The Flower of the Soul Project was proceeding in an orderly manner according to the plan, so Qiao Lu didn't have to worry about it.

Now he is more concerned about how the transformation of the Crescent Moon Base is going, which is related to whether the Wandering Earth can travel to the next plane. Once the Death Star's supermatter reactor is obtained, it's time to gradually transform it into a starkiller base.

Through the planetary engine teleportation tower, Qiao Lu arrived at the Crescent base in the blink of an eye.

At this time, the Death Star has been dismantled to a skeleton, like a skull floating in space, and its contents have long been hollowed out and moved to the Crescent Base.

Thanks to this, construction is now underway on the Crescent base, installing various parts removed from the Death Star, including, of course, the most important supermatter reactor.

It's also a big project, so I'm afraid it's hard to complete it in a short period of time, but it's better to have the materials ready-made, than to start from scratch yourself.

Today's Crescent Base has long become a vital space base for the Wandering Earth, with functions such as an orbital defense platform, an interstellar battleship dock, and a fleet command center, plus Galen Else's improved Death Star Super Laser Cannon, it is really more and more like a Star Slayer base.

However, now the Ark, the 10,000-year-old Blizzard, and the Expedition are all on the journey to unify the galaxy with the New Republic, and the only one docked above the orbit of the Crescent Moon Base is the Executor, which recently landed on the Wandering Earth, and has now been transformed into a giant space carrier.

When Jolu arrived, the Executor was conducting its first military exercise.

Countless fighter jets swarmed out of the Executor's hangar and pounced on the asteroid belt left over from the nearby Battle of Yavin due to the Death Star's superlaser cannon bombardment, shattering the target asteroid with proton torpedoes and laser cannons.

To Jolu's surprise, the Executor's carrier-based aircraft did not adopt the X-wing and Y-wing fighters of the Rebel Alliance, as he had thought, but were equipped with a large number of cheap TIE fighters as always.

Just when Qiao Lu was puzzled, George, the representative of the permanent director in charge of the construction of the space fleet, sent an invitation to him to board the Executor to watch the exercise.

So Qiao Lu took a shuttle to the Executor, and once again saw this nearly 20,000-meter-long super star destroyer, Qiao Lu was still amazed at its city-like hull surface, after further expanding the hangar area, the Executor looked like a huge hive, which could easily accommodate tens of thousands of starfighters, directing them to enter and exit, sometimes attacking and sometimes repairing.

After officially entering the hangar, Qiao Lu Fang understood why the Executor used a cheap TIE fighter as a carrier-based aircraft.

Inside the hull of the Executor is a complete production line of TIE fighters, which can even recover various wreckage and minerals floating in space and build a brand new TIE fighter in just a few minutes.

The neat and uniform assembly line gives people a unique industrial aesthetic, and the fully automated production completes all operations meticulously.

At this time, Qiao Lu was also surprised to find that most of the asteroids used as targets were celestial bodies containing metal minerals.

After the TIE fighter jets blew it up with a proton torpedo, they dragged large chunks of the minerals back to the Executor with a towing beam and put them on the production line to be used as material for the next batch of fighters.

It's a one-stop mobile factory, from collecting raw materials to producing fighter jets to putting them into battle, all inside the Executor's hull.

It is no wonder that the relatively inexpensive TIE fighter, if it were not for this simple structure and inexpensive dual-ion engine fighter, there would be no way to produce it in such a continuous stream of mass-production, or it would still be able to piece together all kinds of wreckage and asteroid minerals and build them quickly from local materials.

There is no doubt that the modified Executor follows the UAV swarm tactic, which is to overwhelm the enemy by a steady stream of large numbers, and the TIE fighter is tailor-made for this.

Qiao Lu visited the production line on the Executor and came to the bridge command room, where George had been waiting for a long time, and the Executor had also sailed into the asteroid belt step by step.

"Qiao Lu, welcome! How about our first space carrier. ”

"It's much better than I thought."

Qiao Lu originally thought that the Executor would carry a large number of X-wing fighters, just like a traditional aircraft carrier, relying on the shipboard capacity to win, but he did not expect that it would become a mobile factory, relying on fighting and building to provide a steady stream of fighters.

George explained: "The X-Wing fighter is very performant, but it also requires a high level of piloting, and at the moment our AI is not up to the task, and we can't produce so many good pilots in a short period of time. So the cheap TIE fighter became the first choice, and with the convenience of mass production, we transformed the Executor into this. ”

The X-wing fighter is similar to the Phoenix fighter of the Star Spirit in StarCraft, and its performance is naturally higher than that of the Star Spirit Aircraft Carrier's interceptor plane, but it is impossible to quickly produce it to meet the needs of the Star Spirit Aircraft Carrier to quickly replenish carrier-based aircraft.

In comparison, the TIE fighter is even cheaper, and it can be cobbled together with all kinds of wreckage and metal minerals, which is nothing more than to provide fuel and ammunition, which simply cannot be cheaper.

Of course, the fighters on the Executor have all been replaced with unmanned types, and they are not even living forces, and they will not feel distressed if they are consumed.

Under the cover of countless TIE fighters, the Executor passed through the dense asteroid belt, returning with a large number of metal minerals, and the collection efficiency was frighteningly high, making it unclear whether this was an engineering ship or a space carrier.

"A second space carrier is also under construction, and with the experience of retrofitting and using the Executor, the domestic space carrier that we really built from scratch will be more mature in design, which will be beneficial in all respects." George further said.

Indeed, this is much better than starting from scratch, and the space fleet of the Wandering Earth was built little by little.

Qiao Lu asked, "So how is the renovation of the Crescent Moon Base going?" Is it going well? ”

"Well, the parts from the Death Star have arrived and are being reassembled under the command of Galen Ersor. No one knows the structure of the Death Star better than him, and after the transformation of the Crescent Moon Base is completed, the energy of the supermatter reactor can be channeled to the wandering earth and help us travel to the new world. ”

Another important task for the Wandering Earth Fleet to follow the rebels to unify the galaxy is to recover as much as possible the Kaiber Crystals that the Empire plundered before as much as possible to supply fuel for the supermatter reactor, so that there is enough energy left after the Wandering Earth crosses.

Everything is going according to plan, and it seems that this time Qiao Lu can really rest assured.