After the "Tempest" entered the waiting area, it still had to queue up. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Although the Earth Federation has temporarily sent additional personnel to the border inspection center, the pace is still not fast.

Except for those fixed caravans under the banner of large conglomerates, every ship above 150 meters must be inspected, and those around 200 meters will be inspected in detail.

Two border inspectors are in charge of a boat, and a commuter boat carries 10 groups of people, constantly shuttling through the fleet of ships in the waiting area, and each ship has a 15-minute inspection time. When the commuter boat drops off the last group of people, it's just in time to turn around and pick up the first group. After 4 cycles like this, exactly two hours later, 40 ships were inspected. Then he returned to the border inspection center to direct the ship to submit the inspection report and video records, and the round trip took another hour.

In the waiting area, there are as many as 50 such commuter ships, 400 ships can be dispatched a day without changing ships, and 16,000 ships can be inspected theoretically, but because of many uncertain factors, the actual number of inspections is less than 10,000.

And according to the news I heard in the commercial operation of the space city, these border inspectors have made a lot of money in the past two days. According to the regulations, ships of about 200 meters must be listed as suspicious ships and wait for 12 hours in the temporary berthing area. However, there is no such mandatory requirement for ships of other sizes, but these border inspectors have used their authority to do everything possible to classify each ship as suspicious.

For the owners, they have been waiting for two or three days in TF1, and if they are put into the temporary berthing area to continue waiting, the time cost is too high. As a result, a considerable number of merchant ships choose to pay bribes to border inspectors to avoid being innocently classified as suspicious vessels.

It is precisely because the border inspectors have wasted a lot of time arguing with the shipowners for personal gain, which has led to a decline in efficiency, and 10,000 ships cannot be detected in a day.

When he first learned the news, if it weren't for the fact that the length of the "Tempest" was naturally listed as a suspicious ship, Fengyu was willing to spend some money to avoid these troubles.

After a long wait in the queue for several hours, a commuter boat finally approached and picked up two border control officers.

The actual length of the Tempest is 203 meters, but the bow was slightly lengthened to cover the main gun muzzle, so the length shown in the flag information is 208 meters. However, this length is still mandatory and will be classified directly as a suspicious vessel.

After the border inspectors saw the registration information, their faces immediately became not very good-looking, apparently because there was no oil and water to fish. Monica, as an escort, had already activated the "illusion" ability when the other party boarded the ship, and "kindly" reminded the other party that the body camera was not turned on.

As mentioned earlier, a 200-meter-long ship is too small to carry much cargo as a transport ship. In contrast, a ship with a length of 400 meters may seem to be only eight times the size of 200 meters, but the actual storage capacity is 20 times that much.

This is because the size of the ship has increased, and although the power furnace and engine have to be replaced with a large model, the volume of the engine and power furnace of the capital ship class is definitely not as large as that of the destroyer.

Taking the "Tempest" as an example, although the capital ship-class power furnace was replaced to match the consumption of the third-generation jump engine, the volume was only twice that of the destroyer-class power furnace. After removing the stern secondary gun, the hull size is only slightly larger than the UAC's superstar.

In addition, the number of crew members on the capital ship is no more than twice that of the destroyer, and the space required for the centrifugal sleeping pod is only twice as much. The same is true for the bridge and the fire department. From a purely piloting point of view, capital ships do not need more manpower than destroyers, but capital ships usually serve as the flagship and alternate flagship of the fleet or formation, and there will be a staff in addition to the captain, first officer, and second officer, so it will require more bridge space.

In other words, the basic hardware facilities of the capital ship occupy almost twice as much space as the destroyer, and the rest is the storage capacity.

Specific to the "Tempest", the basic functional facilities occupy two-thirds of the space, and the remaining one-third of the storage capacity is the maintenance cabin and the supply cabin.

Although the cargo ship follows the classification system of warships, its function and purpose are completely different. In order to reduce the chance of being hit by enemy fire, the battleship needs to be as small as possible; In order to increase the carrying capacity, merchant ships need to be as large as possible.

As a result, battleships generally appear slender and slender, while transports are large-shouldered and round-waisted. Even the capital ships of various countries have been deliberately reduced in size, taking the Tianyang-class capital ship of New Asia as an example, with a length of 370 meters and a maximum diameter of 55 meters, the volume is only three times the size of the "Tempest", not eight times the proportion of the transport ship.

Therefore, based on the principle of cost performance, a cargo spaceship of about 200 meters is indeed naturally more suspicious than a large transport ship of 400 meters, and generally only those small and medium-sized trading companies with limited financial resources and large freight volume will use it.

In order to arrange a legal and reasonable civilian identity for the "Storm", so as to facilitate the transit of the Taifei WH, Awa-ker specially set up two small shell trading companies, one in the New African Galaxy and the other in the Milky Way, and fabricated the transaction records of the two sides, and then paid taxes according to the regulations, so that the destroyer was given the identity of a civilian transport ship.

Including the one when the new ship was delivered, the previous two voyages through the Taifei WH wormhole were all based on this identity, and they can be regarded as old customers here, which are recorded in the border inspection center. If this were not the case, the "Tempest" would not even have received a passage serial number, but would have been directly boarded and inspected by the Federal Army at TF1.

Regardless of whether the identity is legal or not, or whether the length is suspicious, the "Tempest" has limited storage capacity, and in addition to some essential functional cabins, the two largest cabins are the maintenance cabins, which are used to park Mobile Suits for Hung Juxing and Valkyrie's team. In addition, there are several material warehouses with much smaller space, which are used to store spare parts for Mobile Suits, the Tempest's own supplies, and the daily necessities of the ship's personnel.

With such a limited space, it is naturally faster to check. Moreover, the purpose of this increase in the border inspection specifications is not to detect smuggling, but to prevent warships from pretending to be transport ships, and border inspectors will not open and inspect small containers that are obviously unable to contain mobile suits.

Because the "goods" declared by the "Tempest" are all high-value galactic specialty luxury goods, the pictures simulated by Monica with "illusions" are all clear pallet shelves, and the two border control officers don't even bother to look at them. The specialty of the galaxy is also valuable in places like New Africa, and as citizens of the Earth Federation, they are not rare to those things.

After the inspection, two border inspectors waited for nearly half an hour before the commuter boat arrived.

Next, it will be the turn of the "Tempest" to wait for 12 hours in the temporary berthing area surrounded by space machine mines.