Chapter 291: Worker Bees and Worker Ants

Because of the decision to open a mine, the production mothership Banshee Paradise, which has not produced a ship since it was built, is an ultra-small resource gathering ship.

Or rather, it's just a kind of resource gathering boat -- it's so small that it seems a bit exaggerated to describe it as a boat.

To put it simply, it is a little larger than a landing craft with a crew of 20 people.

The structure of this ultra-small resource gathering ship for operating on the surface of the planet is very simple, and in general, it is divided into three parts, a multi-functional resource gathering machine dedicated to the surface, a container for storing the collected resources, and the ultra-small spacecraft itself, which can independently travel between the universe and the planet's surface, and can fly in and without an atmosphere.

Add a simplified version of the learning AI and you'll be able to create a fully automated resource gathering ship.

That is to say, Zhao Fan's design is actually a combination of existing things - multi-functional resource collection machinery is not high-tech, this kind of thing Zhao Fan connected to the outside world after casually invading a few companies that produce resource gathering equipment to get a lot of it, containers or something, needless to say, that is a container, although a little professional, but there is no technical content, and then in terms of ship technology, there is Blanchett, an expert, and the huge database of the Fourth Fleet of the Earth Federation, which is not a problem at all.

The first prototype was built quickly, then tested and then tested, followed by mass production.

Strictly speaking, this kind of resource gathering ship is actually a resource gathering robot, not a professional ship, but it just has the function of a ship.

However, now the 13th Independent Fleet is the largest, and he said that it is a resource gathering ship, that is, a resource gathering ship.

This kind of resource collection ship was named [Worker Bee] by Zhao Fan.

In addition to this [worker bee] resource gathering ship that is specially used to collect resources on the surface of the planet, in order to mine the resources hidden deep in the planet's underground, resource gathering robots that are specially used for underground operations are also indispensable. Compared with surface operations, underground operations are much more troublesome, which can be seen from the fact that modern mining industry is still inseparable from traditional mine operations.

But for Zhao Fan, the mine is too troublesome. He has the advantage of having a super artificial intelligence, so he thinks he should be able to adopt a completely different way of collecting underground mineral deposits than he used to need to do manually.

A certain technology searched from the database obtained from the Fourth Fleet made Zhao Fan's idea a reality.

It was a kind of underground operation vehicle specially developed and designed by the Fourth Fleet in accordance with the requirements of the Earth Federation Army, called [Creeper], the head of this underground vehicle is a huge drill bit, which can quickly drill out a pit of the same size as the drill bit under the ground.

The purpose of the Earth Federation Army is to quickly build underground fortifications on the front line with these underground vehicles. The scientists of the Fourth Fleet completed their idea, but now, this technology, which was originally used in the military, is being used by Zhao Fan in his own mining industry.

On the basis of the [Creeper] underground car, the unnecessary parts were removed, a huge container was installed, and several small mining robots specially used for underground mining were carried, and a fully automatic underground resource collection vehicle called [Worker Ant] was born.

The working mode of the automatic resource collection vehicle is very simple, the collection vehicle uses its own huge drill bit to drill into the ground, and then releases the mining robot to work in the formed pit to collect the ore or something. It is stored in the container that comes with the [Worker Ant] resource collection vehicle, and after the container is full, the mining robot is recycled, and then the [Worker Ant] can be returned to the ground the same way.

However, the [Worker Ant] Resource Gathering Vehicle does not have the ability to fly, so Zhao Fan once again ordered some of these ships that are not useful to be modified and used as cargo ships to land on the surface of the planet to cooperate with the [Worker Ant] Resource Gathering Vehicle operation.

In fact, in order to make it more convenient, even the [Worker Bee] resource collection ship is equipped with this kind of cargo ship transformed from a space ship, after all, only relying on the [Worker Bee] itself to go back and forth between the surface of the planet and the universe again and again, the collection efficiency is too low.

It quickly turned out that both the "worker bees" and the "worker ants" were simple in structure. But they are all quite good works, and because of their small size, they can be produced even on mobile factories converted from space carriers, so in order to mass-produce these two vehicles and ships for resource gathering. The industrial raw materials that the Thirteenth Fleet had scavenged all the way had almost bottomed out - first the [Iron Soldier] robots, and now the [Worker Bees] and [Worker Ants], and no amount of loot could help Zhao Fan to sit and eat with such a big spend.

However, with the [Worker Bee] resource gathering ships and [Worker Ant] resource gathering vehicles completed from the assembly line and put into the surface of one of the planets to start their busy work, Zhao Fan believed that the cargo ships in his fleet would not be so empty soon.

It is obviously not enough to collect raw materials, it is also necessary to turn the most raw natural raw materials into industrial materials that can be put into production lines. But this is not difficult for Zhao Fan, this galaxy is a resource galaxy, there were originally large and small processing plants on those mining stars, the original owners of these processing plants either died or fled after the war, and some of the production equipment inside was destroyed in the war, but more were well preserved, and now these things are all Zhao Fan's.

It was precisely because of the discovery of these things that Zhao Fan made up his mind to occupy this galaxy for resource collection, so three more space aircraft carriers were tragically destroyed by Zhao Fan and were transformed into raw material processing factories.

It is worth mentioning that many professional processing equipment encountered such big and small problems when moving to the space carrier, and many of the equipment originally used on the surface of the planet was not suitable for operation on the aircraft carrier, but these problems were finally solved by Goli and a large group of scientists from the Fourth Fleet of the former Earth Federation led by Vice Admiral Akxie - in order to survive, these scientists who were forcibly taken away by Zhao Fan burst out with enthusiasm for work that they did not have when they stayed in the Fourth Fleet before.

This result was unexpected even by Zhao Fan himself.

So he was extremely glad for his wise decision at the beginning, and therefore, when the Earth Federation tried to inquire about the whereabouts of these people, Zhao Fan directly ended the topic with a sentence of killing them all.

Now these scientists are his baby bumps, and a fool will return them to the Earth Federation!

Zhao Fan happily became the mine boss behind closed doors in the DU-08 galaxy, but the outside world was still changing, and then on this day more than a month later, something happened that surprised Zhao Fan.

(Thank you for the 688 rewards of the reincarnation of the sky!) Thank you for the 100 rewards of god-level hero fans and book friends! Thank you Eternal, Dawn, Endless Breeze, Crime - 10 rewards from 1949 book lovers! (To be continued.) )