Chapter 353 Mass Production
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In the long run, the completion of the first faster-than-light spaceship at this time is only a starting point for the formation of the scale and maturity of the superluminal warship of the earth's civilization.
In order to truly play a strong supporting role of faster-than-light spaceships for the expansion of civilization, the earth's civilization must at least have more, larger, and faster faster-than-light spaceships.
Only when the faster-than-light warship group owned by the earth's civilization can reach more than 600 million passengers annually, and the faster-than-light cruise state is more high-speed and more durable, can the earth's civilization truly enter the golden age of interstellar expansion.
And if you want to achieve such an interstellar migration capability, it is necessary to have a fairly large faster-than-light fleet, even if you don't consider the production and installation of war weapons such as faster-than-light warships, the number of immigration spaceships alone must reach dozens of them, taking the more powerful standard immigration spacecraft in the future as an example, if the passenger capacity of a spaceship is recorded as 20 million people, it is necessary to have a cluster of thirty spaceships to be enough for a year's immigration consumption.
And considering the time consumption of spaceships traveling between the immigrant planet and the mother planet of the earth, the earth civilization must prepare at least one or two hundred superluminal spaceships of this level to be used, and such a huge cluster of spaceships is an unimaginable number for some slightly weaker interstellar civilizations, even if they smash the pot and sell iron, they can't afford it.
However, the reason why the earth's civilization consumes such a large amount of faster-than-light spacecraft is also due to the very different development strategies of the earth's civilization and other civilizations.
Like other civilizations, they know that they can't afford a large-scale cluster of faster-than-light spaceships, so in the interstellar expansion, they are all cautious, little by little, they can use the method of ant moving, gather a small number of people, and spend dozens of hundreds of years to expand and expand the new planet.
For those weak civilizations that have entered and exited the era of interstellar civilization without faster-than-light spaceships, if they want to expand the living space of civilization and occupy a new ecological planet, it will take hundreds or even thousands of years to form enough people, enough social systems, and population on the new planet, and even rely on long-term natural reproduction to grow the population to a certain extent.
And even those interstellar civilizations with faster-than-light spaceships, the possession of one or two faster-than-light spaceships can transport millions or tens of millions of people to expedition to new planets at one time, such interstellar immigrants only need to come three or two times, and the population of tens of millions of people on the new planet is enough for them to firmly grasp the new planet, so their demand for faster-than-light spaceships is far less huge than that of the earth civilization.
Of course, the fact is that it is not really that the demand is not large, but that even if the demand is large, it is useless to have a sufficient number of immigration ships on hand.
If there are enough faster-than-light spaceships on hand, that civilization is still unwilling to expand its planet holdings to the greatest extent, increase the size of its own civilization, and enhance the comprehensive strength of its civilization?
The problem is that the faster-than-light spaceship is too difficult to build, you can't build it yourself, and if you want to buy it from someone else, it's not just difficult to describe it, you have to take off a layer of skin when you get a spaceship, and if you get a few more, this is completely beyond the ability of ordinary civilizations.
In contrast, the troubles of the earth's civilization are completely another level of troubles, and for the vast majority of civilizations, this level of troubles is a problem that they have difficult to encounter since the rise of civilization to the collapse of civilization, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a happy trouble.
Because the earth civilization has a full set of relevant technical reserves of faster-than-light spacecraft, and even has far more than one model of various levels and types of detailed technical files, the development of the entire civilization is extremely directional and purposeful, and there is a complete development prospect plan before the civilization is about to step into the interstellar civilization.
With the help of the innate advantages of technology, coupled with the resource advantages of the meteorite star sea connected by the wormhole in the orbit of Mars, the earth civilization has a strong potential to soar into the sky, so the development model of the entire earth civilization is an "explosive development model" that seriously deviates from the slow development rules of ordinary civilization.
In just two hundred years, the earth's population has swelled more than ten times, with an average annual population growth of more than 500 million, especially in recent years, the annual population growth rate has increased by billions even at its peak!
It is also because the earth's living space is gradually limited, and it is no longer possible to maintain long-term continuous population growth, and the population growth rate has dropped in recent years, but the average annual population growth is still as much as 600 million new people.
Such a huge number of new annual population is not only a huge pressure on the earth's civilization, but also a powerful driving force for development.
The advantage is that if such a population growth rate is maintained, then in the future the earth civilization will expand in the interstellar world, the population problem will no longer be a problem, and the earth civilization can carry out interstellar expansion in a big way, even if it occupies ten planets a year, with such a huge population, there is no worry that there is not enough manpower and material resources to carry out actual effective control.
Once this momentum of expansion can be maintained for a long time, the overall population of the earth's civilization will continue to expand rapidly with the increase in the number of planets, so as to form a larger population, a larger layout of the civilized industrial chain, a more powerful super production capacity, and the production of more advanced, more complex and more powerful faster-than-light spaceships will no longer be a problem, and the earth civilization will also have a more powerful overall civilization force. A mature interstellar civilization system and establishing its own star civilization rules are not difficult at all.
And the disadvantage is that such a huge population growth, to the earth is still in the development stage of the star system, bringing increasing pressure, even with the strong scientific and technological strength of the earth civilization, crazy to the underground space, this mode of survival is not sustainable, once the population is out of control, the earth civilization will undoubtedly produce an extremely huge social disaster, and the situation is simply unimaginable.
Fortunately, just before the situation became more and more serious, the first verification faster-than-light spaceship of the earth civilization was born, and the earth civilization had the ability of long-distance interstellar migration for the first time. Although the number of immigrants for the first time is only 10 million, and even the time before and after the first migration is as much as more than 20 years, it is undoubtedly a good start.
The earth civilization finally has the confidence and opportunity to adhere to its own civilization development policy, as long as it has the super strength of a large-scale interstellar migration fleet that sends 600 million people out every year before the explosion of the earth's civilization population, the earth civilization does not need to change its policy continuity, can maintain a high-speed development state, and sail all the way to the ranks of super interstellar civilization.
In other civilizations, the faster-than-light spaceship is the ladder of development, the magic weapon for the expansion of civilization, and the care and maintenance of every faster-than-light spaceship as a treasure at the bottom of the box, and it cannot bear to be damaged in the slightest.
In order to meet the space needs of population growth, in order to maintain a minimum of 600 million people every year, and even much more interstellar migration capabilities, it is necessary to maintain a super interstellar migration fleet with hundreds of ships.
If other civilizations know that there is such a thing in the world, their first reaction must be, poof, let me vomit blood first!
It is really that people have to die more than others, and goods have to be thrown away, and the gap between the rich and the poor between civilizations and civilizations is really too huge, and civilizations with slightly inferior psychological quality are afraid that they will be angry to death directly.
What is even more unbearable is that although the long-term plan of the earth's civilization seems a little too extravagant and perverted at first glance, it only needs to be formed after the production capacity of the overall civilization becomes more and more mature and larger, and the production of such a huge fleet of immigrants is not even a problem at all.
After the first faster-than-light spacecraft rolled off the assembly line, the Supreme Council of Earth Civilization had already taken stock of the production capacity of the entire civilization and confirmed the production plan of the next generation of three immigrant spacecraft, which is expected to be completed within twenty years.
Yes, the production of three faster-than-light ships at once, and the completion of the production task in twenty years.
Although the current earth civilization has not yet been able to build a complete assembly line production of faster-than-light spaceships, it is not difficult for the earth civilization to complete the production of three spaceships at one time only through orderly production planning, through reasonable production arrangements, and by increasing the number of some key production facilities.
In fact, in the production of faster-than-light spaceships, the most difficult and painful thing is to complete the production of faster-than-light spaceships, the interpretation of processing technology, In this process, a little bit of defects, starting from the most basic material research and development, to the completion of the most cutting-edge core components, this is the most difficult part, in the whole process of completing the research, it can be said that it is a step by step, difficult beyond the imagination of ordinary people, the entire earth civilization took two hundred years, and it took all the wisdom of countless top talents to finally complete the construction of the production capacity of this system.
The completion of the production of the first faster-than-light spacecraft, and after system testing, although the overall performance is not very outstanding, but, after a comprehensive check, its performance in all aspects has reached the expected purpose, to meet the established standards, this thing, in itself, is the most important, but also the most exciting.
Because with the production and completion of a First Emperor spaceship, it means that the entire earth civilization has fully possessed the ability to independently produce faster-than-light spaceships, and along with this ability, the earth-based civilization has a full set of its own faster-than-light spaceship production system.
Supporting production bases, production plants of related parts, and production bases of core key subsystems, the earth civilization has been sharpened in the production process of the first spaceship, with perfect and reliable production capacity, skilled workers, and countless technicians and management personnel.
In the face of such an incomparably complex set of system production capacity, the construction of a new generation of three interstellar immigration spacecraft is not a matter at all, and can only further sharpen the entire production system of the earth civilization and further upgrade the relevant technical level of the earth civilization.
In fact, the earth at this time, and the entire production system of the superluminal spacecraft at this time, need such a valuable opportunity to make targeted adjustments and run-ins.
After all, the construction process of the first ship, the First Emperor, was too long, more than a hundred years!
In such a long period of time, there are too many technologies that have been played from rusty to proficient, and from skilled to elimination, the whole production system of the earth civilization needs more practice, re-verification, re-running-in, according to the own characteristics of the production system of the earth civilization, all-round integration and adjustment, and it can even be foreseen that in the future in the construction process of the second batch of three spaceships, there will inevitably be a large number of new technologies applied to the three spaceships.
Although these three spaceships are the same batch of manufactured products, there will be a considerable gap between their respective performance, manufacturing process, related details and a series of other things.
In the midst of such differences, the engineering team of the Earth Civilization will also learn nutrients, experiences and lessons from it, and find the most suitable technology and route for its own situation, so as to lay the foundation for the construction and production of future spacecraft assembly lines.
In the future, with the continuous improvement and maturity of the earth's production system, the corresponding production capacity of faster-than-light spacecraft will also accelerate at a fairly obvious, constantly changing and accelerating pace.
The first batch of spaceships will be built in 100 years, the second batch of spaceships will be built in 20 years, the third batch of spaceships will be built in 15 years, or even 10 in 10 years, and finally a fixed production efficiency will be formed, producing more and more, more and more mature, more and more powerful spaceships, which will be a foreseeable thing.
Therefore, in the next one or two hundred years, the earth civilization has a super-large super-large super-light speed interstellar migration fleet with hundreds of ships, this is not just a fantasy, but a fairly probable event with a high probability of success, and it is not far off, and many earthlings who are now adults have the opportunity to see it realize with their own eyes. (To be continued.) )