Chapter 24 The Future
Dusand has been really busy lately.
He had been unable to take time for almost three weeks to check out his mother's grave.
In the past, when he was leading the reform of Newar, no matter how busy he was, he could take at least half an hour to check his mother's grave, carve a small line of words, or offer a bouquet of flowers. But now... Dusander has no freedom at all.
Newell is at the most critical stage, not only Dusand... but also Dushang came out of his "house arrest" and began to pick up his daily work.
Duchamp is now responsible for the defense of the Newell track again. This is General Horn's request. The veteran general who lacks an arm said to Dusand very seriously, "If anyone can improve the defense of Newell's orbit to an acceptable level, then it's probably only Duchamp."
Brigadier General Schonhorst, who is now in charge of orbital defense of Newar, is a subordinate of Duchamp. Before he was promoted to this position, Brigadier General Schonhorst was the captain of the main ship of the Newar garrison fleet, "Dignity", and was also the fleet commander of the Dignity Special Fleet.
It is a very normal promotion route to advance from the position of capital ship captain and fleet commander to the chief of staff of the colonial garrison fleet. However, this change in position is not very suitable for Brigadier General Shahnhorst.
Brigadier General Sharnhorst is a standard naval officer. He graduated from the Naval Department of the Royal Military Academy of Olin. In the eyes of his mentor, Sharnhorst is a very outstanding research scholar. His promotion and the difficulties he faced later were almost all derived from the trait of "excellent research scholar".
After just entering the navy, Sharnhorst became a researcher in the Imperial Naval Equipment Research Department. During his ten-year research career, his research field has been focusing on the measurement and counter-research of disturbances caused by volleys of multiple large-caliber artillery in deep space environments.
To explain it in a more understandable way, Schonhorst spent a full ten years studying the impact of gunfire on adjacent shells when multiple large-caliber artillery fired simultaneously in the universe. His research results were later applied to all large cruisers and main ships of the Empire - in order to ensure the shooting accuracy, all multi-unit artillery could not fire at the same time. When firing, the firing interval between adjacent gun barrels should be ensured at least one second, so as to ensure that the flames did not affect the flight of the warheads in adjacent gun barrels.
After graduating from university, Sharnhorst, who had studied technical details for a full decade, did not stay in the laboratory. Deep down, he still believed that he was a soldier rather than a researcher or a great technician. He was willing to stay in the laboratory, and day after day research and calculation of the impact of artillery firing was because his superiors issued such an order to him.
Now that the order has been executed, Schánhorst decided to make some choices for his future life. He chose to join the front line, and then this choice was rejected by his superiors without surprise.
The Imperial Navy is a military branch that pays great attention to scientific and technological levels, which can be seen from the fact that their sailors have at least one middle school degree. Therefore, unless their superiors of the Imperial Navy have their brains kicked by the Allies, they will never let Lieutenant Colonel Schonhorst leave their research posts and go to the front-line combat troops.
But unfortunately, Sharnhorst's own wish was too firm, and he even began to contact the Army - as long as he could join the front-line combat force, he was willing to join the Army.
In the end, in order to keep Sharnhorst in the Imperial Navy sequence and to "punish" this promising research officer's "pity" behavior of "involving the Army", Lieutenant Colonel Sharnhorst was transferred to the Nussal Navy with a rank of equal rank and became a destroyer captain under Duchamp.
As it turns out, Sharnhorst is indeed an extremely excellent officer. He was promoted all the way to the Nuesar Navy, and within five years he completed the promotion from the captain of the destroyer to the capital ship and the commander of the formation. But after all, he was a research officer. Brigadier General Sharnhorst made major omissions after being promoted to the chief of staff of the Nuesar Navy.
According to General Horn's requirements, the garrison navy should ensure 100% of the transition target recognition around the first and second orbits of Newar to the first and second satellites. The 85% recognition rate of the transition target recognition outside the second orbit to the dense asteroid area.
However, the defense and execution arranged by Schonhorst had serious problems. A civilian ship from the alliance was able to pass through the guard rail defense system that should be very strict in theory, which was a very serious operational deployment mistake.
It is precisely for this reason that Chief of Staff Scharnhorst was temporarily suspended and Duchamp returned to take charge of Nuesar's naval defense.
In addition to adjusting the naval position, several of the things that Dusande is most concerned about are progressing relatively smoothly. Researchers from the Department of Geology at the University of Newell found the uranium mine that Dusande named, while researchers from the Department of Materials are starting to prepare for experimental isotope separation. But... how to determine that the isotopes are separated, how to efficiently separate and collect isotopes, and how to make these isotopes accurately utilized in the form that Dusande imagines... This still takes a long time of research to solve.
The risk resolution measures of the Royal Bank of Newar have reached the final step. After a month, Palmer citizens reported a total of 729 members of the Al Party. The Palmer branch of the Al Party, which was originally like a precision machine, completely lost all its functions under this wave of blows. At the same time, Aika also found three "lower nobles" who provided financial and material support for the Al Party.
Their interrogation went very smoothly, after all, these people were just Mr. Duke's former servants. They had not experienced any rigorous anti-torture training, and they even started to say everything in Aika's hands for two rounds.
Following what they explained, Eika found two sets of "device" with strange appearances in an abandoned factory in Palmer. According to the nobles, these two devices need to be first aligned in the direction indicated by the turntable, and first connect the "bolts" above the two machines with thick metal cables. Then connect them to the steam engine output shaft with sufficient power.
As long as the two cables on the device are placed into the reaction dish—one of which is tied with a large piece of graphite and the other end is metal—and the steam engine is turned on, and the end with the graphite is tied will produce a large number of bubbles. After these bubbles are collected, they can become toxic yellow-green gas.
According to repeated interrogations, Dusander was surprised to learn that the equipment was sent from Orin to Newar twenty-two years ago. However, no one had ever used this machine since then, and the person in charge of preservation at that time did not know what this thing was for.
Based on Dusand's shallow electrical knowledge, it is not difficult to see that these two machines are essentially generators, and they are quite advanced electromagnetic DC generators.
Dusand didn't know what the imperialists' research on electricity has reached. At least after asking professors at Newar University and Polina, both sides gave answers that "we have never heard of this energy at all." But these two devices do prove that the Empire had a deep understanding of the existence of electricity and turned it into practical application equipment.
These two devices are equivalent to DC generators that do not have commutator capabilities. Both generators are composed of two parts: stator and rotor. After the rotor rotates more than 180 degrees, the carefully designed electromagnetic magnet in the stator part will automatically disconnect and demagnetize, and in the other generator, the electromagnetic magnet is simultaneously energized to generate magnetism, thereby achieving the design goal of continuously outputting DC power between the two generators.
In Dusand's view, the Empire's electrical attainments in terms of electricity have even surpassed the basic electrical knowledge buried in his mind, but for some reason, the Empire has always regarded electrical research as a highly confidential project. Its confidentiality is almost the same as the Alpha Project, and it has no intention of investing in the civilian field at all.
This is a completely illogical decision. Dusand really couldn't understand why the Empire would put such technology that was enough to change the entire society without using it. The first time it was put into use was to create chlorine to kill people... Isn't this a waste?
So, the Central Trotko, who had just sent Envoy Fion back to Newar, had another new task.
To figure out what department of the empire is studying electricity, and to figure out what steps they have made in their research on electricity, and the most important point is why not publish and apply electricity research in the civilian field.
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"I still don't understand why you made your wife the envoy." At the farewell party before Feen left, Dusand specially found the old friend who is now the leader of the rebel army in the alliance and asked, "And you haven't told me that you are married."
"Jenna and I are...neighbors we have known since childhood." Fein was obviously not used to talking about her emotional life. He simply said, "She thought I was dead on the battlefield, but...when I returned from Newell to the hometown of the Alliance, she left some behind to find me."
Dusand nodded, "Although a lot of content should have been omitted in the middle, you ended up getting married."
"Our career is going well, but this work is too risky after all." Fion sighed, and then lowered his voice, "I will ask Na to be the envoy, part of which is to protect her. Before she set out, our situation was very bad. The Sanctuary is said to have gathered two fleets to encircle and suppress the agricultural stars we occupied... This is the same as if you let Miss Lorraine lurk in Orin. If we fail and die, at least they still have a chance to survive."
Dusande remained silent for a few seconds without saying anything. He was really unsure if he failed... Lorraine still had a chance to survive. As an enemy, the empire was really terrible. This human empire, which was almost as old as the era of Great Discovery, did not know how many good things were hidden. Alpha Project, Electric Power Research... To be honest, even if the empire suddenly took out a fat man or a little boy, Dusande would not be surprised.
"We can't fail." A few seconds later, Dusander said very firmly, "Think about it, if we fail, how many people will die under the fire of war? We have already shed too much blood--enough!"
"Only by not being afraid of bleeding can the bloody war be completely stopped." Fein patted the bag beside him and said, "I have read your "Dusandism", and I am deeply touched by many of the things in it."
Dusander glanced at the crossbody bag beside Fion and said in surprise, "You still carry it now? Isn't it enough to just put it in the room and see it?"
"That won't be done." Fein, whose face was slightly red after drinking a few glasses of wine, said solemnly, "You can think I'm flattering you, but I think... the content in this book is of high value and may even be more meaningful than the peaceful mutual aid agreement we just signed."
Finn pressed his hand on his crossbody bag and said seriously, "Maybe you just regarded it as something like a diary when you wrote it, but I saw the future from it, a future where everyone can live a dignified life. A future where we no longer need to massacre each other, and can work together to explore the infinite universe, unite, equality, love and prosperity."
Chapter completed!