N7703 star field, planet No. 4.
Chu Jungui stood in the office of the orbital station. Through the porthole window, he could see that a 300-meter-long starship had already taken shape. Several engineers were driving a single-man-operated machine, working together to turn a huge engine on. It was towed from the packaging box and placed in the starship under construction. On the other side of the orbital station, there were a dozen similar engine packaging boxes stacked, and a transport ship had just docked at the berth and began to transport integrated packaging boxes one after another.
These are all engines ordered by Chu Jungui, and they are all mature models. Therefore, the Federation has a large amount of inventory and will be shipped immediately after the order is placed. The first batch of goods arrived at the N7703 system only two days later than Chu Jungui.
These engines are all in standard packages. An integrated packaging box is an engine unit, which can serve as the destroyer's auxiliary engine and main attitude engine. They all have standard interfaces and standard sizes. They can be installed pluggably and can be used as soon as they are installed in the reserved position on the starship. As for the main engine, it is replaced by four engine units connected in parallel.
It is extremely fast to build a starship using the assembly method. After all, most of them are standard modules, which just need to be installed together. Chu Jungui's subordinates are all skilled engineers, and their requirements for assembly accuracy are slightly lower than normal. Therefore, with the investment of thousands of engineers at one time, it only takes 90 days to complete the construction of a destroyer. Now Chu Jungui can start building two destroyers or four frigates at the same time.
The assembled starship was newly designed by the wise men with reference to the existing mature design drawings and Chu Jungui's requirements. It adhered to the concept of meeting the design requirements at the lowest cost and inherited the lightyear starship's usual simple, rough, practical and cheap features. The assembly The speed is 4 times faster than the standard version of the starship, and the combat power is 5% lower than the standard version, but the cost is only a quarter of the standard version.
The wise men named the newly designed assembled starship the mass production type 2, adding suffixes for different levels. This naming also reflects the characteristics of how to save trouble. Anyway, there are still many areas for improvement in the future.
The size of the mass-produced Type 2 destroyer is larger than the standard version, mainly because the main structure is thicker and larger than normal. Therefore, in order to achieve the same maneuverability, more thrust needs to be added. The solution is also very simple, just add two more engines. In addition, the armor needs to be thicker, and the energy consumption of the main gun is an old problem. The final result is that the energy consumption of the entire ship is twice as high as the standard version.
But for Lightyear, energy consumption has never been a problem.
Chu Jungui walked out of the office and flew to the lower factory to take a look around. Here engineers are busy working in each residential unit. There are hundreds of square modules stacked in the factory, which are prefabricated crew cabins ordered from the federation. The space inside the cabin is not large, but it is designed to be very compact. It has beds, desks, lighting, lockers, and even a set of entertainment facilities.
At this moment, engineers are removing entertainment facilities and redundant cabinets, adding beds, and converting a single room into a four-person room.
Under normal circumstances, starships actually have enough space, and there is no need to squeeze the crew's space. Dynasty is also known for its superior treatment of crew members. The petty officers on the starships have cabins with their own bathrooms. But the Lightyear Starship is different. Although it is larger than a standard starship, the main gun, armor and structure all require a lot of extra space. In particular, the Alpha main gun requires a lot of energy storage equipment, and the battery compartment alone requires more. three times. Coupled with the cognitive shortcomings of the test subjects themselves, this has resulted in the current situation. However, the wise men still listened to the opinions of Wilson and other generals and slightly improved the living conditions of the crew.
After looking around the orbital factory, Chu Jungui returned to the office and looked at his personal terminal. He still didn't receive any news from Sino. Nothing has been heard from him since he sent a letter in preparation for the plunder.
The area where Xino operates is already outside the borders of the Federation. There should be no strong enemies. The danger often comes from fellow planet thieves. So Chu Jungui wasn't too worried at first. The starship Sino had in his hands was a starship produced by Light Year. He could fight back and forth with Bilinde. Generally, star thieves can escape even if they can't be beaten. ?
Chu Jungui was a little worried, but it was useless to worry. Xino is no longer a child. He is a dignified rear admiral and commander of the Federation Starfleet Fleet. If he can't even be a star thief, then there is no hope.
At this time, a message suddenly popped up on the screen in front of him, with the dynasty fleet mark on the title. When Chu Jungui opened it, he looked very strange.
This is a material requisition notice sent by the 4th Fleet. In accordance with the laws of war, the fleet will send people to Lightyear for on-site investigation and on-site requisition of war materials to replenish military supplies.
This notice itself seems to have no problem. Units at the Dynasty Legion level and above have the right to temporarily requisition materials during wartime. The law of war also has detailed regulations on requisitions, including what types of materials can be requisitioned, how to price them, how to compensate them afterwards, etc. Generally speaking, the requisitioned materials are urgently needed materials. The price calculation is definitely lower than the market price, but it is usually higher than the cost, so the party being requisitioned will not suffer too much loss.
But the problem is, this is not war time, and Lightyear does not belong to the dynasty in name only. Li Ruobai registered an independent group in the dynasty. It just registered a case and did not need to pay taxes.
Another problem is that the notice said to give 10 days to prepare, and it also came with a countdown. However, the notice was issued 9 days ago, and now Chu Jungui is left with less than 20 hours. As for why a notification stays on the road for 9 days, there are too many reasons.
Lightyear is actually closely connected with the 4th Fleet. Since the 4th Fleet changed its defenses, Lightyear has been providing energy and basic materials, and has supplied a total of more than 300 battery compartments and thousands of tons of alloys. In terms of pure contribution, light years already exceeds that of a single planetary base.
Therefore, this sudden notification seems a bit strange. Chu Jungui thought for a while and forwarded the notice to Li Ruobai and Li Xinyi. A moment later, a transport ship passed through the storm clouds and arrived at the orbital station, bringing replies from Li Xinyi and Li Ruobai at the same time.
What the girl means is that I heard that a new battle is about to begin. The N77 star field is likely to become the target of a federal raid again, and the 4th Fleet is mediocre in strength. Now it must do everything possible to increase its strength. She believes that there is no big problem in the requisition of materials, as long as it is not overdone. Anyway, the dynasty will compensate after the war and will not lose money.
Li Ruobai's view was completely opposite. He believed that this recruitment was very strange. Even if the upper management of the 4th Fleet had good intentions, they could not rule out the possibility of mischief below. The other party must not be allowed to investigate without hesitation before knowing the other party's true intentions.
After reading the two replies, Chu Jungui made a general decision. It seemed that the technical girl was still somewhat naive.
