Chapter 1598: tomorrow

Tubao Region, one of the most important industrial bases of the Ailan Hill Empire, is the super giant production plant No. 3 under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry.

This is a planet as well as a factory. This is a factory is a huge existence of a planet.

There are rest areas and residential areas for workers, as well as factory buildings that can hardly be seen at a glance.

There are supporting production facilities for any parts you can think of. If capacity coordination is required, it can also be deployed directly from other industrial areas through the space port.

There are 2 billion puppet robots specializing in production on the entire planet, with 110 million workers, and 30 million cloned top industrial technicians.

As the jewel of the imperial industry, industrial production on this planet never stops. The roar of the machine never stops. With the blessing of the nuclear fusion reactor, the equipment on the planet can be almost materially operated.

Morak, the dwarf in charge of managing this planet, once proudly said that without stopping the pace of the empire's expansion, the fire in the Tubao factory will not go out.

The Minister of Industry, Smith, once said to people that one only needs to visit the Tubao District to have a deep belief in the prosperity of the empire.

Regarding the official documents of Tubao, the terrifying scale of the entire planet’s industrial zone is described in no exaggeration: if all the production capacity of the factory here is converted to stainless steel washbasins, it only needs to start construction for one day, and the Ailan Hill Empire will have it in a hundred years. There is no need to produce stainless steel washbasins anymore.

At the same time, it is also a place where the elves are almost invisible. For the elves who admire nature, this is simply the **** depicted in the Apocalypse.

No matter how it is managed, the air here is filled with a smell of steel; no matter how many trees are planted here, the sky here is always cloudy.

In order to make this place barely meet the health standards of human life, wizards of the elven tribe are regularly dispatched to this planet to perform comprehensive management tasks.

After paying such a large price, the Tubao area of ​​the Ailan Hill Empire reached a terrifyingly exaggerated production capacity.

According to General Luo Kai of the General Staff of the Empire, the bullet produced here in one minute is enough to fight a war.

At this moment, a floating magic circle lit up at the bottom of a spacecraft, and landed lightly on the huge tarmac specially prepared for the spacecraft.

The z-30 planes parked around were neatly arranged, and the astronaut who was in charge of picking up the plane was a colonel. He stood and saluted everyone who stepped off the plane with a smile on his face: "Good afternoon! Gentlemen!"

"Sir!" All the soldiers who stepped off the plane were not low-ranked. They were basically captains, lieutenants, or at least second lieutenants.

They are all pilots, and they are all ace pilots in various units. The most famous is the super ace Orange, which has just shot down 1,000 enemy flying devices.

"Do you know the reason for calling you?" the colonel who picked up the plane asked while leading the way.

"Yes, sir!" a handsome pilot who wore a military cap crookedly replied with a smile.

"After experimentation, the Logistics Department of the Imperial Military Department decided to start eliminating the Z-type fighters and the F-type fighters and replacing them with the latest space weapons." The officer said to Orange and the others as they walked.

About a few hundred meters away on his left, there is a huge air transport station. Here almost every 10 minutes, a spacecraft will be launched into the sky to transport the produced products to the Xinghuan factory area of ​​Tubao 3.

The factories on the ground produce parts or other industrial equipment, and the Star Ring factory produces spacecraft. Everyone has different division of labor and different manufacturing fields.

The group soon came to the factory area, which is a super automated factory with a plant that is tens of meters high.

Walking around is either a clone engineer or a puppet production robot specially made.

Different from combat robots, production robots have to adapt to different jobs, so their size and appearance are completely different. Some robots are tall and some are less than one meter tall.

Some robots have slender fingers like probes, and some robot hands are just thick pliers. Their design is to satisfy a certain process, and they are almost useless except for their own work.

However, after such differentiation, it has brought a very amazing increase in production capacity. Special robots can no longer be replaced in the production process.

Above everyone’s heads, maglev trains whizzed past, and the trains full of materials transported parts produced by other factories here at super high speed, and then transported the things produced here to the finished airport.

From time to time, there are also passenger trains full of resting workers leaving. They go directly to nearby residential areas. Workers resting on shifts will take these vehicles to return to their homes.

Hundreds of one-nanometer-level lithography machines are producing chips on the entire planet, and the produced chips supply the platforms that need chips on the entire planet.

Thousands of cargo ships arrive here every day, loaded with ore or metal ingots, and provide raw materials for the operation of factories on the planet.

Compared with Ai Lan Xiris, here is more sci-fi and colder. It is completely different from the diversified and de-industrialized imperial capital. Everything here is constantly turning the most primitive ores into the most sophisticated industrial products.

In Tubao, flashing neon signboards can only be seen in residential areas, but conveyor belts and loading and unloading robotic arms can be seen everywhere. Huge cranes of various models are set against the two-hundred-meter-high chimney, and a faint blue smoke is constantly blowing day and night.

"Have you seen this? This is a new type of weapon that shines in the New District 6." A group of people came to the factory that produces the latest cosmic weapons. The factory here still smelled of paint.

According to the requirements of the elves, all the decoration materials used here are of first-class environmental protection quality, but they are the same as modern home decoration. Every material is environmentally friendly, and it is not necessary to put it together.

Seeing these huge humanoid weapons that were being finalized and assembled and debugged, a group of well-informed pilots immediately showed disappointed expressions: "Cut...Isn't this a large uipa... It seems like I have never seen it same."

"This is much more complicated than you think." The colonel smiled and comforted the ace pilots who seemed very disappointed.

"Come on, let our chief engineer... Miss Roco introduce this, the future cosmic weapon of the empire!" The colonel solemnly introduced, reaching aside the beautiful engineer who was supervising the assistants to operate and debug the computer.

That's right, she is the beautiful engineer in the experimental space station on the 9th. She has now been deployed here to be responsible for the production of the first batch of Zaku.

As for the poor male engineer who borrowed the concept of uipa, he is still engaged in related research on the 9th experimental space station.

The programmer missed his love after all, and the beautiful engineer Roco is still single. No one is the winner, in this war of love.

"Don't underestimate it. Although it looks like uipa, there is almost no connection between the two except for the principle. It uses the latest perception technology and is faster than the previous corresponding speed." Rocco started his introduction to the new weapon.

The Airanhill Empire obviously spared no effort in this weapon that could change the course of the war. Because of the fear of natural population loss, as well as the worry of insufficient population, the Airanhill Empire has been trying to reduce the consumption of population due to war.

This is the core reason why the Ailan Hill Empire uses a lot of clones and puppet robots.

Under the influence of this kind of thinking, the weapon designers of Ailan Hill did not hesitate to work on weapons like Zagu that can only be driven by natural persons.

What does it mean to spare no effort? What it means to spare no effort is that Zaku uses a lot of the latest technology that he was reluctant to use because of its high cost. In short, compared with previous weapons and equipment, its level of detail is far beyond imagination.

"Enhanced uipa?" Hearing Roco's introduction, a pilot didn't buy it, and said to molest the beauty.

"Listen to me and finish talking." Luo Ke picked up the curly hair on his shoulders with his fingers, with a charming voice in his voice.

"Okay, you said." Sure enough, it was loved by girls. It can be said that countless ace pilots who read women know more about style than programmers, and no longer interrupt Roco's introduction.

Rocco was not interested in pilots. She continued her work and introduced: "After improving the perception technology, we have also added some brand new control technologies. Including brand new propulsion thinking control technology and neural response enhancement technology."

Natural people have no thrusters. They can control Zaku through their souls or mental powers, allowing Zaku and themselves to maintain the same movement, but they can hardly rely on their souls to control Zaku's thrusters.

This requires computer assistance, and some adaptive training. The previous experimental model Zaku does not have these new functions, but in the mass-produced Zaku, these new technologies have been applied.

Sometimes it is not that the test machine is necessarily more advanced than the mass production machine. Sometimes the test machine is indeed stronger than the mass production machine. This is completely random, and it does not necessarily mean that the mass production machine is a verification machine with weakened performance.

"As long as the driver uses his brain, this new weapon called Zagu can fly freely in the universe." Rocco has been debugging these new technologies and the equipment supporting these technologies recently, so she is very familiar with these things. Have confidence.

"It can do irregular flight movements, can evade most of the interception firepower, and is much more flexible than a Z-type fighter." After calling up a test flight video, Roco pointed at the trajectory.

Seeing this trajectory, Oaken's eyes brightened. If he wanted to fly out of this trajectory smoothly, using the Z fighter would require very complicated operations.

He can even say with certainty that apart from him, few pilots dare to say that he can rely on his hands and feet to drive a Z-type fighter to make such complex maneuvers!

Obviously, although the test pilot on Zaku is also a master, there is still a big gap compared with the experienced Orange.

Since the opponent can drive Zaku to make such a maneuver against the sky, this shows that at least in terms of control, this brand-new weapon has surpassed his Z-type fighter that has been carefully adjusted by the ground crew.

"With the propellers on the legs, it can change its flight direction at any time, saving a lot of engine space." Roco continued to introduce the anti-sky performance of this weapon: "So it can carry more fuel. , Can fly longer distances, have stronger defenses, and can support sharper attacks."

"You continue." There are not many pilots who are absent-minded now. They are all powerhouses who are fighting on the front line of the war and fighting with their lives. They are naturally very professional in their fields.

As the content of the introduction continues to increase, they have been able to feel the powerful performance of the new weapon.

For these ace pilots, more powerful performance means a greater probability of survival on the battlefield and more records.

Therefore, the eyes of the ace pilots here are sharp. They all want to know what kind of performance this weapon has, and what height it can raise on the battlefield.

"In terms of energy use, it uses our latest scientific research results, and the energy transfer speed is faster... Don't underestimate this technology, we only use this technology on the latest Invincible-class battleship! Now, this technology It has sunk to a mecha weapon of Zaku's level, which is already very rare." Roco lived up to expectations and continued to introduce.

Similar technological sinking often occurs. It is normal for low-end products or smaller products to use the previous high-end technology, and to use the previous bulky technical equipment.

For example, the technology that was previously only used at the Volkswagen Magotan level is now in use at the Sagitar level. Some of the technologies and configurations of the BMW 5 Series have now been sunk to the BMW 3 Series.

"With such technology, Zaku's defense is faster and more reliable. It can use less energy to achieve local magical defense barrier reinforcement, and it can resist most single fire attacks." Roco explained while adjusting. Take a data chart, introduce in detail the gap between the existing technology and the latest technology.

Although the gap is calculated in milliseconds, it is reflected in actual combat, even if it is 0.0001 milliseconds longer, that is too much!

"In terms of weapons, it is also much stronger than the Z fighter." When it comes to weapons, all pilots are more focused. This is the basis for their achievements and is something everyone is very concerned about.

"Look, this is a shoulder-mounted disposable rocket launcher. At close range, it can easily penetrate the guard's battleship defense." Taking everyone into the factory for tens of meters, Roco pointed to a door. Speaking of the giant bazooka.

This is the weapon that was used to suppress the rebellion in the New District 6, and it has now begun mass production. Although it is a disposable weapon, it can give Zaku the ability to destroy large warships, so it is also one of the very important core equipment.

Another Zaku's core equipment is the technical lightsaber from the Heavenly Sword God Sect. After this technology was improved, it evolved into the energy sword technology of the Ailan Hill Empire.

Roco pointed to the two charged sword hilts placed on Zaku's waist, and said, "Also, have you seen this lightsaber? It can use this technique from the Heavenly Sword Sect to fight at close range. , The combat power is ten times stronger than the Z fighter!"

"The electromagnetic cannon is designed on the shoulder. If necessary, it can be thrown away at any time, and the stored ammunition is more... But this is not its main battle weapon." He pointed at the electromagnetic cannon on Zaku's shoulder. Rocco did not give a detailed introduction to the suppression system.

This thing is also found on the Z fighter, which is regarded as the core weapon and equipment of the Z fighter. The actual combat effect is average, and it can only be said that it is better than nothing.

Even before the birth of Zagu, the Ailanhildi Army was always looking for alternatives to electromagnetic weapons, because on the battlefield, electromagnetic cannons had already shown signs of decline and were somewhat unsatisfactory in terms of power.

Alternatives and soon to be developed, that is Zaku's core equipment today, the particle beam gun.

This weapon uses the magic array to cluster particle energy, and its power and ballistic performance far exceed the electromagnetic machine gun. The only disadvantage is that the current charging time of this weapon is relatively long, and the ability to suppress continuous firing is much weaker than that of electromagnetic machine guns.

However, all military representatives who have seen particle beam gun combat are very sure that this weapon is the direction of development and represents the future of war!

"The standard weapon is a particle ray gun. This newly developed weapon is specially developed for Zagu...has not had time to equip other warships or mechas..." Obviously, Roco also thinks that this weapon Represents the future.

So when she introduced this weapon, she was more detailed than when she introduced the electromagnetic cannon.

The ace pilots are also more interested in this weapon. They watched the fire attack video of this weapon carefully, and followed Roco to see the real objects placed on the production line.

As Zagu's weapon, it is too big for people. Standing next to this kind of light gun, these ace pilots seemed to be hands-on.

"The particle ray gun can easily penetrate our existing armor, and it also has a miraculous effect on the magic defense barrier... At close range, the power is even more powerful than the magic laser cannon. This has been confirmed in the new zone 6, and what we provide is actual combat. Data." Roco habitually picked up the curls on his shoulders with his hands, with the other hand in his pocket, quite like a sister: "With this weapon, Zaku can threaten each other at close range. The advanced battleship, destroying the enemy’s core main battleship, the Arbiter!"

"The only drawback is that this weapon, which was named by the Emperor himself as Zaku, cannot be used by clones. We can only use natural people to drive and control." When she reached the end of the production line, she said with some regret.

After speaking, she looked at the pilots and showed a bright smile: "This is also the reason why you are here...Before they are mass-produced, you have to start adaptability training...Wait for them to be measured. After it is produced, you will be the first pilots to drive this kind of cosmic humanoid weapon!"

"I know that many of you have been modified." She mentioned the pilot genetic modification project without shy, as if she had mentioned an ordinary technology research and development project.

For that painful memory that many pilots did not want to mention, Rocco just regarded it as a technological attempt developed by the times.

"Many people have enhanced genes and are participants in previous genetic modification experiments." When she talked about this, she even envied that she could be transformed into a stronger human being. This has always been a thing many people yearn for.

"So your reaction speed is faster, and the pressure and overload that can be carried are greater. Originally, you were strengthened to adapt to the super version of the j-30 fighter, which is the enhanced j-40 fighter." , Rocco also mentioned a weapon project that was almost forgotten.

The J-40 fighter jet project at that time challenged human limits in the true sense: human physique became the only bottleneck restricting the development of weapons. In order to adapt to more powerful weapons, pilots had to modify their bodies and become hybrid genetic experiments. .

The result is actually very sad. Soon the era of the universe is coming, no matter how powerful the performance of the J-40 fighter jet, it is only an in-atmospheric fighter.

Eventually the J-40 project was cancelled and the Z-type fighter project was put on the agenda. The super-pilots who had been remodeled were transferred to the Space Army and began training for the adaptation of the Z-type fighter.

Regarding this matter, many pilots have expressions of regret on their faces. Their efforts have not been rewarded, which makes them somewhat frustrated.

"But now, the J-40 fighter jet project has stalled, because the fighter jets in the atmosphere can no longer determine the outcome of the war." Roco didn't care about this, she continued.

"Those who control the universe can control the sky. You already know this very well, so your talents will be used in the battle for the universe." At this point, she pointed to the huge Zaku behind her and announced loudly. Said: "Everyone, we will provide you with a debug version of the enhanced Zaku, they are more powerful, faster, and more powerful than the mass production type..."

"Only you can control such a monster. I hope you can bring victory to the empire while possessing powerful weapons!" After she finished speaking, she gave up her position to the Space Army colonel who had been following her.

"It's really a bit exciting... I actually produced so many in one go..." The few fighter ace pilots who came to visit looked at the Zaku Army on the assembly line and sighed.

"So! When will we get such a fuselage?" a pilot asked, raising his arm.

"Tomorrow." This time it was the colonel officer who took them to visit--

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