2448, Hari Seldon Reform (Part 2)
By now, the InterGalactic Banking Clan's (M) ships had arrived at the Mensua Nebula, where the Matter Unloader was located, within the Vex System.
Also dispatched was a massive fleet comprising 100 capital ships and more than 1,500 Light Cruisers. The entire Mensua Nebula was placed under a tight blockade.
The most advanced smelting ships also immediately moved in, connecting their smelting and sorting bays to the Matter Unloader and beginning the first round of screening on all decompressed matter, extracting and storing neutron-star matter.
Moreover, the head of the Kingdom of Dawn Engineering Department, Salarian Chief Engineer Arroyo Barlow, led his senior Engineering Corps into the Vex System. Their mission was equally clear—to examine the neutron-star matter and determine the final formula.
Hari Seldon's currency reform was, in essence, the reestablishment of a standard system: using neutron-star matter as the exchange backing to issue a standard currency directly tied to the value of neutron-star matter.
However, it would still be difficult for this standard currency to disrupt the existing monetary system. The system inherited from the era of the Galactic Republic already had rare metals serving as standards. Moreover, these rare metals mined from stars had long been worth their price in terms of mining difficulty and labor hours.
But Hari Seldon took a different approach. Before proposing his standard currency policy, he had held lengthy discussions and exchanges with Commander of the Navy Marshal Matt Horner and Chief Engineer Arroyo Barlow.
In the end, Hari Seldon proposed this exchange-backing plan—battleship armor!
That was right! Battleship armor!
Within neutron-star matter, Arroyo Barlow found a relatively widely applicable formula, one that would serve as the core material for the main armor belts of newly built Kingdom of Dawn warships.
In truth, using this new