Chu Jungui stood in the office of the orbital station. Through the porthole window, he could see that a 300-meter-long starship had already taken shape. Several engineers were driving a single-man-operated machine, working together to turn a huge engine on.
It was dragged out of the packaging box and placed in the starship under construction. On the other side of the orbital station, there were a dozen similar engine packaging boxes stacked, and a transport ship just docked at the berth and began to transport one out.
Another integrated packaging box.
These are the engines ordered by Chu Jungui, and they are all mature models. Therefore, the Federation has a large amount of inventory and will be shipped immediately after the order is placed. The first batch of goods arrived at the N7703 system only two days later than Chu Jungui.
These engines are all in standard packages. An integrated packaging box is an engine unit, which can serve as the destroyer's auxiliary engine and main attitude engine. They have standard interfaces and standard sizes, and can be pluggably installed in the reserved position of the starship.
It can be used as soon as it is installed. As for the main engine, it is replaced by four engine units connected in parallel.
It is extremely fast to build a starship using the assembly method. After all, most of them are standard modules, which just need to be installed together. Chu Jungui’s staff are all skilled engineers, and the assembly accuracy requirements are slightly lower than normal. Therefore, in one
With the investment of thousands of engineers, it only takes 90 days to complete the construction of a destroyer. Now Chu Jungui can start building two destroyers or four frigates at the same time.
The assembled starship was newly designed by the wise men with reference to the existing mature design drawings and Chu Jungui's requirements. Adhering to the concept of meeting the design requirements at the lowest cost, it inherited the lightyear starship's usual simple, rough, practical and cheap features. The assembly
The speed is 4 times faster than the standard version of the starship, and the combat power is 5% lower than the standard version, but the cost is only a quarter of the standard version.
The wise man named the newly designed assembled starship the mass production type 2, adding suffixes for different levels. This naming also reflects the characteristics of making things easier. Anyway, there are still many areas for improvement in the future.
The size of the mass-produced Type 2 destroyer is larger than the standard version. The main reason is that the main structure is thicker and larger than normal. Therefore, in order to achieve the same maneuverability, more thrust needs to be added. The solution is also very simple, add more
Just two engines are enough. In addition, the armor needs to be thicker, and the energy consumption of the main gun is an old problem. The final result is that the energy consumption of the entire ship is twice as high as the standard version.
But for lightyears, energy consumption has never been a problem.
Chu Jungui walked out of the office and flew to the lower factory to take a look around. Here engineers were busy in each living unit. There were hundreds of square modules stacked in the factory, which were prefabricated crew cabins ordered from the Federation.
The space inside the cabin is not large, but it is designed to be very compact. It has beds, desks, lighting, lockers, and even a set of entertainment facilities.
At this moment, engineers are removing entertainment facilities and redundant cabinets, adding beds, and converting a single room into a four-person room.
Under normal circumstances, starships actually have enough space, and there is no need to squeeze the space of the crew. Dynasty is famous for its superior treatment of crew members. The petty officers on the starships have cabins with their own bathrooms. But the Lightyear Starship is different.
Although the size is larger than a standard starship, the main gun, armor and structure require a lot of extra space. In particular, the Alpha main gun requires a large amount of energy storage equipment, and the battery compartment alone is three times larger. Plus the test
The body's own cognitive flaws have resulted in the current situation. However, the wise men still listened to the opinions of Wilson and other generals and slightly improved the living conditions of the crew.
After looking around the orbital factory, Chu Jungui returned to the office and looked at his personal terminal. He still had no news from Sino. Since he sent a letter preparing to rob, there has been no news.
The area where Xino is active is already outside the borders of the Federation. There should be no strong enemies. The danger often comes from pirates from the same planet. So Chu Jungui was not worried at first. The starship that Xino has in hand is a starship produced by Lightyear.
He and Bilinde can fight back and forth, and ordinary star thieves can run away even if they can't be beaten, right?
Chu Jungui was a little worried, but it was useless to worry. Xino was no longer a child. He was a dignified rear admiral commander of the Federation Starship Fleet. If he couldn't even be a star thief, there would be no hope.
At this time, a message suddenly popped up on the screen in front of him, with the mark of the dynasty fleet in the title. When Chu Jungui opened it, he looked very strange.
This is a material requisition notice sent by the 4th Fleet. In accordance with the laws of war, the fleet will send people to Lightyear for on-site investigation and on-site requisition of war materials to replenish military supplies.
This notice itself seems to have no problem. Units at the level of the Dynasty Legion and above have the right to temporarily requisition materials during wartime. The law of war also has detailed regulations on requisitions, including what types of materials can be requisitioned, how to price them, how to compensate them afterwards, etc. Generally speaking,
Generally speaking, the requisitioned materials are urgently needed materials. The price calculation is definitely lower than the market price, but it is usually higher than the cost, so the party being requisitioned will not suffer too much loss.
But the problem is that this is not war time, and Lightyear does not belong to the dynasty in name. Li Ruobai is an independent group registered in the dynasty. It is just a name to file a case, and there is no need to pay taxes.
Another problem is that the notice said that it gives 10 days to prepare, and it also comes with a countdown. However, the notice was sent 9 days ago, and now Chu Jungui is left with less than 20 hours. As for one thing
There are too many reasons why the notice was on the road for 9 days.
Lightyear is actually closely connected with the 4th Fleet. Since the 4th Fleet changed its defenses, Lightyear has been providing energy and basic materials. It has supplied a total of more than 300 battery compartments and thousands of tons of alloys. Pure contribution
In terms of light years, it is already longer than a single planetary base.
Therefore, the sudden appearance of the notice seemed a bit strange. Chu Jungui thought about it and forwarded the notice to Li Ruobai and Li Xinyi. A moment later, a transport ship passed through the storm clouds and arrived at the orbital station, bringing at the same time
Replies from Li Xinyi and Li Ruobai.
What the girl means is that she heard that a new battle is about to begin, and the N77 star field is likely to become the target of a federal raid again. The strength of the 4th Fleet is mediocre, and now it must do everything possible to increase its strength. She thinks that the requisition of supplies is nothing.
It's a big problem, as long as you don't go too far, the dynasty will compensate after the war anyway and won't lose money.
Li Ruobai's view is completely opposite. He believes that this recruitment is very strange. Even if the upper management of the 4th Fleet has good intentions, the possibility of mischief below cannot be ruled out. Before the other party's true intention is figured out, the other party must not be allowed to investigate without hesitation.
After reading the two replies, Chu Jungui made a general decision. It seemed that the technical girl was still somewhat naive.