Chapter 66, Space Ports in the Interstellar Age
The Kuiper Belt region leading to the direction of the solar system in the Centauri galaxy is connected by space-time currents, and spaceships must pass through here, and the empire is for the safety of its own capital galaxy, so a huge spaceport group is built here at the entrance and exit of space-time currents.
This huge space port group is distributed around the entrance and exit of the space-time current, there are countless space fortresses to surround the entrance and exit of the space-time current, each space fortress is a powerful weapon of war, as long as there is a foreign enemy invading here, you can launch a powerful attack on the entrance and exit of the space-time current in a short time, and completely block the entrance and exit of the space-time current, so as to ensure the safety of the imperial capital galaxy.
In addition, in the surrounding space port group, the most powerful army of the Empire, the Imperial Royal Legion, is stationed, and there are space warships patrolling the surrounding void at all times, guarding the safety of the Empire's capital galaxy at all times.
For the safety of the capital galaxy, the empire's attitude has always been bloodless, not only the entrance and exit to the solar system, but also the entrance and exit of other space-time currents such as the Herculescent Galaxy, the Pojiang Constellation Galaxy, and the Aquila Galaxy.
The entrance and exit of the space-time ocean currents were originally supposed to be a dark, dark, and cold world, because of this huge group of space ports and fortresses, the spaceships that have become brightly lit and come and go here, seem to be very lively.
In addition to guarding the capital system, these huge spaceports are actually more of a service function, providing services for spaceships traveling to and from the solar system and spaceships coming to the Kuiper Belt region to mine asteroids, so it has gradually become a very important commercial trade area.
Because in interstellar trade, it is basically bulk commodity trade, and small commodity trade is not even enough for interstellar transportation costs, so if you trade here, you can save a lot of trouble, as long as you transport the goods here, and then exchange them for the imperial currency of the white flowers, and then purchase the specialties of the Centauri galaxy from here, you can quickly return to the solar system here, saving a lot of trouble and saving time.
Of course, there is another important reason that in order to ensure the safety of the Imperial Capital Star, all cargo and spaceships must be anchored here and inspected by the Imperial Security Department, and not everything can be directly transported to the living planet of the Centauri Galaxy.
All these factors have combined to slowly form the prosperity of this place, where interstellar merchants, interstellar adventurers, interstellar travelers, and all kinds of people who rely on the interstellar universe for food gather.
People from all the galaxies of the Empire, as well as people from the Earth Huaxia of the Solar System, and even more people from the former members of the Earth Federation......
The entrance and exit of the space-time current Here, a spaceship slowly flew out from the entrance and exit of the space-time current, and the two Chinese characters "Kyushu" on the spaceship looked a little mottled, and the traces on the spaceship were telling the long history and old age of the spaceship.
The "Kyushu" spaceship, its history is even longer than the history of the Yanhuang Empire, decades have passed, it is still constantly going back and forth between the Centauri galaxy and the solar system, and people who often travel between the two galaxies have basically taken this old spaceship.
Unlike the Empire's new spaceships that travel to and from other galaxies, this old spaceship is already very backward in terms of speed, comfort, etc., but this spaceship is still guaranteed in terms of safety and other aspects, so it has always been reluctant to be eliminated, after all, the cost of building a spaceship is also very high, as long as it is safe, it will naturally be used all the time.
"Finally arrived in the Centauri system!"
Inside the "Kyushu" spacecraft, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Yanagi looked at the busy void outside, and breathed a long sigh of relief, from the Beichuan galaxy to the empire's Centauri galaxy, the journey during this period was quite long and very time-consuming.
First of all, it is necessary to go from the Beichuan Galaxy to the Canis Minora Galaxy, then from the Canis Minoris Galaxy to the Solar System, and finally from the Solar System to the Centauri Galaxy, the spaceships in the middle have to be transferred several times, and the spaceships on these lines naturally cannot be the latest spaceship of the Yanhuang Empire with space-time current sails, this speed can be imagined.
It took more than eight years for Junichiro Yagyu to arrive in the Centauri Galaxy from the Kitagawa Galaxy, so once he arrived here, he also breathed a long sigh of relief, and interstellar travel was really not an easy thing.
"8 years, 6 months and 23 days, we have finally arrived in the Centauri system."
Junichiro Yagyu's assistant, Tsukasa Momohara, looked at the time and gently reported it.
"I heard that the Yanhuang Empire has a brand new spaceship that can pass through the space-time current in a very short time, and it is estimated that it will only take a few months to reach the Beichuan Galaxy from the Centauri Galaxy."
When Junichiro Yanagi heard this, his eyes lit up all of a sudden, and only after traveling in the universe would he understand the preciousness of this kind of spaceship, but this kind of spaceship, the empire only uses it between its own internal galaxies, and the route between the outer galaxies, using old spaceships like the "Kyushu".
"It's worthy of the Yanhuang Empire, tsk, there are more spaceships moored in this space port alone than our entire Japanese spaceships, and they are even larger."
The spaceship slowly docked towards a designated space port, and as it got closer and closer to the space port, in this huge space port, the figures of spaceships appeared in everyone's field of vision, and Tsukasa Momohara couldn't help but sigh.
Now more than ten years have passed since the separation of the Earth Federation, and this time, the reason why Junichiro Yanagi and his entourage came to the empire with great hardship is naturally not to travel, but to seek to establish diplomatic relations with the empire, carry out economic and trade exchanges, scientific and technological exchanges, send students to each other, and so on.
After the independence of the various galaxies of the Earth Federation, the Yanhuang Empire no longer established diplomatic relations with other countries, but only established diplomatic relations with the Chinese of the Earth, so the original spaceships that led to the various galaxies of the Earth Federation were also withdrawn, so that the various galaxies of the Earth Federation were transported without the help of the Imperial spaceships, and the exchanges between each other suddenly seemed very difficult.
As for the development of science and technology, economy and trade, etc., it has also been greatly affected, this spaceship, especially the spaceship that can travel between the stars, only the spaceship of the Yanhuang Empire is the safest and most reliable, even if this spaceship is an old spaceship from decades ago, it is safer than the spaceship built by everyone.
Although it has been independent for more than ten years, the development of all aspects is not smooth, especially the most important scientific and technological aspects, so Junichiro Yanagi came up with the idea of establishing diplomatic relations with the Yanhuang Empire, hoping to continue to get help from the empire, of course, it is not only the Japanese who hold such ideas.
The same is true of the new Pan-European Consortium composed of the original European and American countries that occupied the Victoria and Columbus Systems, and also wanted to establish diplomatic relations with the empire, implement economic and trade exchanges, scientific and technological exchanges, and so on.
"That's their military port over there, tsk, this space battleship is really too big, the Han Wu Emperor space battleship, the most powerful space battleship in the hands of the Yanhuang Empire."
"When will we, the Great Japanese Empire, be able to have such a powerful space warship!"
Tsukasa Momohara looked at the nearest space port, all the space ships moored in this space port, and the huge space battleships were neatly moored, and the largest of them was like a sleeping beast, just by looking at it, people couldn't help but be surprised by its size.
"Momohara-kun, as long as we continue to work hard, we will soon be able to have such a large space battleship."
Junichiro Yanagi patted Tsukasa Momohara on the shoulder, looking more confident, looking at the huge space ports in the void, among these space ports, are there spaceships up and down, and countless small spaceships are constantly flying back and forth in the void to and from various space ports, very lively and busy.
The "Kyushu" spacecraft slowly docked into the space port, the hatch opened, and the mechanical arm began to unload the cargo on the spacecraft, and at the same time began to add energy, water, compressed air and other materials to the spacecraft to prepare for the next trip to the solar system.
Junichiro Yanagi and the others also followed the many passengers and began to walk towards the space port, if they want to go to the imperial capital Xingyan Yellow Star, they also need to change spaceships, and interstellar spaceships like the "Kyushu" are not allowed to enter the inner circle of the Centauri galaxy.
In the space port, it is very lively, there are people in the empire holding signs in their hands to welcome their relatives and friends who come from this side of the earth, after all, the Yanhuang Empire came out of China, a strip of water, flesh and blood are connected, many families are part of the empire, part of the earth of China, and they often come and go with each other, visit relatives and so on.
Naturally, if you don't receive relatives and friends, you will be anxious after all, and when you receive relatives and friends, you will naturally be happy and laughing, and soon take their salutes and so on to Kyushu Star or Yanhuang Star together.
In addition to picking up people, there are also some cosmic merchants who are very shrewd to look at the people who come out one by one, carefully looking for those interstellar cosmic merchants who are the same as themselves, and want to sell the goods in their hands, or buy some goods and goods from another planet, etc.
Of course, this phenomenon only appears here, if the various galaxies within the empire, even across the distant void, have already negotiated business, and directly deliver the goods.
In this port, there are often some cosmic businessmen from the Pan-European Alliance, the Canis Minor, the Beichuan Galaxy, and the Solar System, who do not have a quantum communicator on the Empire's side, nor do they have an ID card of the Empire, so naturally there is no way to negotiate business in the virtual network, so they can only rely on this backward way.
Of course, it is often the most profitable to do business with these cosmic merchants who come to the empire for the first time, and the prices of goods between various galaxies within the empire have long been very transparent, although the profits are also rich, but they are far from being comparable to this, so many cosmic merchants are looking for business opportunities here.
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