Chapter 265: The Answer
Only at this moment did he finally understand why Fan Ren’s expression had been calm and composed, even somewhat happy, ever since they first entered this war room.
All the answers were revealed at this moment.
When the image transmitted from the Peregrine Falcon suddenly showed the surrounding scenery transforming into meteors rapidly receding backward, he finally understood all of this.
“This is our self-developed warp engine technology.”
Fan Ren’s words came, and Li Jian subconsciously nodded, then looked at him with a face full of shock.
Fan Ren didn’t mind and continued: “The principle of this technology that allows rapid movement within star systems fundamentally lies in the discovery of gravitons.
Once we figured this out, we had the opportunity in the scientific research field to take shortcuts, or even achieve leapfrog development in civilization technology level.
But at the same time, the problem of discovering gravitons remains a mystery to this day. Boss, you don’t need to worry about these.
He saw Li Jian’s brows gradually furrowing again, smiled, changed the topic, and continued:
“Boss, you just need to know.
Take our Fox Pirate Group as an example—we not only have warp engine technology, but in the near future, our nuclear fusion energy conversion efficiency, the initial velocity of electromagnetic railguns, and even a series of equipment levels in the nanotechnology field will all see tremendous improvements.”
Li Jian subconsciously nodded along with Fan Ren’s rhythm and murmured: “You mean, just for our Fox Pirate Group?”
Hearing this, Fan Ren felt a flash of regret in his heart, but he quickly thought it through.
It was precisely because the technological leaps provided by the system in his mind were too great that humanity, as a second level civilization, could not openly reveal and use all these technologies at once.
However, this was also why he had previously transferred the Azure Phoenix Legion, as well as part of human civilization’s living forces and even large batches of population, to the Fox Pirate Group station.
Here, they could develop technology without restraint, using A’dai to improve the overall efficiency of industrial construction.
They could also unreservedly produce a series of items autonomously, such as warp engines that only fourth level civilizations have the capability to design and manufacture, and equip them on their own spaceships, thereby quickly building a fleet on par with most ordinary second level civilizations in the Galactic Alliance while saving funds.
And even surpassing these civilizations’ fleets in some aspects.
Only here, in this hidden environment, could Fan Ren fully utilize the system’s resources without restraint to achieve this goal as quickly as possible.
It must be known that although human civilization has currently reached the average level of surrounding civilizations in warship strength—not counting warp engines.
But this is not enough!
Not only did Fan Ren know this, but Li Jian and the high officials of the committee also clearly understood that the environment facing human civilization was not just the star domain within ten light years around them.
As the last star domain segment at the end of the arm, if human civilization wants to develop healthily.
When the Solar System’s resources are depleted in the future, it will inevitably have to directly face the Sirius Civilization.
This is also why the Sirius Civilization only imposes limited restrictions on the development of civilizations behind them.
In their eyes, these backward second level civilizations behind them, aside from their vast population base which they value, have nothing else worth arousing the Sirius Civilization’s desire to attack.
Wait.
Until these second level civilizations can no longer persist on their own, they will be left with only two paths.
One is to proactively join the Sirius Civilization, becoming a subordinate civilization within it, subject to the Sirius Civilization’s command in exchange for a chance at survival.
The other path is to directly face the Sirius Civilization and formally declare war on it.
Thereby taking its place and opening the only path directly to the central galactic region.
There is no other way.
And obviously, Fan Ren does not want to choose the first path.
He and all the committee members of the human civilization committee chose the second path without prior agreement.
For this reason, concealing the Azure Phoenix Legion under the identity of the Fox Pirate Group in the Ross 154 planetary system was an extremely important choice.
And from now on, the Azure Phoenix Legion will rely on Fan Ren’s system and A’dai’s powerful computing power to rapidly improve its strength, so as to quickly possess a level of deterrence meaningful against surrounding civilizations.
Li Jian understood Fan Ren’s meaning. He was silent for a long time, and the atmosphere in the war room immediately fell into silence.
It was A’dai’s voice that broke the calm again.
“Boss, the test is complete. All data directly indicates that the performance of the warp engine built this time has reached the predetermined values. Should we proceed with the mass production design and manufacturing arrangements?”
“Yes. Calculate the cost. All factory production capacity can yield to the production capacity of warp engines. Build and assemble according to the total number of all warships in the Azure Phoenix Legion.”
After the response, A’dai did not reply directly.
Li Jian beside him knew that this involved calculations for the various costs of the new product, compared against the starfield market, and cost control would require an enormous amount of computation.
Even with the performance of the Conqueror’s photonic computer, calculating this still took three seconds.
“Boss, compared to the warp engines used in frigates, the mass production cost can be controlled at 200 star coins per unit.”
After A’dai’s reply, Fan Ren’s confident demeanor couldn’t help but be stunned.
Li Jian beside him was even more incredulous.
This technological product, which sells for as high as 10,000 star coins on the starfield market, could have its mass production cost controlled at 200 star coins under A’dai’s precise calculations?
Of course, 200 star coins might be an insignificant amount to a main civilization.
But for an individual, it is absolutely a huge sum.
Taking the silver-like super metal with a fixed exchange rate as an example, 200 star coins could buy 200,000 tons of silver-like super metal on the starfield market.
This is definitely not a small amount.
Even so, compared to the finished product that sells for 50 times more on the starfield market, the profit margin here is truly unbelievably large.
After hearing this, Fan Ren’s eyes lit up.
During this time, he had been racking his brains over the overdraft issue with human civilization’s central bank account.
But now, those huge overdraft figures that seemed massive to him before now appeared so insignificant.
It must be known that as a technological product of fourth level civilizations and above, although warp engines exist in large numbers among Milky Way Galaxy civilizations, their output is negligible due to the small number of manufacturers.
In short, it is a hard currency product on the starfield market that is never short of buyers.
Although cheap compared to star gates.
But the point is, it is an essential piece of equipment for basically every spaceship in the Galactic Alliance.
One can imagine that a civilization mastering this technological product will never worry about star coins.
