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"...It really is magnificent."
Yi Shanjiu piloted the second-generation Cosmic Fighter through the space ring, his heart filled with admiration.
A voice replied through the communicator, "It certainly is, a miracle of the new era! Its total length is fifty-six thousand kilometers, with a width of forty kilometers, housing over nine hundred and thirty billion supercomputers. It took the hollowing out of two asteroid belts and almost half a low-mass planet to build, yet all this was accomplished in just four years, nearly a year ahead of schedule! And now, it's only May of the thirteenth year of the new century!"
This truly was a miracle.
A structure fifty-six thousand kilometers long and forty kilometers wide, not even considering the thickness, the sheer amount of metal was astronomical. Rough calculations had been made, and the steel used alone was more than a million times the total amount of steel that humanity had mined and smelted over thousands of years!!
