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Chapter 12: On The Tip of The Tongue
After capturing the smugglers of Dubrak-Quinto, in the next week or so, everything returned to calm, and the colony also developed steadily.
The number of mining stations built around the gas giant has grown to four, supplying the mothership with helium-3 fuel for its fusion reactors. However, there are only four modular mining stations in the mothership. If you want to build a new mining station, you need to build it yourself. Fortunately, there is no shortage of metal resources in the galaxy. At present, some metal asteroids have been taken by the mothership. The ship was captured, decomposed and refined.
In addition, 3 of the 9 moons surrounding this gas-giant planet also called Endor are rich in various metal minerals. Now the people in the engineering department are working overtime to build an interstellar mining farm on one of the asteroids to provide raw materials for the construction work in space.
The same is true for the colony on the ground. Now the colony above Dawn Star has built 1,000 modular 2-story residential buildings, and the number of residents has increased to more than 1,700, and the entire colony can accommodate 10,000 residents.
Daphne Clement of the Administration Department is constantly selecting suitable residents to wake up and send them to Dawn Star to join in the construction work. By the way, Gullaham is no longer the village head. He was promoted to the township just yesterday. long.
The biggest problem now is that the first is the job pressure brought about by the rapid population growth, and the second is that there are not enough transport ships between the mothership and Dawn Star. There are only 5 small transport ships on the mother ship, and each transport ship can only carry 100 passengers or 50 tons of cargo at a time, which is far from meeting the demand.
Moreover, this kind of transport ship is about 30 meters long, which belongs to the level of light frigates, and cannot be built on the production line built into the mothership. In order to build more transport ships, a small space dock must be built, and although this has already started, even if the mothership is equipped with modular materials, it will take another week to complete a building of this scale.
What's worse is that one of the transport ships should have left some faults when it crossed before the mother ship, and now it is being used so intensively that it went on strike...
These things made Tang Xiao very anxious. There were not many problems when the colony was first built, but now it is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more problems. In the past few days, he had no free time to think about issues such as the plot of "Star Wars". He is constantly going back and forth between Dawn Star and the mothership, making various decisions.
However, the benefits of doing so are also obvious. He has been instilled with all kinds of knowledge in his mind, and now after using it for a period of time, it has developed a lot, and he is familiar with many tasks.
If it was more than a week ago when he hadn't crossed over and was just an ordinary college graduate, whoever told him that he could manage such a growing interstellar colony, Tang Xiao would have thought that person was talking about a science fiction plot.
But now things have developed to the present... Could it be that I have time-traveled into a science fiction novel? Tang Xiao looked up at the sky, wondering if he could see the author's extremely handsome face.
In short, under the leadership of Tang Xiao, the colony is still developing in an orderly manner. They set up a hunting team so that the marines could gain practical combat experience, and they could also supplement the colony with meat...
Find mines on the Dawn Star for lime, coal and raw metals...
Open up farms and fruit fields to grow native plants, and build closed hydroponic farms to grow rice, wheat, corn and other crops brought by the mothership.
Build factories such as steel factories, cement factories, sewage treatment plants, power stations, metal extraction, parts processing and more.
There are also roads being built, ground spaceports, and pipelines and fiber optic cables laid.
And the most difficult step - sewage. Because on this primitive ecological planet, it is very difficult to plan how to discharge and plan the waste and wastewater generated by factories, as well as domestic sewage.
The biggest problem is that 95% of the area of ??Dawn Star is the ground, so most of the water bodies are underground, which also brings great difficulties to sewage discharge. The modular sewage treatment plants carried on the mothership have limited processing capacity, and the problem now is that more and larger sewage treatment plants need to be built...
Moreover, Tang Xiao now has an inexplicable feeling for this planet. After all, when he awakened the force, he breathed the air here and felt his own nature. He didn't want to destroy the beautiful scenery here. Even speaking, it has become a kind of fetter.
So one time when he went to inspect the colony and saw that the residents were building sewage pipes, Tang Xiao suddenly had a flash of inspiration. After returning to the mothership, he began to discuss a very serious issue with Daphne Clement very seriously: he It is planned to build a giant excrement collector on the hill next to the colony to collect all the sewage and excrement, and then build a dam to generate electricity from the excrement.
It is not unfounded for him to think so, because he has done this in a certain game before. He thought that since the spaceships in the game can be brought into reality, then the shit collector that can be realized in the game should also be possible.
However, Clement was directly terrified. She desperately suppressed the urge to arrest Tang Xiao to check his brain and told her Supreme Commander very seriously that this is impossible in reality because you pump the feces into the energy consumed on the mountain, which is already much greater than the electricity used to generate it and the pressure of the dung water is not enough to drive the turbines of the dam, and there are too many impurities in it and it is easy to block.
After all, you don't know if someone is constipated, do you?
In addition, seasonal issues must also be considered. What if the feces in the excrement collector freeze in winter? So you still need a heating device, right? This is all cost! In order to strengthen his persuasiveness, Clement also grabbed Guan Yan, an energy expert who was eating, to explain that Guan Yan was innocent, although she immediately vomited out the lunch she had just eaten after hearing this topic, she still worked hard to help Clement convince Tang Xiao.
Seeing that this road was not going to work, Tang Xiao, who had already entered a state of bewilderment, asked them how many water purification plants would be needed to repeatedly purify the excrement water into drinking water.
Clement and the others were stunned by Tang Xiao's brain hole. They called Qu Xuewen and Feng Yongwang again, and together with several experts' earnest persuasion, Tang Xiao finally abandoned the idea of ??excrement power generation and recycling, and finally, he didn't let himself drift away on the road to being shot.
It is still necessary to come up with a conclusion on this interesting topic, so they continued to discuss for a long time and finally came to the conclusion that it is really possible to make a giant excrement collector, in fact, it is a super sewage (feces) water, although the cost of the processing center is a bit high, it seems that it can really solve the problem of sewage on this planet, which is mostly groundwater.
Of course, the feces collection device cannot be built on the mountain, otherwise, it will be fun once the embankment bursts, and the city will be directly flooded with feces.
Tang Xiao made a decision immediately, and every city in the future will have to repair the central excrement collector! These concentrated manures can not only be used for fertilization after treatment but also maintain law and order when necessary, can't they?
They finally decided to create a Ministry of Public Health to deal with this stuff. When making this decision, Tang Xiao had no idea that he had created the most terrifying department in the history of the Galaxy.
However, Tang Xiao quickly broke away from this interesting topic. At this moment, he was stirring a bowl of pasty chocolate with a spoon contentedly, eating a spoonful from time to time, while chatting with a newly awakened elite Sociologist to discuss a very important topic.
There were no snacks on the mothership, so Tang Xiao could only use these semi-finished things to satisfy his tongue.
"Supreme Commander, what we have to consider now is the cohesion of the colony. At present, we are not large, and everyone is around you, which is very good. But if we continue to develop, this is not enough, you Take a look at my proposal..." The sociologist named Norris Barry said to Tang Xiao earnestly.
At this time, Guan Yan, who was carrying a lunch box, passed by, saw Tang Xiao and said casually: "Ah, you are here, Supreme Commander, by the way, there is one thing, the analysis of the infrared laser weapon is very smooth, it should be able to finish ahead of time. We will conduct our first weapons test this afternoon, are you going?"
"Ah, no problem, I will go in the afternoon." Tang Xiao replied, he completed the preliminary analysis of the infrared laser weapon in just over a week, and he felt that he should praise her a few words, but he suddenly got stuck and didn't know what to say. What, so he picked up the pasty chocolate in his hand and said to Guan Yan, "Do you want to eat it?"
Seeing this bowl of sticky brown objects that Tang Xiao stirred into a spiral shape, Guan Yan's face darkened and she quickly refused, "Uh, no, I don't have much appetite..."
"Ah, what a pity, this is quite delicious." Tang Xiao shook his head regretfully, stirred in the bowl again, then scooped out a large spoonful of sticky food and put it in his mouth to eat.
Guan Yan's face turned from black to green, and she didn't want the boxed lunch in her hand, so she turned and ran away covering her mouth.