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The new headquarters is the size of three football pitches, took six years to complete and has 30ft metal slides to connect each floor
A multi-millionaire businessman has forked out a whopping £100m (Ksh 15.1 Billion) to build an office to designed to look like the Starship Enterprise.
Star Trek superfan Liu Dejian, the chairman of China's most popular mobile internet provider, built a giant replica of the spaceship - the size of three football pitches.
The 43-year-old, who is a self-confessed 'Uber Trekkie', has built the world's first officially licensed Star Trek building for his new headquarters in China's Fujian Province, the People's Daily Online reported.
Liu, who is one of the first people to develop the Chinese internet gaming market, is richer than the Queen - with a £390m approximately Ksh 60billion fortune.
News of the build, which took six years to complete, broke when a Star Trek fan spotted a satellite photo on the internet.
It has 30ft metal slides from the third floor to the ground floor and automatic sliding gates between each working area.
His former office was reported to be filled with fun gadgets, including segways, pinball machines, batman toys and a private cinema.
Liu, who is the chairman of NetDragon Websoft, finished the new headquarters last year.
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