Chapter 246: RDA Organization
The first space war of the Star Empire ended before it officially began.
After all, the gap between the two sides is too huge.
If it weren't for the plan to exercise at the beginning, Shen Sen would not have let this spacecraft go out at all. A group of combat ships bullied a few transports, and it was not a glorious thing to say.
The Bradbury, when hundreds of battleships surrounded it but did not attack, Hart and his crew saw the "enemy" for what it really was.
It was human, but not any of the interstellar corporations he remembered.
There was a hint of bright red in the pitch-black paint of the strange spaceship, like a giant eye in the universe, staring at them.
Who are they, and what are their plans?
It wasn't long before Hart satisfied his curiosity, and as the first to surrender, Captain Hart enjoyed the privileges he deserved.
"The full name of this ship is Star Cargo Spaceship, and it is designated 601-08."
Shen Sen stood on the bridge of the Bradbury, listening to the blonde captain next to him tremble, walking on thin ice to explain the construction of the ship, and the genetically modified warriors behind him protected him like a fortress.
At this moment, the Stellar Fleet has completed the occupation of the remaining five RDA transports, and has encountered little resistance in the process.
On the one hand, the crews of several transport ships are not soldiers and warriors, nor are they loyal company employees, they are just ordinary people who risk their lives for a salary, and there is no need or reason to waste their lives in the face of an unstoppable enemy.
On the other hand, as mentioned earlier, their ships are just transport ships and do not have any decent armament.
The reality is cruel, it can be said that there is no choice, and the only end if you do not surrender can only be to turn into cosmic dust in a cloud of heat and radiation, just like the Capital Star spaceship that has just been attacked by the enemy.
Therefore, after the enemy sent a message of "surrender or kill", several other captains decisively chose to surrender like Hart.
Although the battle was uneventful, the gains should not be underestimated.
These five capital-star interstellar transports with a total cost of about two trillion credits can be said to be a huge wealth for the stars.
As a transport ship capable of long-distance voyages, its power and design technology are very mature.
Positive and antimatter engines, light sail technology, and especially long-distance sailing.
After getting it, learning from each other's strengths and weaknesses is enough for the stars to design a better interstellar cargo spaceship on its basis, avoiding stumbling in the early stage, and directly opening the era of interstellar logistics.
"Interstellar Cargo Spacecraft, No. 601-08."
Shen Sen silently savored the things behind these words, and motioned for Hart to continue.
"Yes, sir."
Hart swallowed, looked at the tall mech, and continued with trepidation.
"The drive system of the Venture Star is a hybrid engine of antimatter and nuclear fusion.
Its 1.6-kilometer-long hull has a massive reactor 264 meters long, 99.5% of its volume is a nuclear reactor chamber and the other 0.5% is an annihilation chamber.
However, this volume accounts for only 0.5% of the total system volume, and the annihilation system provides more than 95% of the interstellar power.
When anti-hydrogen and hydrogen gather together and annihilate each other, emitting huge amounts of energy, the magnetic permeability system composed of superconductors generates a super-directional magnetic field and injects the generated photon energy into the exhaust system. ”
"In addition, the entrepreneurial star also has a photon sail, which can constantly change the angle during the voyage, and can help the hull accelerate or decelerate, its thickness is only a few dozen molecules thick, but it can reflect electromagnetic waves extremely effectively."
"The rest of the Startup Star is a transportation system, a habitable system and a freight system, as well as a matching support system.
Due to the protection against the large amount of radiation generated by the antimatter engine, a long bracket separation is required between the habitable systems, the scaffolding system is a high-strength space frame structure made of carbon nanotube composites.
There is also a complex transport system on the stand, which allows the individual parts to be moved flexibly. ”
"The habitable area is a giant cubic structure, the shell is made of high-strength organic composite materials, which prevents secondary radiation caused by particle radiation hitting the metal, and the repair robot, which is equipped with a low-temperature dormancy area, a life support Avatar training system, and various intelligent nursing work machines.
In addition, there are artificial gravity devices close to the habitable area, which use rotation to simulate gravity and provide conditions for workers to complete various tasks. ”
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The space station that took place off the planet Pandora didn't cause much of a stir, and the only people who knew about it at the moment were the two sides themselves.
The five transport ships were still in orbit around the gas giants, pretending that nothing had happened, loaded with a steady stream of superconducting ore.
However, unlike before, they now return to a different destination, and after being filled with superconducting ore, they will no longer return to their home planet and will travel to another unfamiliar planet.
The value of superconducting ore is very high, so high that even after Shen Sen knew the specific strength of the RDA from the intelligence information given by the transport crew, he resolutely chose to take the tiger's mouth.
RDA, or Resource Development Management Company, is the largest single non-governmental organization in the region.
Its power is so great that it surpasses most of the Orthodox organizations on its home planet in terms of wealth, political influence, and military capabilities.
The current RDA has a monopoly on all products shipped, derived or developed from Pandora and any other remote areas.
These rights are granted to the RDAs in perpetuity by the Interstellar Commerce Authority (ICA) and stipulate that they comply with treaties that prohibit weapons of mass destruction and limit military power in space.
With millions of shareholders, the RDA is the oldest and largest of the quasi-governmental administrative entities, but its origins are much smaller.
The entity that became the RDA was nothing more than a startup in the early 21st century of this civilization, when its founders borrowed money from friends and family to set up the company.
Only a few decades later, the company had the capital and technology to propose the construction of a worldwide rapid transit system.
The system will allow the entire population group to easily commute hundreds or even thousands of kilometers, without affecting the place of work with regard to the cultural values of the host population.
The company has succeeded in building the current global network of maglev trains, which require superconductor materials that operate continuously.
Therefore, they will not be able to give up the development and control of the planet Pandora.
When the transport ship no longer returns to the company, they will get the sad news almost five years later.
At that time, what kind of team the RDA will send to Pandora to find out, the results seem to be self-evident.
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