12. This chapter on the tip of the tongue can be eaten with food
After catching a group of smugglers in Dubraque-Quinto, in the next more than a week, everything returned to calm, and the colony was developing steadily.
The number of mining stations built around the gas giant planet has increased to four, providing the mothership with a large amount of helium-3 fuel used in the fusion reactor. However, there are only four modular mining stations in the mothership. If you want to build a new mining station, you need to build it yourself.
In addition, three of the nine moons surrounding this gas giant planet also called Endor are rich in various metallic minerals. People in the engineering department are now working overtime to build an interstellar mining farm on one of the asteroids to provide raw materials for construction work in space.
The same is true for the colonies on the ground. Currently, 1,000 modular 2-story residential buildings have been built in the colony on Dawn Star. The number of residents has increased to more than 1,700, and the entire colony can already accommodate 10,000 residents.
Daphne Clement of the Administration Department is constantly selecting suitable residents to wake up and send them to the Dawn Star to join the construction work.
The biggest problems now are, first, the job pressure brought about by rapid population growth, and second, there are not enough transport ships between the mothership and Dawn Star. There are only five small transport ships on the mothership. Each transport ship can only carry 100 passengers or 50 tons of cargo at a time, which is far from meeting demand.
Moreover, this kind of transport is about 30 meters long, belongs to the level of light frigate, and cannot be built on the production line built into the mother ship. If you want to build more transport ships, you must build a small space dock. Although this has already begun, even if the mothership is equipped with modular materials, it will take another week to complete a building of this scale.
What's worse is that one of the transport ships is broken...
These things made Tang Xiao very anxious. When the colony first started to be built, there were not many problems. Now it is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more problems. In the past few days, he had no time to think about the plot of "Star Wars" and other issues. He was constantly traveling between the Dawn Star and the mothership, making various decisions.
However, the benefits of this are also obvious. He has been instilled with all kinds of knowledge in his mind. Now after using it during this period, it has been developed a lot, and many tasks have become familiar.
If more than a week ago, when he had not traveled through time and was just an ordinary college graduate, who would have told him that he could manage such a growing interstellar colony, Tang Xiao would have thought that person was talking about science fiction. plot.
In short, under the leadership of Tang Xiao, the colony is still developing in an orderly manner. They set up a hunting team to allow the marines to gain practical combat experience and to supplement the colony with meat...
Find mines on Dawnstar to mine lime, coal and metal raw materials...
Open up farms and fruit fields to plant native plants, and build closed hydroponic farms to grow rice, wheat, corn and other crops brought on the mothership.
Build steel mills, cement plants, sewage treatment plants, power stations, water plants and more.
There are also roads, airports, pipes and wires laid.
And the most difficult step - sewage removal. Because on this pristine planet, how to discharge and plan the wastewater and wastewater generated by factories and domestic sewage are very difficult issues.
The biggest problem is that 95% of the Dawn Planet is on the ground, so most of the water bodies are underground, which also brings great difficulties to sewage discharge.
Because there are no rivers to discharge sewage, and there are no oceans to treat sewage. If it is discharged into the groundwater network, it is estimated that within a year, all living things on the planet will be able to drink only fecal water.
So once he went to inspect the colony and saw the residents digging drainage and toilets, Tang Xiao suddenly had an idea. After returning to the mothership, he began to discuss a very serious issue with Daphne Clement in a very serious way: He planned to Build a giant excrement collector on the hill next to the colony to collect all the sewage and excrement, and then build a dam to use the excrement to generate electricity.
There is actually no basis for him to think so, because he has done this in a certain game before. He thought that since even the spaceships in the game could be brought into reality, then the shit collector that could be implemented in the game should also be possible.
However, Clement was directly frightened. She desperately suppressed the urge to arrest Tang Xiao to check his brain, and told her manager seriously that this was impossible in reality because the pressure of the excrement was insufficient. It is used to drive the turbine of the dam, and there are too many impurities in it that can easily become clogged.
After all, you don’t know if someone is constipated, right?
In addition, seasonal issues must be considered. What if the feces in the feces collector freezes in winter? So we still need a heating device, right? These are all costs!
In order to strengthen his persuasion, Clement also grabbed the energetic expert Guan Yan who was eating and explained that Guan Yan was innocent, although she immediately vomited out the lunch she had just eaten after hearing this topic. But she still worked very hard to help Clement convince Tang Xiao.
Seeing that this road was impassable, Tang Xiao asked them how many water purification plants would be needed to filter fecal water into drinking water?
Clement and the others were stunned by Tang Xiao's imagination. They called in Qu Xuewen and Feng Yongwang, and combined with the earnest persuasion of several experts, Tang Xiao finally gave up the idea of power generation and recycling of manure and water, and finally He didn't let himself get further and further away from being shot.
This interesting topic still had to come to a conclusion, so they continued to discuss it for a long time, and finally came to the conclusion that the giant excrement collector still needed to be built, but it couldn't be built on the mountain, otherwise it would be destroyed if the embankment burst. It's fun, just flood the city with excrement.
The purpose of the construction is not to generate electricity, but to facilitate the future use of large-scale interstellar transport ships to send this shit to outer space, such as sending it to the two stars in the middle of the Endor galaxy.
Then Tang Xiao, who was very imaginative, raised another topic, that is, when this plan is implemented, won't the Endor galaxy where the Dawn Planet is located become a system orbiting two stars that smell like shit?
Of course, this is all a thing for another time, and they finally decided to set up a Ministry of Public Health to handle this matter. When making this decision, Tang Xiao had no idea that he had single-handedly created the most terrifying department in the history of the galaxy.
However, Tang Xiao quickly broke away from this interesting topic. At this moment, he was happily stirring a bowl of mushy chocolate with a spoon, eating a spoonful from time to time, while talking to a newly awakened elite. Sociologists discuss a very important topic.
There were no snacks on the mothership, so Tang Xiao could only satisfy his cravings with these semi-finished products.
"Manager, what we have to consider now is the cohesion of the colony. We are currently small and everyone is around you, which is good. But if we continue to develop, this will not be enough. You Take a look at my proposal..." The sociologist named Norris-Barry said to Tang Xiao in a serious tone.
At this time, Guan Yan, who was carrying a lunch box, passed by. Seeing Tang Xiao, he said smoothly: "Ah, you are here, manager. By the way, there is something. The analysis of the infrared laser weapon is very smooth. It should be possible." Finish ahead of schedule. We will have the first weapons test in the afternoon, are you going?"
"Ah, no problem, I will go in the afternoon." Tang Xiao replied. He had completed the preliminary analysis of infrared laser weapons in more than a week. He thought he should praise her a few words, but he suddenly got stuck and didn't know what to say. What, so she picked up the mushy chocolate in her hand and said to Guan Yan, "Would you like to eat it?"
Seeing this bowl of sticky brown object that was stirred into a spiral shape by Tang Xiao, Guan Yan's face darkened and she quickly refused, "Uh, no, I don't have much appetite..."
"Ah, what a pity, this is quite delicious." Tang Xiao shook his head regretfully, stirred the bowl again, then scooped out a large spoonful of sticky food and put it in his mouth and ate it.
Guan Yan's face turned from black to green, she didn't want the box lunch in her hand, she covered her mouth and turned around to run away.
[Pictures 1 and 2 attached to the Easter Egg Chapter: Various poop collectors. 】
