057 Ruyi City Spaceport
In the first step of the formation plan of the Star Alliance, Bai Zhongqi has no intention of absorbing countries other than country C for the time being, but this point cannot be said to country C, in case country C uses this to bargain with Iridium. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In addition to Academician Ding's deeper understanding of the situation, bringing Academician Ding to negotiate in the delegation will not attract the attention of other countries, after all, it is just an old man who went to the bathroom. After Academician Ding returned to the restaurant, he kept holding his pocket, which contained the smart device that Bai Zhongqi gave him, and he didn't dare to take it out to attract attention.
Even Zhong Zhiyan, who was traveling with him, Academician Ding did not dare to reveal anything to him before returning to Earth.
Except for Academician Ding, the delegation did not meet Bai Zhongqi, the head of Iridium at all, which made many people feel a little regretful. This time, apart from seeing a lot of Iridium Technology's achievements, no diplomatic progress has been achieved. The Iridium people's reserved goodwill has made the diplomats of these countries scratch their ears and cheeks, and it is still difficult for them to determine what the Iridium people have in mind.
No matter what the Iridium people think and what they plan to do, the earth countries actually have no ability to resist, and the only thing they pray for is that the Iridium people look better at eating, and don't put these vested interest groups on the earth in a pot, which can give them a mouthful of soup and a face.
After sending off this group of visiting groups, Bai Zhongqi was not idle. He has now completely assumed himself as the head of an interstellar empire, and is wholeheartedly planning and executing the expansion of this interstellar civilization.
In front of Bai Zhongqi is a hologram of the orbit in the Earth's gravity well, which is different in that there is an operation interface in the original "Guide to Galaxy Domination" game below it. After Bai Zhongqi logged into the new save, he basically gave orders to specific Iridium devices, and it has not happened to operate as a macro gamer.
It has been decided to use the planet Earth as the starting point for Iridium to conquer the Milky Way in this universe, and Bai Zhongqi is bound to attach great importance to the construction of the Earth. The establishment and existence of Starlink is to serve this purpose. In the game, the empire used to develop a planet, but in fact, the instructions were not complicated, such as exploring and developing the resources of the planet, and all Bai Zhongqi did was click a button on the screen. It's just that Bai Zhongqi doesn't dare to click this button now, he knows that as long as he does this, countless unmanned engineering ships, mining robots and other equipment will land on the earth, completely ignoring the human beings and countries on the planet, and carrying out his own operations.
This is obviously inappropriate, but the same means are not used on the Moon. Bai Zhongqi has sent mining units to the moon, and now the moon is supplying the empire with an endless supply of metal minerals. It may be that the metals in the lunar soil were not of sufficient economic value to the Earth at the time of development, but Iridium, which has the ability to manipulate substances at the atomic level, can easily separate the lunar soil into various elemental components or combine chemical compounds. Another large resource provided by the moon is high-quality helium-3, a mineral that is not lacking on many planets, and controlled nuclear fusion fueled by it is also a relatively reliable category of mature technology and low cost among civil energy sources.
Iridium's most powerful energy source at this time comes from the use of antimatter, the manufacture of antimatter energy devices is not difficult at all, but the most difficult thing is to collect antimatter, and now the antimatter in the Iridium fleet is basically supplied to the two major ships, and the rest of the ships are actually the core energy of the latest generation of fusion nuclear energy with high energy density and good utilization. On this scientific and technological route, Iridium has been immersed for thousands of years and has made considerable achievements. To put it mildly, with enough matter, it's not particularly difficult for Iridium to make a star.
Mining units on the moon are directly subordinate to the empire, which is called state-owned assets according to the words of the earth. Before Bai Zhongqi appeared, a large proportion of planetary mining would be contracted to powerful interstellar mining consortiums, and the mineral stars directly under the empire would generally be directly counted into the revenue of the administrative star government. Bai Zhongqi directly established a "Moon Mining Development Co., Ltd.", which now has no half employees, and all the business of this company is done by artificial intelligence, bionic people and robots. After Bai Zhongqi appeared, the so-called state-owned enterprises of the Iridium United Empire were basically labeled as private by the Führer. Because Bai Zhongqi has a supreme directive, he has the right to directly allocate and use these properties. Bai Zhongqi also has no intention of looking for someone to supervise himself, he has not yet been hypocritical to this extent.
The endless supply of materials also allowed Bai Zhongqi to carry out his strategy for the construction of planetary orbit facilities. According to the Starlink structure, Starlink does not belong to any assets, and the member states are the owners of the assets, so as to avoid the Iridium thing eventually becoming everyone's thing.
Bai Zhongqi's first plan was to build a large spaceport connected to the space city of Ruyi City. Ruyi City itself has a space dock, but the scale is smaller. Bai Zhongqi's plan is that in the future, Ruyi City will be the most important space material distribution center on the earth, and a large number of resources and passengers from other planets will transit in the Ruyi City spaceport, and then transfer to a transportation spaceship to the earth. This is also a very natural thing, many large interstellar cargo ships or warships are not designed to be used in the atmosphere at all, and huge spaceships enter the atmosphere and even take off, not to mention the waste of energy, it is very unnecessary. Therefore, large spaceships are generally anchored in spaceports for loading and unloading cargo personnel, and will not stop on the surface of the planet.
In the future, Ruyi City will have very frequent flights, from space orbit to Earth, logistics and passenger flow will also increase. With this trend in mind, it is imperative to expand the spaceport. The expansion work is not complicated, in fact, it is to build a large spaceport that can dock with Ruyi City outside of Ruyi City. This will not affect the ability of Ruyi City itself, and if it needs to be transferred, Ruyi City can disconnect from the port area and sail again as a spaceship.
Bai Zhongqi's short-term goal is to make the Ruyi City spaceport have a daily throughput of 50 million tons, and the basic construction can be completed within four working days. The spaceport itself does not need power, mainly a platform for loading and unloading materials and spacecraft mooring, and it does not need to require too high strength, let alone install a shield system, so the engineering difficulty is low and the speed is fast.