Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 73

Following the lessons learned from Ross 154-4, humans were very cautious this time, and only conducted unmanned detection for two months.

For this unmanned exploration, on the way to Ross 154-7, humans used the inventory on the Hope to produce more than ten artificial satellites.

Because the artificial satellite is released directly in orbit and does not need to be launched with a rocket from the ground, this greatly reduces the difficulty.

While detecting Ross 154-7, its satellites were also within the range of human detection.

In fact, when humans first came to this star system, they also launched artificial satellites to this planet.Therefore, humans have some data on this planet. Coupled with more than two months of detailed detection, more detailed information about the planetary system has been stored in humans' central computer.

What we worried about before did not happen. Human beings did not find any anomalies like Ross 154-4 on this planet.

The entire Ross 154-7, including its satellites, is in a very natural state, and no life or other conditions that deviate from the planetary evolution model have been found.

Because of what happened to Ross 154-4, humans were previously worried that there would be traces of development on this planet, but now they can rest assured.

Humanity, which has long been hungry for resources, after finding out everything, launched an initial landing mission to the planet Ross 154-7, as well as its satellites.

However, even though humans are eager for resources, they did not carry out large-scale landing construction all at once. Instead, they started step by step, first allowing a small number of people to land to build the initial base. After completing the initial construction, the new government increased investment in personnel and equipment. Large-scale construction takes place on the planet.

Although the conditions on this planet are not as good as Ross 154-4, fortunately, the landing construction did not encounter any accidents.

In this way, factories and factories of various types slowly appeared on the surface of the planet with the base as the center. Then machines were used to produce machines, and then more machines were involved in the construction.

In the past year alone, humans have completed the construction of all basic factories, and the geological exploration team has also discovered many mineral deposits on the planet.

Gold, silver, copper and iron, tungsten, manganese, zinc, tin and aluminum
Although this planet is small and its mineral reserves are not as good as Ross 154-4, the variety is quite complete.Unfortunately, although humans have discovered several radioactive element deposits on the planet Ross 154-7, the reserves are very scarce.

But the sky is the limit. No large deposits of radioactive elements have been found on the planet. Instead, three or four very rich reserves of radioactive elements have been found on its satellites that are easy to mine.To this end, humans have built a specialized fissile raw material extraction factory on the satellite of the planet Ross 154-7.

And so on for another year.

Ross 154-7 has changed. The originally empty ground has been used by humans to build countless factories with strong industrial strength. Outside of the factories, there are flat and wide roads, and a car Vehicles of various types were speeding on the road, transporting truckloads of various types of ore from the mine to the base.

After the ore raw materials are refined in different types of factories and chemical plants, they then enter other secondary and tertiary processing plants and become various parts. The parts are then assembled into various types of modules in the production workshop. Finally, it is sent to space via the Cargo Orbital Mass Accelerator.

With the assistance of artificial intelligence "Light of the Tianhe", countless artificial intelligence robots participate in large-scale construction, including unmanned pavers, unmanned rollers, unmanned transport aircraft, unmanned mining vehicles, unmanned excavators, and unmanned transport vehicles , handling key positions on the construction site, and the rest are completed by "Light of Tianhe".

由于希望号不能落到星球表面，为了不影响各处建设，人类特地从“天河之光”本体在希望号上复制出了三个智能‘建设模块’程序。它们分别分放置在罗斯154-7基地、太空船坞、以及罗斯154-7-1卫星核裂变燃料工厂内。

Although the artificial intelligence "Light of the Milky Way" is based on traditional computers, it is very intelligent and can learn and iterate on its own. It is currently the most powerful artificial intelligence in mankind.After years of iteration, "Light of the Tianhe" is basically capable of most things, and all human intelligent automation in the construction process is controlled by it.

This is one of the reasons why humans can quickly build such a large industrial system with so few people.

With the help of the "Light of the Milky Way", mankind has gradually recovered from the predicament of thousands of years of navigation.

Because there is no need to consider planetary environmental issues, human resource extraction has become almost destructive.Basically, if it is easy to mine, just use a bunch of unmanned excavators and large mining machines to excavate, and if it is a little more difficult, bomb it immediately.

How can we mine as quickly as possible?

Anyway, a planet is so big that it is enough for human beings to spend as much as they want.If we really want to finish mining this planet, the worst we can do is go to Ross 154-6. This planet is also a rocky planet.

Of course, in fact, the resources of a planet are enough for humans to squander.

After two years of exploration and calculation by relevant experts, the various minerals contained in the planet Ross 154-7 are more than enough for humans to build a fleet.

Humans also have the ability to build a fleet, but they don't have enough manpower, and if they build more, no one will launch it.

But now that there are abundant resources and the shipyard has been built, the new government changed the original plan to build one warship into three. Anyway, the Hope has three mounting positions and the space shipyard has been built. Used it to the best of its ability.

Once it is created, mount it on it. No one will open it for the time being. It can also be used as a resource warehouse.

After two years of struggle, mankind has finally emerged from the dilemma of resource and energy scarcity and begun to move towards resource abundance.

Batch after batch of cargo is launched into space by the Cargo Orbital Mass Accelerator, and then sorted by the "Light of the Galaxy" fully automatically controlled, and dispatched one by one to the next destination.

Those sent to the dock were assembled into battleships, and those sent to the Hope were processed into various finished items.

Various workshops on the Hope are also operating at full capacity. Daily necessities such as clothing, towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes, toiletries, etc. are continuously produced from their respective production workshops and then displayed in the commodity cabin of the Hope for free in limited quantities. receive.

With sufficient energy and resources, food has become more abundant, and a large amount of artificial starch has been sent to food processing workshops and transformed into various pasta foods.

Two years of maintenance also allowed the Hope to recover from its decay and dilapidation. On this basis, humans also expanded the Hope into three large discs, one for expanding the plantation, one for the traditional living cabin, and the other for Make an industrial zone.

After expanding the disk, the length of the Hope was suddenly lengthened from the original 980 meters to 300 meters.In order to propel the heavier Hope, engineers also modified and upgraded its thrusters.

In the past two years, the military industry department has also produced the most powerful weapons currently possessed by mankind.

(End of this chapter)