Chapter 2446 Hari Seldon Reform (Part 2)
Chapter 2446 Hari Seldon Reform (Part 2)
2448 Hari Seldon Reform (Part 2)
Now, the spacecraft of the Interstellar Banking Association (M) has arrived at the Monsua Nebula Belt, where the matter decompressor is located, in the Vickers system.
At the same time, a huge fleet including 100 battleships and more than 1,500 light cruisers went there. The entire Monsua Nebula Belt was tightly sealed.
And the most advanced smelting spacecrafts also went there immediately, connecting their smelting sorting cabins with the matter decompressor, and began to conduct the first wave of screening of all decompressed materials, extracting and preserving the neutron star materials from them.
Not only that, the Minister of the Engineering Department of the Kingdom of Dawn, the Great Engineer of the Salarians, Arroyo Barro, also led his senior engineering team into the Vickers system. Their mission was also very clear - to examine the neutron star materials and determine the final formula.
Hari Seldon's currency reform is actually to re-establish a standard system, using neutron star matter as an exchange entity to issue a standard currency that is directly tied to the value of neutron star matter.
However, it is still difficult for this standard currency to impact the previous monetary system. Because in the system that has been used since the Galactic Republic, rare metals already exist as the standard. And for a long time, this kind of rare metal mined from stars is indeed worth the price in terms of mining difficulty and man-hours.
However, Hari Seldon took a different approach. Before proposing his standard monetary policy, he had a long communication and exchange with the commander-in-chief of the navy, Marshal Matt Horner, and the great engineer Arroyo Barro.
Finally, Hari Seldon proposed the antipathy of this exchange entity - battleship armor!
That's right! It's battleship armor!
Arroyo Barro found a relatively common formula in neutron star matter, and this formula will be the core material of the main armor belt of the new battleship of the Kingdom of Dawn.
In fact, using this new material as the main armor belt is just a very routine upgrade for the Dawn Kingdom Navy warships. Such small upgrades are actually being carried out at any time. For example, the Behemoth-class battlecruisers produced last year and this year may have many adjustments in many performance parameters.
From increasing the power of the reactor, reducing energy transmission loss, adding hollow plastic plates to the captain's console, to adding flower fragrance in the toilet, adding a single projector to the soldiers' dormitory, these adjustments are being carried out at any time.
Including the armor formula used by the warship, from the previous tri-titanium alloy to the current armor using neutron star material, this is already the ninth generation of armor for the Dawn Kingdom warships.
When Arroyo-Barro's materials department developed this new type of armor, it was mainly because the material decompressor was now in use, giving them many more rare elements to test. Moreover, the test showed that the hardness, ductility and heat resistance of this armor made of neutron star material have reached a new level, which is about 4%~10% higher than the overall performance of the resistant steel (Durasteel) commonly used in the Galactic Empire.
This is also an important area where the material technology of the Kingdom of Dawn has surpassed that of the Galactic Empire.
However, this is just an upgrade to improve the performance of the armor. Arroyo Barro never thought that the first person to come to the door was not the military's audit and procurement department, but the central bank and the Interstellar Banking Association (M)!
Hari Seldon's idea is to use armor materials made of neutron star matter as the exchange entity of the new monetary policy, and this neutron star matter also has its official name - neutron steel.
In other words, it is actually the military of the Kingdom of Dawn that guarantees this exchange entity. In other words, the Kingdom of Dawn will issue a currency equal to the value of neutron steel. This currency will not really give you neutron steel, but you can take this currency to the corresponding exchange point to buy a fixed unit of neutron steel, and then take this neutron steel to all the warship parts manufacturing factories in the Kingdom of Dawn, and the other party will accept all the neutron steel.
And the more strict point is that after you go through the above process, except for the necessary handling fee, the entire value is equal!
Of course, the Central Bank of the Kingdom of Dawn will also issue some small-value physical currency made of neutron steel to facilitate circulation, but the main means of circulation is still credit currency based on electronic currency.
Low-value physical currency contains only a few grams of neutron star matter, while high-value currency contains more neutron star matter in the middle. Putting it into armor casting will be able to cast a large piece of armor plate.
It is equivalent to the military of the Kingdom of Dawn guaranteeing this currency. No matter how much currency your central bank prints, the military will cash in all the neutron steel generated by this currency exchange!
The most critical points of this monetary policy are three points-the first is the current large-scale warship manufacturing plan of the Kingdom of Dawn, the second is the sufficient output of neutron steel, and the third is to ensure the threshold of neutron steel mining methods.
In other words, it is very convenient for the Kingdom of Dawn to produce neutron steel with a material decompressor, but without the material decompressor, its synthesis difficulty is very high, at least it is absolutely higher than its own value.
As for what to do if the Galactic Empire purchases neutron steel on a large scale in this way? The Dawn Kingdom military said that it doesn't matter. We have already made a fortune in this process. Moreover, the Dawn Kingdom's warships, even if they are armored, are not mainly reflected in the armor materials, but through the voltage-type armor coating to further improve the armor's tolerance.
Therefore, even with the same armor materials, the Dawn Kingdom's warships are still more protective than the Galactic Empire.
In fact, before this, the Galactic Empire's armor materials have always been more advanced than the Dawn Kingdom. The resistant steel they widely use has always been stronger than the Dawn Kingdom's tri-titanium alloy, so before during the Clone Wars, the Dawn Kingdom obtained some lower-grade resistant steel formulas and smelting technologies through Count Dooku.
However, in actual combat performance, the Dawn Kingdom, which lacks material technology, is the party with better warship protection capabilities.
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According to the estimation of the Supreme Military Command of the Kingdom of Dawn, assuming that the Kingdom of Dawn ruled the entire galaxy, then considering the garrisons and security needs of various places, it would need to maintain at least a fleet of 100,000 battleships. This makes the demand for neutron steel almost unlimited.
With this guarantee, Hari Seldon's new currency plan is applicable at least during the process of the Kingdom of Dawn's continuous military expansion.