Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

"That's great..."

As the voices of several people gradually faded away, Hong who was leaning against the wall finally couldn't help laughing.

"Mu Tian Liao? It's a good thing they figured it out."

Knowing what the so-called "Mutian Polygonum" is from Crimson, Hong covered her face with the document in her hand: "This idea is too out of the ordinary, you just import a comb for grooming pets, and I will treat you as hardworking." pass."

However, from the large number of exotic products declared by the other party, Hong can see that the human side is indeed very eager for a huge market like the Cat League.

In their words, this is a huge outlet in the new era. If it is grasped, even pigs can take off in place.

"Hopefully they will come back as they wish."

Hong shook her head, and hung the program that monitored them into the background process—although logically no one on the other side would be stupid enough to threaten her citizens at this time, but as an omnic, Hong would never hand over the safety of the people Give probabilities.

Only those in your own hands are the ones with the lowest risk and the safest.

Regardless of whether such control is rigid, direct, soft, or indirect, whether it is military, cultural, or economic, it is only a difference in appearance, and its inner essence is the same.

Hong will always use a method to eliminate the unstable factors around him. It is best to be gentle and natural. If not, Hong also has a more direct method.

"The road has been paved for you, now it's up to you."

A smile formed at the corners of the red lips.

"Miss Crimson."

...

Miss Crimson has been very busy recently.

To be precise, she has been very busy since arriving in the asteroid belt.

Although the belt contract country has given a high degree of trust, which makes her no longer have to work hard to win the trust of the country where she is located-but it is also because of this trust that she can't do poor work every day like she did when she was in the outer solar system. .

"You expect me to create a national automated economy? Like OGAS in the 20th century?"

"Yes, Miss Scarlet."

The man in front of him nodded and answered her doubts.

"I declare in advance that if we want to build such a system, manual intervention like OGAS is definitely not feasible." Crimson tried to clarify the logic contained in it, "This system must and can only be in charge of me Regulation, and in principle, you cannot intervene at will, and you cannot say that you can do whatever you want as soon as you slap your head."

In order to let the other party understand the consequences of this decision, Crimson did not hesitate to explain to him in this slightly ironic way.

"Yes, I understand."

In this regard, the leaders of the Bells Treaty countries only affirmed it with a smile.

"Why?" Crimson asked a little puzzled.

Although doing so can indeed get rid of the core crux of capitalism and directly ignore such things as the economic crisis, but such a thing that even the major countries have not done and cannot do, why should they, a small country in the asteroid belt, want to do?

Is it just because I feel that with a strong AI like her, it can be done easily?

With all due respect, this is not an easy matter. If this economy is not doing well enough, it may not be as good as the current economic system that has been in use for hundreds of years—at least the latter is mature enough, and its advantages and disadvantages are clear enough. There is a risk of being too unexpected.

The Avis Consortium was able to do it because of their nature and philosophy that they never gave birth to serious capitalism from the very beginning, but moved towards a half-step plan directly from the first industrial revolution.

The cat league can do it because the trust of the cat league members in Hong has broken through the sky. Even if Hong now asks the federation to offer 72 girls for her enjoyment every year, there will be no obstacle in the slightest—even this quota still has to be obtained. Maybe.

But what about them?Firstly, they have no ideological foundation, and secondly, they have no material foundation. It is undoubtedly a gamble to do this directly.

"Because being weak is the original sin."

Facing Crimson's question, he just said this.

"With your help, relying on the chaos of the war and the arrival of the economic crisis, we have a temporary respite - but you and I both know that this will never last long, whether it is the internal alliance or the external alliance. Turn us into a producer of raw materials and a dumping ground for goods, rather than an independent country."

"Since we can't get more cakes, we can only use the cakes we have as efficiently as possible to win a chance."

He straightened his tie, and said in a very flat, flat tone as if he was talking about homework.

"We need strength."

"It seems that you have already made up your mind."

In this regard, Crimson slightly sighed.

"Beforehand, once this system starts, it will not be so easy to stop."

"We have no choice."

He replied lightly.

"Just do it, we will give you enough authority."

"Okay, then please give me some time - I will come up with a plan that suits Belt."

"Wait and see."

In this way, Crimson got the first pot of gold that she used to start a business.

Although compared with the internal and external alliances, Belt's various statistics can only be described as appalling. The population is only ten million, and the industrial output value is only equivalent to less than [-]% of the inner solar system alliance. The living space can only be relied on. Build an expensive space station to get it, a veritable void dweller.

But compared to other space city-states, Belt has a very conspicuous advantage.

They have a complete industrial system that can be self-sufficient.

Even if the technological content is low, just being able to build a complete capital ship from scratch, even if it is an old-fashioned capital ship that is a whole generation behind, also represents a qualitative difference.

Because they do not need to rely on external industrial chains.

Although this is far from the "strong power" they imagined, it can at least provide a slight possibility for the idea of ​​​​building a national automated economic system-this is actually why Crimson chose Belt over other The space city-state is an important reason for its support.

Of course, this alone is not enough - after careful analysis of the domestic industrial situation and the international situation, she found that even if she can obtain unlimited power to build the economic system with the highest theoretical efficiency, it is far from enough Survive in the cracks between two major alliances.

For this reason, after discussing with the leaders of the contracting countries, they finalized two methods to make up for their inherent deficiencies.

On the one hand, they began to tentatively build an "Asteroid Belt Alliance" with other countries, hoping to integrate the originally scattered city-states into one force as much as possible.

This method has already achieved initial results. Except for a few city-states directly controlled by the internal and external alliances, most of the other city-states have shown a certain degree of interest when facing the olive branch of Belt—at least, they agree to build a An asteroid belt alliance is used to talk with the inner and outer sun alliance on the same platform.

This alliance has been going on for several years now, and there have been no major problems for the time being.

On the other hand, Crimson also began to seek help from outside forces—although due to the distance factor, it is almost impossible for the Cat League to use methods other than force to support their agents within the human race.

However, after Crimson tried Li a few times, she also found another compromise.

trade.

For the Inner Solar System Alliance, which is currently in an economic crisis and is under the double attack of internal and external troubles, there must be no more attractive proposal than opening up trade routes and obtaining a huge market of 200 billion people, right?

Crimson did not directly discuss this matter with Hong or Li Shang—although she admires Hong a lot and wants to follow her own feelings to find Hong, but this does not mean that she will choose to pay the price of human vassalization, to satisfy one's own interests.

The Belt people trusted her, so she would naturally be worthy of this trust.

Fortunately, judging from the results, Hong could clearly see what she was thinking, and she didn't show any dislike for it, and even deliberately helped her and Belt Contracting Countries to better complete their plans by constructing clauses.

"We will make it."

Looking out of the porthole at the asteroid industrial station that is working in full swing, Crimson put one hand on the window and murmured softly.

"Will."

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PS: I’m thinking about whether to work full time next month... This month’s schedule has given me a lot of numbness. I code from midnight to [-] am every day, and then I have to get up at noon. I often wake up when I sleep, and my sleep quality is bloody. Difference.

However, the full attendance bonus doubled after the signing is really sweet...

so tangled.

Volume 180 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] [-] Ship Review

Compared with the solar system, which is working hard to develop the economy and trying its best to get out of the economic crisis, the Cat League is much more dull.

After completing the design work of the new generation of warships, the original single pusher class began to be dismantled in an orderly manner to match the installation of the new generation of warships.

It's not just a refurbishment, but a direct use to build new warships - under the control of Hong's powerful design capabilities, a large number of parts of the original battleship can be adapted to the new warship after simple upgrades , making full use of the existing resources in hand, greatly reducing the loss caused by the fleet replacement and saving a huge amount of cost.

Even if there are some parts that cannot be adapted, such as some servo parts that can only work at a specific power, Hong can also recycle them as much as possible by dismantling the parts that meet the standards and reusing them.

Only the parts that are really unusable in the end will be remanufactured and assembled into new, standard parts.

But even so, the cost of remanufacturing is far more cost-effective than manufacturing new parts from scratch.

This is a major advantage of the unification of all civilizations. Fully standardized and modular components designed through strong AI can greatly save the cost of fleet refitting and increase the speed of fleet refitting, so that the fleet can always be used today. The most cutting-edge technology, no need to worry about long-standing problems.

Even things that are very difficult to upgrade, such as power-generating reactors, Hong also has a clever way to use them-since all the technological products of the entire Cat League are standardized, Red can directly dismantle them and use them in the factory without even needing to modify them. make any modifications.

According to Hong's calculations, through the above methods, the cost of upgrading the fleet is only equivalent to 30% of the direct construction of new ships. Upgrading 1 million tons of old warships into new warships of the same weight only costs 3000 million tons of new warships.

And this part of the cost is not all spent in vain. Although the parts that have been transferred to civilian use are included in the cost calculation of the warship, it seems that the cost is not low, but it saves the cost of those space factories, making this part Shrinkage is nothing more than a statistical game, and the true overall cost increase is modest.

This part of the cost is mainly concentrated on the propulsion reactor and some components of the main gun—these are professional equipment that can only be adapted to certain working conditions. Recycling and re-smelting, this part of the loss is the largest, accounting for about 15% of the total cost.

Although humans have a similar mechanism, because the military and civilians implement two standards, additional costs are required to recycle. In addition, whether humans are from different countries or different companies in the same country, they are not truly one-hearted in nature. Many unnecessary costs will be incurred during mutual circulation, making the upgrade price of their fleet far higher than that of Cat League, and there is even a problem that "recycling costs are more expensive than directly decommissioning and rebuilding new ones" in many cases.

This has not considered whether different military production companies are willing to implement unified standards, and whether the bidding plan of choosing other companies when upgrading the fleet will face resistance from the old warship companies, etc...

When the design of the new warship was completed, Hong had already completed the construction plan of 1.3 million tons, and then it only took her about three years to complete the 2000 million-ton new generation of warships while recycling all the old warships. A new generation of warships was installed, and only about 3000 million tons of mass were lost in the middle.

And as compensation for military conversion, the cat alliance's space industry has also risen to a new level after obtaining this large number of military reactors - each reactor with a power of 10GWE is enough to support the entire energy consumption of a small and medium-sized industrial zone. There is even spare capacity to provide energy to other industrial areas through microwave power transmission.

It can be said that these hundreds of reactors have promoted the development of China's space industry for at least five or six years.

Although the midway upgrade took extra time and effort, the speed of fleet formation not only did not slow down, it was even two months earlier than originally planned.

This is due to the advancement of many engineering technologies, as well as the strong cooperation of the people of the Cat League. The two cooperate with each other, making the production efficiency of the Cat League even better than Hong originally expected.

Coincidentally, the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Cat League is coming soon, so under the appeal of a large number of people, Hong took advantage of the opportunity to hold a ship review ceremony on this day's celebration.

After a brief opening speech, facing the 200 billion people of the entire Cat League, Hong nodded slightly, and then announced loudly on the podium.

"I announce that the ship parade to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Cat League has officially begun!"

With the short-range missiles equipped with fireworks blooming in the night sky, the first large-scale ship review since the establishment of the Cat League officially began.

The ship review itself is not complicated. After all, the main population of the Cat League at this stage is still concentrated on the planet, and the ship review in space can only be watched through live broadcast.

Knowing that what the public wanted to see was a large number of majestic fleets passing by, Hong deliberately removed some unnecessary parts on the battleship that affected the appearance, such as external working fluid tanks, and gave the entire fleet They all have a very nice paint job.

Judging from the reaction of the public, it is obvious that the effect of this ship review is very good.

Although the length of the new generation of Maomao single-push man-modified warships has not changed much, only 9% higher than before, it looks much more majestic than the previous generation.

This is mainly due to an increase in the average diameter of about 40%, and an increase in the total mass of 150%-this makes the length-to-diameter ratio of the warship significantly reduced, and it is no longer as long as a stick like before.

Although the warship with an aspect ratio of 12:1 still looks a little slender, which is not the same as the heavy warship imagined by ordinary people, but compared with the old single pusher class with 15.5:1 before, the appearance is very obvious.

At least, it can be seen from the cheers of the crowd and the shutters of the journalists that at this moment, everyone in the Cat League is feeling joy and pride from the bottom of their hearts for the strength of the Space Force.

Compared with the slightly heavy-faced ambassadors of the two major human alliances, the ambassadors of the Wisdom Bird civilization seem very free and easy-anyway, they can't compete with such a powerful civilization, so it's better to just lie flat.

At least from personal experience over the years, although the Cat League is extremely powerful, it is not a hegemonic country in the classic sense.

That's right, they are indeed trying their best to expand their influence and develop armaments, but their purpose is not to want other countries to bow their knees, but to create a stronger and more friendly ally to fight against those external threats .

Their peaceful evolution really wants you to be good, their industrial imports are really to enhance your military/industrial/living standards, and they even expect you to be more prosperous and powerful than the current civilization.

As long as they are not ungrateful and do not take the initiative to provoke disputes, the strength of the Cat League will surely be fed back to them-for a weak civilization, is there a better choice for the suzerain than this?

"On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Cat League, as the supreme leader of the Federal Republic of Jeffery, Maomao single pushes the central intelligence of the same race, and the supreme leader of the Cat League, I will announce a new 25-year development plan here."

After the ship parade in space and the cat field parade on the ground were all over, under the eyes of everyone looking forward to it, Hong stood on the podium and began to announce the next development plan.

"In the next 25 years, our overall goal is to increase the total power of civilization by at least 60%, that is, to maintain an average annual power increase of 1.9%, to increase the output value of civilian industries by at least 50%, and to increase the output value of the space industry by at least double. above."

"In terms of military affairs, after comprehensive consideration in many aspects, we have decided to increase the power ratio of the space force from 1.5% to 2%, and keep this ratio unchanged in the next short period of time, which means that in the third 25-year plan After completion, our military fleet will increase by 1.13 times on the current basis, reaching the standard of 5.2 million tons."

"They will become the strongest shield in the hands of the Cat League, and they will also be the sharpest blades—no matter what kind of enemies we will encounter in the future, our powerful fleet and the united people behind them will become the unyielding will of the Cat League. symbol of!"

Hong paused for a moment, her gaze swept across the stage from left to right, taking into account the eyes of everyone present - she knew that she didn't need to say anything anymore.

At this moment, they only need to do one thing.

"People of the Alliance, rejoice!"

Among the fireworks that went straight into the sky and the overwhelming cheers, Maomeng passed her first 25th birthday.

And they believe that this will only be the beginning.

According to the data disclosed by Hong, the long axis of the new generation of Maomao single pusher upgrade is 600 meters, the short axis is 50 meters, the total mass is 30 tons, of which the dry weight is 20 tons, and the highest specific impulse is 150km/s The new generation of magnetic mirror fusion engine has a total DV of 60.8km/s with only internal working fluid, and a total DV of 10km/s with 104 tons of external working fluid.