Galaxy Domination Guide

The spaceport was not the only facility that Bai Zhongqi wanted to construct. In the game, Iridium Star would build a large number of military and civilian facilities in planetary orbit, which, in fact, were the true extents of Bai Zhongqi's control as a game player. He could not interfere with the construction on the planet itself within the game.

It was only after the game merged with reality that he gained the ability to control on a much larger and more macroscopic scale.

Due to the existence of Ruyi City, Bai Zhongqi no longer needed to construct some facilities that would ordinarily be built in planetary orbit, especially civilian ones. For example, the Empire Research Center in the game was essential for progressing through the technology tree.

The more research centers there were, the faster the research and development progressed, and more studies could be conducted simultaneously. However, now, even if Bai Zhongqi constructed a bunch of research centers, they wouldn't be very useful since, within the entire Iridium Star United Empire, only Dean Mo Laitong was capable of leading scientific work.

Although the rest were not lacking in skills, they simply did not qualify.

The orbital structures Bai Zhongqi needed were mainly for service and military use. One very important structure was the orbital observatory. For any interstellar civilization, the observation of the universe was critically important.

This is similar to the strategic-level radars built by Earth's nations; if any hostile or unknown forces within the detectable range acted rashly, they could be immediately detected and preparations made.

Furthermore, in the universe, there were other threats, such as asteroid impacts or stellar eruptions—cosmic astronomical disasters that, at times, could threaten the safety of an entire stellar system. Therefore, an orbital observatory was a basic facility necessary for every planet.

In terms of communication, Iridium Star also planned to construct satellites for quantum communication and other modes of communication, not just in Earth's orbit. These communication satellites would serve not only the communication needs during interstellar travel but would also eventually facilitate communication on Earth.

The massive level of data transfer would greatly convenience people's daily lives, and global "WiFi" coverage without any dead zones would no longer be a dream.

Naturally, the most important part still relates to industrial production and military capabilities.

Although Ruyi City itself had some industrial production capacity, it would become unsustainable if meant to satisfy larger-scale demands. The people of Iridium Star were accustomed to building large clusters of orbital factories in planetary orbits to produce all kinds of products.

Even a large number of civilian consumer goods needed by people were produced by these orbital factory clusters and then transported to the surface. This was not only extremely beneficial for planetary ecology, saving land on the planets and preventing pollution, but it also had significant advantages in cost control and scale of industrial concentration.

For the time being, Iridium Star had no significant demand for industrial production as the industrial capacity within Ruyi City alone was sufficient to meet the daily needs of thousands of Iridium Star residents.

However, if the Iridium Star United Empire expanded, assimilated the power of Earth, and even extended its reach to other stellar systems, this level of industrial capacity would no longer suffice. The production of a large number of products would need to be handled by specialized orbital factory clusters.

Bai Zhongqi had already anticipated that once Country C joined the Star Alliance, an immediate demand for various needs of its population of 1.3 billion would arise. Bai Zhongqi planned to directly increase the standard of living of his fellow countrymen to that of interstellar civilization, which would inevitably require a much larger industrial production capacity.

Fortunately, one very typical feature of Iridium Star's technology was its high replicability. The people of Iridium Star could expand their industrial systems and scales almost indefinitely in similar patterns. This was also a main reason why the people of Iridium Star were so powerful in the galaxy.

Bai Zhongqi initially arranged for an orbital factory cluster and would deploy new ones according to future demands.

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Industrial capabilities also encompassed military production. To Earthlings, Iridium Star's military might already seemed formidable, but having seen the enormously vast Iridium Star fleet and scale of military forces, the original R19 fleet truly wasn't much.

"The population of Iridium Star is really too small. At most, there are just over two thousand real soldiers. Although the number of redundant personnel in the exploration fleet increased slightly, considering various risks, it is still too few to expand into a fleet.

For the time being, it seems we must consider recruiting Earthlings into the fleet, but the reliability of these people still requires further observation. So, it seems we have only the path of deploying unmanned fleets," Bai Zhongqi mused to himself.

The powerful artificial intelligence and bioroid manufacturing ability of Iridium Star meant that actually, Iridium Star could create an army without any real people.

Before the "Chancellor" was welcomed back, Iridium Star's use of bioroid armies was fairly limited, concerned about rogue artificial intelligence and the inability to handle more complex wars, which caused the plans for bioroid armies and unmanned fleets to be repeatedly frustrated. Iridium Star had yet to establish a true bioroid army and unmanned fleet.

But now things were different. With the Supreme Command in hand, Bai Zhongqi ensured that no artificial intelligence or bioroid could betray the Supreme Command. Furthermore, he was currently extremely short-handed, so he put the construction of unmanned fleets and bioroid armies on the agenda.

Once the orbital factory clusters were operational, Bai Zhongqi would initiate the construction of a bioroid legion of up to a hundred thousand.

Previously, the people of Iridium Star faced limitations in permissions; for instance, Xu Lanzhou, as the Fleet Commander, could only produce thousands of bioroids, and the demand for bioroids was not confined to military purposes—whatever was allocated elsewhere essentially left nothing over.

Once Bai Zhongqi took power as Chancellor, Iridium Star began large-scale construction of various bioroids, and for the recent Earth delegation activities, essentially all those responsible for services were the newly constructed bioroids of Bai Zhongqi.

To expand the Empire's fleet, naturally, shipyards were needed. According to the original numbering of the Empire's shipyards, the one preparing to be constructed in Earth's orbit would be named Shipyard 318.

Since the reserves of antimatter were still a bit tight at the moment, and the Empire's technology brought by the R19 fleet was not entirely the most advanced, Shipyard 318 was not yet capable of producing flagship-level ships like the Sacred Falcon with the latest technology.

However, even the strongest warship that Shipyard 318 could build was still based on technology from 200 years ago in the Empire, which already constituted quite formidable combat power in the universe.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Incidentally, the lifespan of Empire interstellar warships was quite long; although Empire warships typically retired after 300 years of service, if they were well maintained, they could be used for a thousand or two thousand years without any problems.

Bai Zhongqi had no plans to construct large main battle ships in the short term. To him, Iridium Star's medium and light interstellar warships were already sufficient to handle many conflicts of medium intensity or less in interstellar encounters. Actually, unless two civilizations engage in an existential war, main battle ships at this level would typically not see action.