Chapter 152 The Real Takeaway

The miners' decision did not surprise Amber in the end.

After a brief discussion, all 108 mining technicians present chose to "jump" to Atlas Mining Company.

With the addition of these people, Atlas Mining Company, which originally had only one Gyro-class mining barge and no professional workers, can instantly enter the mature mining stage.

Because among these 108 people, in addition to the largest number of mining teams, there are also asteroid exploration technicians, professional blasting technicians, mining ship drivers and operators, etc.

Basically, all the personnel needed to mine an asteroid are ready.

What's more, a complete asteroid operation base and three small mining ships were harvested.

And there are 25 complete mining mules in the operation base hangar.

This is a self-disciplined mining robot, whose main job is to cooperate with the mining team to go deep into the interior of super-large asteroids for refined operations.

In emergency situations, it can also cover the withdrawal of personnel.

After all, these asteroids with a mass of hundreds of millions of tons cannot contain only one type of heavy metal.

Compared to letting the Gyro class smash the asteroid roughly, and then cooperate with the other three frigates to collect the ore.

It is more efficient to divide the distribution of the entire asteroid's ore veins through the process of exploration, excavation, and blasting, and then mine according to priority.

Soon, the workers who had no objections boarded the Hermes docked next to the base of operations.

They will stay in a large crew cabin that has been temporarily modified with dual-channel shielding capabilities for internal and external signals with basic daily necessities such as sleeping bags.

After Amber went to the black market to find a doctor to perform surgery to remove the "slave chip" for them, these miners will be able to move freely.

After the personnel are loaded, the next step is to pack up the entire base of operations and take it away.

When Timler Mining Company deployed this base of operations before, it was probably a professional industrial ship that fixed the base of operations on the asteroid through a large number of mechanical arms like centipedes.

However, Amber and his team obviously do not have this condition now, but fortunately they still have two HCPs.

This weapon was originally an industrial robot, and now it is doing its old business.

In order to be arranged on an uneven asteroid, the base of operations is not a whole, but is divided into four components: the ore refining area, the parking area, the main control room, and the personnel rest cabin.

Each component is connected by a flexible channel.

After Amber and his team evacuated all personnel and cut off the functions of the functional area, they "removed" the four components from the asteroid one by one, and then fixed them to the standard slide rail in the middle section of the side of the Hermes destroyer through a standard interface.

This process can only be done by Amber and Murat driving the HCP.

"Unit 2, don't be nervous, control the speed."

Listening to Amber's calm voice in the communication channel, Murat in Unit 2 was still a little nervous.

He is now dragging the huge ore refining component with Amber, approaching the side of the Hermes.

"Hermes, prepare to deploy the guidance manipulator."

"Hermes received, deployed."

The external armor plate at the front end of the side rail was opened, and a pair of yellow and black painted manipulators slowly unfolded.

The laser guidance device at the front end of the manipulator quickly connected to the receiver on the ore refining component, and the automatic docking program began to operate automatically.

"Okay. Unit 2, start slowing down and let the manipulator complete the docking."

"Received!"

The vector nozzles of the two HCPs are spraying at a high frequency, using this method to fine-tune the position.

Finally, with two "clicks!", the auxiliary manipulator completed the docking of the ore refining component and dragged it to the rail.

"Done~next!"

Amber temporarily disconnected the head control operation while sitting in the cockpit, then moved her somewhat stiff neck, and finally twisted the body to float towards the next component.

"Unit 2, don't feel boring and dangerous, this is a training to cultivate your fine operation ability."

"Yes! Sir!"

An hour and a half later, the work of "packing and taking away" at the operation base was over.

The larger ore refining components and berthing areas were fixed on the rails of the Hermes.

The relatively smaller personnel rest cabin and the main control room were fixed to the interfaces of the first two components by stacking.

On the other side of the Hermes, three small mining ships were also fixed on the rails in a horizontal arrangement.

At present, the Dragoon-class destroyer, which was originally slender and elegant, looks like it has tumors on its left and right sides.

However, this mounting method is still very common on civilian armed merchant ships.

Anyway, there is no such thing as air resistance in outer space. As long as it does not affect the torque of the spacecraft, the captains will try their best to load more cargo.

In order to increase the profit of a single trip.

After Amber and his team's operation, the only man-made products near the asteroid were the two pirates' armed merchant ships.

One of them had been shattered into pieces and turned into a pile of wreckage due to the explosion of the subcritical reactor, and basically lost its recyclable value.

The other ship, under Amber's meticulous work, only had its bridge, deflection field generator, external weapons, observation equipment, antenna arrays and other bits and pieces damaged.

Most of the valuable components, including the most valuable subcritical reactor and jump drive on civilian ships, were not damaged.

So it's impossible for you to say that Amber doesn't covet these things.

But now it's really impossible to take this armed merchant ship away for a while.

Although the Hermes can eject carbon fiber ropes to tow it, this can only support normal navigation and cannot tow a ship into the jump state.

"What? Can't bear to part with this ship?"

On the bridge of the Hermes, Isabel looked at Amber, who had been standing by the porthole of the armed merchant ship since she returned to the ship, and couldn't help but come up to joke.

"I'm not reluctant to part with this ship, I'm reluctant to part with the valuable components on it"

Amber was a little frustrated, which was also because he didn't know how to "break the ship".

If he knew a little bit, he would dismantle the subcritical reactor and jump drive and take them away.

Unfortunately, the disassembly of these two things is still relatively complicated, and it requires professional ship-breaking engineers to operate.

"Forget it, let's retreat first."

Amber turned her head and kissed Isabel on the cheek, then floated towards the captain's seat in the latter's shyness.

"Lilith, mark the coordinates, and then go online anonymously to find a ship-breaking company and sell the coordinates to them."

"Yes, Master!"