After landing on the ground, Gu Hang had a special conversation with the person in charge of constructing the Starport.
This person was none other than Hu Ke.
Under Gu Hang's leadership, the two most outstanding scientific research personnel were both from the Mechanical Cult Guild, namely Hu Ke and Wu Jiarong. According to the guild's rankings, both of them had achieved the standard of an "Engine Prophet."
The person Gu Hang trusted even more was obviously Wu Jiarong. However, precisely because of this, she bore even more critical responsibilities. She had to constantly stay within the walls of the research institute in Weixing City, guarding the Black Box that must not be known to outsiders.
Her scientific research team needed to provide technical support for the increasingly vast production system of Weixing City.
Compared to her, Hu Ke was not as busy.
His last major project was conducting agricultural production guidance and optimizing grain seed genetics in the Green Valley Region.
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This was a job well-suited to him as he specialized in genetic engineering.
Aside from the agricultural construction in the Green Valley Region, he also had work constructing soilless vertical cultivation plant factories in uninhabited settlements within the Central Province and Central-North Province.
The relevant technology was something Gu Hang had originally purchased from his cousin.
Objectively speaking, Hu Ke's work over a considerable period had provided considerable support to the agricultural development on Rage Owl Star.
At the same time, Hu Ke was also a professor at the Alliance Technical College, having taught many students.
Let's not talk about those who were still in the learning phase of their classes, but those who had reached a certain level were brought by him to participate in actual research projects.
After the technical guidance for food production was put on the right track, Hu Ke gradually disentangled himself from the work, leaving his students in charge of the related technical matters.
Meanwhile, he himself was entrusted by Gu Hang with the task of supervising the construction of the Starport.
Truth be told, Hu Ke did not enjoy Gu Hang's full trust; he certainly would not be allowed to come in contact with the secrets of the Black Box.
But the special thing about the Starport construction was that it wasn't about creating a Starport from a Black Box, but an entire "blueprint."
Included in the blueprint were, of course, several Black Boxes, used to produce key components or the parent machines for mass production of these key parts. This part was still left to the research institute in Weixing City. However, there were also many generic components and structural production tasks, as well as the assembly of different sections, that required high technical expertise.
Purely relying on technicians to handle it would be slow and prone to problems.
Hu Ke and his team were there to take on this portion of the work.
Even though Starport construction was certainly not his area of expertise as a genetic engineering specialist, his fundamental capabilities were evident. Even without the bonus of specialized expertise, he was much more reliable than someone with poor technical abilities chosen at random.
And he did not disappoint Mr. Gu's expectations.
Hu Ke, accompanied by Mr. Gu, inspected the ground section of the Starport.
This was also a major construction site, but its scale was much larger than that of the orbital section.
The utmost priority here was the second magnetic levitation track being constructed towards the Starport. Along with the gradual expansion of the Orbital Starport, the newly established magnetic levitation tracks will greatly increase the throughput of goods and personnel in the Starport, which for now, is only barely functioning.
Overall, the situation was quite encouraging.
At present, the main reasons restricting the construction speed of the Starport were twofold: the production capacity of core components was concerning, and the number of machines suitable for space operations was severely lacking.
Efforts were underway to overcome both issues.
The core components of the Starport currently relied heavily on being manufactured in the labs of Weixing City (via Black Boxes) and then transported here for assembly. However, related production lines were already under construction.
The first batch of mass-production factories for Starport components had been erected near Starport City, just waiting for the equipment to be transported from Weixing City to start production.
Once this factory began production, within two months, it could meet 70% of the demand for core components locally, vastly increasing the construction speed of the Starport.
As for the second issue, the space operation machines would mainly rely on the industrial power of Weixing City. Once they were freed from producing core components for the Starport, they would have more energy to devote to building more space engineering machines.
Gu Hang nodded continuously as he listened.
It was normal to encounter problems, as long as there were solutions in place.
During the inspection, an Alliance official also hurried to the scene.
This was the Chief of Xiongya Province, Rafael.
As the first recovered province that was closest to the west among the three provinces in the east, under Rafael's leadership, Xiongya Province's development plan was the most comprehensive and fastest progressing.
One reason for this success was the geographical advantage that garnered the Starport construction in Skaaro Highlands within Xiongya Province. The other reason was that Rafael was indeed very capable.
During the inspection, Rafael detailed a series of subsequent development plans for Mr. Gu.
There's no need to mention much about the Starport; Rafael planned to build a city around this core, the Starport.
Skaaro City would be also known as Starport City.
The main focus of Skaaro City would be a transportation hub.
With several express routes, including railways and highways, forming a road network with Skaaro City at the center, it would extend to all regions of the Alliance.