The earthquake plan defeated the South American insect swarm. Although Africa failed to replicate the success of South America, after a million troops moved to Africa, they were able to achieve small gains despite the stalemate.
And all of this is directly related to the cooperation between humans and resistance organizations. It can be said that this unprecedented cooperation gave humans a chance to breathe.
During this period, the relationship between the various forces was very delicate. Human beings, resistance organizations and aliens did not take any action. They maintained the status quo on the surface, but secretly they were working hard to accumulate strength.
Time flies, and the cooperative relationship between humans and aliens becomes closer and closer as time goes by.
On November 23, 2028, two days after the South American earthquake, the assembly module needed for the geocentric base was completed in Beiyuezhou and launched on the same day.
On November 21, 2028, the transport ship loaded with the assembly module set sail and rushed to Europa as quickly as possible.
This transport ship is a new ship specially modified for traveling to and from Europa. The main modification is to add engines and fuel tanks. In addition, several hardpoints are added outside the ship, which can temporarily add booster rockets or booster engines.
After a series of changes, the acceleration of this spacecraft suddenly increased significantly. It originally took a month to fly from the earth to Europa, but the new ship only takes half a month, shortening the time required for this route by half!
Half a month is still a bit long, but it is within the acceptable range.
Ever since humans and aliens began to cooperate, the route from Earth to Europa has been very busy. There are more than 30 transport ships traveling between the two planets, and these are only Chinese transport ships, not including the base group.
If all spacecraft can double their speed, then these transport ships will play an immeasurable role in the communication between humans and resistance organizations.
It is said that the military should renovate all the transport ships on the route to make fast transport ships the dominant ones on the route. Moreover, mastering a group of fast transport ships can also greatly improve the military's transportation capabilities and lay a good foundation for future wars.
However, both the Beidu and the military were very cautious. After the first fast transport ship was put into service, only four transport ship modification plans were approved, and none of the battleships were included in the modification, including the new ships still under construction at the orbital factory.
The outside world does not understand this. Each expedition of the expeditionary force is measured in years. The increase in the speed of the battleships not only means shortening the voyage time of the expeditionary force, but also means a substantial increase in the fleet's mobility, which has only benefits and no disadvantages for the fleet.
However, the calculation is not that way. Although nuclear-powered engines are more powerful than traditional engines, there is an optimal ratio between engine power, battleship tonnage and fuel consumption. A battleship that meets this ratio consumes less and has a higher range, but its speed is unsatisfactory.
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Regardless of the Beiyuezhou Fleet or the International Fleet, all currently appearing space battleships are within this optimal ratio!
Increasing the number of engines like a fast transport ship can indeed increase the speed, but this speed is based on three and a half times the engine power of the optimal ratio, in exchange for twice the speed increase, and the fuel consumption is more than doubled than the optimal ratio, and only changes
A few spaceships are nothing. If all battleships were modified in this way, the increased fuel consumption would be an astronomical figure!
After Beidu and the Base Group developed the moon, humankind's nuclear raw material production has indeed increased to several levels, and the dilemma of insufficient nuclear bombs has been greatly alleviated. However, a group of technical enthusiasts worked hard to tinker with nuclear power engines and built nuclear power engines.
After that, the use of nuclear materials was no longer limited to nuclear bombs and reactors, but also battleship propellant, and it was the one with the highest consumption.
Continuous expeditions and wars have consumed a large amount of nuclear raw materials. The reserves of nuclear raw materials in the entire human world are not high. On the contrary, the reserves of nuclear waste have successively broken records.
This has also directly led to insufficient nuclear fuel reserves for battleships. Beidou and Washington have a tacit understanding on this issue. They both prioritize ensuring reactor fuel, followed by supplying the space fleet, and the rest can manufacture nuclear weapons.
If fast transport ships are used on a large scale, I am afraid that the existing fuel reserves will be difficult to meet the demand. If the warships are also modified, the military will be forced to limit the number of nuclear bombs manufactured, and the combat effectiveness of the space fleet will be greatly reduced.
This is not all. In order to save fuel, the training and cruises of the space fleet must be greatly reduced. Large warships can only stay in the airport to avoid consuming too much fuel when setting sail.
The military cannot accept this result anyway, so unless there is a new technological breakthrough in nuclear engines, the military will never rashly transform warships.
Of course, Beijing and Washington have thought of many ways to solve the fuel problem. The most direct and effective way is to increase the production of nuclear raw materials.
As we all know, the reserves of helium 3 on the moon are astonishing. Beiyuezhou and the International Base have also made great efforts on the issue of helium 3. The number of collection vehicles alone reaches four figures and there are more than a hundred sets of separation equipment.
The construction achievements of the moon are very gratifying, but the increased production cannot keep up with the expansion of the fleet, and battleship fuel also requires a large amount of deuterium, so deuterium production is also an important factor limiting the total amount of fuel reserves.
All in all, it's no problem to build a few fast battleships and make comprehensive preparations? It's better to go to bed quickly.
On December 6, 2028, the fast transport ship carrying the geocentric base flew to Europa. After entering the orbit, it immediately prepared for the airdrop.
After receiving the notice, Ye Han had already led the soldiers to the exit of the geocentric passage, waiting for the combination capsule to land.
The transport ship flew around Europa for two weeks, finally flew to the scheduled airdrop coordinates, and dropped all the combinations carried on the ship in one go.
Since the transport ship was in a high-altitude orbit, it took more than ten minutes for the combination capsule to penetrate into the atmosphere, and a short while later before it slowly landed near the earth's center channel.
Ye Han gave an order and everyone split up. Each soldier brought a group of aliens from the resistance organization. After more than 20 minutes of hard work, all the cabins were moved to the entrance of the passage.
Ye Han handed over the command to Luo Qi, who led a group of team members to remove the protective layer outside the cabin. Then the aliens took over and lifted the combination cabin into the earth's center channel and sent it to the center of the earth.
In order to prevent aliens from playing tricks on the way, Luo Qi's group followed the whole process in a construction vehicle. Also setting off together was a technical team headed by Fang Yan.
This time Ye Han was smarter and ordered Luo Qi to release communication repeaters along the road. The convoy kept in contact with the forward base and reported the situation in the morning, noon and evening every day. The journey was uneventful, and the Earth Center Base was opened seven days later, that is, in 2028.
Arriving at the center of the earth on December 13, 2016.
The center of the earth base was assembled in only half an hour. After normal debugging, the first batch of technical personnel officially moved in.
