After more than 20 days of perfecting and adding parts and manufacturing, the small spaceship designed by Sun Cheng himself finally entered the final assembly stage more than half a month after he returned from New Iron Castle City.

After Sun Cheng was notified, he personally came to a river valley factory located six kilometers away from the main control center of Base 2.

"Master, welcome to the assembly shop of the Hope! We are now in the process of final assembly! ”

When he arrived, Atlas was sitting in the assembly hall, personally supervising the final assembly.

Sun Cheng nodded, and stood quietly watching them carry out the final assembly, without bothering.

Fourteen Decepticon sappers are in charge of the assembly work, and in the spacious workshop, transport robots are constantly coming in and out, transporting parts from dozens of different production plants and stacking them in designated locations in the factory.

Fourteen Decepticon sappers kept going up and down, picking up pieces of parts and putting them together with great efficiency.

At this time, the super-productivity of mechanical life is unmistakable.

Atlas is connected to the data network of fourteen Decepticon sappers and hundreds of transport robots around it.

Their core is constantly compared, and every splicing is accurate.

There are sappers who can easily move large parts weighing up to a ton or two;

There are sappers' eyes scanning, recording real-time data of every installed part and hull;

There are sappers who carefully quickly insert chips of only a few centimeters into critical equipment;

The ten fingers of the sapper's hands turned into electric welding, spraying blue light to quickly weld the disconnected parts together.

It seems like a lot of millions of parts, but it doesn't even take long for them to put them together in a complete way to assemble a spaceship.

This is now the No. 2 base, with nearly 30 Decepticon engineers, hundreds of engineers, and more than 100,000 robots of various types.

The sappers assembled quickly, and not long after Sun Cheng arrived at the assembly workshop, a spaceship began to take shape.

The final shape of the ship is roughly similar to the shape he originally designed, but the interior has changed a lot.

This is an experimental spaceship born after using the relevant technology on the explorer-class spaceship of the Cybertron civilization and transforming the small spaceship of the hunter civilization.

Because it was a transitional test spacecraft born under the premonition of imminent war, neither Sun Cheng nor the Decepticon Engineer and Phantom and Explorer 203 who modified it later upgraded in technology and tonnage.

This is a flat, streamlined spaceship, the whole looks like an isosceles right triangle, and it looks three or four points similar to the American B-2 stealth bomber.

The length of the spacecraft at the time of finalization: 27.51 meters, wingspan 32.3 meters, height: 15.36 meters, the final empty weight of the spacecraft reached 94.25 tons, and the maximum take-off weight reached about 164 tons.

The main material of the hull is more than a dozen metal materials such as titanium-aluminum-manganese alloy and chromium alloy, which can not only greatly reduce the weight, but also greatly improve the high temperature resistance.

In terms of powertrain, Decepticon engineers upgraded the original design of the engine.

It's been nearly a year since the engine on the Hunter Civilization spaceship was modified.

Over the past year, Sun Cheng's Decepticon engineers have evolved much faster than he had previously anticipated, as they continued to engage in manufacturing, design, and innovation.

As they accumulate more and more knowledge and technology, Atlas now does have the ability to improve the engine of the previously improved Hunter civilization small ship again.

With newer production and manufacturing processes, and new scientific concepts, the improved engine is even more powerful, and the four engines combined with a new power system can make the small spacecraft reach speeds of 370 km/s, reducing the time it takes to fly from Earth to Mars to about 13 days.

The Hope is not a cargo ship, it can only transport about three or four Decepticons at the same time, not the kind of Hynix.

For Sun Cheng and Base No. 2, this test spacecraft is also enough.

The final design of the Explorer-class ship has been revised, some basic components have been produced, and a larger final assembly plant has begun.

If everything goes as smoothly as Sun Cheng originally envisioned, it is expected that in half a year, the spacecraft will also begin to be assembled like the current Hope.

Standing patiently in the workshop, watching the small spaceship take shape little by little, Sun Cheng looked at the two robots who didn't know when they came to him, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

"Phantom, the robot I want at the factory, and the materials in the warehouse, how are the preparations?"

Just now, when he was engrossed in watching the spaceship take shape little by little, the two robots that quietly came to Sun Cheng's side were none other than the central master brain of Base 2 - Phantom, and its new friend - Explorer 203, the central master brain of the Cybertron spaceship that crashed on Earth.

I don't know if he was infected by Phantom, but the last time he returned to Base 2 and prepared to take the spaceship materials he designed to Atlas for them to study and improve, he discovered Explorer 203, and like Phantom, he asked the Decepticon engineers to help him build a robot clone.

With this clone, they can control how they move around the base at will.

At the beginning, Sun Cheng also asked Phantom if he wanted to build a body for it, so that it with extremely high intelligence could become a real mechanical life.

But Phantom refused, and Cybertron's super brain seems to have been written by the designer with a very complete set of logical algorithms.

In their minds, serving the Cybertrons is all they have.

The reason why the engineers were asked to build a robot body for themselves was just to better serve the second base.

Sun Cheng's suspicious personality made him regularly check the Phantom database to observe this Cybertron's super brain that he had obtained from the attack, and check Atlas by the way that they were not making small moves behind their backs.

Judging from the fact that he looked through the phantom database many times in the past, it did not deceive Sun Cheng.

Therefore, in the second base, his trust in Phantom is actually still in the Atlas, these Decepticon engineers who will give birth to some careful thinking from time to time.

"The robots have all been produced and assembled, and are currently stored collectively in warehouse C-14. Other supplies are also ready for shipment. ”

Sun Cheng smiled with satisfaction, turned his head to look at the Hope spacecraft, which was undergoing the final inspection, but his thoughts couldn't help but fly to the fiery red planet hundreds of millions of kilometers away from the earth.

"Mars, I'm coming!"