Chapter 128: The Long 'Knife' Unsheathed (II)

A month later. {}

Martina's Executive Council had gradually passed the turmoil of the initial transition, and with Nishizawa's full assistance, Martina amended and supplemented many of the previous decrees issued by Robin, and improved the official Autonomous Region Citizen Act and Civic System, so that this once disorderly land truly began to look like an autonomous region in the civilized world, and gradually entered a virtuous circle of steady development.

In order to fend off the possible future economic blockade from Proxima Centauri, Martina privately lent 9 billion federal dollars to the Autonomous Region Executive Council and established the Autonomous Region Central Bank, which was connected to Christine's further improved data terminals, giving the Autonomous Region an independent financial system.

In Proxima Centauri, if someone wants to use 9 billion federal coins to support the financial circulation of an autonomous region with a population of 5 million, this will undoubtedly be considered by many federation people to be a fool's dream. However, combined with the poverty of the free people of the Ultra Nebula and the level of consumption here, the nine billion federal coins were already an astronomical amount that they could not imagine, and with the electronic amount support of the data terminal, Martina's nine billion federal coins were used to the extreme, and the financial system of the autonomous region was successfully stabilized without any waves.

At the same time, Nishizawa, who was working on the infrastructure of the autonomous region, began to show his talents. With the support of Bouz, the head of logistics, Nishizawa moved a large number of large ecological circulation systems purchased by Robin away from Charon Fortress and built a closed canopy inside the ten large rocky celestial bodies designated by Robin. By leasing the ecological circulation system, Nishizawa recruited a large number of free pioneers, and while using these free laborers to develop the ecological base, it also solved safety problems such as the crowded living environment caused by the population expansion of the Charon fortress.

In addition to his main work in this role, Nishizawa also found some time with Martina to found the first major enterprise in the autonomous region: the Georgia Mining Company. The company was located in the Caron Fortress, and after assembling the refining equipment that had been transferred from Stanley Mining, the technical researchers who had been poached by Nishizawa immediately threw themselves into the intense work of sorting and purifying the rare materials in the warehouse and smelting them into rare metals that could be truly used in manufacturing.

In the personnel files of the Byron Heavy Metals Trading Company, the young researchers who had left with Martina were no more than intern researchers at the level of their positions. However, only a few people know that these young people are actually Georgian? Byron's student. And Georgia? Byron was also one of the top technicians in the Byron family, so in terms of professional standards, these young people were definitely not insignificant intern researchers in Cyril's eyes. Are they Georgia? If it weren't for the rapid expansion of the Byron company under Martina's management, these would have just completed Georgia? Young people in many of Byron's academic disciplines never leave their internship lab and join the company. Now that Martina has arrived, they have more hands-on opportunities, and being so close to the source of the minerals gives them direct access to the origin of these raw materials, which also directly helps to increase the purity of the purification.

In just one month, a complete industrial chain has begun to take shape. Martina and Nishizawa's amazing work surprised the staff who had worked in administrative work, and even the suspicious Chief of Staff Yalvis began to officially accept Martina and Nishizawa as members of the fleet, no longer complaining about Robin's adventurous behavior of easily exposing the fleet's Republican background.

At present, Martina and Nishizawa's breakthrough in administrative work has completely liberated the General Staff from cumbersome administrative matters and has begun to focus on the reorganization and construction of the army.

The operational staff department, which has returned to the military establishment, immediately demonstrated excellent work efficiency after focusing on military work, completed the personnel reorganization of the entire fleet in a short period of time, and formulated a perfect supply system for the military logistics department. After receiving the first batch of rare metal products produced by the Georgia Mining Company, the machines that had been shelved for the production of spare parts were immediately put into full operation under the command of two mechanical experts, Benson and Van Lunding, to deliver batches of engine parts that were urgently needed to repair the Knife frigate to Old Jack.

In terms of the repair of the 'Knife' frigate, the old Jack is basically in charge. The Knife frigate, which once belonged to Harry the Blood, was dealt an almost devastating blow in an ambush in the Northern Star Field. During the ambush, Bloody Harry used a frantic burst of acceleration in order to escape the ambush circle, a destructive maneuver that completely destroyed the Knife frigate's engine system. But in addition, the weapon system of the Knife frigate is well preserved, although it looks like a thousand holes in the appearance of the hull, but there is no technical content at all in replacing the defensive armor in a large area, so as long as the engine system of the frigate is repaired, the rest of the work can be completed in just a few days.

In the beginning, the repair work of Old Jack was slow due to the frigate's near-scrapped engine problems. But when Robin brought back the core blueprints of the Star Vortex VI. engine for Old Jack, the biggest problem that plagued Old Jack was solved.

With the engine parts produced by the spare parts production center, Old Jack quickly mastered the core technology of the Star Vortex VI engine, and perfectly built a real Star Vortex Type VI engine.

After testing the engine's maximum propulsion and performance data, Old Jack improved the energy supply system of the 'Great Wall' VI. power furnace to make the two products with different design concepts a perfect fit.

As for the defensive armor of the ship's hull, Old Jack took Martina's suggestion and adopted a battleship armor defense system that surpassed that of conventional frigates.

Compared with battleships, which exist as offensive arrows, the main purpose of frigates is to form a defensive ring and provide effective protection for the core aircraft carriers of the fleet with dense defensive firepower. Therefore, in the distribution of combat missions, frigates rarely attack alone, and most of the enemies they face are a large number of space shuttle formations and high-density missile scattering from enemy fleet clusters.

The frigate exists to be the meat shield of the aircraft carrier, but the most critical performance criterion for evaluating a frigate is not the armored defense capability of the frigate itself, but the missile interception ability of the frigate and the fire blockade ability of the space shuttle. Only by relying on a high-density short-range fire defense network and accurate missile interception can the frigate defend the huge aircraft carrier in the rain of bullets. Therefore, for this operational requirement, the frigates, which are responsible for the main defensive tasks, are not known for their thick armor. On the contrary, excellent mobility and powerful short- and medium-range firepower are the most powerful weapons of the frigate.

Compared with the frigates that are strong in attack and weak in defense, the battleships that undertake the charge task have a stronger armored defense capability than the aircraft carrier. Due to the need to withstand a large number of enemy attacks during the charge, the battleship is the strongest of all types of ships, and in addition to the conventional new titanium alloy external armor, the battleship is often equipped with a large area of high-strength tungsten steel in the vital parts to further enhance the hull defense effect.

In the thousands of years of human metal smelting history, high-strength tungsten steel has always been the hardest cemented carbide. Its hardness can reach more than 9 on the Mohs scale, which is comparable to the hardest diamond. However, although high-strength tungsten steel has super hardness, it is heavy and brittle compared to new titanium alloys with both hardness and toughness. Before the advent of McCeni metal, tungsten steel, which has many characteristics such as wear resistance and non-deformation, was often used to manufacture the core parts of various large machinery. [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］