For most of the next half month, the engineers were laying lines and pipes inside the space station, and Shen Chao, who was in charge of supervising the work at close range, finally understood why these guys wanted to leave this work last.

He knew that there were many, very many lines on this space station, but it wasn't until he saw the construction process that he really understood what the 210,000-kilometer pipeline meant.

That's right, the combined length of the various pipelines in the space station is indeed so long, enough to circle the earth five times. It contains all kinds of wires, communication links, and secondary insurance lines......

The number and complexity of the lines are unimaginable, but fortunately, most of the lines on the space station can be quickly and automatically docked by the engineering machine that has been programmed.

Otherwise, relying on a small number of people like them, it may take several years just to connect the lines and pipelines. And even with the help of a large number of machines, the work still lasted half a month to complete.

While most of the engineers were responsible for laying the lines on the space station, one of the teams of engineers was assigned different tasks and they were assigned to build several external moorings on the space station.

This part of the project is not included in the main structure because of its small scale and structural significance. And in the main structure, the entire space station has 5 built-in spacecraft berths. They are located in the core area and on the ring belt.

The main berth, located in the core area, is the largest of the five and is capable of docking large warships such as the Budapest. In comparison, the four berths on the ring belt are much smaller, and can only dock ships of the frigate level.

However, no matter how big or small, because it is a built-in indoor space, these mooring ports are very functional, and they can provide services from docking to overhaul for spacecraft that are parked and entered.

But the carrying capacity of these places is limited after all. Combined, these berths could only accommodate a cruiser like the USS Budapest and four frigates like the USS Normandy, which was really not enough for their next two phases of expansion.

So, they have to add some external devices. to improve the space station's spacecraft berthing capacity and material throughput. An external docking strap is the best choice.

As for what the docking strip looks like? This is interesting because, from the outside, several docking belts built on the ring belt of the space station are not generally familiar to people who travel a lot on the main plane.

Because. These docks look very much like the boarding lanes of airports on the main plane! Except that the size is much larger, there is almost no difference in overall appearance. All are long square passages.

Of course, there is still a big difference in size and internal structure. For example, the length of each stop on the ring is 1.8 kilometers long. And the main plane definitely does not have such a long "boarding passage".

In addition to being very long, the docking strip is also very large, with a height of 15 meters. Width 14 meters. The length and width are comparable to that of a 5-storey building. The huge interior space is divided into 3 layers.

The top floor is a pedestrian walkway, with a 10-meter-wide road, a 4-meter-high ceiling, enough dense circulation guò, and a large number of observation portholes on both sides of the passage. You can see the ships at anchor.

The middle floor is a freight corridor, which is responsible for the passage of various freight vehicles and aircraft. Transporting cargo between moored ships and space stations.

The bottom level is the fuel tunnel, where several high-pressure pipelines are used to transport hydrogen fuel inward and outward. There are many bifurcations on each of these stop-and-open strips. It is connected to the ship's docking interfaces.

There are a total of 4 docking strips on the space station, which is enough for 120 small ships or more than 40 large ships to dock at the same time.

Back to the main body of the project, when the pipeline was finally laid and the equipment was installed, the engineers began a comprehensive system test. 6 major reactor systems, 2 sets of superconducting circuits, and 11 subsystems of the life-sustaining system......

They detected and troubleshot more than 100 important systems on the space station. A large number of maintenance and operating parameters have been adjusted.

Finally, 47 days after the start of the work, the final adjustment was completed. The construction of this large space station is finally complete. It has the ability to run at the time of design.

In a berthing area on the newly completed space station ring, Shen Chao took over the space station. At this time, the spin system of the space station has been turned on, and the artificial gravity of 1.01 G can be felt here.

The gravity of the entire ring zone from the top deck 1 to the bottom deck 12 is between 0.93G and 1.04G, the difference is so small that the average person does not feel the difference at all.

Although the berthing area where they are located is a secondary berthing area, it is also close to 200 meters wide, 200 meters long and 40 meters high. The entire berth area was designed to be just large enough for a Normandy frigate to moor.

At both ends of the berthing area are huge retractable louver gates. Of course, it is also possible to close the gate and create a transparent barrier with a specific type of kinetic barrier generator installed at the door.

Such a kinetic barrier will not only ensure that the air inside the berthing area will not leak out, but also allow the aircraft within a certain speed to enter unhindered.

After Shen Chao took over the space station here, he immediately arranged for personnel to take over the central control room, and then he arranged for the engineers to return to the hibernation module, and promised that they would do their best to send them back to the Divine Citadel.

He wasn't lying, except that he would bring them back "sooner" the next time he returned to the Mass Effect world. After the hibernation pod is stored in the warehouse. They split up to visit the new space station.

There were only more than a hundred people in his expedition team on the entire space station, and it was very empty. Everyone else was choosing their own place to live on the ring belt or in the core area, while Shen Chao was walking with Alice on the ring belt at this time.

This is the living space on the space station, and there are many floor-to-ceiling portholes through which you can see the starry sky and Jupiter outside. From time to time, one or two moons of Jupiter can be seen. The view is very nice.

Under such a view, Shen Chao put his arms around his girlfriend's waist, and they talked while walking, discussing their next action and other personal matters......

"When are we leaving?" Alice asked, grabbing his hand. He asked when he was going to the Legendary Plane, and their schedule had been adjusting all the time.

"Soon, I'll make sure how the military talent on our agent's side is being assembled, after all, I haven't been in charge for a few months." Shen Chao thought for a while and replied.

He'd been busy planning for months, and God knows where the plan he had given his agent was now. It may have been done a long time ago, or it may have been suspended without his instructions.

And with the exception of the first batch of developers, their new version of the space-time gate stabilizer has not yet been tested, and the final departure date will need to be completed before the final departure date can be determined.

A few hours later, they had all finished their tour, and everyone had gathered in the main control room to discuss the naming of their new space station, which their new space station needed and everyone had their own ideas on the subject.

Some teammates take the names of mythological gods. Greek Mythology, Norse Mythology...... There were some good names in them, but Shen Chao always felt that the religious meaning in them was too strong, and it had no practical meaning for them.

Some of his teammates wanted to use the names of historical figures, which he didn't dislike, but after trying it, he found that it wasn't very smooth, and everyone couldn't agree on which historical figures to use.

A group of scientists, led by Hargrave, thought that the names of some important theoretical physicists should be chosen, while others mentioned a bunch of military and political celebrities from ancient and modern times.

And finally, to put an end to this argument that seemed pointless to him. Shen Chao still decided to name the space station himself, and we all know his habits......

Sure enough, it adopted a nomenclature that had no religious connotation, no political tendencies at all, and the most uninspiring, and it wasn't the first time he had done so anyway.

Since it was the first space station to be built, this space station was named "Zero", and the full name is the zero space station, and the large space stations built in the future will start counting and arranging serial numbers from here.

No one was very satisfied with his decision, but none of them objected. In this way, the name of the space station was established.

The following day, they arranged for the test of the space-time gate stabilization device, and in the previous operation, they had verified the feasibility of holding the space-time gate for a long time.

Therefore, at the end of the operation in the Mass Effect world, Shen Chao arranged for Hargrave to lead the team to develop a new generation of space-time gates, with the goal of being safer and maintaining a larger space-time gate.

After more than a month, they have already come up with the finished product, and the new space-time door stabilization device is not much different from the original real yàn version in appearance, and it is still a circular device with a bracket.

However, the difference in size is dozens of times larger than that of the previous version...... First of all, the diameter of the ring structure alone is 15 meters. Not only has the volume increased, but the laser emitter on the ring architecture has also undergone an upgrade.

Today's transmitters are not only capable of emitting higher power lasers, but can also fine-tune the output power of each laser generator at any time, and can automatically replace some of its components at any time.

In this way, when one or a group of laser generators on the ring structure fails or overheats, it can be automatically replaced with a new set. There will be no security issues from previous tests.

At a docking area on the ring, testing took place all day, and finally, they confirmed the reliability of the new stabilizing device and arranged new safety regulations for the opening and closing of the space-time door.

After doing this, everyone knew that a new operation was about to begin, and they would soon occupy an entire plane with overwhelming military force...... (To be continued.) )