At this moment, in the orbital zone surrounding Luoshen Star, besides the Space Laboratory that had originally been constructed, another, even larger space base had appeared.
The Space Laboratory was elongated. Though it was long enough, it lacked sufficient thickness and width.
This space base, however, was not as long as it was, but it was spherical, with a diameter of roughly 600 meters.
Numerous supports extended from its surface, like needles stuck into a giant ball.
They were spaceship berths.
Whenever spaceships needed supplies, they could approach and secure themselves to these supports. Pipelines would then extend out to replenish them with all kinds of materials.
Besides material replenishment supports, there were also numerous personnel passages, spaceship maintenance bays, and more.
This giant sphere, with a diameter of 1,200 meters, had a total internal space of approximately 0.9 cubic kilometers.
At its very core stood numerous enormous tanks, stored under strict isolation protocols.
One batch of tanks held liquid methane, ethane, hydrogen, and the like, with total reserves reaching 1.5 million cubic meters and a total mass of roughly 800,000 tons.
Another batch of tanks held pure oxygen, with total reserves reaching 1 million cubic meters and a total mass of roughly 1.1 million tons.
Beyond these two most important material reserves were storage areas for countless spaceship components, repair tools, shells, bullets, missiles, generators, various equipment, and densely packed, extremely complex internal passageways.
At the same time, it possessed Li Qingsong's most ferocious firepower and strongest defenses to date.
Its entire outer shell was made of Special Bulletproof Steel, with an average thickness of 100 millimeters. Behind it were buffer layers, retardant layers, fiber layers, and more, bringing the total thickness to a full 300 millimeters.
Unless it was bombarded with shells, even sustained machine-gun fire could not