2448. Hari Seldon's reforms (middle)
Now, the spaceship of the InterGalactic Banking Clan (M) has arrived at the Mensua Nebula zone where Matter Unloader is located, Vex System.
At the same time, there was a huge fleet including 100 battleships and more than 1,500 Light Cruiser. The entire Mensua Nebula zone is tightly sealed.
The most advanced smelting spacecraft also immediately went over, linked their smelting sorting cabins with Matter Unloader, and began to conduct the first wave of screening of all decompressed materials, extracting and storing the neutron star materials.
Not only that, the ministers of Kingdom of Dawn Engineering Department, Salarian Chief Engineer, Arroyo-Barlow also led their senior Engineering Corps into Vex System. Their mission was also very clear - to examine the neutron star materials and determine the final formula.
Hari Seldon's currency reform is actually to re-establish a standard system, using neutron star material as an exchange entity to issue standard currency that is directly bound to the value of neutron star material.
However, it is still difficult for this standard currency to impact the previous monetary system. Because in the system inherited from the Galactic Republic period, rare metals exist as standard standards. And for a long time, this kind of rare metal mined from stars has indeed been worth the price in terms of the difficulty and labor hours of mining.
However, Hari Seldon took a different approach. Before proposing his standard monetary policy, he had long-term communication and exchanges with Commander of the Navy Matt-Marshal Horner, and Chief Engineer Arroyo-Barlow.
Finally, Hari Seldon proposed this exchange entity plan-battleship armor!
That's right! It's battleship armor!
Arroyo-Barlow has found a relatively extensive formula among the neutron star materials, and this formula will be the core material of the main armor belt of Kingdom of Dawn's new battleship.
In fact, using this new material as the main armor belt is just a very routine upgrade for the Kingdom of Dawn Navy battleship. Such small upgrades are actually being carried out at any time. For example, the Behemoth-class battlecruiser produced last year and the one produced this year may have many adjustments in many performance parameters.
Adjustments such as increasing the power of the reactor and reducing energy transmission losses, adding hollow plastic plates to the captain's console, adding floral scents to the toilets, and adding single projectors to the soldiers' dormitories are all being made at any time.
Including the armor formula used by the battleship, from the previous Tritanium to the current armor using neutron star material, this is already the ninth generation armor of the Kingdom of Dawn battleship.
When the materials department under Arroyo-Barlow developed this new type of armor, it was mainly because Matter Unloader was now put into use, which gave them many more rare elements that they could use for experiments. Moreover, tests have shown that the hardness, ductility and heat resistance of armor made of this neutron star material have reached a new level, and the overall performance is about 4% to 10% higher than the Durasteel (Durasteel) commonly used by the Galactic Empire now.
This is also an important area where Kingdom of Dawn's material technology is catching up compared to the Galactic Empire.
However, this was just an upgrade to improve the performance of the armor. Arroyo-Barlow had no idea that the first people to come to the door were not the military's review and recruitment department, but the Central Bank and InterGalactic Banking Clan (M)!
Hari Seldon's idea is to use armor materials made of neutron star material as the exchange entity for the new monetary policy, and this neutron star material also has its official name – Neutron Steel.
In other words, it is actually the military of Kingdom of Dawn that guarantees this exchange entity. In other words, Kingdom of Dawn will issue a currency with the same value as Neutron Steel. This currency will not really give you Neutron Steel, but you can buy it if you take this currency to the corresponding exchange point. Go to the Neutron Steel of the fixed unit, and then take these Neutron Steel to all the warship parts manufacturing factories in Kingdom of Dawn, and the other party will take all the Neutron Steel according to the order.
What's even more strict is that after you go through the whole process above, except for the necessary handling fee, the entire value is equal!
Of course, Kingdom of Dawn Central Bank will also issue some small amounts of physical currency that are actually minted with Neutron Steel to facilitate circulation, but the main means of circulation is credit currency based on electronic currency.
The low-denomination physical currency only contains a few tenths of a gram of neutron star material, while the high-denomination currency contains more neutron star material. If you put it into armor casting, you will be able to cast a large armor plate.
The military equivalent of Kingdom of Dawn comes to guarantee this currency. No matter how much currency your central bank prints, the military will cash in all the Neutron Steel generated by this currency exchange!
The most critical points of this monetary policy are three points - the first is the current large-scale warship manufacturing plan of Kingdom of Dawn, the second is sufficient production of Neutron Steel, and the third is to ensure the threshold of Neutron Steel mining means.
In other words, it is very convenient to produce Neutron Steel and Kingdom of Dawn with Matter Unloader, but without Matter Unloader, the synthesis difficulty is very high, at least it is definitely higher than its own value.
As for what if Galactic Empire acquires Neutron Steel on a large scale in this way? Kingdom of Dawn military said, it doesn't matter, we have already made a lot of money in this process. Moreover, even the armor protection of the Kingdom of Dawn warship is not mainly reflected in the armor material, but is used to further improve the armor's tolerance through Voltage Armor Coating.
Therefore, even if the armor materials are the same, the battleship protection capability of Kingdom of Dawn is still higher than that of the Galactic Empire.
In fact, before this, Galactic Empire's armor materials had always been more advanced than Kingdom of Dawn. The Durasteel they widely use has always been stronger than the Tritanium of Kingdom of Dawn, so during the Clone Wars period, Kingdom of Dawn obtained the formula and smelting technology of some lower-grade Durasteel through Count Dooku.
However, in terms of actual combat performance, Kingdom of Dawn, which has insufficient material technology, is the one with better warship protection capabilities.
According to Kingdom of Dawn Supreme Military Command's estimate, assuming that Kingdom of Dawn rules the entire galaxy, in terms of garrison and security requirements, it would be necessary to maintain at least a fleet of 100,000 capital ships. This makes the demand for Neutron Steel almost unlimited.
With this layer of assurance, Hari Seldon's new currency plan is at least applicable during the process of Kingdom of Dawn's continuous military expansion.