Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 742 - 695: Sky City

From a certain perspective, the concept of a sky castle is not very practical.

After all, if you have the capacity to build a city that floats in the sky, wouldn't it be better to use that productivity for something else rather than constructing a floating city?

But on the other hand, when your productivity has reached the level that allows for the construction of a floating city, then your technology and production level have undoubtedly achieved a remarkably advanced state.

It's like building a giant humanoid robot; its practical combat performance has always been criticized in the original world, and creating humanoid forms requires much higher technical demands than creating other shapes.

But conversely, if you can create a giant humanoid robot, wouldn't you be able to create something more practical?

Ultimately, it's only after technological development reaches a certain level that one can pursue the extravagant after solving issues of existence.

Perfikot's design of the sky castle is similar, initially her design was conservative, everything built around the core technology of the Flying Stone.

A sufficiently large Flying Stone, after expanding the Anti-Gravity Field, builds a structure solid enough to serve as a house within that field.

That was the first version of the sky castle.

It can hardly be called a design at all, merely the simplest basic framework.

The sky castles Perfikot saw in her dreams were based on this foundation and had undergone two iterations of design advancement.

Yet even so, in Perfikot's view, that sky castle design couldn't be considered serious. It was more about exploring what components a sky castle should have on the basis of technological validation.

After technical validation and feasibility design were complete, the sky castle truly attained tangible value for construction.

If one considers the current industrial capacity and technological level of the Northern Territory and Victory, they could at most complete the construction planned by Perfikot for a flying battleship.

As for a sky castle?

It's not that Perfikot looks down on them, but with Victory's current technological strength and industrial production capacity, even building a flying castle would be difficult.

Perhaps someone might think of using methods like constructing Flying Airships and flying battleships, using Flying Stones to reduce weight so a palace or house could fly, but that's still far from being a true sky castle.

In Perfikot's view, a true sky castle must at least be equipped with the attributes a city should have.

Not to say it would really make a city fly, but at least it should provide necessary conditions for some people to live there long-term.

Flight and floating are simply basic aspects.

So, to some extent, if a Flying Airship or flying battleship were shaped like a city and had living facilities improved, it could indeed be called a sky castle.

But Perfikot doesn't intend to do that because it's too monotonous.

In her dreams, she let her imagination soar and, endowed with the ability of omniscience to access all knowledge and technology needed to realize her imagination, for Perfikot, the only thing missing from her creation of a true sky castle was actually building it.

According to Perfikot's design, a sky castle isn't built around a single Flying Stone.

This single-core construction mode isn't unfeasible, but in terms of efficiency and scale, it's too limited.

Perfikot employed a satellite-like layout similar to current cities with Energy Towers, forming the core of the Floating City with a large Flying Stone, and around its perimeter are several smaller Flying Stones to distribute the city's weight. This structure allows the city to be distributed from a single center to multiple centers.

The multi-core city design model has the advantage of allowing different functional zones to be distributed, adding more functions to the city while also allowing it to accommodate a larger population.

Moreover, this satellite-like design can reduce the weight borne by the supporting Flying Stones, dispersing the original concentrated weight to different support points. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Perfikot even envisioned designing a floating fortress completely unattached to the city's main body, to orbit the main body and provide protection.

"Looks good, the circular city structure complemented by satellite city design, even in the original world this is quite an avant-garde city planning design." Perfikot nodded contentedly as she looked at her finished design.

The circular city layout maximizes light exposure, which is important for a Floating City.

One major advantage of a circular city is better traffic planning, preventing congestion and facilitating urban planning.

Looking at the city she designed, Perfikot felt the joy akin to playing a simulation management game in her previous life.

Compared to the design of shelters where even the slightest space had to be meticulously accounted for, designing a sky castle where imagination could truly run wild brought authentic joy to Perfikot.

Especially when she completed the entire design, seeing the city she had planned, a spontaneous sense of satisfaction and pride brimmed within her, fulfilling her heart with exceptional gratification and happiness.

Perhaps, this is what she truly wanted.

Ruling and managing the entire Northern Territory might seem like a position of high power, and presumed to be able to indulge in the sweetness of authority and a life of luxury, but for Perfikot, it's only responsibility and burden.

Her lifestyle is indeed lavish, yet for Perfikot, she has long since ceased to care whether her lifestyle is extravagant or simple.

Because she has so many things to do daily and remains incredibly busy.

If she truly fulfilled her duties handling everything that required her attention, she would be consumed by endless governmental matters every day.

So, can she be lazy then? The answer is no.

Even when Perfikot delegates a large amount of work to her subordinates, she continues to have an abundance of daily work.

Managing a state involves handling all sorts of issues, and as the Lord of the Northern Territory, Perfikot's realm spans nearly the size of a country.

Her other identity also determines she is literally managing a nation.

Despite most Victory affairs not requiring her direct involvement, many strategic matters demand her comprehensive opinion and decision-making.

Often, others think Perfikot holds too much power, making her tower above others, yet they overlook the fact that it's due to others' incompetence that these matters fall to her.

For ordinary people, towering power means only the high authority in giving life and death. But for Perfikot, all she sees is endless work.

This makes her really understand why there were so many incompetent rulers in ancient times; working 007 year-round with heavy responsibilities—whoever loves it can do it!