The Age of Giant Ships and Cannons

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Clone crew members buy out at 200,000 in Jinmen, and the local price of the outpost is 300,000, with a total of 1.53 billion stars for 5,100.

Of course, the supporting senior crew and captain were naturally recruited early on.

Then I bought some scattered but not cheap things, the most expensive of which were all kinds of food and consumables.

Before, Li Qing always thought that clones had little consumption, but after observation during this period, he found that although these clones have defects in genes and souls, theoretically they don’t need all kinds of consumables like natural people, but in fact they have this aspect Required, but not mandatory.

To put it bluntly, it’s okay if you don’t provide them with various consumables, but if there are additional consumables and a variety of food supplies, their enthusiasm and work efficiency will be greatly improved.

He didn't prepare before, but when he came back from this trip, he deliberately bought a large batch of food and a large number of consumables, with a total value of more than 1.5 billion.

This is enough for 100,000 clones and natural persons to consume for fifteen years, mainly for storage, in case they are lost outside for too long due to accidents, and there will be chaos if there is not enough supplies.

In addition, 100 agricultural planting-related experts were recruited, with a monthly salary of 180,000 yuan, and 2,000 cloned farmers were bought out, each costing 200 million stars for 100,000 yuan.

And 100 animal husbandry-related experts, with a monthly salary of 200,000 yuan, bought out 2,000 cloned herdsmen, and spent 200 million stars for 100,000 yuan each.

Then a batch of agricultural production facilities, various fully automatic reclamation and planting machines, and of course various plant seeds, including various economic crops, and the most common food.

Of course, spending so much money to get these things will not be reclaimed in the base ecological circle. Although the ecological circle of 20 kilometers in length and width is not small, the reclamation is definitely unreliable. His goal is to hold the warehouse in the high-dimensional fortress in the universe. .

He plans to choose two warehouse levels, one for agricultural area and one for animal husbandry.

Although there is no water or soil in the warehouse area, these are minor problems that can be solved slowly.

Just find an asteroid belt in a galaxy, collect a large number of broken meteorites and throw them into the universe in your palm. First, put the ignited star in the universe in your palm to melt into lava, disinfect viruses and bacteria, and then crush the cooled lava to cover the entire warehouse. A thick layer forms the soil stratum.

It takes a very complicated process for normal rock to turn into soil. The natural environment, such as gravity, flowing water, wind erosion, etc., takes tens of millions of years to change from rock to soil, but he can artificially form soil in a short period of time through high technology.

These lava fragments are directly crushed by machinery, and then the conditions for soil formation are artificially simulated by machinery, and what elements are needed to be artificially added, finally forming soil suitable for planting.

However, at this time the soil is not ready for planting, and further cultivation is needed.

This is actually not a big problem. You can directly use high-tech means to add attachment elements into the soil. Generally, it will reach the soil standard for planting in one or two years.

Theoretically, it only takes three years to convert a large area of ​​wasteland into plantable soil, as long as you have enough investment.

In fact, there will be this step in the transformation of the planet, but the investment is greater and the time-consuming is longer.

After all, transforming a barren star full of hard rocks into a livable planet in a harsh environment requires a huge amount of resources.

However, his soil transformation covering two thousand kilometers in length and width is actually a huge project, adding up is not inferior to transforming an asteroid.

The only advantage is that he doesn't need to consider modifying the atmosphere and environment, because the warehouse area already has the function of temperature regulation. At that time, he will install climate regulation facilities, weather control facilities, etc., to simulate extreme weather such as wind, rain, and even tornadoes and typhoons. .

After coming out of the outpost, he went straight to Star Garan Castle. There were a total of 2 cruisers, 8 destroyers, and 35 frigates on this trip, which was considered a good mix among individual players.

The fleet hopped away from the outpost several times in a row, stopping in a system with an asteroid belt.

The fleet plunged into the asteroid belt, easily destroyed the escort of three wild monster mining ships, and stopped in an open area inside the asteroid belt.

At this time, Li Qing's flagship was still the modified Elite Hurricane-class destroyer. Although the cruiser had thicker armor and stronger firepower, his command skills at this time were not enough for him to command the cruiser, and his skills could not be added to the cruiser.

Cruisers are slower than destroyers and frigates regardless of their normal navigation speed and flexibility, and they cannot get bonuses. When using this as a command ship, once you encounter a powerful enemy, you will not be able to use many flexible operations at all, and you will easily be forced to confront the enemy head-on. And the loss was huge.

The frigate lost nearly 150 million, and the destroyer lost nearly 700 million. The cruiser is even more exaggerated. The fifth-generation high configuration is about 3 billion. The modified top configuration can reach more than 5 billion depending on the type of accessories.

If the cruiser is converted into a small carrier module, the cost will be higher.

The two cruisers that Li Qing had in hand were just ordinary high-end configurations, neither modified nor top-end configurations, and they didn't dare to change them into aircraft carrier modules. The ships were ready-made, and the weapons and accessories alone cost a total of 4 billion.

Adding six destroyers used a total of 2.8 billion.

A total of 26 frigates spent a total of 3.1 billion.

It cost him 9.9 billion stars in total, almost over 10 billion stars.

In the palm universe, all the collected meteorites are burned and melted into lava by the ignited stars in the palm universe. The bacteria and viruses contained in it are all purified, and then poured into the cold void to freeze quickly, and then twisted and crushed into countless fine lava particles by high gravity , mixed with the purchased soil elements and poured directly into the sixth and seventh floors of the warehouse.

The warehouse area is 1,000 kilometers high. He only divided it into ten large layers, each layer is as high as 100 kilometers. He expects to pile up a full layer of gravel ten kilometers thick.

This step took him almost a month, mainly because the demand was too much. Two soil layers with a length of 1,000 kilometers, a width of 1,000 kilometers and a thickness of 10 kilometers, even though the operation was simple, could not support a large amount.

After finishing, he hollowed out a large circle of nearby meteorites.

After the first step was completed, Li Qing directly ordered the fleet to jump back to Jialanxing Castle. The next step was slow work and meticulous work. Under the command of a hundred agricultural experts, two thousand farmers and two thousand herdsmen began to use machinery to level the ground and plan for reclamation. area, and then start the next step of soil cultivation.

This step will take a year or two, and he doesn't need to take care of it, just wait for two years to come and see.

Once such two large areas are reclaimed, the production of both food and meat can definitely provide self-sufficiency for more than one billion people.

Li Qing was also a little speechless when he saw that the palm universe was clearly a warehouse area, but he gradually developed into a base.

When the warehouse area was just unlocked a long time ago, he thought about opening up the warehouse area, similar to a large-scale immigration of a space habitat station, but after thinking about it later, he felt that the maintenance cost was too high and rejected that idea.

At that time, his idea was outrageous. He planned to open up all ten floors as living quarters, and all other materials would be imported from the outside. The maintenance fee must be outrageous.

Now that a pastoral area and an agricultural area have been reclaimed, it seems that the original idea can be readjusted.

It is still not easy to fully transform, but if only a few areas are developed and developed in a segmented manner, it seems to be feasible.

For example, the warehouse area below the fifth floor, the agricultural area on the sixth floor, the animal husbandry area on the seventh floor, the consumables and livelihood industrial production area on the eighth floor, the living area on the ninth floor, and the comprehensive area on the tenth floor, including various laboratories , various vocational colleges, clone training bases, military areas and so on.

Compared with the original idea, the scale has been reduced by dozens of times, and agricultural areas and industrial areas have been opened up. All consumption can be self-sufficient, and basically no maintenance fees are required.

After thinking about it carefully, Li Qing felt that there was room for maneuver in this plan, even if the funds he had now were far from such a large area of ​​development.

The area of ​​each floor in the warehouse area is as high as one million square kilometers, and each floor can be divided into ten floors with a height of 100 kilometers.

The fifth floor is 5 million square kilometers. If it is developed from scratch, the funds required will be extremely exaggerated.

Think about it, how outrageous the funds will be needed to develop more than half of the earth's Huaxia land area.

This is still the case where there is a universe in the palm that can be opened and hung, and the meteorite can be directly collected into the universe in the palm, melted and crushed, and sent to the warehouse layer one by one.

Without this, it would take decades or hundreds of years to fill the five-story warehouse area with a thickness of one million square kilometers and a thickness of ten kilometers with manpower and transport ships alone.

It takes a superpower to go all out and invest tens of billions of dollars to build and develop a giant space habitat station from scratch. It will take decades and nearly a hundred years to complete it. A project of a giant space habitation station, speaking out will definitely make people think it is crazy.

Four days later, Li Qing returned to the Jialan galaxy, and saw at a glance that the galaxy base, which was usually deserted, became lively at this moment.

The once-a-year large-scale team event is only less than half a month away. Team members scattered outside have rushed back one after another. A large number of warships have gathered. Even if the large fleet is parked in other open spaces in the galaxy, there are also two parked near the star castle. Three thousand small and medium warships.

Li Qing randomly found an open space to park the fleet, and a destroyer left the fleet and headed for Star Fort.

The team channel was lively, and many names that had never been seen before were chatting in it.

"Beep!"

The communication was turned on, and Li Lie's projection appeared in the center of the bridge when he was connected. He said with a smile:

"I knew you were back when I saw your avatar light up. We are in the Star Fortress. Come here quickly."

At the same time, he also received a shared location, click to view, it is located in the inner business district of Star Castle.

"Okay, I'll be right there."

After mooring the battleship, a small aircraft dragged a long tail flame into the huge star fortress.

The Star Fortress is actually a battle fortress that combines the functions of a space residence station and an interstellar fortress. In addition to having powerful combat capabilities, it also has a huge space inside.

Theoretically, Star Fort or Star City can also be used as a colony, but in reality, very few have the power to do so.

Most of them are used as combat bases, and most of the space inside is transformed into warehouse areas, trading areas, or docks, etc., which can store transit materials, repair ships, and so on.

Of course, considering that Starcastle has a large number of staff, it also has residential areas and entertainment and commercial areas, but the scale is generally small.

The commercial area of ​​Jialan Xingbao is located on the edge of the trading area. It is a "field"-shaped area. The surrounding and central "cross" are commercial streets. There is a super large commercial center in the center, and there are many small streets on the side of the commercial street. , Like pedestrian street, bar street, etc. are all here.

As the only commercial area in Star Fort, it is not only a gathering place for team members, but many staff in Star Fort also like to come here. Occasionally, some casual players will come to replenish and have fun.

Go to Bar Street according to the coordinates, and find a large comprehensive bar called Starlight, which contains many entertainment facilities other than bars.

Li Lie, Li Qi, and many other members are here, and they are booking a private room on the second floor. Outside the huge floor-to-ceiling windows is a huge bar pool. The dazzling lights are flickering, and the DJ is screaming loudly. Many men and women are dancing on the dance floor.

Li Qing pushed the door open and entered, everyone raised their heads and greeted him one after another.

Li Lie took a glass and put it in front of him, opened a new bottle of wine and poured it for him. Li Qing raised his eyebrows and smiled.

Leading them to make a few waves of money without a white belt, at least the posture is correct.

After clinking glasses and taking a sip, Li Qing asked:

"Where have you been making a lot of money during this time?"

Li Lie waved his hand and said:

"To make a lot of money, except for some mining, there is no big money to make."

Li Qi also shook his head and said:

"We don't have your treasures. Large caravans can't be played, and small-scale ones don't make money. Only mining."

At this time, one of the only two women in the team, a girl named Li Ya, toasted him and asked with a smile:

"Where did Brother Li Qing get rich recently, take us with you when you have time!"

Seeing her tone, Li Qing's heart moved. It seemed that he had made quick money before, but now this kind of small money is not enough. He took another sip of wine and said:

"Recently, I went to a place more than 400 light-years northeast of Jialan to find a galaxy and set up a base. I got a group of mining ships to go there, and set up a group of planetary mines to collect planetary materials."

After hearing this, Li Lie wondered:

"How do you go so far to build a base, it's so far away, it's not in a team-controlled area, there are no patrols nearby, security is a problem when you're not there."

"Although it is safe near the team, there are too many people."

Li Qing explained:

"Although it's a bit far away, it's close to the isolation and interference zone. Few players go there. I leave a fleet to guard my home. I'm not afraid of a fleet that isn't too large."

But what they said is indeed a problem. The lack of players does not mean that there are no ones at all. Most of the wild monsters are small-scale, but it does not mean that there are no large-scale ones.

What I am most afraid of is the occasional abnormality that spawns. It would be embarrassing to spawn a large wild monster base near the base.

But the problem is not too big, the big deal is to increase the size of the fleet when we go back after a while.

They briefly chatted about their respective developments, and quickly suggested not to talk about these things, but to drink and have fun first, and talk about these things later.

Of course Li Qing had no objection, it happened that he also wanted to relax.

It has been nearly two years since the beginning of development, and I have been in a state of running, either running here or there, and I have not enjoyed it seriously.

It's a pity that there are two girls, and it's not easy for them to find a group of girls to play with, and they are a little unhappy.