Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

It was almost evening at this time.

The boss must have just gotten off work and was very busy. After Chen Ming called, he immediately picked up the phone and asked in a slightly surprised tone: "Xiao Mu, what can I do?"

Chen Ming subconsciously glanced at the mule class that was heading to the space station in the galaxy and said, "I brought the person back."

"So soon? Where is he? I'll arrange for someone to pick him up right away."

"We're still on the way. We'll arrive at the space station in about ten minutes, but there are a lot of people there."

The boss didn't understand what Chen Ming meant and asked, "What do you mean by being a little too young?"

"Well... I brought the entire pirate ship back. There were about thirty people on board, all alive."

"?"

The boss on the other end of the phone was even more confused and asked: "What did you do?"

"Fooling, and a little bit of technology, not only is their spaceship under my control..."

"The pirate leader now also thinks that I am looking for him because you are planning to ask him to do something special, and that you brought him here to discuss some serious business."

Chen Ming said, and sent over the photos taken by the Iron Mine of the Mule-class environment inside the galaxy where the Pirate Space Station is located.

Looking at the lonely Mule-class ship in the photo, the boss couldn't help but praise: "You can do it. When you have time, tell me how you fooled people into being like this."

Chen Ming didn't wait and said directly on the phone: "First beat the person and break his legs, and then tell him that I could beat you to death but didn't, which means I am very special to you, and finally beat him to death." Once the legs are connected, he will believe what I say."

"..."

The boss was silent for a moment and changed the topic that didn't sound right: "Let's not talk about this anymore. When the time comes, you can go directly to the patrol team's dock and enter the space station. Tell me the type of ship and I will let someone let you go."

"Wasn't that dock demolished last time? Has it been repaired?"

"It's so fast. Now I just reconnected the broken parts with the frame, and built a small thing inside that can temporarily park the boat. You can park the boat there when the time comes, and I will arrange the rest. of."

"good."

Chen Ming responded, suddenly remembering the cargo mounted on the mule class and said: "The batch of supplies they grabbed is now hung outside by them, and part of it is on another cargo ship. Do you want me to wait for a while... "

Before Chen Ming finished speaking, the boss said directly: "No, if you can take it, just take it."

"That batch of supplies is used to supply small colonies. If they were robbed, the colonies would have already prepared a new batch of supplies for shipment."

"There's no need to send this batch of supplies over again. It's useless for me to hold them here now. If you can take them, take them. If you can't take them back, I'll have them sent to the repair shop for you. You can sell them to others or keep them for yourself. All is OK.”

"This is considered an extra thing, and it is not included in the other benefits I promised you before."

"Wait until I finish taking care of the things at hand, and I'll come find you in two days."

"OK."

Chen Ming agreed again, and directly controlled the separation of the cargo compartment mounted on the mule class through the panel, and handed it over to another mule class of his own.

Then Chen Ming did as his boss said and entered the small temporary dock belonging to the patrol team in the space station with only the pirate mule class.

The layout of the temporary dock looks a bit messy. Not only are there many combat ships docked, but there is also a lot of materials that will be used to repair the space arm later.

However, it seems that there is still a clear space here for the mule class to dock.

Chen Ming did not let the Iron Ore go down, but only controlled the Mule-class to land on it.

Then he saw several people waving to his Iron Ore near the mule class. These should be the people arranged by the boss.

Chen Ming smoothly opened the mule-class hatch and returned control to the spacecraft itself.

The boss should have already contacted the pirate leader through the pirate's communication code given by Chen Ming in advance, following Chen Ming's previous nonsense.

The professional military ships around made the pirate leader believe Chen Ming's words, so the boss's people successfully left the temporary dock with most of the pirates on board.

There were still a few watchmen left on the ship, and Chen Ming estimated that they would die the earliest.

But this has nothing to do with him.

Chen Ming has to go somewhere else next.

Just keep the pirate's mule-class ship here. The boss is unlikely to be interested in such a thing anyway, and just come back and get it later.

Chen Ming quickly took control of the Iron Ore and took the Centurion and another Mule class into the dock open to the public on the 15th Space Arm of the space station.

At the same time, Chen Ming was also checking what the mule class carried.

There are a total of three external cargo holds stolen by pirates mounted on the Mule class, two of the expulsion level and one of the guard level. In addition, there are also Chen Ming's own cargo holds of these materials in the Mule class. The quantity is very considerable.

Basically, they are all kinds of daily necessities and packaged food, as well as a relatively small proportion of supplies for spacecraft.

These things are basically worthless in the prosperous star field, but this quantity can still be sold at a relatively good price in the edge star field.

Chen Ming originally planned to find a place to sell it, but before he really planned to do so, he suddenly hesitated.

The image of Yuhui Colony flashed through his mind, and he somehow thought of the small colony related to his boss.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Ming suddenly didn't want to sell this batch of goods, so he simply stored them in the repair shop.

Anyway, the repair shop has a lot of extra space, so it's not a big problem to temporarily store these materials.

Although Chen Ming didn't know what specific use he would have for these things, he just wanted to keep them, always thinking that he might need them later.

This strange premonition was just like the panic he felt in the space arm before.

At that time, this premonition saved his life, and although this premonition is not so strong now, Chen Ming thinks it will not be wrong to believe it.

After parking the Centurion at the dock, Chen Ming continued to control the Iron Ore and the Mule-class into the depths of the repair shop.

Through the special unloading equipment in the repair shop, the cargo in the several cargo holds mounted on the Mule-class and its own cargo hold were all removed and piled up on the open space on the side.

After the cargo was unloaded, Chen Ming suddenly felt the fatigue accumulated during the day surge into his brain.

He had been repairing and dismantling ships since the afternoon, and the mental fatigue had begun to affect his thinking.

After all, the six frigates he dismantled were comparable to many destroyers in terms of size, and the mental energy consumed by dismantling a destroyer was twice that of completely modifying a destroyer.

So Chen Ming was not in a hurry to continue with the next thing, but went to the restaurant inside the space station and opened a private room to solve the problem of dinner.

Now that he has money, he has to prepare something good for his food.

After finishing the work, he returned to the Iron Ore and lay on the bed in the living cabin.

Before falling asleep completely, Chen Ming habitually began to think and summarize his situation today.

Doing so can help him find out the omissions and problems in his work, so as to avoid repeating them later.

Thinking about it, Chen Ming suddenly remembered the situation when he first came to the Pirate Space Station.

And his thoughts at that time.

Return to the prosperous star field with a new identity and start a new life.

Chen Ming seemed to have been able to do this a long time ago, but this idea has faded a little for him now.

There are many reasons.

The most important one is that Chen Ming's new life actually started when he set foot on the pirate space station.

He never said that his new life must start from the prosperous star field.

It's just because Chen Ming was on Raymu before, which was not even a wilderness, but a pure primitive world.

So Chen Ming's first thought at that time was to return to the prosperous star field familiar to his memory.

But for Chen Ming now, staying in the edge star field would be more comfortable than going to the prosperous star field.

After all, he couldn't accept that all the hard work he had put into modifying the spacecraft during this period was scrapped.

He couldn't accept the situation of the complete ban on the afterglow AI core within the human empire.

You must know that the management environment of the prosperous star field is much stricter than that of the edge star field. The patrol team patrolling in the galaxy may suddenly investigate any spacecraft at any time.

Chen Ming couldn't resist yet, so he could only passively accept their scanning. Once a problem was found, the AI ​​core in Chen Ming's hand would definitely not be saved.

The two AI cores are Chen Ming's most important helpers now. Without them, his ability in spacecraft will at least decline by half.

So Chen Ming thought it would be best to get an armed ship license first to ensure that his identity is not just a civilian, and no one will come to check him out.

In this way, he will have the basis to take the Yuhui AI core back.

And there are many ways to obtain an armed ship license, and there is even a way to climb up all the way.

This way can not only meet Chen Ming's needs to improve himself, but should also meet Chen Ming's idea of ​​taking the Yuhui AI core back.

Xinda Company has also been acquiring Yuhui AI cores. Since the official has not checked them, there is no need to guess what it means.

Although Chen Ming is not sure whether this road can be taken, its existence does make him less willing to go back.

And if Chen Ming really chooses to return to the prosperous star field and stay away from the marginal star field.

Then he will lose the source of new Yuhui AI cores.

Many of his abilities to control spacecraft are not easy to play in the prosperous star field.

Just the point of contacting Yuhui's ship is basically impossible to do again.

But for Chen Ming, he has deeply experienced the convenience of owning and controlling two afterglow AI cores.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

It is impossible for Chen Ming to give up the idea of ​​obtaining a new afterglow AI core.

And it is not only Chen Ming's own idea, but also the limitations of the reality that force him to obtain a new AI core to a certain extent.

With the increase in the number of ships Chen Ming currently has, and the change in the types of ships.

It is not enough for a refraction-class ship to carry three frigates.

After all, two mule-class ships must at least occupy a stable control position of Chen Ming's spacecraft. If two mules are taken, Chen Ming will not be able to control other spacecrafts.

Even if there are more ships, he can't take them out.

Even if the refraction is really transformed into a mobile small dock, at most four spacecraft can be parked in it stably, and some of the combat effectiveness of the refraction will be lost.

So Chen Ming thought for a while and simply postponed the refraction reform.

While ensuring its own combat capabilities, we must first solve the problems of the growing overall number of spacecraft and the backward number of ship controls.

The best way to solve this problem is to find Yuhui and let Yuhui's AI assist him in controlling the ship.

Chen Ming didn't expect higher-level beta cores or even alpha cores that could control destroyers, but he had to get a few more gamma-level AI cores so that he could control all the spacecraft on hand.

Previously, Chen Ming specifically asked Gamma A whether there were cases where Yuhui individuals went together to explore planets.

Gamma A said yes.

So on Yuhui's information exchange platform, those Yuhui individuals who summon similar Yuhui to explore are Chen Ming's best targets.

It seems that he will have to prepare a robot that can explore the planet, and use the name of Gamma AB to sneak in and cause trouble.

And this robot can also have another use.

It was to help Chen Ming handle some tasks that he couldn't risk doing himself.

For example, most recently, when controlling a pirate ship.

If Chen Ming could have had one or several powerful enough combat robots at that time.

After the pirate ship is paralyzed, he jumps directly to help and kills the pirates directly. It saves Chen Ming a lot of time by saying less, plus a lot of nonsense with the pirate leader.

Chen Ming is already preparing to do the previous matter, not only through Xinda Company, but also through his own abilities, advancing both sides.

As for the latter matter, Chen Ming will have to wait until Chen Ming has finished what he has to do before he has time to do it.

But the preliminary preparation work, such as preparing robots, can actually be done now.

It shouldn't take too much time to do it when you get around to it.

Chen Ming gradually fell into a deep sleep while thinking continuously.

When I woke up, it was already the next day.

The outside of the Iron Ore was already piled with weapons that needed to be refurbished and had been delivered late at night by the factory director.

After Chen Ming moved them onto the ship, it took him five minutes to complete the batch repair of the weapons.

After putting the refurbished goods back in their original positions, Chen Ming went straight to the mule-class that was parked in the repair shop yesterday.

I plan to repair and modify the mule class.

We were at the Dark Cemetery because we had to transport people back as soon as possible, and because we had dismantled several ships before.

Chen Ming did not have the time or energy to do modifications and repairs.

So I can only leave it until now.

Chen Ming opened the mule-class panel smoothly.

[Spaceship Panel]

[Ship name: None]

[Type: Mule-class armed merchant ship]

[Radiant energy capacity: 0/600]

[Radiant energy dissipation: 50]

[Fuel reserves: 37%]

[Port side weapon: Light assault gun (small)*2]

[Starboard weapon: Light assault gun (small)*2]

[Top weapon: Assault chain gun (medium)]

[Tail weapon: Vulcan point defense gun (small)]

[Armor: Titanium alloy external armor]

[Engine: Civilian customized destroyer engine]

[Built-in cabins: captain's cabin, engine room, bridge control cabin, weapons control cabin, living cabin*4, small cargo storage cabin*2]

[Important equipment: control system module (in operation), landing module (in operation), hyperspace channel system module (in operation), simulated gravity module (in operation), guard-level radiation system (in operation), guard-level full-angle Shield module (running)]

On the panel, Chen Ming immediately noticed the change in the weapon display, which had appeared with the emergence of the disassembly function.

It seems a little more convenient, but it has little impact on Chen Ming.

Anyway, if there is a problem, it is enough to open the panel that records more detailed information.

Looking at the entire panel of the Mule-class ship, Chen Ming felt that it was just an ordinary merchant ship that had undergone rough military modifications.

The most obvious part of the rough modification on the ship is its radiation system.

Although it is also a frigate-level radiation energy system, its radiation energy capacity and radiation energy dissipation are not even as good as those of the Centurion, which has a relatively poor shield.

So much so that Chen Ming even wanted to dismantle the entire radiation system and replace it with a destroyer-level radiation system.

But after thinking about it and complaining, I still have to use this frigate-level radiation system.

After all, Chen Ming couldn't afford a more advanced radiation energy system now.

So I’d better think about how to make the mule class as good as possible.

In fact, the modification and transformation of the ship has almost become Chen Ming's standard procedure before officially using the ship.

As for the final transformation direction of the ship, it is determined by its use.

The purpose of the Mule-class freighter is simple.

Cargo.

A 120-meter Mule-class ship with two small cargo storage compartments.

Although it sounds small, the actual capacity of this specialized small cargo storage compartment is a full 30*30*30.

The interior is divided into three floors: upper, middle and lower. Just one floor has a capacity gap dozens of times greater than the 5*5*5 storage compartment of the Iron Mine.

Moreover, the original size of the Iron Ore was 33 meters long, 15 meters wide, and 7 meters high, and it was even smaller after modification.

In other words, six Iron Ore ships can be directly stuffed into this complete cargo hold.

It can actually carry more than a larger diopter.

But think about it, after all, it is an electromagnetic ship that assists in combat, and it is loaded with a large number of electromagnetic or other types of equipment.

The other one is a specialized cargo ship. It would be strange if it could exceed that.

So under such circumstances, Chen Ming's choice of transforming the mule class has actually been determined.

If you go by what is displayed on the panel, it is several additional [Expanded Cargo Holders].

By dismantling the cabins that are redundant for Chen Ming, such as the captain's cabin and living cabin, and even the bridge control cabin and weapons control cabin, we can find a way to dismantle it.

The equipment inside is separated and placed in the corners of the hull, saving a lot of space in exchange for greater cargo capacity.

Chen Ming is not worried that he may not be able to use it in the future. After all, with Chen Ming's dismantling ability, as long as he can touch other people's spaceships, there is no chance that he will have a chance to fill the storage compartment.

Of course, to carry out such a large-scale modification to the spacecraft, the engine must also need matching modifications.

So Chen Ming took out Lu De's professional book that was updated thirty years later.

Although after Chen Ming found out what Lu Dezuo Path was, he found that the content in the book seemed to be somewhat deleted.

But there are still many useful technologies above.

For example, the modification technology used in the engine of the self-destructing ship can definitely be adapted to the Mule class, which carries more cargo holds.

In addition, the Ludd technical book contained many technologies that involved a certain degree of danger in exchange for more powerful performance of the spacecraft, and Chen Ming was also very willing to learn them.

After all, Chen Ming often doesn't need to take the risk himself.

After roughly thinking about the modification plan, Chen Ming directly began to personally control various large-scale maintenance equipment in the maintenance shop.

Although he is not easy to use the panels in the repair shop many times, the engineering equipment in the repair shop can still be used casually.

It's not like Chen Ming has no experience in using these devices. In fact, it's not too difficult to modify them.

In addition, there are several cargo holds that pirates unloaded from caravans that can be used as the base, and the transformation of the [Expanded Cargo Hold] does not take Chen Ming too much time.

On the contrary, Chen Ming planned to modify the [reinforced bulkhead] in order to enhance the survivability of the mule class, and his favorite [heavy armor]. These two modifications required a lot of effort on his part.

Although the finished product will still take a few days to complete, Chen Ming has already drawn the entire Mule-class ship on the design drawing in advance.

The Mule-class, which originally had a more layered design, gained a lot of weight due to Chen Ming's design, but its maneuverability increased instead of decreasing.

After all, this [Flame Drive], which is Ludd's technology, was obtained at the expense of the instability of the spacecraft's internal temperature control system.

At this point, the Mule-class transformation ideas have been thoroughly planned.

Once the ideas are planned, the rest is just mechanical work.

Therefore, during the few days it took to actually modify the Mule class, Chen Ming was still thinking about the modification plan for another ship.

Although he left a lot of materials in the dark cemetery, there are still many ordinary materials that cannot be used at all.

So Chen Ming wanted to completely transform a spaceship based on Ludd's technology.

Transformed a self-destruct ship belonging to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming had never had this idea before.

But after seeing Ludd's self-destructing ship, Chen Ming suddenly discovered that Ludd's technology was very suitable for him in many cases.

A spacecraft that does not require human control can carry out quite a lot of dangerous modifications.

Naturally, this includes self-destructing spaceships.

And regarding the self-destruction of the ship, he needs to be able to figure out how to detonate all the fuel stored in different locations inside the ship at once, and how to maximize the power of the explosion. It is enough.

The remaining technologies of the self-destructing spacecraft are all in Ludd's technical book.

However, it is a bit of a disadvantage to buy a fuel ship and modify it just to try this idea.

Therefore, the target that Chen Ming planned to transform into a self-destructing ship was the Sentinel-class that was a bit dusty in the repair shop.

Once the mule is modified, it's the sentinel's turn.