Chapter 253: Industrial Flagship
As a carbon-based civilization that has already taken space as its primary activity area, industry is undoubtedly the core project of civilization development.
In the classification of the Starfield Market, the flagship-level industrial spaceship is a product under this category that integrates the most advanced technology from the Five Great Super Civilizations.
The first thing Fan Ren saw after opening the options was at the top, that cargo ship named God Ferry Class.
This cargo ship has a length of 60 kilometers, a length that has surpassed ordinary Titan-class Battleships.
Undoubtedly, the hull material of this spaceship also uses silver-like super metal processed through strong interaction force process, otherwise its hull structure could not achieve such a huge size.
Also because of its huge hull, the God Ferry Class Cargo Ship has the largest cargo hold space among all cargo ships in the entire Galactic Alliance.
Reaching a terrifying 1.2 million cubic meters.
This super transport cargo ship is also the transport spaceship currently used by Interstellar Logistics Company for long-distance trunk lines.
Fan Ren looked at this massive spaceship, the eagerness in his eyes impossible to conceal.
In comparison, Humanity’s current cargo spaceship Giant Elephant Class is already a product after upgrading building materials and redesigning to increase size, but its cargo hold capacity is only 100,000 cubic meters.
Not to mention that due to its massive hull, the high mass it brings when fully loaded with cargo makes its own navigation speed very limited.
The God Ferry Class not only has a cargo hold 12 times that of the Giant Elephant Class, but also has faster-than-light intra-system warp drive capability.
These are completely products of two different magnitudes.
However, the quotation of 10 billion per ship at the bottom still instantly cooled Fan Ren’s fiery heart.
Shaking his head, his gaze continued downward, and there was another heavy-weight product.
Long-whiskered Whale Industrial Mothership.
This is an industrial mothership specialized in mining collection, which not only has ore refinement modules inside, but also comes with core ore compression modules specifically used to compress ore to strong interaction force level.
Don’t misunderstand, materials made from this strong interaction force metal processing process cannot be used at all even if you have them without mastering this technology.
The density of this material is too high, ordinary processes cannot process or cut it at all.
As a result, the Five Great Super Civilizations are not worried at all that various civilizations will acquire this spaceship and thus obtain the strong interaction force processing process.
It can be imagined that this is also a convenience product provided by the Five Great Super Civilizations for other civilizations to specialize more in mining technology.
An image instantly formed in Fan Ren’s mind.
If Human Civilization had such an industrial mothership, it would only need to be stably docked at the edge of the Jupiter Ring, and the collected raw ore could be directly transported here for refinement and compression.
Combined with the God Ferry Class Cargo Ship, as long as the population is sufficient and the scale of the mine is large enough, it can be imagined that the entire process from collection to transportation will be an extremely fast and highly efficient process.
If Human Civilization’s transport cargo ships could be replaced with this product, it can be fully anticipated that just at the intra-system cargo logistics level, Human Civilization could rely on this to greatly improve the entire production line speed.
For a moment, Fan Ren looked at the two pictures, and even the Long-whiskered Whale Class’s selling price of 50 billion was subconsciously ignored by him.
“Fox, has your civilization procured these two spaceships before?”
He turned his head to look at the Fox, pointing to the two pictures in front of him, his tone somewhat emotional.
Hearing his call, the Fox turned his head, his gaze falling on the panel in front of Fan Ren, and he recognized at a glance what the two ship pictures were.
Not only are the civilizations in the Galactic Alliance envious of these two products, but some large pirate groups are also very interested in these two top flagship products in the industrial domain.
However, this time the Fox disappointed Fan Ren, he shook his head somewhat dazedly and said:
“The price is too high. These two industrial ships have a very fatal problem, namely lower armor, and extremely high requirements for pre-warp preparation, which means certain demands on space stability.”
A trace of confusion appeared in Fan Ren’s eyes, seeing this the Fox thought for a moment, then turned his head and operated continuously on the display screen for a while, pointing to an option and saying:
“You’ll understand when you look at this.”
Hearing this, Fan Ren’s gaze fell on the product brought up by the Fox.
Warp Disruptor.
This is a top-level technology that uses gravitational wave technology to disrupt spaceships equipped with warp engines, making them unable to enter warp state due to gravitational fluctuations.
The technology source also comes from the Five Great Super Civilizations.
“Intra-system warp requires gravitational wave guidance as a prerequisite, and spaceships equipped with warp engines, due to factors like hull size, make their pre-warp preparation time increase proportionally.
Of course, you can also understand it as, the larger the hull, the longer the pre-warp preparation work time.
And this time is the window period for using this device.
This is also what I just said, in a war environment, this kind of spaceship will absolutely be the primary target of attack by the opposing civilization, after all, the mineral refinement and compression modules on this industrial mothership are really too powerful.
This considerable mineral utilization rate will directly affect the course of the war.
As you know, silver-like super metal has always been hard currency in the Galactic Alliance, and even many civilizations equate mining output of this metal with revenue figures.
In this situation, having such a high-efficiency mothership is basically equivalent to having a source of rapidly growing star coins, which can further be used to purchase combat supplies.
You can imagine, for a ship with pre-warp preparation up to several minutes, once targeted by the enemy, it basically has no ability to escape.
Moreover, because the two core subsystems on this spaceship both come from the Five Great Super Civilizations, once damaged, the maintenance fee is an extremely terrifying expense.”
The Fox tried his best to explain with his words, and Fan Ren gradually understood the reason upon hearing this.
He sighed and prepared to withdraw his gaze.
“However, our civilization has procured quite a few of this type of cargo industrial flagship.”
The Fox’s voice came again, and Fan Ren’s eyes lit up upon hearing this.
“Tell me.”
He raised his chin toward the Fox, looking expectant.
After all, for the current Giant Elephant Class, the God Ferry Class is a spaceship that can completely and significantly improve Humanity’s cargo transport capacity.
Hearing this, the Fox was somewhat embarrassed, paused for a long time, and said somewhat sheepishly: “It’s just very large and very useful. You know, our civilization’s main economic source is the mining industry, and this spaceship can greatly improve our transportation efficiency.”
After hearing this, Fan Ren helplessly shook his head.
From observations over these decades, he could vaguely feel that the Fox was indeed just a simple combat personnel in his civilization back then.
The other party, in the industrial technology domain, apart from some common knowledge from the Galactic Alliance, basically had nothing special.
