Star Survival: The Rise of the Fourth Scourge

Since the workers on the mining boats are all slave labor, the space required for the life support system is compressed to the extreme.

This gives the "Iron Slave" mining boat a larger cargo hold.

It can transport thousands of tons of mineral powder at a time.

As the ten mining boats gradually moved away, Li Meng in the bridge also received the exploration information from the mining boats.

The picture on the holographic screen in front of him is constantly flashing.

Every time there is a flash, more than ten pieces of exploration information flash from the screen.

Sodium ore, magnesium ore, aluminum ore, potassium ore, calcium ore, etc...

These are the most common metallic minerals in the universe and can be found on any rocky planet.

Of course, this does not mean that the most common metallic minerals are useless.

There are no useless metal minerals, there are only differences between those with low value and those with high value.

"Hey, adamantium mine?"

The dense gold ore scanning information suddenly popped up on the screen.

This made Li Meng look happy...

In the world of Warhammer 40K, adamantine is the strongest metal.

Because of the high price, it is generally only used on the keel of the battleship, the armor of the main parts, and the ram angle.

Only battleships use fine gold on a large scale to enhance the strength of the ship's body.

This is not the end...

In the following time, the mining boat brought more good news to Li Meng.

Various rare minerals appear one after another, and the reserves are astonishing.

It took a full 72 hours for the mining boat to explore 30% of the entire star ring.

But that's it, just 30% of the area brought enough surprises to Li Meng.

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"Very good, stop the exploration first, let the mining boat enter the mining operation, and build the dock first..."

Before I knew it, four days and nearly a hundred hours had passed.

The geostationary orbit, like the ground, also has day and night.

When the side of the Expedition is facing away from the star, the outside will appear darker.

Only a halo of light can be seen at the North and South Poles, with occasional aurora surges.

Star No. 1 has an atmosphere, which is about 40% of the Earth's atmosphere.

Although its volume is twice that of Earth, its gravity is only 73% of Earth's.

If you want to build an ecosphere space station, you will not be able to build it with only ten mining boats.

There must be more mining machines and more mining boats.

Donald was beside Li Meng. He raised his head slightly and looked at the star ring outside the window.

The electronic eyes in the hood emitted red light, blinking.

The Tech-Priest in front of the communication terminal received the order.

There was a flurry of operations on the console, and new instructions were issued to the mining boat.

Outside, the mining boats that were originally scattered on the track all turned around.

Fly towards the location of Yuanxing at high speed.

The mining ship did not return to the Expedition, but worked among the asteroids near the Expedition.

They rest above the plane of the rings.

Hatch doors were opened on both sides of the front-open warehouse.

Each spherical aircraft roared out under the control of the slave workers and pounced towards the asteroids below.

The spherical aircraft is a "slave" mining machine.

It is round and about five meters in diameter.

There are four main thrust engines at the tail and four booster engines above, below, left and right.

Its cockpit is small and can only accommodate a single driver.

It also has two long robotic arms responsible for capturing asteroids.

The machine head also has a high-power laser cutter.

Able to cut larger asteroids into captureable asteroids.

The functions of the mining machine are very comprehensive. If you replace it with a magnetic suction cup and a welding gun, it will become a qualified engineering machine.

Engineering machines are key equipment for building space stations.

They can transport building modules from the Yuanxing to designated locations for assembly and welding operations.

Leaning back, Li Meng put his hands on the gauntlets.

He leaned back on the seat with a thoughtful look on his face.

Building an ecosphere space station is not something that can be accomplished in a short time.

It can be expected that this will be an extremely long process.

It will take several years, even ten years.

The labor required to build the space station is sufficient, and five thousand slave labor is enough.

Civilians can just let them continue to sleep without being in a hurry to wake them up.

After some facilities are built and they are needed, wake them up again.

Li Meng checked the supplies carried by the Yuanxing.

If everyone is awakened, the supplies on the Yuanxing can only last about five years.

Thinking of this, Li Meng stretched out his right hand and pointed it at the holographic screen in front of him.

The STC database access page was pulled out by Li Meng.

The database of STC building module has certain intelligence.

Of course, it is definitely not intelligent AI.

It just has a set of behavioral logic that seems smarter.

As long as you enter the relevant requirements in the database, it will meet the requirements as much as possible based on the information in the database.

If the request cannot be met, it will reject it.

"Prince Regent, you can leave the design of the space station to me. I have rich experience in this area."

Li Meng politely declined Donald's offer.

"This... I'll do it!"

Li Meng really couldn't appreciate the artistic style of the Human Empire in Warhammer 40K.

Maybe there will be a medieval castle flying in space.

How to design it?

Since vacuum is a weightless state, there are no requirements on shape.

You can design it any way you like on the exterior, and the internal structure STC will divide the corresponding areas by itself.

After thinking for a while, Li Meng stretched out his hands.

Put your palms together and touch your fingers.

The palms are slightly arched, leaving an empty pocket between the palms.

"Designing a space station with such a shape must be able to move. There is no speed requirement and it must be able to navigate into subspace. There is no corresponding technology now, but there must be room for installing a subspace engine in the future."

As Li Meng's voice fell, the holographic screen in front of him suddenly flashed.

After a while, space station design drawings popped up.

"No, this is in the shape of a whale, too long. The next one..."

"It's a bit asymmetrical, no, the next one..."

"Well, this one is okay, the next one..."

"Is it disk-shaped? The next picture..."

Delete, delete, delete again.

Although every picture is good, they are not what Li Meng wants.

"Next... wait, come back..."

After more than a dozen space station design drawings were rejected by Li Meng.

Li Meng finally found a more satisfactory design drawing.

It is shaped like a shell, symmetrical from top to bottom, and smooth on both sides.

Very similar to the shape of his hands when they are closed, only wider.

"Yes, this is it..."

The screen flashed again, and the design was divided into five.

Divided into five levels.

Ten kilometers, twenty kilometers, forty kilometers, eighty kilometers, one hundred and sixty kilometers.

The above are all length units of the space station.

Due to the lack of some key technology blueprints, only a ten-kilometer space station can be built.

space station?

Ecosystem space stations with aerospace capabilities can no longer be called space stations.