Free Web NovelThe troublemakers were sent back to Europe by the Land Ship on the same day, and their fate was naturally not too promising.
After all, the Southern Celestial Gate project's united research involved participation from various countries, and the official agencies of European countries strongly supported it. For these people sent back, they were undoubtedly a great embarrassment to the official agencies of their countries.
Even though Chen Xin did not hold them accountable, once they returned to their countries, their official agencies would still pursue responsibility.
However, this had nothing to do with the base here or the Southern Celestial Gate project.
After those people were sent away, the atmosphere in the base was indeed tense for a while, but with the comfort and restraint from the heads of various major project groups, it did not result in any irreparable consequences.
And after the aftermath of this event passed, the researchers involved in the Southern Celestial Gate project clearly focused more on their work, which unexpectedly accelerated the project's progress.
Aside from dealing with and deporting the troublemakers, this event had another impact.
It was the proposal they suggested, electing some representatives to voice issues to higher authorities on behalf of the lower-level personnel. After discussions with Chen Xin and other leaders, this proposal was approved.
However, it wasn't about playing democracy elections; instead, Chen Xin authorized Xi Yao to open a channel where lower-level personnel could report issues to her.
Anyone could report problems or give feedback to Xi Yao. She would filter and evaluate them, and make handling decisions.
These decisions would be fed back by Xi Yao to the concerned individuals and their superiors. More critical matters would escalate to Chen Xin, forming an effective feedback mechanism.
On the first day of the mechanism's operation, Xi Yao received a large number of opinions and proposals, which even occupied 10% of her computational capacity.
However, over 90% of them were trivial matters that didn't need special handling. Adjusting some current rules and regulations could solve about 80% of the issues.
As for the remaining portion, less than 1% actually made it to Chen Xin.
Even within this less than 1%, Xi Yao had already attached handling suggestions, and Chen Xin simply needed to review and make any necessary modifications to approve them.
After this mechanism was up and running, the satisfaction of all staff indeed increased significantly, and work efficiency also improved.
Overall, this matter reached a fairly satisfactory conclusion.
Seeing this satisfactory result, Chen Xin no longer paid attention to the matter.
Because, after a week of continuous flight, the small sky carrier platform used for testing successfully completed its mission and landed back on the base's runway.
During this week of testing, various issues emerged, with the most serious one causing an engine to fail.
But with the gravity generator stabilizing the aircraft at flight altitude, a brave crew member climbed out of the cabin for external repairs, successfully resolving the fault.
This reminded the project group of the need to establish maintenance passages outside the carrier platform.
Long-term flight requires repair and maintenance, necessitating external passages for out-of-cabin repairs. freewebnσvel.cøm
Aside from these, various other issues identified during testing were resolved by crew members, some required major maintenance after landing, and others needed to be dismantled and rebuilt.
Fortunately, all these were within the project group's expectations. Essentially, this was just a technical validation machine's maiden flight; encountering issues was normal, not encountering any would be odd.
Problems exposed need to be addressed, and both Chen Xin and the project group focused on this instead of public feedback issues. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
The small sky carrier platform ran into numerous issues, essentially because it was initially a hotchpotch effort.
Although the technology was mature, and there was no issue with flying, the integration among various technologies wasn't very good.
The issues that emerged during the flight test mainly concentrated on this aspect.
For this, the project group could only research and solve each issue individually, with no shortcuts.
For Chen Xin, it might just be a matter of upgrading the system once, but it was already mentioned that to integrate different countries' technologies, Chen Xin did not plan to use system upgrades as a shortcut.
And the price for not taking shortcuts was that the project team spent about four months resolving all the issues exposed during the flight test of the small carrier platform.
During these four months, other project teams also made considerable progress.
For instance, the Energy Shield project's research team resolved the question posed by Chen Xin on how to prevent the shield from impeding the use of weapons inside it.
The solution was straightforward; the research team came up with two different plans.
Plan one was to shape the shield like a shield used in cold weapon times, thus avoiding issues of weapon usage interference.
This resolved the problem without difficulty, and even required no alteration to the current shield usage. It merely needed changing from a 360° fully activated shield to a small-area shield targeting attack directions.
To achieve this, just some adjustments to the magnetic constraint device and radar were needed.
The radar would accurately determine the direction attacks came from, and the magnetic constraint device would activate the shield for defense in that direction.
However, such a shield had certain drawbacks — it was effective against low-power attacks, but could still be damaged by high-power attacks if they exceeded the shield's coverage.
Of course, this issue wasn't crucial because the shield could deflect explosions or fragments, so even uncovered areas wouldn't suffer serious damage.
Additionally, by enhancing the shield generator's output, the shield's coverage could be expanded, or a full-coverage shield activated, leading to comprehensive defense.
The idea of the other method was more novel; it drew from sci-fi novels, with the shield attached to the surface of the protected object.
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