Haimer Star D21 satellite, steel shell port.

The steel shell port is not a synchronous orbital port, but a satellite port built on the basis of two shipyards, one of which was built by Scarlong, who was introduced by Pan Wen, and the other is a new factory that has recently opened.

At this time, Pan Wen was in a conference room in the first living area of the steel shell port, listening to the report of the captain of the Soldier No. 1 ship, and his eyes were fixed on the industrial development blueprint in front of his seat.

The shareholders of the orbital fleet that were closer were not there, because when the Pan Wen fleet arrived at the periphery of Hemer Star, it was just a rest period, and there was nothing urgent anyway, so he didn't bother everyone to rest, but just asked the captain of the Soldier No. 1 ship to report the situation first. However, everyone else has already arrived at the steel shell port, and I think the shareholders will come to meet one after another.

In the development of D21 and related developments, Pan Wen's focus was mainly on self-sustaining ability, which was the only thing that worked after the global collapse.

D21 is a resource development zone, so there is not much external demand for resources, and the most important component of its self-sustaining power is people, followed by the sustainable development of technology. The sustainable development of technology has the data from the previous Segeis special operation, as long as there is a sufficient scale of technical team, the problem is not big, to put it bluntly, it is still a matter of personnel reserves.

The current D21, excluding the in-service personnel of the orbital fleet and the transport fleet, has a total of about 60,000 people on the ground, in the orbital port and in the steel-hulled port, most of whom were fooled in from all over the country after the development and capital increase plan a few months ago.

If it is only to develop and be responsible for the anti-plunder of the remote area of MR251, 60,000 people will be about the same in any case, after all, the intensity of private armed forces will not be outrageous, and the frequency and intensity of attacks cannot be compared with real war. But if the enemy is a player, that's not enough.

However, even so, Pan Wen has no intention of letting his partners focus on increasing the D21 population for the time being, because the productivity expansion rate of D21 is here, and the excess population will only form a burden and reduce the efficiency of D21 development, and if there is a profit deficit, maybe the guys will stop playing.

Back to the development case as a whole.

According to the report, the cumulative turnover of D21 through the sale of crude energy ore in the last quarter was 113,000 Star Coins, and the total revenue amount plus other income was 136,000 Star Coins. In terms of expenditure, the maintenance and additional allocation of ground and space facilities consumed half of the turnover, various costs, refurbished ships, and the purchase of new transport ships accounted for two and a half percent, and there were also some personnel flickering and recruitment expenses.

It seems that the profitability ratio is low, but the first half of the development of the mineral star is basically like this, which requires a lot of resources to be self-expanded and the establishment of an industrial system, and the profitability itself cannot be fully calculated. Specific to D21, the major event in the last quarter was that Pan Wen lost a set of technical data, and in order to cooperate with the development and sorting of data, he had to spend a lot of money last quarter and this quarter to order some laboratory equipment that could not be manufactured by himself.

According to the development blueprint, the establishment of a complete fuel rod manufacturing industry chain will be in the next two months, and the profits will rise rapidly!

The existence of MR250, an empty galaxy with no purchasing power, leads to the minimum number of jumps sold is calculated from the second, the profit margin of selling raw materials is not high, and every decrease in the cost of jumping is increasing the transportation profit, plus the overall value of the transported goods increases, and the profit of the industrial chain is not a small number. Unfortunately, the quantum fuel rod represents the highest energy technology achievement in the galaxy era, and it is very dangerous before the finished product, in order to control the risk, the refining accuracy and yield of the production line can only be improved a little bit, and before the industrial chain completes the initial running-in, the final profit of the same amount of raw ore can be three to five percent higher than now. Of course, the surface mineral capacity will also increase simultaneously, and the rapid increase in the profitability of D21 can still be expected.

After reading the report and the latest updated industrial development blueprint, I chatted with Captain Soldier No. 1 for a while.

"Master Pan, you are finally willing to come and see others!"

You don't have to look at it to know it's Kareda.

Looking back, sure enough, the woman was posing for a POSS at the door, making the waist and hip curves very obvious.

"Haha, I'm just running around, until you manage this side to the point where it is so hard."

Kareda brushed off her long golden hair, twisted her waist and walked to Pan Wen's left and sat down, and the person leaned in, completely taking the few women behind Pan Wen as air. Luckily, everyone was an old acquaintance, and Elsa and her sisters didn't do anything excited.

"Since Master Pan is satisfied with other people's work, shouldn't he give some rewards?"

"Reward?" Give money? Now D21's business ability, a little money in his pocket is not enough to see. To the ship? With the ships of the orbital fleet and the perimeter defense facilities, it is useless to have one or two more ships!

Seeing Pan Wen's stunned face, Kareda "giggled" and stabbed his waist with her fingers, and before she could speak, the personal computer on her wrist suddenly flashed twice.

The woman immediately made a serious gesture, moved a seat outward, and threw a wink at Pan Wen out of the corner of her eye.

As soon as Kareda changed seats, the door to the conference room opened again, and it was Mushroom Head and his personal bodyguard who came in, and there was a woman behind him, but it was Kareda's butler, Ann. It seems that Ann was deliberately left outside by Kareda to ventilate the news.

"Brother! The information you got is too hanging! We've recruited nearly a thousand people, and now we're not done tossing! The mushroom head entered the door and shouted, "Yo! Sister is also here, am I not here at the right time? ”

"It's okay, I've just arrived, sit down." Kareda will also show some flirtatious when there are many people, but not like in private.

Speaking of that batch of information, while responding to the mushroom head, Kareda unconsciously turned her eyes to Pan Wen.

In fact, she was quite entangled in her heart, she knew where she got the technical information, and her old man, Viscount Guiermet, personally participated in the operation. But she knew that she didn't get any part of this batch of technical materials from the Geyemet family, but the man in front of her, who made her feel more and more dangerous, sent the materials first. According to the recent collation, it can be confirmed that this is the technical information on the entire professional scientific research star, but I am afraid that this man has paid some benefits behind his back to make it up.

It seems that in addition to the continued rigidity of family relationships, the availability of technical information and the favorable decision-making position for the development of D21 are still good things in her hands, but Kareda sees more in them.

Although no one made it public, all the shareholders were mentally prepared for the fact that the man's irrepressible strength had swelled and did not mention it, and they were just waiting for the day when Pan Wen's fleet entered the port.

To Kareda's concern, none of the shipowners who qualified to participate in that operation were as low-key as he was! It's not wrong to be low-key, but the meaning behind this low-key keeps her from sleeping.

According to her investigation on Segeis's intelligence network, Pan Wen does not have even a hotel or anything like in Segeis, while D21 did not pay dividends last year, and this year's dividends will be until the end of the year, which means that his income depends entirely on "hunting" and mining. Last May, he only had a fleet that barely reached the million-ton level, and this year he was already able to participate in the joint operation of the big pirates of Segeis, and she couldn't find out how much money it cost to expand the fleet in between, but it was certainly a huge number.

In this environment, Pan Wen is also the strongest supporter of the D21 development project, at least the capital increase plan to accelerate the construction was proposed by him, and this batch of technical reserves is not even fully applied by individual groups. All of this added up to the feeling that he didn't have any expectations for Segeis's safety at all, and he was ready to let D21 act as another safety supply point or even a second in Segeis.

What is Segeis? If it weren't for the need to do "business", with Segeis's peripheral relations and management system, it would have become a normal country a long time ago, and even because of the relationship of "business", the scale of the space combat force that Segeis could summon would not be much smaller than that of a country with two or three galaxies. With a large enough combat capability and the Sea of Death as a natural barrier, no one seems to be able to truly threaten the survival of Segeis except for the Isis Empire or the Gabri Federation to tear their faces and act openly.

The destruction of Segeis seemed like nonsense a few months ago, but the latest hearing information indicates that all aspects of Segeis's operations on MR241 have all but come to a halt! She didn't dare to think about what would happen next.

Compared with the delicate-minded Khareda, the mushroom head is more rough, and after a while with Pan Wen, there is one thing that arouses Pan Wen's interest.

"Electromagnetic stand thrusters? Sounds amazing. ”

Pan Wen really thinks it's very powerful, although he is an awakened person, after all, the cost of going offline is too high, and he doesn't know much about the "real" side, and in the era of the Great Galactic, all ships use plasma thrusters, and the new type of propulsion mode is naturally worth paying attention to.

"That's it! Sister also said that it was amazing, and after discussion, we planned to copy a prototype and come out to see it first, but now the scale of the test site is not good, and the project will not be launched until at least next month. ”

Listening to Mushroomhead's words, Pan Wen set his eyes on Kareda.

"Yes, we have sorted out a number of practical technologies, the existing test site is stepping up to restore the most urgent needs, and there are still projects in the queue, and the new type of thruster such as the electromagnetic position thruster can only have a place after expansion."

Pan Wen nodded, pressed a few times on the table and asked, "Where is it?" I'll look at the data. ”

Kareda leaned over and tossed around in the operation area for a moment, bringing up what she had just said.

"Wow!"

After only a few glances, Pan Wen made a surprised sound, and said in his heart that it was no wonder that he could be ranked.

There are many projects that belong to feasibility studies and basic research, and with the existing strength of D21, there is definitely no space and funds to toss those things, and in the process of project restoration, the finished products and finalized products must be prioritized.

The McosX Electromagnetic Stance Engine is a finalized product, and its mass-thrust ratio is only less than 5% higher than that of conventional plasma thrusters, but the electromagnetic engine does not consume the material level, or the consumption can be ignored, so the propulsion mass is saved. In addition, I don't know if it's because there is no need to leave a passage for propulsion, and its size is only one-third of that of a conventional thruster, which alone can shorten the length of the ship by several meters. A few meters is not much on a battleship that is hundreds of meters long, but it is conceivable that it will actually reduce the burden on the shield system on a strange level.

If there is a better ship, it will also help to attract private fleets to this remote area, but it will not be confirmed until the prototype is copied.

Before that, Pan Wen still has to get the focus of this trip right first - let the guys pass the Hemer System grain production bill.