The Plane War Begins from Wandering Earth

Chapter 69 069. Pilgrim

After asking about the progress of the construction, Liu Yang, the general manager of Area A Terminal, gave a few more instructions.

"By the way, I'll sign a form and you go to the warehouse to get twenty boxes of ice-cold beer.

This is a bonus for Area A2 who rushed to complete the project last week..."

After giving the instructions, he let the two leave.

Three months ago, Liu Yang was still a front-line maintenance worker for the planetary engine of the CN branch of the Source Plane.

Like almost all the wandering people, he submitted an application for dimensional immigration to the United Government.

I thought that since I had received the [Blessing of Popular Election], I would have no chance to travel to another dimension.

However, as the coalition government comprehensively promoted the infrastructure construction of the alien plane, Liu Yang, like many citizens of the source plane, was "sent" to the "big construction site" of Libreville, Gabon in the alien plane after receiving a week of management training.

Good news, we have indeed arrived in an alternate dimension.

Bad news, I will be tied to the space elevator base in Libreville next.

At least until the space elevator is officially completed, he will not have the chance to leave the Gabon area.

However, what bothered Liu Yang the most was that he was just a front-line maintenance operator team leader before and had no experience in managing thousands of people.

A management training course lasting just one week cannot solve all problems.

Liu Yang could only bite the bullet and grope his way forward.

The coalition government did not do this on a whim.

On the one hand, in addition to testing and screening the ideas of grassroots managers.

On the other hand, these "pilot areas" are mostly "secondary important areas" within the Gabon base.

Piers, hotels, airports, hospitals, workers' dormitories, etc.

With the assistance and regulation of artificial intelligence MOSS, the coalition government believes that the engineering construction in these places can be completely handed over to the indigenous people to solve.

As for the space elevator base, cabin, synchronous orbit station, top counterweight space station and other facilities, they are the core and top priority.

These areas and facilities will be constructed by professional and technical personnel certified by the United Government, and these professionals, without exception, are all citizens of the United Government who have relevant experience in the Source Plane.

Harvey led the somewhat reserved Mike out of the Area A administrator's office.

"See? This is the head of the joint government of our A District.

As long as all the work can be completed on time and in full before the end of the construction period, Manager Liu can meet all our reasonable requests.

I've thought about it. According to the current progress of our A2 area project, you will be eligible to apply to go to the base medical department in a month at most to solve your bronchial problem."

Mike was deeply moved by the care that Harvey, who was both his teacher and friend, gave him.

"By the way, what are our main responsibilities here?
Build a high-standard military dock?"

Mike Grady is now full of confidence. He vows that he must perform well next time. Professor Harvey guarantees him that he must not hold his old friend back.

"Military dock?"

Harvey followed Mike's gaze and saw that outside the dock, near the coast of Libreville, several aircraft carrier formations with nearly a hundred warships of various types were neatly lined up on the sea.

Judging from their hull numbers which have not yet been changed, these should be the North American naval fleet.

“Those are the North American naval fleets that surrendered to the Coalition two months ago.

It has now been incorporated into the coalition government and is responsible for the maritime defense of the Gabon base.”

“Isn’t this too exaggerated?

What is the origin of this Gabon base?
The coalition government actually arranged at least five aircraft carrier formations to guard it?"

Harvey looked at Mike, who knew nothing, and smiled. "If I tell you that these five aircraft carrier formations are the weakest guard force in the Gabon base, would you be even more surprised?

The Army's heavy infantry regiment permanently protects military equipment facilities.

The Air Force's flying regiments, and tens of thousands of Predator drones..."

Harvey introduced the military forces in the Gabon base as if he knew them all.

He was one of the first indigenous people to serve the coalition government and one of the first construction workers to arrive at the Gabon base.

He knew much more about the situation than other indigenous people.

"Forget it, let's get back to the topic just now.

What we are building is not a high-standard military dock, but just a civilian dock.

There's nothing technical about it.

The real core construction force in the Gabon base is at the 'ground end base' over there..."

Harvey looked at the Libreville offshore base from afar. From the outside, the ground base of the space elevator looked like a "big disk".

Countless construction machinery, countless engineers and scientists are busy on this "big disk" like ants.

Looking at the "big disc" from afar, Mike just felt a little "powerful".

But Harvey's words really shocked him.

"Professor Harvey, you are a tenured professor of engineering at Imperial College, yet you are assigned here to carry out a civilian dock engineering task.

Isn’t this a waste of talent?”

Whether in terms of knowledge or qualifications, Mike sincerely admires Harvey, his old acquaintance who is both his teacher and friend.

If the tenured professors at Imperial College can only be "contractors" under the coalition government.

Then, as a PhD in electrical engineering, wouldn't I only be able to do the work of a basic construction worker?
Harvey smiled, not taking Mike's fuss seriously.

“Mike, there’s a saying that the more you know, the more you realize how little you know.

Like you, I once thought that I was looked down upon. But after learning the real purpose of the coalition government's construction of the Gabon base, I finally realized that I was too naive.

The United Nations government is planning to build a space elevator here.

A space elevator that reaches a height of 90,000 kilometers!"

Mike's eyes widened. The term "space elevator" which seemed to be something out of science fiction, and the terrifying number of 90,000 kilometers, made him at a loss for words for a moment.

"What about the materials? At such a high altitude, the tensile strength of the materials must be abnormal, right?
And how do they overcome gravity and the centrifugal force caused by the rotation of the earth?"

Mike, who has a PhD in engineering, quickly raised the core problem facing the space elevator.

"Coalition scientists have invented a material called carbon nanotubes that is said to have a compressive strength of 62.5 gigapascals.

On this basis, a top counterweight is added to it to maintain the main body of the space elevator's tension structure straight through the centrifugal force of the earth's rotation, and then the counterweight in the high orbit is used to maintain balance...

The entire space elevator is a work of art that combines engineering design, aerospace, materials science, geology, and meteorology.

Little Mike, you know, my biggest wish is to be able to participate in the construction of this greatest artistic building in human history as a builder..."

Professor Harvey looked at the huge "disc" base on the sea level from afar like a pilgrim, and spoke with an expression of great longing.

There is nothing in this world that excites an engineering expert more than a space elevator.

Heavy nuclear fusion power generation facilities may be an exception.

(End of this chapter)