Chapter 611: Not Playing by the Rules
"Deadly Dark Planet: Defend Earth" was officially launched on October 15th.
Due to the particularity of the game, only new humans are allowed to participate.
Of course, this restriction that only new humans can participate is actually nothing. After all, there are nearly four billion employees in the Sapiens company, accounting for half of the world's population.
At this time, the free world is in chaos again, so it is actually no big deal for Sapiens to abandon the free world's market.
Originally, "Deadly Dark Star: Earth Defense War" was a non-profit game.
Soon with the opening of the public beta channel, 27.53 million people logged into the game's virtual world on the first day.
Although many people play games for fun, there are also many people who like to play games.
In addition, a group of internal test players have been posting online, saying that the game is very realistic and is said to be 100% based on the real world, allowing players to experience space life, alien exploration, interstellar wars, and exotic civilizations.
The Space Business Department, Space Defense Department, and Space Colonization Department also took the opportunity to cooperate.
The first 100 players of the game launched by the Space Division will receive a free 120-day trip around Mars.
The Space Defense Department will give the first one thousand players a high-replica version of a space combat suit. Although it is a high-replica version, this combat suit can be used in outer space, it just does not have weapons.
The Space Colonization Department will give the first 300 players a house in the Venus Cloud Palace Base for free. Although they only have the right to use it and cannot rent it out, as long as the Cloud Palace base is still there, the player will always have the right to use the house.
Other departments also gave a variety of gifts or presents.
For example, miniature models of space battleships, models of space exoskeleton armor, planetariums of the solar system and six-clawed giant stars, small astronomical telescopes, electromagnetic rifles, books on six-clawed civilization, space food, etc.
These small gifts can be claimed as long as you log in for 100, 500, or 1,000 days in total.
Star Island.
Inside a villa in the city.
" What the hell? I actually won the prize?" Zhou Ran looked surprised.
At this moment, a panel was floating in front of him in his holographic projection.
[Congratulations to player Zhou Ran for becoming the 99,999th public beta player of this game. You have won the lucky landing prize - an electromagnetic rifle (this product is sponsored by Fernando Industries). Please fill in the delivery address...].
Zhou Ran read the winning terms and conditions and found that the electromagnetic rifle was real and was the same standard equipment of the Space Army:
“It’s actually true!”
Another colleague who ran over to join him saw Zhou Ran in a daze and patted him on the shoulder: "Zhou Ran, what are you daydreaming about?"
"I won the prize..." Zhou Ran quickly explained.
"What? Electromagnetic rifle? Is it really okay to give this thing away directly?" His colleagues were also stunned.
But Zhou Ran, who was not very nervous, waved his hand disapprovingly: "Since the company dares to send it, what should we be afraid of? This does not violate anything."
"That's true."
The Intelligent Company does not care about its employees carrying guns, and many employees have various gun storages at home.
Of course, these guns have special safety devices or storage boxes, and the employees are all implanted with biochips. Although the average employee of Sapiens currently holds 3.2 guns per person, there has not been a single proactive shooting case.
As for the children of employees, due to the special training mechanism, these children are all in professional school campuses, and they can only come into contact with firearms in physical education classes.
The principle for purchasing guns within the Sapiens company is that everything is fine if there is a biochip, but those without a biochip are strictly prohibited from possessing any guns.
Even when children go home to visit their parents, the smart housekeeper at home will remind employees to put weapons in a professional gun warehouse to prevent them from being misused by children.
Therefore, many gun enthusiasts collect a large number of guns at home.
Although the electromagnetic rifle is the standard equipment of the space army, it is not of much use inside the earth. The power of this small-caliber electromagnetic rifle is almost the same as that of an ordinary rifle.
Even if a high-density solid-state battery is used, the electromagnetic rifle can only hold about 40 rounds of power when used inside the earth.
There are two types of batteries used by the Space Force.
One is a high-density solid-state battery, which is about the same size as a No. 1 dry cell. A single battery can effectively launch 87 times in outer space. Usually, each electromagnetic rifle is equipped with four spare solid-state batteries.
The other type of battery is a composite nuclear battery made with calcium 45 and calcium 47 radioactive elements as core raw materials. The service life of this battery is only about 100 days and it is used exclusively during wartime.
In order to ensure the supply of calcium nuclear batteries, the space army will equip its bases and large space battleships with calcium 45 and calcium 47 rapid manufacturing machines. This technology was dug out from the six-clawed people.
This type of nuclear battery is specially produced for war. After the calcium nuclear battery has reached the end of its service life, it can be directly thrown into a nuclear thermal furnace to continue generating electricity and heat.
Of course, the six-clawed people's thermoelectric conversion efficiency is relatively low, which was about 52% to 58% 50,000 years ago.
The Homo sapiens company, which possesses gold-based thermoelectric materials, is clearly one level higher in thermoelectric conversion efficiency than the six-clawed civilization before its escape.
As for the current technological level of the six-clawed civilization, the Homo Sapiens Company is not sure.
Therefore, many institutions and equipment of the Sapiens Company are now gradually adopting three types of nuclear batteries.
Ultra-long battery life, low power carbon 14 nuclear battery.
Medium-range, medium-power cobalt-60 nuclear battery.
Low endurance, high power calcium 45 and calcium 47 nuclear batteries.
These three types of nuclear batteries can be reasonably arranged according to actual needs, and can be used alone or in combination.
In daily operation, electromagnetic rifles use solid-state batteries; in case of war, calcium nuclear batteries are used instead.
Of course, the effective shooting number of solid-state batteries is relatively small. Even with four spare batteries, it can only fire more than 300 tungsten steel projectiles. Regarding this point, the Space Defense Department has also done the most thorough technical verification and supplemented the solid-state batteries.
The supplement is that electromagnetic rifles are usually paired with exoskeleton armor, and the energy core of the exoskeleton armor is the cobalt core battery.
Once an emergency occurs and the solid-state battery is completely exhausted, the energy core of the exoskeleton armor can be used for temporary energy supply.
At this time, Zhou Ran and others were stuffed into the orbital paratrooper training camp in the virtual world.
They wore exoskeleton armor and equipped with electromagnetic rifles and started the game in hell mode.
Unlike the easy tutorials in the internal beta, the public beta game begins with a space fleet of the six-clawed civilization suddenly appearing near Neptune and establishing a colony on Neptune's satellite.
In order to deal with this sudden enemy, the Sapiens company in the game had to carry out compulsory conscription.
Now these players are the "cannon fodder" who are forcibly conscripted. They only get exoskeleton armor and some light weapons, and then they have to learn various skill data packages by themselves.
However, war has already broken out in the asteroid belt.
Now they can only go to the battlefield in confusion and take space battleships to the asteroid belt to fight the six-clawed people.
A group of public beta players directly called out the operator for being unethical, as this was completely different from the slow and measured approach of the internal beta players, who engaged in a fierce battle right from the start.
