Chapter 689 Target: Aquarius
The 94th year of the empire was destined to be a noisy year. In this great era, people felt the innovation of science and technology and the tension of the human journey for the first time.
Fengchen Group, Sword Group, Monster Adventure Group and other group companies decided to use 80% of their strength to build a spacecraft of their own and target Greeze, twenty light years away. At the same time, many group companies decided that Greeze would establish a national system similar to the legendary chamber of commerce management. The empire was directly named the Merchant Alliance, and the national flag was actually two hands holding each other!
Feng Chen, a representative of the Business Alliance, said: The Business Alliance will take business as its priority and make citizens rich as its first goal.
Because of such a weird positioning, many businessmen and some people with business ideas and vision have chosen the Business Alliance as soon as possible. It was really a response from the Clouds. In just a few days, the number of applicants reached 100 million! However, the spacecraft "New War" of the Business Alliance is still in the design, and the specific number of people carrying and other data cannot be determined - but there is definitely no problem in registering in advance.
Designing a spacecraft is an extremely complex and huge project. The construction time must be calculated based on more than ten years. Therefore, when building, the development of the technology and the current technology must be fully considered. In this way, how to build a spacecraft with the lowest unit price.
However, because the Monster Adventure Group obtained the value of the first-generation spacecraft from the Empire, even if you do nothing now, you can get 30% of the shares of the Merchant Alliance. It will directly become one of the most important organizations in the Merchant Alliance, and will even control 30% of the military power in the Merchant Alliance - of course, the Monster Adventure Group cannot really wait for death, and it still has actions.
However, other groups are not inaction, especially Baojian Group and Fengchen Group. They have huge power and can spend enough manpower, material resources and financial resources for the construction of spacecraft, and even move them to a complete set of industrialization foundations in the spacecraft. These two groups alone can make up 50% - 50% of the technology of the entire human science and technology system. This is very terrible. From this we can see that these huge groups themselves have the ability to conquer the earth, which is by no means empty talk!
Just one business alliance is enough to be surprising, but now it is not just this. The Empire decided to send Aquarius as soon as possible to save the "lovely" elves there; and it was necessary to conduct an expedition before ultra-long-distance communication technology was developed - which means that too many relatives have to face the situation of communication once every decade. This made the citizens who had relatives expedition a little dissatisfied - at least in this way, the Empire broke its promise. Before the next spacecraft set off, the research on ultra-long-distance communication technology was not completed.
The citizens of the empire have a high awareness, otherwise there would not be so many registrations. But awareness cannot cut off family affection! Once in a few decades, no one is willing to bear this pain. It is natural for citizens to have dissatisfaction voices.
Fortunately, the awareness of the imperial citizens finally reassures the empire, especially this time the empire promotes peace and civilization, and has received a large number of support from citizens in this regard.
But even if the citizens understand, the pressure on the empire is not small. It has been 12 years since the elves were sent out until now. God knows whether those elves have survived! Not to mention, it will take more than 20 years to start from the earth to Aquarius! There are at least 35 years in total! 35 years is enough to change too much! 35 years is enough to make a short-lived empire experience prosperity and decline!
Also, the Empire is now replacing parts for the spacecraft that has been renamed Hope - this will take a little time. With the development of the Dragon Wing engine, the Empire has decided to replace all the engines of the Hope spacecraft before setting off.
This is not a matter of slapping the head, but sharpening the knife does not delay chopping wood. Replacing the engine seems to be a waste of time, but the new Dragon Wing engine is powerful, and with the characteristics of the magnetic engine, its thrust output is as high as 200%! The single-machine thrust in the solar system is almost three times that of Gentian 2. Such powerful thrust is enough to allow the spacecraft to reach the established speed faster and even increase the speed! Similarly, it can be used for a shorter time when deceleration!
The speed of the spacecraft is not set casually, especially the deceleration process. If it is continuously accelerated, even if the energy is sufficient, the speed of the spacecraft can continue to rise; but because the overall power of the engine is insufficient, when the star system needs to slow down, the deceleration is a big problem - if you are not careful, you will rush out and re-enter the vast outer space environment; and with the speed and mass of the spacecraft, it is almost a fool to turn around. The radius of a turn is probably more than a few light years, and it takes five or six years or even more than ten years! No one is willing to bear such a price.
Therefore, if the engine is stronger, the final advancement speed of the spacecraft can be increased accordingly.
According to calculations, after replacing the engine, the overall performance of the spacecraft can be directly improved by 20%! The reason why 20% is not more is that the spacecraft's energy savings, structural tolerance, etc.
"Hurry! The speed is faster! Every day ahead of the scheduled time, you will be rewarded with one thousand yuan!" Chen Qing shouted loudly.
As Chen Feng's grandson, Chen Qing also has too many high expectations. People are eager to come up with a great technician/engineer again, which can further develop and integrate human technology - technology is not just explosive development, and technology must ultimately pay attention to application, and this is the responsibility of engineers and technicians.
Chen Feng was the master of the past, but his son could only live in the shadow of his ancestors. However, when he arrived at the age of his grandson Chen Qing, he happened to catch up with the integration of cosmic information theory by mankind, which further triggered the explosion of technology. However, too many explosions of technology put forward new requirements for the empire - to transform these science and technology into productivity as soon as possible, rather than just staying in the brilliant theory of writing.
This is the expertise of engineers and technicians. It is enough for scientists to sit aside and give advice. Even many production plans formulated by scientists have to be changed in actual production - because scientists often do not consider costs, ease of use, and are in line with current mainstream technologies; this requires engineers to make adjustments.
Now, Chen Qing has encountered the current bottleneck. The development of the Dragon Wing No. 1 engine has been successful, but it has been three months since then, and its production line is still full of defective products. For every time a defective product is scrapped, the empire will lose tens of millions of dollars. This price is too high!
Chen Qing, who was in charge of this work, has not been sleeping for several consecutive days. He is sleeping on the production line every day. He adjusts the production technology that scientists come up with to meet mainstream production technology. This way, he can save more costs and allow workers to take up jobs with simple training without retraining.
Now, after continuous research, the new production line technology has been roughly determined. However, the Dragon Wing engine is the top technology after all. Even after rigorous calculations and lowering requirements, it is still not something that ordinary skilled workers can do; sometimes Chen Qing himself even has to go barefoot.
"It's stuck, it's stuck! Pull out the iron pin!" This is a high-voltage discharge device that is preparing to lift. To combine the magnetic engine and the plasma engine, ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure are required. However, such equipment weighs tens of thousands of tons. Now, if you want to lift such iron lumps and place them in a suitable position, the workers are in a hurry. This thing is too heavy, and its installation accuracy is as high as 20 nanometers! Such installation technology is definitely an unprecedented challenge.
In order to ensure installation accuracy, every link of the entire lifting system needs to ensure the accuracy within 10 nanometers! Because the error has a cumulative amplification effect, the accuracy of a single link is far exceeding the overall accuracy requirements.
Now, just because the accuracy of the iron pin is 3 nanometers, it cannot penetrate the pin hole, stuck in the center, cannot enter or pull out!
"Smash it in!" Chen Qing looked at it and gave a decisive order. Since he could no longer pull it out, then smash it in! As an engineer, you must also have a certain degree of decisiveness and courage!
In theory, the cost of such a device is calculated based on billions of yuan, and it may not matter if it deviates slightly by one or two accuracy; but if the deviation is too large, this top-notch device will have to be returned to the factory for repair. Such violent operations will definitely make all scientists scold them - such behavior will affect the accuracy of the equipment.
However, engineers have a different vision from scientists in this regard. In this case, pulling out will often have a greater impact on accuracy - pulling out will eventually be inserted! Instead of doing this, it is better to take a gamble and operate violently directly!
"King..." A powerful worker of Kong Wu swung a sledgehammer and smashed it hard on the iron pin, allowing the iron pin to move forward little by little in the pin hole. The huge vibration made the hoisting machine weighing 30,000 tons tremble a little.
"King..." The workers took turns to work hard and smashed the iron pin in! Such iron pins could not be pulled out by conventional means in the future, and they could only be violently cut in the later stage. Although the lifting position was set, even if it was cut, it would not affect the performance of the machine; however, such violent operation was obviously not a reasonable means.
But in order to hurry, everything can be considered!
In fact, the installation was very successful - engineers used alternative wisdom to solve the problem that scientists dare not try. The machine weighed ten thousand tons, and the power of humans swinging a big hammer was at most a thousand kilograms - the difference was too big and there would be no impact in theory.
Under the guidance of such engineers, the speed of production line construction increases with a visible progress; and workers are striving for a reward of 1,000 yuan per day in advance! 1,000 yuan is the monthly salary of ordinary low-level workers!
Sharp... The laser cutting began, and the iron pins that were smashed into violence now need to be cut down violently...
As the production line was completely renovated, a Dragon Wing engine began to move down the production line continuously, and the 100,000 space operation machinery that had been prepared long ago became busy instantly. Several robot arms of a thousand-meter-long length were constantly waving, replacing the 50-meter-diameter-diameter-long Gentian No. 2 engines with a diameter of 200 meters into the Dragon Wing No. 1 engine of almost the same size.
The replaced engines were immediately booked - these are real, without discounted military quality, of course they are popular. In fact, everyone understands that even if the model is the same, the quality of non-military engines sold by the Empire will be slightly worse - because military industry is another synonym for every cost. Commercial products have to consider profits. People rent UFOs, etc., waiting in outer space of Mars, but they didn't see a Gentian 2 being unloaded, and they shouted for bidding!
As the engines were constantly replaced, batches of soldiers and citizens began to board the ship. One factory, production line, etc. was moved into the spacecraft to store.
In March 1996, Zhang Wenliang came out of the mountain again and represented the empire to Aquarius; and in order to be on the safe side, Gao Chengyang came out of the mountain and led more than half of the empire's cultivators to set off.
The Empire is extremely cautious about this elf civilization that suddenly jumped out! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!