Chapter 315
Outer space, Earth synchronous orbit.
It's pitch black here, and here, the ordinary person can't tell the direction without the help of tools.
In other words, the word direction does not have much meaning for an ordinary person in outer space.
Above the cyan planet, a huge artificial celestial body, maintaining the rotation speed of Earth, is quietly floating in a synchronous orbit.
Space Fortress.
Currently, the largest megaproject of the Hive Laboratory is also its highest technological crystallization.
The entire space fortress, viewed from the outer starry sky, is composed of two rings, one large and one small. The two rings are connected, like a crown worn on Earth's head.
Inside the circle, there is a pipe-shaped living area. The widest place of the pipe is seven kilometers, and the narrowest place is six kilometers.
The diameter of the entire outer ring is as high as 160 kilometers, and it can provide more than two million people living in it by default.
The smaller circle is the core area of the entire space fortress.
Here are the most important intelligent unmanned factories, starship maintenance centers, various large laboratories, and spaceports where the starships are anchored. Sixteen huge nuclear reactors are also built on this smaller circular space.
It can be said that this small circle is the core of the entire space fortress.
From a design point of view, there is no direct connection channel between the outer ring and the inner ring.
If you want to rush from the outer ring space to the inner ring, you can only take the Explorer. Of course, in the future, the Pasa Islands will have more and more starships.
In fact, on Anlu Island, the second "Meteor" class starship is already under construction.
Even according to the idea of the Hive Lab, in order to save transportation costs, the future starship construction is likely to be moved to the space fortress.
After all, with controllable nuclear fusion technology and anti-gravity technology, mining in outer space has become easier and easier.
In the future, the Pasa Islands’ demand for ore will most likely no longer rely on foreign transportation and import, but will be changed to outer space mining.
After all, compared to Alien World and Earth, this boundless universe is the greatest treasure.
Of course, at the moment this space fortress has only completed the external construction. The construction of the internal space of the circle has not yet been carried out, in other words, it is temporarily unable to live in.
To make this space fortress fully operational, at the very least, we must solve the artificial ecological cycle system inside the circular space, which is the biosphere.
This solution, Honeycomb Biological Laboratory has already given out.
Next, just follow the steps step by step to complete it.
Anyway, for a short time, this circular space will not be inhabited.
This space fortress can be said to have exhausted all of Fang Cheng's accumulation of nearly a year in the alien world, and the most expensive thing is the devilish metal.
After all, to make the main material of the space fortress-a grade armor alloy, you need to use magic metal.
New Moon City in the entire continent, either through trading or self-mining, finally made up the necessary magic metal, but this also caused Fang Cheng to exhaust all his inventory.
In the final analysis, it is the limitation of resources.
After all, with controllable nuclear fusion technology, energy is no longer a limiting factor for Fang Cheng. The only constraint is resources.
The resources here include mineral resources, rare metal resources and so on.
This has once again proved the prospects of space mining.
After all, the resources on Earth are limited, even if the competition for resources in other worlds is relatively small, it is not unlimited.
But only outer space, as long as you have the technology and the means, the resources you can obtain are almost unlimited.
Without the constraints of resources and energy, the Pasa Islands, which has mastered high level artificial intelligence, can explode with great potential, no one can imagine.
This majestic space fortress in front of you is proof.
Although this space fortress has not been completely built inside, only the external construction is an engineering miracle.
Change to other countries, even those with the strongest industrial capacity, even if such a huge project is built on the ground, it will take tens of years.
And what about the Hive Lab?
According to the chief engineer of the Aerospace Research Center, it took a total of two months and fourteen days.
It is true that this time is not counted as the preparatory work, only the installation and construction time in space.
Even so, the speed is too fast.
But if someone watched the construction of the entire space fortress, it would not feel like this time is fast.
In order to build this space fortress, Fang Cheng's intelligent unmanned factory produced a total of 760,000 C-2 engineering robots.
What is the concept of 760,000 C-2 engineering robots?
In terms of labor conversion, the labor efficiency of a C-2 engineering robot is worth a hundred ordinary persons who use tools. This is still on Earth.
In outer space, the work efficiency of an ordinary person in a heavy spacesuit is a thousand times that of a C-2 engineering robot.
Even with such a high work efficiency, the entire Passa Islands has almost exhausted everything in order to build this space fortress.
The entire intelligent unmanned factory in the Passa Islands, even the intelligent unmanned factory in another world, is serving this space fortress.
If Fang Cheng does not own the entire alien world as a resource, if it is not for the Hive Lab to master the technology of controllable nuclear fusion.
The miracle of man-made celestial bodies like space fortresses cannot be accomplished at all.
This moment.
Fang Cheng stood in the aerospace command center, and his heart was full of shock.
This will be the 1st Step and the most important step for human beings to step out of Earth.
Thinking of this, Fang Cheng couldn't help clenching his fists.
"Commander-in-chief!"
At this moment, the chief engineer of the space center changed his name to Fang Cheng and whispered, "The nuclear reactor can already be activated."
p>Fang Cheng slowly retracted his gaze, took a deep breath, turned his head and said: "Go ahead."
"Yes, commander-in-chief!" He was nodded, instructed, "ready to activate the reactor !"
As soon as the words fell, Yunmeng's voice sounded throughout the command center.
"Nuclear reactor activation countdown."
Just above the entire holographic projection, a red countdown was presented in front of everyone.
Fang Cheng took a look, the countdown showed "59:59:58", and there was a row of rapidly beating numbers in milliseconds below.
One hour countdown.
Compared to this Epic Grade project, this countdown is very short.
The reason why the countdown is so short is that all the previous tests and preparations are very complete.
What Yunmeng has to do now is to simulate one side quickly to make sure nothing goes wrong.
After all, for the sake of this space fortress, the Passa Islands can be described as "sound and bones". If the activation of the nuclear reactor fails, when the time comes, it is shameful to say that the fire star colonization plan of the Hive Laboratory is also To be postponed.
And this time is not short, after all, the resources accumulated for such a long time are almost completely consumed by the big guy in front of him.