Voyage of the Stars

If you want to transport a space elevator with the fleet, you definitely can't just install a rocket and push it away. That would easily cause the space elevator to age.

Therefore, in order to better protect the space elevator, humans also plan to build five specialized large transport ships.

In the blueprint of the Ship Design Institute, the internal structure of these transport ships is completely integrated with the space elevator's folded structure, and the hull accommodation part can be unfolded like petals, and then the overall packaged space elevator structure is firmly embedded. In the body.

The packaging design of the space elevator is to collect the cables in the space part, and then fold the various unfolded structures through precision mechanical design, and then fit them together with the base part launched into space to form a long, cylindrical package. structure.

The improvement of the space elevator design was completed during the ninety years of navigation. Therefore, after coming to this white giant planet to mine enough materials, it only took humans three years to build the first space elevator from scratch. Made.

After the first step of the space elevator is completed and passes various tests, the installation program is put into use. Then in the following days, together with the Orbital Mass Accelerator, more massive mineral resources and materials will be transported into space, and then four other sets of space elevators will be built.

As space elevators are manufactured and put into use, human beings' ground and air transportation capabilities are increasing like a snowball.

Humanity plans to fully open the space dock after the five space elevators are completed and put into use, and strive to build more residential spaceships to meet the housing needs of the growing population.

After enough residential spaceships have been reserved, the next step is to build up the scale of battleships.

Humanity now has fifty space docks capable of building lake-class battleships. If resources are sufficient, humanity will go all out to build ships. Based on the efficiency of each dock building one lake-class battleship in five years, it will only take a hundred years for humans to build more ships. One thousand Lake-class battleships.

After learning that the defense force of a mere star system in Nel civilization consisted of a fleet of 800 Lake-class battleships, the human fear of insufficient firepower came to mind again.

There are now only 1,200 Lake-class battleships, which makes humans feel very uneasy. Although each Lake-class battleship is extremely powerful due to the strong armor materials of the battleships, the small number always makes people uneasy.

Based on humanity's current population of 150 million, the relatively high military-to-civilian ratio of 1:15, and the number of 5,000 men required for each lake-class battleship, humanity can fully equip a fleet of 2,000 lake-class battleships.

Nowadays, humans only have a mere 1,200 lake-class warships, and there are still 800 redundant ships. Moreover, even if they build more, they can still be kept as backup. After all, if they sail with the large fleet and do not fight, they only need to AI control is enough.

For this shipbuilding plan, human engineers, geologists, and exploration scientists suggested that after completing the construction of five space elevators, destructive mining of the planet would begin.

The reason is that they feel that after the five space elevators are officially put into operation, the mining progress on the ground cannot keep up with the transportation speed of resources, so it must be fully developed on a global scale.

Humans can use hydrogen bombs to blast out various metal mines hidden deep underground, and then dispatch more automated machinery for larger-scale mining. Only in this way can the five space elevators be operated at full capacity and human beings can build ships.

Without considering environmental protection, everything can be done quickly and conveniently.

Therefore, the use of hydrogen bombs to explode mines did not receive much resistance. As soon as the plan was proposed, it was given the green light all the way.

At this moment, Yue Yuan had just completed the approval of the hydrogen bomb mine explosion plan and came to the bridge of the Tianqin. He saw Manyuemei coming towards him: "Yue Shuai, I think that in this hydrogen bomb mining plan, in addition to conventional burial In addition to bombing open mines, other methods can also be used, such as using Lake-class battleships to conduct orbital bombing in planetary orbit."

"What? Orbital bombing?" Yue Yuan raised his brows and looked at this guy speechlessly. This was mining, and it wasn't land washing with a civilized planet. What kind of orbital bombing was used?

"This is Yue Shuai." Manyuemei pretended not to see Yue Yuan's expression, and she continued: "If we mine in this way, it is considered destructive mining. In this case, why don't we take this opportunity? To test our orbital bombing capabilities?"

Seeing that Yue Yuan was speechless, Manyuemei continued: "I think there are also civilizations in the universe like the Nair civilization that use their home star as a base to develop into Liuhe. Although we technically claim to have orbital bombing Ability, but it has never been practiced, so why not take this opportunity to test it and collect some actual combat data."

"Well, keep talking." Yue Yuan turned on the magnetic boots and fixed himself in front of Manyue Mei.

Obviously he was also interested. Just like Man Yuemei said, humans do have orbital bombing capabilities, but they have never actually done it.

If there is a mine bombing drill, it is better to collect some data. When the time comes, it will be used and the bombing accuracy can be achieved.

Thinking of this, Yue Yuan added: "If the mine is to be exploded in this way, satellites cannot be used for orbital navigation, otherwise the purpose of the exercise will not be achieved."

"Of course." Seeing that Yue Yuan was a little moved, Manyuemei continued: "Yue Shuai, we are a wandering civilization, we don't have to worry about this at all, and I believe Yue Shuai doesn't want to see that one day, we will do it for Let’s launch landing operations on certain planets for certain strategic purposes!”

I definitely don’t want to see logging into the planet to fight. Yue Yuanxin said.

It is a bad idea to let human beings use their lives to carry out landing operations. If we have this time, it is better to strengthen the orbital bombing capability to the extent of bombing wherever we point it.

Thinking of this, Yue Yuan understood why Manyuemei had such an idea. He probably saw the various base facilities of the Nair civilization on the planet when he was covering the vast star.

After seeing the facilities on the planet, the first thought was to strengthen human beings' orbital bombing capabilities, rather than focusing on landing on the planet for combat. That was a good thing.

This is the quality a soldier should have.

Think about it, now that you are capable of space navigation, you will only be mentally retarded to engage in landing operations. Didn't you see that the unknown civilization blew up the sun back then?

Human beings do not have the ability to blow up stars, nor do they have the ability to blow up planets, but there is still no problem in engaging in orbital bombing.

Thinking of this, Yue Yuan nodded and said: "Okay, this is feasible, but we need to discuss it with the person in charge of exploration and mining. Our purpose is to explode the mine, not to clean the land. As for whether to use hydrogen bombs or electromagnetic railguns to directly Explosion must also be carried out according to the suggestions of the mining department. You must think of a method to use whatever effect they require. While the five space elevators have not been completed, you must first take the lead in drafting a charter. come out."

"No problem!" Manyuemei smiled with satisfaction, then turned and left.

Seeing Man Yuemei turning around and walking out of the bridge, Yue Yuan couldn't help but fell into deep thought. He was not thinking about Man Yuemei's graceful figure, but thinking about when humans would have the ability to explode planets and stars.

Yue Yuan has never forgotten the explosion of the sun, and he also understands that it was done by a certain civilization, and if humans want to have the ability to take revenge, they must at least have the ability to explode stars.

But now, not even a planet can be shaken.