Chapter 152 The Real Packing and Taking Away
The miners’ decision ultimately did not surprise Amber.
After their brief discussion, a total of 108 mining technical workers present chose to 'jump' to Atlas Mining Company.
The joining of these people allowed Atlas Mining Company, which originally only had one Gyrator-class mining barge and no professional workers, to enter the mature mining stage in an instant.
Because among these 108 people, in addition to the largest number of mining classes, there are also asteroid exploration technicians, professional blasting technicians, mining ship pilots and operators, etc.
Basically, all the personnel needed to mine an asteroid are available.
Not to mention a complete asteroid operations base and three small mining ships.
And there are 25 complete mining mules in the operation base Gnaku.
This is an autonomous mining robot. Its main job is to cooperate with the mining team to carry out detailed operations deep into the interior of super-large asteroids.
In emergency situations, it can also cover the evacuation of personnel.
After all, it is impossible for these asteroids with a mass of hundreds of millions of tons to contain only one type of heavy metal.
Compared to just letting the Gyrator class brutally crush the asteroid, and then cooperate with the other three frigates to collect minerals.
It is more efficient to partition the distribution of mineral veins on the entire asteroid through the process of exploration, excavation, and blasting, and then mine according to priority.
Soon, the workers without any objections boarded the Hermes docked next to the operations base.
They will carry sleeping bags and other basic daily necessities in a temporarily modified large crew cabin with dual-channel shielding capabilities for internal and external signals.
After Amber went to the black market to find a doctor to perform an operation to remove the 'slave chip', these miners would be able to move freely.
After the personnel are loaded, the next step is to pack up the entire operations base and take it away.
When Timler Mining Company deployed this operating base before, 80% of them used professional industrial ships to fix the operating base on the asteroid through a large number of mechanical arms like centipedes.
But Amber and the others obviously do not have this condition now, but fortunately they still have two HCPs.
This kind of weapon, which was formerly an industrial robot, is now doing the same business as its ancestors.
In order to be arranged on the rugged asteroid, the operations base is not a whole, but is divided into four components: the ore refining area, the parking area, the main control room and the personnel rest cabin.
Each component is connected through flexible channels.
After Amber and the others evacuated all personnel and cut off the functions of the functional area, they 'removed' the four components from the asteroid one after another, and then fixed them to the Hermes destroyer through standard interfaces On the standard slide rail in the middle section of the side.
This process can only involve Amber and Murat driving the HCP.
"Unit 2, don't be nervous, control your speed."
Listening to Amber's calm voice on the communication channel, Murat in Unit 2 was still a little nervous.
He is now working with Amber, dragging a huge ore refining assembly towards the side of the Hermes.
"Hermes, prepare to deploy the guidance robotic arm."
"Hermes received it, deployment has been completed."
Side rails The external armor plate on the front end was opened, and a pair of yellow and black mechanical arms slowly unfolded.
The laser guidance device at the front of the robotic arm quickly connected to the receiver on the ore refining component, and the automatic docking program began to operate on its own.
"Okay. Machine No. 2, start to slow down and let the robotic arm complete the docking."
"Received!"
The vector nozzles of the two HCPs are at high frequency Use this method to fine-tune the position by spraying it several times. Ultimately, the easy-going ‘Click! ’ twice, the auxiliary robotic arm completed the docking of the ore refining component, and dragged and installed it on the slide rail.
"Get it~Next one!"
Amber sat in the cockpit and temporarily disconnected the head control operation, then moved her somewhat stiff neck, and finally twisted her body and floated towards the next component. go.
"Unit No. 2, don't feel boring and dangerous. This is a training to cultivate your fine operation ability."
"Yes! Sir!"
One and a half hours Finally, the 'pack and take away' work at the base of operations was completed.
The larger ore refining assembly and docking area were secured to the Hermes' skid rails.
The relatively smaller personnel rest cabin and main control room are respectively fixed on the interfaces of the first two components by stacking Arhats.
On the other side of the Hermes, three small mining ships were also arranged horizontally and fixed on the slide rails here.
Right now, the Dragoon-class destroyer, which originally had a slender appearance and looked elegant and beautiful overall, looks like there are tumors on the left and right sides.
However, this mounting method is still very common on civilian armed merchant ships.
Anyway, there is no air resistance in outer space. As long as it does not affect the torque of the spacecraft, the captains will try their best to load more cargo.
In this way, you can increase the profit of a single trip.
After some operations by Amber and the others, the only man-made products left near the asteroid were the two armed merchant ships of the pirates.
One of them has been completely shattered into a pile of wreckage due to the explosion of the subcritical reactor, and has basically lost its recyclability value.
The other ship, under Amber's intensive work, only damaged the bridge, deflection field generator, external weapons, observation equipment, antenna array and other fragments.
Most valuable components, including the most valuable subcritical reactors and jump drives on civilian ships, were not damaged.
So if you say that Amber is not greedy for these things, that is impossible.
But now there is really no way to take away this armed merchant ship for a while.
Although the Hermes can eject the carbon fiber rope to tow it, this can only support normal navigation and cannot drag the ship into a jump state.
“What? Can’t bear to part with this boat?”
On the bridge of the Hermes, Isabel looked at Amber, who had been standing by the porthole of the armed merchant ship since returning to the ship, and couldn't help but join in and joke.
“I’m not reluctant to part with this ship, I’m reluctant to part with the valuable components on it.”
Amber was a little frustrated. This was because he didn’t know how to ‘smash the ship’.
If he knew anything, he would dismantle the subcritical reactor and jump drive and take them away.
Unfortunately, the disassembly of these two things is still relatively complicated and requires professional ship-breaking engineers to operate it.
"Forget it, let's retreat first."
Amber turned her head and kissed Isabel on the cheek, and then floated towards the captain's seat amidst the latter's shyness.
"Lilith, mark the coordinates. When the time comes, go anonymously to a ship-breaking company online and sell the coordinates to them."
"Yes, Master!"
(End of Chapter)