D21 Steel Shell Port.

After half a year of development, the steel shell port has reached a certain scale, just in terms of size, it can compete with the star base of Gueys in MR241, the maximum length has exceeded 30 kilometers, in the shape of a matchbox. Of course, volume is volume, D21 Development Company has no way to compare resources and funds with Seg-Isbi, and the current part of the steel-hulled port still only realizes a small part of the planning drawings, and the function is more non-military functions such as living, fuel rod manufacturing chain, ship manufacturing and berthing, cargo relay, etc., and the defense can only rely on the fleet and the reconnaissance points laid to the periphery of Hemmer Star for the time being.

There is no way to keep a lot of things hidden, today, after prior communication, for the first time, all the main fleet of Pan Wen docked at the steel shell port, and there were many people who came to watch the melons, and there were also large and small shareholders who came to pick up the ship.

"Does Mr. Pan want to stay here permanently?" Among the shareholders who picked up the ship, the red-haired female pirate Fiorian asked first.

Pan Wen glanced at her and shook his head: "I'm just an errand runner, come and recruit a few people and have to leave, you know how sought-after the veterans are over there now." ”

Fiorian and several small shareholders next to her smiled cooperatively, and two of them were still busy flirting with the secretary.

Temporarily eliminated the anxiety of the shareholders, and casually pulled a few words on the way, and when the others were about to flash, the secretary Adele, who had been staying on the side, came forward to invite Pan Wen to the shipyard.

When she saw Kareda at the shipyard, the woman immediately stuck to him, grabbed him by the elbow, and began to ask for credit.

"Lord Pan Wen, look, I built a boat equipped with MCosX thrusters, are you interested in buying one?"

Looking down from the viewing room where it is, there is a ship below that is in the hoisting stage of the main gun, and the working structure of the main gun can still be seen at this time, which is obviously a beam-type full-size gun, but according to the visual comparison of the data of the full-size gun, the total length of the hull below is only between one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy meters!

"Why is the ship so small? Isn't the thrust enough? ”

"If you don't have enough thrust, just add thrusters! This is what we use to replace our own heavy patrol ships, our main business in the future is to protect the safety of the Haimer Star range, there is no need for patrol ships to keep hangars, design according to the requirements That's it, that's the third ship below, Scar Dragon said that this ship will be suspended for a period of time after that, and wait for feedback on use. Kareda briefly explained the state of the strange ship below.

"Using feedback? Scardragon still has this business mind? Pan Wen had the impression that the scar dragon seemed to live on a woman's belly every day.

Kareda gave Pan Wen a roll of his eyes and said, "Scardragon has hired a professional battleship design team, and the work ethic is there, and we are also worried that there will be some unexpected problems with the new ship." ”

"Have you identified the problem?"

"Not for the time being, the cost has been reduced, the thrust has increased by less than 5%, the structure of the ship is shorter, it is said that it can better cope with multi-directional battles, and the disadvantages have not been found for the time being, so I hope Lord Pan Wen can buy one and take a look." As she spoke, she shook Pan Wen's hand with a coquettish expression.

Pan Wen ignored the woman's ambiguity and considered the gains and losses.

The MCosX thruster is a project that Frost requires to promote, which means that this is a thruster that is available "out there"! However, there is no transgalactic colonization outside, just toss around in the solar system, and the latest colonial ship is already in the manufacturing stage, and it may have been almost built at this time, and it is impossible to temporarily change the structure. Therefore, the MCosX was thrown into the second world, either for the next generation of thrusters, or it could be a model being studied for data demonstration, or it could be an experimental product that was eliminated due to major flaws. Pan Wen had seen the manufacturing blueprint of MCosX and knew that this thing did not have an unknowable structure like a superpower resonator, so it was more likely that it was an existing model.

"Is there a smaller, heavy patrol ship that doesn't seem very suitable to be a subship."

When releasing ships of the rank of heavy patrol ship or above, Pan Wen's fleet cannot maintain anti-reconnaissance capabilities, so it must first open a galaxy scan to check the surrounding situation, and the harbor is fine when it carries two ensigns, but it is too wasteful of energy to release a patrol ship alone.

"Scardragon seems to have designed a few medium and light ones, but they haven't started to build them yet, and now there are vacancies in the shipyard, and it will take a week, will you wait?"

Pan Wen nodded: "I have some time this time, I will give you the request later, and I will take the ship away in a week." ”

He originally came to reorganize the fleet, even if he didn't wait, readjust the staffing, and it would take a few days to form a stable logistics team in the steel shell port, and waiting for the ship was considered by the way. In terms of money, he has star crystal ore in his hand that can be discounted, and it is enough to allocate personnel for the shotgun, and the new Caesar class has to go to K7 to see how the gold is dig.

Next, under the leadership of Kareda, Pan Wen spent a few hours learning about the development progress of the D21.

The first is the core of everything, the D-Ring 21 Satellite Ground Mineral Development Base.

After the bloody outbreak of the E7 swarm, the development team finally decided to provide a stronger force, technical assistance, and engineering team to the ground base. After such a long time, some results have finally been achieved, the origin of the base, within a radius of 500 kilometers has been a forbidden area for protozoa, the use of special synchronous observation satellites for the ground base to provide uninterrupted warning information, after many large-scale ground battles, and by several orbital air raids The insects have been able to consciously not form a team to send them to death, which is actually from the hands of the insect swarm to grab a larger piece of land.

With a wide security area, the guys can start the construction of more mining bases, there were already two excavation points under construction when they came earlier, and now they are preparing for three points on No. 456, the layout of the points is far from the edge of the security warning area, and it is also convenient to assist in defense through other ground bases, and there are at least two other bases within a radius of 100 kilometers from each point to support.

The ground base is ready to expand, which corresponds to the inability to deliver enough raw materials for the orbit for a period of time, and the way the friends responded was to find a few small developers for Haimerxing. Unlike the developers who were turned into pirates, the newly hired developers were originally commercial development companies, from MR243, 245 and 249, and "normal people" wanted to shoot at the satellites with bugs D21 and E7, even if the D21 development company did not obstruct it, the security cost was too high, not to mention that D21 had been privatized through the interstellar court. The main business of several small development companies in MR251 is to collect minerals for preliminary refining, and sell primary raw materials to D21 development companies.

It is normal for the shareholders to pass this matter, D21 has an atmosphere, and it is true that the transportation cost is high, but with the development of D21 development progress, the cost of round-trip transportation of the atmosphere will gradually decrease due to the increase in the perfection of infrastructure, and the space fleet will increase with the increase in service years, and the maintenance and use costs will increase inversely! Based on the most basic iron calculation, after the infrastructure is perfected, the full cost of D21 digging iron ore from the ground to smelt pure iron raw materials, and then sending it from the ground to the logistics line of the steel shell port, is only two-thirds of what can be purchased directly from MR249, which is slightly lower than the current price of outsourcing to small development companies.

The other is the space food base mentioned by Pan Wen last time.

Space food bases are generally T1 projects with stellar energy as an all-energy source, just like the various bases in K11 and the slave farms in MR246. Kareda seems to be beginning to understand Pan Wen's opponents, and after asking the team to evaluate, he did not use the TI solution, but planned to manufacture nearby, and the latest layer of Steel Shell Port is a soilless farm!

The star energy next to the huge Haimer Star is very limited, and even if fusion energy is used, the comprehensive cost of the farm here will be about 1.5 times that of the T1 farm due to the mess of material refining, transportation, equipment safety and basic line maintenance. However, the steel shell port is a comprehensive port, and it will be developed into a satellite-level integrated port in the future, and the energy is not used alone, and the cost of some parts will be flattened, and the scale of the farm is better controlled, and the cost of farm products can be maintained to less than 130% of the T1 farm.

Of course, it is only the production cost, and after the deep processing of food, it is sold to the supply here, and it is not much different from the total profit of T1 when it is developed after MR252. For example, the cost of canned meat, T1 is 1, and the steel shell port is 1.3, but their final selling price is between 2.8 and 3, although the profit margin of the steel shell port is lower, the net profit gap is smaller than the cost gap.

Finally, there is management and population.

In terms of management, Carreda can accompany Pan Wen for a few hours during non-break hours, which can already show that she is much more relaxed than before. D21 Development now has a bunch of departments, similar to the Segeis structure, and of course there are no joint councils, only shareholders' meetings. The D21 Security Bureau is just an empty shelf for the time being, and most of the company's profits will be invested in adding ships here, which is also done to avoid ownership disputes, after all, Segeis's current troublesome partners are in the eyes.

The population, the total number of D21 ground plus orbital ports is about 20,000, and the number of ground is small; Recently, the partners of the steel shell port have been fooling around, and the total population has reached more than 100,000. A third of the port, which was made by Segeis, was fooled by the crew, and the early construction of the farm was partly due to the fact that jobs could not keep up for a long time, and the people who had been kidnapped ran away again - although most of them did not have the money to leave this poor country, if the work could keep up, the internal management would be much easier.

Since they live and work in the steel shell port, there is a registration, and nearly 30,000 of these people already have permanent positions, and the rest of the people, a total of 15,000 people with crew licenses, like Segeis, these guys have been arranged to temporary posts, waiting for the crew employment center to be built before going to work. Pan Wen authorized Hu Ke, the financial representative who had been living for a few months, and the dwarf pulled out the general, first got more than 100 people to make up the number, and asked them to try to find some of them with better and potential in the next time, and sign more than 300 intent agreements, even if the crew of the follow-up ship was arranged.