Guide to Galactic Dominance

The space port is not the only facility Bai Zhongqi wants to build. In the game, Iridium will build a large number of military and civilian facilities in the orbit of the planet. This is actually something Bai Zhongqi can really control as a game player. The construction on the planet is what Bai Zhongqi is in the game. What he can't interfere with is that after the game enters reality, he has more macro-level control.

Due to the existence of Ruyi City, Bai Zhongqi no longer needs to build some facilities that were originally built in planetary orbit, especially civilian facilities. For example, the Imperial Scientific Research Center. These buildings in the game are necessary to point out the technology tree. The more they are built, the faster the research and development will be, and the more research can be conducted at the same time. On the other hand, even if Bai Zhongqi builds a lot of scientific research centers, it will be of little use, because now in the entire Iridium United Empire, except Dean Mo Laitong, who has the ability to lead scientific research work, the rest of the talents are not bad, but they are not qualified.

The orbital buildings Bai Zhongqi needs are mainly service and military. A very important building is the Orbital Observatory. For any interstellar civilization, observation of the universe is extremely important. This is like a strategic-level radar built by the earth's countries. If any hostile or unknown forces act rashly within the detectable range, they can be immediately informed and prepared. Moreover, there are other threats in the universe, such as astronomical disasters such as asteroid impacts and stellar explosions. Sometimes, if serious, they may even threaten the safety of a planetary system. Therefore, an orbital observatory is basically a necessary orbital building for every planet.

In terms of communications, Iridium also plans to build satellites for quantum communications and other communication modes not only in Earth orbit. These communication satellites will not only serve the communications required for interstellar navigation, but can also serve communications on Earth in the future. Massive data transmission will greatly facilitate people's daily lives, and even global "WiFi" without blind spots is no longer a dream.

Naturally, the most important part is related to industrial production and military.

Although Ruyi City itself has certain industrial production capabilities, if it is to meet larger-scale demand, it will become unsustainable. The Iridium people are accustomed to building a large number of orbital factories in planetary orbits to produce a variety of products. Even a large number of civilian consumer goods that people need are also produced by the orbital factories and then transported to the ground. This is not only very beneficial to planetary ecology, saving planetary land and avoiding pollution, but also has considerable advantages in cost control and industrial scale intensification.

For the time being, Iridium does not have any large demand for industrial production. The industrial capacity within Ruyi City alone is enough to provide the daily needs of thousands of Iridium people. But if the Iridium United Empire grows, absorbs the power of the earth, and even expands its territory to other planetary systems, then this industrial capacity will not be enough. The production of a large number of products requires a group of specialized rail factories. Bai Zhongqi has predicted that after Country C joins the Star Alliance, various needs of the 1.3 billion population will immediately appear. Bai Zhongqi intends to directly improve the living standards of his compatriots to the level of interstellar civilization, which will inevitably require a larger of industrial productivity.

Fortunately, a very typical feature of Iridium technology is its high replicability. The Iridium people can expand their industrial system and industrial scale almost infinitely according to a similar model. This is also a main reason why the Iridium people are very powerful in the galaxy. . Bai Zhongqi has temporarily deployed an orbital factory group, and will continue to deploy new ones according to demand.

Industrial capabilities naturally also cover military production. Iridium's military strength is now extremely powerful in the eyes of people on earth, but after seeing Iridium's extremely large fleet and military scale, the original R19 fleet is really nothing.

"The population of Iridium is too small. The full number of real soldiers is more than 2,000 people. Although the redundant personnel of the exploration fleet have increased due to considering various risks, they are still too few to expand a fleet. For the time being, we still consider absorbing people from Earth to serve in the fleet, but the reliability of this group of people needs further investigation. Then, it seems that the only way to go is the unmanned fleet." Bai Zhongqi was thinking to himself, Iridium Iridium's powerful artificial intelligence and bionic manufacturing capabilities allow Iridium to actually build an army without real people.

Before the "Führer" was welcomed back, Iridium's use of the bionic army was relatively limited. Worries about the runaway artificial intelligence and the inability to cope with more complex wars have made Iridium's plans for the bionic army and unmanned fleet many times. frustrated. Iridium has never established a real army of androids and an unmanned fleet.

It is different now. Bai Zhongqi holds the supreme command. All artificial intelligence and bionic people cannot betray the supreme command. In addition, Bai Zhongqi is currently extremely short of manpower, so he has put the construction of an unmanned fleet and a bionic army on the agenda.

Once the orbital factory complex is completed, Bai Zhongqi will start the construction of an android army of up to 100,000 people. In the past, the authority of the Iridium people was limited. As a fleet commander, Xu Lanzhou could only produce a few thousand bionics. Moreover, the demand for bionics did not only come from the military, but basically disappeared from other aspects as soon as it was allocated. After Bai Zhongqi came to power as the head of state, Iridium began to build androids for various purposes on a large scale. The people who were responsible for the recent visit to Earth were basically the androids that Bai Zhongqi had just built.

Expanding the empire's fleet naturally requires a shipyard. According to the original serial numbering of the Empire's shipyards, the Empire's shipyard to be built in Earth orbit will be named the 318th Shipyard. Because the amount of antimatter reserves is still a little tight now, and the imperial technology brought by the R19 fleet is not completely complete and the most cutting-edge technology of the empire, so in the battleship level, the latest technology battleships such as the Holy Falcon, 318 The shipyard does not have the capacity to produce. However, even the most powerful warship that 318 Shipbuilding can build is at the technological level of the empire two hundred years ago, and it is also a very powerful combat force in the universe.

By the way, the lifespan of Imperial star battleships is relatively long. Although basically Imperial battleships will be decommissioned after 300 years of service, in fact, if these battleships are properly maintained, it will not be a big problem at all for one or two thousand years.

Bai Zhongqi has no plans to build large capital ships in the short term. For him, Iridium's medium-sized and light interstellar battleships are enough to deal with many interstellar conflicts below medium intensity. In fact, it is not really the case between two civilizations. In a life-and-death war, battleships at this level will basically not be dispatched.