The Chaebol Who Flies From Space - Chapter 1
Only Noblemtl
The tycoon who flew in from space
1. Contact your mother
My name is André de Revuere Gang Cordagen. I am the owner of the XF-124 resource colony and a space tycoon with stakes in 12 of humanity’s 128 inhabited planets.
The year 789 of the cosmic calendar marks the beginning of mankind’s first exploration of outer space.
Humanity, having left our solar system at the edge of the galaxy, has explored and developed 1,400 star systems within 2,500 light-years over a period of 800 years.
Even though the human domain has expanded dramatically with the development of warp drive, the number of planets inhabitable by humans in the vast universe is not that many.
Since the birth of mankind, no one has ever accumulated such vast wealth as I have, and no one will ever do so again.
Before becoming so successful, he had to go through countless jealousies and envy, and fight many battles that cost his life.
The secret to my enormous wealth was simple.
Gerenium is the miraculous substance that made interstellar travel possible for humanity, and is the main fuel for warp engines. It is also an essential part of all human production processes.
If old humans built their civilization based on oil, the new humans of the Universal Century will build their civilization based on gerenium.
The competition to obtain it is no less intense than the Earth’s 20th-century quest for oil.
The fastest way to get rich in the Great Cosmic Era is to discover, refine, and sell gerenium.
Even now, many mining companies are sending probes to uncharted worlds to find and mine gerenium mines. I mine gerenium from my own mining planet, which is 47% of the gerenium mines that humanity possesses, just under half.
As I refine and extract gerenium from the mining planet, money piles up in my account. And now it’s March, the month when the company puts all its efforts into closing out the year.
It is a nerve-wracking task to scrutinize the financial statements sent in by various corporations incorporated in the federal government.
As artificial intelligence advances, accounting work has become simpler, but if the owner doesn’t pay attention to a company, thieves will appear no matter what.
If you want to properly check whether the information reported by the accounting department is true and whether your subordinates have been secretly eating the money, you have to be on edge and dig through the data.
After three days of being buried under piles of paperwork, I was trying to calm my nerves by drinking tea when my AI secretary, Ariel, spoke to me.
[Master, this is a hyper communication connection.]
“Who are you! Can’t you see that I’m busy right now? This is the busiest time of the year, and I’m freezing to death with this communication. If it’s not something urgent enough to kill you, just ignore it. I don’t know who you are, but you’re looking for me at this time of the year.”
[This is a communication connection from Earth. It’s from Rose Garden. Should I ignore it?]
“···. A call from Rose Garden? Connect me.”