The last human in the universe

Chapter 87 Gifts
On the dark red and deep land of the deep space star, there is a large area without any Thorin.There were only dark gray sharp gravel and rocks.

Here is where the first fusion power plant of Deep Space Star is located.

It is located at a depth of more than 100 meters underground, and its entire area is as high as several million square meters, but its heat dissipation pipes are like criss-crossing tree roots, spreading and occupying several square kilometers.

It is precisely because the heat transported by these cooling pipes has heated the rock formations of the deep space star that there is no Torrin in this large area.For all Torrin sublimated into space.

It was built by the deep space civilization, and now of course it belongs to human civilization.

Its existence has provided a huge boost for the construction of human civilization on the deep space star.Even, many of people's follow-up plans revolve around this large power plant with a huge power generation capacity, an installed capacity of up to 1.5 million kilowatts, and an annual power generation capacity of up to one trillion kilowatt-hours.

However, at this stage, the main task of this large power plant is to provide energy for the No. [-] electromagnetic railgun built near it.

The No. 1.6 electromagnetic railgun was built in a canyon in a straight shape with a length of up to 30 kilometers.It is angled so that its muzzle ends up pointing into space.And the mobile device installed under it can make it change the angle up to no more than [-] degrees.

In the main control base, the first standard resource box is ready.It is 30 meters long, 5 meters high and 750 meters wide, and has a total volume of 700 cubic meters.At this moment, it has been filled with the first batch of materials to be sent to Sedna - about [-] tons of water ice.

Including its own weight, its total mass is as high as 800 tons.

As people watched, the lifting device lowered it into the "port" of the number one electromagnetic railgun.The director of the electromagnetic railgun base is currently checking various parameters with a little nervousness.

This is the first time he has officially carried out a launch mission since he took up his duties, so he couldn't help being nervous.

After checking to make sure that everything was normal, and confirming that all the parameters, especially whether the electromagnetic railgun was aimed at the Sedna Star Club, were all correct, he finally pressed the launch button.

Accompanied by a low hum, a powerful current surged into each electromagnetic coil, and began to provide forward power for the standard resource box inside.Under such circumstances, the standard resource box suspended in the gun barrel using magnetic levitation technology began to move forward.

It's going faster and faster and faster.By the time it rushed to the muzzle, its speed had reached more than 700 meters per second.

People standing near the muzzle of the electromagnetic railgun and observing only saw the huge standard resource box, and the next moment, it flew into the vast space and disappeared.

But it doesn't matter, the positioning and communication equipment equipped on it are still continuously reporting its coordinates and speed information to people.

It was originally aimed in a direction off the ecliptic plane of the solar system.However, in the process of breaking free from the gravity of the deep space star, its orbit was also changed a little, so it happened to return to the ecliptic plane again, and aligned with the direction of the inner solar system.

At this moment, it is affected by the common gravitational force of many celestial bodies such as the sun, deep space stars, Sedna stars, and interstellar dust clouds.And all of this has been incorporated into the calculation model of orbital influencing factors in advance.

Extending along the extension of its current orbit, it will eventually pass hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from Sedna.But this does not prevent people from receiving this material.

The reason is simple, at the moment its track is advanced.At the speed it possesses, the point it reaches after about three years is also the position that Sedna will reach after this period of time.

At that time, it can be precisely parked in the orbit around the Sedna star, waiting for people to salvage it.

After completing the first launch, many technicians immediately began a comprehensive inspection of the No. [-] electromagnetic railgun.After confirming that everything was normal, he breathed a sigh of relief.

With the relevant data of this first test, people made some modifications to it later, so the large-scale launch was on the right track.

With the electromagnetic railgun base as the core, all the railways spread to various mineral bases in all directions.Numerous steel mills, foundries, chemical plants, etc. have sprung up on the land of the deep space star like mushrooms after rain.

The responsibilities of these factories, in addition to providing building materials for infrastructure and various buildings that people need, such as life support bases, planting workshops, etc., the most important task is to produce standard resource boxes.

To some extent, the output of standard resource boxes is also related to the speed of material projection.

In fact, the standard resource box launched from the deep space star to the Sedna star will not be returned after the internal materials are unloaded.Because it is also a kind of resource itself.

The high-quality special steel it adopts is very suitable for use on the shells of space bases, spacecraft and other facilities.Just cast it and change its shape, and the people of Sedna can use it directly.

Numerous mineral resources, industrial products, chemical products, raw materials, etc. generally gather here at the base, and then are loaded into standard resource boxes and projected into space one by one.

Because the deep space star also has rotation, and the No. 600 electromagnetic railgun has limited adjustment ability, on average, only about a quarter of the time can be fired.Even so, after the No. 48 electromagnetic railgun enters a stable operation state, it will send an average of [-] standard resource boxes every day, and the total amount of resources sent is as high as [-] tons.

In addition to the No. 200 electromagnetic railgun, the No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] electromagnetic rail guns located in different places on the Deep Space Star are also under construction.After they are built, they can be launched seamlessly around the clock.At that time, the materials that can be sent every day will be as high as about [-] million tons.

Of course, the number of electromagnetic railguns and the number of materials sent are large, and it is obviously not enough to rely on the 5000 people at this moment.But it doesn't matter, in a few years, the Earth transport ship will transport more people.The people on Star Sedna are also speeding up the construction of larger space transport ships.

And with the current scale, that is, an electromagnetic rail gun, the average daily material transportation volume is about 48 tons. In the past, it is absolutely impossible for this mere 5000 people to be competent.

In fact, Deep Space Star has adopted the highest level of automated production mode here.A large number of robots and automation equipment have helped people undertake most of the labor. Only those that cannot be replaced by robots will be done by manpower.

This is also the development model that Zhao Changxing has been adopting since he came to Sedna.Because of this, the development of human civilization can be so fast.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, several years passed.Just after several second-generation large roller bases were added in the near-Earth space above Sedna, the first standard resource box launched from the deep space star finally approached its destination.

Everything was as calculated, at the right place and at the right time, this standard resource box was parked in the orbit around the Sedna star just right.

Of course, this whole process cannot be so smooth.Interstellar radiation, interstellar dust clouds, and the gravitational force of many celestial bodies can affect the orbit of the electromagnetic gun projectile and make it inaccurate, and it will also cause errors in the orbit of the standard resource box.

In order to solve this problem, when people built a standard resource box, they installed orbit-keeping equipment on it, that is, fission batteries and up to a dozen tons of fuel, so that they can adjust themselves when there is an error in the orbit.

For this reason, both Deep Space Star and Sedna Star have built large-scale communication bases, which are specially used to communicate with standard resource boxes and provide them with position, orbit, and speed calibration information.

Under Zhao Changxing's personal attention, and under the watchful eyes of an unknown number of precision equipment, the follow-up salvage operation began immediately.

Two mobile engines that can be attached to the standard resource box were attached to it by themselves, and then started, like a tugboat, to drag the standard resource box to the near-earth base of the space terminal of the No. 700 space elevator.Here, people cut it directly, so more than [-] tons of pure water ice after processing are presented to people.

The standard resource boxes were cut into steel plates and transported to the docks used to manufacture spaceships and space bases. The more than 700 tons of pure water ice were lowered to the surface of Sedna by space elevator.After that, Zhao Changxing personally pressed the button to release these precious materials from tens of millions of kilometers away into the landscape river of Earth City, and entered the water circulation system of Earth City.

This is the best gift from Deep Space Star.

After receiving the news that Sedna Star had successfully received the supplies, the people stationed on Deep Space Star also cheered together.

On the fourth day, the second batch, totaling 16 standard resource boxes, arrived again.People who had already made complete preparations dragged them to the space base again, so people got more than 6000 tons of iron, more than 3000 tons of water ice and some other materials again.

So far, this mode of material transportation between different planets has continued.

Time is still slowly passing by, when the first batch of 40 second-generation roller bases are all completed, and the total population of human civilization has increased to about 60—of course, most of them are minors. The oldest will not be able to reach adulthood until ten years later, so Zhao Changxing has started a further plan.

After the technical accumulation of building the second-generation roller base, he felt that it was time to build the third-generation roller base.

Compared with the previous two generations, the third-generation roller base has one fundamental difference.

That is, it is not designed for minors.

(End of this chapter)