Stark is looking for a new profit point for Stark Industries to support the astronomical global defense plan, a Veronica integrated combat platform is equivalent to a large company's profits in a year, and Stark has to deploy dozens or hundreds of Veronica integrated combat platforms around the earth, even if he has a lot of money, it is quite unbearable.

What's more, it's not just a matter of launching into the sky, and daily maintenance is also needed later, such as replenishing consumed ammunition, back parts library, etc., which is also a lot of expense. And once the Veronica combat platform is really used, the money will be spent like flowing water, and the absolute cannon will go off and the gold will be ten thousand taels.

The upcoming officially announced commercial space launch is the new profit point Stark is looking for for the company, but the road is not so smooth, and the major countries have their own state-run space departments, which are specially used to develop rockets, launch satellites and spacecraft, and occasionally launch satellites for other small countries that do not have the ability.

It's really not easy for Stark to grab 'food' from these companies with very hard backgrounds, after all, there are so many satellite launch businesses in the world, and in such a small market, if you launch, others won't have to play, which is really too hateful.

There are a lot of concerns, but he has to do it, Grell can only wish Stark's business better and better, the global defense system needs an astronomical amount of money to protect all mankind, but only Stark will pay for it, and even if this system is completed, it will not be used easily.

It will only stealthily circle around the earth, until a critical moment such as a large-scale alien invasion, will all Veronica combat platforms be awakened and thrown into battle, and at most one set of two Veronica integrated combat platforms will be awakened in peacetime, and they will never be all activated.

After all, this is a space-based weapon that has been launched into the sky and deployed without the consent of all countries in the world, and once it is fired, the coordinates and number will be exposed, and then there will be infinite trouble, and at that time, even ten Starks together will not be able to withstand the pressure from the whole world.

In North America in November, the weather was freezing and the Avengers base was empty, and the cold wind blew unhindered, making people shiver, but Stark and Grell were 'walking', as if they couldn't feel the cold air surging from all directions.

On the left hand side was the vast Hudson River, and Stark looked out over the river and said, "There is no way back for what we are doing." ”

"Thanos won't give us a way out either." Greer knew what Stark was worried about, secretly deploying the global defense system, once exposed, it was really the earth although it was big, there was no place for an inch, and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s insight plan was met with so much opposition, and in the end it could only go around the bald eagle's back garden.

You must know that S.H.I.E.L.D. is still under what it considers to be 'tight' supervision, and it is very reassuring that the intelligence agencies want to engage in suborbital space carriers, which are all opposed, while Stark is engaged in high-orbit satellites, real space-based weapons, and without the slightest defense, the attack has reached the top of the head.

Hearing Greel's words, Stark laughed, but only twice, and then couldn't laugh anymore, stopped, looked up at the dark night sky, and said, "But no one will understand." ”

"Because the wise are always in the minority."

"It is precisely because the vast majority of people are ignorant that politicians need the votes of fools and become stupid." Stark said sarcastically that his Iron Man suit and the Ark Reactor were epoch-making inventions, but they could only be held in his hands.

It's not that he hides his secrets, but he doesn't dare to leak it, just like one of the things that Einstein regrets most in his life is that he proposed the mass-energy formula, which provided theoretical and equation support for the creation of nuclear weapons, thus giving birth to a super bomb that can kill hundreds of thousands of people, and Stark, who has experienced the kidnapping incident, is most worried about the abuse of the Iron Man suit.

Once the Iron Man suit becomes the mainstream of warfare, the war side and terrorist attacks will escalate, and it is unknown how many people will die under the weapons he invented.

But can the Iron Man suit really only be used in war?

It can also be used as a high-tech prosthetic, surpassing any other prosthesis on the market, allowing people with physical disabilities to return to normal; It can also be used in extreme environments such as deep sea, high altitude, extreme cold, high radiation, etc., perfect protective clothing; It greatly enhances the strength of the human body and can be used for handling work... It can be said that it is suitable for all walks of life, and this is the correct way to open the Iron Man suit.

It's a pity that smart people only pay attention to the terrifying lethality of the Iron Man suit and the powerful strength that can change the war, just like the formula of mass energy, which was first applied to war, if the Führer also made the atomic bomb at that time, I am afraid that it will not end up being reduced to throwing big bombs at each other, and will never just throw two and bomb two cities.

Because of the end of the war, the mass-energy formula was used to generate electricity for the benefit of mankind, which is the instinct of human struggle, and any science and technology will be used to serve the war.

But when leaving, the two were still discussing how to improve Veronica, and on the ground behind them, stayed

Greer doesn't worry about technical problems, technology is never a problem in front of Stark, if the countries don't agree, then don't let them know, but there is no money but there is no solution, otherwise there will not be so many poor people, don't look at Stark has made more than forty sets of Iron Man suits in a row, but the total is estimated to be the same as three sets of Veronica combat systems.

But the global defense plan needs more than ten times as many combat platforms, not to mention that Stark is not the only one plan, and he is really worried that Stark will be hollowed out and then bankrupted by the vampires of Wall Street.

Don't look at Stark's infinite scenery now, secretly I don't know how many people want him to collapse, so as to devour the countless patents and counts in Stark's hands, especially the Iron Man suit patent, there is no country and force in the world that does not watch, but if Van Stark shows a little crack, there will be countless flies swarming.

"The rate at which I spend money has never kept up with the speed at which I am making money." Stark was completely inappropriate, and he was in a rather happy mood.

Grell was speechless, he had never experienced what it was like to squander money at will but become more and more profitable, and he didn't know if he could spend money like this, and he had no say in this regard.

The elevator door opened, and the lights were already on outside, and the street lights on both sides of the roads in the Avengers base had also been turned on, illuminating the roads while keeping the night dim, Stark looked at the stars in the sky and said: "The patent of nanotechnology, the upfront income is enough for me to build a hundred sets of Veronica." ”

"That's good." When it comes to making money, Grell can't help or give any useful advice, so he can only choose to trust Stark... earning power.

And in the distant equator, an ocean-going freighter belonging to Stark Industries is drifting with the current, the propeller at the tail has long been closed, waiting for the moment of calm, the ship has a narrow deck, on which a large number of containers are piled up, but if you look closely, you will find that the mountains of containers are actually just a layer of iron outside, made into stacks of containers.

The mountain of containers is hollow, and the space inside is used to place a set of sea launch platforms and a bloated rocket, the red shell is clearly painted Veronica (Veronica), and the other side is painted MK44 (Mark 44), which is very flamboyant, for fear that others will not know that this is Veronica and Mark 44 steel suits.

Time is passing little by little, the sea surface has gradually become calm, although it is night, but there are not a few clouds in the sky, you can clearly see the sky full of stars and the silver moon surrounded by stars, the shell of the container slowly opened, the launch platform hidden in it stood up, and the rocket pointed straight to the sky.

The crew was busy preparing for the launch, the flame shield was raised, the barrier was raised, the cooling facilities were opened, the deck was emptied... When everything was ready, the console pressed the launch button, the large Ark reactor started, and the tail thruster of the rocket spewed out a massive amount of electric ions, propelling the rocket towards the sky, getting higher and higher, and the speed getting faster and faster, until it became a star, blending into the night sky, and could no longer be seen with the naked eye.

"Launch successful!" The people in the control room cheered and hugged each other to celebrate Stark Industries' first successful rocket launch with the Ark Reactor, which represented a new era of human exploration of the universe.

In the past, human exploration of outer space required the use of multi-stage rockets and the consumption of two or three thousand tons of chemical fuel to transport dozens of tons of spacecraft to Mars, which is also the biggest problem that limits human large-scale exploration of space, but after today, everything will change.

The new rocket propulsion system with the Ark reactor as the core has a carrying capacity of almost a quarter of the take-off weight, which is almost ten times higher than the previous load of a few percent.

Since Stark Industries cut off the weapons manufacturing department, its revenue has also been cut in half, which is why Stark announced the closure of the weapons manufacturing department that year, and various talk shows have taken it as a joke, and also used a baseball bat to break the cup to explain that Stark Industries, which closed the weapons department, is like throwing a cup on the ground, and it will only shatter.

This was followed by a stock crash, and Stark was dismissed by the board of directors on the grounds of mental problems and continued to sell arms, but the appearance of Iron Man injected a shot of strength into Stark Industries' stock.

Then he announced the cross-era Ark Reactor, which was directly transformed into a clean energy company, and opened the Stark Industries Expo, announcing the status of Stark Industries in the science and technology world, probably that although I don't play arms, I am still the boss of the science and technology industry.

The brilliant performance of the Avengers in the Battle of the Twist has further boosted the stock of Stark Industries, but for four years, the Ark Reactor has not been sold to the outside world, only selling high-density energy storage batteries, and Stark Industries is in urgent need of new profit points.

Now that I've finally found it, it's the space business, a new rocket fueled by the Ark Reactor, which will bring Stark Industries a higher profit than the arms trade.

Think about it, people can only launch satellites with hundreds or thousands of tons of fuel, but Stark Aerospace only needs to use a small Ark reactor to go into the sky, directly turning the low-profit industry into a profiteering industry, and if there is a price war, all other space companies in the world will go bankrupt.

Not long after the establishment of the Stark Space Department, the employees were celebrating the successful launch of the first satellite, but there were many people in different places, tapping on the keyboard with great seriousness, using various means to track the flight trajectory of the rocket to determine the coordinates of its release satellite, so as to determine the orbit of the Stark satellite.

Stark Industries has also launched many satellites in the past, but only this satellite has been in the spotlight, because it carries an integrated combat platform designed and manufactured by Stark himself, according to intelligence, this combat platform integrates deep space scanning, intelligence collection, attack, defense and other functions, and is definitely the first platform in human history that can be used for outer space operations.

Not to mention that there is also a large individual mecha, which is definitely something that all forces want, but it's a pity that Stark doesn't have a tone at all, and even this launch was carried out in secret, but it's a pity that there are many people, and the intelligence departments of various countries don't know how much sand has been mixed into Stark Industries, so that this launch can be hidden from ordinary people.

Those who should know know Stark's launch operation started to observe and track early, if it weren't for the full protection of the three Steel Legion drones controlled by Jarvis, someone would definitely want to hijack the ship or something halfway through, and directly get the Veronica integrated combat platform.

Compared with rockets that are often 100 meters high, Stark Space's rockets are only twenty or thirty meters high, and they are definitely children in the rocket world, but their strength is amazing, and they can easily send artificial satellites weighing 10 tons into medium orbit.

The solar sail panels slowly opened, wider than the wing area of the Boeing airliner, and it was definitely a big man in the artificial satellite world, and the big man was sent to the sky with a small man from the west, which shows how strong the thrust of Stark's new rocket is.

After the solar sail panel is opened, it begins to receive sunlight, converts it into electricity, lights up the artificial satellite, and allows the internal instruments to start working to receive signals from the ground.

Far away in the Avengers base in the Americas, Stark and Gorrell had just reached the ground when their mobile phones rang, took out their mobile phones from their pockets and looked at them, with a smile on their faces, and said, "Now everyone knows that Veronica was launched and successfully entered orbit." ”

After finishing speaking, Stark said into the thin mobile phone screen: "Jarvis record, tomorrow there will be a press conference to announce the official establishment of Stark Space and accept commercial launch orders." ”

Grell somewhat understood Stark's intentions and asked, "You want to take the opportunity to launch Veronica between commercial orders?" ”

Stark, who put down his phone, showed a sly smile at Greer, admitting that once he really started to implement the global defense plan and launch satellites frequently, sooner or later he would be discovered, so he simply launched generously, mixed with some private goods, and it couldn't be simpler.