This time, Hong Tao towed back the shells of three meteorite-class destroyers for its compatibility. As a warship, the meteorite-class is multi-purpose. After retiring, it should be a good choice for a civilian ship.

What Hong Tao most likes is its weapon installation base, a total of six, and the number is almost as high as that of professional mining barges. With these ready-made bases, modified laser mining or gas cloud collectors can be installed, making the collection capacity far exceed that of ordinary medium-sized mining ships, and is comparable to large professional mining ships such as mining barges.

As for the disadvantage of moderate defense ability, moderate speed, moderate signal radius is not a problem at this time. As for mining ships, it is useless to have such high defense. If you have a slower speed, you will be slower. As soon as you go out, it will take several days or even months. Who cares about how many hours and hours are slower. It doesn’t matter if the signal radius is too large. Anyway, you are born without the ability to fight back, so it is easy to be locked by the enemy. There is no difference.

But it is not without its shortcomings. The most deadly thing is the cargo hold. As a warship, its cargo hold is already large, but as a mining ship, these hundreds of cubic meters are really not enough. Especially after being equipped with six mining machines, it is a bit like a person with six hands, grabbing things quickly, but his clothes pocket is too small, and he can't take too much away in the end.

Hong Tao feels that this defect can be overcome. As long as you don’t go out to mining alone, such mining ships will take a lot of advantage in the mining team. He Xizhou didn’t say that the mining team usually has cargo ships for everyone to act as warehouses. The ultimate benefit does not lie in who installs more into the cargo hold of his spaceship, but in whom it picks more.

To put it simply, this modified mining ship named Squirrel-level by Hong Tao is born to serve the mining team. If you want to fight alone, please see the next hamster-level model!

Poor these miners in the New World of Eden, they didn't even know what the mouse was, so they fell into the mouse's nest. The hamster-class origin is not as expensive as the squirrel-class. Its shell is a small civilian cargo spacecraft, the sprig dragon-class.

This is an animal that lives in the federal territory. The New Eden likes to call many animals dragons, but it has nothing to do with dragons in the Earth era. It is a bit like a large lizard.

For example, the thorn dragon looks a bit like a wild boar, but it has no hair on its body and is full of scales and has three spurs on its back. Although it looks fierce, it is a vegetarian, feeds on algae plants, and its blood contains toxins that are harmful to the human body and cannot be eaten.

The Tsar Dragon-class cargo spacecraft was born for not long, only more than 60 years. It was originally designed to transport space station supplies. Its size is not as large as industrial ships and cargo ships, and its load capacity is naturally not the same level. It is better to be small and flexible. It does not do long-distance bulk cargo transportation and only run around within a few galaxies.

The designers planned this way, but the reality is not the same thing at all, and consumers do not buy it. They think that this kind of spacecraft is the most useless, its flexibility is not as flexible as that of frigates, and its load capacity is incomparable to industrial ships, which is completely useless.

Strangely, they all became useless, but this kind of spacecraft survived tenaciously and was built for more than 40 years before it was stopped. The reason is particularly interesting. The survival of the thorn dragon-level is inseparable from smugglers and pirates.

In the Gaoan Galaxy, the New Edens prefer to use large cargo ships and industrial ships to transport cargo, but this kind of spacecraft is too large and bulky, with a jump start time of more than 20 seconds and is not armed. Anyone who leaves the galaxy that is protected from the unity is a piece of flying meat, which can be done if anyone wants to take a bite.

The stinger level is much stronger in this regard. Although it cannot carry bulk cargo, smugglers and pirates will not sell ore. The things they transport are often small in size, light in weight, and high in value, such as neurotrophiers.

It is small in size, has relatively fast jump start speed, can also use a secret mobile device, and can carry 3,000 cubic meters of cargo, which is most suitable as a smuggling spacecraft.

When Hong Tao saw this sprig dragon-class in the rag pile, he gave it a new identity, mining barge!

If it can strengthen its energy core output power, expand the bandwidth of the spacecraft's main brain, and install two external equipment bases, it will be a mining ship with four laser mining machines. Then, the cargo hold that was not originally small will be converted into an ore holder with primary ore processing capacity, it will be a mining barge.

Given that there are not many internal equipment, two or three ordinary drivers can handle it completely, whether they are traveling far and alone or joining the mining team, it is a good choice.

Of course, its modification cost will be higher than that of the squirrel level. In addition to the larger hull, the energy core and the main brain of the spacecraft have to undergo major surgery, and they also have to plug in the equipment base. Some equipment cannot be picked up by picking up rags and have to be purchased on the market.

With the design plan in hand, Hong Tao did not rush to start construction, but called Old John and the others to hold a breather meeting, so that these mining experts could choose by themselves. If they didn't like both plans, they would redesign them. Anyway, Hong Tao didn't want to follow the footsteps of the dragon-level designer. No one bought it for a long time, so he couldn't force others to buy it.

I like squirrel level, after all, it’s the foundation of a warship, and it’s okay to use the structural strength for another fifty years. Even if I encounter scattered pirates, I can resist a few more times, and it’s still okay to escape. Captain Li, can you not choose a hamster and build a squirrel for me?

The result of the ventilation meeting was good. Every miner drooled at two designs. The four young people chose the hamster level. They did not intend to follow the mining team forever, and they hoped to work alone if they had the opportunity. Whether or not they made money was secondary. For young people, ideals were very important.

Old John and two other miners chose the squirrel level. They had long lost the urge to make a fortune and pursue stability in their work and life. Although they would be skinned by the mine heads when joining the mine team, having the mine team means having relative security guarantees, each with its pros and cons.

The only one who had an opinion was He Xizhou. He chose the most carefully. As long as he could remember the details, he had to ask clearly before he could make up his mind. As a result, he took action too late, and only three squirrels were picked out, leaving only one hamster. He had to ask if he didn't want it. But he didn't give up and planned to walk around the back door.

Otherwise, I would like to give you the squirrel of John! I have to thank him for getting these parts. This is also the request of Webmaster Alfonso. Anyone who has any opinions can ask the webmaster to mention it. Hong Tao doesn’t like this guy who doesn’t work and eats whatever he wants and is particularly gossipy, but he can’t be left alone at the moment because he is a porcelain clan.

The porcelain clan is famously unique, and their appearance determines that they help their fellow villagers wherever they go. Their new identity is the porcelain clan. If He Xizhou offends him, it may attract hostility from other porcelain clans in the space station. You cannot lose the big picture because of the small.

But it is impossible to change the ship. There are only six ships pulled back this time, three meteorite-class warships, two sprigs and dragon-class warships, and one unknown. I do not have the ability to innovate independently, and I cannot save a new spaceship out of thin air. I can only use it in quantity.

If you ask why you didn’t pull a few more warships back, it’s not that Hong Tao didn’t want to, but that you really couldn’t pick them out. The reason why warships were scrapped is that most of them were not luxury to the Federal Navy, but were war damage.

Since it is a war loss, the hull will be injured. The injuries of these three ships are relatively mild, the main structure is fine, and the others are miserable, with various penetrations and breakages, which are not much better than the Future. It is impossible to draw a picture of the cat and tiger.

What does unknown mean? It means there is no specific level division, because it is a pirate ship. Yes, it is the spaceship that looks like a federal warship, but essentially uses a lot of imperial technology.

Its appearance is quite miserable, and two holes were made in the middle of the hull. However, when Hong Tao was scanning the blueprint, he found that the spacecraft was actually quite lucky. After so many space missiles, there was no structural damage. As long as the damaged shell was filled, it would be no different from the complete one.

Is it just lucky? Hong Tao can think so, but the data will not lie. The scan results clearly show that this pirate ship has unique characteristics in design. It has achieved the ultimate structural strength without significantly increasing its mass, which is worth learning from.
Chapter completed!