Chapter 7 Building a Base
Li Qing's destination is to pass through the entire low-security area, through the entire low-risk and medium-risk areas, enter the high-risk area, and find a galaxy that is not occupied by other teams and does not fall within the scope of other forces to establish a personal base.
Although it is dangerous, there is no need to be taxed.
Some large legions will occupy a large number of galaxies and establish outposts in these galaxies. Fleets will patrol to eliminate wild monsters and establish low-security areas.
Non-legion individual players can mine in the low-security systems occupied by these large legions, but the mined mines can only be sold to the legion each time, and the price must be lowered, that is, taxed. Although it is safe, the profit is lower than that of wild mining. a lot of.
If you don't have any ambitions, this is not the way to go. You can even directly join the legion and become an industrial stream player. Any legion welcomes players who follow the industrial stream, even more than combat stream players.
Any legion is composed of a small number of combat players and a large number of mining and industrial players.
For example, a formal legion has a total of 10,000 official members, almost all of whom have part-time jobs, have their own mining fleets, establish personal bases in the legion-controlled systems, and build industrial factories to produce various goods for sale.
In addition, any formal legion will have at least ten or even dozens of times as many peripheral affiliate members as the official members. All of them are miners or industrial players who specialize in making money to supply the legion's consumption.
Here, raising a battleship is very, very expensive.
Take a frigate as an example. In addition to buying out the clone crew for 10 million yuan, it needs to pay senior crew members 300,000 yuan + captain salary of 500,000 yuan every month. It also needs a basic maintenance fee of 200,000 yuan. In total, every month Just to maintain this frigate would cost 1 million.
In addition, if there is a battle, ammunition will be consumed, and energy shield replenishment will require energy blocks.
If a crew member dies in battle, he or she will be required to pay for it.
If a battleship is damaged in a tragic battle, repairs will cost a lot of money.
This does not include the cost of equipping the warships with better weapons and equipment, as well as modifying and strengthening the warships, which is the bulk of the cost.
It can be said that simply buying a ship is actually not expensive, but maintaining a ship is the big deal. A bare frigate costs 20 million, and it costs 30 to 40 million when fully equipped with level 5 weapons and accessories. Modifying and strengthening it costs tens of millions more. The consumption of a top-end frigate is estimated to reach 100 million.
Then one year's salary plus maintenance fees is already 12 million, and 120 million for ten years of service.
If it wasn't destroyed midway.
If a frigate is not destroyed, it can serve for up to fifty or sixty years, and its salary alone will be 7.8 billion
Plus ten years of various maintenance expenses, ammunition expenses lost in battle, etc.
And this is just a frigate.
Therefore, in Star Sea, the strength of a team does not depend on how many battle-style players you have or how many battleships you have, but on your economy and industry.
When a cannon is fired, gold is worth thousands of dollars, and wars are fought for money. This has been the case from ancient times to the present.
Li Qing's plan is to first establish a personal base in a suitable distant galaxy and concentrate on mining to make money.
He planned to use the method of storing mining ships and industrial ships to open a channel to the universe in his hand, collect meteorites one by one, and then take them out and use the set of small crushing, extraction and refining equipment to refine all the raw ores into refined ores. This saves space and allows you to sell at a higher price.
Work hard for a year and a half and then go back to the Jinmen Galaxy, or sell it to a nearby team or legion. Play a few more waves to save more money, and only then will you consider increasing the number of warships.
So in the early stage, I just ignored everything and just kept developing.
Time continued to pass, and the frigate passed through each galaxy and entered the depths of the starry sky.
After having nothing to do for a long time, he tried to enter the newly opened channel of the Yu family. He found that although he could enter, the settings were not perfect because it had just been established. It was impossible to branch out into small channels and small rooms. Everyone was in one big room. There are not many people communicating in the channel.
Li Qing watched it for a while and closed the channel without saying a word.
Those who can enter this channel are either the children of military lords or powerful families, or the descendants of big families from various places. They all have extraordinary backgrounds and are arrogant. Unless they know someone they know or are obviously better than themselves, most of them will not take the initiative to communicate.
After crossing the 226th galaxy in the south, he ran for more than three months. After crossing the southernmost boundary of the Sky Surveyor Corps, he no longer crossed slowly, but turned on the hyperspace engine and began to jump on his way. .
The maximum jump range of a three-stage jump engine is 30 light years. According to the distance of star systems in the Tianjin star field, it can jump over about five or six galaxies in one go, saving a lot of time.
After running and jumping all the way to more than a hundred galaxies, the frigate no longer jumps or rushes at sub-light speed. Every time it enters a galaxy, it will go around and look for a suitable place to establish a personal base.
A frigate is very flexible. There are all kinds of wild monster warships everywhere here. If you find it early and avoid it in advance, you can't avoid it and turn around and go back to another route. Anyway, there is no designated destination, so the journey is relatively smooth.
It is 350 or 60 hops away from the Jinmen galaxy here, and is thousands of light years away. It has left the Jinmen province and entered an unknown area. However, there are still traces of players here, but the number is very small. On the way I only occasionally see some player battleships guarding a few armed transport ships, probably transporting ores or industrial products produced by themselves for sale.
Every time he saw one, he said hello from a distance, took the communication and asked about the situation nearby.
After quickly obtaining several coordinates that they believed met his requirements, the frigate turned to one of the galaxies and flew away.
JM-N-348 galaxy.
A main sequence star is a K-type star, which is theoretically the most suitable main sequence star for the birth of life planets. However, it is a pity that this star system did not give birth to life planets. Instead, there are no imaginable stars in its theoretical best habitable zone. Planet, but a huge belt of broken asteroids.
In addition, there is an even larger asteroid belt at the edge of the star system close to the gravity well, which means that this star system has two asteroid belts.
As we all know, the asteroid belt is composed of countless meteorites and broken asteroid debris. Generally speaking, it is rich in various ores, and occasionally there are some extremely valuable rare ores.
This galaxy coordinate comes from a player named Yang Yunbo, who is a transport fleet player that he met before. His personal base is in this galaxy.
According to Yang Yunbo, because this galaxy has two asteroid belts and is rich in mineral resources, six players have settled here and established personal bases.
They are all individual players, and like him, they are all focused on making money. The galaxy is so big, and the asteroid belt surrounds the star. A hundred players can't all share it. There is no competition at all. On the contrary, there are more people and there is a companion. .
After all, this place is far away from the Jinmen Province, and there are very few players here usually. If you come more, you can chat together and occasionally have dinner together.
Li Qing drove the frigate to the inner asteroid belt first, and spent two days going around it. Through skills such as space geology and mineral analysis, he roughly determined that the ore classification of the asteroid belt was mainly metal ores, with a small amount of minerals. Crystal minerals, a large number of rock minerals.
Hardware ore refers to common gold, silver, copper, iron and tin, and the prices vary. However, under normal circumstances, various iron ore or copper-like ores are common. The price of raw ore for iron ore is 15 stars per square, and for copper-like ores is 31 stars. Yuan Yifang.
Of course, this refers to the current price, and it may not necessarily be this price over time.
Although everything in the new universe is digitized and the world rules are like a game, it is not a real game after all. It is a real universe. Prices are determined according to output and demand and change at any time. There is no fixed price.
Even if the same raw iron ore has different prices in different places, the price of iron ore in Jinmen Province is definitely different from that in the hinterland of the United Empire of Mankind.
Moreover, iron-like ore is a general term, and it is subdivided into different types of iron, such as magnet, hematite, siderite, iron sulfide, etc. The price difference is slightly different, but not big.
Li Qing ultimately chose not to locate the base within the asteroid belt, but on a satellite of a large planet more than 70 million kilometers away from the asteroid belt.
The reason why it is not placed in the asteroid belt is mainly to consider that some collection devices can be placed on this large planet in the future to collect some planetary materials and to see if there are any large mineral veins on this planet.
There are many minerals in the asteroid belt, and there are also mines on the planet. However, there is no asteroid belt where all meteorites are easy to collect. It is also necessary to build a mining base and dig mines on the planet, which is too laborious.
But if some high-value planetary materials can be found on the planet, that investment will be nothing.
The so-called planetary materials are the collective name for all minerals that can only be produced on planets. The value is not too high, but the advantage is that as long as a collection mine is established, it can be collected fully automatically. You only need to harvest it at a fixed point without spending too much effort.
This planet, which is not marked on the star map, has a diameter of 11,545 kilometers. According to the star sea standards, it is a desolate planet with a size of 23 squares.
It is worth mentioning that the diameter of the Earth in the old universe was 12,756 kilometers. According to the current star sea standards, it was a Category II continental planet with a size of 25 grids, and every 500 kilometers of the equatorial diameter was calculated as one grid.
The frigate circled the planet and found that this desolate planet that was slightly smaller than the earth had a thin atmosphere, but there was no trace of water vapor or life on the planet. It was the most common desolate planet in the starry sky.
This planet has three satellites. The largest one has a diameter of 2,100 kilometers, which is not as big as the moon. The smallest one is only 530 kilometers, and neither of them has an atmosphere.
After a preliminary observation, he placed the base on the middle satellite.
The frigate stopped above the orbit of the No. 2 satellite, reopened the palm space channel, and the mining ship and industrial ship drove out and parked around the frigate.
Fortunately, there are no wild monsters near this planet, and there are no abnormal spots. It seems to be relatively safe now.
The diameter of Satellite 2 is only about 1,400 kilometers, and its gravity is smaller than that of the moon. Small warships such as frigates can land directly on the surface of the satellite.
Levi contacted the mining ship and the industrial ship through the network system of the battleship radar, and remotely commanded the industrial ship to slowly stop at the bottom of a huge ring-shaped crater on the No. 2 satellite.
As we all know, satellites without an atmosphere cannot withstand meteorites in space. Meteorites collide almost every day, resulting in shock waves. A base built on the surface is easily damaged by various shock waves. Hiding in a meteorite crater can avoid this problem.
At the same time, hiding in the crater can also avoid the radar scanning of warships in space. Unless it happens to be seen, a normal radar scan will not scan the base in the crater.
The industrial ship was parked in this crater, which was four to five kilometers in diameter and more than two hundred meters deep. The hatch was wide open and packed containers were lowered one by one.
Li Qing sat in the command room, rubbing his chin with his hand and looking at the huge light screen in front of him, giving orders from time to time.
After all the boxes were put down, mining robots with a height of ten meters fell down. The containers were opened, the base modules inside were taken out, and they were assembled according to the preset assembly plan.
With the development of science and technology, module assembly has entered all aspects. Not only these buildings, but also the construction of battleships have realized module assembly.
The warship is divided into different blocks according to standard modules, and different modules are produced in different factories, and finally transported to one piece for assembly and assembly.
However, such a warship has a flaw. Because it is assembled into modules rather than formed in one piece, it is destined to be unable to enter the interior of a planet with strong gravity. Once it enters, it is easy for the modules to break apart and fall due to the strong gravity.
Therefore, in the star sea, only small ships such as frigates can enter the interior of the planet. Destroyers and above are generally unable to enter and can only be parked above the planet's orbit to carry out orbital bombing.
It took half a month to put together the core cabin of the base. The internal space of the core cabin with a diameter of 100 meters * 100 meters * 100 meters is extremely large and can be subdivided into multiple layers. Li Qing divided a total of ten layers into ten layers. The main control room is placed on the fifth floor.
This thing is made of composite metal and contains various layers, which can greatly buffer the impact of small meteorites in space and isolate it from most harsh environments and extreme environments in space.
The surface is also equipped with an energy-absorbing layer, which can absorb the light energy of stars and various radiation rays in the starry sky as energy. Even in extreme environments, it can supply energy to the base and maintain minimum energy requirements.
Then move all 16 fully automatic sentry guns to the top of the main core cabin, and place them in groups of four at the four corners.
Then, four 30-meter * 30-meter * 30-meter auxiliary cabins are all placed to the east of the core cabin, two by two side by side.
At the same time, the height of 30 meters is divided into three levels, each level is also ten meters.
Then, place the small ore crushing, screening and refining equipment outside the base.
The main reason is that it cannot fit inside. Although it is only a small set, the crushing, refining and refining are actually three sets of machinery. They are quite large. If any of the attached cabins is put down, there will not be enough room for other things. When the time comes, the raw ore will be guided in and refined. There is no place to pile it out, so it is better to put it outside. The raw ore collected will be thrown directly into the crater around the base. After refining, it will be stored in the attached warehouse. Once a certain amount is accumulated, it will be stored in the palm of the universe in one go. (End of chapter)