After a brief flight faster than light, the 10,000-year-old Buran successfully returned to hyperspace.

However, it did not return directly to the Wandering Earth, but instead docked in the spaceyard built on the new satellite in the Wandering Earth's orbit, the Eye of Gehros, which is the base of the human space fleet.

In fact, it should no longer be called the Eye of Geherros, because the coalition government has chosen an official name for this Earth satellite - the Crescent Moon, which can be called the New Moon or the Crescent Star, in short, this is the new name of the Eye of Geherros.

It is undeniable that the name was simple and crude, but it gained the most popular support.

After all, in cultures around the world, the moon always represents longing, and now people also pin this longing on this new Earth satellite, and "New Moon" has naturally become the name with the highest number of votes.

Qiao Lu also thought that the name was good, at least much better than the long, smelly name of the Eye of Geheros. So from that day on, the new Earth satellite was officially named the New Moon.

After the 10,000-year-old Blizzard came to a halt in the space dock, Qiao Lu stepped out of the hatch and descended all the way to the surface of the new moon through a long space elevator.

After a month of construction, the space facilities here have been initially improved. A continuous stream of dome-type airtight chambers, clusters of solar panels, mineral generators that rely on heavy nuclear fusion technology to generate electricity, and a variety of other industrial or military installations.

It has become a lunar city, mainly through a planetary engine transmission tower like a metal mountain in the distance, to maintain communication with the wandering earth.

When the amount of things that need to be transported is particularly large, it will also be transported by launching launch vehicles, just like the sea on Earth, to supplement the lack of capacity of the teleportation towers.

With the space elevator as the center, there are other space facilities within a radius of 500 kilometers, and the scale is much smaller than the dock where the 10,000-year-old Blizzard docks.

They are scattered sporadically, like nomadic tents on the prairies in the early days of the American West, a prelude to the massive human descent into space.

Among them, the spaceyard, which has just begun to be built, is the largest, and its volume may be dozens of times that of the 10,000-year-old Blizzard, but at present, only one construction frame has been erected, like the skeleton of a giant beast.

This was used to build higher-tier starships, such as space battleships like the Ark.

At present, the daily maintenance of the Ark is still carried out on the ground, which is not only troublesome and inefficient, but can be called a five-minute maintenance for two hours, which is also a major reason why the Wandering Earth rarely uses the Ark.

With this spaceyard large enough to accommodate battleships, the daily maintenance of the Ark will be much more convenient. Being free from gravity in space makes many of the most troublesome operations on the ground a breeze.

This is the crescent base of the Wandering Earth, which can be described as an outpost of human space development, and can act independently from the Earth when necessary, and has now been recognized as the headquarters of the future human space fleet.

In charge of managing this place is the British representative of the permanent council of the coalition government, George, who is also the main person in charge of the current construction of the Wandering Earth Space Force, and fleet management and construction is his strength, but now what needs to be built is a space fleet.

After Qiao Lu arrived at the surface of the planet, he first came to the headquarters of the Crescent Base to say hello to him, and he could also learn about what happened on the wandering earth during his absence.

George greeted him warmly, and personally briefed Jolly on the current situation on the Wandering Earth and the Crescent Moon Base.

"I didn't think it would get so tricky this time." George lamented, "The enemy actually got the moon down." ”

Qiao Lu nodded and said, "Yes, thanks to the support of the Ten Thousand Years Wind and Snow, otherwise we would have had to give up that plane a long time ago." ”

This time, the key role played at the last moment was the 10,000-year-old Blizzard, and the importance of developing a space fleet can be seen, and it is impossible for a qualified space civilization to be without interstellar warships.

George continued: "We are also preparing for the construction of the next starship, the initial plan is to be a destroyer-class warship, which is expected to be three times the size of the 10,000-year-old Blizzard, and hopefully will further strengthen the combat capabilities of our Space Force. ”

Following the direction of his gaze, Qiao Lu saw that there was a larger dock next to the shipyard of the Ten Thousand Years Wind and Snow, and there was a starship skeleton in it that was gradually taking shape, probably the destroyer that George was talking about.

"Although it is still in the stage of building the skeleton, it is just that after the skeleton is built and all the building materials are put on it, we can use the fire energy to make it quickly prototyping, and the Ten Thousand Years Blizzard is also completed in this way." George explained.

It seems that the completion of this destroyer will not be too far away, and as the most versatile type of ship in the modern navy, ships of this class should be able to play a lot of roles in space.

It's just that such a behemoth equivalent to three 10,000-year-old Blizzards, that is, the size of six space carriers, is actually only a destroyer level in the space fleet.

There are almost tens of thousands of people on board the 10,000-year-old Blizzard, and such a destroyer will have to carry tens of thousands of people. Think of higher-class cruisers and battleships, or even larger space carriers, which by then really can't be built by the population of a single planet.

Qiao Lu couldn't help but ask, "What standard are the levels of our starships calculated according to, and do you set a standard to divide them?" ”

George shook his head and said, "No, it's calculated according to the standards of the Cybertron civilization. Extrapolating from the fact that the Ark is the highest-level battleship, we know that the 10,000-year-old Blizzard should be regarded as a frigate. ”

"I see."

The Ark is a product of the ancient Cybertron civilization, and the standards adopted are naturally extremely high, and the current Wandering Earth is really beyond the competition.

If it weren't for such a strict standard, the 10,000-year-old Buran would not have been classified as a frigate.

"Is that good? Build a space fleet according to such standards. Qiao Lu asked with some concern.

George smiled and said, "No problem, we don't have experience in building space fleets ourselves, and it is more likely that we will be out of touch with the actual situation to formulate a standard by ourselves." What's more, when facing other interstellar races, the other side will not fight our fleet according to the 'human standard'. ”

It is not unreasonable to say this, in this vast universe, there is more than one race of humans, and what the wandering earth needs to face cannot be the human fleet.

It is better to demand oneself according to the highest standards than to talk about "stellar star" all day long like the human beings in "The Three-Body Problem", and as a result, they can't even beat a drop of water.

Arrogance is the biggest obstacle to survival, so it seems that carefully classifying the 10,000-year-old Blizzard as a frigate can be regarded as a kind of wake-up call to the wandering earth.

There will always be more powerful enemies in the vast universe, and the wandering earth may still be just sitting in the well and watching the sky, since the ancient Cybertron civilization has left such a standard, let's first follow this standard as a goal!