"Oh oh! Like the Red Alert Construction Yard?"
Many cool, huge mechanical transformation scenes appeared in Black Smoke's mind.
Jubian: "Exactly! But the scale is much, much larger."
"Um... I haven't played Red Alert. Is the Construction Yard very powerful?"
Guo Li Cheng raised her steel armored hand and weakly asked.
Jubian: "Tsk... Then have you seen an RV with expansion features?"
Guo Li Cheng: "Can't afford it, they cost hundreds of thousands. I've seen reviews on D-yin though."
Jubian: "That's enough! It's similar to that. After landing, the industrial ship's length will first extend from 420 meters to 600 meters. The extra length will be used as a warehouse."
"At the same time, the industrial section, with a total length of 330 meters, will expand outwards to the left and right, creating six structures like drawers. The width will increase from 105 meters to 300 meters. Three of these 'drawers' are workshops for feeding and processing raw materials like ore, and the other three are factories responsible for producing alloys, metal ceramics, CNT carbon nanotube fibers, and carbon-based composite materials. These are the basic materials of the space age."
He pointed to the "giant shelves" outside the control room window and continued, "The dozen or so decks we can see now will be re-flipped and assembled into three decks, forming four levels of interior space. Each level will have a decreasing height and its own function: the first floor produces basic materials, the second floor produces large equipment and industrial mother machines, the third floor is responsible for military production, and the fourth floor is responsible for light industry and precision instruments. In addition, the top of the industrial ship will become flat, serving as a helipad for aircraft! The whole thing will transform into a super factory 600 meters long, 300 meters wide, and 100 meters high!"
"Too cool..."
As an older engineering guy, Black Smoke was speechless for a moment, unable to express the excitement in his heart.
This kind of huge, complex, and transformable steel base existed in the childhood fantasies of most men.
Now, he is no longer young, but the dream has come true!
Generally speaking, the more mechanical structures there are, the more prone they are to failure. The fact that the industrial ship can perform such complex transformations indicates that both the material strength, design level, and program control far exceed the current Cangyuan camp.
He believes it also exceeds Apollo!
"What about the production capacity? Is it large enough?" Ma Lou asked.
Jubian: "It's simply powerful! Let me be more specific. When this ship is unfolded, its volume is 26 times that of a large aircraft carrier in the 21st century, with a total mass of 750,000 tons. With sufficient raw materials, energy, and workers, it can replicate itself in 6 months! In reality, the construction period for an aircraft carrier is about 4 to 5 years, and even at the emergency construction speed during wartime, it would probably take two years."
With the industrial ship's production capacity, Red Iron Town's current mining speed is completely insufficient. The ore mined there annually is only enough to smelt about 2,500 tons of alloy.
"You mean, we already have the capability to build new aerospace planes, or even space warships!?"
Black Smoke clearly understood what this terrifying production capacity meant.
"Building a warship is a very large system engineering project, and it's not as simple in practice as it seems, but theoretically, there's absolutely no problem!"
Jubian was also excited.
"A warship the size of an aircraft carrier could be built in an estimated 10 to 12 weeks at the fastest."
"Awesome!" Chang Kong exclaimed. "I feel like I'll be able to transfer to a carrier-based aircraft pilot soon!"
"Is it nuclear-powered?"
Lu Yuan didn't rush to celebrate prematurely and asked about the energy issue he was most concerned about.
"Yes."
On the other side, Nan Guo de Xue had already finished reading the ship's registration information and gave a positive answer that excited everyone.
"The ship is equipped with two magnetic mirrors, which are linear confinement nuclear fusion reactors. They look like thick pipes and use deuterium-tritium mixed fuel. They directly expel the fusion products out of the ship to provide power, with a total rated power of 200GW."
"GW?" The poor student god was already unfamiliar with this power unit. "200GW, how many watts is that exactly?"
"Two hundred billion watts," Nan Guo de Xue said coldly.
"Two hundred billion!? Oh my goodness!"
Real spaceships have energy like this, it's exciting.
"Wait a minute..." Lu Yuan noticed something was wrong. "Although 200GW of power is huge, it shouldn't be enough for this ship to take off vertically, right?"
The chemical rockets used for moon landings in the 20th century, namely the US Saturn V and the Soviet N1, could reach about half of this power, with a thrust of nearly 4,000 tons. Of course, they could only operate in this state for a few minutes, burning thousands of tons of fuel during that time.
"Yes, you're right, it's not enough," Nan Guo de Xue nodded obediently. "This ship is too heavy. To take off vertically from Li Star, the power needs to reach 20TW, which is 20,000GW, 100 times the current power. But it's strange, it does have engine nozzles installed for atmospheric takeoff and landing. I don't understand..."
"Maybe the developers just filled in the data carelessly and missed two zeros," Guo Li Cheng joked.
Jubian shook his head, disagreeing.
"No, no, no, that won't happen. The rest of this game is very rigorous, there's no reason for it to suddenly be so bad here."
"Moreover, taking off and landing at 20TW would be too terrifying," said Black Smoke, who is a senior electrical engineer. "The largest power station on Earth is the Three Gorges Dam, with a power generation capacity of 22.5GW when fully operational, which is 0.0225TW. The electricity generated every 40 minutes is equivalent to the total explosive energy of a Hiroshima atomic bomb."
"Taking off at 20TW, the power is equal to the global electricity consumption in reality, or detonating an atomic bomb every 2.5 seconds. It would truly shake the heavens and earth, turning everything within a 10-kilometer radius into a wasteland with plasma jets!"
Hmm...
Lu Yuan nodded silently.
That makes a lot of sense.
"There must be some black technology on this ship that is beyond our understanding."
This sentence attracted everyone's attention.
"Let's see if there's anything noteworthy or strange in the database."
"Hmm... Yes, the magnetic mirror reactors are highly integrated with the engines and are not suitable for power generation. The actual power is provided by two Tokamak fusion reactors, with a full-load generation capacity of 32GW, using Helium-3 fuel. However... both of these reactors have been removed, and the Helium-3 fuel tanks have been artificially emptied. There are no compliant operation records during this process, which constitutes illegal operation."
"Ah!?"
Hearing such bad news, Jubian became anxious.
Electricity is a lifeline; power generation can directly measure the strength of a civilized nation.
Who is stealing electricity?
"No... Who did this wicked thing? Why!"
"Developers, come out!" The Male God roared to the sky, "I have a big treasure to give you!"
Ma Lou: "Are there fuel thieves in space too?"
"Is there a backup emergency power supply?"
Lu Yuan maintained a sliver of hope in his heart.
"Yes! Three liquid metal fission reactors, with a total power of 600 megawatts. The fuel is enough for five years."
That's acceptable!
600 megawatts is not a small amount, enough for Cangyuan at the current stage.
"Very good, let's see if there are any other anomalies."
"Some electronic data has also been deleted."
Data deleted?
Lu Yuan frowned.
Normally, there's no need for this...
Whoever did this must have had some special motive.
Moreover, a strong intuition told him that the mystery of Apollo's space travel speed and the mystery of the industrial ship's required thrust for landing were directly related to this deleted data.
"Let's go, we'll go to the bridge and see. There might be answers there."
