Chapter 217: Changes In Great Xia
The Punisher’s massive ship hull began pushing forward crazily in space at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Obviously, the engine structure under this crazy idea can completely rival the afterburner available for purchase on the Starfield Market.
Under the operator’s continuous uninterrupted acceleration, the spaceship’s speed soon reached the maximum speed of 5% speed of light.
The huge breakthrough brought by the material upgrade directly elevated the spaceship’s maximum speed to super high speed of 15000 kilometers per second.
Without the silver-like super metal material provided by the Fox after enhanced processing, with humanity’s original molecular level processing capability, the original Punisher’s speed could only reach a maximum of 3000 kilometers.
One can imagine how great the difference is here.
“If you hadn’t crazily dispatched 5000 such warships, my Dreadnought would have had no need to activate the war fortress device to fight back, and wouldn’t have been hit by the doomsday weapon.”
The Fox looked at the Punisher entering inertial flight in the simulator and couldn’t help but murmur a sigh.
Fan Ren nodded. In these years of contact with the Fox, he had already roughly understood the general situation of civilizations in the Galactic Alliance.
Most other civilizations would take the raw ore materials they collected to the Starfield Market to exchange for weapons and equipment; it was impossible for them to be as crazily devoted as humanity to using them all to build spaceships.
After all, with the declaration of war fee hanging over their heads, invading a corresponding civilization also came at a considerable cost.
Moreover, maintaining such a proficient and massive fleet would require a considerable sum just for personnel configuration.
And these personnel, if put to mining, would generate a considerable income.
But Fan Ren didn’t think that way.
Now, the 2 legions were something Great Xia absolutely had to retain, and it wasn’t out of the question to continue increasing the number of combat legions on this basis in the future.
In his view, while the Starfield Market was certainly very convenient, self-strength was forever a necessary step to stand firm.
“In conventional combat environments, the battleship basically already exists as the warship with the strongest firepower. Even if your weapons are extremely backward, relying on the massive ship hull platform, with a sufficiently long electromagnetic cannon acceleration rail, it can still cause certain damage to our Dreadnought.”
Fan Ren nodded; the testing here was already complete.
He understood what the Fox meant: theoretically, their electromagnetic cannon principle was no different in essence from the electromagnetic cannon theoretical technology on the Starfield Market.
The most critical factor was that humanity was still using the ‘relatively backward’ nuclear fusion power generation technology to power supply the electromagnetic cannon.
Compared to using liquid metallic hydrogen as fuel for power supply, the power generation output was a huge gap lower.
Thus causing the electromagnetic cannon’s power to be lower.
But these things weren’t urgent now. Upon hearing this, Fan Ren slightly closed his eyes, and his consciousness entered the data panel in his mind.
Basic Science: Level 1 (582/1000)
Electronics: Level 1 (835/1000)
Mechanics: Level 1 (688/1000)
Materials Science: Level 1 (911/1000)
Space Science: Level 1 (372/1000)
It could be seen that after having the material processing technology provided by the Fox, his Materials Science had reached the final sprint stage.
And another key node was Mechanics.
Next, Fan Ren planned to use a few years to complete the research sprint for Mechanics, breaking the experience points through the 700 mark to unlock the next level of mechanical technology.
With the system’s capability, it was believed to absolutely give Fan Ren a surprise.
Ganymede, Pioneer Base.
“Director, the new batch of workers has completed their placement work. It’s expected that by the end of this year, our base can reach a population scale of 2 billion.”
Deputy David was reporting to Mo Han.
Mo Han nodded. Unlike ordinary people, as the base’s first officer, he knew the inside story.
His term of office had long exceeded the limit, even by nearly 20 years.
However, at that time, he had not chosen to enter the hibernation pod, but instead continued to stay here.
For this, Xinghai had provided him with two anti-aging treatments totaling 20+50=70 years for free.
And promised Mo Han that as long as he worked until near the end of his lifespan, they could provide him with unlimited hibernation pod hibernation duration at any time.
Everything has a cost, and the cost of this unlimited hibernation was that Mo Han had to work until old age.
But he felt it was all worth it.
Because as a ‘high-level’ personnel, he knew the future direction of the brainwave technology Xinghai was developing.
The ultimate purpose was like A’dai, to achieve eternal life through consciousness, independent of the physical body.
“Director?”
David reminded him, pulling the distracted Mo Han back to reality.
“We’re old, aren’t we? 120 years old?”
Mo Han shook his head, sighed, and could no longer clearly remember his own age.
Hearing this, David on the opposite side also seemed a bit dazed, then nodded and said: “You’re 129 years old, and I’m 120 this year. Indeed, we’re both old.”
“Do you think all this is worth it?”
The old superior on the opposite side suddenly asked a strange question, and David knew what he meant.
Mo Han wasn’t asking about trading work term for unlimited hibernation.
“I don’t know, but they seem to never make mistakes.”
David recalled from the time Great Xia rose in the East to the present century, from extreme poverty and backwardness with nothing.
In merely a hundred years, it had transformed, not only fully establishing a cliff-like lead on Blue Star decades ago.
And now it even held the strength of tens of thousands of invincible space battleships.
Every time he saw the workers sweating in the mines, who came from the former White Alliance, David felt like he was dreaming.
Once, they were the superior race on Blue Star.
But now, with country destroyed and family ruined, they could only fall to the distant alien planet to do the most basic mining work to survive.
Mo Han saw his state and shook his head in denial: “Great Xia isn’t us. Even though they now have the strength to completely dominate the globe, have you noticed they have no interest in other regions on Blue Star at all.”
Hearing this, David nodded.
Moon, Mars, Europa Ganymede, space!
These were the places Great Xia valued.
From space elevator to Blue Star Hub, from Lunar Base to Utopia City.
From Jupiter-Mars Hub to the establishment of Qiming Base.
Along this path, Great Xia seemed radical but actually proceeded very steadily.
Mo Han continued to sigh: “They even retain certain rights for these people with country destroyed and family ruined, such as working 5 days a week, working hours not exceeding 7 hours, and as you know, the salary here is much higher than ordinary work on Blue Star.
Although they are people without even identity, as long as they work for 10 years, they still enjoy free anti-aging treatment.”
A trace of inexplicable emotion flowed in David’s eyes as he took over the words.
“Moreover, mining personnel with no bad records within 20 years can all join Great Xia citizenship, thereby enjoying the same rights and benefits as native Great Xia people.”
At this point, the two exchanged a glance, and the next sentence went unsaid.
This was Great Xia’s ultimate means to complete unifying Blue Star next.
As for how to handle those who can’t join Great Xia citizenship?
Thinking of this, a strange smile appeared at the corner of Mo Han’s mouth.
Who cares.
