Homo sapiens

September 11, 2022.

Bandon Island.

The third shipyard.

In the fully enclosed dock, a dozen employees stood at the top console, looking at the giant thing at their feet.

Designer Ino, engineer Huang Weida and others are inside the console at this time.

Huang Weida saw that the water level in the dock was rising and the hull was slowly floating on the water. He showed a pleased expression: "The construction of the Malacca has finally been completed."

"Do you really want to use the first one as a transport ship? It feels like such a pity!" Ino was also delighted with the giant ship he designed.

Huang Weida shook his head: "There is no way. The company already has enough warships. With the production capacity of major shipyards, there is no need to pile up warships at all costs."

The warships currently in service of Homo sapiens are:

3 Pacific class battleships.

There are 13 Luzon-class amphibious assault ships.

There are 11 Luzon-class amphibious assault ships.

There are 57 Manila-class frigates.

There are 32 Tuna-class nuclear attack submarines.

There are 6 killer whale-class strategic nuclear submarines.

There are also 8 Sumatran Alligator-class landing ships, 30 Tiger Crab-class hovercrafts, 35 Blue Whale-class supply ships, 21 Blue Whale-class special ships, and 1 Haili channel dredging vessel.

This scale is already very large, and Homo sapiens will still build 15 to 20 ships every year in the next 10 years or so.

This shipbuilding speed has actually temporarily withdrawn from the wartime mechanism. If the previous wartime mechanism is still followed, the scale of shipbuilding will increase by more than ten times.

After all, Homo sapiens Company has applied too many new technologies and materials in shipbuilding technology, resulting in rapid shipbuilding speed.

After research and discussion, the headquarters believes that it is necessary to adjust the current production tasks. It cannot continue to focus on warships, but must also take into account the civilian field.

This is the new ship at the feet of Ino, Huang Weida and others - the Malacca.

The Malacca is the first ship of the Malacca class. This ship is a 100,000-ton container carrier, about the same size as a Pacific-class battleship, and is equipped with three small thorium-based molten salt nuclear reactors.

That's right, the Malacca-class transport ships are nuclear powered.

The reason for building nuclear-powered transport ships.

On the one hand, it is to reduce the consumption of oil and natural gas and reduce transportation costs.

On the other hand, in order to reserve enough spare ships for warships, the Malacca-class hull uses a large number of new materials. Although it is not equipped with armor, its overall performance is still 20 to 30% higher than the strength of the aircraft carrier hull.

In other words, when necessary, Homo sapiens can completely transform the Malacca-class transport ship into a Malacca-class amphibious assault ship, an armed escort aircraft carrier, a special warship, and the like.

The purpose of this is to reduce the number of battleships that are too large to maintain during non-war periods.

Currently, a total of four Malacca-class transport ships have been built in the first batch, two of which were launched today and the other two will be launched in the middle of next month.

After Huang Weida saw that the ship's hull had stabilized, he picked up the intercom and ordered: "The test team has begun to move in."

"receive."

A crane hoisted a special personnel cabin to the deck, and 15 test team employees walked out of the personnel cabin and entered the cockpit of the transport ship.

Five other groups of testers also boarded the Malacca one after another.

Soon the dock gates opened.

Two of the three nuclear reactors became operational, with the other serving as a backup.

As the reactor outputted surging power, the Malacca slowly left the fully enclosed dock and sailed along the waterway to the open sea.

At this time, inside the Malacca, various groups of testers were busy testing whether the ship complied with the design.

In tests such as driving and energy saving, there is actually no big difference.

But on the Malacca class, New Luzon Shipbuilding Company recently proposed a new design concept, that is, the tools should be humane, rather than developing in an anti-human direction.

What are the anti-human designs on traditional transport ships?

In the view of Homo Sapiens, the most anti-human thing about traditional transport ships is their long voyage, especially for ocean-going cargo ships. The crew members spend several months drifting at sea once they go to sea.

It is boring and boring, and it is difficult for ordinary people to feel the discomfort. Long-term separation can easily cause emotional problems for couples, which in turn can lead to psychological problems for employees.

Although the Homo sapiens company has biochips to prevent derailment, the company management also believes that the prevention and treatment of biochips only treats the symptoms but not the root cause. It is too depressing and will still cause mental illness among employees.

Therefore, the company headquarters asked New Luzon Shipyard to solve this problem in the new generation of transport ships.

Designer Ino and a dozen other ship designers, after many revisions, decided to use the nearly 6,000 tons of load saved by the new material hull to use 3,000 tons to improve the crew's living facilities.

At the same time, New Luzon Shipping Group also stated that it will increase the proportion of female crew members on transport ships to ensure that both husband and wife can be on the same ship.

At this time, a group of testers were testing the living facilities on the ship.

Including kitchen, restaurant, refrigerated warehouse, vegetable greenhouse, satellite Internet room, small cinema, medical room, gym, sauna, chess and card room, gun room.

Inside the gym.

The tester did not find barbells. This is mainly because the interior of the ship is very bumpy during sea voyages, and equipment such as dumbbells and barbells can easily injure people.

The sports facilities here mainly include indoor rock climbing, squash rooms, fixed treadmills, single poles and double poles.

Several testers tested these sports facilities while the Malacca was traveling at high speeds.

By the way, since the Malacca itself is designed as a backup battleship, its speed is very fast. Its top speed is 35 knots. When fully loaded, it can still maintain a high speed of 25 knots.

After all, if nuclear power is used, the speed will naturally be increased. Low speed is uneconomical for nuclear-powered ships.

According to the design, the Malacca will be equipped with four departments: deck department, engine department, affairs department, and security department.

The deck department includes the captain, first mate, second mate, third mate, radio operator, bosun, carpenter, and sailor, a total of 15 people;

The engineering department includes the chief engineer, second engineer, second engineer, third engineer, electrician, chief engineer, nuclear power maintainer, coppersmith, and machinist, a total of 20 people;

The affairs department includes psychological counselors, chefs, second chefs, waiters, medical staff, and living warehouse managers, a total of 15 people.

The security department includes a security captain, security guards, and emergency communicators, a total of 12 people.

There are also 10 to 15 interns.

The entire ship has about 70 to 80 crew members, which is 3 to 4 times the size of large transport ships of other shipping companies.

But the Homo sapiens company can afford so many employees and does not need to worry about wages and benefits.

In the future, as Homo sapiens companies vigorously explore other regions, the ocean shipping industry will definitely need a large number of nuclear-powered transport ships.

The current comprehensive promotion of Malacca-class transport ships is also a good thing for the crew.

In fact, the decrease in Malacca-level transportation costs can basically offset the increase in labor costs and living facilities.

After all, Homo sapiens' thorium-based molten salt reactor uses thorium rods with a concentration of 92%. After being loaded with fuel at one time, it can be used for decades.

Moreover, the nuclear fuel refining process of Homo sapiens is different from the traditional centrifugal separation method, the cost is very low, and other parts are also self-sufficient.

The total cost of the three thorium-based molten salt reactors on the Malacca-class transport ship is only 4.2 million gold dollars, which is much cheaper than burning oil.

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