Chapter 1,273 Handover Ceremony

"The Envoy-class starship has a net weight of one million tons. The main engine is a high-power nuclear fusion engine. The secondary engine uses ion propulsion technology. The maximum cruising speed can theoretically reach one thousandth of the speed of light. At a relative distance of 100 million kilometers Now, it will only take a week to start the cruise mode and head to Mars." Standing in front of the window of the dock control tower, looking at the majestic interstellar ship outside the window, a look of pride flashed across Jiang Chen's brows.

The relative distance between Mars and the Earth is still on the scale of tens of millions of kilometers, but starting in the second half of this year, this distance will exceed 100 million kilometers.

Putting aside Hawking's light sailing ship, which is still in the theoretical stage at one-fifth the speed of light, this Envoy-class starship is probably the largest and fastest large-scale manned spacecraft in human history.

It is already a supreme honor to witness this moment with my own eyes.

Not to mention standing in the position of chief designer of space resource development and personally promoting this plan from drawings to reality.

"This is too big..." Standing next to Jiang Chen, looking at the Envoy-class starship outside the window, after a while, Lu Wei sighed softly and said, "I'm afraid the only way to do this is to put the Ford-class aircraft carrier and its The aircraft carrier battle group must be connected end to end to be comparable to its length."

As a rear admiral of the Chinese Navy and the former captain of the destroyer Nanning, he has seen many ships in his life, and even went to study and inspect the Liaoning. He vaguely remembered that the last time he expressed such emotion was when he participated in the U.S. Pacific joint military exercises as an observer and stood on the deck of the Eisenhower nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

It was also at that time that after returning to China, he strengthened his determination to persuade his superiors to develop nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and strengthen the Chinese navy.

Today, many years later, he expressed similar sentiments again.

But while feeling emotional, he no longer knew how to catch up. Although with the support of Star Ring Trade, the aerospace technology of various countries has made rapid progress, at least in the field of space mining, there is no need for future mining technicians to be stationed, and it can be completed independently.

However, when faced with the speed of progress in Star Ring trade, this word "leapfrog" has to be put in quotation marks. Because compared to them, their progress is like a snail's pace.

When he thought of this, he cursed those dog officials in Wanghai City a hundred times in his heart.

How stupid do you have to be to drive such a talent away?

But these are all things for later.

"Is it big?" Jiang Chen laughed, looking at the starship in the distance and narrowing his eyes, "It's indeed a bit big.

But in our space defense plan, this is not the biggest. "

"How big can you build it?" Antony Leibniz, the former director of the European Space Agency, a representative from Germany looked at Jiang Chen with wide eyes and asked in disbelief, "You mean, this is not the biggest?"

"That's right," Jiang Chen said with an affirmative tone, "The envoy class is only a million tons, and there will be constitution class, lord class, prince class... Our ultimate goal is a billion ton interstellar giant ship that can carry One hundred thousand crew members, and with sufficient energy to achieve 100% material circulation within the starship."

Looking at the dull expressions on the faces of the representatives of the member states and members of the Earth Defense Alliance Committee, Jiang Chen smiled and said in a joking tone.

"Of course, we still have to eat one bite at a time. As far as the current situation is concerned, one million tons is enough for us. When the final goal is achieved, I'm afraid we will all turn into ashes..."

Everyone smiled kindly.

After a pause, Jiang Chen then spoke.

"This Envoy-class starship means the same to us as the Liaoning. It is mainly used for training, accumulating experience, and laying the foundation for building a large-scale fleet in the future. The only attack weapon of this starship can only penetrate the entire hull. mass launcher, but it is mainly used to eject the Electric Ray X-1."

There are 2,000 combat personnel, and all officers and soldiers are in place.

These people have received half a year of adaptive training at the lunar military base and already understand the roles they play on the ship. One thousand of them are reserve officers and crew members of the Star Ring Trade, and the remaining one thousand are "volunteers" from each member country of the Earth Defense Alliance.

In order to allocate these one thousand places, representatives from various countries had a lot of quarrels at the negotiation table. After all, this is the first battleship of the Earth Fleet. Even an ordinary crew member, as long as he is not too stupid, can become an instructor or first mate level officer based on his qualifications after a few years.

These future officers will represent the future status and voice of each member country in the Earth Fleet and even the Earth Defense Alliance.

One can imagine how important this first batch of crew members is.

Because there are many secrets involved, the delivery ceremony of the Envoy-class starship is very simple, much simpler than the completion ceremony and groundbreaking ceremony of the original shipyard. Yang Guanglei, CEO of Futureman Heavy Industries, represented the shipyard and handed Jiang Chen a portfolio containing starship information, various certificates and a contract.

Then representatives of each member country signed the contract in turn, and military uniforms and officer and crew certificates were distributed to the soldiers waiting to board the ship. The national anthems of each member state were played in sequence, and the national flags belonging to each member state were first put into the boarding bay and sent to the envoy-class starship docked outside the Halo City.

Immediately afterwards, the officers waiting to board the ship lined up at the entrance of the boarding channel and headed to the starship through the electromagnetic orbit one by one.

"It's a pity that I was born in the Army, otherwise I really want to follow these people and have a try." Wu Changfeng said with emotion as he looked at the officers who stepped onto the boarding cabin one by one.

"Even if you want to, I won't send the members of the Earth Defense Alliance to the battleship." Jiang Chen smiled and said in a relaxed tone, "You play the role of commander. Although you are not on the front line, your every One decision can determine the life or death of everyone on the battleship."

Wu Changfeng shrugged and joked.

"If we can survive until the day of the decisive battle."

"I will definitely do it." Jiang Chen smiled meaningfully and said softly.

At this moment, a call came to Jiang Chen's watch.

It was Kerwin calling.

After saying hello to the people next to him, Jiang Chen walked aside, took out his Bluetooth headphones and put them into his ears, turned on the holographic screen, pressed the connect button, and asked.

"What's up?"

Kerwin did not participate in today's warship handover ceremony. The excavation work of the 071 mineral point has reached the most critical point. As one of the leaders of the project, he must sit in command at the aerospace command center.

When Jiang Chen received a call from him at this time, he could already smell something bad.

Sure enough, the first words Kerwin spoke made his premonition come true.

"There is a special situation in Project 071." After swallowing, and without waiting for Jiang Chen to ask in detail, Kerwin continued speaking quickly, "When our Marines advanced to a depth of ten kilometers underground, they encountered an unknown underground situation. Biological attack...not devil bug!"