When it comes to space sentinel warfare and forward starports, both the Federation and the Republic have dedicated research and development paths.

Like the Federation's twin star-base ships, ninety-one devices can be used as starports when deployed.

However, it is not self-sufficient and needs to transport supplies from the rear.

At the beginning of this year, the Federation's fleet stationed in Gemini once caused a ransom of Ceres due to a catastrophe of alien creatures and the interruption of supplies in the rear.

Not to mention the negative impact, the key is how much you can get, and this is also a grab, if not? For example, if you go to BB Star, it is 600AU away, and there is basically nothing along the way, and there is always no supply ship, and people will starve to death.

And the module plant and the towed ship solved the problem.

The module factory is manufactured from the space dock, manufactured in sections, and then welded with specialized large-scale welding equipment. The strength of the material as a single piece is the basis for high-speed travel in space. It is because the Federation is not up to par in this area that the speed of building ships cannot be fast.

With a module factory that can be mass-produced quickly, and a new type of tow ship called a skeleton ship, the module factory can keep up with the speed of the fleet. This speed is not comparable to that of a mobile city, it is a real production unit that can run out of speed.

It's not that the republic didn't think about being in place at one time, that is, the transport ships and engineering ships generated by the foreign city-states using fixed ships as base platforms and carrying different facilities.

It's a pity that the technology of this kind of ship is difficult, the manufacturing cycle is long, and even the outer city-states can only be built by Bobos, although the thing is good, it is not suitable for the current republic.

Then the Republic took aim at the Thunder Sun God, although this ship is not as good as the authentic engineering ships, but the function of the simplified version is still very good, at least in the atmosphere like the earth, it can move freely, and after a ship is deployed, it is a well-equipped industrial base.

However, after learning about the situation of Diosa, the technical masters of the Republic are still advanced, more than ten years ahead of their laboratory level, which means that it is possible to gather the top elites of all related specialties to create similar equipment with slightly inferior performance without considering the cost, and the construction period will definitely be much longer.

This does not correspond to the real needs of the republic.

Until the modular space station was built, the republic was satisfied. It is the result of experience and is the result of low technical difficulty, and its main value is reflected in the manufacturing process and design scheme.

And Xu Changqing called the space container, which is designed for packaging factories and other facilities, and today's Kyushu space station is actually an experiment of this technology.

It is in transit, and there can be no people inside, so that a lot of specific content can be streamlined in terms of design and manufacturing. And when it is unfolded, it becomes a qualified factory, of course, it can also be a plantation or breeding farm.

A two-cubic-kilometer planting site can grow mushrooms to feed 20 million people on the Friendship Space Station.

There are many planting modules like this, which makes the Friendship Space Station like a head full of electrotherapy and acupuncture, which once reminded Xu Changqing of the classic shape of the fierce ghost in the hometown horror film {Raising Ghosts and Eating People} series.

From a distance, it looks chaotic, but when you get closer, it is very empty, even in the smallest module area, Zaixing is just an ant crawling next to the Rubik's Cube.

After entering the space station from the special channel, the two sides broke up, and Xing Meizhen still had some itinerary, but it was not accompanied by Xu Changqing, but was received by the local staff.

Xu Changqing soon had a female secretary around him, and there was no relationship other than work, and one of the important functions of this secretary was to be familiar with all the local management figures. In this context, with his company, there will be no bloody jokes such as 'there are eyes but do not know Mount Tai'.

Accompanied by his secretary, he inspected the actual functioning of a number of departments, including administrative units and a speed dating event.

After the catastrophe, many of the lucky ticket winners reconnected with their loved ones, but many more lost their loved ones, wives, husbands, children, these people could not live in a single dormitory for a long time, and restarting a family can bring a lot of benefits to individuals and society. Therefore, once the situation stabilized, the government encouraged people to regain their strength and start families.

Xu Changqing is still more concerned about this matter, and he hopes that the family can bring people more sense of responsibility and enhance group awareness, rather than general scattered sand.

"Sir, are you also a guest at the hand-holding event?"

A girl's question that suddenly appeared made Xu Changqing feel stunned. Today, he has almost forgotten his ordinary side. Subconsciously touched his face, only to remember that he had a young face, and his actual age was not very old.

His expression and movements amused the girl who boldly stepped forward to talk to her, and stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, my name is Hao Mengmeng." ”

Xu Changqing stretched out his hand to shake it, "Hello, my name is Xu Changqing." I'm not here for the event, but if you're free, I'd like to invite you ...... "he looked at his watch" for lunch and a casual chat. ”

The girl gladly agreed.

Xu Changqing nodded like a secretary, and the secretary left with one of the organizers of the hand-holding event. His itinerary secretary will re-plan where to go for lunch and will arrange it for him.

Leaving the activity center, the two walked along the street and talked about their love for life here. This is the main purpose of Xu Changqing's invitation to dinner - to understand the situation here from the perspective of ordinary people.

The girl is a cheerful character, and she is not afraid of people, and she chirps all the way like a magpie.

"You have such a cheerful and lively personality, and you still need to participate in hand-holding activities? There should be a lot of boys chasing after you, right? ”

This is what Xu Changqing said when he was waiting for the dishes to be served in the restaurant, where did he know that a sentence poked the girl's tears. It turned out that her ex-boyfriend took the initiative to chase her, and then met, and her boyfriend got a lucky ticket during the catastrophe and gave it to her, just like Jack and Ruth said at the end of {Titanic}: "To live a wonderful life, no matter how desperate you are, don't give up." ”

Xu Changqing was silent, not jealous of such feelings, but that such a thing happened, which made life fresh and warm in his heart.

Today, together with the industrial population selected by the New Federation and the Martian Republic from the Moon, there are less than 8 billion, and more than 24 billion people have died in the Holocaust. When these people are no longer seen in numbers, but have an emotional weight, then it is a weight that no soul can carry.

"What about you? What's your story? The girl asked with teary eyes.

"The main thing is to be busy, busy with work, busy with fighting."

"It's better to be busy, and when you're busy, you won't have time to suffer."

"Makes sense...... It's just that, sometimes, it's too busy and it's boring. ”

The girl was surprised: "It's so busy?" Are you a direct employee of an Outland city-state? ”

Xu Changqing couldn't cry or laugh, in a word, he felt that the image of the foreign city-state in people's minds was just like his hometown Foxconn, a typical modern sweatshop.

Before you know it, the outer city-states have become the banner of humanity, trying to lead humanity out of the quagmire in a way that is not understood by ordinary people.

This made him feel sorry for the saying, 'If you do something, you will inevitably offend people.'" More and more feelings.

However, he did not regret his choice and was unwilling to explain anything.

Understand, when the gap between each other exceeds the limit, the concept becomes extravagant. There is no need to say it, and it is impossible to say.

The sense of distance suddenly came again, and it was clear that he was sitting opposite, but he felt like he was separated by a world.

Xu Changqing didn't talk about this topic anymore, but talked about some interesting things in life, and ended the meal in a simple pleasure.

In the afternoon, he boarded the transport ship Hope to the asteroid belt.

This transport ship is the main ship newly built by the lunar colony. Now it is two ships per three days, which not only meet the basic needs between the Earth and the Moon, but also increase the number of such ships on the shipping routes to the asteroid belt and Jupiter.

Hope is carrying a million tons of fertilizer this time, which is roughly treated human manure to put it bluntly, and the Friendship Space Station will not need so much at all, so it will be transported to the asteroid belt for digestion.

Although it is a large dung ship, this kind of equipment in this era is far from being buried like Xu Changqing's hometown, and the manure is all processed by dry distillation, which looks like tea bricks, which are vacuum-sealed and do not have any smell.

Xu Changqing experienced life on the ship on the Hope, which gave him the feeling that it was more comfortable than when he was on the Constantine, mainly because the various equipment was more powerful.

However, he is satisfied that he can take on the work of ocean-going operations at this level, and then the mining gathering ships based on them will be mass-produced to further meet the needs of human economic recovery.

Ten days after arriving in the asteroid belt.

Today's asteroid belt has changed a lot from the beginning.

One of the most striking features is the accumulation of space stations.

The reasons for this are both the impetus of the new federation and the will of the people of the asteroid belt themselves.

Half a year of anarchy has changed a lot of people's minds, and the asteroid belt people rarely mention the concept of compatriots anymore.

It is precisely those within them who have been advocating new nationalism in the past that have shown them how dark human nature can be.

Compared with the hellish life they experienced, the 24 billion federal humans who died unexpectedly can be said to have died happily and basically did not suffer.

After the turmoil, the people of the asteroid belt finally realized that they were the United States of the space age, a typical country of immigrants.

However, they are not as good as the original United States, they belong to the group to live, although the low gravity disease makes them the same kind, but it does not eliminate the national differences, the inheritance of culture, not two or three generations can be erased, it will be ingrained for a long time.

With this understanding, all kinds of gangs that are not gangs have flourished again, such as the Dutch gang, the Mexican gang, the Vietnamese gang...... Basically, it is a national unit, and the local people get together, take care of each other, and are unusually wary of helping outsiders.

When the new federation came to see that this was the case, they simply let them send them on board according to their respective nationalities.

It is the ships used to escape, and the New Federation is called in the name of "Let the descendants of the pioneers with the most pioneering ability of mankind" go into battle and embark on a journey to explore and develop a new world.

In fact, it is to occupy your big house and occupy your land, drive you into a second-hand van, tell you that this is an RV, and it is also a tool for making a living.

This time, the people in the asteroid belt did not make as much trouble as they did at the beginning, but chose to submit with a resentful and gloomy expression. They contacted Ella through the relationship between the Alpha Space Station, which is now the Kyushu Space Station? Olivier, saying that they want to farm, asked Kyushu Industry to give various loans, and they are willing to sell everything.

Ella's first feeling about this situation was that she was afraid, the atmosphere was not right, and she felt that after experiencing this series of blows, the asteroid belt people were really painful, and they drummed up hatred and vowed to get back what they had lost, and this anger would have to be vented sooner or later.

"Give it to them! If this catastrophe can really unite them like never before and work miracles, perhaps it will be a blessing for mankind, I look up to them. ”

Xu Changqing's sentence laid the foundation for the emergence of a fierce group, and the support they received was the one that Gandhi, Feng Di, and Mansour failed to get all of them at the beginning, which is about the same as the current mainstream technical level of the Federation. There is nothing else to say, it can be said that the living conditions are not inferior to the situation faced by the people of the refugee camps on Earth at this time.

The space caravan took more than two months to reach the Saturn region, during which the mobile city in advance played an important transit role.

Many of the ships they use are sampan-class and have to be resupplied along the way.

The city of Argus also ended up staying in the final gathering place of the Asteroid Belt people.

Some call it a space refugee camp, others a super parking lot.

It's all quite vivid, anyway, a group of people are working and living on a broken ship, and life is very difficult, but they survived.

To Xu Changqing's surprise, the people in the asteroid belt did not choose to go to Saturn's moon to build a home, but chose the more difficult space colony construction.

Up to now, facilities similar to the Earth's Asian Star Port have been built, but the scale is much smaller, after the advent of the module factory, the asteroid belt people have purchased a large number of such facilities, and the food and accommodation are also there, the situation is naturally all kinds of bad, but the most difficult time is to let them survive without changing their faces.

Xu Changqing nodded secretly, tenacity, struggle, and progress, as long as it conforms to this theme, then this group, he will give the necessary support.

As for anger, it is very likely to inflict pain on other people of the same kind. Honestly, after 24 billion people died, and after seeing the nuclear winter holocaust littering the wilderness, he has a new definition of cruelty.

Born in sorrow and dying in peace, human beings are not yet qualified to rest, lazy cancer, and can be cured.

(End of chapter)