Chapter 81: The Gunboat
It stands to reason that if it was a normal situation, something as important as giving citizenship to robots, so Xia should hold a plenary meeting or something.
Then, at the meeting, they persuaded the officials at all levels of the Beilian with emotion and reason, and then they dealt with the people below them, so as to reduce the opposition of the people of the Beilian and let this matter go smoothly.
But this kind of thing is obviously not so troublesome in Beilian, because in fact, Beilian has self-aware robots and already has citizenship.
It's just that it hasn't had such a name, and there has been no system.
Otherwise, Origin would not be able to be the military minister of the Northern Alliance, and the rest of the army would not be willing to obey Origin's orders.
Moreover, the current personnel of the Northern Alliance are scattered, because of the great expansion, many troops and personnel of the Northern Alliance have been sent out, and calling back at this time will only slow down the progress of the follow-up deployment, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Therefore, Xia just planned to issue an investigation, and then issue official documents to all departments.
As for the scientists in the underground facilities, Xia had no choice but to go and reason with them.
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Walking in the passage of the underground facility, Gu Xia looked at Fu Changhui, who was a little excited beside him, at this time he was holding the drawings of the secondary spaceship, and introduced the specific parameters of the newly assembled spaceship to Gu Xia as he walked.
Today, it has been more than two months since that crisis of confidence, and after the engineers forgot to sleep and eat, the first spacecraft of Beilian officially walked off the production line, and after a period of experiments, it was announced that it passed the test and handed over to the old summer.
"The length of the entire spacecraft has reached 55 meters, the width is 15 meters, and in terms of firepower, it is equipped with eight medium-caliber electromagnetic guns for aviation, as well as more than a dozen sets of electromagnetic cannon groups, which can be compared to the firepower of small gunboats in the era of Star Alliance."
"In terms of endurance, because it uses a nuclear fusion engine, it can run several times around Chang'an Star even under full load, and there is no need to worry about the energy problem of the ship."
"And in order to be able to send her into space in the future, we have also reserved a part of her place to install the propulsion system, as long as we make a thruster with enough thrust in the future, we can install it and send her off the surface."
"And in order to make more efficient use, the thruster we plan to design is the kind of detachable, and after sending a spaceship, it will be separated and returned to the surface according to its own procedures, but this will still need a long time to develop."
Therefore Xia patiently listened to Fu Changhui's explanation, although this spaceship is not very satisfactory in terms of size, but now after all, the technology is not enough, and it is already very good to be able to build it, so he doesn't care about this.
And with her, the speed of the Northern Alliance's outward expansion will definitely be able to go to a higher level, like the territories on other continents, and they also have the ability to compete.
Recently, the Beilian has been transforming the mobile city obtained from the expansion of this period of time into a battle fortress, and in the future, the Beilian will advance in parallel with the open space, and the progress of the unification of Chang'an Star can be greatly accelerated.
"Yes, that is, this spaceship is not big enough, I think if it wants to fly into space, it may not be enough to face an enemy that has been very strong before."
"We will continue to increase investment and research in the spacecraft industry in the future, and our future enemies will not only be those enemies on Chang'an Star who oppose our reunification cause, but more enemies in space."
"Therefore, I hope that you can increase investment in this area and improve the combat effectiveness of ships as soon as possible on the premise of ensuring quality, which is a necessary direction for our development in the future."
Fu Changhui nodded and said: "Of course, we have never forgotten that war, and we will definitely repay the hatred of the destruction of Chang'an Star, but for now, please ask the chief to go and see that ship first." ”
Chatting with the entourage, Xia walked to the place where the spaceship was parked.
Although I heard the data reported by Fu Changhui before, I thought that this ship would be quite small, but actually standing in front of her was a different feeling.
After all, this is the first spaceship of Beilian, and it is also the first spaceship that Gu Xia has seen in her life, so just the impression points have added a lot to her.
Her hull structure is not much different from that of a spaceship in various sci-fi movies, with a streamlined hull to reduce air resistance.
This ship was originally intended for operations in the atmosphere, so it is normal that it was designed like this.
"Changhui, does she have a name?"
So Xia tilted his head and asked.
Fu Changhui shook his head: "For the time being, there is only one number, which is what we use internally, and the official name has not been thought of yet, originally I wanted to let you decide after the parade is over." ”
"Well, I'll get one now."
"Okay."
The eyes of the audience were fixed on Gu Xia, expecting the name he would say.
"Otherwise, it will be called 'Haitian', and this ship will be called 'Haitian' in the future, and it will exist as my flagship in the future."
So Xia thought about it for a while, and took out the name that he had premeditated a long time ago.
"Haitian? Sea of Stars and Sky ...... Seems like a pretty good name. ”
Fu Changhui immediately agreed, and then the people around him also began to praise.
So Xia secretly shook his head, in fact, he didn't think of this interpretation at all, this name was just a little selfishness of his own.
"Then chief, will the gunboats of this level be called the Haitian class in the future?"
An engineer stepped forward and asked.
So Xia immediately said: "No, no, no, this class is not called Haitian class, in the future, the name of Haitian will only be used on the flagship, as for this type of gunboat, it will be called Xinghai class." ”
"It's not only a yearning for the sea of stars, but also an encouragement to yourself, what do you think?"
"I think it's fine."
"I agree."
"I just don't know why the chief cares so much about the name Haitian?"
Other voices suddenly appeared in the midst of a series of approvals, but this question would never have been answered by Xia Xia for them.
As for why this class of gunboat is not called Haitian class, to be reasonable, Haitian is also a protective cruiser, and it is almost the same to say that it is a light cruiser, how can it be possible to put her name on a small gunboat.
If you want to say it's a flagship, forget it, this can be changed to a bigger ship with the replacement of the flagship, but if the class name is fixed, it won't be a matter of changing one or two ships, it's too troublesome, forget it, so Xia didn't have this idea.