On February 15, 4633 in the galaxy calendar, the No. 347 experimental base of the Silver Wing Family Silver Group.

Ming Luo entered the Nameless in a small spaceship, accompanied by the commander-in-chief Tubo, Scholar, and Huo Di Yufang. Ming Luo looked at the small spaceship shells piled up in the hangar and asked, "Big brother, it's a pity that these spaceship shells are piled up like this, can you use them?" ”

Tubo said with a smile: "The starship designers have studied these spaceship shells, and they can be fully utilized, and the materials of these spaceship shells, according to our technical level, are the same as the materials of Nameless, and we plan to transform a spaceship first." ”

"Have all four hangar cabins been cleaned?"

"The hangar has been cleaned up, the entire upper six cabins have been cleared, the lower one has just begun, and the passage of the cabin below is only three hundred meters wide, which is not suitable for slightly larger spacecraft to enter, and the cleaning work is much slower."

"Is it possible to do a nameless redesign now?"

"Preliminary research work has begun, and each expert group is now forming an expert committee to discuss the overall layout of the nameless name, and a preliminary plan will come out in the next few days."

"Okay, now we can legally equip strategic weapons outside the Orion arm, I hope she gallops in the sea of stars as soon as possible, and the brothers can see the light of day as soon as possible, after a while, the silver group will set up a K12 quantum material production workshop in the mine outside, and after the design drawings are completed, the nameless shell of the same size will begin to be cast there."

The spacecraft passed to the passage of the No. 3 hangar and the No. 6 cabin, and passed through an opening of 300 meters wide and 300 meters high, and then entered the No. 6 cabin, Tubo introduced: "The partition inside divides the Nameless into 12 cabins, and there are four hangars just past, and the space of each cabin of the Nameless is a quarter cylinder with a radius of 390 meters and a length of 10,000 meters, and the thickness of the partition is 200 meters, and the remaining eight cabins are connected to each other, and some cabins have passages to the mezzanine. We intend to place the future starship control center and living quarters in this sixth compartment, and the fifth compartment next to it as an industrial area. ”

Tubo instructed the spacecraft to go down through a passage to continue the introduction, "This place is numbered as Cabin 7, which is planned to be set up as an ecological farm area and a water storage area, and now this is starting to be cleaned up, this is the most difficult to clean up, so many remnants need to be transported to the mothballing area, it takes a lot of energy, and the Cabin 8 next door is intended to house the nuclear reactor that supplies all the energy in the inner compartment, and the engine fuel and propellant warehouse in the first half of the Nameless Horn." ”

The small spacecraft passed through a passage again and entered the No. 12 module, "This is planned to be used as a comprehensive area, with the No. 4 hangar above, and the No. 9 cabin opposite, which is planned to be used as a raw material processing area, mainly used to refine fuel, propellants and weapons raw materials, and now through this opening is the No. 11 cabin, which is planned to be used as a propellant warehouse, and opposite is the No. 10 cabin, which is used as a fuel warehouse." ”

Mingluo: "Go to the rear engine compartment and have a look." ”

The small spacecraft turned around and flew towards a green indicator area, which is also a square hole with a width of three hundred meters and a height of three hundred meters, the spacecraft passed through the six-hundred-meter-thick inner shell hole wall and came to the mezzanine, there are many machines in the mezzanine, collecting accurate data of the mezzanine, the spacecraft bypasses various giant components and enters the tail compartment, the entire tail cabin is illuminated by lights, it is full of various sizes of round pipes and partitions, the spacecraft passes through a fifty-meter-thick partition and enters the main engine compartment, which is lined with three huge cylinders," This is the three thrust engine shells, the outer diameter is two thousand meters, the inner diameter is only one thousand meters, and the inner lumen is 10,000 and 400 meters long, if only according to the mass of the Nameless itself is only 2.3 million tons, the three Titan 3 series ion engines are completely sufficient, but we have to camouflage the Nameless, we need to add a layer of armor array outside, and install the main gun and telescopes, etc., the engine temporarily selects the Titan 5 series, but the Titan 5 series propellant spray speed is only 3,000 kilometers per second, which will greatly limit the maximum speed of the starship, The panel is in the process of re-selecting the engine. The small spacecraft came out of the main engine room and came to a cylinder, "This is a round tube with an outer diameter of 800 meters and an inner diameter of 400 meters, the inner cavity is three thousand meters long, and the angle between it and the central axis of the nameless number is just forty-five degrees, and there is a cover plate that can be opened on the outside, and the control lever of the cover plate is in the rear cabin, and there are eight such pipes in the front and rear, which are planned to be used to install the steering engine, and the entire mezzanine of the nameless number has eight hundred and forty pillars connecting the inner shell, and only the doors of the four hangars can directly connect the inside and outside, The others are only open at one end, and all of them are open outward, only a few small holes in the pipe body are connected to the interlayer, and there are many square pipes with a tube in it, which can be stretched out, which provides a lot of convenience for us to transform the nameless name. ”

The spacecraft exited the rear compartment and shuttled through the mezzanine, where there are now lights everywhere and many robots cleaning up the debris inside, the spacecraft bypassed the front cabin and entered the No. 3 hangar from a passage port, and the nameless flew out of the door of the No. 3 hangar, and the spacecraft flew around the entire base several times.

Ming Luo asked, "Scholar, is there enough manpower now?" ”

Scholar: "What is lacking now is the designer of the battleship, the design work is too huge, and the design department will be very difficult. ”

Tubo: "We can't increase the number of personnel now, it's better that fewer people know the secret, and now there is no suitable candidate in China, so we can only equip a few more super quantum computers." ”

Ming Luo: "Okay, after I go back this time, I will start arranging the production workshop of the same proportion shell of the Nameless Number, and next month our Silver Wing Family will officially start to develop the resources opposite the wormhole, and I hope that the Nameless will join the development of the outer domain as soon as possible." ”

Tubo laughed, "I don't think it's too far away. ”

"Okay."

On February 22, 4633 in the galactic calendar, Mingluo returned to the capital star.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, at the Homer Hotel, Mingluo found Murong Junyu and asked, "Mr. Murong, what is the situation of the new company now?" Murong Junyu: "I was about to report to you, now due to the emergence of the new law, we have decided to place the new company in the border area close to the Southern Desolate Star Domain, in the South 5 star system near the headquarters of the Southern Group Army, where it is safe, there is a large jump port, it is convenient to export, and the supply of raw materials in the future is also convenient. ”

Ming Luo said: "Very good, I will often settle down there in the future, you can find me if you have something, you still have to get the company done as soon as possible, now is a great opportunity for the development of the company, don't fall behind, I believe that there will be a lot of new warship production companies during this time, you have to hurry up, you have to set up a business information collection agency as soon as possible, otherwise it is not good to be taken advantage of." ”

"Yes, there are negotiations on shipyard and other equipment, the acquisition of a bankrupt ship production company, as soon as the location is chosen, the integration of the new company will be carried out immediately, and the production capacity can be formed as soon as possible."

Mingluo: "Okay, it's okay to spend more money now, the key is to seize the opportunity." ”

"I understand, I'm going to get the company up and running as soon as possible."

Mingluo: "Okay, you have trouble finding me." ”

On February 23rd, Northfall Syracuse once again led the fleet to the MiG Federation, but this time Ming Luo did not go with him, he was preparing to develop a wormhole in the capital star.

Eight o'clock in the evening, the study of the Marquis's Palace.

Mingluo: "Gemuden, tomorrow you will send someone to help me buy a house in the Southern 5 star system, so that I can park the spaceship." ”

Gemudeng made a record with a notepad and said: "Sir, the starship you entrusted to the silver group to refit has been completed, the declaration procedures for the exit of strategic weapons have been completed, President Yang informed us that the patent protection period of K10 is about to end, and tomorrow the silver group will issue a patent expiration announcement in accordance with the law, will stop collecting patent fees from authorized enterprises, and start the patent authorization of K11. ”

"Okay, how many companies have applied to our Silver Wormhole Exploration Company now?"

"One hundred and fifty, do you all agree?"

"Of course, you go to talk to the customs tomorrow in advance, and in the future, the wormhole exit management will be handed over to the customs, and we will no longer interfere in any application and management work."

"Yes."

"How many countries are now ready to do the same as we do to allow the legal equipment of strategic weapons outside the territory?"

"The reaction of the Macedonian State is not too fierce, the voices in favor of legalization are the majority, but there is no sign of legislation, the MiG Federation has passed the bill review stage, the Azure United States has passed the relevant laws, the Shaten Empire has not entered the legislative stage, the Swan Kingdom has adopted a new constitution, becoming a constitutional monarchy, recognizing the legitimacy of citizens' strategic weapons outside the territory, as for the Motu Empire, there is intelligence that many of their big chaebols are planning a coup d'état."

"Times are changing, how do countries deal with wormholes?"

"The Supreme Court of the State of Macedonia has determined that wormholes are products protected by intellectual property protection laws, can be legally bought and sold, inherited, and can become the subject of a company, and the country has sovereignty and the right to tax wormholes found within the exclusive economic zone of 3 light years from the legal border, and the Andy family of the MiG Federation has announced that it has renounced the right to collect wormhole passage fees, but requires the MiG Federation to exempt them from extraterritorial taxes, and only levy escort fees and customs duties, which has now caused a big discussion in MiG, discussing whether the government has the right to tax extraterritorially, Whether it should be taxed or not, we are afraid that it will also cause relevant public opinion in China. The Swan Kingdom implements a policy of huge rewards for the discovery of a wormhole, with the government collecting a uniform wormhole passage fee, and at the same time sharing half of the annual passage fee for fifty years, which has led to the doubling of their astronomer salary and has become the most popular profession at present, and the Azure United States basically follows the Macedonian state. ”

"Macedonia is in a celestial dense area, the probability of finding wormholes is very small, and the only way to find wormholes is to develop on both sides of the silver plate, such a determination is normal, as a case law country, it is estimated that this is the case before the introduction of relevant special laws, and it has little impact on us, the purpose of the Azure United States should be the wormhole of the Andy family, after all, it has always been controversial, there are only two light-years from the MiG, and only two .5 light-years from the sky blue. The Swan Kingdom and the MiG Federation will have a great impact on us, and when you talk to the customs, you must mention the cost, as for which plan, we will not say anything. ”

"Yes."

On March 2, 4633 in the galaxy calendar, Ming Luo took Princess Cohen Youlan and eight guards to jump to the Southern No. 5 star system on the Silver Wing spaceship, and joined the Silver Wing Ocean Exploration Company and the Silver Wing Security Group that arrived in advance, and at the starship berthing area of the Southern No. 5 star system border jump port, the two companies were connected to the Silver Wing, and after flying out of the gravitational interference range of the Southern No. 5 star, he jumped to the Tianshu No. 287 star system where the Blue Shield Principality was on the sunny side of the silver plate, and went through the exit procedures. The Silver Wing flew to the outer side of the asteroid belt of the Tianshu 287 star system, where there were two fleets, a formation of the Southern Group Army with a hundred warships, and the other fleet was a team of battleships modified by the Silver Wing family, Ming Luo ordered the Silver Wing to approach the Southern Group Army's flagship mothership Nanjian No. 1, enter the mothership through the connection channel, and bow to Gong Fei Xuandun, the commander of the Southern Group Army waiting at the entrance of the passage, "Hello Uncle Gong Fei." "Okay, I haven't seen you for ten years, but you are already in charge of the Silver Wing Family, the kid is good." "I haven't seen him for ten years, Uncle Gong Fei's demeanor is better than in the past, and I sit in this position, with hundreds of think tanks, I believe that a pig will not make a mess." "Haha, you pretend to be good, my brother has been waiting for decades and is still the heir, if I hear your words, I don't know what the expression will be, haha, come, let's sit down and talk." "Haha, he said this first, he asked me to bring a batch of wine, you can arrange for the spaceship to go over and install it, and I will bring you a toy, a planetary-level mecha made of K11."

Gong Fei touched his face with both hands, was silent for a while, waved his hand and motioned to his subordinates behind him to arrange to receive gifts, and asked softly, "The family is all right." ”

"It's all good, Grandpa Gong is preparing to officially pass on the position of the patriarch of your Water Bear family to Uncle Gong Pengyu, and the other two families are similar." "It seems that the death of His Majesty has hit them very hard, but unfortunately the military order is in the body, I can't go back to the capital to visit my father and his old man, I really want to resign from the post of commander-in-chief, I think my father will not allow it, my brother will not allow it, and your other four families will not allow it, the world is very envious of us children of the big family, but there are a few people who know that we are less free, and we have lost more, sometimes I ask myself, who am I, what do I need, what do I want to do, but there is no answer, The only thing I can do is obey, and I'd love to go out into the galaxy with you. ”

"Then you train a successor as soon as possible, the outside world is indeed more exciting, I have been to the Andromeda Galaxy, although I have only been to the edge, but I also feel that the civilization over there is bright, it is a magnificent galaxy, wait for me to give you a copy of the star map over there."

"It's okay, the matter of the successor is not something that can be cultivated in a day or two, and if the interests outside are so big that we can give up the right to appoint the commanders of the five group armies, then we will be much freer."

"I'm afraid it's difficult, the commander of each group army has the strongest combat power of the Blue Shield, affecting all aspects of the Blue Shield, it is difficult for the five major families to give up, we are afraid that someone will carry out a coup d'état, the resources in our hands will make many people blush, there is no strong backing of force, we are just five fat sheep, unless we build a strong enough armed force outside to deter everything, otherwise we must master these five group armies."

"Forget it, you better hurry up and find resources on the other side, I can move the headquarters over, did the order placed by the equipment department for you last year be produced, and we are still waiting to change the equipment."

"Soon, it will be delivered at the end of this month, this batch of battleships to be honest, I feel a little outdated, we met that fleet in the Andromeda galaxy, it is a lot stronger than our battleship."

"I've seen your video, our medium-sized warships have planned to gradually withdraw from the main battle weapon sequence, and will be used as auxiliary warships in the future, and the Ministry of Defense has organized personnel to study the direction of the next main battle weapon."

"Some experts from our Baiyin Group have proposed a conceptual idea of a new warship, which can be equipped with the main guns on military fortresses."

Ming Luo took out a palm-sized personal computer, turned on the projection function, and projected a three-dimensional rendering of the nameless modification design on the table, "You see, this battleship is 52,000 meters long, 14,000 meters in diameter, the main gun is four 100-meter caliber triple ion cannons, the secondary gun is a 30-meter caliber main gun on the proton class, there are four hangars inside, which can carry small and medium-sized warships, the double-layer shell is all K12 of the Silver Group, the inner shell is 600 meters thick, the shell is 200 meters thick, and there is a layer of armor array 30 meters thick outside, As well as the electromagnetic shield array, the cruising speed can reach 0.3 times the speed of light, how about it, are you interested? ”

Gong Fei rolled his eyes: "You are seducing people, which group army doesn't want it, the problem is that there is no money, and with the current level of defense budget, it can't afford it at all." ”

"Next year will increase the national defense budget, in the second half of last year, there will be a lot of strategic weapons orders, there will be a lot of more taxes, and this year's employment rate has increased by half percent, other corporate taxes will definitely rise accordingly, I estimate that this year there will be a lot of security companies will apply to equip strategic weapons abroad, this is also a lot of taxes, there is a big head, the military has retired strategic weapons can be sold a lot, this is an astronomical amount, hehe, do you say the government has money?"

"It seems that you have been waiting for a long time, no wonder you tempted me with such a weapon, and when you announce the design concept, I will apply to equip this battleship, what is its name?"

"Dreadnought, fearless, I plan to use this battleship for the fleet that I plan to explore outside, at that time, we were really fearless."

"Okay, so you're going to charge a lot of money for passing through these wormholes?"

"Yes, there will definitely be a fee, if I don't charge it, no one will have the enthusiasm to find wormholes in the future, but I will donate the passage fee I received to the Ministry of Defense for military construction."

"You have so much money? How much does it cost? ”

"The money is definitely not enough, we will have a lot less pressure to build it in four years, if we can have an order for a few ships, we will have no problem building one at the same time, the price of this warship is equivalent to one-tenth of the cost of the emperor-class military fortress."

"Then you come up with the drawings as soon as possible, and I'll fight for it."

"Well, I'll go first, and I'll talk to you when I get back."

"Okay."

Ming Luo returned to the Silver Wing, ordered the Silver Wing to join the family fleet, and the employees of the Silver Group and the staff of the Arms Export Administration of the Ministry of Defense completed the handover of weapons with the Silver Wing Security Group, and left on the official starship of the Ministry of Defense.

The fleet sailed to the sunny side of the galaxy's silver plate, and contacted the Silver Wing family personnel on duty near the wormhole leading to the McEllanic system, and a signal ship in the fleet carried the communication quantum end groups of each ship to jump near the wormhole, and two hours later, all eighteen warships completed the jump, and the remaining wormhole included some employees of the Silver Wing Ocean Exploration Company and the Silver Wing Security Group, as well as the fifth formation of the Southern Army, and after greeting the remaining personnel, the fleet continued through the wormhole and came to the Magellanic system.

The Magellanic Galaxy is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, only the size of several Orion arms, and the explorers have collected abnormal electromagnetic signals near the exit of the wormhole, speculating that there may be a civilization on the other side of the Magellanic Galaxy.

Five hours later, on March 3, Ming Luo asked Edward Marty, chief scientist of Ocean Exploration, "Professor Marty, is it okay here?" ”

Edward looked at the star map and said, "Okay, this is the place to complete the scanning of the Small Magellanic Galaxy." ”

Ming Luo ordered the crew of the security company to slow down the fleet and float in the starry sky, turned to Edward and said, "Then the fleet is now under your command." ”

"Yes."

Edward came to the fleet command platform and shouted: "Colleagues, hello everyone, I'm Edward Marty, now we are going to carry out a comprehensive scanning of the Magellanic galaxy, please enter the astronomical telescope operation station of each ship, open the equipped astronomical telescope, and check the telescope system,"

The boxes carried on the hulls of the seventeen cloud-class battleships unfolded step by step, revealing the astronomical telescopes inside, which were specially installed by the Silver Group for the fleet of scientific research-grade astronomical telescopes, each of which was equipped with two, each telescope had a diameter of three thousand meters, and it was also huge on the 15,000-meter-long hull, and the telescope began to rotate under the operation of the staff, "Please check the temperature difference and deformation of the telescope mirror, please adjust the telescope according to the orientation assigned by the computer." ”

All the telescopes rotated again, and some of the battleships started their auxiliary engines to adjust their attitudes.

"Please check and test the telescope in accordance with the operating regulations, and after confirming that it is correct, scan it according to the content of the task."

Cohen asked curiously, "Sir, will there be civilization here?" ”

"I don't know yet, this galaxy is very young, and most of the stars are too young to produce super civilizations, but there are no absolutes, maybe there are foreign civilizations to reproduce here, and it will be more troublesome if it is an alien civilization."

"Could it be a high civilization?"

"The possibility of advanced civilization is very low, they should not look down on such a small galaxy, they are afraid that the other party is not through a wormhole, such a civilization, it is likely to master the subspace navigation technology, the industrial level will be much more developed than us, we can't beat the other party, when the jump port was built, it was afraid that which country would master the subspace navigation technology first, so that most of the jump ports were located in the star system, and some advanced ones were even set in the high orbit of the planet, because it was difficult to open the import in the place where the gravitational force was relatively large, and wanted to open the exitIt's a pity that we haven't mastered subspace technology, and we are so eager to develop outward, but we also hope to find an opportunity to crack subspace technology outside. ”

"If there are other civilizations, does it mean that there should be abundant resources here?"

"Such newly evolved galaxies will generally be rich in resources, there will be a lot of stellar embryos that have not ignited nuclear fusion, and our main purpose now is to find those low-temperature star embryos, which not only contain hydrogen and other elements, but also celestial debris, and even the remnants of ancient civilizations, which depend on our luck."

"It turns out that so many people are keen to find wormholes, or come to the other side of the wormhole to adventure, just to find a star embryo suitable for mining, and find a star embryo, which you can't eat in a lifetime."

"Yes, their main purpose is to find star embryos and habitable planets, and some people will also be satisfied as long as they find various celestial bodies rich in various suitable minerals for smelting, although our purpose is the same, but our main purpose is to find opportunities for civilization to progress, so I allow others to come and develop the resources here, we can't do great things on our own."

"There are no police here, no army to supervise them, and when we go into the depths of the galaxy, what if someone robs other people's achievements, will anyone have the audacity to attack us?"

"A place outside the law without rules is hell, this cabinet government has long thought of it, and is formulating measures and laws, which is why other exploration companies have not yet come, every warship sold to private enterprises is equipped with a friend or foe identification system, once there is an act of dismantling and closing the identification system, the battleship will explode itself, and the main guns of the battleship we are sitting on can only lock on the battleship next to it, but there is no way to fire, Each warship has been designed to have all weapons, including short-range weapons, have the function of recording every firing, and all internal operating orders and surveillance videos will also be saved at the same time, companies or individuals who have serious violations will be permanently banned from leaving the country, and all achievements in the foreign region will be deprived and tried in accordance with the law, and those who want to escape, with the approval of the relevant courts, the Ministry of Defense can remotely detonate the fleeing warship, and other measures are to ensure that all disputes are resolved in the court as much as possible. ”

"There will definitely be very few people who buy strategic weapons."

"There will be a lot, looking for and exploiting resources outside the territory Only strategic weapons can resist large-scale ion storms, with strategic weapons, people have the confidence to deal with emergencies, some galaxies, have been found or even contacted by other civilizations, it is easy to have conflicts, only by equipping strategic weapons can the survival rate be improved, the key is that the heart will be a lot more steady."

"So we're going to build a city here?"

"It's not us, it's the government, the government will preside over the development work here, we have the right of priority development, we have the right to choose three mines and a planet, we don't need to pay resource tax, land tax, real estate tax, etc., we only need to pay customs duties and part of the value-added tax, enjoy the same rights and interests as in China, we found that the seven families and companies of the wormhole have negotiated with the government, the Legislative Committee of the House of Representatives has organized personnel to write relevant legal provisions, and now the cabinet government is very busy, the House of Representatives is also busy, this is a huge treasure, Waiting for everyone to hunt for treasure, we will choose a suitable stellar embryo, a mineral-rich planet, a huge asteroid belt, and a planet suitable for human survival, but everything will not be decided until the galaxy is scanned. ”

"How long will it take to complete the scan?"

"It will take a few years to complete all the scans, and now we are only scanning the resources within a hundred light years, and the suspected civilization zone in the distance and conducting an overall preliminary scan of this galaxy, about half a year, you will be responsible for the work here in the future, I will take you to familiarize yourself with the process here in the next few days, you don't need to take care of many things here, you just need to help deal with the coordination of the two companies, and the rest does not need to care, you have to understand the basic situation of this galaxy as soon as possible, and lay out the work for future development, there are many experts here, you need to ask for more advice, I will return to China in a few days, you take advantage of this half a year to learn more astronomical knowledge and mineral knowledge, you have to choose your own assistants, choose consultants, learn to consult the family's think tank, consult Youlan if you have anything, in short, you will handle the affairs here on behalf of the family in the future. ”

"Ah, what about you?"

Ming Luo said helplessly: "The family still has countless things to deal with, how can I be busy, there are still two wormholes that have not been dealt with, and the new company also has a lot of things to help coordinate and deal with, and we have to go to various countries to pull orders, otherwise what will we eat?" ”