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When Sima Mulong descended into this time and space, he saw the scene of the interstellar miners working in full swing.

Although there are only six or seven hundred employees, the work site here is an interstellar mine with a diameter of tens of millions of kilometers!

If you look at it from a conventional angle, even if you know that this is a busy meteorite mining field, it may be difficult to notice the interstellar miners at work.

After all, within a radius of hundreds of millions of kilometers here, there are too many vast voids, as well as a large number of meteorite belts, all kinds of planets as large as tens of thousands of kilometers, as small as only the size of a fist, and even simply stardust, dust, and interstellar gases.

And the interstellar meteorite transport ship of the earth civilization, among such countless meteorite stars, its sense of existence is simply too meager, even if it can be searched, it is difficult to find, and high-power radar is not good.

Fortunately, for Sima Mulong, it is not so troublesome to observe the working status here, with a clear and visible line of cause and effect as a guide, Sima Mulong can easily overlook the overall work here.

Sima Mulong raised his eyes and looked into the distance, in the misty void, he could often see countless meteorites, and occasionally he could vaguely see a meteorite transport ship with a strange body shape and a hull length of about tens of meters long shuttling dexterously in the meteorite belt.

The spacecraft is piloted with a small amount of manpower, and then the high-power thrust engine of the spacecraft is used to accelerate the meteorite little by little, and its flight angle and flight speed are corrected. Finally make it able to accurately hit the location of the wormhole. Travel through time and space at an angle. Come to the orbit of Mars, accelerate and turn with the help of the orbit of Mars, and finally transport the meteorite to the orbit of the moon at the most effortless, safest and fastest speed and trajectory, and serve as raw materials for the space industry.

Such a whole process is the general process of action of the interstellar miners, although it is not as hard as the hard work of the ground counterparts in the dark underground passages, but. This is also a highly technical and life-threatening business.

After all, even with the volume and mass of the spacecraft itself, compared to the meteorite stars that the workers need to transport, it is often as small as the dung beetle that pushes the dung ball (often called the dung shell), and the meteorite that needs to be carried often has a mass of tens of millions of tons, or even hundreds of millions of tons. Freely travel through the intricate space environment of the meteorite belt and adjust your attitude. If you really think about it, you can see how difficult it really is.

In fact, even meteorites with a mass of hundreds of millions of tons are only ordinary and small in all the meteorites of all sizes in the meteorite belt, and even their size is still relatively small.

Even taking pure water as an example, a water ball with a side length of one kilometer has a mass of one billion tons, and in this meteorite belt, most of the meteorites with a certain volume are high-quality and high-density meteorites that have survived various meteorite collisions, and the unit density will only be several times that of water, and there are many super-large meteorites with a side length of several kilometers, tens of kilometers, or even hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

For interstellar miners working in such a complex environment, the focus of the work is not how to capture a meteorite and let it obediently fly according to its own designed orbit, but the most important point, how to find the most suitable target meteorite to capture among the stars.

Determining this alone is already an extremely difficult challenge, with a high level of technical content, requiring a large number of team members to work together to select the target and complete the capture task.

But for all those working in this meteorite belt, it's important to determine how to work, but it's really imperative to ensure a safe environment first.

Therefore, the population of the wormhole military base is the most dense, and the garrison team of more than 300 people, according to the law of changing guards in three shifts, has always been unremittingly maintaining the operation of the entire military base, and for all soldiers, this kind of work is extremely stressful.

Therefore, most of the soldiers in this wormhole base adopt a rotation training mechanism, and every half a year, the soldiers will change their defenses and return to the earth to repair, study for half a year, and then rotate again.

Don't look at the presence of enemy troops near the earth's wormhole base at this time, but, in fact, even for the meteorite mining base, the existence of this wormhole base is extremely important.

Although they belong to two different bases, there are strict boundaries between the two, and they are not connected, but the bases to which these two earth civilizations belong are actually on the same planet with moderate gravitational force, and the straight-line distance between the two bases is no more than ten kilometers.

Because of the incomparably complex interstellar environment and intricate gravitational influence in this meteorite belt, the two semi-underground bases are not safe even if they are on top of planet-like stars.

It can be said that at all times, there are countless large and small meteorites colliding with each other, and the number of meteorites smashed against the base is by no means rare, and the military base provides the most valuable security service for the mining base.

Being in the mining base, you often feel a slight tremor on the ground, although this feeling is somewhat similar to an earthquake, but in fact it is not an earthquake, because they are on the meteorite star, there is no geological movement at all, and there is no seismic activity, so the large and small vibrations that can be perceived here are all caused by meteorite impacts, but for the mining base, few large meteorites can fall directly near the base.

This is entirely because of the merits of the military base, the meteorite does not have eyes, it will not avoid the existence of the base and not smash it, it is the hundreds of officers and soldiers of the military base, as well as countless various military equipment, radar networks, and anti-aircraft weapons here. Electromagnetic railgun. Long-range missiles. Even the combined effect of nuclear bombs and so on has maintained the absolute safety of this airspace.

Don't look at the seemingly powerful and exaggerated level of such weapons, when a meteorite with a diameter of several thousand meters collides, you will know that even if the power of a nuclear bomb explodes, it must be accurately calculated, accurately positioned, and launched and detonated at the most accurate and appropriate moment. Only then can the trajectory of the colliding meteorite be changed and the safety of the base can be guaranteed.

Under the observation capability of the powerful radar network of the military base, even a meteorite the size of a quail egg will be detected as soon as it flies within a range of thousands of miles from the military base, and after judging whether it threatens the base, it will be dealt with in the shortest possible time.

In the entire military base, in one day, the shells of electromagnetic railguns of various specifications alone are consumed. Without the logistical support of the large rear of the Earth, the existence of an entire wormhole military base. It's hard to sustain even a week.

And a military base of this scale is obviously not something that can be played by an army of only 300 good soldiers, in fact, in this base, there are various military robots that are several times the number of soldiers, which are used in all aspects of the military base.

Such a robot configuration also exists in the mining base, but although the mining base theoretically has more people stationed than the soldiers in the military base, the fact is that the vast majority of interstellar miners, most of the time, are adrift in the meteorite belt, and there are usually only about 100 people and 200 people stationed in the base, some of them are base operation and maintenance personnel, and some are radar observers, data analysis personnel and other auxiliary jobs, and the rest are other staff who return to the base to rest after hard work。

In addition to a small number of employees who have been stationed in the production base for a long time and rely on various mechanical facilities of the base itself to carry out the production and maintenance work of the base, there are also a large number of staff stationed in the base, with the help of various optical remote sensing equipment and radar detection equipment owned by the base itself, to collect meteorite data in the surrounding interstellar environment in the first time and form a large-scale meteorite database.

These meteorites are one of the targets that the interstellar miners choose to start work in the future, however, limited to the number of meteorite transport spacecraft owned by the meteorite base, as well as the material, volume, value, transportation difficulty and other data of the meteorite itself, the miners must be screened, only the most feasible and valuable meteorites are the best choice targets for miners, but because the meteorite state is changing all the time, the valuable capture target is also changing all the time.

Therefore, the formation of a detailed and reliable meteorite database and reliable data analysis is one of the necessary tasks before the screening of meteorites.

Because all the determination of meteorite capture targets, the design of capture programs, various important actions, and the follow-up actual operation behaviors that cost a lot of money must rely on these databases and data analysis, it can be said that good analysis can make the whole operation twice the result with half the effort, and poor analysis will not only lead to a reduction in efficiency, a reduction in revenue, and in serious cases, it will even lead to a serious disaster, and it is not uncommon for ships to be destroyed and killed.

In fact, the miners working in the meteorite belt, a considerable part of the manpower, the focus of their work is not to capture meteorites, their work is focused on stepping on the plate in the meteorite belt, going deep into the frontier of the meteorite belt, with the help of shipborne observation and detection equipment, to determine the actual situation of the key meteorite observation objects in the first line.

More detailed meteorite data such as the composition, value, size, shape, speed, trajectory and so on of the meteorite itself require a professional detection team to go deep into the front line of the frontier to carry out actual detection, and these detection results are summarized into the meteorite database in order to form the final data basis.

Because this work is so important, the number of people engaged in this work is also the largest, and the number of small exploration spacecraft used is also the largest, a full ten small exploration spacecraft, ten formations of forward exploration formations, and two hundred artificial personnel, all of which have been filled into this work, becoming the largest part of the entire meteorite mining project.

It's nothing that there are more people, the key is that the number of ships needed is also large, a full ten!

If it weren't for the relatively small size of these spacecraft and the difficulty of production, with the production capacity of the lunar base, it would really be enough to produce such a large quantity.

In addition to the workers of these meteorite detection projects, among the entire meteorite mining projects, the largest demand for population and spacecraft is the capture team that is really working on the front line and is responsible for directly capturing suitable meteorite targets.

In this entire meteorite project, there are a total of seven meteorite capture teams, seven meteorite transport spacecraft, and seventy meteorite transport personnel.

These personnel may not be the most dangerous link, nor are they the most demanding in terms of knowledge structure, but there is no doubt that they are the most core, the most critical, and the most demanding personnel in terms of comprehensive strength in the entire meteorite mining and transportation project.

In the galloping meteorite belt, they are like the best hunters, chasing the set goal, slowly accelerating, slowly approaching, and the wild and wild huge meteorite, the most intimate and dangerous contact, with their own spaceship piloting skills, little by little close to the spaceship, and even with the two into one, under the action of the huge power engine, forcibly modify the speed and trajectory of the meteorite, and finally send the huge meteorite into the wormhole like shooting a football into the goal。

Not only do you have to compete with the target meteorite, but you also have to be on guard against all kinds of unexpected environmental elements at any time, what meteorite collisions, spaceship failures, but if there is a slight accident, a mishandling, you can lose your life in minutes.

This is such a critical work, so dangerous.

However, Rao is so, in Sima Mulong's field of vision, he can still clearly observe all the artificial technical links in this interstellar environment, all the spaceships, some of them shuttle back and forth like swimming fish in the meteorite belt, and the detailed detection records all kinds of data, and some are like Don Quixote, with a small spaceship, driving a huge meteorite star, which is dangerous, and people can't help but pinch a cold sweat for it.

Meteorite mining in the interstellar is of course low cost and infinite benefits, but this does not mean that this is an industry that can make money lying down, on the contrary, it is extremely dangerous and extremely demanding. (To be continued.) )