Li Qing's destination will be to pass through the entire low-security area, through the entire low-risk and medium-risk areas, enter the high-risk area, and find a galaxy that is not occupied by other teams and does not belong to other spheres of influence to establish a personal base.

It's dangerous, but it's not taxable.

Some large legions will occupy a large number of systems, set up outposts in these systems, patrol fleets to clear out wild monsters, and create low-security areas.

Non-legion casual players can mine in the low-amp systems occupied by these large legions, but each time the mining can only be sold to the legion, and the price must be lowered, that is, the tax is charged, although it is safe, but the profit is much lower than that of wild mining.

If you don't have any ambitions, this is not a way to go, you can even join the clan directly as an industrial stream player, any clan is very welcome to this kind of industrial stream player, even more than the combat stream player.

Any legion is made up of a small number of combat stream players and a large number of mining and industrial stream players.

For example, a formal legion has a total of 10,000 official members, almost all of whom have part-time jobs, have their own mining fleets, establish personal bases in the legion-controlled systems, and establish industrial factories to produce various goods for sale.

In addition, any official legion, with at least ten or even dozens of times the outer members of the official member, are all miners or industrial stream players, specializing in making money to supply the clan for consumption.

Here, it is very, very expensive to keep a battleship.

Take a frigate as an example, in addition to the 10 million buyout clone crew, you need to pay 300,000 for the senior crew + 500,000 for the captain every month, and you also need a basic maintenance fee of 200,000, which is 1 million per month just to raise this frigate.

In addition to this, if there is a battle that also requires ammo consumption, energy shield replenishment requires the consumption of energy blocks.

Crew members who died in battle need to be provocation money.

If the battleship is damaged in a terrible battle, repairs are another large amount of money.

This does not include the cost of equipping the battleship with better weapons and equipment, as well as refitting and strengthening the battleship, which is the main one.

It can be said that it is not expensive to simply buy a boat, it is the big head to raise a boat, a frigate is 20 million bare, and it takes thirty or forty million to fully equip the fifth-level weapon accessories, and it will cost tens of millions to modify and strengthen it, and the consumption of a top frigate is estimated to reach 100 million.

Then the salary plus maintenance fee for one year is already 12 million, and the service for ten years is 120 million.

If it hadn't been wrecked halfway through.

If a frigate is not destroyed, it can serve for a maximum of fifty or sixty years, and the salary alone will be seven or eight billion ....

Plus ten years of various maintenance costs, ammunition costs for combat wear and tear, and so on.....

And this is just a corvette.

Therefore, in the sea of stars, the strength of a team is not at all based on how many combat flow players you have and how many warships you have, but on your economy and industry.

As soon as the cannon goes off, gold is ten thousand gold, and the war is money, and it has been the case since ancient times.

Li Qing's plan was to first establish a personal base in a suitable galaxy far away, and first immerse himself in mining to make money.

He plans to use the previous way of accommodating mining ships and industrial ships to open a channel connecting the universe in his palm, collect meteorites one by one, and then take them out and use that set of small crushing, extraction and refining equipment to refine all the raw ore into refined ore, so as to save space and sell at a higher price.

After a year and a half, go back to the Jinmen system, or sell it to a nearby team or legion, save a few more waves, and then consider increasing the number of warships.

So in the early stage, I just ignored nothing and buried my head in development.

Time passed, and the frigate passed through one galaxy after another, entering the depths of the starry sky.

He had nothing to do for a long time, he tried to enter the newly opened channel of the Yu family, and found that although he could enter, because it had just been established, the setting inside was not perfect, and he could not separate the branch channels and small rooms, everyone was in a big channel, and there were not many people communicating.

Li Qing watched it for a while, and then closed the channel without saying a word.

The people who can enter this channel are not the children of the military lord family, or the descendants of the big families in various places, all of whom are from extraordinary backgrounds and arrogant, unless they know them, or are obviously stronger than themselves, most of them will not take the initiative to communicate.

After crossing the 226th galaxy to the south, he ran for more than three months, and after crossing the southernmost boundary line of the Sky Surveyor Legion's territory, he no longer crossed slowly, but turned on the hyperspace engine and began to leap and hurry.

The maximum jump range of the three-stage jump engine is 30 light years, and according to the distance of the star systems in the Tianjin Star Field, it can skip about five or six galaxies in one go, which saves a lot of time.

Running and jumping along the way to more than a hundred galaxies, the frigate no longer jumps, no longer travels at sub-light speeds, and every time it enters a galaxy, it will burrow into a circle and look for a suitable place to build a personal base.

A frigate is very flexible, and there are all kinds of wild warships everywhere here, and they are found early to avoid in advance, and they can't avoid turning around and going back to another way, anyway, there is no designated destination, and there is no danger along the way.

It is three hundred and fifty or sixty jumps away from the Jinmen galaxy here, thousands of light years away, and has left the Jinmen Province into the unknown area, but there are still traces of players here, but the number is very small, and there are only occasionally some player warships escorting a few armed transport ships on the road, presumably transporting ore or their own industrial products to sell.

Every time he saw one, he greeted him from afar, and took the communication to inquire about the situation nearby.

Quickly obtaining a few coordinates that they thought met his requirements, the frigate turned to one of the systems and flew away.

JM-N-348 galaxy.

A main-sequence star is a K-class star, which is theoretically the most suitable for the birth of a living planet, but it is very shocking that this star system did not give birth to a living planet, but instead did not have an imaginary planet in its theoretical optimal habitable zone, but a huge broken asteroid belt.

In addition, there is an even larger asteroid belt near the edge of the gravitational well, which means that the star system has two asteroid belts.

As we all know, the asteroid belt is composed of countless meteorites and broken asteroid debris, which are generally rich in various ores, and occasionally some rare ores of great value.

This galaxy coordinate comes from a player named Yang Yunbo, that is, a transport fleet player he met before, and his personal base is in this galaxy.

According to Yang Yunbo, this galaxy is rich in mineral resources because of the two asteroid belts, and there are six players who have settled here and established their personal bases.

They are all individual players, and they are the kind of people who bury their heads in making money like him, the galaxy is so big, the asteroid belt is surrounded by stars, and a hundred players can't be divided together, there is no competition at all, but there are many people and a companion.

After all, this place is far away from Jinmen Province, and there are very few players who usually come over, so a few more can chat together and have occasional dinners.

Li Qing drove the frigate to the asteroid belt in the inner circle first, spent two days to go around, and roughly determined that the ore classification of the asteroid belt through space geology and mineral analysis and other skills is mainly hardware ore, a small amount of spar ore, and a large number of rock ores.

Hardware ore refers to the common gold, silver, copper, iron and tin, the price is different, but the normal situation is common is a variety of iron ore or copper-like ore, the price of raw ore is 15 star yuan side, copper ore is 31 star yuan side.

Of course, this refers to the current price, which may not necessarily be the same price after a while.

Although everything in the new universe is digitized, and the rules of the world are like games, it is not a real game after all, it is a real universe, and prices are determined according to output and demand, and they are changing at any time, and there is no fixed price.

Even if it is the same raw iron ore, the price is different in different places, and the price of iron ore in Jinmen Province is definitely different from that in the hinterland of the United Empire of Mankind.

Moreover, iron-like ore is a general term, and it is subdivided into different types of iron, such as magnets, hematite, sidestone, iron sulfide, etc., and the price is slightly different, but not large.

In the end, Li Qing did not choose the location of the base in the asteroid belt, but on a moon of a large asteroid more than 70 million kilometers away from the asteroid belt.

The reason why it was not placed in the asteroid belt is mainly to consider that some collection devices can be placed on this large planet in the future to collect some planetary materials, and by the way, to see if there are large ore veins on this planet.

There are many ores in the asteroid belt, and there are also mines on the planet, but there are no asteroid belts full of meteorites that are easy to collect, and the planet also needs to build a mining base to dig mines, which is too laborious.

But if some high-value planetary material can be found on the planet, that investment is nothing.

The so-called planetary matter is a general term for all minerals that can only be produced on planets, and the value is not too high, but it is better to collect it automatically as long as the mining mine is established, as long as it is harvested at a fixed point, it does not take much effort.

This planet, which is not marked on the star map, has a diameter of 11,545 kilometers, and according to the standards of the star sea, it is a barren planet with a size of 23 blocks.

It is worth mentioning that the diameter of the Earth in the old universe was 12,756 kilometers, and according to the current Xinghai standard, it was a second-class continental planet with a size of 25 blocks, and the diameter of the equator every 500 kilometers was calculated as one block.

The frigate circled the planet and found that this barren planet, which is slightly smaller than the Earth, has a thin atmosphere, but there is no trace of water vapor and life on the planet, which is the most common barren planet in the starry sky.

The planet has three moons, the largest is 2,100 kilometers in diameter, not as big as the Moon, and the smallest is only 530 kilometers, and there is no atmosphere.

After an initial observation, he placed the base on the satellite in the middle.

The frigate stopped in orbit over Satellite 2 and reopened the space passage in the palm of its hand, and the mining ship and the industrial ship sailed out and moored around the frigate.

Luckily, there are no monsters near this planet, and there are no anomalies, so it looks safe now.

The diameter of the No. 2 satellite is only about 1,400 kilometers, and its gravitational force is smaller than that of the moon, so small warships such as frigates can land directly on the surface of the satellite.

Levi contacted the mining ship and the industrial ship through the network system of the battleship's radar, and remotely directed the industrial ship to slowly stop at the bottom of a huge annular crater above Satellite 2.

As we all know, satellites without an atmosphere are simply unable to resist meteorites in space, and meteorites collide almost every day, thus forming shock waves.

At the same time, hiding in the crater can also avoid the radar scan of the battleship in space, unless you happen to see it, the normal radar rough scan will not sweep to the base in the crater.

The industrial ship stopped in this crater, which has a diameter of four or five kilometers and a depth of more than 200 meters, the hatch was wide open, and the packed containers were lowered one by one.

Li Qing sat in the command room, rubbing his chin and looking at the huge light curtain in front of him, giving orders from time to time.

Wait until all the boxes are put down, and then a mining robot with a height of ten meters falls down, opens the containers, takes out the base modules inside, and assembles them according to the preset assembly plan in advance.

With the development of science and technology, module assembly has entered all aspects, not only these buildings, but even the construction of warships has achieved module assembly.

The battleship is divided into different blocks according to standard modules, and different factories produce different modules, and finally transported to a piece to assemble and assemble.

However, such a warship has a flaw, because it is a module assembly rather than a single form, it is destined to not be able to enter the interior of a planet with a strong gravitational pull, and once entered, it is easy for the modules to break apart and fall due to the strong gravitational force.

Therefore, in the sea of stars, only small ships such as frigates can enter the interior of the planet, and destroyers and above are generally unable to enter, and can only be anchored in the orbit of the planet to carry out orbital bombardment.

It took half a month to assemble the core cabin of the base, and the internal space of the core cabin with a diameter of 100 meters * 100 meters * 100 meters is extremely huge, which can be subdivided into multiple layers, Li Qing divided it into ten layers according to the first layer of ten meters, of which the main control room is placed on the fifth floor.

This thing is made of composite metal and contains various compartments, which can greatly cushion the impact of small meteorites in space, and isolate most harsh environments from the extreme environment in space.

The surface is also equipped with an energy absorption layer, which can absorb the light energy of the stars and various radiation rays in the starry sky as energy, even in extreme environments, it can also supply energy to the base and maintain the minimum energy demand.

Then all 16 fully automatic sentry guns were moved to the top of the main core cabin, and four were placed in groups of four in the four corners.

Then, four 30 m x 30 m x 30 m subsidiary cabins are all placed in the east of the core module, side by side.

At the same time, the height of 30 meters is divided into three layers, the same ten meters each.

Then, put the small ore crushing and screening and refining equipment in the ..... Outside the base.

The main thing is that it can't be put inside, although it is only a set of small ones, but crushing, refining and refining are actually three sets of machinery, which are quite not small, and any of the attached cabins are not enough to put other things, and when the time comes, there is no place to pile up the raw ore and then refine it, so it is better to put it directly outside, and then throw the collected raw ore directly into the crater around the base, and then store it in the auxiliary warehouse after refining, and then store it in the palm of the universe in one breath after a certain amount of accumulation.