After class, Luna went to the Humanity Academy's research facility.
The entire academy covered over 10 square kilometers—vastly oversized for its 20,000 students.
The research facility was located 500 meters below the academy, with a P5 security rating, preventing the escape of research subjects and protecting against cosmic rays and high-energy particles.
This facility focused on biological research.
Luna's current field of study was physics. However, she had already earned doctorates in genetics, biopharmaceuticals, bioinformatics, molecular biology, and neuroscience.
She was now a notable scholar.
While financial limitations and knowledge gaps prevented her from achieving the highest academic accolades, her knowledge base was sufficient to understand and contribute to cutting-edge science.
Furthermore, prompted by Ayla, Luna had begun researching the creation of cosmic lifeforms before her last hibernation.
Why create cosmic lifeforms?
Because planets are inherently limited, restricting the evolution and expansion of life.
Compared to intelligent civilizations, biological expansion is far more chaotic and brutal, resulting in greater biodiversity. This was something Luna wanted to explore.
Luna aimed to create "primordial species," releasing these organisms into the universe to expand and evolve freely.
Through mutation and evolution, these organisms might develop genetic forms impossible to create artificially.
This research could be considered "sowing seeds."
Like planting seeds in a field; those that produce the most seeds are selected and cultivated further, generation after generation.
"If the seeding plan succeeds, we can then use these organisms to build a genetic library."
Luna knew this was ambitious.
She wasn't sure if she was approaching a forbidden area of science, but the potential rewards were limitless.
These genes could grant organisms lifespans of tens or hundreds of millions of years, resistance to cosmic radiation, enhanced vision, and even bioluminescence...
These weren't fantasies but possibilities within the realm of science.
The purpose of the genetic library was to facilitate genetic engineering.
If Luna needed, she could modify her own genes, creating a stronger, longer-lived body.
She looked at the cultivation tanks in her lab, containing three types of embryos.
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Leviathan, Vacuum Jellyfish, and Blue Luminescent Worm.
"It's incredible. These tiny embryos will grow into colossal monsters."
Nature is both wondrous and terrifying.
Luna's genetic designs for these three species were remarkable. The Leviathan was a colossal creature (300 meters long), resembling a giant, tentacled broom-whale.
Its tentacles were actually respiratory organs. Weighing only 150 tons, its body was mostly hollow, filled with hydrogen, which it used for respiration.
It could survive on the surface of extremely large planets, enduring temperatures of up to 500°C. Its internal structure provided excellent pressure resistance, capable of withstanding pressures of 1,704,320 atmospheres.
Its primary food source was the Vacuum Jellyfish.
As its name suggests, the Vacuum Jellyfish could survive in a vacuum.
Larger than the Leviathan (with tentacles reaching up to 1000 meters), it was surprisingly light, weighing only 20 tons.
Its hull was less than 2 meters thick, with a honeycomb structure. Unlike lower organisms, it lacked mouths, tentacles, or suckers. Its structure was incredibly simple: a hull, a stomach, tentacles, and reproductive organs.
Its simplicity allowed it to survive in temperatures ranging from -200°C to 150°C and pressures up to 700,000 atmospheres.
This made it incredibly adaptable to the vacuum of space, capable of surviving in the gas and rock layers of planetary atmospheres. Its immense size and low weight allowed it to survive in the clouds of gas and rock planets.
They propel themselves through the air using small openings in their hull. Their movement within a planetary atmosphere is exceptionally slow, similar to a human's walking pace. In space, however, through continuous acceleration, they can reach speeds of up to 2 km/s.
The Vacuum Jellyfish feeds on the Blue Luminescent Worms that live within their bodies.
These worms are microscopic, essentially microorganisms.
Their lifespan is extremely short—only 10 hours.
They are called Blue Luminescent Worms because they emit a blue bioluminescence.
Upon death, their bodies become food for the Vacuum Jellyfish.
What do the worms consume?
They metabolize minerals for sustenance. The Vacuum Jellyfish uses its hundreds of meters long tentacles to gather rocks and sediment to feed them.
This is a complete, miniature ecosystem.
"These creatures share a common trait: rapid reproduction."
"Leviathans live for only 20 years, Vacuum Jellyfish for 15. Their reproductive rates are high, producing hundreds of thousands or even millions of offspring."
"Within 100 years, these creatures will be ubiquitous."
"Evolution takes time, but their relatively simple forms are actually a result of advanced genetic engineering, facilitating rapid genetic selection. Within 1000 years, they will undergo their first significant evolutionary shift."
Luna gazed at these three species, seeing them as invaluable treasures.
These lifeforms weren't yet perfected, but it wouldn't be long. Within two years, the first generation of successors would be ready.
Then.
She would create a cosmic web of life.
Of course, this was merely Luna's first step.
After deploying the initial generation, she would share this technology with the galactic federation, allowing tens of thousands of scientists and corporations to participate in bio-engineering.
The entire Proxima Centauri system would flourish.
They would have access to an inexhaustible supply of genes.
While Luna focused on bio-engineering, Ayla was working on another technology.
Simple exoskeletal armor for robots.
Essentially, powered armor.
Living beings couldn't adapt to all environments. Humans couldn't survive on the Multi-eyed planet without an atmosphere. The Kate couldn't survive in Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere.
Powered armor was a necessity.
This would be supplied to explorers, enhancing their survival rate.
It was also worth noting that, over the decades since the establishment of the Interstellar Explorers Guild, numerous space pirates had emerged in the Proxima Centauri region, preying on explorers.
A testament to the diversity of life.
"The first generation of powered armor is complete. Luna, would you like to see?" Ayla asked.
Luna was intrigued.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"