novelraw Chapter 467: This Is Our Home
Chapter 467: This Is Our Home
When construction of the Asia spaceship began, the remelting and rebuilding of existing ships also started. The ships currently in hand contained many things that were extremely precious to Xiao Yu at this stage, such as flesh from the White Dwarf Alien Beast, and certain high-specification construction materials. Recycling and reusing these things would save more time than re-smelting them.
Of course, during the grand construction era, the remelting and rebuilding of old ships followed a one-to-one principle. In other words, only when a new-model spaceship was built would one old ship be destroyed and its construction materials recovered. In this way, the total size of Xiao Yu’s fleet could always be maintained at a relatively large level. This could prevent situations where some sudden incident caught Xiao Yu unprepared.
For example, if at this moment some clueless civilization happened to break in here, and Xiao Yu had just remelted all the old-model ships while the new ships had not yet been built, the situation would be extremely passive. If the enemy took the opportunity to eliminate him, that would be far too unjust.
In the previous phase of construction tasks, Xiao Yu built a little over three hundred docks. Aside from more than fifty large and medium docks, the remainder were docks used to build County-Class, Town-Class, and Village-Class spaceships. These small and medium spaceships were the main force in field battles, so their numbers would inevitably be large, and thus the docks used to build them were also the most numerous.
At this moment, with the cooperation of the intelligent being workers, Xiao Yu was massively recycling old ships and massively building new-model ships. After the first batch of Province- and City-Class new-model ships produced about three hundred units, Xiao Yu even remelted three of the four remaining Nation-Class ships, the United States, the Russia, and the Cambodia, leaving only the China spaceship as his temporary place.
Each of these three Nation-Class ships contained a certain amount of high level Alien Beast flesh. Xiao Yu unhesitatingly collected these materials and put them all into the Asia. Since it was Xiao Yu’s flagship, it had to be the best. The construction materials had to be the best, the various technologies had to be the best, and the performance also had to be the best.
At this moment, in the Number Two supermassive dock, a Continent-Class spaceship was about to be completed.
On the Number Two supermassive dock, whose longest dimension reached over one hundred kilometers, whose widest reached more than thirty kilometers, whose thickest reached two kilometers, and whose total area exceeded two thousand square kilometers, lights blazed everywhere, and instruments and figures were shuttling about. Specially made locomotives dedicated to transportation tasks inside the dock shuttled back and forth, delivering batches of construction materials precisely to designated locations. Hoisting equipment fitted with self-propelled mechanisms was assembling huge pieces of construction material onto the giant before them. Uncountable figures and robots were busily laying lines and welding materials at connection points, while certain internal instruments were installed by engineers who had undergone specialized advanced training.
Within this supermassive dock there were at least thirty thousand factories, working day and night to produce all kinds of equipment. Computing modules used inside the ship, energy transmission modules, lighting equipment, even the carpets laid on the floor and fitting tools could all be produced by these factories. Outside the dock, a transport fleet composed of five thousand ships was working day and night to haul in large quantities of preliminarily smelted construction materials from the moon of that gas giant or from a surface base on this rocky planet.
A dock was a placenta, and this entire star system was the mother body providing nutrients for the placenta. The spaceship being built inside the dock was the baby being nurtured inside the placenta. Now, in the Number Two supermassive dock, one of the two largest placentas, the baby there was already about to take shape.Luka Two, Luka Three, Luka Four, Number Five, and the scientists from the various subordinate institutes of the Central Research Academy of Science, under the leadership of the scientists of the Engineering Academy of Science, came to inspect this spaceship. After all, this spaceship would become their place of residence in the future, so they could not be anything but cautious.
Yes, the first completed Continent-Class spaceship was not the Asia, but this Continent-Class Home ship. This is very obvious. Combat ships and habitation ships are different. The size of a combat-type Continent-Class spaceship is relatively smaller than that of a habitation-type Continent-Class spaceship, yet its mass far exceeds that of the habitation-type. This is because a combat-type Continent-Class ship must be fitted with more instruments, and it does not have that much internal space. Correspondingly, building a combat-type Continent-Class ship is more difficult.
Xiao Yu had once estimated that the computing power and raw materials consumed to build one combat-type Continent-Class spaceship would be enough to build at least four habitation-type Continent-Class spaceships.
Of course, Xiao Yu devoted even more effort to the construction of the combat-type Continent-Class ship, so after this first Continent-Class Home One spaceship was completed, the Asia would be finished in at most another ten years.
The scientists of the Engineering Academy of Science led the construction of the Home Continent-Class spaceship. After all, only intelligent beings themselves best understand what kind of living environment they want. Now was the time for them to submit their answer sheet to the academy leaders such as Luka Two and Luka Three.
“Lord Luka Two, as you can see, the internal space of this Continent-Class Home One spaceship is more than a hundred times that of the old Nation-Class Home ships. It can comfortably house at least thirty billion citizens.” a scientist from the Engineering Academy of Science said proudly, pointing to the soon-to-be-completed Home One spaceship. “Look here. This is the newest virtual sun. The light it emits has been improved by the latest technology, completely eliminating the harmful rays mixed into ordinary light. Long-term living under such light is very beneficial to the people’s health.”
As the scientist spoke, he piloted a sightseeing ship, leading the group of scientists forward. At this moment he was like a tour guide, explaining the beautiful sights before the visitors.
This Home ship had not yet been fully completed. Its interior was still chaotic, with construction materials piled everywhere, various pipelines and lines exposed in all directions, and figures busily shuttling about. Yet none of this could stop the scientists from imagining the beauty to come.
“Look here.” The scientist from the Engineering Academy of Science raised his voice higher. “In our plan, this place will become a sea. Complete undersea machinery can create effects similar to the rise and fall of tides. With the cooperation of the atmospheric circulation system, there will also be waves on this sea. Whether one wants to surf, to boat, or to experience the wildness of the ocean, all needs can be met here. By the way, there is one more thing to explain. Our weather circulation system and undersea machinery system employ some chaotic algorithms. That is to say, at a certain time, what kind of weather will appear at a certain location on the sea is something we cannot precisely predict. Do you know what this means?”
Spreading his arms, the scientist said with fervor on his face, “It means that at certain times, typhoons may appear here, tornadoes may appear, and phenomena such as earthquakes and tsunamis may appear. This is a complete simulation of nature. The wonder and vastness of nature will be perfectly interpreted here.”
On the faces of the scientists in the sightseeing ship, whether Luka Two or others, a trace of yearning could not help but appear.
After all, intelligent beings were born on planets, and they have an instinctive fascination with planetary scenery. To recreate the wild scenes of a planet inside a spaceship is undoubtedly an enormous attraction.
The sightseeing ship continued forward and now arrived at another place.
“This will become a mountain range. With the help of the atmospheric circulation system, water vapor from the sea will turn into snowfall on the mountaintops. The heat of the virtual sun will melt it, turning it into water that flows down. This water will become waterfalls and rivers, irrigate the plants that live on these mountains, and provide drinking water for the animals that live within them. It is foreseeable that this will become the most famous tourist attraction inside the Home One spaceship, a paradise of scenery. Elders, would you be interested in building a villa here in the mountains to unwind? If you need it, please tell me and I will fulfill your wish.” the scientist said with a full smile. “There is only one point I need to remind you of. Because the atmospheric circulation system and the climate regulation system both adopt chaotic algorithms, we do not know when mudslides or avalanches may occur here, so we cannot guarantee that your mountain villas will not be destroyed by mudslides or avalanches. However, with the help of personal exclusive security robots, your personal safety can be absolutely guaranteed.”
The scientist’s words drew a burst of laughter, and in fact several scientists really did make requests to own a villa in this mountain forest. The scientist from the Engineering Academy of Science agreed to all of them with a smile.
“This will be a grassland. Elders, what varieties of plants do you like? If you tell me now, I can plant some within the scope of my permissions.”
“This will be the city where we live. There will be several thousand such cities inside the Home One spaceship, and each city will be unique.”
“This will be a plateau…”
“This will be a lake…”
“This spaceship is our home…”