The 94th year of the imperial calendar is destined to be a noisy year. In this great era, people feel the innovation of science and technology and the tension of human journey for the first time.
Fengchen Group, Baojian Group, Monster Adventure Group and other group companies all decided to use 80% of their strength to build a spaceship of their own, and set their sights on Grize, which is twenty light years away. At the same time, several group companies decided that Gleize would establish a national system similar to the system managed by the legendary Chamber of Commerce. The empire was directly named the Chamber of Commerce, and the national flag turned out to be two hands held together!
Feng Chen, representative of the Business Alliance, said: The Business Alliance will take business as its top priority and make citizens wealthy as its first goal.
Because of such a strange positioning, many businessmen and some people with business ideas and vision immediately chose the Business Alliance. The real response was that the number of applicants reached 100 million in just a few days. population! However, the Merchant Alliance's spaceship "New War" is still under design, and the specific data such as the number of people it can carry are not yet certain - but there is definitely no problem in registering in advance.
Designing a spacecraft is an extremely complex and huge project. The construction time must be calculated as more than ten years, so when constructing, the development of technology and the current status of technology must be fully taken into consideration. Think about it this way, how to build a spaceship with the lowest unit price. However, other groups are not doing nothing, especially Baojian Group and Fengchen Group. They have huge power and can spend enough manpower, material and financial resources for the construction of spaceships. Even a whole set of industrial infrastructure moved into the spacecraft. Just these two groups can come up with 50% - 50% of the technology of the entire human technological system, which is very scary. It can be seen from this that these huge groups themselves. He has the ability to conquer the earth, which is no empty talk!
Just a business alliance is surprising enough, but now it is more than that. The empire has decided to send an envoy to Aquarius as soon as possible to save the "cute" elves there; and this is before ultra-long-distance communication technology has been developed. An expedition is about to take place - this means that too many relatives have to face a situation where they can only communicate once every few decades. This made some citizens with relatives on the expedition a little dissatisfied - at least it seemed that the empire had broken its promise and did not complete the research on ultra-long-distance communication technology before the next spacecraft set off. Fortunately. It was the awareness of the citizens of the empire that finally reassured the empire, especially this time the empire promoted peace and civilization, and in this regard it received support from a large number of citizens.
But even if the citizens understand it, the pressure on the empire is not small. It has been 12 years since the signal was sent out by the elves. God knows if those elves survived! Not to mention, it also takes more than 20 years to travel from the earth to Aquarius! That adds up to at least 35 years! 35 years is enough to change a lot! 35 years is enough for a short-lived empire to experience prosperity and decline!
Also, the Empire is currently replacing parts for the spaceship that has been renamed Hope - this will take some time. With the development of the Dragon Wing engine completed, the Empire decided to replace all the engines of the Hope spacecraft before setting off.
This is not a matter of patting oneself on the head, but it is a matter of sharpening the knife and chopping firewood. Replacing the engine seems to be a waste of time, but the new Dragon Wing engine is powerful, and with the characteristics of the magnetic engine, its thrust output is as high as 200%! The thrust of a single aircraft in the solar system is almost three times that of the Gentian II. Such a powerful thrust is enough to allow the spacecraft to reach a set speed faster, or even increase the speed! Likewise, you can use less time when slowing down!
The speed of the spacecraft is not set casually, especially the deceleration process must be taken into consideration. If it continues to accelerate, even if the energy is sufficient, the speed of the spacecraft can continue to rise; but because the overall power of the engine is insufficient, when it is necessary to slow down when approaching the star system, the deceleration will be a big trouble - if you are not careful, you will rush out and re-enter the vastness. The outer space environment; and with the speed and mass of the spacecraft, it is almost a fool's dream to turn around. The radius of the turn is estimated to be more than several light years, and it will take five, six years or even ten years. A few years! No one is willing to bear such a price.
Therefore, if the engine is stronger, the final forward speed of the spacecraft can be increased accordingly.
According to calculations, after replacing the engine, the overall performance of the spacecraft can be directly improved by 20%! The reason why it is 20% and not more must take into account the spacecraft's energy savings, structural endurance, etc.
"Hurry up! Go faster! For every day ahead of schedule, we will reward you with a thousand yuan!" Chen Qing cheered loudly.
As the grandson of Chen Feng, Chen Qing also has too many high hopes placed on him. People are eager to have a great technician/engineer come out again, who can further develop and integrate human technology - technology does not develop explosively. , Technology ultimately depends on its application, and this is the responsibility of engineers and technicians.
Chen Feng was considered the master of his generation, but his sons could only live in the shadow of their ancestors. But by the time of grandson Chen Qing, it was just in time for mankind to integrate the information theory of the universe, further detonating the explosion of science and technology. But too many technological explosions have put forward new requirements for the empire - to transform these science and technologies into productive forces as quickly as possible, rather than just staying in brilliant theories on paper.
This is the expertise of engineers and technicians. It is enough for scientists to sit aside and give guidance. Even the production plans formulated by many scientists have to be changed in actual production - because scientists often do not take into account cost, ease of use, compatibility with current mainstream technology, etc.; this requires engineers to make adjustments.
And now. Chen Qing encountered the current bottleneck. The Dragon Wing No. 1 engine was successfully developed, but it has been three months since then, and its production line is still full of defective products. Each defective product is scrapped. The empire would lose tens of millions. The price is too high!
Chen Qing, who is in charge of this work, has not slept well for several days in a row. He is busy on the production line every day, adjusting the production technology that the scientists came up with to conform to the mainstream production technology. so. This can save costs even more and allow workers to take up their jobs with simple training instead of retraining.
Now, after continuous research, the new production line technology has been roughly determined, but the Dragon Wing engine is ultimately the top technology. Even after rigorous calculations and lowering the requirements, it is still not something ordinary skilled workers can do; sometimes, Chen Qing himself even had to go into battle shirtless.
"It's stuck, it's stuck! Pull out the iron pin!" This is a high-voltage discharge equipment being prepared for lifting. In order to combine the magnetic engine and the plasma engine, ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure are required. But such equipment weighs tens of thousands of tons. But now, we want to lift up such an iron lump. Place it in a suitable location to keep workers busy. This thing is so heavy, and its installation accuracy is as high as 20 nanometers! Such installation technology is definitely an unprecedented challenge.
In order to ensure the installation accuracy, every link of the entire lifting system needs to be accurate within 10 nanometers! Because errors have a cumulative amplification effect. Therefore, the accuracy of a single link far exceeds the overall accuracy requirements.
But now, just because the accuracy of the iron pin is off by 3 nanometers, it cannot penetrate the pin hole and is stuck in the middle, unable to go in or pull out!
"Push it in!" Chen Qing looked at it and decisively ordered, since it can't be pulled out, then smash it in! As an engineer, you must also have a certain degree of decisiveness and courage!
Ordinarily, the cost of such a piece of equipment is calculated on the basis of 100 million yuan. A slight deviation of one or two accuracy may not matter; but if the deviation is too large, this top-notch equipment will have to be returned to the factory for repairs. Such violent operations will definitely make all scientists scold them - such behavior will affect the accuracy of the equipment.
But engineers have a different perspective from scientists on this point. Under such circumstances, pulling out will often have a greater impact on accuracy - after pulling out, you still have to insert it in the end! Instead of doing this, it is better to take a gamble and directly operate violently!
"Keng..." A powerful worker picked up a sledgehammer and hit the iron pin hard, causing the iron pin to move forward little by little in the pin hole. The huge vibration caused the crane machine, which weighed 30,000 tons, to tremble a little.
"Keng..." The workers took turns to work hard, and they actually smashed the iron pin in! Such iron pins cannot be pulled out by conventional means in the future, and they can only be violently cut open later. Although the lifting position is set, even if it is cut off, it will not affect the performance of the machine; but such violent operation is obviously not a reasonable method.
But in order to rush for time, everything can be considered!
In fact, the installation was very successful - engineers used alternative wisdom to solve problems that scientists did not dare to try. The machine weighs tens of thousands of tons, while the strength of a human being to swing a large hammer is only a few hundred kilograms at most - the difference is so huge that theoretically it will not have any impact at all.
Under the guidance of such engineers, the construction speed of the production line has increased with visible progress; and the workers are striving for the reward of 1,000 yuan for every day advanced! 1,000 yuan, one month’s salary of an ordinary low-level worker!
Stab... Laser cutting has begun. Those iron pins that were smashed in with violence now need to be cut out with violence...
With the complete transformation of the production line completed, a Tailong Wing engine began to roll off the production line, and the 100,000 space operation machines that had been prepared for a long time became busy in an instant. Several thousand-meter-long robotic arms were constantly waving, replacing the 50-meter-diameter, 200-meter-long Gentian-2 engines into Dragon Wing-1 engines of almost the same size.
The replacement engines were immediately ordered - these are genuine, no-discount military quality, and of course highly sought-after. In fact, everyone understands that the non-military engines sold by the empire, even if they are of the same model, are of slightly lower quality - because military industry is another synonym for regardless of cost. For commercial products, profits must be considered. People rented flying saucers and waited in the outer space of Mars. When they didn't see a Gentian 2 being unloaded, they started bidding loudly!
As the engines were constantly replaced, groups of soldiers and citizens began to board the ship. Each has a factory, production line, etc., which are moved into the spacecraft for storage.
In March of the 96th year of the Imperial Calendar, Zhang Wenliang came out again and went to Aquarius on behalf of the Empire; and just to be on the safe side, Gao Chengyang came out and led more than half of the empire's master practitioners.
The empire is extremely cautious about this elf civilization that suddenly jumped out! PS: Sorry, moving today. Late update.