The calendar turned to a new page. It had been a year since the Sventoveit docked at the Mars port.
In this year, a lot of things happened.
The first was in Sventoveit.
After a discussion with Jiang Chen, Gorowen established the Sventoveit Group. Its main business was import and export, shipbuilding, and communication services. It must be admitted that these clones were far ahead of Future Heavy Industries and other companies on Earth in terms of technology related to interstellar navigation.
The Lightning N1 warp engine produced by the Sventoveit Group snatched the order from Future Heavy Industries and became the standard engine for Earth Defense Alliance starships above one million tons. Due to the large technology generation gap, Future Heavy Industries simply abandoned this market and focused on offensive weapons, carrier-based aircraft, drones, and other fields.
In addition to the shipbuilding industry, the Sventoveit Group also set foot in the communication business and unexpectedly became the largest communication service provider on Mars.
Speaking of the Sventoveit Group's involvement in the communication business, there was a small episode.
About a month after the Sventoveit anchored in the Mars synchronous orbit, Gorowen found Jiang Chen again and asked him why he didn't connect Tiangong City's network to Earth.
After learning that it was because Future Group's quantum communication resources were limited, Gorowen didn't say anything at the time and ended the communication.
In the second month, a huge quantum communication base station rose from the ground, and three communication relay satellites rose to the Mars synchronous orbit. After a month, Gorowen found Jiang Chen again. This time, he didn't ask about the network, but told him that the Sventoveit Group hoped to build a quantum communication base station in Celestial City and the Port of Macena.
As for the accessories needed to build these two communication base stations, they were naturally prepared.
In this way, the two independent networks between Mars and Earth were forcibly woven into one by the Sventoveit Group. The quantum communication technology mastered by Gorowen was astoundingly advanced. The delay of accessing the Earth network on Mars was forcibly suppressed to less than 100 ping.
Even Future Heavy Industries couldn't achieve this level. The communication resources in Tiangong City could only allow the local colonists to call their relatives on Earth, send a text message, or browse a webpage or something …
In this way, the citizens of Tiangong City welcomed the village to have access to the Internet. The Phantom Helmet, which could only be used to play stand-alone "small games," now played its role again. The colonists who missed their loved ones on Earth could finally see their loved ones in the virtual world built by the Phantom Helmet.
The gravity belt solved the travel problem, and now the network problem had also been solved. The citizens living in Tiangong City could live the same life as on Earth.
Of course, the most enthusiastic person was Ge Luowen himself.
At first, Jiang Chen was still puzzled as to why Ge Luowen was so eager to build a network cable between Earth and Mars until Xia Shiyu reported some data to him. On the same day that Mars Village arrived, more than 5,000 accounts with IP addresses from Mars were registered on the "Galaxy Edge" server.
Five thousand helmets was a small number. Every day, Future Technology produced at least fifty thousand Phantom helmets. Normally, this scale of sales wouldn't attract Xia Shiyu or Jiang Chen's attention. However, the person who bought more than 5,000 helmets was the Sventowit Group, which made it difficult for Jiang Chen not to notice.
After he told Xia Shiyu to pay more attention to this point, it didn't take long for him to make new discoveries.
In Sventowit, the best-selling products were holographic equipment and VR equipment. According to the data of Future Technology, Ge Luowen's obsession with these two things had almost reached the level of addiction.
If they were not at work, then they were wearing Phantom Helmets … This was the evaluation of the employees of the Mars Synchronous Orbit Shipyard of their cloned colleagues.
These clones rarely communicated with outsiders and rarely spoke about anything other than work, even if their language was enough to make the most knowledgeable linguists dumbfounded. In addition to eating and sleeping, they would spend almost 95% of their free time in the virtual world.
Jiang Chen speculated that this might be because they spent most of their time in the virtual world during frozen dormancy.
As for another question that puzzled him, he couldn't understand it no matter how hard he thought about it.
He had always thought that the Ge Luowen under the Ge Luowen's mental system were like ants under the rule of an ant queen, and they didn't need entertainment that had nothing to do with survival.
But now it seemed that this was just his prejudice.
Was it because they wanted to live in the virtual world that was completely different from the real world?
He didn't know.
Because of this question, he had specifically discussed it with Gorowen the First. However, Ge Luowen didn't want to answer this question, and he didn't even want to tell Jiang Chen his game account …
In addition to the Ge Luowen, several important things also happened on the Defense Alliance's side.
According to the 67th resolution of the Defense Alliance Committee, the "Trench Plan" jointly proposed by the five major member states was approved.
That was, while developing the Earth Fleet, a space fortress would be built in the area between the Kuiper Belt and Pluto as the base of operations for the Earth Fleet.
Four years ago, the idea of building a fortress in the Kuiper Belt was mostly just an unrealistic fantasy, but with the advancement of technology in interstellar navigation, this fantasy had become practical.
In the past four years, Celestial Trade's galactic highway system had advanced from the orbit of Jupiter to the orbit of Pluto. Using warp drive and neutrino channel technology, the time to travel from the Earth-Moon system to the Kuiper Belt had been reduced from the first year to less than half a month.
The steel and space station accessories produced in Tiangong City were directly sent to the synchronous orbit through the space elevator, and then towed to the orbit of Pluto by Seagull-class transport ships.
This fortress would not revolve around the Sun with Pluto, but it would slowly orbit the star with a period of thousands of years. Although this meant that the fortress would be slowly pulled in the direction of the Sun by the gravitational force of the star, because of the location of the Kuiper Belt, the gravitational force here was already quite weak. On a time scale of hundreds of years and a distance scale of dozens of astronomical units, this degree of displacement was completely negligible.
As for the things that would happen hundreds of years later, they could wait for hundreds of years to come.
What the Defense Alliance needed was for this fortress to be able to block the star and the invaders in the next half a century and fight the enemy together with the Earth Fleet.
That was enough.
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