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Chapter 2446 Hari Seldon Reform (Part )

2448. Hari Seldon Reform (Part )

Now, the spacecraft of the Interstellar Banking Association (M) has arrived at the Monsua Nebula Belt, where the matter decompressor is located, in the Vickers galaxy.

At the same time, a huge fleet of 100 battleships and more than 1500 light cruisers also passed by. The entire Monsua Nebula Belt was tightly sealed off.

The most advanced smelting spacecraft immediately went over, connected their smelting and sorting cabins with the material decompressors, and began the first wave of screening of all the decompressed materials, extracting and preserving the neutron star materials.

Not only that, the Minister of Engineering of the Kingdom of Dawn, the Chief Engineer of the Salarians, Arroyo Barro, also led his own senior engineering team into the Vickers galaxy. Their mission was also very clear - to examine the neutron star matter and determine the final formula.

Hari Seldon's currency reform is actually to re-establish a standard system, using neutron star matter as an exchange entity to issue a standard currency that is directly tied to the value of neutron star matter.

However, it is still difficult for this standard currency to impact the previous monetary system. Because in the system inherited from the Galactic Republic, rare metals already exist as the standard. Moreover, for a long time, this rare metal mined from stars is indeed worth the price in terms of the difficulty and man-hours of mining.

However, Hari Seldon took a different approach. Before proposing his monetary policy, he had long communications and exchanges with the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Marshal Matt Horner, and the great engineer Arroyo Barro.

Finally, Hari Seldon proposed a solution to this exchange entity - battleship armor!

That’s right! It’s battleship armor!

Arroyo Barro found a relatively common formula in neutron star matter, and this formula will be the core material of the main armor belt of the new warships of the Kingdom of Dawn.

In fact, using this new material as the main armor belt is just a very common upgrade for the Dawn Kingdom Navy warships. Such small upgrades are actually being carried out at any time. For example, the Behemoth-class battlecruisers produced last year and this year may have many adjustments in many performance parameters.

Adjustments ranging from major ones like increasing the power of the reactor, reducing energy transmission losses, adding hollow plastic panels to the captain's console, to minor ones like adding floral fragrance to the toilet and adding single-person projectors to the soldiers' dormitories, are being made at any time.

Including the armor formula used for the warships, from the previous tri-titanium alloy to the current armor using neutron star material, this is already the ninth generation of armor for the Dawn Kingdom warships.

When Arroyo-Barro's materials department developed this new type of armor, it was mainly because the material decompressor was now in use, which gave them many more rare elements to experiment with. Moreover, the test showed that the hardness, ductility and heat resistance of this armor made of neutron star material reached a new level, which was about 4% to 10% higher than the overall performance of Durasteel commonly used in the Galactic Empire.

This is also an important area where the Kingdom of Dawn's material technology has surpassed the Galactic Empire. However, this was just an upgrade to improve the performance of the armor. Arroyo Barro had no idea that the first to come to him was not the military's audit and procurement department, but the Central Bank and the Interstellar Banking Association (M)!

Hari Seldon's idea was to use armor materials made of neutron star matter as the exchange entity of the new monetary policy, and this neutron star material also had its official name - neutron steel.

In other words, the Dawn Kingdom’s military is actually the one guaranteeing this exchange entity. In other words, the Dawn Kingdom will issue a currency that is equal to the value of neutron steel. This currency will not actually give you neutron steel, but you can take this currency to the corresponding exchange point to buy a fixed unit of neutron steel, and then take this neutron steel to all the warship parts manufacturing factories in the Dawn Kingdom, and the other party will accept all the neutron steel.

And the more strict point is that after you go through the above whole process, except for a necessary handling fee, the entire value is equal!

Of course, the Central Bank of the Kingdom of Dawn will also issue some small-denomination physical currencies made of neutron steel to facilitate circulation, but the main means of circulation is still credit currency based on electronic currency.

Low-denomination physical currency only contains a few tenths of a gram of neutron star matter, while high-denomination currency contains more neutron star matter. If it is used in armor casting, a large piece of armor plate can be cast.

It is equivalent to the military of the Kingdom of Dawn guaranteeing this currency. No matter how much currency your central bank prints, the military will redeem all the neutron steel generated by the exchange of this currency!

The three most critical points of this monetary policy are: first, the current large-scale warship manufacturing plan of the Kingdom of Dawn, second, sufficient production of neutron steel, and third, ensuring the threshold for the means of neutron steel mining.

In other words, it is very convenient for the Kingdom of Dawn to produce neutron steel using a matter decompressor, but without the matter decompressor, the difficulty of synthesizing it is very high, at least it is definitely higher than its own value.

As for what would happen if the Galactic Empire purchased neutron steel on a large scale in this way? The Dawn Kingdom military said, it doesn't matter. We have already made a fortune in this process. Moreover, the Dawn Kingdom's warships, even the armor protection, is not mainly reflected in the armor material, but through the voltage armor coating to further improve the armor's tolerance.

Therefore, even with the same armor material, the defense capability of the Dawn Kingdom's warships is still higher than that of the Galactic Empire.

In fact, before this, the armor materials of the Galactic Empire have always been more advanced than those of the Kingdom of Dawn. The durasteel they widely used has always been stronger than the tri-titanium alloy of the Kingdom of Dawn, so before during the Clone Wars, the Kingdom of Dawn obtained some formulas and smelting technologies of lower-grade durasteel from Count Dooku.

However, in actual combat performance, the Kingdom of Dawn, which was lacking in material technology, showed better battleship protection capabilities.

According to the estimation of the Supreme Military Command of the Kingdom of Dawn, assuming that the Kingdom of Dawn ruled the entire Milky Way, then considering the garrisons and security needs of various places, it would need to maintain a fleet of at least 100,000 battleships. This makes the demand for neutron steel almost unlimited.

With this guarantee, Hari Seldon's new currency plan is applicable at least during the period when the Kingdom of Dawn continues to expand its military.