The Wandering Planet

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The Flower of Soul project was proceeding in an orderly manner according to plan, so Qiao Li didn't have to worry too much.

Now he is more concerned about how the transformation of the New Moon Base is going, which is related to whether the Wandering Earth can travel to the next plane. After getting the Death Star's supermatter reactor, it's time to gradually transform it into a Starkiller base.

Through the transmission tower of the planetary engine, Qiao Lv came to the New Moon base in a blink of an eye.

At this time, the Death Star had been dismantled until only a skeleton remained, like a skull floating in space. The contents inside had already been emptied out, and all of them were moved to the New Moon Base.

Thanks to it, the New Moon Base is now undergoing extensive construction and installation of various parts removed from the Death Star, including of course the most important supermatter reactor.

This is also a big project, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to complete in a short time, but the materials are all ready-made, which is much better than starting from scratch.

Today's Crescent Base has long become a vital space base for the wandering earth, with functions such as an orbital defense platform, an interstellar warship dock, and a fleet command center, plus Galen Erso's improved Death Star super laser cannon. It's looking more and more like Starkiller Base.

But now the Ark, the Wannian Fengxue and the Expedition are all following the journey of the New Republic to unify the Milky Way. The only one docked above the orbit of the Crescent Base is the Executor, which returned to the Wandering Earth not long ago. Now it has been transformed into a A giant spaceship.

When Qiao Li arrived, the Executor was conducting its first military exercise.

Countless fighter jets swarmed out of the hangar of the Executor, pounced on the asteroid belt left over from the Death Star's super laser cannon bombardment in the nearby Battle of Yavin, and smashed the target asteroid with proton torpedoes and laser cannons. .

To Qiao Lv's surprise, the carrier aircraft of the Executor did not adopt the x-wing fighters and y-wing fighters of the Rebel Alliance as he thought, but was equipped with a large number of cheap tie fighters as always.

Just when Qiao Li was puzzled, George, the permanent director responsible for the construction of the space fleet, sent an invitation to board the Executor to watch the exercise.

So Qiao Li took a shuttle to the Executor and once again saw this nearly 20,000-meter-long super star destroyer. Qiao Li was still amazed at its city-like hull surface, and further expanded After the hangar area, the Executor looks like a huge beehive, which can easily accommodate tens of thousands of star fighters, commanding them to come in and out, sometimes attacking and sometimes repairing.

After officially entering the hangar,

Only then did Qiao Lu understand why the Executor used cheap tie fighters as carrier aircraft.

Inside the hull of the Executor is a complete tie fighter production line, which can even recover various debris and minerals floating in space, and build a brand new tie fighter in just a few minutes.

The neat and uniform assembly line gives people a unique industrial aesthetic feeling, and the fully automated production completes all operations meticulously.

At this time, Qiao Lv was also surprised to find that most of the asteroids used as targets were celestial bodies containing metallic minerals.

After the tie fighter jets blasted it to pieces with proton torpedoes, they dragged the large chunks of minerals back to the Executor with a tractor beam, and put them into the production line to be used as materials for the next batch of fighter jets.

It is simply a one-stop service mobile factory. From collecting raw materials to producing fighter jets to putting them into combat, everything is done inside the hull of the Executor.

No wonder it is necessary to use relatively cheap tie fighters. If it weren’t for this kind of simple structure and low price dual ion engine fighters, there would be no way to produce them in such a steady stream. They could still be pieced together with various debris and asteroid minerals, Build quickly from materials.

Undoubtedly, the remodeled Executor adopts drone swarm tactics, which is to overwhelm the enemy with a steady stream of huge numbers, and tie fighters are tailor-made for this purpose.

While visiting the production line on the Executor, Qiao Lv came to the bridge command room. George had been waiting here for a long time, and the Executor also entered the asteroid belt step by step.

"Qiao Lv, welcome! How about it, our first space carrier."

"Much better than I imagined."

Qiao Lv originally thought that the Executor would be equipped with a large number of X-wing fighters, just like a traditional aircraft carrier, relying on its carrier capacity to win, but he didn't expect that it would become a mobile factory, relying on a continuous flow of fighters while building.

George explained, "X-wing fighters have high performance, but they also have high requirements for pilots. At present, our artificial intelligence is still incompetent, and there is no way to train so many excellent pilots in a short period of time. Therefore, cheap tie fighters It became the first choice, coupled with the convenience of mass production, we transformed the Executor into this."

The X-wing fighter is similar to the Phoenix fighter of the Protoss in StarCraft. Its performance is naturally higher than the interceptor of the Protoss aircraft carrier, but it cannot be produced quickly to meet the rapid replenishment of the Protoss aircraft carrier. needs.

In contrast, tie fighters are even cheaper, and can be pieced together with various wreckage and metal minerals. It is nothing more than fuel and ammunition, which cannot be any cheaper.

As a matter of course, the fighter jets on the Executor have been replaced with unmanned types, and they are not even counted as vital force, and they will not feel distressed as much as they are consumed.

Under the cover of countless tie fighters, the Executor passed through the densely packed asteroid belt and returned with a large amount of metal minerals. The collection efficiency was frighteningly high, making it unclear whether it was an engineering ship or a space carrier.

"The second space carrier is also under construction. With the experience of transforming and using the Executor, the domestic space carrier we built from scratch will have a more mature design, which will be beneficial in all aspects." George Said further.

Indeed, this is much better than starting from scratch, the space fleet of the wandering earth is built little by little.

Qiao Lu asked, "So how is the transformation of the New Moon Base going? Is it going well?"

"Well, the parts on the Death Star have been delivered and are being reassembled under the command of Galen Erso. No one knows the structure of the Death Star better than him. After the transformation of the New Moon Base is completed, the supermatter reactor The energy of guides the wandering earth, helping us travel to new worlds."

Another important task for the Wandering Earth Fleet to follow the Rebels to unify the galaxy is to recover as much as possible the Kyber crystals looted by the empire before, as fuel for the supermatter reactor, and there is still enough energy left after the Wandering Earth crosses.

Everything is going according to plan, it seems that Qiao Lv can really rest assured this time.