Chapter 560: Third Crescent City
Solar system, moon.
After half a year of development, the lunar orbit is no longer deserted at this moment, and thousands of merchant ships are traveling to and from the Earth and the Moon, carrying out frequent trade exchanges of personnel and materials.
The spaceport in lunar orbit has also been expanded, and the area is not much smaller than that of the Atlantis spaceport in Earth's orbit.
At this moment, an inconspicuous silver spaceship was slowly approaching the lunar spaceport from outside the Earth-Moon system, and then passed the merchant ships that were waiting in line and directly drilled into the military port......
"This ...... It's my country......" Nie Yun stood by the porthole and looked at the bustling spaceport, and couldn't help but sigh with narcissism.
Robotic bug: "......" (lll¬ω¬)
In the past few months, although Alsace's clone has been remotely operated from time to time, Nie Yun's body has not been idle.
On the way back to Earth, Nie Yun made every effort to study the limits of mechanical insects, while remotely controlling the development of various bases, and by the way, he also came to a "trip around the solar system".
He has traveled through half of the solar system, witnessed the desolation of Pluto, the splendor of Saturn's rings, and the shocking storm of Jupiter.
Although the clone is as immersive as the scene, it may be a bit redundant, but Nie Yun feels that this is like eating instant noodles with a knife and fork, and the focus is on the sense of ceremony.
"It looks like Atlantis has been doing well lately." Nie Yun commented again.
About one-fifth of the ships passing by outside the window were inscribed with the iconic silver swirl logo, apparently belonging to Atlantis, while the rest were decorated with various national flags.
Interstellar trade is an emerging sunrise industry, and Atlantis naturally established its own interstellar trading company early and occupies a large share.
After the initial infrastructure construction and trial production, the shipyard in the asteroid belt of the solar system has ushered in a big explosion of production capacity, and various warships and civilian spacecraft have been put into the market like dumplings, and then sold out, filling the gap of a large number of space transportation.
The bulk spaceship trade also became Atlantis' largest gold pool this quarter, recovering a large amount of Infinite Coins for Nie Yun, further promoting the prosperity of the Infinite Coins capital market.
Speaking of shipyards, we have to mention Nie Yun's upgrading of the shipbuilding base in the asteroid belt.
Today's shipbuilding base has passed the early era of small workshops, got rid of the excessive dependence on mechanical insects, and completed the optimization of industrial concentration.
At the same time, the traditional dock shipbuilding mode has been completely eliminated, and a more advanced "shipbuilding assembly line" has been introduced, and the production efficiency has been greatly improved!
Today's shipyards are more like car manufacturing lines.
In the gravity-free space environment, the huge spaceship completes the keel laying in the first section of the assembly line, completes the shell installation in the second section of the assembly line, completes the line engraving in the third section of the assembly line, and implants the power core in the fourth section of the assembly line......
In addition to the mainstream waterline, each section of the processing area is divided into several branch lines, and each branch line is a huge equipment manufacturing plant.
Some of them are responsible for smelting metals to provide raw materials, while others are responsible for manufacturing ancillary equipment such as radars, engines, brains, weapons, and so on.
A complete set of precise and unified automated assembly lines, shaped like a steel giant tree with dense forks, absorbs countless mineral resources, and finally assembles tens of millions of parts into steel giants, filling the cosmic communication lines of the earth's civilization.
Such an automated assembly line consists of countless branch factories, covering almost all of a civilization's industrial fields, and is so large that hundreds of asteroids are needed to provide it with various material support.
Even at Nie Yun's industrial manufacturing speed, so far only a complete civilian "shipbuilding production line" has been built to meet the growing market demand.
The construction requirements of military ships are more stringent, and the technological content far exceeds that of civilian ships, coupled with the military strength related to civilization, Nie Yun naturally attaches more importance to it.
The original imitation of the Sea Clan frigate has been completely discontinued, and with the change of the hostile situation with the Gemini civilization, Nie Yun has been able to develop his own armed forces as the "Earth Civilization Branch of the Society of All Things to One", so naturally he does not need to play copycat anymore.
A more advanced warship design that is more in line with the development needs of the earth's civilization has been put on the agenda!
In this process, the Earth Defense Force, as the main military purchaser, was also invited to participate in the development and design discussions of various new warships.
Thanks to the efficient communication and high degree of realism in the virtual world, the design scheme was quickly finalized under the leadership of the Cloud Research Institute, and the first and second mass-produced frigates "Ganjiang-class" and "Moxi-class" have entered the official production stage.
These two comprehensive frigates, named after the ten famous swords, focus on firepower and speed respectively, and can basically meet the combat needs of the Earth Defense Force at this stage through various combinations.
Getting off the spaceship, Nie Yun looked around.
In the distant civilian port, countless cargo commodities are unloaded from the spaceship, piled up in warehouses, sold to Earth, or transported to the new city of the moon below.
Nie Yun had a green light all the way, and he didn't even bring any robot guards with him, except for the code name that accompanied him.
In his own territory, Nie Yun didn't need to worry about security at all, not to mention that he himself was a humanoid nuclear bomb with explosive combat effectiveness.
"Let's go! Let's go to the 'Third Crescent City' to have a look. With a hint of anticipation, Nie Yun walked into the space elevator that led directly to the new city on the moon......
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The "Third Crescent City" is the first large-scale human migration pilot space city built by Nie Yun!
Four months ago, the first human immigration spacecraft "New World" landed, and 50 astronauts became the first batch of lunar immigrants.
The advanced ecosystem technology from Gemini, the unique biotechnology of the Kara civilization, and the efficient robot construction team of Captain Ghost have sparked a space colony city with leapfrog development of science and technology, and the city has taken shape in just half a year.
As of today, the "Third Crescent City" has a resident population of 3,000 and a floating population of nearly 10,000, and the scale is still expanding rapidly.
Regarding the name of this city that makes the corners of the mouth twitch, the earthlings said that we don't dare to say it, and we don't dare to ask......
Captain Ghost's name is now almost a household name, after all, even the name of the base such as "Dongchang" has been written into the lunar GPS navigation system, becoming the largest satellite base near the "Third Crescent City......
I heard that Chinese-speaking countries are struggling with whether to include it in the new "Geography of the Moon" textbook, while the Western media is hotly discussing the results of onlookers.
Ahem! In short, this is a sad story.