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The "W-group Originium Fuze" and the grenade launcher manufactured by Mr. Sesa, who has not been cleared of suspicion but whose ability has been affirmed, are worth selling.

Moreover, in a sense, the core components rely entirely on the biomaterials manufactured by Lao Xia, which allows for control over their availability and degree of misuse.

"Alright, if Rhodes Island has any needs, we hope Mr. Xia can mediate. Lungmen will offer appropriate compensation." "Okay, no problem." Old Xia readily agreed.

"To establish an Ursus military-industrial group?"

"It's not about establishing it. Afterwards, Dr. Kal'tsit will transfer a small military factory that originally belonged to Theresia and was headquartered in Rembiton to your name. Through cross-shareholding and complex share transfers, she will make it look like a production base of an obscure military industrial group in Ursus."

“Otherwise, it’s hard to explain how we manufacture weapons on the snowfield. It would be best to separate from Rhodes Island and the Xia Group and exist as an independent third-party organization. This will be very helpful for what you will do in the future,” Old Xia explained to Talulah in detail.

"You wouldn't still be so dependent on others like a parasite after you've gained some power and territory, would you? Not to mention that you'll have to explain to ordinary people where your equipment came from and how it was made, otherwise they'll think it's some kind of supernatural power, or even worse."

“Worse?” Talulah was somewhat puzzled.

"Ursus is an empire, and its biggest difference from the previous duchies and kingdoms is that it has reached the pinnacle of feudalism."

In other words, a nascent nationalism is brewing, even flourishing. If you can't explain the origin of this advanced equipment, you're likely to be portrayed as a spokesperson for some foreign power—especially since you're a Draco and not an Ursus.

“I understand.” Talulah wasn’t stupid; in fact, she had received systematic study and training in traditional politics and ethnic conflicts, and she quickly understood what Lao Xia meant.

"Whatever you're going to do, the first thing you must do is ensure that you are not seen as an 'outsider' by most people."

"I understand. So, what's the point of Rhodes Island pretending to introduce Lungmen's order later?"

“Yes, tell them that production capacity is insufficient and they cannot provide items including power armor and exoskeletons, and give Lungmen the parts marked with red lines and the list from the documents I just sent you…”

"What if they can solve it?"

"Then we can mass-produce power armor and fully equip the Patriots and the others with it, and you can immediately begin preparing for a large-scale uprising..."

"Uh, you mean they can't solve it, right?" That's obvious. If Longmen could solve it, either Old Wei would have been hanged by the Emperor of Great Yan, or Great Yan would have already ruled the world.

So you mean to reject it outright?

"No, the list I'll send you later will include what can be manufactured and sold, along with the quantity, suggested retail price, and basic information."

The equipment that Lao Xia revealed included power armor and an exoskeleton that were clearly not for sale, as well as an electromagnetic crossbow whose power had not attracted the attention of Lungmen.

After all, their own ballistae weren't much less powerful when operated by sorcerers. Just because it has the high-end term "electromagnetic" in its name doesn't mean it's really that useful.

In reality, it was a compromise made by Lao Xia when there was an oversupply of Originium resources but a shortage of resources such as gunpowder and steel.

To protect the track, the voltage is not high; if the track is too short, the recoil will be too strong.

The acceleration is too small, the acceleration distance is insufficient, the initial velocity of the ammunition is not high, and there are also weight problems caused by the feeding and battery issues of electromagnetic weapons, as well as accuracy problems caused by smoothbore.

In reality, it might not be as good as Lao Gan Ma (a popular chili sauce brand), but it is definitely better than Terra's ballista. No matter how heavy it is, it is still lighter than the ballista, and no matter how ridiculous its rate of fire is, it is still much faster than the ballista. Its power is no less, and it is even slightly stronger. The accuracy is the same.

"But even if it's a production capacity issue, we can't just stop selling altogether..."

"Then pack those practice kits Skadi made earlier into nicer packaging and give them to them. Hmm, no, wait, first send the goods to me via Amiya Logistics, I need to make some adjustments."

Old Xia suddenly realized something crucial and terrifying that he hadn't addressed for various reasons: "time synchronization."

In automation, electronic devices with different time systems must be converted. The higher the precision of the equipment, the more serious this issue becomes. This problem is not only involved in agriculture, but also in industry and software.

Because the machinery in Ursus consisted of crude, manually operated machines, while the slightly more advanced equipment belonged to Xia himself, and Rhodes Island didn't share a system with Xia, he had always used the "EST system," which is the Earth Standard Time system.

Terra's equipment, such as the equipment on Rhodes Island, uses the ancient Terra time system after being adjusted by Kroos. This OTTS system is completely different from the existing Lungmen TTS system.

This is no joke. If communication, logistics, automation, operations, and so on cannot be adjusted, converted, and connected in a timely manner, it will lead to serious problems.

To give a very simple example, suppose Terra's time system stipulates that a day is 25 hours long.

If Lao Xia is still in Earth's standard 24-hour time, what will happen if Lao Xia and Swire agree to meet at 10 a.m. the next day and both arrive on time?

That is, for Swire, Lao Xia arrived at nine o'clock, while for Lao Xia, Swire arrived at 11 o'clock.

If it's just a date, at most the two of you will argue. But if it's communication and automation... then it's not just about arguing.

It's like in Factorio or a Dyson Sphere, where 3-speed and 1-speed conveyor belts are spliced ​​together without any multi-stage deceleration or speed-up buffering. In the game, at most, it will get stuck and the entire automated production system will collapse. But in reality... not to mention anything else, the vehicles alone could be smashed into a mess on the road.

This is still the difference in timekeeping systems with accuracy down to the hour or minute. If it were a high-precision device or electronic system, requiring accuracy down to the second—just defining how long Terra lasts as "one second" would drive Lao Xia crazy.

Because of this inherent problem, the Covenant uses EST (Earth Standard Time) for timekeeping, regardless of which colony it is in or how many hours a planet's day rotates.

Therefore, in the Star Alliance time system, two numbers are used: one is the standard time EST used to interface with various levels of systems, and the other is the local time used for daily life planning.

Whether it's Star Harbor management, logistics, or work schedules, everything will be planned according to EST.

Otherwise, if each place uses its own time system, to put it bluntly, you would need to prepare tens of thousands of calendars. Just memorizing the calendars would take you several days to figure out what days are in your area.

Based on this habit, even after arriving in Terra, Old Xia still used EST for programming, manufacturing, and planning. The generally illiterate Ursus infected and farmers couldn't understand the basis on which the boss calculated wages, dates, and times.

After all, agricultural production depends on the weather, just like a calendar only needs to be accurate to the day. Their calculations of time are based on the position of the sun and are estimated based on experience, so they cannot detect any problems.

Once they learned to read a little more and their product range expanded, the tools they used, such as mechanical clocks, were also made according to Lao Xia's standard time.

On the Longmen side, since they were using Longmen's engineering and control equipment, and the employees and contractors were using Longmen's clocks, Lao Xia didn't react for a moment.

However, it was thanks to Lao Wei's order plan that Lao Xia realized this point; otherwise, he would have been in big trouble once the factory in Longmen was built and the manufacturing process began.

Therefore, he had to adjust the timing system of the equipment he was preparing to sell to adapt to Terra's current TTS time system.

Otherwise, the countdown timer of just one fuse could kill any father—

Because the standard for measuring "second" is different, one second as defined by Terra might be two seconds as defined by Earth—so if the police officers still use the 2.5-second timer they are accustomed to using on Terra…

"The difference is 1.7762 seconds per 100 seconds. Fortunately, the error is not significant." Old Xia wiped away his cold sweat. At least for his export version of equipment, this error was not enough to blow him up.

However, for safety reasons, the manufacturing industry should simply switch entirely to its own time synchronization system.

"But a one-day error is a bit too much..." Terra's rotation is about 0.4 hours slower than Earth's, which means that every 60 days there is an extra Earth rotation day. In other words, if converted to Earth dates, it is about an extra day every two months. Except for February, all months have 31 days, and a leap day is added about every 6 years.

However, adjustments still need to be made. This is a very fragmented and meticulous task. The good news is that once the conversion process is determined, it becomes much simpler. The troublesome part lies in how to determine the exact difference between the two time systems.

"Luckily, I don't care about the four seasons..." Old Xia had a headache for a while when he thought about the significance of calendars for agriculture and how he had been using a non-local calendar to guide agricultural production for a long time. Fortunately, he was using Star Alliance crops, and the four seasons were irrelevant to him. Off-season planting was his daily routine.

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Seriously, didn't those people who traveled to other worlds, started industries, and directly resold Earth's electronic and advanced products ever think about the problem with this timekeeping system?

Furthermore, if the units of time are different, the units of space may also be different; what they call a meter may not actually be a meter.

Then you can basically forget about using many things, especially communication base stations, unless you use all your own equipment and abandon the local system altogether—treating the locals' midnight as if it were 12 a.m. and dragging them out to work.

Furthermore, without specialized equipment and relevant knowledge, it is very difficult to determine exactly how many hours a day is...

The error accumulates over the years, and you never know when your clock will show the next day at midnight.

Chapter Fifteen: Steel Driver

Chapter 15

The Ursus snowfields, farms, and workshops. The still-cold weather did not dampen the bustling production scene here.

Although the chief engineer and technical officer were not present, and there was not even a supervisor, the infected workers were still working hard with great enthusiasm.

After all, these are the few busy farming seasons throughout the year when we start manufacturing, producing farm tools, equipment and various supplies needed for the year, as well as consumables such as crossbow bolts for electromagnetic crossbows and lead bullets for electromagnetic machine guns.

Moreover, the equipment maintenance and isolation equipment manufacturing for the Shield Guards all need to be produced here in the Workshop Street. However, without Lao Xia, advanced equipment such as Originium Generators cannot be made at home.

After all, the workshop in the center of the farm is still off-limits to outsiders. The advanced equipment inside is still difficult for the locals to understand, let alone operate.

To be honest, the equipment in Gongfang Street is quite complete. There are lathes, boring machines, milling machines, grinding machines, and drilling machines. There are six simple electric furnaces, each of which can produce 50-60 tons of molten steel at a time. Rolling mills, annealing kilns, and other equipment are also being added and completed over the years.

A forging press powered by Originium hammered away at the metal lump, gradually turning it into a high-quality steel armor plate. Without Lao Xia, it would be impossible to manufacture high-precision Originium motors and power joints, which would prevent the production of powered armor and exoskeletons.

However, the protective suits and non-powered exoskeletons for ordinary heavy-armored operators can be manufactured. Combined with the robust physique of Terrans, especially Ursus, they are only inferior to powered exoskeletons in that they consume stamina very quickly when moving.

The sounds of forging, cutting, and welding on the assembly platform intertwined to create a cacophony of noise. Metal scraps were scattered all over the ground, and the temperature soared to over 50 degrees Celsius when the small electric furnace tapped steel.

Even on the icy, snowy Ursus plains, these burly men with greasy, bulging muscles were drenched in sweat despite being shirtless.

"Master Ke, what do you think of this?" The Rhodes Island power department engineer, codenamed Stranger, whose real name could not be revealed due to the wanted poster, looked at the parts that had been placed on the grinder and were waiting to be polished. "Hmm, it's acceptable."

This is a flat, square-shaped metal block about 2 meters long, although it looks very similar to Lao Xia's electromagnetic gun design.

However, this is not the rail for an electromagnetic railgun. Due to resistance and impurities, if it were actually energized and fired, it would probably be destroyed even faster than the projectile.

Currently, without Lao Xia, these simple electric furnaces can only produce carbon steel.

Moreover, it mainly consists of molten steel with varying and uncontrollable carbon content, similar to the stuff made by folk blacksmiths.

Then these crude steels are remelted, carbon neutralized, and the carbon content is adjusted to the appropriate level, making them suitable for forging as high-quality carbon steel. In addition, when Skadi was in charge, several commonly used alloy materials of Argor could also be produced.

The strangers asked them to produce a different material, although the entire metallurgical workshop was still lacking in technology.

For example, there are omissions in a whole host of post-processing and heat treatment processes such as annealing, tempering, and quenching, as well as in the pre-processing of raw materials.

However, the metal alloy provided by the Stranger was originally a crudely made metal alloy, obtained by adding iron fragments and Terran minerals for tempering, and its mechanical strength was not strong.

However, its advantage lies in its ability to conduct Originium technology, or more precisely, to conduct Originium particles to form an Originium energy phenomenon similar to an electric current.

This is a unique energy transmission system belonging to the ancient Terra civilization, and it is also the transmission system used by Rhodes Island. Instead of using Originium as an engine to output kinetic or electrical energy, it directly utilizes Originium particles themselves as a transmission and even computing carrier.

"The strength is still not enough, but the basic indicators have been met..." Originium can release Originium particles through this material and direct them to certain reactors or containers to do work, store, calculate, or produce functions similar to the Originium Arts of sorcerers.

It's so advanced that even Kroos couldn't understand the underlying principles, while the Stranger seemed to understand it on the surface.

However, he said that he didn't really understand it, and he only found some information by chance in the ruins. It took him a long time to study it and gain some insights.

"The Sarkaz call it witchcraft, but it is indeed a science. In fact, this ancient technology exists in modern devices."

For example, the drones remotely operated by warlocks, the walking mechanisms of mobile cities, and the intricate conductive structures of staves—that is, etching technology—all evolved from this.

"It's just that once people get the convenient answer, they discard the tedious process. Without the process, you can't know why."

The stranger bluntly remarked, "So, since the invention of the Originium Engine, Terra's technology has not only made almost no progress, but has even regressed considerably."

"It's like you've gotten used to the miniature engines and precise, easy-to-control ultrasonic joints that Boss Xia created, as well as the excellent force feedback somatosensory operating system. As a result, once Boss Xia left, you could only build the shell, no, even building the shell was a bit difficult."

"Alright, send it for assembly. This is just a test piece."

"Should I come?" A dull voice rang out; it was Mudrock, who had been summoned for no reason.

"Hmm, your Originium Arts are very powerful; you can even use soil with almost no Originium particles as a conductor. However, this also puts a heavy burden on your body, which is perfect for testing the power equipment I designed."

"Master Ke, why didn't you do this before?" He had never made similar equipment before. "I only made my own weapons. As for why it wasn't more widely used..." Yi Ke looked at the six electric furnaces lined up in front of him, his expression saying it all. "Where am I supposed to find furnaces that can mass-produce basic alien steel materials?"

"Then what about before..."

"Don't even mention it..." Master Ke's face turned green. He had traveled all over the world, from Sargon to Kazdel to Rembiton, collecting those ancient scrap metal pieces with the spirit of sifting sand, and using his talent, Originium Arts, and the research equipment he had acquired to distinguish them one by one.

Those finished high-grade metal materials, like D32 steel, are the "answer" – they become ineffective when melted down and can only be discarded. On the other hand, these primary products, like crude steel, are a transitional material with lower mechanical strength than D32 steel, so they are naturally the first to fail. Over thousands of years, they have weathered away and turned into dust.