Sitting in a passenger spacecraft made by Arasaka, Yang Tianyi looked thoughtfully at the spindle-shaped space station outside the window, which was getting larger as it got closer.
The Crystal Palace was built by the European Space Agency in 2000 to celebrate the arrival of the new millennium. It took eleven years to complete. Arasaka, who later joined the development team, packaged the huge space station as the eighth wonder of the world. It does have its own unique features. at.
Whether it is the diameter of the space station, which is nearly ten kilometers long, or the life of extravagant life inside, it is far beyond the imagination of many people on earth.
Like the circular space station in the Elysium world, the Crystal Palace is populated by top wealthy people and dignitaries who do not want to stay on Earth. And due to the unique social environment of the cyberpunk world, the level of luxury in the Crystal Palace Space Station far exceeds that of Elysium.
In order to meet the massive resource consumption of the Crystal Palace, ESA has built several functional space stations in the earth's low-Earth orbit to produce various luxury goods needed by the Crystal Palace. For example, many animals and plants that ordinary people on earth have never even smelled are just an ordinary lunch for the wealthy and dignitaries in the Crystal Palace.
From the appearance, everything in the Crystal Palace shows unparalleled nobility. All the symbols of ultimate wealth on the earth have become ubiquitous decorations here. The pure gold casino toilet fully reflects this. .
Even though the hardness of this metal makes it unable to meet the original design intention of a sturdy and durable toilet, only gold, a precious substance produced by the collision of two neutron stars, is most in line with people's "Crystal Palace" aesthetic.
Shortly after the Crystal Palace was built, the most precious artworks from various national museums on Earth were secretly transferred to the space station for the rich to enjoy. Although the operators of the Crystal Palace and the European Space Agency have always claimed that what is on display in the space station is just a "perfectly restored" fake, it is obvious that most people believe that the truth is exactly the opposite of the propaganda.
Thanks to the relatively advanced aerospace technology in the cyberpunk world, the cargo spacecraft carrying supplies required for the lunar colony and space station all use a "giant mass drive" based on the principle of electromagnetic ejection.
These "non-rocket" space launch systems, developed through collaboration between European and Soviet scientists, are all located in low latitudes in Africa to reduce energy consumption during launch.
When launching a spacecraft full of supplies, they need to pass through several electrically driven ultra-high-power magnetic coils. The magnetic field formed by these coils after being energized in sequence can make the objects they carry quickly reach the first cosmic speed, relying on the huge kinetic energy given by the magnetic field. Directly break through the atmosphere, and then the spacecraft will officially ignite.
The biggest benefit brought by this advanced launch technology is that various types of spacecraft can greatly save chemical fuel consumed by escaping the gravity of the earth during the entire launch process, thereby sailing longer distances in space.
In fact, it is this epoch-making technology that helps humans in the cyberpunk world move into the infinite deep space. This technology, which has been used since the 1990s, is still benefiting humans living on space stations and lunar colonies today.
Therefore, Yang Tianyi is thinking that if human scientists in the cyberpunk world had not yet discovered the secret of hyperspace navigation, perhaps the group's actions in this world would not have been so smooth.
He is still thinking that as a high-tech world where social order and class have become solidified, if the group wants to use force to carry out high-pressure rule, the cyberpunk world will not only lose the potential for continued development, but countless resistance forces will inevitably also Will pop up like mushrooms after a rain.
Taking into account Edward's latest report on the changes in the Wanjie market, Yang Tianyi believed that the group should never take the risk of fighting on two fronts and waste unnecessary resources on the operation to eliminate the resistance organization. Therefore, the original plan was to wait until his return The world expedition launched immediately after the group was aborted.
But this does not mean that he will give up incorporating the cyberpunk world into the group's territory, but the process will be much gentler than planned.
"I have sent everyone on the list together. With our people watching around them 24 hours a day, there should be no problem."
Just as Yang Tianyi was looking at the brightly lit Crystal Palace outside the window, Harland, who was sitting next to him, put down his coffee cup and said, "You spent more time on spiritual awakening than I initially expected, but it's longer than I expected." It turned out to be much less than I expected. To be honest, you wouldn't come to this world to catch me as soon as you returned to Fenhabenis, would you?"
Yang Tianyi nodded slightly when he heard the words, squinted his eyes and said: "If I don't come to arrest you and go back to work, when are you going to deal with those backlogged documents. Even if Xingshu and the heads of each branch can do it for you, this is your responsibility. It’s the CEO’s responsibility. Let it go this time, but it won’t happen next time.”
According to the group's top-down floating vacation system, which applies to all employees except Yang Tianyi, all group employees have vacation time and paid annual leave that match their positions. However, before the holidays, their applications need to be handed over to Xingshu for unified processing, and they will be approved only after confirming that they will not affect the group's operating efficiency.
This is true for ordinary employees, not to mention the CEO who is in a high position and has many things to do.
"Well, working for you is really tiring."
After complaining casually, Harland handed the tablet in his hand to Yang Tianyi and said seriously: "Do you think the purpose of my coming to this world is really just vacation? No, no, no, in fact, I have heard about the cyberpunk world a long time ago. The business system is quite unique, and I came here specifically to learn about it.”
On the tablet is the annexation plan formulated by Harland after combining the characteristics and business models of major companies in the cyberpunk world, as well as the advantages that the group can learn from, the shortcomings that need to be avoided, etc., thereby helping the group to increase revenue and reduce expenditures, and in various aspects. The world grabs more wealth.
For example, Haaland suggested that the group draw on the experience and technology of professional prosthetic manufacturers such as Arasaka, Zeta Technology and Military Technology to open a large-scale cyber prosthetic production line, moving from customizing prosthetics for agents to large-scale production. road to production.
In his opinion, although there are currently tens of billions of people under the control of the group, because these people have not yet understood the cruelty of the starry sky, and have never communicated and integrated with society, they cannot have the high cohesion of a civilized empire in the starry world.
Before the publicity department started work on social integration, Harland believed that the group should provide functional prostheses to people in need in various worlds. This would not only satisfy the modification habits of special people, but also bring a lot of money to the group. With a small income, productivity can be slightly increased with the help of prosthetics.
Military prosthetics that focus on power and lethality can be exclusively supplied to the group military headquarters. After all, the cost of the sixth-generation exoskeleton and gene warriors is high, and the risks of modification surgery are huge. It is barely enough as a special sharp knife, but a large piece of equipment The first prerequisite for equipping the army on a large scale is that production is simple and cheap enough, and military prosthetics are a very good choice.
After Xingshu's simulation, after implanting titanium skeleton, plastic blood vessels, nanofiber muscles and bionic joints, an ordinary group soldier can normally use heavy weapons that originally required wearing an exoskeleton to lift.
For special units that sometimes require long-term and high-intensity combat, prosthetic bodies such as adrenaline enhancers, synthetic lung lobes, blood pumps, tyrosine syringes, and accessory hearts can be provided to effectively reduce the number of unavoidable injuries that the army has during combat. fatigue and casualties.
And this is just the application of prosthetics in the army. Once the technology matures, the demand and application scope of the navy will only be greater and wider.
In fact, a long time ago, the group had the idea of a prosthetic army, but at that time the scientific research department stated that they had no extra energy to develop prosthetics, and counting on the private sector was not in line with the group's self-reliance style. Therefore, the idea was quickly shelved by the military, ready to be discussed again when the time came.
Now, after obtaining a large number of prototypes and design drawings of prosthetics in the cyberpunk world, the group has the ability to mass-produce cutting-edge prosthetics, and it is natural to produce a batch specifically for the army.
But before the technology is put into practical use, Yang Tianyi said that the implantation of prosthetic bodies should be done voluntarily by the soldiers. If the soldiers are unwilling to sacrifice part of their bodies in order to increase their combat effectiveness, their superiors must not force them.
In addition, before a large number of prosthetics flood into the army, considering that some soldiers do not identify with prosthetics, the military should formulate complete transformation procedures and plans to help prosthetic soldiers integrate into the army and form a specialized prosthetic legion. This will not only improve combat effectiveness, but also reduce the impact of identity issues on the military.
After realizing that Yang Tianyi's attitude was extremely serious, Harland nodded and said: "Don't worry, I understand what you mean. I will communicate the specific details with General Ramsey and others later to ensure that soldiers will not be forced to implant prosthetics. .”
However, after confirming the production scale and customer base of the prosthetics, he needed to communicate with Yang Tianyi in advance, and that was the question of whether to open military-grade prosthetics to civilians in the future.
The reason for communicating in advance is that if Yang Tianyi decides that the group will not open the military prosthetic market to the civilian population in the future, then as the CEO, he has the obligation to find ways to avoid the impact of the smuggling of military-grade prosthetics on the civilian population.
No one wants the world under the group's rule to become the second cyberpunk, not to mention the pressure on social security caused by the flow of military-grade prosthetics into the civilian population also requires in-depth consideration by the group's senior management.
In response to Harland's question, Yang Tianyi just smiled slightly and said: "The transfer of military technology to civilian use has always been the group's tradition. However, since you think that the impact of large-scale popularization of prosthetics is inevitable, then we still use The old way is better.”
The so-called old method refers to the way the group dealt with the proliferation of chemical addictive substances in the settlements under the jurisdiction of the Fenhabenis branch when it was first established.
First of all, following the will of the group leader Yang Tianyi, the army launched several extremely rapid cleaning operations, completely eradicating several of the largest addictive drug manufacturing and trafficking organizations in the settlement, and then opened a compulsory detoxification center to remove addicts. All are sent to the center for transformation.
The last and most critical step was to target those hopeless addicts and the unavoidable demand for addictive drugs in certain areas. The group secretly established its own production line and defeated the black market with its extremely high quality and supply. All the opponents have complete control over the addictive drug market in the settlement.
In the subsequent intensification of arms smuggling in various worlds, the group adopted a similar process and successfully controlled the number of weapons held by civilians to a relatively small scale, and made huge profits from it.
In Yang Tianyi's words, "If you feel more confident when buying things from the black market than from a group, then the group might as well become part of the black market."
This is what he said, and he also did this - according to the statistics of various trade nodes in the world of stars, after the group opened the smuggling route, the armed rate of residents in the outer ring of the Qin Empire increased visibly, and many of them were in the mines. And the citizens of the empire working day and night in the factories are increasingly inclined to use force to get their piece of the cake.
Although a large part of the reason behind this is that after the People's League won the war, it increased its penetration and incitement into the colonies in the outer ring of the empire, but who can say that this has nothing to do with the massive weapons provided by the group?
Therefore, in Yang Tianyi's opinion, the same method can be used in the black market of prosthetics, not to mention that he had no intention of banning the flow of military-grade prosthetics among the people.
Anyway, no matter how many military weapons and prosthetics those with evil intentions buy from the black market, as long as he can ensure that the army can always get more and better equipment, the rule of the Star Group will never end.
Beyond that, Haaland is also interested in trauma teams in the cyberpunk world.
Not to mention that the slogan "Save a life in seven minutes, or your money back" is indeed tempting, and the idea of a trauma team armed to save lives also appeals to him.
Therefore, after the prosthetic production plan, he specifically added a suggestion for the Star Group to build an emergency service similar to a trauma team. In his view, although the trauma team would most likely have little future on a calm planet, Fenhabenis in the world of stars must have great potential.
Due to the automatic defense mechanism that often occurs when exploring pioneer relics, as well as the possible uneven distribution of spoils and the phenomenon of gangsters taking advantage of others when selling pioneer relics later, the casualty rate of treasure hunters and related professions has always been high.
Of course, some people have sensed business opportunities in this, and have even established armed medical institutions similar to trauma teams to serve specific groups of people on Fenhabennis. But the group's advantages are very obvious. The atomic recombination medical bed and the exoskeleton warriors with explosive strength are far beyond the comparison of ordinary rescue teams.
It is foreseeable that once the Stars Group decides to get involved in this field, most of the armed hospitals on Fenhabenis will either accept mergers or close down, and a very small number of powerful organizations will also choose to cooperate with the group.
After all, in the eyes of uninformed outsiders, the Star Group has been highly bound to the Human Federation. So much so that one of the consensuses reached by many alien races on Fenhabennis is that "if you don't want to provoke the terrifying Ape erectus, it's best not to provoke the Star Group."
Seeing that Harland had condescended to formulate the services available for different levels of packages for the Stars Trauma Team on the tablet, Yang Tianyi agreed to the request with laughter and tears, and signed his name to become the first supreme member of the Stars Trauma Team.
Under the supreme membership, which only senior members of the group can enjoy, there are four levels of membership: Bronze Star, Silver Star, Gold Star, and Shining Star.
Depending on the membership level, the premiums that policyholders have to pay will increase tenfold with each higher level, but the quality of services they receive will also vary greatly.
For example, the lowest-level Bronze Star members need to go to the Star Group's medical center for treatment on their own, while members of the subsequent three levels can receive a customized biochip.
The chip will monitor the member's vital signs in real time. Once it is confirmed that the member is in danger, the trauma team will descend from the sky within a few minutes, use rapid-fire electromagnetic cannons to sweep away the surrounding dangers, and then rush the member to the nearest group medical center without stopping. center.
The most advanced Yaoxing members can enjoy the medical bed service directly on the flight, which can be said to be resurrected on the spot with full health.
However, no matter which level of membership they are, they need to pay an additional fee for all losses incurred by the group during the rescue process, and subsequent premiums will also fluctuate based on the dangers encountered during the last rescue.
As Haaland continued to explain the great prospects of the trauma team, the spacecraft under them had already docked in the guest passage of the Crystal Palace. At the same time, more than a dozen well-dressed passengers got up one after another, and walked off the spacecraft with calm expressions as the service staff bowed respectfully to say goodbye.
He casually dropped a psychic beacon in the space near the Crystal Palace so that he could come back later. Yang Tianyi stood up and said, "Let's go and see what this paradise that countless people dream of is like."
