The Hope departed from Sori, and the commander-in-chief Myron served as the first captain of the Hope. The spacecraft was propelled by a large number of hydrogen-oxygen combustion chemical engines and moved towards the asteroid belt adjacent to Sori’s orbit at 13km/s. The speed is close, and according to the planned voyage time, they will arrive at their destination, which is the asteroid belt, within the time of a revolution.

This time is neither long nor short nor short. I spent a period of boring cosmic voyage. While the construction project for the dungeon was in full swing on Sorrison, the HMS Hope led by Myron arrived in the small town. Planetary belt.

"Report! The airtightness of the fourth and fifth compartments was broken! One person was injured and the other died!"

"Hermetically seal immediately! Let a few crew members repair the damaged area from the outside!"

"It's too dangerous, or..."

"It's not safe anywhere now! Obey orders!" Mellen roared.

As soon as the distance was close, the asteroid belt gave Hope and its crew a meeting ceremony. The fist-sized meteorite easily pierced the cabin of Hope, and unfortunately, there were two crew members in that cabin. , The head of one of them was directly smashed by a meteorite, and the tofu-like brains were floating in a gravity-free environment.

Although the Nozomi has already started to decelerate after sailing to a certain distance from the asteroid belt, and when it reaches the periphery of the asteroid belt, the speed drops to 1km/s because of the engine deceleration, but the speed is still very high, and even small. The speed carried by the meteorite itself causes the relative speed to be at a very high value, and the metal shell of the Hope is not much different from that of paper for small meteorites.

Rather, it is really ‘lucky’ that Hope only paid such a price.

After clearing up the remains of a crew member, Nozomi continued to penetrate into the asteroid belt, and its speed also dropped further to the level of 500m/s.

The crew of Hope leaned over the hanging windows, watching the environment outside the spacecraft. With the faint stars as the background, Hope was like an ant strolling in a forest made of rocks.

"Well, everyone is ready to get on the shuttle boat for out of the cabin. Those scenes outside, you will feel nauseous in the future."

Myron pulled the thoughts of the crew from the vast universe again, and under his order, the crew began to act.

Small airships broke away from Hope. They were fishing for small meteorites with Nozomi as the center and within a range of tens of kilometers.

Of course, this kind of "small" is not the fist-sized meteorite encountered by the Hope before, but it is a meteorite with a diameter of several meters to tens of meters. To describe it vividly, the size is equivalent to the size of a cow to dozens of cows. Objects.

These meteorites will be brought back to Nozomi by small airships or towed or dragged. Those tens of meters will be divided into small pieces by a chainsaw, and those of one or two meters will be sent directly to the interior of Nozomi.

At this time, it was the turn of the industrial machine tools carried in the Nozomi to take out the metal from the meteorite for industrial processing, and a large number of industrial parts were manufactured.

This is the purpose for which the Nozomi was built. It is an engineering ship used for engineering construction in space. These engineering parts will basically flow in three directions after being produced, or they will be used to strengthen the Nozomi itself. To make it more protective, it can either be used to combine industrial machine tools that have not yet been equipped on the Nozomi, or it can be used to build other spacecraft.

The outer space is a natural forging furnace. The vacuum has excellent heat insulation. Only heat radiation is left as a cooling method. If you want to smelt a certain alloy, you only need a large condenser to focus the stellar light on that pile. In smelting metal, heat continues to accumulate, and in a non-gravitational vacuum environment, the solid metal body will gradually evolve into a liquid metal ball.

Then, stick a straw with a horn-shaped opening at one end to the surface of the liquid alloy ball, and **** the liquid alloy ball into the mold by hydraulic pressure.

Using the waste heat of the mold, the domestic sewage of the crew becomes water vapor and is recycled and reused, and the alloy in the mold will quickly cool down and become an industrial component for the development and construction of the Carter Space Fleet.

The new spacecraft was built after two months, because there is no need to consider the issue of the planet's gravity, and the design of the construction is basically designed in consideration of its own use.

This new spacecraft is a transport ship. Its purpose is very simple. It is to return to Sori and transport more people from there. Whether it is industrial development or fleet formation, it requires a lot of people to participate. The fifty people on the Nozomi are just the beginning.

The internal space of the transport ship is designed to be as large as possible, because there are a lot of people to be installed. In Mellen’s fleet formation plan, Sori’s only thing to do is to provide the human resource, and other resources are entirely produced by Melon. Come out, including water, air, soil, etc.

After the transport ship left, some farmland space stations began to be built. These space stations took on a wheel shape. After the wheel-shaped space station rotates, centrifugal force can be used as gravity.

The outer side of the ring space station is solar power panels ~lightnovelpub.net~ for generating power to the space station, but this is not for lighting crops. The Carters do not have such high-tech solar power panels, and the conversion rate is not high. The operation of the ring space station itself is already very reluctant.

In the inner circle of the ring-shaped space station, there is also a circle of mirrors. These mirrors can reflect the light from the stars to the farmland in the space station. If someone stands in the farmland in the space station, you can see that there is such a The long shining dazzling objects have some pillars extending from the ground to connect with the long objects.

In addition to these agricultural space stations, there are many more engineering ships that have been built. After the transport ships transport the population from Sori, they can immediately take over the engineering ships and then go to other places in the asteroid belt. Carry out the same industrial construction as Mellon and others.

One life is two, two is four, four is eight... Simple mathematical calculations, in this way, the number of space ships of the Carter civilization will show a geometric increase, enough to raise one in a few decades. A fleet with sufficient combat effectiveness.

After the transport spacecraft arrived in Sori after sailing for a year, it carried thousands of people to the asteroid belt at one time. These people were not as good as the fifty people on the Nozomi on the transport ship. They were transported lying flat like container cargo. In a space on the ship just right to accommodate them, the behaviors of excretion and eating basically didn't change much. Many Carters regretted it after boarding the ship.

However, the transport ship was already on the voyage, and it was too late for them to regret it. Under the torment of such a small space, many Carters in the space fleet later liked to make their own activities space very large and corresponding. Compared with space, I yearn for the vast environment on the planet's surface that can be freely moved.