Chapter 39: The Scavengers
A starship shaped like a pistol that has been magnified countless times is hovering more than 30 kilometers outside Kunzhe Space City at the moment.
Compared with a previous transport ship that was blown up by artificial intelligence, it is much smaller and more inconspicuous.
However, it occasionally won the attention of some passing ships.
Because no matter how small a mosquito is, it can bite people!
It's a small assault ship!
As the owner of this small assault ship, Li Yi learned the lessons of the last time, and this time he specially bought an upgraded modified starship.
This restructured small assault ship has improved its performance in all aspects, especially in steering and acceleration!
For this, he paid a whopping 12 million Star Coins to purchase and modify, far more than the previous investment!
Due to the modified system, this small assault ship has two more launch bases and one auxiliary base than the standard assault ship, so a total of three launchers and two auxiliary units can be installed.
This is equivalent to having more hands and a leg than others, and the meaning is self-evident!
Any starship structure is generally designed with these two types of external equipment bases.
The launch base is used to install turrets, collectors and other launchers, and the auxiliary base is used to install various auxiliary equipment, such as an energy shield to accelerate the recharge efficiency of the energy shield, or an ion accelerator to increase the ship's cruise speed.
While it is theoretically possible for any starship to be designed with a larger number of external equipment bases, it is not feasible in practice, as the output power of the power cores must be taken into account.
It's like you can install countless air conditioners in your home, but you can't actually have too many air conditioners running at the same time, otherwise either the power can't keep up and you can't start, or it will cause a short circuit in the line.
The same is true for small assault ships, which can arrange 100 launch bases in the design stage, and then install a hundred energy cannons, but when fighting, the energy power is only enough for two energy main guns to run at the same time.
In order to increase the number of launchers operating at the same time, the energy core of the starship can be upgraded, which involves the T change, and only 1-2 launchers can be installed at most after the transformation.
If you still want to install more, it is not that the T has been changed, but that the starship must be upgraded as a whole, that is, a medium or large assault ship, but in this way, the price is the loss of maneuverability.
Therefore, ship assembly is also a science, but there is no relevant memory chip to absorb and learn, and you have to rely purely on your own analysis and exploration to sum up experience.
Fortunately, Li Yi is a person who is good at analysis and likes to analyze.
After some hard thinking...... This time it was a real hard thought, and then after repeatedly testing and comparing various parameters through the simulated ship assembly system that comes with the real system, Li Yi formulated the assembly plan of this small assault ship.
Several important data parameters of the assault ship are: the Finch class small assault ship T3, with a volume of 37,000 cubic meters, a cargo hold capacity of 5,000 cubic meters, a maximum cruising speed of 340 m / s, an angular velocity of 2.87rad (about 165 degrees / second), an energy shield value of 750P, 3 launch installations, 2 auxiliary installations, a 50% increase in the optimal range, and a target lock distance of 42km.
Among the three launch bases, Li Yi chose two laser cutting emitters and one laser traction emitter, and the two auxiliary bases were installed with ion engine accelerators and solid fuel accelerators.
If you are a layman, it is estimated that seeing such an assembly plan is cloudy and foggy, and you don't know what to do.
But insiders can see at a glance that this guy has changed careers, and he is not going to continue to be a miner, but is ready to be an explorer!
Explorer is a nice way to say, but if you don't hear it, you are a scavenger, and if you don't hear it, you can say it - pick up the rags!
"What's wrong with picking up the trash? Aren't there many people in the old time and space who picked up rags and made a fortune......"
Li Yi comforted himself like this.
Anyway, the miners in the black coal kilns have been the miners, and the speculative profiteers have also been the profiteers, do you still care about picking up the rags?
As long as there is money to be made, let alone picking up rags, even if you are a dung digger......
Don't look down on the dung diggers of this time and space, this is an unattainable profession, only on the agricultural planet there are such job opportunities, and not everyone is qualified to be it, the treatment, good is not good, being a dung digger is almost not much different from being admitted to the civil service in the old time and space......
In short, Li Yi is now a waste picker, and his job is to pick up the rubb...... Salvage the wreckage and make a fortune from the dead!
Piloting the brand-new starship, Li Yi once again came to the LM-193 asteroid belt.
But the scene in front of him made him dumbfounded.
It's not that the AI fleet is still here, and the AI generally changes places with one shot, but as far as the eye can see, at least hundreds of salvage ships have already arrived here and are already carrying out salvage operations.
The natives are just a little lower in terms of knowledge, but this does not affect their IQ, no one is a fool, and they can also think of the big plan to make a fortune that Li Yi can think of.
Everyone knows that the wreckage of a starship is much more valuable than minerals, not to mention anything else, just say that the large amount of outer wall metal, which is a concentrated essence, is a pure alloy raw material, and can be used directly without going through mineral processing and refining after being taken back, or even smelting.
Not to mention the core devices inside the wreckage, all kinds of launchers, auxiliary devices, engines, energy cores, radars, control system modules, electronic components, etc., are worth hundreds of times more than the metal on the outer wall!
Not to mention anything else, a small standard laser collector is worth 50,000 star coins, and a medium-sized one is as high as 500,000 star coins.
These core devices don't take up much space in the cargo hold, it's no problem to pick up hundreds of them at a time, it doesn't matter if they are broken, they can be sold as new ones if they are taken back and repaired a little!
Li Yi originally planned to make a fortune from the dead, but in this scene in front of him, it is obvious that there are more people than strangers, and there is too much deviation from what he expected.
"This is the rhythm of robbing monsters......"
Li Yi sighed, swept around, and suddenly saw that there was a wreck that was actually being grabbed by more than a dozen salvage boats.
The wreckage was large, well, and although it was beaten to the ground, it was clear at a glance that it was a medium-sized transport ship.
Slightly stunned, Li Yi's face suddenly became extremely ugly.
"Snatched my corpse!"
According to the International Space Convention, wreckage in space or a missing starship is public property, and anyone can take possession of it, and whoever grabs it belongs to whomever it is, which is not illegal.
But Li Yi thinks that it is good that he didn't snatch the corpse from others, but he dares to rob his corpse?
Even if it is now a wreckage, it is a pile of scrap metal that is priceless, and he spent a full 6 million star coins to buy it!
Is it tolerable or unbearable!
Li Yi really couldn't bear it this time!
Without even thinking about it, he immediately drove the assault ship to a beautiful sideways roll drift, and made several difficult maneuvers in a row, rushing in the direction of his "corpse"!
Small assault ships are much more agile than medium transports, and their speed and angular velocity performance have been greatly improved, and when they are operated by an earthling with a brain-controlled speed that can be called a demon, the situation is simply ......
For Li Yi, it is like an arm wave, almost doing whatever he wants, and he can do it immediately, and in the eyes of the natives, it is like seeing a stunt pilot performing aerial acrobatics!
can play a small assault ship with a volume of 37,000 cubic meters as flexible as a fighter, in this world, it is estimated that there is no one except Li Yi!
Of course, this is also because this assault ship has undergone a great performance improvement, and two auxiliary devices for acceleration have been installed, otherwise, Li Yi can only be a clever woman who has no rice.
However, during the operation, Li Yi was still not satisfied with the performance of this assault ship in all aspects.
With his brain-controlled speed, he can make more complex, more precise, and more crazy operations, although this assault ship has been transformed and upgraded, and it can even be said that it has basically reached the limit of modification, but it still limits most of his abilities, and it is difficult for him to give full play to his full strength 100%!
"I'm afraid I'll have to do my own scientific research to build a starship in the future......"
A thought flashed through Li Yi's mind.
He realized that the starship built with the current starship manufacturing design system of the natives might not be able to meet the requirements of his demon, and if he wanted to perfectly exert his full brain control potential, he had to overturn the current design and build system and design and customize a starship that suited him.
I'm afraid it's the same with mechas, but I haven't touched this thing yet, so I won't think about it for the time being.
Thinking about it, the small assault ship he was piloting had approached the wreckage of the transport ship less than 5 kilometers.
This distance makes his small assault ship the closest starship to the wreckage of the transport ship among all the surrounding salvage ships, because the locking distance of the salvage is 10 kilometers, and there is generally no need to run too close.
But Li Yi still didn't slow down, and still rushed forward in a straight line!
Seeing the small assault ship that suddenly broke in like this, the surrounding natives widened their eyes and stared at the path of the small assault ship for no apparent reason.
What is this madman going to do?
Don't want to live anymore?
Do you want to crash headfirst into the wreckage?
The distance of 5 kilometers is a short-range distance in space, and according to the average cruising speed of 300 m/s, it only takes 17 seconds to hit head-on!
But Li Yi's small assault ship was refitted, the original speed was 340 m/s, and there were two engine accelerators behind it, and the speed had reached 500 m/s at this time!
So, 10 seconds later......
No, only 9 seconds later, I saw the bow of this small assault ship lifted, almost clinging to the wreckage to climb 90 degrees!
Stunt Maneuver - Herbst Climbs the Wall!
The audience exclaimed!