources. However, Bai Zhongqi, as a mid-career convert to Iridium Star, still has an excessive fondness for resources and land. In his view, the entire Erald Sea Star is an excellent colonization site.
Even though most of the Northern Continent is ice fields with harsh environnts; the rainforest and grasslands in the center of the Southern Continent are overly savage; and the Legendary Continent is entirely untouched by humans. It is precisely these undeveloped lands that could sustain a large number of immigrants from Earth.
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The Iridium Star population is small, but Earth's is large, and it has led to overdevelopnt and ecological damage. The Legendary Continent alone is more than six tis the size of Country C. Not only does it hold the biological resources that Mo Laitong yearns for, but it also boasts superior geographical and resource environnts.
Especially the eastern coastal regions of the continent, which host several rivers with water volus comparable to the Amazon River, forming alluvial plains, with adequate heat and humidity that would make the land a breadbasket with a little developnt.
Du Peng said, "The eastern plains of the Legendary Continent on the Erald Sea Star are perfect for establishing the Empire's granary. After the Star Alliance is launched, we can supply countless industrial products to the mber states, but it's difficult to satisfy the food needs of over a billion or even tens of billions.
We only need to relocate tens of thousands of Earthlings there, supplented with bionic humans and other chanical labor forces. With the use of top-quality breeding varieties, it would only take a year to produce enough agricultural products to et the demands."
Bai Zhongqi knew that although atomic substance construction devices could synthesize food from atomic elents like carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, even Iridium Star citizens preferred naturally grown food.
And in the Star Alliance's citizen treatnt plan, food and other daily agricultural products, like large amounts of industrial goods, should be able to be offered to Star Alliance citizens cheaply or even free of charge. An ample food supply is also a capability that the Star Alliance must possess.
The Erald Sea Star could just et this need of the United Empire of Iridium Star.
Moreover, in the information in Bai Zhongqi's hands, there was another content that piqued his great interest.
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