Super Plane Mall

Chapter 550 Thousand-Kilometer Dock

After Zhu Lei and the others finished detecting the entire planet of life, they flew towards their intended target.

At this time, the Ming Empire, thousands of light years away from them, was designing and building a new generation of spaceship.

Compared with the spaceships they introduced in the past, this spaceship is a real spaceship and not other spaceships. Compared with the real spaceships, the spaceships of the level of spaceships manufactured in the past, although in size In terms of tonnage and other aspects, it is almost the same size as the mother ship, but there is a big difference in function.

The tonnage and size of the mothership does not necessarily exceed those of the mothership-level spaceships built by the Ming Empire in the past, but the most important factor for a real mothership is to have the ability to develop and produce space fighters and space battleships. That is to say, the performance of the space mothership puts forward higher requirements, which also leads to the fact that only the real sixth-level civilization can build such warships.

In fact, a space mothership can also be called a space industrial ship. This kind of space mothership is larger than ordinary spaceships. After all, a mothership must have a complete warship construction industrial system. Possess powerful attack and defense capabilities, as well as flight capabilities far beyond ordinary spaceships, so if you want to truly build a space mothership, you put forward higher requirements for the industrial system of the entire civilization.

The real space mothership designed by the Ming Empire this time has a diameter of more than 700 kilometers, so it is impossible for a space battleship like this to be built in the solar system. After all, such a huge spaceship can already Affected most of the planets in the solar system.

So this time the Ming Empire put this spaceship, which is the real industrial mothership, in the Ocean of Light to manufacture. After all, after hundreds of years of development, the industrial development level of the Ocean of Light has not been what it used to be. The most developed area of ​​the Ming Empire, the heart of the Ming Empire, the solar system, is not much compared to it, and it already has the ability to build spaceships with a distance of more than 500 kilometers.

However, the construction of an 800-kilometer-class spaceship this time is also an industrial spaceship, that is, a mothership. It is also a great test for the entire industrial system of the Ocean of Light and the technology of the entire Ming Empire. There is no experience in building such a large spaceship, and there is no shipyard that can accommodate such a large spaceship.

Therefore, before building this huge spaceship, it is necessary to build a dock that can accommodate such a large spaceship. The largest spaceship to manufacture is 500 kilometers long, so the first thing is to build a dock that can hold a spaceship of [-] kilometers. After all, the spaceships of the Ming Empire will be built bigger and bigger, so the dock must also have the necessary space. In the future Larger spaceships can be built.

Zhu Lei's Yong'an Group will undertake the task of manufacturing the space mothership this time, and Zhu Lei's Yong'an Group has already settled in the Ocean of Light as early as the beginning of the Ming Empire's control of the Ocean of Light, and in the past few days. Over the past century, its industrial level has far surpassed other shipbuilding groups in Ocean of Light, including the official shipyard of the Ming Empire.

In the entire Ocean of Light, the Yongan Group Shipyard has mastered the most advanced shipbuilding technology and dock construction technology of the Ming Empire.

Of course, the largest spaceship built by Yongan Group before this was about 500 kilometers in diameter, while the largest spaceships made by other shipyards were only about 300 kilometers. The largest spacecraft manufactured by the official shipyard is only less than two hundred kilometers away, and the difference is huge.

But this is already very remarkable for other private shipyards. After all, these shipyards do not have the client side of the plane mall like Zhu Lei, so they do not have more advanced technology sources like Zhu Lei.

Moreover, other civilian shipyards in the Ming Empire mainly undertake shipbuilding business, which basically belongs to civilian spacecraft. The performance requirements for spacecraft are not as high as military ones, so a spacecraft with a level of 3 kilometers is enough. What's more, these private shipyards also have their own advantages, that is, the cost advantage. Compared with the official shipyard of the Ming Empire and Zhu Lei's Yong'an Group shipyard, the shipbuilding price of other private shipyards for the same level of spaceships is only 5/2 of Yongan Group and 5/[-] of official shipyards, so the viability of these shipyards is still quite strong.

The main business of official shipyards is to manufacture various medium and large space battleships, so these shipyards like to use relatively mature technology. After all, mature technology means safety and reliability. It is very important for military space battleships.

And Zhu Lei's Yong'an Shipyard is to manufacture the most advanced space battleships of the Ming Empire and to explore the manufacturing methods of higher-level spaceships. However, the risk that Yong'an Group bears is greater. Although the price of advanced spaceships is very expensive, the profit Super high, but once it fails, it means a huge loss, but this is not a big deal for Zhu Lei's Yongan Group. After all, if human beings want to become a higher civilization, it is necessary to explore advanced technology. If you want to explore more advanced technology, then you must not be afraid of failure and not develop.

At this time, in the Ocean of Light Yongan galaxy, a huge dock is being installed. This week, it is a galaxy specially assigned to the Yongan Group by the Ming Empire in the Ocean of Light. Its main purpose is to manufacture various super-large spaceships. , compared with other galaxies, this galaxy is special in that there are no stars in this galaxy, so there is no place where large spaceships affect the orbits of planets in the galaxy, and there are a large number of them around this week Various resources can be used as resources for making spaceship houses.

However, the dock has just started to be installed at this time, and all kinds of ultra-high-precision parts transported from all corners of the Ocean of Light are precisely installed in the positions where they should be by various installation robots. The dock of a [-]-kilometer spaceship is a very difficult task. Even the Yongan Group, which has the most powerful technology in the Ming Empire, dare not be careless in the slightest. Once a problem occurs, it will affect the manufacturing of the entire dock, and may even It will lead to various undesired conditions in the spaceship when the spaceship is built in the future, which will lead to the destruction of the spaceship due to these defects when the spaceship is flying or fighting in space.

(End of this chapter)