Structural strength is a sacred book for a low-achieving student, a daily homework for a top student, something that needs to be thought about with fingernails for Kaitian, but for Li Xinyi, it can be solved by intuition.
While listening to the wise man's exchange with Chu Jungui, the girl twirled her hair with her fingers, then held a pen in her remaining hand and drew a starship on the screen. This is a round-headed starship, just a sketch, but it still has charm.
Li Ruobai also came over. Recently, he was so confident in starship design that he felt he could have a say.
"This little thing is quite beautiful. Did you draw it?"
"Well, our new transport ship." The girl replied casually while applying shadow lines.
"I just recently found a very easy-to-use starship appearance optimization software that can beautify the appearance of a starship according to the aesthetics of any major country. As long as you add one set, even a 300-year-old ship can be transformed into the latest version. The star stream of style!”
The girl rolled her eyes at him, "I'm designing a starship, so I don't need beauty!"
Li Ruobai didn't believe it, "Isn't this a work of art?"
"You think everyone is the same as you, only making appearance kits!" the girl said angrily.
Li Ruobai laughed and said, "If this wasn't a work of art, I would... I would..."
The girl's eyes suddenly lit up: "What do you think?"
Under the girl's piercing gaze, Li Ruobai finally had the nerve to take back his words. He thought for a while and said, "Send you the latest limited edition personal chip?"
Only then was the girl satisfied. She casually pulled out a central axis of the ship and wrote the number 220 meters on it. Then pull out the diameter: 100 meters. Then she turned the design around casually and filled in various data. In the blink of an eye, the sketch turned into a design with dense data.
The girl threw the design drawing to Chu Jungui and said: "New transport ship! The one-time transport capacity is 120,000 tons, and it can go back and forth three times a day. Is it enough?"
Of course it is enough. This transport ship is several times the existing capacity. However, Chu Jun was a little greedy when he returned: "Can it be bigger?"
"Yes, but the safety redundancy is not enough. If you want to make it bigger, you still need to use new materials. The structural design has reached its peak."
As the girl spoke, she drew out a new ship. This time the new ship was a little longer and slender. Although it still looked like a sketch, Li Ruobai, who had just exported a chip, no longer dared to speak. The limited edition chip itself is worth about 30 million, and because it is a special limited edition, the first-hand price has reached 70 million, and the second-hand price is as high as 98 million. Although Li Ruobai has a lot of money recently, he cannot afford to lose two chips in a row.
Chu Jungui looked at the girl's new starship and asked, "What are the requirements for this?"
"Two new anti-gravity engines need to be added, not the ones we use now. In addition, the main structure must use a special alloy. The formula is not difficult to find, but the elements are scarce, so three synthetic elements are needed. Well, Special Operations Division The elements are included in the batch given to you, and the amount used per ship is not large, just a few hundred kilograms."
"Where's the transport capacity?"
"300,000 tons."
This is what Chu Jungui wants. However, the first ship designed by the girl is obviously more cost-effective. Most of the parts can be produced on Planet 4, the materials are all readily available, and the construction period is still short. As for the transportation volume, just build a few more ships.
The bottlenecks facing Chu Jungui now are computing power, rare elements, and advanced equipment. Once these three things are solved, the development of Light Years will advance by leaps and bounds. The problem is that the normal procurement channels of both the dynasty and the federation are blocked. What should we do?
Chu Jungui suddenly remembered what Evans said, why spend money when you can solve it with a starship?
So Chu Jungui took stock of the starships in his hands. So far, the starships Chu Jungui can use include 18 destroyers plus a Titan with 5% progress. There are also 4 destroyers under construction in the dock. Now the number of starships is not a problem, the problem is that the number of crews cannot keep up.
Chu Jungui hesitated a little whether to put the construction of the light patrol on the agenda. Lightyear currently has a serious shortage of mature starship designers. Li Xinyi is indeed a genius, but a genius's time and energy are also limited. Most of her designs are unconstrained and full of amazing elements, but the detail optimization is very inadequate, and can even be said to be very poor. Chu Jungui knew that she could not be blamed for this. Those mature engineers often worked with several pieces of equipment or even several parts of a piece of equipment throughout their lives, and the degree of polishing of details naturally varied.
However, once technology is updated, such engineers often find that they are old and can no longer keep up with the development of new technologies. They are eliminated from front-line positions and can only make a living in backward star areas where backward equipment still exists.
Lightyear's light cruiser design currently contains at least hundreds of flaws, and some are even blank. The overall completion level has not reached 85%, which is the level where it can be driven. Although the light cruiser is only slightly larger, the design in many places is completely different. The girl was busy designing the Titan and had not had much energy to focus on it. Lightyear's own starship designers were all captured by the Legion. They were basically monks halfway through their careers. Their original titles were maintenance engineers. It is really difficult to expect these people to design high-quality starships.
Although the original destroyers were built randomly and rushed to the battlefield, the situation now is different from that then. Riding a cannon with a squirrel is a way to do it when you are extremely poor, and it can only be used by Chu Jungui himself. It would be very difficult for Li Ruobai to control it, and ordinary pilots cannot control it at all. Now Lightyear's destroyer construction level has actually matured, and its comprehensive capabilities are comparable to the current standard starships of the Dynasty and Federation. In this case, it is difficult for even Chu Jungui to judge whether to build a light cruiser or not.
After careful consideration, Chu Jungui decided to build four destroyers first, and the light cruisers could wait. Among the hundreds of technologies currently being developed, more than 100 are related to the light cruiser. When all these technologies are broken through, the completion rate of the light cruiser can exceed 90%: this is at least a starship within the standard. With a hull that is within the standard, coupled with Lightyear's consistently terrifying firepower and strong defense, you can expect excellent battlefield performance.
The four new destroyers were all improved by Li Ruobai. Although he still showed his true qualities as a starship painter, this time the design made Chu Jungui feel that these four starships would have a great effect on the battlefield.
At this moment, Chu Jungui received a message: the special envoy from the 4th Fleet had arrived. It was said that he directly represented Su Jian himself and was waiting outside the starship.
(End of chapter)
