Chapter 420: Expeditionary Fleet
For those civilizations that do not have the production capacity of faster-than-light spaceships, let alone large-scale and high-intensity mass production of faster-than-light spaceships, it is to give them a complete set of parts and components that should be intact, and let them assemble them independently to form a functional spaceship, which is a big project that will make it difficult for people to die, and they will not be able to finish it for centuries. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
However, for the earth civilization that has mastered the theory, technology and process of the full set of faster-than-light spacecraft production system, from design to materials, from parts to complete machine production, and all kinds of different models of faster-than-light spacecraft have independently researched and produced several models, all the problems of the so-called faster-than-light spacecraft production are, in the final analysis, just a matter of resources and manpower, with all the required raw materials, and the rest is nothing more than labor.
No matter how high-precision machine tools, no matter how complex and cumbersome the process, no matter how precise and exquisite the parts, relying on the high-quality talents created by the hundreds of years of industrial education of the earth's civilization and the education system that has been continuously refined for hundreds of years, they can all be copied.
Completed the difficult accumulation of building a complete set of faster-than-light spacecraft production system from scratch, little by little, and completed the construction process of a complete set of spaceship automated assembly lines.
That's not a problem at all!
If the future earth civilization can establish trade ties with the countless interstellar civilizations in the meteorite star sea, and with the help of these civilizations, help the earth civilization solve the problem of lack of countless resources, then, with the strength of the earth civilization, it is simply a matter of course to increase the annual output of the faster-than-light spacecraft by one hundred and eighty times, and at that time, the overall strength of the earth civilization will not only expand by hundreds or thousands of times!
Just imagine, the annual output of hundreds of thousands of faster-than-light spaceships, then for a civilization, the accumulation of tens of hundreds of years, the scale of its faster-than-light spaceships will be huge, once such a qualitative change is completed, it can be said that the fourth civilization overlord of the meteorite star sea has appeared, and the status of the earth's civilization will be difficult to shake no matter what civilization.
If you add the super convenience of the future civilization of the earth after cracking the wormhole network, then it can almost be said that the entire meteorite star sea will become the bag of the entire earth civilization!
Relying on the super convenient wormhole network, the superluminal warship fleet of the earth civilization will be the cosmic-level superluminal fleet that comes and goes without a trace, even if it is to hang the three hegemon-level civilizations of the meteorite star sea, it will no longer be difficult, and the huge civilization fixed assets they have accumulated over millions of years will be nothing more than big and inappropriate fat in the eyes of the earth civilization, only for the sake of being slaughtered, but it will never be able to threaten the safety of the earth civilization.
With such a huge strength, the status of the earth civilization will really be as stable as Mount Tai, relying on the huge earth civilization faster-than-light fleet, even if it is not from the perspective of war, just from the perspective of resource development and utilization, it will be of infinite benefit to the future development of the earth civilization!
With countless faster-than-light spaceships, the earth civilization is equivalent to relying on itself to establish an incomparably large interstellar trade system, countless resources that other civilizations can not use at all, the earth civilization can also be explored and enabled, which is the future development of the earth civilization The benefits are indescribable, which means that the earth civilization will no longer have the limitation of production space for a long time in the future, and there will never be a shortage of production resources, and the earth civilization will usher in a new and unprecedented development opportunity, which can be said to lay the resource foundation for the future development of the universe-level civilization in one fell swoop!
It is conceivable that once such a production capacity is accelerated, such a huge strategy can really be completed, then the future development of the earth's civilization will immediately open, and there is no need to care about the threat of those hegemon-level civilizations that are hundreds of times larger than the earth's civilization in terms of civilization.
Even if such a future is not realized overnight, the development advantages of this route are undoubted, and it is worth the efforts of the earth's civilization.
Even if the production speed of the superluminal spaceship of the earth civilization in the future does not make such rapid progress, but the annual production capacity of the single-digit production capacity is increased to the double-digit level of annual production, but only from the dozens of faster-than-light spaceships produced every year, three or two of them are proposed to be exchanged with other civilizations, and the number of various interstellar top scarce resources that the earth civilization can exchange for will also exceed the annual production capacity of the entire earth civilization!
Such a future picture, it can be said that the possibility of its realization will be incomparably huge, because in today's interstellar trading model, the trade of faster-than-light spaceships has never been a cheap commodity, and the trading of natural ecological planets is a basic configuration, otherwise, it is a way to let the various rights and interests of the entire civilization, sign countless different equal treaties, and join the interstellar alliance of the hegemon-level civilization, in order to be able to exchange for the trade qualification of the faster-than-light spaceship, which requires the consumption of various tangible and intangible resources and rights, the cost is unimaginable。
In contrast, the earth's civilization is willing to accept the exchange of various interstellar scarce resources for faster-than-light spacecraft, which is a good deed that opens the door to the countless interstellar civilizations of the meteorite star sea, because to be honest, the kind of high-end industrialized society, all kinds of high-tech production systems can be used, and all kinds of scarce and precious resources that can be consumed are simply useless for some civilizations with a slightly worse level.
Just like radioactive elements, for civilizations that have the ability to use them, this is a valuable strategic resource, and for civilizations that do not have the ability to use them, this thing is a pure scourge, killing people invisibly, and people don't know how to die.
Although for the earth civilization, the production of these similar scarce resources is just an industrial model that outweighs the losses, and the manpower and material resources consumed are too large, but the technical content is not high, but for those other interstellar civilizations, the manpower within their own civilization is not worth anything at all, and they can't use it to trade with extraterrestrial civilizations.
If you can exchange all kinds of resources and even faster-than-light ships through the situation of scarce resource trade, this is a huge blessing for most interstellar civilizations!
However, although the plan is good, all the work still needs to be steadily advanced step by step, and the beautiful plan of the earth civilization to open up the meteorite star sea must start with the first and steady progress step by step.
Several giant rocky planets on the side of the Martian wormhole meteorite star sea are the first steps of the development of the earth civilization, and the earth civilization has successively established some bases in the hundreds of years before here, but because of the small investment, the building scale of each base is quite limited.
However, in the current development plan of the earth's civilization, these rocky planets with quite good locations and basic conditions can exist as cargo and manpower transfer stations, so as to have the need for further in-depth development.
In addition to the personnel stationed in these bases in the past to carry out the preliminary project of this base expansion, the Earth civilization has also subsequently had a large number of engineers involved in the subsequent construction of the project.
Compared with the supply of "worthless" materials, which can be transported slowly and on a large scale by sub-light speed spaceships, the treatment of these professional construction technicians is better I don't know how many times, and when all kinds of construction materials are almost in place, they will be transported to their posts in batches on superluminal passenger spaceships to participate in the engineering development of the rocky planet.
In addition to various civilian personnel transit, living facilities, and storage space, there are also a series of large military ports, military bases, and even the most advanced long-range interstellar space detection radar system, which are crucial to the future development of meteorite stars for the future of Earth civilization, for security and understanding of the surrounding environment, etc.
It will take more than three years to complete this series of projects, which is due to the relative proximity to the mainland and the convenience of personnel and materials.
Since the beginning of 2523, the transformation of this series of rocky planets has been preliminarily completed, with considerable security and external observation capabilities, and with the use of advanced environmental observation systems, a large number of observation data from surrounding star fields have been quickly used to analyze the possible existence of natural ecological planets nearby.
In 2524, in the complex environment surrounded by meteorites, a high-quality natural ecological planet was discovered by the earth civilization, and this planet is not far from the edge of the meteorite star sea civilization circle, which is a good entry point for the earth civilization to further develop the meteorite star sea civilization circle in the future, and then the earth civilization directly mobilized as many as five faster-than-light passenger and cargo spaceships, and a small faster-than-light warship fleet, which migrated hundreds of millions of high-quality people to this planet, followed by abundant various construction machinery and equipment, life and development materials, etc., just after less than three years, a natural ecological planet that can be said to be armed to the teeth has been fully established, and has become the bridgehead of the earth's civilization through the meteorite star sea.
Subsequently, more and more earthlings were immigrated here to further develop nearby habitable planets and lay a solid foundation for the further actions of Earth's civilization.
However, different from the local industrial development strategy of the earth's civilization, in these planets of the meteorite star sea, the various industrial systems are limited to the category of industrial categories, mainly concentrated in various military industries and people's livelihood industries, etc., and the only part of the industry related to the faster-than-light spaceship is limited to the repair and maintenance of the spacecraft, and basically does not involve the process and links of spacecraft production, and even the scientific and technological talents in related aspects are not there, even the relevant knowledge books, Information and so on have also been strictly censored and filtered to ensure that there is not the slightest risk of leakage.
These measures ensure that even if there is the most dangerous change in the pattern in the future, and the power of the earth civilization in the meteorite star sea is destroyed and occupied by the enemy, the knowledge system and production system of the faster-than-light spacecraft, which is the core of the earth civilization, will not be given a penny by the hostile civilization.
Basically, the effective time of this policy will last until the future earth civilization in the meteorite star sea civilization circle, when the victory is completely established, before that, all the earth civilization planets in the meteorite star sea civilization circle together, can not piece together even half of the faster-than-light spaceship production architecture, and the headquarters of the earth civilization space-time serves as the rear and production core, for the incubation of a large number of people and technology!
Time quickly advanced to 2530, during which the earth civilization found a habitable planet again in the meteorite star sea, and sent the corresponding population and fleet to complete the occupation and development of the planet, but in addition, in the direction of the meteorite star sea, the earth civilization has no other big moves.
Earth's civilization is gathering all its energy to prepare for this major expeditionary operation.
After more than ten years of accumulation, a batch of faster-than-light warships that integrate the latest technology of the earth's civilization have all been produced.
The scale of this expeditionary combat fleet is not too huge, and its total warship size is only twenty warships, compared to the normal warship production rate of two warships per year, the production of almost every one of these warships has been delayed, this is because this fleet has to go to the area of one hundred and dozens of light years away for ultra-long-distance operations, and its performance test of the fleet warships is extremely harsh, for this reason, in the production process of these warships, even the tiniest screw, has the most stringent requirements, and the extreme production process requirements naturally cause the extension of the product production cycle。
However, the price of all this is completely worth it. At the time of the expedition, the entire expeditionary fleet had already been tested several times in sea trials, and the farthest one had covered the farthest distance of fifteen light-years in a year, so to speak, all the warships had met the most stringent standards and were fully prepared to go on the expedition. (To be continued.) )