"Envoy-class starship, net weight of one million tons. The main engine is a high-power nuclear fusion engine, and the secondary engine uses ion propulsion technology. The highest cruising speed can theoretically reach one-thousandth of the speed of light. At a relative distance of 100 million kilometers, it will only take a week to travel to Mars in cruise mode. " Standing in front of the window of the dock command tower, Jiang Chen looked at the majestic starship outside the window, and a look of pride flashed between his eyebrows.
Now the relative distance between Mars and Earth was still on the scale of tens of millions of kilometers, but in the second half of this year, this distance would break through 100 million kilometers.
Disregarding Hawking's lightship that was still in the theoretical stage at one-fifth of the speed of light, this Envoy-class starship was probably the largest and fastest large manned spacecraft in human history.
To be able to witness this moment with his own eyes was already a supreme honor.
Not to mention standing in the position of the chief designer of space resources development, personally pushing this plan from the blueprint to reality.
"This is too big …" Standing next to Jiang Chen, Lu Wei looked at the Envoy-class starship outside the window. After a while, he sighed softly and exclaimed, "I'm afraid that only when the Ford-class aircraft carrier is connected with its aircraft carrier battle group can it match its length."
As a rear admiral of the Hua Navy and the former captain of the destroyer Nanning, he had seen many ships in his life and even went to the Liaoning to study and inspect. He vaguely remembered the last time he felt this way was when he participated in the UA Pacific joint military exercise as an observer and stood on the deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Eisenhower.
It was also at that time that he firmly convinced his superiors to develop nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and strengthen the Hua Navy after he returned to China.
Today, many years later, he felt the same way again.
But at the same time, he didn't know how to catch up. Although with the support of Celestial Trade, the aerospace technology of all countries had made leaps and bounds, at least in the field of space mining, there was no longer a need for Future Mining to send technicians.
However, in the face of the speed of progress of Celestial Trade, the word leaps and bounds had to be put in quotation marks. Because compared to them, their speed of progress was like a snail's crawl.
When he thought of this, he cursed the corrupt officials in Wanghai a hundred times in his mind.
How stupid would he have to be to chase away such a talent?
But this was a story for the future.
"Is it big?" Jiang Chen laughed and narrowed his eyes at the starship in the distance. "It is indeed a bit big, but in our space defense plan, this is not the biggest."
"How much bigger can you build?" Former ESA Director Anthony Leibniz, the representative from Frankberg, stared at Jiang Chen with wide eyes and asked in disbelief, "You mean, this is not the biggest?"
"That's right." "The Envoy-class is only a million tons, and there will be Constitution-class, Lord-class, and Prince-class … Our ultimate goal is a hundred-million-ton starship that can carry 100,000 crew members and achieve 100% material circulation in the starship with sufficient energy."
Jiang Chen looked at the stunned expressions on the representatives of the member states and the members of the Earth Defense Alliance Committee. He smiled and said in a joking tone.
"Of course, we still have to take it one bite at a time. Based on the current situation, a million tons is enough for us. By the time the final goal is achieved, I'm afraid we'll all be ashes … "
Everyone smiled good-naturedly.
After a pause, Jiang Chen continued.
"This Envoy-class starship is the same as the Liaoning for us. Its main purpose is to train, accumulate experience, and lay the foundation for building a large-scale fleet in the future. The only attack weapon of this starship is the mass launcher that penetrates the entire hull of the starship, but it is mainly used to eject Stingray X-1. "
There were 2,000 combat personnel, and all officers and soldiers were in place.
These people had received adaptation training for half a year at the military base on the Moon, and they already knew what role they would play on the starship. Among them, 1,000 were reserve officers and crew members of Celestial Trade, and the remaining 1,000 were "volunteers" from the member states of the Earth Defense Alliance.
In order to allocate these 1,000 spots, the representatives of various countries had a lot of arguments at the negotiating table. After all, this was the first starship of the Earth Fleet. Even an ordinary crew member, as long as they were not too stupid, after a few years of hard work, they would at least become an instructor or first officer based on their qualifications.
These future officers represented the future status and voice of the member states in the Earth Fleet and even in the Earth Defense Alliance.
It was conceivable how important the first batch of crew members was.
Because many secrets were involved, the delivery ceremony of the Envoy-class starship was very simple, far simpler than the completion ceremony and construction ceremony of the shipyard. Yang Guanglei, the CEO of Future Heavy Industries, on behalf of the shipyard, handed the file containing the starship's information, various certificates, and a contract to Jiang Chen.
Then the representatives of the member states signed the contract in turn, and military uniforms, officer certificates, and crew certificates were distributed to the soldiers waiting to board the starship. The national anthems of each member state were played in turn, and the flags belonging to each member state were first put into the boarding cabin and sent to the Envoy-class starship docked outside Celestial City.
Immediately afterward, the officers waiting to board the starship lined up at the entrance of the boarding passage and entered the starship through the electromagnetic track.
"Unfortunately, I was born in the Army, or I really want to follow these people." Wu Changfeng looked at the officers who stepped into the boarding cabin one by one and exclaimed.
"Even if you want to, I won't send the Earth Defense Alliance members to the starship," Jiang Chen smiled and said in a relaxed tone. Jiang Chen smiled and said in a relaxed tone, "The role you play is the commander. Although you are not on the front line, every decision you make determines the life and death of everyone on the warship."
Wu Changfeng shrugged and joked.
"If we can survive until the day of the decisive battle."
"We will." Jiang Chen smiled meaningfully and said softly.
Just then, a phone call appeared on Jiang Chen's watch.
It was a call from Kelvin.
Jiang Chen greeted the person next to him, walked to the side, took out a Bluetooth headset, opened the holographic screen, pressed the answer button, and asked.
"What's up?"
Calvin did not participate in today's warship handover ceremony. The excavation of Mine 071 had reached the most critical stage. As one of the project leaders, he must be in the Space Command Center to command.
When Jiang Chen received a call from him at this time, he already faintly sensed that something was wrong.
Sure enough, Calvin's first sentence made his premonition become reality.
"There is a special situation in Project 071." Calvin gulped, and without waiting for Jiang Chen to ask in detail, he quickly continued, "When our Marines advanced to a depth of ten kilometers underground, they were attacked by an unknown underground creature … not Devil Worms!"
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