Chapter 659: Chapter 376, Navy of the Century
The space on the outskirts of Weixing City that originally belonged to the Secret Research Institute was processed by Gu Hang into an overlapping state with the Storm God Kingdom, which was just the beginning.
The more than fifty Black Boxes that Gu Hang managed to obtain through thirty consecutive draws had all been put into place.
As the production capacity and raw material demand of the Black Box factory grew larger, its visibility became increasingly noticeable when concentrated in a single location.
Since the space-time itself was distorted, there was no need to locate everything in just one place anyway.
In the following period, Gu Hang and Wu Jiarong visited many locations across Rage Owl Star. Officially, it was another site in Weixing City owned by the Alliance, in Xiongya Province, in Extreme North Industrial City, and in Skaaro Starport City, each with a new secret research institute under Wu Jiarong’s jurisdiction.
But in reality, these so-called research institutes were essentially just ‘passages’.
…
All these locations were connected to a spot in Subspace, the same spot that was the actual Black Box factory.
This meant that any materials transported to any secret research institute could be delivered inside the Black Box factory in the Storm God Kingdom. The products manufactured there could also be moved to any institute at will.
This would further alleviate confidentiality issues, avoiding anomalies in material consumption and product output that were characteristic when everything was centralized in one location, and distributing them would make it more clandestine.
At the same time, it would also alleviate the difficulties of transportation.
Wu Jiarong had nothing but praise for the Governor’s design.
Then, she was given a new task by the Governor: to oversee the construction of the Alliance Shipyard.
This conversation took place within the Alliance Starport.
Gu Hang and Wu Jiarong took the orbital subway and arrived at the Starport. He strolled around the Starport for a bit, conducting an inspection.
The Starport on Rage Owl Star had been under construction for five years, drawing in external investment that accelerated its growth rapidly.
By now, its scale was no less than MingYan City Starport.
Of course, there were also starports on Korolya, not just one. Among the forty Nest Capitals, fifteen had their own starports of various sizes. Without a starport, large-scale interstellar cargo exchanges were impossible.
But just think about it, setting aside other factors, just considering the starport in MingYan City on Korolya, corresponding to a population of four billion; even after a large amount of immigration, Rage Owl Star only had one hundred and fifty million people, yet both starports were roughly the same size, which showed the effort put into constructing the starport on Rage Owl Star.
—It also indirectly indicated that the construction of the starports on Korolya was quite poor.
Moreover, the difference between the starports of the two locations extended beyond just their scale.
The construction of the starport on Rage Owl Star was based on a Starport Blueprint that Gu Hang had obtained earlier. The construction was assisted by external construction vessels. In terms of overall design rationality and the efficiency of handling goods and passengers, it was incomparable to MingYan City Starport of the same scale.
Gu Hang was relatively satisfied with this, but he also gave his own instructions.
First, the scale of the Starport on Rage Owl Star must be further expanded and equipped with Orbital Defense equipment to transition into a Star Fortress. The entire planet should have a dual defense system stretching from the Starport to the planet’s surface. When in the future the naval build-up of the Alliance catches up, it should have a three-layer defense system: navy vessels – Star Fortress – planetary surface.
Only with such measures could Rage Owl Star’s defense be considered foolproof.
Meanwhile, the Starport, which was expanding in scale, was also part of Gu Hang’s plan for Rage Owl Star’s production capacity to keep growing rapidly and sustainably over the long term. Rage Owl Star was going to be a vital engine for the Alliance’s forward development, where not only its security needs to be ensured but also the cargo throughput, which was the lifeblood.
The massive shipyard that will be built in the future will also require a starport of a larger scale to accommodate it.
Eventually, this place may form a space city.
As for the current Alliance Shipyard, it has already achieved a certain scale. Over the past few years, it has at least become capable of producing human travel spacecraft. Flights operated independently by the Alliance have already established routes between Heijian Star, Rage Owl Star, and Korolya.
Although, due to the scale limitations of human travel, it was still not possible to conduct large-scale transport and was only suitable for official personnel and document transportation.
But at the very least, a connection had been established between them.
At Gu Hang’s initial request, the foundation of the Alliance Shipyard was meant to be large and robust. Now that there was a real need for expansion, the space reserved for extension from the past played a significant role and saved a lot of trouble.
For a long time to come, Wu Jiarong would be continuously traveling between the planetary surface and the Starport.
The Alliance Shipyard will be designed and constructed according to the new [Shipyard Blueprint] plans. Some key components might even be produced by related Black Boxes within the shipyard.
As the shipyard expands and each dock is completed, it will mean that a model of ship can be put into production.
The civilian vessels such as the “Dolphin” and “Whale” were relatively simple and had fixed models with little variation; they just needed to be built according to the design blueprints.
However, for patrol ships, escort ships, and destroyers, the Alliance currently only possessed the initial blueprints. Wu Jiarong would need to study these materials, in conjunction with the Black Boxes, to accomplish a further step of specific model design.