Testing Orbital Bombardment Capabilities
If you want to transport a Space Elevator with the fleet, you can't just put it on a rocket and push it away; doing that would make the Space Elevator age too easily.
Therefore, in order to better protect the Space Elevator, humans also plan to build five special large transport ships.
In the ship Design Institute's blueprints, the internal structure of these transport ships is designed to fit perfectly with the retracted structure of the Space Elevator, and the hull housing can unfold like flower petals, then the packaged Space Elevator structure can be securely embedded within the ship.
The packaging design of the Space Elevator involves the space section gathering the cables, then folding up the various unfolding structures using precision Mechanical Design, and finally fitting them together with the ground-based section launched into space to form a long, cylindrical structure.
The Space Elevator design improvements were completed during the ninety years of the journey. Therefore, after arriving on this White Giant Star planet and mining enough resources, humans built the first Space Elevator from scratch in just three years.
After the first Space Elevator was completed and passed various tests, the installation program was put into operation. Then, in the following days, together with the Orbital Mass Accelerator, it transported even larger quantities of mineral resources into space, and then built four more Space Elevator.
As Space Elevator are manufactured and put into use, humanity's air-to-ground transportation capabilities have increased exponentially.
Humanity plans to fully open the Space Dock after the Five Space Elevators are completed and put into use, and to build more Residential Spaceship to meet the housing needs of the growing population.
After reserving enough Residential Spaceship, the next step is to build up the scale of warships.
Humanity currently possesses fifty Space Dock capable of building Lake-Class Warship. If resources are sufficient, and each dock builds one Lake-Class Warship every five years, humanity could produce an additional thousand Lake-Class Warship in just one hundred years.
Upon learning that the defense of a Star System of the Nair Civilization consisted of a fleet of eight hundred Lake-Class Warship, humanity's fear of insufficient firepower resurfaced.
The current situation of only 1,200 Lake-Class Warship is causing great unease among humanity. Although each Lake-Class Warship is extremely powerful due to the strength of its armor materials, the small number of them is still unsettling.
Based on the current human population of 150 million, a relatively high military-to-civilian ratio of 1:15, and the requirement of 5,000 people per Lake-class warship, humanity could easily equip itself with a fleet of 2,000 Lake-Class Warship.
Currently, humanity only has a mere 1,200 Lake-Class Warship, with 800 redundant. Moreover, even if more were built, they could be kept as reserves, since if they sail with the Great Fleet and do not engage in combat, AI control would suffice.
For this Shipbuilding Plan, human engineers, geologists, and prospectors suggested that after the construction of Five Space Elevators was completed, destructive mining of the planet should begin.
The reason is that they believe that once the Five Space Elevators are officially put into operation, the progress of ground mining will not be able to keep up with the speed of resource transportation, so it is necessary to expand globally.
Humans can use hydrogen bombs to extract various metal ores hidden deep underground, and then deploy more automated machinery for larger-scale mining. Only in this way can the Five Space Elevators operate at full capacity and meet human Shipbuilding Plan.
Without considering environmental protection, everything is quick and convenient.
Therefore, the idea of using hydrogen bombs to blast minerals did not encounter much resistance; the proposal was given the green light as soon as it was put forward.
Just then, Yue Yuan arrived at the bridge of the Lyra after completing the approval process for the hydrogen bomb mining plan. He saw Man Yuemei coming towards him. "Commander Yue, I think that in addition to the conventional method of planting bombs and mining, we can also use other methods to supplement this hydrogen bomb mining plan, such as using the Lake-Class Warship to conduct Orbital Bombardment in planetary orbit."
"What? Orbital Bombardment?" Yue Yuan raised an eyebrow, looking at the guy speechlessly. This is mining, not some kind of anti-civilization mission. What's with the Orbital Bombardment? "It's like this, Commander Yue." Man Yuemei pretended not to see Yue Yuan's expression and continued, "If we're going to mine in this way, it's considered destructive mining. In that case, why don't we take this opportunity to test our Orbital Bombardment capabilities?"
Seeing that Yue Yuan was not listening, Man Yuemei continued, "I think there are many civilizations in the universe like the Nair Civilization that use their home planet as a base to expand into the world. Although we claim to have Orbital Bombardment capabilities, we have never put them into practice. Why not take this opportunity to test them and collect some practical data?"
"Okay, continue." Yue Yuan activated his Magnetic Boots, fixing himself in front of Man Yuemei.
He was clearly intrigued, just as Man Yuemei had said: humans do possess the capability for Orbital Bombardment, but have never actually done it.
If we conduct a mining drill, we can collect some data so that when it comes time to use it, we can achieve the bombing accuracy of hitting the target.
Thinking of this, Yue Yuan added, "If we are to conduct the mine blasting in this way, then we cannot use satellites for orbital navigation, otherwise the purpose of the exercise will not be achieved."
"Of course." Seeing that Yue Yuan was somewhat interested, Man Yuemei continued, "Commander Yue, we are Wandering Civilization, so we don't need to worry about these things at all. Besides, I believe that Commander Yue wouldn't want to see a day when we have to launch landing operations on certain planets for some strategic purpose!"
"I definitely don't want to see a planetary landing operation," Yue Yuan thought to himself.
Sending humans to risk their lives in amphibious landing operations is a last resort. It would be better to use that energy to enhance Orbital Bombardment capabilities and achieve the ability to bomb any target precisely.
Thinking of this, Yue Yuan understood why Man Yuemei had this idea. She probably saw the various base facilities of the Nair Civilization on the planet when they were on the Pot Lid Vastness Star.
Upon seeing the facilities on the planet, the first thought should be to enhance humanity's Orbital Bombardment capabilities, rather than focusing solely on planetary landing operations, which would be a good thing.
This is the quality a soldier should have.
Come to think of it, if they have the capability for space travel, only an idiot would attempt a landing operation. Didn't that Unknown Civilization blow up the sun back then?
Humans don't have the ability to blow up stars or planets, but they can certainly carry out Orbital Bombardment.
Thinking of this, Yue Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, this is feasible, but we need to discuss it with the person in charge of exploration and mining. Our goal is to blast the mine, not to clear the land. As for whether to use a hydrogen bomb or Electromagnetic Railgun to blast it directly, we should follow the mining department's advice. They want to achieve a certain effect, so you should figure out the appropriate method. While the Five Space Elevators are still under construction, you should take the lead in drafting a plan."
"No problem!" Man Yuemei smiled with satisfaction, then turned and left.
Watching Man Yuemei turn and walk out of the bridge, Yue Yuan couldn't help but fall into deep thought. It wasn't that he was thinking about Man Yuemei's graceful figure, but rather about when humanity would have the ability to destroy planets and stars.
Yue Yuan never forgot about the bombing of the sun, and he understood that it was done by a certain civilization. If humanity wanted to have the ability to take revenge, it would at least need to have the ability to bomb stars.
But now, it can't even shake a single planet.