Osborne Megacorp

"Marianne has promised us that she will deal with Rollins when the time is right."

"Very good. Remember to set fire to their family afterwards. That's a lot of places."

After receiving the news from Hurley, Harry knew that the Rollins family was going to be in trouble.

The Rawlings family had something to do with the secondment of soldiers. William Rawlings was just an ordinary field agent when he went out in the field. How could he have such power and face to seconde an elite Marine Corps?

He has no power, but Rawlings does. This family has influence throughout the political arena. They used this method to pave the way for William Rawlings. It can be seen that the Rawlings family is already familiar with this set of methods of family politics.

By taking advantage of this matter to kill most of the Rollins family, the vacant position can be given to Norman to play freely.

With money, vitality enhancers, and various political weapons, once Norman comes to power, his power will be unprecedentedly powerful.

Harry asked about another thing: "What happened to the mine I told you about buying in Tanzania?"

"It's not too optimistic. Quinn International has a monopoly on most of the minerals there. The authorities have released the mining rights of a mine and named it Daisy Mine, but Quinn International is also interested in it."

Harry touched his chin: If he remembered correctly, the Quinn Group dug this thing somewhere in Africa, and if nothing else, it was probably this mine.

It will cost a lot of money to compete with them for minerals, and Quinn International is supported by Hydra.

If you can grab it, it doesn't matter how much you spend, but the problem is that you probably won't be able to grab it. Not to mention whether you can defeat the forces behind Hydra, Ian Quinn has been naturalized in Malta for some time, Malta Officials would be inclined to sell the mine to him.

"Okay, let's raise the price symbolically. It's best to delay this matter for a longer time. Another thing, how about the acquisition of Exploration Aerospace Company?"

"Everything is going well."

Very good, it is not a gentleman not to retaliate. After two years of absence, Osborne bought the company backhand.

In addition to revenge, acquiring them is also to prepare for the expansion of the aviation field. These engines are also suitable for use in civil aircraft. Relying on nuclear fusion energy, Osborne can promote pure electric aircraft to the market.

After hanging up the phone, Harry looked at the test site. What he was going to study today was asteroid mining technology.

The engineering ship has already used the scanning data of a near-Earth asteroid. This asteroid has an astronomical albedo of 0.277, is a dense asteroid, and has a flight speed of 19km/s.

The closest distance to the earth is 197 million kilometers, which is equivalent to 5 times the distance between the earth and the moon. A round trip takes one and a half months.

Some people may say that if you are so interested in studying asteroid mining, why not go to the moon to dig soil and upgrade the nuclear fusion technology first?

But what others don't know is that Harry knows that anything can be found on Marvel's moon. It's not that he doesn't want to go up there right away, but he still needs some extra preparations.

Speaking of this asteroid, it is about 1170 meters in diameter and very dense. It is a rocky asteroid, mainly composed of silicates of iron, magnesium and other metal elements.

It can be seen from the scanning data that it is correct to choose this asteroid for the first trial mining. The asteroid is also rich in precious metal elements such as gold, silver, and platinum.

Now Harry is determining how to mine this asteroid.

"After the engineering ship arrives at the asteroid, it will be attached to it for work, and the construction robot will complete autonomous construction on it according to preset instructions."

"A fully automatic excavation and smelting integrated equipment was built to extract the metal elements inside and then package them, and the engineering ship was responsible for transporting them away."

Harry turned on the holographic projection.

As expected, the equipment will drill into the asteroid and then drill into the surface until it reaches the designated location. The collector replaces the drill bit and mines resources from the interior of the planet on its own, and then transports them to the smelting furnace on top.

After this process, the metal elements are separated and packaged, and then transported by engineering ships.

If it goes well, each engineering ship can retrieve metal worth US$50 billion - this is just the minimum expectation. The asteroid is likely to contain considerable weight of metal californium, which is very expensive.

If there really was such a thing in the asteroid, Osborn would have made a big splash this time.

As a stable neutron source, it is small in terms of price. This thing plays a great role in the field of scientific research. Dr. Otto will like this thing.

And these are just "regular" things. This universe has its own unique material science. It would be even more profitable if we could get some alien materials.

"There are two main methods used in rock-breaking excavation, one is laser rock-breaking, and the other is plasma."

Phillip raised his hand: "I can understand the testing technology, but are the parameters of these two rock-breaking methods too high? I mean..."

Harry smiled and interrupted Philip: "Alien technology."

Phillip opened his mouth slightly and nodded silently.

This time mining means testing technology more, and both technologies will be tried.

The technology used in the laser equipment and plasma cannons were modified from Chitauri equipment, and this work was completed by Vulture and his team of tinkerers.

Testing mining efficiency is actually testing weapon efficiency. If everything goes well, Frank and the others will have new equipment to use soon.

"The entire device is controlled by artificial intelligence developed by Grady-Fruhl."

"Do you have any other questions?"

An astronaut raised his hand.

"Besides docking with the asteroid, what do we need to do on it? Doesn't it sound like we have nothing to do?"

Harry smiled: "If everything is normal, which it is, you just need to wait - it is best to learn the mining technology and the structure of the smelting equipment. If there is an abnormality, follow the instructions of the ground command center."

"Okay, I understand."

In fact, when computing technology develops and this set of work processes is industrialized, engineering ships can even run entirely on programs.

It is much more convenient to install artificial intelligence or something on it than to send people to operate it.

Harry clapped his hands: "Very good, let's start working. The modification of the work spaceship and the rewriting of the construction robot program have been completed."

Three engineering ships are obviously not enough. With the resources recovered this time, Harry will expand the team of deep space engineers.

Everyone quickly left the conference room and went to their respective jobs.

Today he has another person to meet - Vincent Kapoor, an official from NASA.

This supervisor is a black man, wearing glasses and a suit. He is a rare highly educated talent among their group.

"I'm glad you agreed to talk to me, Mr. Osborne."

"This is what I should have said. I like to explore and discover. Mr. Kapoor, you are exactly the kind of organization you are."

The two exchanged blows and shook hands.

"Then let's get down to business, Mr. Osborne. I think you know why we came to you."

"Of course, for the Mars mission, you will need Osborne's propulsion technology."

Kapoor nodded.

Mars Harry is definitely going to be there, maybe even before the moon.

But developing Mars, Harry thinks this is an excellent opportunity--

An opportunity to promote global unity.

After thinking for a moment, Harry raised his head and said, "Mr. Kapoor, to be honest, I have been studying the design of a spacecraft for the Mars project."

Harry waved his hands, and a huge spaceship appeared in the center of the conference room.

Kapoor was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He looked at Harry with a look that seemed to say: I'm here to discuss aerospace, not film shooting!

How could such a large spaceship take off from the earth?

Even Osborne's handy engineering ship is far smaller than this thing.

"The development of Mars should be a matter for the entire earth - think about those aliens. This ship is called a colony ship and can carry a large number of people and resources. It is initially estimated that it can carry 30-40 people, which is enough for them to use supplies for a year. After landing, the hull can be used as a permanent command center, including plant planting areas, scientific research areas, and living areas..."

"As for what you're worried about - this ship, I plan to complete the assembly in space."