Spore Story

Chapter 1036 Ground and Air Transportation Business
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The warm spring breeze is blowing on the earth, showing the arrival of spring to everyone, but I don't know whether it is because the climate change of Shuangyuexing is too severe, or the climate of the floating island is just like this. The end of the spring is so late that people feel a little dislocated in time and space, and many ordinary people even have symptoms of a cold.

But no matter whether the winter is reluctance to leave or what, for friends who have already obtained one and a half eco-stars (Double Moon Star and Blue Moon), the problem of a single planet is no longer a big problem.

The huge territorial-level floating island, due to the small population of the Pengzu, has been transformed into the space center of the Pengzu because of the idleness, and has been undertaking the ground-air bulk transportation business from various parts of the Pengzu.After the Zergs were compressed into the airspace of the brood and the surface of the white moon, the "Double Moon Star-Blue Moon" commercial and civilian airlines became active, and this floating island gained a lot of private capital, so that it developed faster .

Nowadays, the floating islands with a diameter of tens of kilometers are already covered with large and small orbital transmitters, and the daily cargo throughput is on the scale of hundreds of thousands of tons.

To use an image metaphor: purely for military use, a standard space fleet of friends from motherships, drones, fleet members, and complete supplies can be delivered into space in one day.

In the past few days, here, as in the metaphor, except for 30% of the capacity for space commercial and civilian use, the remaining throughput is all given to the military.

That is to say...

"Oh, good morning, Lord Mayor!" A friend dressed like an ordinary technician, but with extraordinary temperament, waved to the middle-aged non-energy friend who was strolling into the airport area in the distance: " Why did you come to the airport again today, is your work very leisurely?"

"What's your name," scolding the other party with a smile, the mayor greeted him with a wave of his hand: "It's not because the recent transportation tasks are heavy, and the supervision from above is tight, although I also believe that although your management is not enough, you can adjust and adjust. There is no problem with subordinates, but you have to put on a show, otherwise it will be bad to be mentioned by those."

Although the entire floating island is used as a space center, the direction of the single exclusive words made it just like a factory subsidiary rather than a city at the beginning.But with its small expansion, more and more people stay here to work. Now the number of direct workers in the space center alone is close to [-]; and because they work for a long time to avoid loneliness, most of the family members of these workers also move After considering the life and work of these people, it is natural to develop other service industries; and then for the nearby transportation, some small atmospheric industrial factories have also moved here.

So, over time, although this floating island is not the previous ten territorial floating islands, the number of people has reached about [-].

Although the number of friends among them is actually only more than 7000, even so, the population growth also requires government management, so there is this mayor.

After the two sides chatted about their daily routines, they turned their attention to the large transport module that was suddenly sent into space when the launcher was activated again. The mayor turned the topic into serious business: "Speaking of which, how many were sent out yesterday?"

"12 tons."

Because it was not a formal inquiry, the administrator of the spaceport in ordinary clothes replied in general: "After transporting three sets of the latest warship modules, it took up about [-] tons of transport capacity, and then a batch of drones took up the space." We bought a full [-] tons, and the remaining [-] tons include ammunition, living supplies, and a group of newly graduated students..."

"What about today? Look at the pile of things. It seems that there were none yesterday. How much will be transported this time?" The mayor pointed to the material storage area in the distance.

There, a hill-like group of materials has been piled up at this time, but this is only the scene in the early morning at this moment.In the sky, those heavy-duty material handling ships that look like skeletons are each only about a thousand tons in size, but the actual transportation capacity is in the range of [-] tons. Now there are six ships in the sky above the material storage area alone, and the sky in the distance There are six more.

As for the various transport ships with a capacity of less than [-] tons, there are not many because of standardization, and only a small number of them fly inside the airport, but even so, they can be regarded as blocking the sky.If not all the citizens on the island were related to this airport, someone might have already complained to the city government, asking to change the material handling route, or even adjust the location of the material storage area.

Even now, looking up at the sky where there are floating ships except for the delivery area of ​​the projector, it is still shocking.

"This is our friend family, a friend family that is steadily advancing into the universe, but is unstoppable."

"But speaking of it, although the government didn't remind them, the recent continuous increase is all military supplies. It seems that there will be a big move in a few days," the airport administrator asked curiously.

"Well, but I don't know the details." The mayor shook his head: "Now there are only those two targets. Which one should be hit first or both. Anyway, they will start fighting."

"indeed."

The two nodded tacitly, and Qiqi looked at the universe through the empty space above the delivery device and beyond the delivered cargo boxes.

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In order to better play the role of the atmospheric launcher, the Pengzu not only placed the launcher on a territorial-level (more than ten kilometers in diameter) floating island with a relatively stable chassis, but also designed a container similar to human standardized containers. For the delivery mode, there are several specifications of the delivery device and there are several specifications of the container system.

These boxes do not have their own flight capabilities. At most, large boxes will be equipped with disposable rocket injectors to facilitate delivery to a higher predetermined orbit.

Through the delivery device, the orbital altitude reached by these boxes is generally around 500-1000 kilometers.

When the target arrives here, generally speaking, it will start to fly around the double moon star at the orbital altitude at the specified speed. Generally, the flight time is less than a day before falling into the atmosphere due to gravity.Therefore, the box must be stored in time, and this is the task of the rail transport ship.

These orbital transport ships are similar to atmospheric [-]-ton transport ships, and they are all skeletons.

Their large but not thick bodies will run on the track by themselves when there is no task. After discovering their mission target, they will go forward and grab the box with a robotic arm, and then install it on their own interruption skeleton group according to standard specifications a certain place.

When the number of boxes installed in the skeleton group in the middle of their own reaches 80% of the transport volume, they will start to turn to fly to the transportation destination of these boxes, which is usually an airport in high orbit.

Then, after completing the mission, they will return to the orbit of the star they are responsible for and continue with the next mission.

It is worth mentioning that since these actions can be programmed, and are simple and boring, they are all in drone mode and equipped with a 2A-level artificial brain for control.On the star orbit, every thousand kilometers, there will be a command tower, with about 20 people assigned inside, responsible for monitoring the unmanned transport ships in the orbit under their jurisdiction.

So far, there are more than 600 such transport ships and more than 30 conning towers on the Shuangyue star orbit.

And in Blue Moon, there are also three command towers and 27 transport ships, and this number is still increasing with the continuous development of Blue Moon.

All these represent the continuous proficiency and progress of Pengzu's space business.

At this time, at an orbital altitude of 700 kilometers, a 2000-ton tank arrived at its destination before the external rocket ran out of fuel. Under it, fly around the double moon star in the mode of continuous descending orbit.

However, this model did not last long.

After more than ten minutes, it was discovered by a standard transport ship.

The unmanned transport ship that looked like a fish bone quickly flew to a distance of 50 meters from the box, and then a huge mechanical arm protruded from the fish bone, and after a slight vibration, it smashed the side of the box almost every inch in the groove and complete the fixation.

Then, slowly shrink and rotate.

It took three to ten minutes, and the huge box finally fit into the belly of the fishbone, taking up nearly one-fifth of the empty belly.

After continuing to fly for another three hours, the fishbone-like unmanned transport ship finally filled its stomach by [-]%, and with the activation of the 'fish tail' and 'fish head' propellers, the entire transport ship stood upright. rotate.The next moment, bright flashes flashed from the 'fishbone', and the engine accelerated the transport ship, flying towards the airport where only white spots could be seen in the distance.

After an hour, the transport ship slowly approached the side of the airport, and then moved a little closer.

In the end, just like it captured those boxes, the transport ship was caught by the more mechanical arms extended by the airport, stuck at the junction of the outer shell of the airport, and began to receive energy supplements from the airport.

At the same time, several small transport boats flew out from the airport.

They are moored around the belly of the transport ship, and when the transport ship opens the fish bones, and the boxes are released from the belly of the fish at a slight speed with a slight push, the transport boats rush to their respective targets, and then move behind the ship. After half of the card slots were opened to combine itself with the box, the box was slowly dragged around the outer shell of the airport and flew into the opened entrance gate of the airport.

It was a brand new material transfer center designed after several concept changes after the original shipyard was remodeled.

The contents of the box will be transported to the destination by a more subdivided transportation system according to the type.Ship modules will be transported to the dock and assembled into spaceships; materials will be transported to various warehouses, waiting for distribution; personnel only need to disembark at the transfer center and then board the port.

Everything is running smoothly, and the information exchange centers allocated through the Pengzu network, plus the combination of memory crystals, artificial brains, external displays, etc., have realized the current daily output of millions of tons of Pengzu. Ground-air material exchange mission.

And now, just outside the airport, a brand new fleet is gathering.

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