Super Battleship Reborn

Chapter 25 Mining Xiao Yu started intensive preparations before construction.

First of all, Xiao Yu spent two months building a brand new titanium and zirconium processing and smelting base next to a methane lake that was sure to have no black worms for the large amount of raw ore that might come after the earth mining trip started.

Then, Xiao Yu built thousands of small nuclear fusion engines with certain intelligence, all of which were loaded into the Hope. After all preparations were made, the Hope took off smoothly and rushed to the original earth orbit. After that, the construction of the Dawning began. .

All kinds of bases, gathering and smelting equipment have been built, and now there is no need to expand the scale again, just maintain the current production rate, so Xiao Yu has allocated a fixed part of the calculation rate to maintain the operation of all bases In addition, all the remaining energy at this stage is put on the construction of the Dawn.

In the main base, hundreds of planes take off and land back and forth every day, bringing an endless supply of material resources here. Immediately after the plane lands, robots will classify the raw materials they bring and send them to different processing workshops. After purification or re-quenching, they are made into parts one by one, and then another robot will transport them to Assembly workshop, assembled into large parts, and then transported to a large workshop for assembly.

Countless robots are like industrious worker ants, and the huge Dawn is like an ant nest. Under the busyness of these hard-working ants, the Dawn gradually showed clues.

At this time, Hope has reached the original Earth orbit after a long two-month journey.

After years of development, an asteroid belt around the sun has formed in the original Earth's orbit, with a total circumference of more than one billion kilometers, a width of about 10,000 kilometers, and a thickness of only about ten kilometers. Xiao Yu knew that this was formed under the action of the sun's gravity. The current earth is the ring of the sun, just like the rings of Saturn and Jupiter. In the future, these things can no longer be called the earth, but should be called sun rings.

After observing the operation of the present earth through the Nozomi, Xiao Yu secretly sighed.

He knew that under the gravitational disturbance of the outer planets, such as Jupiter, Mars, and the inner layer of Venus, no new planets could be formed here in the Earth's orbit. Earth is a thing of the past.

It is 1.3 billion kilometers away from Xiao Yu. The communication between here and Titan has a delay of about 80 minutes. So Xiao Yu handed over most of the operation authority of the Hope to the pre-programmed program, and he just monitored the situation of the Hope at any time.

A steady stream of data is sent to a high-power communications satellite pre-positioned at the Sun-Jupiter Lagrangian point, which in turn transmits the signal to a satellite at the Sun-Saturn Lagrangian point, which in turn transmits the signal. It is transmitted to the orbiting satellites around Saturn, and they transmit the signal to the orbiting satellites around Titan. After such twists and turns, the signal can be transmitted to Xiao Yu's mind. If Xiao Yu wants to send instructions, he must follow this process, but the order is just the opposite.

Through these data, Xiao Yu can know the movements of the Hope.

Hope has been surveying below this ring in proto-Earth orbit. It is equipped with extremely sensitive titanium zirconium detection instruments. As long as it finds a meteorite rich in titanium and zirconium, and its size is within the acceptable range, Hope will take action on it.

Huh? Hope found a meteorite that met the conditions? Xiao Yu was overjoyed and immediately waited for the next signal to be sent.

This meteorite is close to a cube in shape, about ten meters long, wide and high, and about one thousand cubic meters in volume. It is mainly composed of 30% rock and 69% ilmenite, and the rest is Some impurities, whose mass is as high as five thousand tons, are heavier than the entire Hope.

According to estimates, Xiao Yu could smelt nearly 1,000 tons of titanium from this meteorite.

It's already worth it. Xiao Yu thought to himself, According to the preset program, in the next step, the Hope should drag it under the sun ring to obtain a quiet processing environment.

When Xiao Yu received this signal, it had been running in space for more than an hour, that is to say, it had already happened more than an hour ago.

Faintly, Xiao Yu felt a little nervous in his heart.

Practice, is the best way to test the accuracy of a program. Although Xiao Yu had already tested the program hundreds of thousands of times before the launch of Hope, the test is only a test after all. Whether the program runs correctly depends on its performance in practice.

The incessant signals continued to come. Xiao Yu saw that the Hope first approached the meteorite cautiously. It was not until the distance was shortened to 30 meters that a mechanical claw was launched. After firmly fixing it, the engine started. Launched, dragged the meteorite away from the sun's rings.

Everything is as Xiao Yu expected.

Seeing that his preset program had withstood the test of practice, Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief and continued to pay attention to the next move of the Hope.

Hope slowly brought the meteorite closer, and the 3D scanner scanned it, and after calculating the center of gravity, density and other information, it found the best place to install the engine.

That's right, the thousands of small nuclear fusion engines that Xiao Yu built before will play a role in this.

Xiao Yu's plan is to install an engine on it after finding a suitable meteorite, and let it fly to Titan by itself under the power provided by the nuclear fusion engine. After all, due to the limited tonnage of the Hope, the transportation capacity is really limited. If the Hope is only transported back and forth, I am afraid that in a hundred years, Xiao Yu will not be able to obtain enough materials.

The power that small nuclear fusion engines can provide is extremely limited, and the acceleration they can provide for meteorites is also limited. This means that it takes about a year for a meteorite to fly to reach Titan, which also benefits from the speed acceleration brought by the gravitational acceleration of Saturn, Jupiter and other stars that can be received during the flight.

But even so, this approach is far more cost-effective than having the Hope ship all the way around. After all, at the speed of the Nozomi, it would take four months to make a round trip. Moreover, even if the method of towed transportation was adopted, it could only transport 100,000 tons of meteorites in one trip, no more. This kind of efficiency is really low.

After bringing the meteorite close enough, Hope opened the hatch. Several robots installed a small nuclear fusion engine on the meteorite. After fixing it, they returned to the Hope. Start looking for meteorites of value for the next moment.

And this meteorite, about 30 minutes after Hope left, the small nuclear fusion engine installed on the side facing the sun suddenly ejected a light blue flame, pushing the meteorite to accelerate forward.

During the year-long flight, high-power communication satellites scattered in space will serve as navigation tasks to ensure that it can reach Titan safely and accurately.

Seeing that everything was going well, Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief and was full of confidence in this mining plan.

Three days later, Hope found another eligible meteorite. The mass of this meteorite is much larger than that of the previous meteorite. Its volume is about more than 30,000 cubic meters, and its mass is an astonishing one hundred thousand tons. But its ilmenite content also reached an astonishing 80 percent.

According to calculations, in this meteorite, Xiao Yu can obtain more than 30,000 tons of titanium ore.

In Xiao Yu's setting, Hope does not have the decision-making power to decide whether to collect such a large meteorite. After it sent the information to Xiao Yu, it began to track the meteor, waiting for Xiao Yu's reply.

Xiao Yu thought about it for a while, but decided to collect it. After all, more than 30,000 tons of titanium ore is not a small amount. Only the shipping plan needs to be revised.

Xiao Yu quickly made an improved transportation plan and sent it to the Hope.

After Hope received the signal, according to the program guide, it first dragged it away from the ecliptic plane, and then installed fifteen nuclear fusion engines on it before leaving here and continuing to explore the next meteorite.

In half a year, Hope has collected nearly 300 meteorites, of different sizes and masses. The largest has a mass of 300,000 tons, and the smallest has a weight of 2,000 tons. Xiao Yu has estimated that these nearly 300 meteorites can provide him with about three million tons of titanium ore and about one million tons of zirconium ore, which is enough to support himself in completing the first phase of the construction of the interstellar fleet. .

After all this was done, the three hundred meteorites were installed on the fusion engine one by one, and after sending them on the road, Xiao Yu gave the order to return to the Hope.

Hope's speed is several times faster than the meteorites, but even so, it is expected that it will take two months for Hope to return to Titan, and then, after another four months or so, the first meteorite will will reach Saturn's orbit. At that time, the Hope will need to respond. After all, there are too many variables in a year, and it is difficult to ensure that the meteorites can accurately hit the target.

Moreover, when entering the atmosphere, Xiao Yu did not want to lose quality due to friction with the atmosphere. That would be too much of a loss. However, Xiao Yu has already made a comprehensive response plan to ensure that these meteorites can safely reach the processing plant he prepared for them with minimal loss.

Half a year has passed, and the construction of the Dawning spacecraft has come to an end, and all post-processing is currently underway. Soon, the Dawning spacecraft can also leave Titan and fly freely in space.

Everything is proceeding according to Xiao Yu's plan.

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