In the 38th year of the solar calendar, the mining of the original spacecraft is close to Vesta.

Vesta, 500 kilometers in diameter, is irregularly spherical. The escape speed is 350 meters per second. It has now been completely solidified. This kind of large asteroid is now the object of contention in space in the era of capital.

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In the age of the earth, the main mineral exploration of human beings was concentrated on the surface, but in fact there were more underground minerals than surface minerals. cause

Rhenium, gold, tungsten, these heavy elements, will definitely penetrate downward under the action of water flow and gravity. Human centrifuges are capable of separating isotopes. And the gravity of the planet for hundreds of millions of years, billions of years, will naturally let the heavy elements penetrate downward.

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However, on the earth, due to groundwater, geothermal and other complex reasons, human beings cannot explore the interior, the interior of the massive planet has not yet cooled, under the strong gravitational action, the core of the earth is still exothermic, and the mantle is still flowing. This brings great difficulty to mining.

However, on asteroids, it is very easy to drill on asteroids because of the early cooling, low gravitational pull, and no mechanical corrosion due to high pressure, high temperature and high humidity. Humans are technologically accessible to the star core.

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The core of the star, the center of the star, the place where gravity gathers, and the place where various precious elements and precious minerals are abundant. With the beginning of the solar calendar era. Presented to humanity. If we calculate it according to the value system of the earth at the time of the third industrial revolution.

The value of a small planetary core with a diameter of 100 kilometers is enough for a certain power in the 21st century to completely control the pricing power of non-ferrous metals around the world. Strategic resources such as rhenium metal, rare earths, and tungsten ore are used by countries in the 21st century with careful budgets, and in the space age, human beings can use these materials very much.

This is the wealth of productivity in the space age. The wealth created by human beings in the basic raw materials, mechanical production and other elder links is unimaginable before human beings stepped out of the solar system. Just as the humans of Roman times could not have imagined, the industrial countries of the twenty-first century would have produced hundreds of millions of tons of steel a year. In the 19th century, a man who could marry a wife in the countryside of the northwest could not imagine the cost of an ordinary person in the 21st century to marry a daughter-in-law.

And the productivity of the space age makes mankind's view of wealth very different.

And in this era, mechanical products such as cars, home appliances, personal drones, and even planetary low-earth orbit shuttles are very cheap

In this day and age, and expensive are food, water and other products of this kind. At least half of each month's salary is spent on these necessities. It is not that these necessities are difficult to produce, in fact that the production of food and water is very large, but that these products are capable of dominating people. And the value of wealth now lies in dominating others and being dominated by others.

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Drones, cars, and household appliances are not necessities for survival, and they don't need to be used for a day or two days, and people can't die, but the latter are necessities for survival. For the sake of domination, in order to maintain the organization of the state, the countries controlled the common people through food and water.

The hardcore wealth of ordinary people in this era is, a kind of space capsule

Now on the large space station, a large number of capsules can be seen, on a carbon fiber grid on the outside of the space.

Asteroids, as well as the Moon and Mars, have a special orbit for these capsules to operate in orbit.

These chambers carry the water and food, as well as the oxygen system. And there is a certain amount of fuel, with the private code command, at any time to enter the space station, or about to be naked on the ground.

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In the major human colonies, these large number of capsules are transported here. When the workers arrived, the first thing they did was to use electronic values to encrypt the capsules of the colony's orbit and encrypt them with their own passwords.

Note: Ordinary people go to the colonies and don't run around with their own capsules (wealth), they can have these capsules in the region with numbers. In fact, the number of capsules in the major colonies is also redeemed by ordinary people. That is, for the government, the production of the capsule is not very difficult, just as a currency. Similar to paper money. For the government, it's just a matter of credibility.

Taking Mars as an example, even if all ordinary people exchange the numbers in their accounts, they only account for three-thousandths of the inventory of the Martian low-orbit space warehouse.

For the small people, this system of government is equivalent to the system of exchange.

The biggest difference between system exchange and market exchange is that the market will increase the price of exchange volume, while the system will not.

And the emergence of the system also means that what you redeem is not worth mentioning to the system owner. That's why the price will not increase.

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In the outer orbit of Vesta, a spacecraft with a mass of seven million tons has approached here. And the food and water contained in this spaceship, for the people who work on this asteroid, the value of all people can be exchanged for three percent.

In this era, the personality position is the basic system, and the food, water, medicine, and life machinery are the auxiliary objects of this economic system. - It cannot be said that this kind of life is in dire straits, because electronic devices, virtual networks, electronic aspects of exchange prices constitute a colorful life. All the work revenge is also enough for people to buy all kinds of food. But full freedom is never there.

As long as the human will still has a grand goal, the state must be organized, and there is no such thing as absolute freedom.

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A mining ship with a diameter of six kilometers approached the asteroid,

A large number of beehive-like outlets spewed out a large number of mechanical squid. These brachiopods are mechanical-style squid, but they are actually octopuses inside. The octopus has a mass of only about six or seven kilograms, and based on the octopus's neuronal system, it dominates the movement of this mechanical body with a mass of eight tons. The neural control system of living organisms is as cheap as ever, and meets the needs of large-scale industrial production.

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Among these squid groups, there are an average of 200 mechanical squids, controlled by a human, and a large number of mechanical squids will soon be covered with this asteroid, and the mechanical squid can weld and pave roads, and the speed of construction is very terrifying.

A large number of buildings can be found on asteroids, such as starports where large spaceships are parked, and underground warehouses that can withstand attacks from outer space. There are also mines.

In just a few Earth months, the surface of this asteroid, which is 500 kilometers in diameter, is covered by a complex. (In low gravity, a ten-ton mass cement slab has only three hundred and fifty kilograms of mass on Earth.) Horror with a high construction speed. ）

And where ordinary people can't see it, the top brass is playing for the good of the planet.

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Mars orbit and Earth orbit,

The artificial planet 67 is opening up its giant receiver to receive signals from six hundred and seventy-eight directions.

On the internal server, in the virtual hall, there is a meeting between 17 high-level executives in Japan.

In the space age, Japan's state, the remnants of the earth's administrative system, has existed in name only.

The characteristics of a state are: a central, an administrative system, a military system.

And now these 17 people in the high-level meeting of Japan have all shifted their thinking to space battleships, and they all have their own space battleships, their own commercial space fleets, and their own territories and populations on multiple planets.

And on the whole, Japan is now an economic union, militarily divided into multiple factions, as well as two systems, the fleet faction and the fortress faction. - The tearing on the earth is not finished, and it continues to tear in space.

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Some of the largest forces in the Japanese Empire were:

Uda: Six thousand large battleships were maintained in space alone. The total mass of space warships reached five billion tons. The head of the fleet faction

Shallow space: The mass of the fleet maintained is 4.5 billion tons, and the number of warships is 3,600. The head of the initial ship.

Yun Nian: The mass of the space fleet is 4.5 billion tons, and the number of warships is 4,800. Head of the Fortress faction. - The fortress faction builds warships, and the fleet faction builds fortresses.

Miao Qian: The total mass of the fleet is 2.3 billion tons, and the total number of warships is 3,800 (the mass of a single ship is obviously on the small side.) ）

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Where there are conflicts, there are conflicts, and when there are conflicts, weapons to destroy the other side will be studied. When the ideology of capital dominates others goes into space. Humanity's journey in space remains bloodthirsty.

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The meeting began at the virtual venue of the Jingu shrine in Japan

Uda: "Everyone is due, so let's get straight to the point." Now for the Vesta issue. ”

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Appearing in the hall on the solar system star map, Uda drew a red course. The volume of traffic is marked on the fairway.

At this time the economic system in space. It is the artificial planets that serve as navigational beacons, and the fleets of various spacecraft travel through the solar system.

Now the economic framework in space is gradually appearing such a distribution -

The five-star district is responsible for industrial technology research and development.

Each capital group is responsible for the development and exploration of solar system resources.

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To promote scientific and technological research and development and maintain the neck of the industrial science and technology system, all links need to be researched and promoted, so the engineering population is large, and now only the five-star district system is the most suitable for this link.

However, the maintenance of science and technology does not need so many people, so the capital side can solidify the class and replace human production in all links on a large scale with artificial intelligence. Use the capital system to harness human desires and actively take risks in space.

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The industrial technology of Japan in North America of the solar system is also advancing, but this neck can be said to be a technological update, and they can push science and technology to the forefront as long as they maintain a small number of scientists. Their R&D is about the integration of advanced components on the market on a large scale into a system. Parts of this thing, the five-star zone can't ban it.

Most of all military parts technology is related to some civilian parts technology. In other words, civilian technology, adjusting the production parameters, is military technology. - For example, arming satellites sacrifices lifetime parameters to obtain various anti-jamming protections. And in the trade of the five-star area, a large number of industrial products were sold, civilian technology. It also gives the possibility of military technological progress on all sides.

The power of capital and the military technology of the five-star zone have not expanded. Moreover, due to the enthusiasm of the capital forces for the development of the military, they usually integrate resources to come up with military technology with better performance parameters than the five-star zone. (Another timeline, the Japanese Zero is an example, the engine, materials, and other basic technology is backward, but the overall performance is extremely advanced in the early days of World War II.) ）

The scientific research teams of these giants are very sophisticated, usually only a few hundred thousand, to a million, which can ensure that military technology will not be left behind.

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The five-star region, Japan, North America, South China, and the two-level alliance maintain the balance of this world by dividing and dividing up in this world.

But almost all the forces understand that such a balance cannot be permanent.

There are two scenarios for balance breaking

1: The technological progress led by the five-star region has stagnated, and it is impossible to obtain the resources of the solar system according to the existing distribution links, and the national policy will inevitably turn to join the competition for the resources of the solar system.

2: The resources of the solar system have been divided, and the existing resource powers will inevitably go to war in order to ensure their position in the international link.

'Resources' and 'international industrial technology' are the key to the interests of modern countries.

The former relies on the military and finance, the military determines the authority of resource allocation, and the financial system sets rules for the resource market.

And the latter depends on the quality of labor of the domestic population. The population is of high quality, occupies many frontier industries, and is the existence with the most purchasing power in the resource market.

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Vesta, as an important mineral asteroid, is about the distribution of rights.

And this meeting is a number of Japanese oligarchs to put pressure on shallow space, asking shallow space to divide the interests of Vesta equally.

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So twenty minutes after the meeting, the atmosphere in the venue was like a forced palace.

One by one, they looked at Asakura, hoping that Asakura would make a decision that would benefit the Japanese alliance. - The real threat was not spoken, and this kind of high-level meeting was not a street gangster's cruel talk. Because once the threat is expressed in clear words, it means tearing the face. The two sides will have a great contradiction

Uda used very cryptic language, 'expecting' the right choice that Asakura would be able to make.

The so-called "correct" is that shallow space can make a choice, then the Imperial Alliance will be financially open to shallow space. And the 'incorrect' choice of the Imperial League of Japan would impose economic sanctions on shallow space.

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Today's finance is based on personality. This is precisely the weakness of the Primordial Force of the Shallow Space.

As the first force to explore asteroids in the solar system, shallow space has a lot of resources and trade in the five-star region, and there is no shortage of various technologies. There is no shortage of labor right now.

But there are two important reasons why shallow space has to pay attention to the sanctions of the Pacific Alliance.

1: There is no shortage of labor now, it does not mean that there will be no shortage in the future. Once a war breaks out, manpower is the greatest resource, and modern warfare is not about people to be used as cannon fodder. It's that the field of science and technology is constantly updated, and there are all kinds of new problems to be solved every day. In peacetime, there are fewer problems exposed, and there are fewer people who need to solve them. And in war, every detail exposes all aspects of the problem. The number of people needed is huge. Ignoring the problem, you will inevitably lose the war - the fable of a horseshoe nail ruining an empire is a warning

If you lack manpower, you will not have the ability to fight, and if you do not maintain the ability to fight a war as a hole card in peacetime, you will suffer a lot in various negotiations with other forces. - Therefore, the initial number should reserve manpower.

2: Second, it is the maintenance of organization. The initial group of shallow space is still the capitalist group, not the proletarian organization of the five-star zone.

No matter what period of human history or country it is, the degree of human organization is not created out of thin air.

The internal organization of the five-star district relies on a fair distribution of numerical discourse power to maintain organizational discipline. Without the numerical discourse power distributed according to work, the organization of the five-star district is a plate of scattered sand. Similar to the utopian socialist state of early rising.

The organization of the capital group is maintained by the chain of interests. The current chain of interests is a personality-based system, once the external chain of interests is cut off. Shallow Sky will no longer be able to reward and punish the upper echelons of the Initial Interior. ——Although it is possible to rely on personality to control at the top, this kind of simple control cannot stimulate the enthusiasm and motivation of the organization to complete a goal plan.

Let's take an example to understand: In the early 21st century, most of the social organizations are based on the link of interests. Organizations that are not formed by money can only appear in schools. On the street, without giving money, you can bring a group of people together and let them work hard according to the rules and disciplines. That's impossible. - That's the reality.

In order to maintain the internal organization, it is necessary to pay attention to the personality position.

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The topic returned to the high-level meeting of the Japanese Alliance. In a lot of subtle Japanese language.

The most straightforward meaning is that if the shallow space does not open the mineral interests of Vesta, the oligarchs will restrict the acquisition of the personality position by the shallow space group on Earth, that is, the sanctions of this era

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Looking at these gazes at the virtual meeting, Shallow Sky yawned lightly, and while everyone was waiting, he said slowly: "Vesta development, we have already formulated a development plan with the five-star region, and I can't add variables from it. ”

Uda paused and said, "For forty years, we will not interfere with the original cooperative relationship. ”

Shallow Sky: "I can't call the shots. But on the Ceres side, you can use the model you are talking about. ”

Uda asked, "Why is it possible on Ceres, the five-star region of this planet is being explored now." ”

Shallow space: "A series of mining sites on Vesta have been explored, and the relevant information has been reported to the relevant departments in the five-star region. All kinds of economic cooperation in the five-star zone are already being planned, and it is impossible to change them halfway. Whereas, Ceres is in the exploration phase. They did not specify the planning of the relevant economy. It is still at the stage where it can be deleted.

Well, by the way, whether it's Ceres or Vesta, they're in charge of the technical guidance of the equipment, and I'm in charge of the human resources organization, and I'm in charge of the development schedule.

I can pull you into this cooperative system within my authority, as long as you can fulfill the contract and reduce the development cost, they have no reason to refuse. ”

Hearing this, Uda immediately began to discuss with the people at the meeting - the cooperation channel between the shallow space and the five-star region made them very envious. A business channel is more important than money.

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