Him and their stars

Babalu carries a power hammer in one hand and a wrench in the other. He looks quite like a labor leader.

He was surrounded by a dozen strong human and Lumina young men, all of whom were carrying strong and heavy... tools! At first glance, it is a group of young workers who are in the burning years of passion, walking on the way to work. Their steps are firm and full of enthusiasm and vitality, as if they are taking big steps into the new world.

However, Busca, who stood aside, had a completely different view.

"After a while, when you meet someone, be sure to stay calm! Although he entered Area A directly, he is a Central Special Agent after all!"

Babalu said solemnly: "You are overthinking it. I just want to show the workers the style of the special correspondent! Moreover, everyone also wants to see the style of the Central Commissioner!"

"Can you put that gun away?"

Babalu thought for a while, then stuffed the pistol into his backpack again, and ordered the workers: "Control all those messy things in your hands! Just hammers and wrenches, what's going on with the knife? Wait. Wait, that thing is obviously a carbon saber, right? Where did you get it?"

"Brother, who said this is a saber? It's a machete, used for cutting wood!"

"Yes, boss, this thing is just a crowbar. It can't set fire or generate electricity!"

Everyone approached the destination quickly and aggressively, but when they saw the factory building in the distance, looking at the majestic factory building in the distance, they slowly fell silent.

For these teenagers who grew up in Red Maple Factory and Maple City, Red Maple Factory is their home. This place, which they and their parents call Factory A or Factory No. 1, is the giant that supports the small world of their hometown.

However, this giant is dying...

However, he was not dead. Brother Babalu said that he was not dead, but just sleeping. He also said that he would definitely find a way to reawaken this giant.

At the door of the factory, Babalu didn't say much to the old men who were already there. He entered the door directly and soon saw a young man wearing a white naval officer's uniform.

Actually a captain? Although Babalu had not read many books, he still recognized his military rank.

But this captain was only half the age of the previous representative of the General Suppression Headquarters, which surprised Babalu a little.

This one must have a background.

We have sealed off this factory area, and visitors are not allowed to enter! Just as Babaru was about to say this, he saw that the other party didn't seem to notice that he had entered the room, but was immersed in the operating table of the machine, and stretched out his hand to knock.

It was difficult for Babaru not to hold back from taking out his pistol and killing the opponent. Besides, if he wasn't worried about completely destroying the machine, he would probably have fired.

"Sir, this is important equipment of Hongfeng Factory. Please don't touch it!"

"I didn't move! I came to find a way to solve the problem with everyone." The navy captain turned around and showed a bright smile, and his big white teeth seemed to be shining: "My name is Yu Lian , you must be Mr. Babalu, let us join forces to make this factory even greater!"

Babalu's eyes widened. He didn't feel any excitement, but he just felt that the brain on the other side must not be working very well.

"The Red Maple Factory is a witness to the friendship between Lumina and the people on Earth. Only when it becomes great again can everything end now. Only when the machines here start to continue to rotate can the things you remember when you were young reappear. And this is what I am here to do. The main purpose of coming here.”

Yu Lian looked directly into the other person's eyes. He didn't know why, but seeing those heavy black eyes that always seemed to contain endless enthusiasm, he didn't want to use words or even psychic powers at all.

So, Yu Lian said loudly in a sincere tone: "The Red Maple Factory is the core of everything. I hope to let the machines here continue to rotate, let the electromagnetic light shine in the space, and let the sleeping ores in the mountains turn into us to change this planet, and even It is the driving force of the entire far-coast sector. At the same time, I also hope that the airport in the southern suburbs of the city will have an endless stream of cargo ships coming in and out every day. I hope that this city will become the center that radiates the entire planet. I also hope that Red The children of Maple Factory do not stick to everything here just because of a sentiment. You are loyal and hard-working workers! And workers deserve to be rewarded!"

Babalu was finally stunned. Of course he had imagined such a scene and thought about it every day when he dreamed. However, even though he was full of confidence in the future of Red Maple Factory, he only dared to show off.

Someone even crazier than me came here! However...it sounds very nice!

"So, Mr. Babalu, do you want to come with me?"

"What...are you going to do?" the Rumina asked.

"First, let it move!" Yu Lian patted the console hard, causing the metal bump to tremble and Babalu's heart to tremble.

"Hey, please be gentle!" Babalu hurried up to dissuade him: "What if it's completely broken?"

"You don't even know what's broken, so you serve them so carefully. It's not like workers fiddling with production machines, but more like slaves serving the master! As a laborer, you must have someone to break these bottles and jars. Only by awakening can you have the courage to build a new world!"

Babalu thought Yu Lian's words were quite pleasant, but he really didn't understand what they had to do with the present.

"Give me three months, and I'll give you a great red maple plant in return!"

Lumina's young worker leader was a little moved, even though the guy in front of him was a pretty boy who was even slender and fairer than his good friend Busca, and he had been taught that even pretty boys couldn't be trusted.

But what this guy said is really nice, so why not give it a try. Anyway, the current situation will not be worse.

To be honest, the current situation of Lumina Star and even the entire Far Coast Star Region is really not a big deal in the macroscopic background of the entire galaxy in the future. But no matter what, in the future, this place will also be one of the starting points for the complete completion of the community. Yu Lian still knows some of the situation.

In addition, we have already mentioned before that Feifei’s internship area last year was in the Far Coast Sector. Although she mainly served in the fortress of Earl I Star Gap, as a good girl with culture and responsibility, she still carefully investigated the largest source of deterioration of public security in the entire Far Coast Star Region - that is, Lu The current situation of the people of Mina and Lumina.

Many people feel that the reason why the Rumina people are willing to cooperate with you despite being unruly is that they believe that they should be collaborators with the people on Earth and should have the right to form an independent country. They should not become a member of the community and be dominated by the people on Earth. The lower citizens of the kingdom.

But Feifei proposed that the core of everything should be Maple City, the only modern (sci-fi) city on the planet Lumina, and the huge industrial enterprise next to Maple City, the Red Maple Factory.

Yu Lian felt that what Feifei said made sense and was indeed in line with his understanding of politics. However, as an outstanding disciple of Teacher Li who seeks truth from facts and has no right to speak without investigation, he still managed to investigate the situation here during this period.

Hongfeng Factory is an enterprise that has been established for more than a century. Its full name is Hongfeng Mining and Smelting Group Company. It is even longer than the history of the community. It was established by Mr. Coleman Tiak, one of Marshal Li's comrades in the independence era, a famous patriotic businessman, and later the first Minister of Industry and Deputy Prime Minister of the Community.

Because the location where it was established was called "Red Maple Plains" by the local Rumina indigenous people, it was a plain terrain surrounded by low mountains. The leafy red-leaf tree is very close to the maple tree on the earth in appearance and biological form, but the color is thicker and more gorgeous. At first glance, it looks like a large cloud covering the ground. It was simply a dream-like scenery.

The factory got its name from this.

Observers outside the universe know that, generally speaking, the vegetation on the hills where large-scale metal mines are located is not too lush, but it was later proven that this theorem only applies to the earth. Different planets have different conditions.

The dense red maple forest extends to the mountains, containing a large amount of Taion ore. This is a natural mineral discovered by Alliance scientist Terno more than 600 years ago. It contains a large amount of sub-metallic substances. As long as it is smelted and purified in a special way, high-quality superconductor materials and alloy materials can be obtained.

Of course, the smelting method of this special mineral is indeed relatively science fiction, but compared to the complicated processing procedures of ordinary metal ore, it finally saves a lot of processes.

In addition, under the red maple forest with a radius of hundreds of kilometers, there is a nearly inexhaustible supply of Taiweng ore. And over the mountains beyond the red maple forest, there are huge amounts of iron, titanium, vanadium and other even larger metal minerals.

Everyone knows that this is a natural treasure land for establishing a heavy industrial base.

During the empire's rule, the Duke Tannhäuser family that ruled here had limited strength and put most of their resources on the development of the "Tanwäuser Gate", which is now the planet "New Seville". So, when Coleman Thiak appeared as a senior partner of the Toss Chamber of Commerce Group and expressed his willingness to invest in the development of Red Maple Plains, he naturally received the consent of the Duke Tannhäuser family.

The Toss Chamber of Commerce Group is said to be an independent national government, but it is better to say that it is a huge traveling merchant organization with no fixed territory. In other words, its territory is the dozens of super space cities drifting across the galaxy. Naturally, the personnel of this type of organization change frequently, and it is easy to understand that there are senior partners who were born on Earth.

Under Mr. Tiak's resolute but flexible operation, several small mines and metallurgical plants that the Duke's family had picked up before were quickly integrated, and the Lumina natives who were used as slave labor by the Duke's family, They were also recruited as legal workers by new companies.

"I am the expert in business matters. Slave labor is inefficient! Very inefficient!" Tiak announced to the Duke's retainers domineeringly.

Probably the nobles of the empire who are full of martial virtue are the masters of this kind of flirting. They feel that Mr. Thiak must be confident because he is so domineering, so they decided to wait and see what happens.

Later, the newly established Red Maple Factory provided the Duke family with quite generous dividends in the first year, and they completely let it go.

However, with the help of the Lumina tribe and earth workers, Tiak secretly built an armor production line deep in the mountains. In addition to supplying the imperial cargo ships, the alloys and superconducting materials produced by the Red Maple Factory are also transported to the nearby armor factory there.

In order not to make the empire suspicious, the factory's original production plan must also be completed. Both Earth and Lumina workers are working in three shifts, and the machines are running day and night.

In this case, the Red Maple Factory had less than 50,000 workers on the surface, but at its peak, the number of real workers actually exceeded 100,000.

Over the course of a few years, Tiak led hundreds of thousands of workers and built 200,000 exoskeletons, more than 3,000 tanks and chariots of various types, and more than 1,000 aircraft under the eyes of the empire. Low altitude armored airship.

After the outbreak of the War of Independence, the workers transformed themselves, drove these equipment, and cooperated with the local guard fleet that launched an uprising at the same time. In this way, they completely buried the Duke Tannhäuser family, and at the same time ended the empire in Luna and even the entire Far Coast Sector. rule.

……alright! With such a tradition, it's no wonder why the "unarmed" citizens of Maple City were able to kill the heavily armed pirates, right?

That was the most glorious moment of the Red Maple Factory, and it was also the time when the relationship between the earth and the Lumina people was at its best.

"The Red Maple Factory belongs to the community, to the community's soldiers, but it also belongs to the Lumina people!" Prime Minister Tiak made such a promise to the Lumina tribe who had helped him.

However, all this changed after the earliest founding heroes appeared on the stage of history.

In the second year after Prime Minister Thiak's death, the Community military prepared to build a total of twelve large space station fortresses in Earl Star Gap and Lucknar Corridor. This naturally requires a large amount of superconducting materials and high-quality alloy materials.

The nearby Hongfeng Factory was still a military product at that time, so it was naturally the perfect supplier.

Due to the tight construction schedule and heavy tasks, the newly appointed general manager of the factory asked the Red Maple Factory to triple its output.

The rest is fine, except for increasing production and expanding scale. At the worst, we just have to discuss the land acquisition issue with the local Rumina tribe. Anyway, we had a pretty good relationship at that time and it was easy to talk about anything.

However, when it comes to Tion alloy, that's another story.

The current production model has reached its limit. If it continues to expand, it may directly destroy the red maple forests on the surface! This is a place considered sacred by many Rumina people.

In addition, some geologists believe that if the scale of mining is expanded rashly, it is likely to cause irreversible damage to the veins.

For the first time, the rebellious Lumina workers began to resist the management's decision-making, and even directly besieged the military representatives who came to supervise production, causing a riot.

In the end, there was no satisfactory outcome for both parties. The general manager who "forced rebellion" among Lumina workers was dismissed.

However, the management that came after that was never able to win the trust of the workers. The distrust between the central government, the military, and Hongfeng Factory has intensified.

The military representatives who presided over the construction of the fortress complex had no intention of waiting for the incident to be resolved satisfactorily. As a result, transportation costs will increase, but because the Alliance Black Lock Design Bureau, which designed the fortress, said that if the Alliance military is willing to adopt its recommended suppliers, they can get discounts and provide complete after-sales maintenance services.

Based on this calculation, the construction cost is still much higher than the original plan.

By the time the construction of these fortresses to defend the two jump passages was completed, it would already be a year later. Due to long-term confrontations with unreliable executives from all walks of life, the production work of the Red Maple Factory has come to a considerable level of stagnation. What's more, after losing the huge market of the empire, the factory had already fallen into a certain degree of loss.

Many people who don't like the Empire, don't like Earthlings, and don't like humans anyway. Even the "traditional" Rumina people who reject modern technology have begun to fan the flames.

"The people on earth have betrayed you! Human beings are all evil spirits and enemies of the God of the Sky! They are poisonous insects that deceive people's hearts! Return to the embrace of the God of the Sky! He is about to return!"

Sadly, these embarrassing and goosebump-inducing words tend to fool a lot of people. Even developed countries known as beacons of civilization have people who are fooled, not to mention the vast majority of Rumina people who still live in the tribal era.

Then, during a conflict, Factory A, where Yu Lian and Babaru are now located, was affected.

The attackers were later believed to be rebels from the Rumina cult who believed in the sky god. During the counterattack by Maple City's workers' vigilante group and the incoming security guard, they did not cause too many casualties.

However, the most important asset of the Red Maple Factory, the only automated production line in the factory that can rough process and purify Taiweng ore introduced by Prime Minister Thiak from the Alliance, was indeed damaged and has been unable to be started since then. .

It's like a sleeping giant, waiting to be awakened.