The Darkstar's colony module occupies one-tenth of the total hull length and includes industrial modules including fusion generators, space solar power plants, exploration units, ore mining units, portable chemical smelters, metal ingot processing plants, and interstellar 3D printers.

The Colonial City module includes foldable houses, a small hospital, a communication server, a nutrient processor, a nanomaterial dome cover (which is not needed now), etc.

Now, the Industrial Colony Pod has broken away from the massive hull of the Dark Star and slowly landed in a proven bonanza area on the planet.

The surface of the stone and iron planet was scorched by the ionic flames of the thrust reverser engine during landing, and quickly turned into crimson molten metal, but it could not burn off the paint of the colony module's outer shell.

The exploration results show that the iron ore reserves in this area of Mochenxing are more than 400 billion tons, and the taste has reached an astonishing ninety!

What is this concept, it is almost the best and largest Gongchangling iron ore mine in East Asia, with only 120 million tons of proven iron ore resources, including more than 74 million tons of rich iron ore, with an average grade of 63 and a maximum grade of 68.

On a planet where oxygen exists, such a high taste of iron ore is quite rare. And on Mochen Star, this taste of ore means that there is no mining value.

A taste of up to ninety means that a considerable part of the iron is present in the form of elemental matter! It is impossible for such deposits to be nurtured in an oxidizing environment, and almost all of the iron on the living planet exists in nature in the form of oxides.

The iron ore will be able to be mined and smelted in electric furnaces. The cost of smelting is unimaginably low, and in addition to the cheap raw materials, what is even cheaper is electricity.

For example, space solar power plants and the solar sails of the Acanon Biotech can be used to generate electricity, and deploying on the planet Mochen, which is basically equivalent to Mercury, is basically the same as attaching solar panels to the face of the star. Moreover, there is an inexhaustible supply of fusion material in the soil of Mochenxing.

Electric metallurgy is quite versatile, smelting not only iron, but also zinc, tin, lead, magnesium, aluminum, copper, uranium......

The most important thing is that the electric furnace can make titanium!

That's the main course!

On the planet, titanium alloys work in humid atmospheric and seawater media, and their corrosion resistance is much better than that of stainless steel; Particularly strong resistance to pitting, acid etching, and stress corrosion; It has excellent corrosion resistance to alkali, chloride, chlorine organic matter, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, etc.

And in space, it can work well at 500°C and -220°C. These advantages make titanium alloy the preferred material for spacecraft, and has the reputation of "the first metal in the universe" and "space metal".

The traditional titanium smelting process is the "Crower method", which uses sodium metal or magnesium metal to reduce titanium tetrachloride to obtain titanium metal. Since titanium is produced below the melting point of titanium, the resulting titanium metal is spongy, hence the name "titanium sponge".

Smelting on the planet, because the chemical properties of titanium are quite active, after the titanium ore is processed into sponge titanium, it has to be smelted once or twice in a vacuum electric arc furnace to produce high-purity titanium ingots!

But vacuum smelting is too simple. The vacuum environment makes it much easier to smelt perovskite, a chemically reactive metal at high temperatures, in space than on the surface.

The perovskite reserves found on Mochen Star are abundant, and the associated ilmenite is of extremely high taste, with reserves as high as 200 million tons, which is equal to the entire reserves of a certain country in East Asia!

Darkstar's probe has found naturally occurring titanium elements in mineral samples! The cost of smelting, no, refining is far lower than that of any titanium ore on the earth!

That's why Blue Feather chose this place as a landing spot!

But it is useless to smelt titanium alloys alone, and it is necessary to have highly qualified industrial workers and engineers to process titanium ingots into pipes, rivets, bearings, marine plates, and even plasma engines.

And this is too simple for the Dark Star, a fully automated assembly line factory does not need workers at all, and artificial intelligence can replace engineers. What social security, what 965, what welfare bonuses are all universal, and the robot is scrapped is fine! Industrial-grade 3D printers have made machine tools semi-unemployed!

As for pollution, that's not a problem in space. Non-toxic waste slag can be shot into space with a rocket, and Mochen Star is a star inside anyway.

It doesn't matter if you litter around, but you have to worry about pollution deteriorating the living environment on the planet, and you can dump it on such a robot-only celestial body.

The industrial module of the Dark Star carries 10 ore processing units, with a daily processing efficiency of up to 10,000 tons and an annual titanium output of 30 million tons!

That's enough for a country's steel production!

This ore processing unit, tailored for outer space steelmaking, has been in the real world for at least a few centuries in automated steelmaking, and is no less than the laboratory products of the Demax Empire.

The pure titanium smelted will be smelted into titanium alloys, and combined with the output of other metals, especially iron, the industrial base on the Mochen Star will achieve an annual alloy output of 100 million tons.

There is no strip steel in it, crude steel or anything, all of which are high-quality alloy steel. Not to mention building aircraft carriers, it's enough to build starships!

In the first phase of Blue Feather's plan, the industrial capacity of the Dark Star will be used for expansion projects, that is, the reproduction of the means of production. Darkstar's supercomputer gives the rate of expansion.

Based on the monthly production capacity of 3 million tons of titanium alloy, 3 tons per industrial robot, deducting the loss and depreciation during processing, the monthly expansion of industrial robots is slightly more than 700,000 units, and it is expected to expand 8 million industrial robots per year.

These capacities will house the following facilities:

Production lines for the manufacture of mine beetles, industrial robots, factories.

Production lines, industrial robots, and factories that manufacture construction vehicles.

Production lines, industrial robots, and factories that manufacture fusion generators and solar generators.

Manufacturing industrial robots, production lines of factory components, industrial robots, and factories.

Production lines, industrial robots, and factories that manufacture 3D printers.

Fabricate............

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Considering that there is no possibility of clash with other forces in the near future, and that the syndicate stronghold known from the dilapidated destroyer will be cleared after obtaining Layast, Blue Feather did not order the construction of a military equipment production line.

Moreover, because the object can be supported by the low-energy gravity field in the low gravity state, it can be freely suspended in space, and is not limited and affected by the container. Therefore, it can not only smelt high-melting metals such as zirconium and titanium, but also produce high-purity, defect-free bulk single crystals with the help of high vacuum, providing high-quality semiconductor materials.

These semiconductor materials will be used to make computers and direct the operation of fully automated bases.

Thanks to the super expansion power of machinery, the production capacity of the base will be doubled every three months! In a year's time, the production capacity will be eight times that of the current one, and it will be able to surpass in technology and equalize the core industrial area of the empire in terms of scale!

It is equivalent to that Lan Yu has a mechanical civilization seed in his hand that will never rebel. This metal seed will take root in the world of Odyssey and grow into a giant tree!