Chapter 1576 - The Promised Land (1/2)

Translator: _Min_  Editor: Rainystars

The Svetovid was freed from the ice tower a month later.

The strength of its armor was stunning. If it was the Seagull or Envoy class that was frozen in this condition, even if the people inside could survive inside the hibernation chamber, the entire starship would likely be scrapped. It was precisely because of this that experts from different countries were so excited when the Svetovid was freed from the ice.

If such armor could be equipped on the Envoy class, or on the Constitution class still in its design phase, it would undoubtedly increase the combat effectiveness of the Earth Fleet.

The Svetovid, freed from the ice, was also quite generous and readily agreed to the request of the Earth Defense Alliance. The related technology was packaged and sold to Future Heavy Industries at a price of 500 million World Dollars, and a small portion of the loan owed to Future Bank was repaid.

Yes, a loan.

Under the Golovin Mental System, the Golovin people did not need a troublesome construct like currency. They possessed their own set of methods to more efficiently measure value, and all individuals in the system widely agreed with this standard. However, the trade between Golovin and Earth civilization needed a standard for value measurement.

Golovin I chose World Dollar, and he asked for a seat in the World Union Reserve to exercise voting and supervision rights in addition to the right to propose.

It was the practice of most countries that joined the World Union Reserve. After all, if the currency was issued indiscriminately, the interests of the entire economy would be damaged. However, what Golovin cared about was not the economic issues. They just had to ensure that the over-issued currency of the World Union Reserve will not harm Golovin’s interests.

The total expenditure of the icebreaking project was 113.1 billion World dollars. Although it was jointly funded by many countries in the world, the Svetovid also assumed 40% of the debt.

In three years, most of the debt was repaid by technology. Among them, the warp engine was auctioned at a high price of 50 billion world dollars, and it was finally won by the wealthy Future Heavy Industries. If it were not for the consideration made by other countries that the technological gap may be too large to digest, the actual price could have more than doubled.

Someone could ask, since the warp engine was sold for such a large sum of money, why the Svetovid still had debts to pay?

It was worth mentioning that these debts were not related to the icebreaking project, but owed elsewhere.

Based on the relevant resolution made by the Defense Alliance on the issue of the refugees from the Golovin civilization, three votes vetoed the proposal for Siberia and the decision was to ultimately select a piece of land on Mars as a resting place for the refugees from the Golovin civilization.

If no preparations were made, it was impossible to survive on bare Mars, even for the Golovins.

Therefore, after Golovin discussed this issue with Jiang Chen, Golovin decided to use the method from Earth civilization to solve this issue, which was to take a loan from Future Bank to build a city for the life of the thousand crews on the Svetovid.

To build a city on Mars, there were basically only two materials needed; one was steel and the other was graphene.