On the dark red land of the Deep Sky Star, there is a large area without any Tolin. There was only dark gray sharp gravel and rocks.
This is where the first fusion power plant of the Deep Space Star is located.
It is located more than a hundred meters deep underground, covering an area of millions of square meters, but its heat dissipation pipes are like crisscrossing tree roots, spreading over several square kilometers.
It is precisely because the heat carried by these heat dissipation pipes heats the rock formations of the deep space star that there is no tolin in this large area. Because all Torin ascended into space.
It was built by a deep space civilization and now of course belongs to human civilization.
Its existence has provided huge assistance to the construction of human civilization on deep space stars. In fact, many of people's subsequent plans are centered around this large power plant with a huge power generation capacity, an installed capacity of up to 150 million kilowatts, and an annual power generation capacity of up to one trillion kilowatt hours.
However, at this stage, the main task of this large power plant is to provide energy for the No. 1 electromagnetic railgun built nearby.
The No. 1 electromagnetic rail gun is built in a canyon and has a straight shape with a length of up to 1.6 kilometers. It has a certain angle, which allows its muzzle to eventually be pointed into space. The mobile device installed under it allows it to make angle changes of up to 30 degrees.
In the main control base, the first standard resource box is ready. It is 30 meters long, 5 meters high and 5 meters wide, with a total volume of 750 cubic meters. At this moment, it has been loaded with the first batch of supplies to be sent to Sedna - about 700 tons of water ice.
Including its own weight, its total mass is as high as about 800 tons.
Under people's gaze, the lifting equipment placed it into the "entrance" of the No. 1 electromagnetic rail gun. The director of the electromagnetic railgun base was nervously checking various parameters at the moment.
This was his first official launch mission since taking up his duties, so he couldn't help but be nervous.
After checking that everything was normal and that all parameters, especially whether the electromagnetic railgun was aiming in the direction of the Sedna Star Club, were accurate, he finally pressed the launch button.
Along with a low buzzing sound, powerful current surged into each electromagnetic coil and began to provide forward momentum for the standard resource box inside. Under this situation, the standard resource box suspended in the barrel using magnetic levitation technology began to move forward.
It's getting faster and faster. By the time it reached the muzzle, its speed was already as high as more than 700 meters per second.
The people observing near the muzzle of the electromagnetic railgun only caught a glimpse of the huge standard resource box. The next moment, it had flown into the vast space and disappeared.
But it doesn't matter, the positioning and communication equipment equipped on it are still continuously reporting its coordinates and speed information to people.
It was originally aimed in a direction away from the ecliptic plane of the solar system. However, in the process of breaking away from the gravity of the deep sky star, its orbit was also changed a bit, so that it happened to return to the ecliptic plane again, aligned with the direction of the inner solar system.
At this moment, it is affected by the gravitational influence of the sun, deep sky stars, Sedna stars, interstellar dust clouds and many other celestial bodies. All of this has been incorporated into the calculation model of orbital influencing factors in advance.
Continuing along the extension of its current orbit, it will eventually pass hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from Sedna. But this does not prevent people from receiving this amount of supplies.
The reason is simple. Its orbit is advanced at this moment. At the speed it has, the point it reaches in about three years is also the position that Sedna will reach after this period of time.
At that time, it can be accurately docked into the orbit around the Sedna star, waiting for people to salvage it.
After completing the first launch, many technicians immediately began a comprehensive inspection of the No. 1 electromagnetic rail gun. After confirming that everything was normal, he breathed a sigh of relief.
With the relevant data from this first test, people made some subsequent modifications to it, and the large-scale launch was on track.
The railways take the electromagnetic railgun base as the core and spread to various mineral bases in all directions. Numerous steel plants, foundries, chemical plants, etc. have sprung up on the land of Deep Sky Star.
In addition to providing building materials for infrastructure and various buildings needed by people, such as subsistence bases, planting workshops, etc., the most important task of these factories is to produce standard resource boxes.
To a certain extent, the output of standard resource boxes is also related to the speed of material projection.
In fact, the standard resource box launched from the Deep Space Star to the Sedna Star will not be returned after the contents are unloaded. Because it itself is also a kind of resource.
The high-quality special steel it uses is very suitable for use in the shells of space bases, spacecraft and other facilities. Just cast it and change its shape, and the people on Sedna can use it directly.
Numerous mineral resources, industrial products, chemical products, raw materials, etc. generally gather here at the base, and are then packed into standard resource boxes and projected into space one by one.
Because deep space stars also rotate, and the No. 1 electromagnetic railgun has limited adjustment capabilities, it only takes about a quarter of the time to launch on average. Even so, after the No. 1 electromagnetic rail gun enters a stable operating state, it will send an average of 600 standard resource boxes every day, and the total amount of resources sent is as high as about 480,000 tons.
In addition to the No. 1 electromagnetic railgun, the No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 electromagnetic rail guns located in different places on the Deep Space Star are also under construction. Once they are built, they will be able to launch seamlessly around the clock. At that time, the amount of materials that can be sent every day will be as high as about 2 million tons.
Of course, the number of electromagnetic railguns and the number of supplies sent are large, and it is obviously not enough to rely on these 5,000 people at this moment. But it doesn’t matter. In a few years, the Earth transport ship will transport more people. The people on Sedna are also speeding up to build larger space transport ships.
And based on the current scale, that is, an electromagnetic rail gun can transport an average of about 480,000 tons of materials per day. In the past, it was absolutely impossible for just 5,000 people to be competent.
In fact, Deep Space Star adopts the highest level of automated production mode. A large number of robots, automated equipment, etc. help people take on most of the labor. Only those tasks that cannot be replaced by robots will be done by humans.
This is also the development model that Zhao Changxing has adopted since his arrival on Sedna. Because of this, human civilization can develop so fast.
Time passed slowly, and several years passed in the blink of an eye. After several more second-generation large roller bases were added to the near-Earth space above Sedna Star, the first standard resource box launched from the Deep Space Star finally approached its destination.
Everything was as calculated, at the right place, at the right time, this standard resource box was parked in the orbit of the Sedna star.
Of course, this whole process cannot be so smooth sailing. Interstellar radiation, interstellar dust clouds, and the gravity of many celestial bodies can affect the trajectory of electromagnetic gun projectiles and make them inaccurate. They can also cause errors in the trajectory of standard resource boxes.
In order to solve this problem, when people built the standard resource box, they installed track-keeping equipment on it, that is, fission batteries and up to more than ten tons of fuel, so that they can adjust themselves back when there is an error in the track.
To this end, large communication bases have been built on both Deep Space Star and Sedna Star, specifically used to communicate with standard resource boxes and provide them with position, orbit, and speed calibration information.
Under Zhao Changxing's personal attention and the gaze of countless precision equipment, the subsequent salvage operations began immediately.
Two mobile engines that can be adsorbed on the standard resource box automatically adsorbed to it, and then started, like a tugboat, dragging the standard resource box to the space terminal near-Earth base of the No. 1 space elevator. Here, people cut it directly, and more than 700 tons of processed pure water ice are presented to people.
The standard resource boxes were cut into steel plates and transported to the dock used for manufacturing spacecraft and space bases. More than 700 tons of pure water ice were lowered to the surface of Sedna in a space elevator. After that, Zhao Changxing personally pressed the button to release these precious materials from tens of millions of kilometers away into the landscape river of Earth City and entered the water circulation system of Earth City.
This is the best gift from the deep space stars.
After receiving the news that Sedna Star had successfully received the supplies, the people stationed on the Deep Space Star also cheered together.
On the fourth day, the second batch of 16 standard resource boxes arrived again. People who had already made all preparations dragged them to the space base again. As a result, people once again obtained more than 6,000 tons of iron, more than 3,000 tons of water ice, and other materials.
So far, this mode of material transportation between different planets has continued.
Time is still passing slowly. When the first batch of 40 second-generation roller bases are completed, the total population of human civilization has increased to about 600,000. Of course, most of them are minors. The oldest one would not reach adulthood until ten years later, so Zhao Changxing began to make further plans.
After accumulating technology to build the second-generation roller base, he felt that it was time to build the third-generation roller base.
Compared with the previous two generations, the third generation roller base has one of the most fundamental differences.
That is, it is not designed specifically for minors.
