Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 844 - 73

To resolve the problem posed by Empress Annie, Perfikot certainly has a solution.

What Empress Annie needs is a voyage capable of militarily intimidating all the colonies of the Empire, and a method to efficiently utilize the colonial resources.

Among these two, the latter evidently aligns with Perfikot’s needs and interests.

And to achieve this, unquestionably a large-scale transport capacity is required.

However, currently, the Empire can conduct long-distance transportation only with Flying Airships, and with the Floating Battleships that are still in production and have not yet been rolled out.

Although the Empire’s Flying Airships have a much greater capacity than the airships of Perfikot’s original world, a single Flying Airship can transport several hundred tons of cargo, which is already the current maximum capability, any larger is impossible.

After all, this thing relies on gases to obtain lift; even if the gasbag is made into a vacuum achieving the theoretical maximum lift, the lift provided would only be so much. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Unless the gasbag is made large enough, breakthroughs in transport capacity cannot be achieved.

This is why the gasbags of those airships in the original world were astonishingly large, yet the number of passengers they could carry wasn’t too many.

As for the Floating Battleship... the carrying capacity of this thing can indeed be much larger, as lifting several tens of thousands of tons of steel into the air could not be achieved without sufficient lift.

Especially since it does not lift objects by generating lift, but rather generates an Anti-Gravity Field to offset the gravity effects on the object, making it irrelevant how heavy it is, provided it does not surpass the limit of the Anti-Gravity Field’s influence.

Precisely because of this, Perfikot can build a city capable of flying.

If she wants, creating a transport ship with a cargo capacity of one hundred thousand tons isn’t a problem.

However, building a Floating Transport Ship with a cargo capacity of one hundred thousand tons might cost more in resources than constructing a Floating Battleship of the same tonnage.

This isn’t merely due to the difference in tonnage between the two, but also because constructing a transport ship requires considerations that may not be fewer than those for a battleship.

Even though it sounds absurd, reality is indeed such in some respects.

Up to now, there is and only has been one completed Floating Battleship, though two more are under construction; however, those are already determined slots in the Navy’s shipbuilding program.

Moreover, the keels have already been laid, and the hulls are being welded on. Making changes at this stage is overly impractical.

Building new large transport ships will only be possible after the warships under construction are completed in the shipyard.

As for using other shipyards? There are only a few large shipyards in the Northern Territory, aside from the Royal Shipyard with the completed dock, the docks of other shipyards are used to build Flying Airships, and their dimensions do not meet the requirements for constructing Floating Battleships.

Therefore, in the short term, unless Perfikot opts to heavily invest in expanding new docks, the construction of Floating Transport Ships cannot commence immediately.

Conversely, the design of the Floating Transport Ships themselves is the simplest, Perfikot can easily modify it.

So in the short term, obtaining Floating Transport Ships is almost impossible, and Perfikot must seek other solutions.

Fortunately for Perfikot, she does have a solution, moreover, an effective one that could address all issues.

"Originally I intended the first Floating City module to serve as a combat module, but now it seems to need to be transformed into a logistics module!" Perfikot spread out a sheet of draft paper before her, took out a pencil and straightedge, and began sketching on the paper under a magnifying glass.

"Let me think, to achieve transport functionality, a cargo stack and loading dock are indispensable..." Perfikot wasn’t holding the pencil with her hand for drawing, but directly utilized alchemy to decompose the pencil into lines and printed them directly on the paper.

This method of drawing is naturally much easier and more convenient than drawing by hand, and it allows for better transference of the ideas in her mind onto paper.

Besides requiring an alchemist’s precise operational ability, it also demands sufficient spiritual power from the alchemist.

Otherwise, a single drawing might exhaust your energy before it’s finished, or it may be impossible to produce a detailed drawing, which would be rather embarrassing.

Perfikot originally did not do it this way, but the blueprint of the Floating City is excessively complex, even for her it’s impossible to complete all the drawings by hand, which might collectively weigh several tons and need freight train compartments for transport.

Although the ability of the Eye of Omniscience can facilitate her completion of what she needs, Perfikot still requires the drawing method to clarify her thoughts.

After all, the power of the Eye of Omniscience is merely optimization and upgrading; intricate details and overarching directions still require Perfikot to grasp by herself.

For instance, between the cargo stack and the loading dock, should she lay tracks for small trains or build a road for freight carriages?

These detailed issues still need Perfikot to think them through herself; only when she knows the effect she wants, the Eye of Omniscience can provide the optimal solution.

Therefore, although Perfikot uses the Eye of Omniscience to solve problems, she also cultivates the practice of using alchemy drawing to stimulate her thinking.

And accompanied by the increasing content on the paper, Perfikot’s thoughts gradually become clearer.

What she needs is a Floating City module that has the capability for logistical production while also serving as a port for the Floating Fleet’s docking.

This module itself is within her original construction plan for the Floating City.

After all, in her vision, the Floating City is composed of several different modules connected together, naturally requiring a logistics module for maintenance and production.

Perfikot’s original plan was to first build the combat module and city module, then consider the logistics module later.

But now, it seems she needs to transform the initially constructed Floating City module into a logistics module.

Furthermore, not just any logistics module, but one that possesses mineral resource smelting capabilities, along with the ability to process other resources, and more importantly, the capability to produce and construct Floating Battleships, and even new Floating City modules.

These things collectively make Perfikot feel that what she’s building is no longer merely a logistics module, but a core module of a Floating City, capable of continuously constructing new modules from this core module, thereby establishing a complete Floating City.

"How did it end up resembling a game setting?" Perfikot looked at the finalized design on the blueprint before her, tapping her forehead with the remnant of a pencil, but then proceeded to use the ’upgrading’ power of the Eye of Omniscience on the design drawing in front of her.