The Hope departed from Sori with the commander-in-chief Myron as the first captain of the Hope, and the spacecraft approached the asteroid belt near the Sori orbit at a speed of 13 km/s under the propulsion of a large amount of hydrogen and oxygen combustion chemical engines, and according to the voyage plan, they will reach their destination in the time of one revolution, that is, the asteroid belt.

This time is not long, it is not short, and after a boring space voyage, while the construction of the dungeon is still in full swing on Sori, the Hope led by Myron arrives in the asteroid belt.

"Report! The airtightness of the fourth and fifth compartments is broken! One person was injured, one died! ”

"Immediately airtight! Have a few crew members tinker with broken areas from the outside! ”

"It's too dangerous, or ......"

"It's not safe anywhere right now! Obey orders! Myron roared.

As soon as the asteroid belt gave Hope and its crew a greeting gift, a fist-sized meteorite easily crashed through Hope's cabin, and unfortunately, there were two crew members in that cabin, and the head of one of them was directly smashed by the meteorite, and the brains like tofu flowers floated in the gravityless environment.

Although Hope has begun to decelerate after sailing some distance from the asteroid belt, and when it reaches the periphery of the asteroid belt, the speed drops to 1km/s due to engine deceleration, but this speed is still very large, coupled with the speed carried by the small meteorite itself, which causes the relative velocity to be at a very high value, and the metal shell of Hope is not much different from paper paste for small meteorites.

It's better to say that the Hope just paid such a price, which is really very 'lucky'.

After cleaning up the remains of a crew member, Hope continued deeper into the asteroid belt and its speed dropped further to 500 m/s.

The crew of the Hope leaned over the hanging window, looking out of the spacecraft, with the stars as the background, like an ant roaming through a forest of rocks.

"Okay, everyone prepare, board the shuttle boat to get out of the cabin, those scenes outside, you will see and want to vomit in the future."

Myron pulled the crew's thoughts back from the vast universe again, and under his orders, the crew began to act.

Small airships broke away from Hope, fishing for small meteorites within a radius of tens of kilometers centered on Hope.

Of course, this kind of 'small' is not the fist-sized meteorite that Hope encountered before, but a meteorite with a diameter of several meters to tens of meters, and if you describe it figuratively, it is an object the size of a cow to dozens of cows.

These meteorites will be towed or dragged back to Hope by small airships, tens of meters will be split into small pieces by chainsaws, and one or two meters will be sent directly to the interior of Hope.

At this time, it was the turn of the industrial machine tools carried inside the Hope to take out the metal from the meteorite and use it for industrial processing, and a large number of industrial parts were manufactured.

This is the purpose of the construction of the Hope, it is a construction ship, used to carry out engineering construction in space, and these engineering parts will basically flow in three directions after being produced, either to strengthen and strengthen the Hope itself, to increase its protection, or to combine industrial machines that are not yet equipped on the Hope, or to build other ships.

Outer space is a natural forging furnace, the vacuum has excellent thermal insulation, only the heat radiation is left as a cooling method, if you want to smelt a certain alloy, you only need a large condenser, the star light is focused on the pile of smelted metal, the heat continues to accumulate, in the gravitational vacuum environment, the solid metal will gradually evolve into a liquid metal ball.

Then, a straw with a horn-shaped opening at one end is attached to the surface of the liquid alloy ball, and the liquid alloy ball is sucked into the mold by hydraulic method.

Using the waste heat of the mold, the crew's domestic sewage is once again turned into water vapor to be recycled and reused, and the alloy in the mold will quickly cool down and become an industrial part of the development and construction of the Carter space fleet.

The new spacecraft was built after two months, because there was no need to consider the planet's gravity, and the design of the construction was basically designed with its own purpose in mind.

This new spaceship is a transport ship, its purpose is very simple, it is to return to Sori, from there to transport more people over, whether it is industrial development, or fleet formation, it requires a lot of people to participate, and the fifty people on the Hope are just the beginning.

The interior space of the transport ship is designed to be as large as possible, because it has to carry a lot of people, and in Myron's fleet formation plan, the only thing Sori has to do is to provide people with this resource, and other resources are completely produced by Myron's side, including water, air, soil, etc.

After the ship left, a number of farmland stations began to be built, which took on the shape of wheels, and when the wheels rotated, the stations were able to use centrifugal force as a gravitational force.

The outer side of the annular space station is a solar panel, which is used to generate electricity for the space station, but this is not for crop lighting, and the Carters do not have such high-tech solar panels, and the conversion rate is not high, so it is already difficult to maintain the operation of the annular space station itself.

In the inner circle of the annular space station, there is also a circle of mirrors, these mirrors can reflect the light of the stars back to the farmland in the space station, if someone stands in the farmland in the space station, they can see that there is such a gleaming strip above their head, and some pillars extend from the 'ground' to connect with the strip.

In addition to these agricultural space stations, there are many more engineering ships that have been built in formation, and once the transports have transported the population from Sori, they can immediately take over the engineering ships and then go to other parts of the asteroid belt to carry out the same industrial construction as Myron.

Two in one life, two ......in four, four in eight, simple mathematical calculations, in this way, the number of space ships of the Carter civilization will increase geometrically, enough to raise a fleet with sufficient combat power in a few decades.

After the transport spacecraft sailed for a year and arrived in Sori, it carried thousands of people to the asteroid belt at one time, these people were not as good as the fifty people on the transport ship, they were lying flat in a space just enough to accommodate them like container cargo, excretion, eating, and other behaviors, basically did not change their actions, and many Carters regretted it after boarding.

However, the transport ship was already in the middle of the voyage, and it was too late for them to regret it, under the torment of such a small space, so that many Carters in the space fleet later liked to build a large space for their activities, and compared with space, they yearned for the vast environment on the surface of the planet that could move freely.