The T2 Iron Hammer-class Heavy Interstellar Industrial Ship also began its first operation at this moment.
Inside the interstellar industrial ship, there are complete industrial construction facilities, ranging from large starships, mechs, Interstellar Fighters, and Interstellar Drones, down to the battle suits and laser guns worn by interstellar soldiers; it can produce all of these. However, there are some limitations due to factors such as the grade of the construction target and its own production capacity.
It can perform engineering construction within the ship. If it is in a hovering state in space, it can even extend its operation platform outside the hull. That way, it can build some large starships, such as Aircraft Carrier Starships of the same class, and so on.
The T2 Iron Hammer belongs to a semi-intelligent mode, equipped with a certain number of engineering robots of different models; as long as the task code and corresponding technical standards are input, the interstellar industrial ship's system can arrange these engineering robots to start working. However, personnel are still needed to supervise, because 20% of the procedures require human operation of some robotic arms and other industrial equipment for construction, and engineering robots also need personnel to supervise and review the quality of completion, etc.
A T2 Iron Hammer requires a full two hundred staff to work on it, which is much more than combat starships of the same class.
At this moment, Zachary Chase began to lead two hundred half-orc female crew members with a certain industrial technical foundation, starting to carry out various operational tasks.
"You team, operate the maintenance robots to repair the Blizzard Zero. You here, organize the production of Interstellar Drones for the T2 Bee Queen-class Heavy Carrier Starship within the T2 Iron Hammer." Zachary, after all, possesses top-tier engineer talent, and swiftly and efficiently began to command everyone to complete their work tasks.
After assigning the tasks, Zachary came to the Bridge of the T2 Iron Hammer and began to input a starship blueprint technology into it.
T2 Black Rhino-class Interstellar Heavy Assault Frigate!
That's right. The third starship Zachary was about to build next was the T2 Black Rhino. Although Zachary still had the technical blueprint for the T2 Bronze Eden-class Starship, that starship might not be completed within a month, and its cost would be a full 3 million star coins. For the quarterly mission, it could only be postponed for now.
After inputting the blueprint technical information into the T2 Iron Hammer, the industrial ship system had already encrypted it, and in the future, even the captain of this starship would not be able to retrieve all the technical blueprints unless they obtained special authorization from Zachary. When assigning construction tasks, the industrial ship system would scramble the entire technical blueprint, distribute it to the crew below, and also encrypt a very small portion of the core technology, which required Zachary to be personally responsible. If this T2 Iron Hammer was threatened, the system would self-destruct all encrypted information.
"Phew… done." Zachary finished inputting the last technical blueprint and hid the operation interface.
He comfortably leaned back in the captain's chair, looking around the Bridge of the T2 Iron Hammer. The dark iron layout was not very luxurious, but rather simple and clear, giving a sense of industrial steel aesthetics. From here, images of various locations on the T2 Iron Hammer could be called up, and the status and progress of each work unit could be checked.
"Finally, I don't have to desperately hand-build starships like before." Zachary recalled the history of building the Blizzard Zero and the T2 Bee Queen, and tears truly welled up in his eyes.
After dealing with the matters at hand, Zachary unexpectedly received two fund transfers and a short message that the raw materials had been delivered outside the workshop. It had only been half a day, and it was already handled; this efficiency was quite impressive.
The two sums of money had already deducted the cost of raw materials Zachary ordered, and the rest was all transferred to Zachary's personal Imperial Bank account. There was still 1.2 million star coins remaining.
Once the T2 Black Rhino was built, he could then find a way to build that T2 Bronze Eden-class Starship, completely achieving food freedom for the fleet, and even expanding the commercial territory in grain trade.
Zachary called Lilith and walked toward the starship workshop's door, opening it. Because the T2 Iron Hammer's location was at the very back, out of sight from the door's position.
Zachary didn't shy away from anything and directly had the staff delivering raw materials outside stack the raw material supplies, one cargo box after another, on the inner side of the door.
"Sir, these are the raw materials from your order. Is there anything else you need?" The female manager, whom Zachary had only seen in video communications before, now stood in front of him. She had a professional smile on her face, wearing a professional hip-hugging short skirt uniform, with one button on her shirt intentionally unbuttoned.
However, Zachary did not pay attention to these, as he was currently more focused on the raw materials for building starships. He looked at the cargo containers full of raw materials. It was as if he could already see the completed T2 Black Rhinos!
The female manager felt a bit awkward. She considered her looks to be good and had thought about asking this important figure out later. At this moment, she saw Lilith, dressed in a white female military uniform, standing beside Zachary, and her eyes instantly lit up with astonishment!
So beautiful! There was a natural charm between her brows, giving people an urge to protect her, yet also to tease her. The female manager self-deprecatingly thought, with such a stunning beauty by his side, how could a small starport customer service like herself catch his eye?
"Lilith, you handle the liaison with this young lady." Zachary assigned this task to Lilith. After all, Lilith was now the secretary, and she would be responsible for such matters in the future. Although Lilith already had a lot of theoretical knowledge, true growth still required practical experience. From fleet combat to fleet internal affairs, and fleet logistics, and so on.
Lilith stepped forward and actively began to negotiate with the female manager.
Zachary, meanwhile, focused entirely on the raw materials inside those cargo containers, a faint smile on his face, lost in thought.
At the adjacent starship berth…
"Old Chen, why are you in such a bad mood?" A swaggering man walked out of the starship berth with a middle-aged man.
The one called Old Chen was a fleet commander of an Interstellar Transport Ship fleet, who had just returned from a mission for rest and recuperation.
"You have no idea. This time I ran into a huge idiot who actually threatened me with his ship's cannons? And he actually dared to fire—that shell was this close to my Bridge!" Old Chen complained.
"Holy crap, someone actually dares to do that? Dare to threaten my Brother Chen! Tell me who did it. As long as they are in the Arctic Fox Star System, my Black Fox Society brothers will find a way to deal with them!" The man boasted.
Old Chen shook his head: "How would I know? I just heard it was some guy called the Black Dragon Fleet. There wasn't even a video communication—I only saw their starship."
As the two were walking and chatting, they passed by the entrance of a starship workshop. Seeing a large number of cargo boxes, Old Chen, being in the interstellar transport business, subconsciously looked over.
What he saw was shocking; through the enormous workshop door, he clearly saw the starship he hated to the bone docked in that starship berth! Although that starship looked somewhat damaged now, with its bow dented, he would recognize that damned starship even if it turned to dust.
Instantly, he was consumed by rage.
Old Chen's face darkened, and he walked directly toward that starship workshop.