There were people responsible for the construction of the orbital station, and others responsible for the management and operation. There was no need for Chu Jungui to stay in orbit longer, so he returned to the surface of the planet. Since the Federation was not planning to show up for a while, he just took advantage of this time to plan for future development.
Judging from the battle reports obtained by Lin Xi, the situation of the Ninth Fleet became increasingly unfavorable. It's not that the battle wasn't good enough, on the contrary, a group of new captains like Lin Xi appeared in the Ninth Fleet, and they fought vigorously, and for a while they were actually in a stalemate with the Federation fleet, which had an absolute advantage.
But on the other hand, the supplies and energy reserves of the Ninth Fleet are also declining rapidly, and combat readiness supplies are no longer enough to last for a month. Retreating is a matter of time, and it is impossible to wait until supplies are at the bottom. By then, we will not be able to evacuate.
At this time, Chu Jungui's two bases on Planet 4 began to show their importance. Now the combined production capacity index of the two bases has exceeded the 100,000 mark, which means that as long as Chu Jungui is willing, he can build thousands of junk-level tanks in one day. In an era when humans had just stepped out of space, this was already the production capacity of a superpower. Even in the 35th century, looking at a single base, it is not low.
However, Chu Jungui was still not satisfied and was ready to continue to expand. Anyway, the base production capacity can increase by 25% every three days, and it can more than double after 12 days.
A base with a production capacity of 200,000 is called industrial power, and what is happening now can only be called an industrial revolution. In the planning of the experimental body, only when the production capacity exceeds one million can it be qualified to call itself a large industry.
Chu Jungui did not dare to underestimate Brother Dao at all. This guy was powerful and cunning, and had absorbed the experience and wisdom of many federal soldiers. He also had production capabilities similar to those of a biochemical factory, making him quite difficult to deal with.
Chu Jungui did not intend to compete with it in terms of biotechnology and numbers, but was only prepared to crush it with the power of steel and gunpowder. His confidence is the crystal power furnace. With energy, everything is possible.
A historical figure from the home star era said that if he was given enough power furnace, he could make the home star into steel.
Chu Jungui couldn't remember who said this, but he thought it made sense.
In addition to expanding production capacity, the development between the two bases has become increasingly unbalanced. All important production and scientific research forces have been transferred to Base 2. The original Shadow of Doom only has the function of collecting raw materials for preliminary processing. In fact, Shadow of Doom is even better than Base 2 as a pure survival and occupation base, but now no one wants to stay there.
Chu Jungui now had to face this problem. No one wants to stay in the Shadow of Doom. Even if half of the living area in Base 2 has been destroyed and only three or four people can sleep in a room, it is much better than the Shadow of Doom. After all, every dormitory is self-contained. With bathroom. In the eyes of the test subjects, this kind of thing has no other effect except a waste of resources and space. But ordinary humans don’t seem to think so.
Chu Jungui now has a lot of production capacity at hand, and it seems that he can consider solving this problem. He spent three precious minutes thinking, running through the research progress bar, and came up with a preliminary solution.
The solution is prefabricated dormitories, with eight people per room, and every ten rooms are allocated a shared bathroom and toilet, which is considered a unit. Each dormitory unit consumes approximately 500 production capacity, and the Shadow of Doom currently has more than 8,000 people, as well as several hundred die-hard prisoners.
The prisoners do not need to be taken care of, and continuing to maintain the standard treatment of 0.5 square meters will help them change their minds as soon as possible. The remaining 8,000 people, including their current living area, will need roughly 50 units to improve their living conditions to an average of eight people per room.
Chu Jungui gritted his teeth and decided to use 5% of the production capacity to produce 10 dormitory units every day and complete the entire improvement plan in 5 days. Although it will not meet the standards of Base 2 after completion, it is at least a huge improvement compared to before.
As for why it needs to be completed in 5 days instead of 1 day, that is because the test body has been carefully calculated. The 5000 production capacity of producing 10 units can also increase in value, and they can also increase by 25% every three days. So if we delay it for a few days, the production capacity will increase even more.
As for humans, according to Li Ruobai, most humans will value hope more than the benefits they receive. As long as they start building new dormitories and give them hope, people can usually calm down and wait for the day when the promise is fulfilled.
After solving the housing problem, the next step is to solve the coordination between the two bases. Now there is a large transport fleet between the two bases every few days, transporting materials and personnel back and forth. For safety reasons, hundreds of tanks need to be dispatched to escort each time.
Although the test body is not short of energy at all, there are many people in the transport fleet, and the time of these people is also a cost!
The improvement of production capacity is the accumulation of countless details. The later you go, the more attention you need to pay attention to details. Now Chu Jungui dedicated his time and computing power to solve the efficiency problem of the transportation team.
If you want to reduce costs, improving efficiency is one way, and directly reducing costs is another way. The most direct way to reduce costs is to reduce the number of escort tanks. This was originally one of the options, but after experiencing a baptism of S-class beasts, Chu Jungui felt that safety was the most important thing. After all, if the guard strength was insufficient, a single attack would be enough to wipe out the entire convoy.
In Chu Jungui's view, no matter how low the probability is, as long as the consequences of the event are unbearable, it is an unbearable risk. The 95 and 99 confidence levels are all nonsense, and most experts died from this.
Improving efficiency means either increasing the fleet speed or increasing the transport volume of a single fleet.
Chu Jungui's most indispensable thing was energy and materials, so he removed these two constraints, ran the progress again, and finally came up with the best plan: use an ark for transportation.
There is a better solution: transport using a larger ark.
"Isn't this an armed transport ship flying close to the ground?" Chu Jungui looked at the final plan and was speechless for a while.
After all, there are some differences between Ark and armed transport ships. Ark spends most of its time running on the ground, so its transportation capacity is much larger than that of armed transport ships, but its speed is relatively slower.
After thinking about the pros and cons, Chu Jungui decided to build a super large ark first to prepare for large-scale material transportation in the future.
The total length of the new Ark is more than 100 meters. The new 15-meter diameter tires and 20-meter retractable suspension can ensure that it can pass through most terrains, so the planned route is basically straight.
The reaction engine mounted on the Ark allows the weight of the Ark to be no more than 1,000 tons when fully loaded. If a few auxiliary jet engines are added, the Ark can even achieve a short distance flight of several kilometers.
The cost and construction time of such a new Ark is only one-fifth of that of an armed transport ship, but its carrying capacity is tripled, at the cost of only 3 hours more transportation time between the two bases.
