Global Travel: Empire of Stars

Space megastructure engineering is a unified term, and all galactic wonders are a type of megastructure.

The giant dock array is a cubic frame structure, which is like stacking single-layer giant docks for three-dimensional production and construction. It can be adjusted at any time according to the needs of shipbuilding, and construction can be started from multiple directions at the same time. The earth speeds up the construction progress.

Lin Zhichen looked at the construction requirements for the giant shipyard array. It was not a completely fixed template, but divided into integer distributions with edge lengths between 100,000 kilometers and 100 kilometers. Any specification can be built.

Of course, the larger the scale of construction, the longer the resources and construction time are consumed.

According to the standard construction time, building a giant shipyard array with a side length of 100,000 kilometers would require 1 billion units of alloy and a construction time of 150 to 200 years.

Every time the side length doubles, the amount of alloy consumed will increase by N cubic times, and the construction time will be doubled.

After a little calculation, he calculated the amount of alloy and construction time required to build a giant shipyard array with a side length of 1 million kilometers:

1 trillion units of alloy, 1,500 to 2,000 years.

The construction time is exaggerated. According to the minimum standard requirement, it is a century project. To ensure the progress of the project, the team of engineers involved in the project are extremely exaggerated. The standard requirement is hundreds of billions in scale.

And 1 trillion units of alloy is too exaggerated even for the current empire, which may require hundreds or even thousands of years of accumulation.

All in all, after Lin Zhichen calculated the construction requirements, he gained a new understanding of this super project and gave up the idea of ​​completing it in one step.

"Your Majesty~" Xu Ping's tired voice came from the holographic communication.

"Thank you for your hard work, Dean. Lin Zhichen smiled and nodded:"The Academy of Sciences has completed this task well, and the empire will not forget your contribution.""

"It is an honor for us to be able to contribute to the great cause of the Empire, Your Majesty."Xu Ping bowed and saluted.

Lin Zhichen waved his hand:"You should know best about the giant dock array. The empire wants to complete this project as quickly as possible. Do you have any good suggestions?"

"Your Majesty, I believe that this century-old project will cost a lot of money. There is no need to get it right at the beginning. We can directly use a lot of force to build a giant dock array of standard specifications. Xu Ping replied:

"According to our analysis, this giant dock array can actually be separated and combined as needed.

In the future, when we are free, we can build 1,000 standard dock arrays and then combine them to form a giant dock array of the highest specifications!

Moreover, a standard dock array has a standard ship capacity of 1 million, which is enough for the empire to use in the early stage."

Lin Zhichen nodded slightly after hearing this. Xu Ping's words touched his heart.

It seems that the standard dock array is nothing, but we must consider that this is a cube with a diameter of 100,000 kilometers, and the number of parts required to form this cube It is so huge and involves so much engineering technology that it can make any advanced civilization's engineering team scratch their heads. The construction process of a galaxy miracle such as the giant shipyard array is equivalent to a major test of the entire civilization's industrial system.

"If we go all out to build a standard giant shipyard array, how many resources will it cost and how long will it take to build?"Lin Zhichen asked

"Your Majesty, we have already calculated that if we use the whole country to produce the parts of the dock array and use a 30 billion engineering team to build it, according to our efficiency, we can complete this project within 10 years at the earliest! Xu Ping emphasized:

"This is already the fastest speed. Our industrial scale is limited, and the construction of a giant shipyard array is a huge undertaking. According to the judgment of the Academy of Sciences, we need to use about 30% of the existing production scale of the entire empire to prepare for this super Engineering provides spare parts.

Lin Zhichen frowned and nodded:"So, it's too late to expand the industrial scale now?"" (To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

"The Academy of Sciences has already calculated the industrial development of the empire. Otherwise, with the current industrial scale, it would not be completed even if it takes another 10 years. Xu Ping replied:

"Your Majesty, this is a more complicated project than building the Utopia, and we must be prepared for a long-term struggle."

Lin Zhichen nodded and continuously initiated holographic communications to the main departments of the empire. A minute later, everyone was pulled into a temporary conference room......

"...This is the situation. Judging from the current external situation of the empire, the sooner this project is completed, the better. We are running out of time."He looked at the people with different expressions and said:

"The Galactic Empire is currently preparing for war, and we will soon usher in a large-scale battle"

"Your Majesty, I agree with this plan. After the construction of the giant dock array is completed, the imperial fleet can be quickly upgraded to enhance its combat effectiveness. Liu Manjun replied:

"There is also the battle star that we are thinking about. As long as this project is completed, the construction of the battle star (planetary level) can actually begin."

Whether there is a battle star or not is a criterion for measuring the overall strength of a higher civilization. National weapons such as psychic Titans are mostly used in assault battles, but battle stars are the trump card of a civilization.

Ultra-high construction requirements and ultra-long construction period , the huge consumption of resources made this legendary weapon an expensive luxury item that would not be used easily.

Why did the Galactic Parliament so readily exempt the Empire from its military obligations?

It is because the Republic and the Galactic Empire were refreshed this time. All have the ability to build battle stars!

Among the many anomalies currently, they are the ones with the highest threat!

Cornelia replied:"Government departments will fully cooperate, and in the next few years, resources and talents will It will be tilted towards industry and increase the intensity of industrial development by 3.6%."

"The Ministry of Industry will also increase the scale of industry to ensure the smooth construction of this project."Industry Minister Xu Wen replied.

Lin Zhichen nodded:"From now on, until the construction of the dock array is completed, this is the most important project of the empire."

The upper management agreed, and this super project was launched immediately. In accordance with the requirements of the government and the military, a team of tens of thousands of senior engineers quickly reviewed the project and broke this giant project into thousands of large and medium-sized projects. These large and medium-sized projects were further broken down and put into charge by specialized teams.

This process took about a month. The first batch of engineering teams totaling 5 billion in the country were mobilized, and together with the mighty transport fleet, headed towards the isolation The star field rushes away...