Chapter 1218 Too Small

The holographic projection star port module of the three-dimensional model of the battleship turns red, and the hangar door slowly opens. In the image output by the large screen in front, a black ball is pushed into space by the device, and the engine of the battleship is re-ignited, leaving the airspace at an extremely fast speed .

The doubts in her eyes were even stronger, she couldn't figure out what kind of medicine Tang Fang sold in the gourd, she thought he would give her an exclusive warship, but she didn't expect it to be a black iron ball, and she didn't know the mystery.

"Wait for me to come back..." After saying this, he turned and left the bridge.

About 10 minutes later, a special operations transport ship departed from Starport and flew to the airspace where the black ball was located.

She couldn't figure out what Tang Fang was going to do and what the gift he was talking about. The only thing she could do now was to wait.

After a few breaths, the No. 1 large screen was activated, and the shipboard camera sent real-time images.

In the dark space, only the dim tail flame of the special operations transport ship and the distant starlight can be distinguished, and there is nothing worthy of attention other than that.

This monotonous image lasted for several minutes, and when she squinted her eyes slightly, trying to relieve her tense spirit, a shocking change appeared in the almost static image.

In the distant void, a little light bloomed.

It wasn't the tail flame of the special operations transport ship, but a rapidly expanding ring-shaped halo.

Its expansion speed was very fast, and when Kyrenia reacted and discerned carefully, the ring-shaped halo in the distance had expanded to dozens of kilometers, and changed into several at the same time, forming a ring-shaped tunnel in the empty space.

The Minotaur-class battlecruiser has become a small point compared to the ring belt, and she stared blankly at the front halo, showing a shocked expression.

The silver light source rapidly undulates rectangular particles on the edge of the ring. Under their influence, the ring keeps growing and expanding, and finally becomes a giant with a diameter of nearly 100 kilometers. The rate of rotation clockwise or counterclockwise.

The purple streamer began to dominate the color of the surface of the ring, and the purple light in some areas was gridded, jumping on the big screen like a lively elf.

Kelenia no longer knew how to describe the scene in front of her. Tang Fang seldom took her on adventures, so her understanding of the Ipsi dragons was not as deep as that of Claire and Freya. She didn't know much about it, and now she suddenly saw a hundred-kilometer-level giant space facility appearing in the void that was originally empty. Although she had made preparations, the change in front of her was still unacceptable, and she suspected it was a dream.

At this moment, a little light came from far to near, and the special operations transport ship arrived at the side of the Minotaur-class battlecruiser, and Tang Fang's face appeared on the No. 2 big screen.

Before he could speak, Kyrenia said first: "When did you hide a space facility here?"

Tang Fang said: "Isn't it just now..."

She was a little confused, and after a moment of serious thinking, she suddenly realized: "You mean...is...that black ball? No, no, no...how is this possible? This is simply impossible!"

In less than half an hour, she still remembered the scene that happened just now. The black ball was obviously only about 40 meters away. How could it turn into a giant in front of her eyes in a blink of an eye? This was completely beyond her imagination.

Tang Fang said: "Nothing is impossible. I will tell you a story about the Destroyer civilization when I have time, but for now... it's better to finish giving you the gift first."

Kyrenia raised her eyebrows and said, "The gift you're talking about...is this space facility. Could it be a military port?"

From a 40M small thing to a 100KM space facility, living in this kind of facility will inevitably give people a very weird feeling, which is a bit unacceptable.

"No, that's not the case." Tang Fang explained: "It's not a military port, it's a pump."

"A pump?" She couldn't understand Tang Fang's brand-new definition of a pump. Although the big guy outside did not look like a military port, and couldn't see structures like berths and windows, it was a bit far-fetched to say that it was a pump.

"Uh...you can also think of it as a different-dimensional tunnel.

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"Dimensional tunnel?"

"Anyway, no matter what it's called, just wait quietly for a while." He's not Emma, ​​and he thinks it's troublesome to explain the fact of the void pump theoretically. Asking questions, and then not ashamed to ask, let him have a headache, so it is better to brake urgently, don't show yourself well-informed in front of her, and give priority to completing the rest of the work.

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the woman to respond, disconnect the connection with the bridge, and fly the special operations transport ship to the near area of ​​the front ring.

The void pump was running slower and slower, and finally stopped.

At the same time, the cargo hold of the special operations transport ship opened, and a large piece of crystal fell into the ring warehouse.

Kylenia knew what it was, and felt a bit stuffed, so how much would a large zero element isotope crystal be worth in exchange for ordinary zero element...

Ever since Tang Fang learned that 1 ton of ordinary zero element can be extracted from 1 gram of zero element isotope, she has fallen in love with this crystal that looks more beautiful than sapphire. Of course, not because of beauty, but because of value.

Now that Tang Fang took out so many zero isotope crystals and threw them into the ring belt, if it was placed in the earth civilization period, what it burned was not money, but gold!

On the other side, Captain Tang sneezed twice in a row, as if feeling an inexplicable malice, and looked back at the location of the Minotaur-class battlecruiser.

After hiding the industrial ship on the wandering planet, he stopped by the Theta Quadrant and made a lot of zero isotope crystals from it, in order to activate the void pump and visualize the buildings of the human base.

According to the data given by Emma, ​​if the zero isotope consumption needed to visualize the starport alone is converted into gas resources, it will require 10W of gas. Compared with the 150 crystals and 100 gas in the game, it can be called a surge.

However, compared to Tang Fang's psychological price, it was much lower, which inevitably made him a lot of doubts. Why is the starport that can manufacture Minotaur-class battlecruisers cheaper than Minotaur-class battlecruisers?

He attributed this situation to the influence of the void pump. As something made by the Destroyer civilization, if the energy value extracted from the multiverse is lower than the energy value required to operate the void pump, then this device loses its meaning of existence.

He didn't evacuate the Theta quadrant, but only brought out zero isotope crystals equivalent to 300W of gas. According to Emma's calculations, it was enough to support the consumption of functional buildings in the concrete battle mode, and there was still room left.

Without wasting too much thinking time on the issue of resource consumption, after injecting the zero isotope crystal into the ring belt, he immediately issued an activation command, activated the positioning process, and began to perform the visualization task.

The ring belt that makes up the void pump rotates again from a static state, but the speed and direction have changed significantly compared to before. The most obvious point is that the speed has become very fast, and the purple streamer on the surface of the ring belt has become very thick. It radiates pulsed light waves, and finally turns into a series of rotating halos.

The void pump at this time is completely different from the void pump when it was just unfolded, emitting shocking energy fluctuations.

Kyrenia's mouth grew bigger and bigger, her sight pierced through the array of halos, and landed on the colored clouds that looked like thick ink in the area behind the facility.

It's not actually a cloud of color, it's a naked singularity in the making. Because of its small size, it did not affect the surrounding space structure and harm the celestial environment of the Dilar star system.

Tang Fang is much calmer. After all, he has seen the naked singularity created by Ark World in the Republic of Date. Perhaps it is because of the large difference in the energy level of the universe. The singularity tunnel created by the void pump for the universe corresponding to the system space is smaller. .

The emitted light from the naked singularity is actually a kind of energy fountain, fortunately, it does not diffuse in a large area, it is captured by the void pump, bound in the central tunnel of the halo, and becomes a long and narrow light vortex in the shape of a tornado.

The neon lights swept across the space, and also occupied the big screens of the Minotaur-class battlecruiser and the special operations transport ship, falling on the pupils of the two people.

Different from Kyrenia's focus, Tang Fang's eyes focused on the streamer in the middle of the halo tunnel.

In this level of light storm, the brilliance was inconspicuous, until it rushed out from the inner ring of the frontmost ring, and the peripheral light gradually dissipated, turning into a space facility. He swallowed hard the saliva stuck in his throat.

In the system space, the star port of the human race base has disappeared, and it has really entered the real universe from the sub-universe.

His excitement didn't last long before it was replaced by surprise, he was sure it was a star port. From a distance, the shape of the starport is not much different from that of the system space. The front signal light flashes and flashes, and the edge injector shoots reverse particles, helping the starport to change from a high-speed moving state to a static state. It seems that everything is going well... However, this is too small.

The size of the star port is completely different from what he expected. It is nearly 200 meters in length and only 70 meters in height. Having seen a 300km-class industrial ship of the Ypsilon civilization, and a shipyard of hundreds of kilometers in a sovereign country, he was speechless and helpless about this scene... A star port less than 200 meters away? What a joke, not even half of the Minotaur-class battlecruiser.

No wonder the price was only 10W of gas. He thought he had picked up a big deal, but he didn't expect it to be such a small deal. At the same time, I was very ashamed. I originally wanted to make a production line of warships as a gift for Kyrenia, to compensate her for the hard work she lost due to the attack by the Republic Security Forces and the Night Breeze Assault Fleet. How could she think of such a big oolong.

200M warship production line? Don't be kidding, it can't even compare to the small space station built when Venus Pharmaceuticals occupied the Dilar star system.

Kyrenia moved her gaze from the energy fountain to the strange facility, then turned on the communication channel, and asked him, "Is this the gift you want to give me?" She said this without any other meaning, She just wanted to confirm the answer to the question, because she didn't know the object that escaped from the halo tunnel at all. Although injection facilities were deployed, it couldn't be connected with a battleship from the appearance.

Tang Fang felt his cheeks getting hot, so he couldn't tell her honestly: "Yes, this is the gift I'm going to give you, a battleship production line." Even if he has always been thick-skinned, he can't say such embarrassing words anyway.

"Emma, ​​I need an explanation."

"Commander, I think you have misunderstood the different meanings of the word starport for the game and reality. The so-called 'starport' in the game mode tends to be abstract, just to tell you that this building can produce spacecraft, but in reality Under normal circumstances, the star port is only equivalent to an automated factory, and its purpose is to deeply develop the crystal ore processed by the command center, turn it into one mechanical part after another, and then perform the final assembly work in the upper assembly workshop."

"In other words, Starport can only be assembled for small and medium-sized aircraft such as Banshee fighters, Viking fighters, and Liberators. As for space battleships of the Valkyrie frigate and battlecruiser level, a separate operating platform is required."

Tang Fang frowned: "So... the star port is just a parts production line and small and medium-sized aircraft assembly and maintenance unit?"

Emma continued to explain: "Commander, do you still remember the scene of the Sky Shield space station in the Legacy of the Void campaign?"

Tang Fang thought about it for a moment, then nodded.

"To put it simply, the military industrial system of mankind is generally based on the carrying platform similar to the Tianshield space station, with a large number of starports, heavy factories and barracks as parts manufacturing workshops, with fusion cores and technology laboratories as research and development institutions, and with The supply station and the ghost military academy are auxiliary facilities, and the battleship assembly platform is the terminal unit...a comprehensive industrial base constructed."

Combined with Emma's remarks, he recalled the civilian or military aircraft parked on the surface of the Tianshield space station, the orbital defense system, the stabilization device, and the various laboratories on the Skyspear space station in the Heart of the Swarm, and he suddenly came to his senses.

The Starport in the game can produce Minotaur-class battlecruisers only for the needs of the game. In fact, the Starport is just a spare parts production workshop. Only one worker bee in a bee colony, a large number of star ports and heavy factories can be combined to form a complete military industrial chain. Not at all what he thought at the beginning, Starport is a huge comprehensive space station, capable of producing fighter planes and assembling warships.

He remembered seeing a game element in the map editor. The protagonist was a three-headed dog-class pirate battleship, and on both sides were engineering frames for assembling the pirate battleship. Ship, plus parts production line, reactor, gravity control system, power module, living quarters and other modules, how huge will it be?

To know that this thing is a modular unit that can land from space to the ground, how powerful is the power output needed to handle the gravity of the planet? And build space battleships on the ground? It's not practical at all.