Spore Story

Chapter 840 Space Journey: Big Ships and Small Ships

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转眼间，漫长的朋族历47年终于在日历上的16月25日被撕掉，变成了1月1日之后结束。

At the annual meeting of the Spring Festival, people warmly welcomed the successful launch of three consecutive spacecraft, especially for the completion of the construction of the spaceship factory at a low orbit altitude of 350 kilometers. Concern within the family for the space enterprise.

Of course, some people's concerns about the low orbit of the spaceship factory have attracted some attention, but it will not have any practical impact.

After all, this is also a helpless move.

Regarding the construction of a spaceship factory with a diameter of one or two kilometers and tens of thousands of tons in a low orbit of 350 kilometers, the people in the space center are probably the most aware of the harm that will be brought to the double moon if there is a problem and a fall. .Because they have conducted several simulations in the fantasy world, the results all showed that it was extremely dangerous.

But what can this be, is it not built because of this?
Therefore, under the argument that "if you don't move forward, you will only be destroyed by bugs, it is better to continue to move forward at the risk", the construction of the space shipyard went smoothly.

The three spaceships with a time interval of about one month are responsible for defending the space shipyard at this time, and at the same time destroying the shipyard if there is a danger of falling.

However, with the low orbit of Shuangyue Star, there are more and more monitoring satellites facing the direction outside the earth. With the help of the system protection that is running out of time, the friends finally got some good news: Zerg's siege of Shuangyue Star Not invulnerable.

If you think about it carefully, the space range of Double Moon Star is so large, unless the Zergs waste a lot of resources to create millions of space Zerg to surround Double Moon Star, otherwise it is impossible to really monitor the entire Double Moon Star airspace.

In the past, the Pengzu was full of loopholes in astronomical observation, and could only check the key areas, and it happened to be full of bugs, but now the satellite monitoring is much clearer and more comprehensive.Therefore, just before the opening of this big annual meeting, the space center has basically launched once every few days, and the accumulated hundreds of external radar monitoring satellites have statistically analyzed six safety hazards that appear from time to time. aisle.

When this situation was brought up at the annual meeting, the crowd was even more excited.

"We now know that the Zergs are not invulnerable, which is good... But we must pay attention that these safe passages cannot be used too frequently, so our idea is to use them once a month... Taking advantage of this big annual meeting, You can also put forward some suggestions, what do you think should be sent out, let’s work together.”

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Then, after half a month of the New Year's Eve, officials from all over the country returned to their jurisdictions, and the space center became one of the busiest floating islands on Double Moon Star.

Kong Huan sat in a new generation of mainline passenger transport boats modified according to the design of motor boats, watching the passenger transport boats shuttle among a group of large and small cargo ships, and finally landed smoothly on a small stop according to the command tower. on the ping.

The hatch is opened, and the connecting bridge outside has been successfully fitted with the hatch, allowing passage.

"Elder, we've arrived at our destination." The steward beside him reminded softly.

"Ah, oh, here we are."

"Yes."

Withdrawing his gaze from the large and small airships outside the porthole, Kong Huan got up, adjusted his clothes, and stepped out.

Not far from the landing point of the passenger transport boat, a huge floating ship was floating in mid-air. The spherical engine on its outside, which was different from the magnetic field power engine, made a slight sound, which attracted the attention of many people.But obviously, its main attraction lies in the more than 400-meter-long body.

The huge body approached the ground little by little, and the huge floating ship finally stopped at a height of 10 meters above the surface under the fearful observation of the surrounding people.

Then, the mechanical arm protruding from the ground dragged it a little bit, and finally it was completely stable on the ground.

This is a 2-ton floating cargo ship, or it is also a test ship. It is no longer equipped with a dual-engine design with a "magnetic field power engine + pumice engine", but has been changed to a technology that is still being improved. The 'Induced Gravity' engine in it.

Because of the appearance of this spaceship, some people in the design department believed that as the Pengzu's research on gravitational waves continued to deepen, "equipment with a single gravity engine" would be one of the standards for the Pengzu's fourth-generation floating ship.Since then, the mode of 'magnetic field engine + pumice stone engine' will withdraw from the stage of history.

But that rhetoric faded away quickly.

The reason is that the airship equipped with an induced gravity engine in the atmosphere consumes three times as much energy as a 'magnetic field engine + pumice engine' under the same conditions.

If this situation is not resolved, the so-called fourth-generation airship standard will never appear.

Now, the biggest problem is energy supply.

With the advancement of various energy technologies of the Pengzu, the consumption of energy is also increasing.The energy storage equipment such as the calcium carbide core in the Pengzu, and the energy lines combined by various natural power stations, can only barely meet the needs now.Seeking further energy sources has become the focus of the current research team on energy technology of the Pengzu.

Of course, these have nothing to do with the purpose of Kong Hua's trip.

After getting off the passenger ship, Kong Huan did not leave the airport, but stood by the porthole, staring intently at the [-]-ton cargo ship that stood out from the crowd.As far as the eye can see, almost all the friends who discovered this giant stopped or slowed down their movements to appreciate another masterpiece of the friends.

At this time, a group of technicians were boarding the ship for inspection.

"Number A0079, this is the third time this big guy has come to the space center, captain," he said with his hands connected to his brain through the 'mental power-electromagnetic' replacement device, and then connected to the display board of the Friends Network , Leia, who was in charge of testing, chatted with the captain on the side with some exclamation.

"Yes, for the third time in two months, and this time it's not just the odds and ends," replied the captain proudly.

"indeed."

After entering the relevant information on the display board, Leia turned to look inside the cargo ship with ample space.

From the outside, this cargo ship is 432 meters long, with a main body diameter of 70 meters and a maximum diameter of 87 meters. There are more than a dozen layers of porthole windows on the outer shell. It seems that the internal space design is compact.

But that's just outward.

Inside the hull, the space is actually quite empty.Except that the upper two floors and the front end are more than 70 meters long, which are equipped with modules such as bridge, dining room, bedroom, lounge, etc., which are designed like ordinary floating ships, the entire rear area is about 350 meters long, 56 meters high, and 51 meters wide. , is a whole empty space.

In this space, you can choose to build honeycomb compartments of different sizes or an overall large warehouse according to the goods that need to be transported.

In fact, it is precisely because of this design that if the mature point-supported pumice engine is used to provide lift, the marine steel will not be able to meet the required strength, which will cause the hull to break when flying at high altitudes. The act of acting as a gravity-inducing engine appeared, thus providing a full-scale anti-gravity effect for the entire hull.

In such a huge void, if it is transported as a whole space, it can even accommodate a friend clan's existing main floating combat ship.

But now, a spaceship with a length of 150 meters and a diameter of 30 meters is actually transported here.

But it was obviously a very large spaceship, but inside the cargo ship, it was lying quietly like a child.

It was the fourth spaceship of the Friends.

"The finished product just produced from the No. [-] shipyard may be the first mass-produced space battleship," the captain explained to Leia on the side.

"So, we'll be busy in the future."

"Haha, yes."

After the trial of the third spacecraft, the Friends officially finalized the first standard space battleship design - the Freedom class.

You can tell from the name that it entrusts the friends' yearning to break through the shackles of the Zerg, and now it has officially started mass construction in dozens of [-]-ton shipyards around the friends.And now this ship was transported from the No. [-] shipyard.Because it is a cosmic design, in order to avoid being too cumbersome, these spaceships do not have the ability to fly inside the atmosphere, so they can only rely on the current behemoth-like cargo ship for transportation.

"Okay, the cargo inspection is accurate, thank you very much," Leia put away the display board in his hand, and stretched out his hand to the captain beside him.

"Thank you, there will be a break for unloading later, go have a drink," the captain also reached out to hold the other party.

"it is good."

After more than ten minutes, the staff of the airport exited the behemoth one after another, and many people looked back at the spaceship in its belly with longing looks on their faces.

Under the various propagandas of the Friends, becoming the Cosmic Army is already the goal of many Friends soldiers and young people, and the appearance of each spaceship means that another group of people will become the Cosmic Army.

"Let's bless this group of lads."

Although there was no cosmic army in the cargo ship, Leia knew that the crew of this spaceship either accompanied the ship or had arrived at the space center first.And when the cargo ship lifted off again and flew towards the interior of the island, Leia looked back, and just saw a familiar figure out of the corner of his eye.

"Elder Void?"

"Elder Void, here is the information you need."

"According to the plan, you will enter low orbit with Liberty tomorrow. Afterwards, Liberty will form the first fleet with the first three spaceships, and you will be responsible for inspecting the first spacefleet of our family and inspecting the situation of the space base at the same time. After that, after half a month, return to the ground in the return capsule... What's your opinion?"

"No objection, just do it like this."

After Kong Huan carefully looked at the arrangement, he looked up at the orderly in front of him.

"However, why are you still using the return capsule? Hasn't the result of the small passenger ship for space round-trips proposed by the designer before been obtained?"

"This... sorry, this is beyond my understanding."

"Oh, sorry, I didn't notice."

He waved his hand to let the other party go away, his mind was still a little confused, and he sat on the deck chair on the balcony, subconsciously stretching out his hand to cover the direct sunlight. His sight seems to have seen the scenery in space.

There is also some anticipation in the empty heart at this moment.

Whether as a human being or as a friend of the main consciousness, Kong Huan has never been to space.And soon, he will start his first space trip in his life, everything has been arranged, all he has to do is enjoy the process.

As for why he was chosen, of course it was because of Kong Huan's initiative.

The reason is very reasonable. It is necessary to personally test the actual effects of various space technologies, and there is also a technical team accompanying it.

Of course, the Executive Yuan would not object to this, and the Presbyterian Court had no reason to refute it, so the matter was settled like this.Imagining the wonderful journey of experiencing space for the first time in his life, he was inexplicably excited, but lying on the recliner and watching the afterglow of the setting sun, he fell asleep unknowingly.

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(End of this chapter)