2702. Carl's life (3)
I have to say that Annaj Planet's public transportation system is very developed.
Carl-Kestis was also extremely amazed by this, because he had basically only seen the public transportation system on a super-complex Hua Chao planet like Coruscant.
On most planets in the Galactic Empire, residents can only rely on their own means of transportation to travel. The means of transportation you have determines how far you can go. If you work for some large companies, these companies will set up some special lines to pick up and drop off employees to work. However, the cost of taking such special lines will be deducted from your salary.
In addition, if you want to travel, you can only use a taxi company or hire some illegal cars, which will cost more money and even face the risk of being robbed.
But Kingdom of Dawn has established this kind of cheap transportation system for almost all the planets in its territory. Take the capital of Annaj Planet where Carl-Kestis is located, there are more than 80 public transportation lines, more than 200 floating buses and 10 passenger spaceships. These means of transportation are available at very cheap prices.
Moreover, a company has been set up to operate these public transportation systems. The company will receive some subsidies from the finance every year, so that the price of public transportation will not be increased at will by the company.
There are many such industries and departments. Carl-Kestis clearly noticed that the operation mode of Kingdom of Dawn is fundamentally different from the Galactic Empire and Galactic Republic. He actually couldn't tell what the differences were, but Carl-Kestis could understand that Kingdom of Dawn developed as a whole.
In other words, Kingdom of Dawn rulers and officials at all levels only see the whole. As small as a street, as large as a city, a planet, or a star district, the managers of these areas always consider what their jurisdiction should be like, but they never consider the thoughts of every citizen under their jurisdiction.
This kind of social operation method that ignores individual demands and only focuses on collective interests sometimes produces very wonderful chemical reactions.
For example, Kingdom of Dawn, who ignores personal interests, has established a complete public service system, while Galactic Republic, who pays great attention to personal freedom, can only choose an expensive lifestyle.
However, there are also disadvantages. In Kingdom of Dawn, the types of daily necessities that can be purchased are only one-tenth of those in the Galactic Empire or Galactic Republic. Carl-Kestis has lived here for so long, and of course he knows that this is because Kingdom of Dawn has been aiming for war since the founding of the country.
So even now, Kingdom of Dawn is still a wartime economy.
Therefore, you will see a very strange scene here - backward and simple personal life, paired with advanced and sophisticated factories and enterprises.
In Kingdom of Dawn, the purpose of those insurrectionists and rioters who rose up to resist was different from that in the Galactic Empire. They didn't resist because they couldn't survive. They resisted because they felt that the Kingdom of Dawn government should have done more for them, but Kingdom of Dawn used all these resources for war.
At first glance, this may sound like a hooliganism, but in fact, if you compare it with the former Galactic Republic, you will find that Kingdom of Dawn indeed rarely produces any products for individual residents. For example, Kingdom of Dawn has very few holographic game console factories. Most of these entertainment equipment are smuggled from the Galactic Empire.
With this reduction in production capacity and expenditure, all Kingdom of Dawn will be used for military preparations.
In other words, if you are rich, you can live very well and comfortably in the Galactic Empire, but for the same rich person, your living standard in Kingdom of Dawn will drop a lot. And this standard applies to every family with some spare money.
Moreover, it is much more difficult to make money in Kingdom of Dawn than in the Galactic Empire. Kingdom of Dawn's work pressure is very high, and it doesn't give you many opportunities to fish. Most of the time, efficiency comes first, which makes some of their companies look very cold at times.
Galactic Empire Although the companies over there are greedy and corrupt, at least there are many loopholes that can be exploited.
Carl-Kestis believes that this is an important reason why Kingdom of Dawn can continuously defeat Galactic Empire on the battlefield. But the price is that the social conflicts faced by Kingdom of Dawn will also be very acute.
As the saying goes, if the water is clear, there will be no fish. Sometimes, appropriate loopholes and gray areas can be a benign regulator of society. Therefore, Carl-Kestis feels that Kingdom of Dawn's entire country's economy, people's livelihood and military system are like a very thin steel wire. If you are not careful, it will break directly, and the chain reaction will be enough to plunge the country into a sea of fire.
Therefore, people in the Galactic Empire will often envy Kingdom of Dawn, where they can at least have a bite to eat; and people in Kingdom of Dawn will sometimes envy Galactic Empire, where they can at least live for themselves.
Carl-Kestis looked out the window, and the voices of other passengers kept coming to his ears. They were either complaining about work or various household chores. Whenever he hears such complaints, he just smiles, because at least they have experience to complain.
If it were in the area ruled by the Galactic Empire, many people would not even have the right to complain. Only when you experience that kind of despair can you deeply realize that sometimes complaining is also a kind of happiness.
At least that's how the people of Kingdom of Dawn live a stable life amid constant complaints.
The Sunny Recycling Company where Carl-Kestis works is located outside the capital city of Annaj Planet, near a civilian free spaceport. This type of civilian free spaceport is generally small in scale, but there are no restrictions on the spacecraft that can dock, as long as the rent is paid.
Therefore, many companies that use spacecraft often simply set up their company headquarters near the space port so that the spacecraft can be used nearby. Although relatively speaking, safety is not that guaranteed, but there is nothing we can do about it. Except for Mega-corporations like Tyran Heavy Industries, few companies have enough strength to use the spaceport in the city.
Coupled with the various industries that are bound to appear around the free port, such as spacecraft maintenance, parts sales, and second-hand spacecraft sales, this makes the surrounding area even more prosperous.
More people flow will give rise to more industries, such as catering, accommodation, entertainment and so on.
As a result, this civilian free spaceport will soon grow into a small town.
After Carl-Kestis took the public bus Speeder, it began to increase in height and speed after leaving the capital city. It soon reached more than 400 kilometers per hour. It took about 10 minutes to reach the town called Freeport Seven.
Looking out the window, the huge tower thousands of meters high stands majestically in the center of the space port. This tower has a total of 500 floors. Each floor has four to twenty parking cantilevers of different sizes, which can accommodate a large number of spacecrafts.
On the tower, there is a very huge Tyran Heavy Industries sign, indicating that the owner of this tower is Tyran Heavy Industries. All spacecraft that need to be repaired can enter the tower and be repaired by Tyran Heavy Industries professional technicians, but the repair cost is relatively high.
Not only that, the tower operated by Tyran Heavy Industries also provides hangar rental business. Spacecrafts that need to be parked for a long time can be transferred to the hangar, which can provide shelter from wind and rain, provide safety protection, and there are maintenance robots for 24-hour monitoring and maintenance.
Of course, this requires money.
There are 10 floors of space on the tower that belong to the government. In addition to docking government-owned spacecraft, these ten floors are also responsible for the command, security, and monitoring of spacecraft around the entire spaceport. Among them, at least one squadron of twelve Wraith fighters and half a squadron of six Banshee Fighters were parked, as well as 30 Vulture droid fighters.
As long as the spaceport is threatened, these fighter jets will be dispatched as soon as possible to eliminate all invading enemies.
Around the tower, there is a huge square with a radius of several kilometers. The square is divided into eight areas and is filled with various spaceships. This is the public parking area. It only costs a small amount of money to park the spaceships here, but basically no one cares what happens to these spaceships.
Around the square, there is a circle of large and small buildings, including shops and warehouses. These are all small private workshops and companies.
There are many black shops for spaceship repair and modification. Your spaceship can be maintained and repaired here at one-fifth of the price at the tower, but the quality depends on luck.
If you have a good relationship with the boss, they might occasionally tell you quietly where they got some military parts. Such little surprises will never appear in the maintenance station run by Tyran Heavy Industries over at the tower.
Public Speeder was parked on the 200th floor of the Freeport Seven tower. Carl-Kestis walked off the spacecraft with the flow of people. What came to them were several huge holographic projections, displaying various brand-new products of Tyran Heavy Industries.
It includes a 20-meter-long shuttle equipped with three twin-mounted light Turbolaser cannons. A muscular man wearing a tight-fitting vest, who looked very secure at first glance, talked endlessly about the safety of this shuttle called "TL-44A, Violet".
For example, the powerful Deflector Shield, the Turbolaser cannon equipped to meet the upper limit of civilian standards, rapid mobility and so on. Carl-Kestis feels that this spaceship has almost reached the level of the military, that is, a super military-industrial complex like Tyran Heavy Industries dares to build and sell civilian spacecraft to such standards.
Of course, there is no doubt that this violet shuttle is far inferior to similar products in terms of cargo space and comfort. Naturally, this burly man never mentioned this aspect.
I can only say that he is indeed Tyran Heavy Industries. The person he found is also very consistent with the temperament of their company - if you ask, he will be iron-blooded, if you ask, he will be a tough guy, and if you ask, he will sell lightweight warships as civilian ships. What is security? Destroy all approaching enemies and you will naturally be safe.
Carl heard someone next to him snort, and muttered in a low voice, "This piece of shit actually costs 2 million Number Four currency! Are you trying to steal money? I can spend 800,000 to refit a ship with a medium-sized Turbolaser cannon from Lao Wang."
Then your spaceship will be impounded. Carl-Kestis added silently in his heart.
After walking some distance, the advertisement in front was playing for mechanical prosthetics. This is Tyran Heavy Industries's attempt to enter other industries. There is no doubt that this kind of mechanical prosthetic limb is not so much about adding weapons to the prosthetic limb, but it is better to put a cannon directly on your hand as a prosthetic limb...
Then the guy on the screen who has almost modified himself into a mechanical warrior is vigorously claiming that if you place an order now, you will get a fighting blade that can be installed on the muzzle for free...
Pedestrians around would silently walk around and stay away from this holographic advertisement.
Carl-Kestis doesn't matter. He pays attention to the content of every advertisement when he passes by it. This is a kind of adjustment for his ordinary life. Because the sense of technological separation in Kingdom of Dawn is very serious, it will always make people feel that you live in a world hundreds of years ago, but in a galaxy thousands of years later.
Taking the elevator down to the bottom of the tower, Carl-Kestis randomly found a hoverbike, chatted with the driver for two minutes, negotiated the fare from 15 Number Four currency to 12 Number Four currency, and then sat astride the back seat of the hoverbike. The driver turned the switch and the hoverbike started instantly, heading towards the outskirts of the town at an extremely fast speed.
What's interesting is that this is actually a Zephyr-G suspension motorcycle, which was the equipment often used by the Galactic Republic Army before. Along the way, the chatty driver was showing off that his brother bought the hoverbike at a low price from Outer Rim Territories, a retired Clone Trooper who was abandoned after he retired. This is a military product, and my motorcycle is the fastest in the entire port area.
He also secretly said that he even bought the DS-1A Blaster rifle from the clone, and that the soldier didn't know anything, so he bought it at a price far lower than the market price after being fooled by him.
Carl-Kestis looked at the faded and blurred Galactic Republic logo on the hoverbike and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Once upon a time, he stood under this solemn flag and fought to maintain the unity of the galaxy...
And Clone Trooper, who was abandoned and impoverished and had to sell his military equipment, is still alive. These poor soldiers suffer from rapid aging on the one hand, and on the other hand, they find it difficult to survive because they lack any life skills except killing.
By now, those soldiers who have participated in Clone Wars are probably out of ten...
Arriving at his company, Carl-Kestis said goodbye to the chattering motorcycle driver. He looked up at the small building with only three floors and smiled.
But then, his smile solidified.
Because, he felt a vague the Force!
Dark Side Force!