Super Plane Mall

Chapter 373 Shipyard
Due to the successful research of the warp speed engine, the Ming Empire has also entered a new era, the warp speed era, and when manufacturing the warp speed engine, the Ming Empire also had a major breakthrough in materials, so now the Ming Empire is using the existing Technology has already made it possible to manufacture even larger spaceships, and if the new breakthrough materials of the Ming Empire are used to make spaceships, then the Ming Empire can make spaceships that are about 100 kilometers in size.

This is a huge breakthrough for the Ming Empire, because there are very few civilizations that can manufacture such a huge spaceship, whether in the mall or in the Milky Way. Such a spaceship is already a real heavy-duty space battleship.

Because such a spaceship has already reached the level of a mothership, the Ming Empire immediately launched a new shipbuilding plan after the breakthrough of new materials. Orbit and lunar orbit, because such a spacecraft can already have an impact on the earth and the moon due to its own gravity.

So Zhu Lei has to reconsider building a shipbuilding base. It is already very difficult to manufacture warships of fifteen kilometers in these shipyards near the earth, so there is no need to think about it near the earth.

There are also many addresses in the solar system for Zhu Lei's new shipyard, but considering the future development of the Ming Empire, there are actually not many places for him to choose. Among them, Zhu Lei values ​​​​the four most important places. The first is It used to be the original asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but now this place is very empty, and even meteorite fragments cannot be seen.

All asteroids and meteorites have become raw materials for Mars and spaceships, so the empty asteroid belt has become one of the choices for Zhu Lei to build a new shipbuilding base, but this place also has its own shortcomings, that is, With the development of the Ming Empire faster and faster.The entire solar system is getting busier and busier. In the future, this place must be the gathering place of many factories in the solar system, and Zhu Lei still chose to give up here. After all, it is enough to manufacture large and super large spaceships here, but he wants to manufacture mothership level spaceship, this place is still not good enough.

The second is in the Kuiper belt, but the threat of asteroids in the Kuiper belt is too great, and the distance from the earth is too far, which is very inconvenient, and because it is far away from the sun, the energy consumption in the Kuiper belt is also very high Larger, without the energy provided by the sun, all energy consumption depends on nuclear fusion, which is too expensive for a shipbuilding base, not to mention that there are no factories here except for an airport. All the factories are in the inner circle of the solar system, and there are not even factories for extracting minerals here, so the construction of a spacecraft manufacturing center in the Kuiper belt was also rejected by Zhu Lei.

So there are only the last two options left, but these two options are actually not very different for Zhu Lei, and Zhu Lei will definitely build a shipyard after thinking about these two places, but A matter of size.

The first of them is in the orbit of Jupiter. Due to the huge size of Jupiter, it is very feasible to build a shipyard in Jupiter’s orbit, and Jupiter also has a strong magnetic field, which can effectively resist the solar wind and transform the shipyards. The damage caused by the instrument, and because Jupiter is very large, even if Zhu Lei builds the largest spacecraft in Jupiter's orbit, the impact on Jupiter will be minimal at all.

And since there are no living things on Jupiter, even if the spacecraft manufactured has a slight impact on Jupiter, it will not affect the overall situation.

However, manufacturing spaceships in Jupiter’s orbit still has certain limitations, and the nature of manufacturing spaceships in Earth’s orbit is similar. When the size of the spaceship exceeds a certain level, the gravitational influence between the spaceship and Jupiter will be It's very serious, but that's a matter of the future, and that will have to wait until human beings are able to manufacture fortress-level spaceships.

So the second location is because there is a long distance between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, so the shipbuilding base of the fortress level will be selected here in the future. These two places are currently the most important places for Zhu Lei, but for the fortress level The Ming Empire still can't manufacture spaceships like these.

So this matter can't be rushed, so Zhu Lei's most important thing now is to build a shipbuilding base capable of manufacturing motherships in the orbit of Jupiter.

Following Zhu Lei's order, the entire Yong'an Group began to get busy again. The spaceship design department of the Yong'an Group not only had to design new spaceships, that is, spaceships of the mothership level, but also carried out research on It can be said that the entire Wing On Group has been busy from top to bottom.

This time, due to the huge size of the new shipbuilding base, the construction time is also very long. You must know that Zhu Lei's Yong'an Group is not the Yong'an Group of decades ago, and the current Daming Empire is not the Daming Empire of decades ago. The empire, when introducing various cosmic man-made celestial bodies, is not as efficient as it was decades ago.

However, even with the current efficiency of Wing On Group, it will take 30 to [-] years to build such a shipyard, so the difficulty of using this shipyard can be imagined.

The diameter of the new shipbuilding base has reached more than 1000 kilometers, and it is also in the shape of a honeycomb like the old shipbuilding base. However, compared with the old ones, the spaceships that this shipbuilding base can manufacture are not only in size and efficiency, but the old shipyards are incomparable. Yes, even spaceships that can be manufactured at the same time are incomparable.

The new shipbuilding base can manufacture the largest spacecraft with a distance of 1500 kilometers. Five such spacecraft can be started at the same time in this new shipbuilding base.

The technology of a 1500-kilometer spaceship is not yet available in the Ming Empire, even with the latest materials of the Ming Empire. After all, the 1500-kilometer spaceship already belongs to a large space carrier, and such technology is simply not available. However, for the future development of the Ming Empire, all shipyards must be owned, and they can be built immediately after the technology is available. Otherwise, when the Ming Empire is able to manufacture such spaceships, if they are trying to build shipyards, then It will waste a lot of time, which is completely unnecessary.

As time went by, the first human spacecraft capable of low-speed navigation finally opened the shipbuilding platform of the lunar shipbuilding base. This is no less meaningful to the entire human race than the launch of the first satellite by human beings. It also marks the Ming Empire. To become an advanced civilization in the Milky Way, of course, in Zhu Lei's mall system, the Ming Empire is only an intermediate civilization.

(End of this chapter)