Super Island Tycoon

Therefore, Jiang Cheng is not at all worried about the lack of technical personnel under his command right now. Countless technicians want to join Jiang Cheng’s program and advance with him towards the vast cosmos.

It’s quite odd when you think about it: initially, the crew from the Huaxia Aerospace Bureau was merely seconded here.

But time has passed for so long, and the Aerospace Bureau hasn’t approached Jiang Cheng to reclaim those technicians from back then.

The tech team that came from the Aerospace Bureau is living quite comfortably now and haven’t mentioned anything about returning.

Naturally, Jiang Cheng’s side also won’t actively bring up this matter, as he is reluctant to see them return, especially since Xiao Peng is his indispensable assistant, and Jiang Cheng absolutely won’t let him go.

Thus, this issue has been stalled, and everyone has tacitly chosen not to mention it.

It seems that the Huaxia leadership, seeing Jiang Cheng’s excellent achievements in the aerospace field, has implicitly allowed these people to follow Jiang Cheng from now on.

After entering the aerospace technology company, Jiang Cheng greeted the two young receptionists and walked straight towards the laboratory.

Within the aerospace technology company, there are many laboratories, each engaging in different technology research and development work.

This time, Jiang Cheng is heading to the main laboratory of the company, which is the largest among all the laboratories.

It’s also the laboratory with the most equipment and technicians.

Upon entering this main laboratory, Jiang Cheng immediately saw countless technicians busy with their tasks.

Some were operating equipment at hand, conducting experimental projects.

Some were writing and drawing in front of computers, seemingly drafting design blueprints for something.

More people were gathered around a giant workbench, apparently discussing something.

Each of them was fulfilling their respective roles, contributing their efforts to the technical team.

Jiang Cheng walked directly to the workbench, standing beside the technicians, observing the contents of their discussion.

This gigantic workbench was placed centrally in the laboratory, occupying a considerable area within it.

A group of technicians from Zhou Country stood around the workbench, engaging in an intense discussion about technical issues.

A young technician was expressing his opinions, speaking loudly, seemingly to emphasize his points.

I think this Mars mining robot should not adopt this transmission design. Though this design has a very high transmission efficiency, it’s not stable enough.

If a mining robot breaks down on Mars, there’s simply no maintenance condition on Mars, so we should use a more conservative transmission design, sacrificing some power to ensure the equipment’s overall stability.

Standing beside him, a middle-aged technician seemed to disagree with his viewpoint. When the young man finished speaking, he immediately countered.

You’re right that having a stronger power means sacrificing some stability, and this indeed makes the mining robot more susceptible to malfunctions.

But have you considered that if the mining robots lack enough power, the mining efficiency will greatly decline? To complete the scheduled tasks, we would have to increase the number of mining robots.

Thus, we’d have to send more mining robots to Mars. You know how difficult it is to send items to Mars. If the efficiency is too low, sending materials directly to Mars might even be more economical.

The middle-aged man raised the issue of operational efficiency, showing that his viewpoint significantly differed from the young technician’s.

He believes that sacrificing stability is acceptable for improved efficiency, emphasizing that work efficiency should be the top priority.

Originally, the technicians were discussing the technical matters concerning the mining robots.

If this Mars landing plan succeeds, the next step is for Jiang Cheng to establish a simple base on Mars for future astronauts to use.

The materials required to establish a base are numerous, and if everything has to be sent from Earth to Mars, the needed rockets would be too many.

Thus, Jiang Cheng considers sourcing materials locally on Mars, extracting simple metal substances directly from Mars.

But mining and smelting metals on Mars is no easy task.

Jiang Cheng has solved the smelting issue; he’s designed an integrated smelting device.

This device utilizes nuclear fusion as its energy source, capable of smelting all minerals into metal products.

It can even perform simple processing on these metal products, forging them into desired shapes.

Meaning, with this integrated smelting device, just place the minerals inside and you can get the desired metal parts.

You can tell this integrated smelting device is incredibly sci-fi, not something easily made on Earth.

Yet Jiang Cheng completed this somewhat sci-fi invention because Jiang Cheng is unlike any ordinary human.

This device took Jiang Cheng a very long time to complete—it can be considered advanced technology surpassing its era.

Now, with this device, simple metal parts can be manufactured on Mars.

However, having the smelting and forging integrated device doesn’t mean all problems are solved.

They still need to mine on Mars to meet the mineral demands of this device.

Even if Jiang Cheng only targets the shallow mineral veins, it remains an extremely challenging task.

Mining via manpower is simply impossible; astronauts aren’t sent to Mars for manual digging work.

Therefore, Jiang Cheng requires a fully automatic mining robot that can mine on Mars unaided and transport these minerals back to the Mars Base.

Jiang Cheng initially assigned this task to his technical team, and after some time of research, they’re starting to have some preliminary outcomes.

But these mining robots are not yet perfected, requiring further refinement.

The workbench utilizes holographic projection technology, displaying many mining robot models.

These models are all designed by them, yet their effectiveness is not satisfactorily ideal.

These so-called robots don’t resemble humans at all; they can barely count as humanoid robots.

The models of these mining robots vary in appearance, looking peculiar and none resembling humans.

Robots are merely a nomenclature here. Mining robots are for mining purposes, and there’s no need to design them to resemble humans.

Some unique shapes can enhance the mining robot’s efficiency, offering more advancement compared to humanoid robots.

They are discussing the improvement of the mining robots, and it appears they are facing challenges.