Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 515 Development of Mars ([-])
After the mining spacecraft captured the asteroid, it quickly cut and packed it into the ore compartment.

The mining spacecraft in the Mars Territory are all produced by Pengpai Power Company. They are currently the largest mining spacecraft. They can transport 800 million tons of ore at a time. Some smaller asteroids cannot reach this quality.

Looking at the star map in Chang Dashan not far away, I was very surprised that the mining spacecraft in the Mars Territory swallowed all types of asteroids in one gulp. Mining it back?
But this is an official action, and he doesn't dare to talk nonsense, the official always has an official purpose.

In less than two hours, more than a dozen Martian collar mining spacecraft were fully loaded and returned to Mars.

Propelled by 3% of the speed of light, the 12 mining spacecraft returned with a full load, carrying 9600 million tons of ore. Masashi Kishimoto had prepared long ago to let the mining spacecraft unload the ore at the designated location.

A spaceship is ready to put ring-shaped tree seeds one by one on the ore, and then the activated ring-shaped tree seeds grow crazily, but this crazy growth grows according to the predetermined framework.

After simulating good parameters through supercomputers, these ring trees were connected to form a huge pipeline with a length of 96 kilometers and a radius of 300 meters.

In order to prevent the orbit of the ring tree from crashing into the ground of Mars out of control, other spaceships quickly approached, and installed ion engines and nuclear fusion reactors in the ring tree pipe, so that the orbit of the ring tree pipe can be corrected up.

The construction speed is really fast. During the Spring Festival, a ring-shaped tree pipeline with a length of more than 3000 kilometers has been built. This is part of the empty ring of Mars orbit.

And the construction of the first equatorial pillar has almost been completed. With the support of the mining spacecraft and the mineral resources of Mars itself, the construction work is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Sara and Fang Ping took the flying shark mechanical beast this time and came to the construction site of the equatorial pillar. At this time, the equatorial pillar was already towering into the sky.

The two of them stood on the upper deck of the Flying Shark Mechanical Beast and looked at the sky. Even with enhanced eyesight, they still couldn't see the top of the equatorial pillar clearly. A thin line can be seen circling above.

The area at the bottom of the equatorial pillar is obviously wider than the general equatorial ring, and it looks like a continuous silver-gray area.

"Connect the vacuum railway in Equator City, so that it will be convenient to communicate with Equator Pillar, Equator City, and Utopia City." Fang Ping wrote down his thoughts while talking.

"Major Fang's idea is very good." Sara nodded and said.

Fang Ping suddenly remembered something, and quickly reminded him: "By the way, Sara, your Equator City needs to build several new reservoirs, otherwise the increase in population in the future will be a big problem. Develop the water resources left by those asteroids these days. There are so many, you can take the opportunity to plan more underground reservoirs."

"Okay, I'll write it down." Sara also opened the holographic bracelet to record the incident in the memo.

The Flying Shark Mechanical Beast slowly approached the equatorial pillar. As it approached the equatorial pillar, Fang Ping realized how huge it was. In order to enhance its strength and stability, the equatorial pillar at the bottom was very thick. The radius of the bottom cross section was at least 10 times, and then gradually shrink as the height increases.

The two of them got down from the flying shark mechanical beast and entered the inside of the equatorial pillar. Inside the equatorial pillar is an empty pipeline. This pipeline can be transformed into a space elevator. Of course, it is also possible to transform it into a mass projector.

The advantages of the space elevator are comfort and liftability, while the mass projector is fast, but it can only go out in one direction. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.

However, Fang Ping and Sara prefer mass catapults, mainly for enhanced humans equipped with genetic armor. Even without an anti-G tank, they can still withstand an acceleration of about 200G, because the genetic armor can adjust the body's anti-G capacity by itself.

In this way, the comfort of the space elevator is dispensable. As for the ability to return to the ground from space, it is worth considering. Maybe in the future, the mass projector will be used as a way to leave the ground, and the space elevator will be used as a way to enter the ground. can complement each other.

The Soss people are more experienced in this area, and they generally adopt the layout scheme of the projector inside the outer elevator.

Lay several space elevator cables outside the equatorial pillar. Although the outside of the equatorial pillar has a large bottom and a small top, this does not affect the use of the space elevator; while the mass projector is built inside the equatorial pillar, the arrangement of the two will not Cause conflicts, and because the height of the equatorial pillar has reached about 1200 kilometers, there is no need to seal the top exit at this height.

"It seems that the equatorial pillar is more difficult than the empty ring and the ground ring." Fang Ping sighed as soon as he stepped out of the equatorial pillar.

"That is, the empty ring can be built using asteroid resources. The microgravity environment in space has general requirements for the raw materials of the structure, while the earth ring can be combined with the ground. Only the pillars are affected by the planet's gravity and their own mass. The material strength required is very high. Big." Sara nodded and replied.

"Xiao Hei, come back." Fang Ping shouted into the distance.

Suddenly, the black panther mechanical beast, which was having fun in the distance, sensed the master's call, and hurried back to Fang Ping.

"Speaking of which, the mechanical animal breeding industry can also become the pillar industry of Mars. There are many mechanical animal lovers in the Alliance. Why not hold some mechanical animal fighting competitions or sports games to attract some blue star tourists?" Fang Ping suddenly proposed.

"Huh?" Sara thought about this proposal, nodded and replied: "The mechanical beast games and fighting competitions are very popular in the Zi star era, but few people in our generation know about it. .”

Fang Ping patted Xiao Hei's head: "So that's the case, then you can catch this matter, which is conducive to the promotion and industrialization of mechanical beasts."

"No problem." Sara hastily recorded this matter in the memo. Now the Herik Republic has changed from the previous centralized public ownership to mixed ownership. With the privatization of many things, the social system of the era when the Soss wandered, Already starting to fall apart.

For example, due to the decline in fertility, the Sousse people did not have a real family concept in order to increase their population. The union of men and women was arranged in a unified way. Now this concept is being broken, and the concept of small family is being formed.

The formation of small families indirectly leads to privatization. In this case, some Soss people have to be self-reliant. Sara is also worrying about the employment of Soss people these days. Those scientific researchers have the wages of the alliance. Don't worry, but there are still some workers, old, weak, sick and disabled among the Sous people, and he must arrange these people properly.

If tourism and mechanical animal industry can be developed, it will be beneficial to the internal employment arrangement of the Republic of Hailik.

The two returned to the Flying Shark Mechanical Beast again, and headed towards the canyon area of ​​Sailor Canyon. They were going to inspect the canyon area.

(End of this chapter)