Chapter five hundred and thirteenth replenishment
Now, with the Infinity as the center, all of these ten battleships are linked together. Due to the need for transformation, all of these battleships have turned off the power furnace and have the Infinity to provide energy from the outside.
All of this is because the Infinity dock is too small to stuff all these battleships into it, but this will not affect the modification effect at all.
Because these players have developed an interesting engineering machinery as soon as they open their minds.
These technicians have designed an unmanned engineering ship with a length of only five meters, specifically used to transform and repair these battleships externally.
The vessels resemble a giant crab, with two large multi-functional robotic arms, a 360-degree miniature engine jet port and a gravity attitude adjustment device, and are loaded with an ark reactor to provide energy.
These small-sized engineering ships can be repaired and modified continuously. However, due to the limited production capacity of the Infinity dock, only four such engineering ships can be built a day.
According to the plan, each supply ship requires ten such engineering ships to be modified externally, while the internal modification is carried out by a large number of small engineering robots and cloning engineers!
One hundred engineering ships took a total of twenty-five days to be built, meeting the transformation operation needs of the entire supply ship.
Making so many engineering ships requires a lot of material. Fortunately, Infinity has a large nanomaterial processing workshop on it, which can be recycled from the materials on these battleships, and then remade into other accessories and assembled into engineering ships.
At the same time, the components required for the transformation are also manufactured one by one in the inner nano-manufacturing workshops, and then installed on these supply ships by the engineering ships.
Through the hanging window on the bridge, Yunqi can clearly see a large number of engineering ships like hardworking little bees, constantly traveling between the supply ship and the Infinity, sending the dismantled parts back to the Infinity, and then installing the new components produced to the outside of the supply ship.
At the same time, thousands of engineering robots cooperated with hundreds of cloning engineers to carry out major transformations on the entire warship.
Soon, the supply ship that had been dismantled, which even exposed the internal keel, gradually became plump again. Twenty days later, the ten supply ships were officially modified.
Although they are all modified from the same type of battleship, there are huge differences between the two supply ships.
The supply ship's size is quite bloated, and its slim body completely deviates from the shape of a huge fat man. Moreover, the armor on the outside is extremely weak, but the space inside is very spacious.
According to the design plan of Old Roy, this type of supply ship can carry nearly two million tons of various substances, and each supply ship can be equipped with ecological farms and nanomaterial manufacturing plants. Only with enough substances can it be continuously converted into various organic matter, and then a large number of animals and plants are reproduced through the ecological park to meet the dietary needs of the entire fleet.
At the same time, the nanofactories of each warship can provide various ammunition and maintenance accessories for the entire hull. The supply ship itself is equipped with a large number of fast transport ships like coffins. These transport ships with a size of less than ten meters can quickly travel between the warships and supply ships during the battle, providing a large amount of supply and ammunition for the warships. It is the square coffin board shape that made Yun Qi a little unhappy! However, Old Roy insisted that such a shape was to maximize the use of the internal space, so Yun Qi could only nod and default!
Under the theory of maximizing space utilization of Old Roy, these five supply ships alone can meet all the supply needs of Yunqi's two fleets.
However, the supply ship type 2 designed by About is also unique.
Compared with Old Roy's pure functional design, About's design tends to be more inclined to combat supply ships.
Although heavy weapons including the main gun were removed, About added more defensive weapons, and at the same time adjusted the energy supply system of the warship, so that its shields could last longer, while greatly increasing the maneuverability and maximum speed of the warship.
But the sacrifice brought by these is that the carrying capacity of the Type 2 supply ship is only one-third of that of the Type 1.
In other words, only three Type 2 supply ships can top one of the previous Type 1 supply ships.
Although it carries less cargo, the combat supply ship can even accompany the entire fleet to forcibly rush through the enemy's encirclement net. Even if unfortunately besieged by the enemy, it has enough defense to get rid of the enemy's pursuit.
Therefore, these two types of supply ships have their own advantages and disadvantages. Combined, they can meet the needs of almost various combat situations.
With the supply ship, it is time to supply crazy.
All the officers and soldiers of the fleet who had been saving money for several days were finally able to get into the meat today.
I saw a large number of escort fighter jets ejected one after another by warships, and began a hard salvage operation!
Soon, these beautiful fighter jets dragged a huge meteorite behind their butts and flew towards the direction of the supply ship. When they were transported to the destination, a construction ship took over and chopped up some of the excessively large meteorites, and then sent them into various supply ships in batches, and converted them into various materials for storage.
Relying on these collected solid ice, Iona and others finally took a good bath. During this period, even water needed to be saved and used, which led to these girls having to calculate the number of times they even took a bath! After all, the water resource circulation will have certain losses. Once the loss exceeds a certain limit, there will be a large-scale shortage of water resources.
In addition, a large amount of electrolyzed water is needed on the warship to produce oxygen, so water reserves are crucial for each warship.
The problem of water shortage is even more serious than Yun Qi imagined, so in order to save water, Yun Qi had to ban the number of bathing officers and soldiers on the ship. He is a big man, but for women who love beauty, not taking a bath is simply a life.
During this period, Yun Qi was bombed by Angela and others more than once. If these supply ships were not completed quickly, Yun Qi would probably have been killed by these girls' silly words!
Fed up with the pain of not having resources. Yun Qi plundered all the small meteorite wrecks within hundreds of thousands of kilometers around him in one breath.
However, the distribution density of small meteorites in the Kuiper belt is too low. Even if these escort fighters run off their legs, they only collect tens of thousands of tons of effective resources. No matter how far the resources are, it is not that escort fighters cannot search, but that once they exceed one limit, at the tow speed of the escort fighter, they will not be able to return to the fleet!
After all, the entire fleet was still driving at high speed and was far away. With the acceleration ability of fighter jets, they could not catch up with the galloping fleet at all. It would be deadly at that time.
Thinking of this, Yun Qi began to consider whether he would stay for replenishment when approaching Ceres.
According to the fleet's detection, in the current orbit, the fleet can only encounter Ceres. If you miss Ceres, you will have to sail for three months before you can meet Saturn.
Chapter completed!