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2024-10-29 19:42:56Sobek woke up sore and with a heavy weight on his face. When he opened his eyes he found that one of his siblings had rolled over in the sleep and landed on his head.
He was annoyed, but he couldn't blame the little spinosaur. After all, Sobek alone occupied nearly a third of the nest.
Most of his brothers and sisters didn't even reach half a meter in length, while he was a two-meter colossus. They didn't even seem to belong to the same brood! If any scientist had passed by and had seen the nest, he probably would have thought he was a retarded cub from the previous brood.
When he got up his movement awake all his brothers and sisters who blew in protest. Sobek felt sorry for them, but there was nothing he could do about it.
As usual, he calmly waited for his father to bring him the breakfast. However, he knew it wouldn't have been enough to satisfy him this time. A larger body needed more energy to live, so from now on hunting would have been vital to his survival.
His father didn't delay and provided him and the other cubs with the daily fishes. Sobek felt the urge to keep all the breakfast to himself; with his current size he could easily push away his siblings. The strong prevails over the weak: this was the rule in nature, even among members of the same brood. Often the most fragile cubs were turned away from the strongest and died of hunger.
However, that little shred of humanity that was still present in his soul held him back from doing so. After all, those were his siblings, he couldn't make them starve; so he bit the bullet and took his usual daily amount, and then he immediately began the hunt.
In the morning the beach was teeming with creatures, so it was not difficult for Sobek to eat many frogs and lizards; however, even if they raised his experience points to 380, they could barely be considered a snack for his new big body. He needed more substantial preys.
The best choice would have been to fish, but Sobek still didn't dare dive into the water. He wanted to wait to reach at least 3 meters in length before doing so; before that even a small crocodile could have killed him easily.
The forest was also off-limits: entering it would have meant courting death. He could only imagine what he would have found: poisonous snakes, dangerous insects, prehistoric mammals, carnivorous dinosaurs...
But maybe he could...
An idea flashed in Sobek's mind. A spinosaurus would never have thought of such a thing, but he still had a human mind!
And if there were things humans did very well, they were traps.
Sobek returned to the nest and grabbed some egg shells. The yolk inside them had begun to dry out and much of it had already been lost, devoured by the cubs or fallen to the ground, but there was still a good amount of it. Sobek dragged them near the forest, after which he hid behind a bush and waited.
The egg yolk was very nutritious. Nature was full of animals that would have done everything to obtain it. None of them would have been crazy enough to get too close to the nest, where the parents were on guard, but if the egg was out of their sight...
As he had expected, a small creature soon emerged from the depths of the forest. It was short and stocky, about one meter long and looking like a hairless dog with a long tail. It walked on all fours and had an elongated snout like the one of a clumsy crocodile.
[Prey identified: Euparkeria capensis, euparkeriidae. Experience: 800 points]
The euparkeria wasn't exactly a dinosaur. If Sobek remembered correctly, it was an archosaurimorphid, a genus of reptiles that went extinct in the Upper Triassic period; however they left their descendants, the archosaurs, that became crocodiles and alligators. It was more related to the so-called 'mammal-like reptiles' of the Permian period than to the dinosaurs.
Even so, however, it was excellent prey! A one-meter long animal would have surely provided him with enough food to have energy until the next day. On top of that, it would have granted him 800 experience points!
Sobek wouldn't have risked facing that animal while he was still at level 1, but he was now at level 2. He had the size advantage, which mattered a lot in a fight.
Sobek waited for the euparkeria to start eating the yolk of the eggs; then he jumped on it! In one leap he landed on top of it and pinned it to the ground.
His goal wasn't certainly face it in a direct confrontation: even if it was smaller, the euparkeria had very strong jaws. Sobek aimed to crush it with his weight until it suffocated, as he had done with the beelzebufo.
The euparkeria made a bray-like sound when it was knocked down by the big spinosaurus and tried to turn its head to bite him, but Sobek had foreseen it and was quicker: he wrapped his arms around its neck and planted his claws in its throat. The euparkeria could no longer move its neck without ripping the jugular by itself. Aware of this, the animal tried to wriggle with its legs, but they were too stubby and weak to be able to beat the muscular legs of a spinosaurus which remained firmly anchored to the ground and prevented it from escaping. With each movement, even if imperceptible, Sobek's claws created ever deeper gashes in the throat of the euparkeria.
A pool of blood formed beneath them and widened more and more. Eventually, the euparkeria collapsed to the ground and gave a few more spasms, then it stopped moving.
Sobek was triumphant, but he knew he couldn't afford any distractions: the blood would have soon attracted other animals. He grabbed his prey and carried it away from there, returning to the safe protection of the herd.
Once away from the forest the banquet began. It took him a long time to finish the euparkeria, also because he had to make sure that none of the other cubs came and stole a piece.
When he finished he was finally full. Not only that, but he had reached 1,180 experience points, more than half necessary to level up! In addition, the euparkeria had given him 1.2 skill points!
Added to the ones he already had, he had 2 skill points! He only needed to find 3 more and then he could upgrade a skill!
He decided that he would have repeated the trap once he had digested the euparkeria, but this time he would have changed the zone: that pool of blood was too dangerous. It surely couldn't attract large predators, but even a dinosaur as small as a velociraptor had lethal weapons that Sobek preferred not to confront. It was better for him to go somewhere else.
In his haste to leave he had abandoned the eggshells, but that was no problem: he still had several and even if he ran out of them he could have taken them from the other nests.
Unfortunately, he knew that this trap could not last long: once all the yolk had completely dried it would have no longer attracted any animals. Sobek still had two, three days at maximum, before his ruse became unworkable: he had to make the most of it while he still had the possibility.
That day he played and moved as much as he could, defying his own fatigue, to digest the meal more quickly. He minded it after all: playing with his brothers and sisters was always a pleasant activity for him.
When he finally digested the meal he took more eggshells and carried them to a new area, far enough from his first hunting area. Obviously he didn't distance the spinosaurs' herd too much: it was important to have an escape route and a safe place to take refuge in case things got bad.
He set the trap again and waited. He was surprised at how easily he could wait: even though he didn't remember his previous life, it seemed to him that when he was a human he had been a very impatient guy. Instead now it was as if his patience had increased to excess and he didn't even feel the wait. It was probably due to the predatory instinct, which cooled his hot blood to improve the ambush.
After nearly two hours of waiting something finally arrived. This time Sobek was faced with a being similar to a bird: it had the typical shape of a velociraptor and was covered in yellow/brown feathers from head to tail. A fan of more colorful feathers opened at the base of the tail. The front legs were small and ended in claws, but they had a hint of wings, similar to what chickens had. It was nearly a meter and a half long, but it was very low: compared to a human being, that dinosaur probably wouldn't have reached a full-grown man's knee.
[Prey identified: Bambiraptor feinbergi, dromaeosauridae. Experience: 1,000 points]
Sobek was filled with excitement. If before he had found a treasure, now he had found a gold mine! With all those points he could have leveled up again!
As he had done with the euparkeria, he waited for it to get close enough, then he jumped out of his hiding spot. His size was far greater than the bambiraptor's, and his opponent had a very fragile constitution: if Sobek had fallen on it like he had done with the euparkeria, he would have killed it instantly.
But he had underestimated the animal; the bambiraptor noticed him in time and dodged him easily. The two of them were now in a stalemate.
If the bambiraptor could, it have certainly escaped, but Sobek had blocked its way to the forest and the animal didn't want to escape towards the herd of spinosaurs; it had no choice but to fight.
The bambiraptor tapped its claws on the ground in a threatening manner; like the velociraptor, its distant cousin, it too had a curved claw on its feet. In terms of strength Sobek had the advantage, but if the bambiraptor could hit him with those it would surely have caused him a painful wound and would have taken advantage of his disorientation to overcome him and escape.
Besides, Sobek didn't want to be hurt, even if it was only a superficial cut. In nature, where there were no antibiotics or medicines, even a tiny cut could go into septicemia and cause death. And Sobek was still a young spinosaurus: his immune system wasn't certainly the best.
However, Sobek had many tricks up his sleeve. In his mind a plan was already taking shape. He knew he had to attack first, but if he did so he would have exposed himself; he had to act differently.
With a snap, he swung his tail against the bambiraptor. The spinosaurs' tails were as flat and hard as that of crocodiles: a single stroke and the bambiraptor would have died instantly. As he had expected, however, the animal dodged the blow with a jump and launched itself at him.
In the limited mind of the bambiraptor, it assumed that using the tail Sobek would have exposed his blind spot, because the bambiraptor had a binocular vision and therefore saw forward. But Sobek didn't have the same sight: like crocodiles, he could see to the sides of the head. Consequently, by moving his tail in that way he had not exposed his blind spot, but he had only illuded the bambiraptor that he had done so.
When the bambiraptor attacked, Sobek could see it perfectly well. As soon as the animal jumped at him in order to use the claw of its foot, Sobek rose on his hind legs and clawed at it in the right paw. There was a 'crack' and the bambiraptor's paw bent inward; the animal let out a sound of pain before falling to the ground, completely unable to get up or walk.
By now the winner was already decided. Sobek quietly approached and bit the bambiraptor in the throat, and he tore it up; the animal died instantly.
"Yes! I did it!" he roared triumphantly as he looked at the corpse in front of him. He had officially killed his first dinosaur!
As he had done with the euparkeria, he dragged his prey into the herd and there he devoured it. By the time he finished he had reached 2,180 experience points and gained 1.5 skill points!
He was about to level up, but then he stopped. Even if he had the nose of his parents on his side, they would have been suspicious if he came back bigger again. He then decided to take a tactical action: return to the nest and level up in front of them, so that they had no doubts that he was their child.
That was exactly what he did. He reached the nest and once there he lay down on the ground under the gaze of his mother and father, and then leveled up. He felt the sharp pain again, but did his best to not show it.
When the ten seconds had passed, he looked up and saw his mother and father's eyes wide open like balls. It was clear that they were surprised, unable to explain what just happened. Sobek didn't care: what matters to him was just that they knew he was still their son and not a stranger.
Sobek stretched: he was now a 3 meter long and 1.5 meter high spinosaurus, weighing a ton and a half! As he had expected, he could no longer sleep in the nest. Despite himself, he could only lie down next to his parents and sleep there.
This reminded him, however, of how long the road to the summit still was: even though he was now bigger than a Bengal tiger, he was just almost one-fifth the size of his parents. He still had a lot of work to do in order to call himself an apex predator.
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The next morning Sobek was awakened by strange movements. When he opened his eyes he found that some of his brothers and sisters had come out of the nest and were playing on his back. For cubs as small as half a meter, a three-meter older brother was basically like a huge slide for them.Sobek let them do it: they didn't bother him, so he could let them have fun. Until they started nibbling at him, he wouldn't need to chase them away. Besides, he had more important things to think about. "System, open the main interface!"[Spinosaurus aegyptiacus]Level: 3Length: 3 mHeight: 1.5 mWeight: 1,5 tonDiet: carnivore, fishivoreStrength: 170Agility: 130Defense: 86Maximum speed: 4 km/hExperience points: 180/3,000Skill Points: 3.5Fame points: 0/1,000,000Bonus money: 340Much to his relief, the amount of experience points for each level up only increased by 1,000 points at a time, not doubled. Even so, however, it was a fairly high expense.With his current size he would no longer have
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army Entering in the forest
The next day Sobek went hunting as soon as he woke up, without even waiting for his siblings to wake up. He headed for the forest and, as usual, placed the eggshell in plain sight.As on the previous day, the first to show up were the compsognathus. After all, such small animals couldn't go too far, so the little pack was still near and they could smell the egg's yolk. Sobek promptly killed one and left its carcass on the sand as he had done the day before.His hopes were not disappointed: after an hour, another thylacinus came out from the bush to eat. Sobek killed it exactly as he did with its predecessor and devoured it.With the thylacinus and the compsognathus he had gained another 1,600 experience, enough to level up again. He didn't hesitate and immediately agreed.After the usual ten seconds of pain he opened the main interface.[Spinosaurus aegyptiacus]Level: 4Length: 4 mHeight: 1.8 mWeight: 2 tonsDiet: carnivore, fishivoreStrength: 510Agility: 470Defense: 142Maximum
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army First time fishing
When the sun rose Sobek was already awake. He would had lied if he had said he wasn't very excited: this would have been his first time in the river!Even if the yolk in the eggs had not yet completely dried, that type of hunting could no longer support him. He needed more preys, and since he had proved that the forest was still off-limits, his best way was to follow his father into the river.He was confident enough now to dive into the water. Even if there were very large prehistoric crocodiles, most of them would have lost interest in front of a five-meter predator. The only ones who would have seen him as a prey would have been titans like the deinosuchus, but common crocodiles would have aimed for smaller, more viable preys like fishes.Of course, there were other dangers as well. For example there were snakes: gigantic animals such as the titanoboa and the gigantophis hunted in the water. Or there could be freshwater sharks or other huge fishes...But he had no choice this time.
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army Stethacanthus
Now his experience points had dropped back to 180 and the threshold for leveling up had risen to 8,000 points. However, for once Sobek wasn't focused on them. His focus was on other skill points.Sobek had gotten to know how skill points worked during his previous hunts. They could only be supplied by animals that could feed on terrestrial vertebrates: for example, if they ate only insects, they were classified as 'insectivores', while if they ate only fishes they were 'fishivore'.However, it wasn't necessary for an animal to be exclusively carnivorous to be worth skill points; if its size or its abilities were enough to allow it to eat terrestrial creatures with bones, than it was consider a carnivore. For example spinosaurs almost always ate fishes, but their size allowed them to feed on even smaller land animals.As a result, Sobek had at his disposal a wide range of animals that lived in the river that could provide him with skill points. An example were crocodiles and snakes. But
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army A new territory
For the next two days Sobek always went fishing in the inlet. At that time he had managed to capture four stethacanthus.Freshwater sharks were particularly abundant in the inlet: the absence of larger predators due to the shallow water had favored their spread. Unfortunately, it couldn't be said that there were thousands of them: Sobek had only managed to take a couple each day.That number was insufficient to satiate him. To make up for it, Sobek had fed on one of the onchopristis captured by his parents. It didn't provide any experience points, as it had been killed by another spinosaur, but at least his stomach was full.However, the effort was not in vain: he had gained other 4 skill points from the sharks. In total, he now had 4.1 skill points. Just one more stethacanthus and he might have upgraded [Swim speed] one more time.In addition, his experience points had also risen, even if much slower than before: he now had 6,180 points. Just a little longer and he would have reached
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army Baryonyx
Sobek had seen it right. Over the next five days he relentlessly hunted the amphibians that inhabited his new fishing area. He spent the whole day there and only returned to the nest in the evening.There were amphibians of all kinds: acanthostega, ichthyostega, crassigyrinus, eriops... each of them was just one and a half meters or at most two meters long, but they had a high nutritional value and there were plenty of them, consequently they were enough to satisfy Sobek.He currently had 7 skill points. Each amphibian had provided him with 0.5 skill points at most, but with so many of them he had accumulated several. He also found a torpedo fish hidden in the mud which gave him 1 more skill point.Thanks to [Swim speed] it was enough for him to sneak up on his prey and charge once he got close enough. Sobek was counting that once [Ambush] was improved, the hunt would have become even easier.Unfortunately, on the contrary the experience points provided by the amphibians weren't much.
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army Time to go
When the leveling up finished Sobek opened the main interface to check his attributes.[Spinosaurus aegyptiacus]Level: 9Length: 9 mHeight: 3.3 mWeight: 4.5 tonDiet: carnivore, fishivoreStrength: 1,120Agility: 1,085Defense: 560Maximum speed: 10 km/hExperience points: 3,600/30,000Skill points: 2Fame points: 0/1,000,000Bonus money: 1,250"30,000 experience points to the next level up..." Sobek grumbled in his head. He had hoped he could reach level 10 more quickly.If he found another baryonyx he could have gained a lot of experience very fast, but it was difficult. Even if in that world all the dinosaurs of all ages existed together, that didn't mean that he could found one of them every twenty meters.Like spinosaurs, each baryonyx established its own territory and stayed there. Tramps who had still not find their own place were rare.It was also unlikely that the baryonyx would have settled too close to the spinosaurs pod. If he wanted to find one he had to go further, but
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army New home
The first thing Sobek had to do was find a suitable place for him. Not exactly a territory where he could fish, but more a place full of preys and with not many predators, possibly with some kind of refuge that he could use as his outpost.Unfortunately, for several kilometers the river continued normally, without offering any safe point. No covered area, no hiding place, not even a denser zone where it would have been easy to camouflage. After several wanderings, however, he finally arrived in a place where the river bed widened and the water became lower.He had arrived in a swamp; the water of the river poured into some kind of marsh, slowing the current and allowing the birth of small islets. Large mangroves grew everywhere and in the areas where the water was lower there were huge reeds. Sobek could see several fishbirds perched in trees or intent on fishing. Not only them: there were also numerous pterosaurs, some of them very large; Sobek was able to see a flock of tapejara, fly
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It took Sobek a few moments before he realized he was back in the room where it all began. That room where time and space ceased to exist, and where everything and nothing seemed to have changed at the same time. He already knew where he had to go; walking through the infinitely large (or perhaps infinitely small) room, in a few minutes (or perhaps a few centuries, who knows) he reached the familiar armchair on which was seated a woman with white skin and light hair.God didn't even seem to move since she sent him to Eden. Even her expression didn't seem to have changed at all. She was still the same, beautiful and terrible at the same time, whose gaze was both magnetic and loving on him. “Welcome back, son,” she greeted him in her crystal clear voice.Sobek advanced on her. This time there wasn't an armchair waiting for him, but a large mattress wide enough to allow him to lie down. She lay back on it and gazed intently at God. Even now, after he'd grown i
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On the continent of Maakanar, near a river that was once a typical spinosaurus nesting place, something immense could be seen. A huge creature was lying on its belly, but nevertheless it was so tall that its dorsal sail towered over the surrounding masts.Sobek was now thirty-three years old. To say he had grown into a behemoth was an understatement: he now measured 150 meters from head to tail and reached 45.6 meters in height. Even without activating the mutation he was now larger than Godzilla: the gigantic atomic reptile was a tiny lizard compared to him. All kaiju would be small compared to him. Even King Ghidorah would have been forced to acknowledge its superiority.In the last five years he had hardly moved. After the death of his last loyalist he returned to his birthplace and settled there. He ate what was provided to him from the [Personal Manger] and drank the water from the river. Otherwise, he remained calm, warming himself in the sun or admiring the star
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The last fight
After a few days Nefertiti settled at the lake together with her father and her last remaining uncle. With the help and indications of Sobek she built a comfortable nest and there she laid her egg.Thus began the brood. The female spinosaurus never moved from above her little egg, keeping it constantly warm. Sobek and Buck brought her food and water. When Nefertiti was hot, Sobek used her huge wing as a parasol and Buck fanned her with his tail. In the rare moments when it was cold, the two of her huddled to help her warm up.That routine went on for three months. Finally, at the end of the third month, a familiar clicking sound came from under Nefertiti's paws.The female spinosaurus reared up and looked down. A small crack was opening on the egg. With a smile she moved from above it. The crack widened more and more and finally a large piece of egg broke off, showing a lively green eye that stared intently at Nefertiti.“Hello, baby. I'm your mothe
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The first true hunt
Time had passed again. Sobek couldn't even figure out how much time had actually passed now. One year? Two? Maybe three? He didn't know.After his retirement, Sobek had gone deep into the forest of Maakanar. It was hard for him to move his huge body through the trees and very often ended up destroying them: his passage was evident as a trail of uprooted trunks was always behind him. He had moved permanently to the lake where he had met Buck and where he had established his first army. And he hadn't gone there alone.Carnopo and Buck had joined him just a month after his departure. They, too, had decided they'd had enough and abandoned their roles entirely. After all, in the new world there was no longer a need for either an army commander or one of the shock legion. Now there was peace, and the old war veterans had no reason to try to find their place in their world. So they had decided to do what they had always done: follow their pack leader.The trio spent th
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Passing to the next generation
Another year had passed. In Sobek's eyes, time seemed to have begun to flow more rapidly. The months and weeks all passed almost the same and in a flash the morning turned into evening.Humanity had continued its advance. By now, Aphrodites had been fully colonized. Whole cities had sprung up on it and millions of settlers had begun to live there. Davis had now reached more than a billion inhabitants and Hermes now owned thousands of mining establishments.Thanks to teleportation technology it was so advanced that traveling between planets was even easier than going from one city to another. Since energy and material consumption were now no longer a concern thanks to solar panels on Hermes and mining plants on asteroids, everyone had a portable teleportation device. By now, being hired to work a mine on an asteroid was no different than being hired to work at the local convenience store.Colonies on the moons of Leviathan and Behemoth had multiplied, providing e
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History museum
More time, more changes. In just one year, many things had changed.Nefertiti had assumed control of the entire astrophysics division of the dinosaur pack, effectively acting as acting pack leader for them. After the first shared mission, she had begun to promote more policies of integration and union between humans and animals. She had facilitated interspecies interspace operations, sending animals and humans to work together in the new worlds to be colonized. Furthermore, there was still much to colonize, as human attention was slowly shifting beyond the outer Solar System to the dwarf planets and comets of the Oort Cloud.The work was not cheap and with it the possibilities of working together. With the Dyson Sphere nearing completion, energy was no longer an issue. After determining which moons to colonize, the Eden Union had begun an intensive mining program in the asteroids of the main belt in order to be able to build huge lenses to capture the sunlight and also
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Path of the giant
One more year, more innovations. The more time passed, the more progress seemed to accelerate. It was like a speeding train that multiplied its speed every second: first slow, then faster and faster, until it turned into a giant projectile.Sobek knew that progress was bound to accelerate more and more, after all it was his nature. For each new discovery, countless doors open. And every door leads to other doors. This was the nature of progress. It was no coincidence that it took humanity less than two hundred years to go from horses to aircraft capable of leaving the orbit of their home planet.He recalled that on Earth, where he came from, progress had become so fast in the 21st century that it was enough to be born even a generation later or further back to find oneself in a completely different world. While in 1990 the main communication system was the satellite phone, in 2020 people used social networks for the most disparate things. While in 1990 movies were watc
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Science is eternal
More time had passed. This time it was a year… or maybe a year and a half? I don't know. Not that it mattered much, actually.The world's attention to the inner solar system was gradually waning. Now that three planets had been terraformed, even if one of them still wasn't enough, and Hermes had become a stable colony that was continuously producing large panels of glass that joined in the orbit of the Sun to form the Dyson Sphere, the humanity was beginning to anticipate new challenges. From the inner solar system it was time to move to the outer solar system.Although some colony outposts were already present on some moons of Behemoth, they could not be defined as true colonies. However, now that energy consumption was no longer a problem thanks to the Dyson Sphere, which although not completed already released enormous amounts of energy, the Eden Union decided to start an exploration program of the entire outer solar system, or at least of the space between B
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Giant of the skies
Two more years had passed. The advance of humanity towards the stars continued inexorably.The hypotheses of the scientists had proved to be correct: using a combination of gravity control technology and energy obtained from the Dyson sphere, although still incomplete, they had managed to accelerate the rotation of Aphrodites. The planet was slowly accelerating, though not too fast. There was generally talk of an hour each week. At this speed there was no risk of destroying the infrastructure already present on the planet. Yes two years, the rotation period had gone from 2082 hours to 1978 hours. Continuing at this rate, it was expected to reach 24 hours in 'just' another 38 years.Once this process was completed, the huge orbiting mirrors could finally be taken off. The day/night cycle would no longer be artificially determined and there would no longer be the risk that something would go wrong due to the impact of a micrometeorite. In addition, the accelerated rotati
