Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

The cabin suddenly shook. Tracy turned his head and looked at the "porthole" display on the cabin wall. He saw the overwhelming smoke and dust outside, and his sight slowly rose: "This is..."

"It took off."

Comand clicked on the display in front of him, and then displayed the picture on the display in front of Tracy.Tracy looked at the front view with a translucent UI on the screen in surprise.

Comand explained calmly at the side: "The pilot's flat-panel display interface. On the left is the fuel of the additional propulsion and the altitude of the aircraft, and on the right is the speed and overload of the aircraft. We are going to fly southeast and turn at the position where we basically leave the Terra continent and enter the ocean. into a vertical climb out of the atmosphere."

"...Can't you just fly here?"

Command gave Tracis a blank look: "It won't be long before all Terra knows that someone is running back and forth in the sky and on the ground."

He picked up the communication microphone: "Pilot, report the situation."

The Space Marine pilot on the screen in front of him replied calmly, "Preparations for orbit are almost complete, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel."

"I get it, thank."

Command ended the communication, turned his head, and looked at Tracy with a funny face: "Get ready for the first space flight in your life, Mr. Tracy."

Tracys looked away from the approaching coastline through the porthole, and looked at Comand suspiciously.

The pilot reported calmly: "The anti-gravity system is activated, and the inertial damper is activated."

Tracy: "Huh?"

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, we are about to leave the atmosphere."

Commander: "Understood."

Tracy: "What horse?"

The pilot continued to report: "The horizontal propulsion part of the engine is being adjusted. Please note that a vertical climb is about to take place."

Commander: "Got it, pilot, take off, full speed ahead."

With a violent trembling and low blasting sound, the Stormbird raised its head amidst the roar of the jet engine, and its elevation angle was directed towards the sky.When Tracy almost turned his head to look at Comand in panic, the trembling and roar of the plane became more intense.

Tracy: "Ah—!"

With a sharp scream, the Stormbird broke through the thick white mist stirred up by its own wake on the sea surface, and the thick and solid wings dragged out two slender mist, and amidst the thunderous roar, it rose up from the ground The retrograde meteor shot straight into the sky.

When Tracy experienced the acceleration of gravity of 6G for the first time, he was screaming like being molested; Lieutenant Commander of the Space Fleet, Commander Comand, was boredly recording the content on the touch screen panel in front of him.When the fiery red light on the porthole display disappeared, leaving only dots of starlight on a dark black background outside, and the booster engine separated from the body with a muffled sound of automatic release, Tracy found that the pressure that almost squeezed out her internal organs disappeared up.

He also stopped screaming, turned his head almost angrily, and shouted at the calm Comand next to him: "Why didn't you fucking say it earlier?"

"We just accelerated from almost static to 11.4 kilometers per second... Oh no, the speed of 41000 kilometers per hour took only 30 seconds and flew to an altitude of 250 kilometers above the ground. If there is no anti-gravity system and Inertial damping system, the overload you have to bear can reach [-] to [-] G, but your dignified Sarkaz actually only bears the overload of [-] G, and you are protected by a spacesuit. Don't leave it here. Shame Mr. Tracy, although Manfred has a constipated expression on his face; your sister also gritted her teeth, but none of them screamed like you."

Tracy frowned, and then suddenly realized something was wrong: "Wait, I..."

Comand tapped a few times on the touch screen panel, and then Tracys' safety frame was unlocked and raised: "We have escaped the gravity of the planet Terra to a considerable extent. So you are floating."

"..." Tracy clearly showed the tension of beings who have lived in the gravity environment for a long time and suddenly entered the microgravity environment.He was cautiously adapting to the environment that was suddenly no longer familiar to him. Because of a slightly larger movement, he would float up, so he had to hold on to the safety frame tightly until the activated boot magnetic force allowed him to stand on the floor. Cautiously try to stand still.

Comand lightly left his seat, floated smoothly to the front panel of the cabin like a fish in water, operated it calmly, and finally pressed hard——

Tracy felt herself back on the ground again: "This..."

"Artificial gravity." Comand replied, landing lightly on the floor, "the anti-gravity system is there, isn't it?"

He turned around: "Okay, Mr. Tracy, you can look at the porthole."

Tracy followed Comand's gaze to the porthole.At this altitude, which can only be regarded as a low orbit, the complete sphere of Planet Terra cannot be seen, and only a part of the arc-shaped horizon can be seen, but the shape of Terra Continent above the vast ocean is clearly displayed.

"This......"

Complying with Tracys' astonished tone, Comand said: "This is Terra, your world. It is this thing that now looks only as big as a tea table, and it is everything to you.

"Light and darkness, loyalty and betrayal, reality and ideals, bravery and cowardice, tenacity and wavering, countries, people, wars, peace, heroes, cowards, stars, ordinary people, careers, and life are all on this small sphere. "

Tracy was silent.He first compared the Terra continent from space with the map in his mind, and then turned his attention to the endless vast sky.

He saw the brightest starry sky he had ever seen in his life.

Later, the "Stormbird" aerospace gunship adjusted its posture, and the sun shone in from the porthole, and there were countless bright spots dancing in the beam of light, which were dust in the air.As the spacecraft slowly rotated, Teresi saw the planet again.

**

On-the-spot lectures on the general knowledge of space and spaceflight, and the rendezvous with the optical stealth cruise spy ship made the not-so-short trip extremely exciting in Teresy's view.As the daily patrolling spy ship released the Stormbird gunboat again, this time one of the two satellites of the planet Terra, Palladium, is already close at hand.

"Just now we said that the two satellites of Terra have the same rotation and revolution speed, so they always face Terra with one side, and your observations on Terra can only see the front."

Teresis was very interested: "So your main base is on the back of Pagoda?"

"That's true, but it's not accurate." Command replied.

"Where is the inaccuracy?"

Comand looked through the porthole.At this time, the Stormbird is crossing the line between the front and the back of the tower, and the gray lunar surface terrain such as the endless canyons, mountains and deserts outside is beginning to be swallowed by the darkness: "You will see it soon."

"Really, I...fuck..."

Tracy sat on the chair like a stone sculpture, her expression was frozen and her eyes were straight.Hundreds of kilometers of stretching square concrete gray huge man-made objects unfolded in front of his eyes.

"This, is this your base?"

"No." Command replied calmly, "This is the satellite attitude control and auxiliary propulsion engine test machine No. [-]."

Tracy only felt confused by words she had never heard before: "This... what?"

"Simply put, this is one of the satellite engine groups that are responsible for propelling the voyage of Palladium. The main thrust direction of the attitude control booster engine-you understand it as the direction of the fire, is tangent to the lunar surface. The main propulsion engine It is perpendicular to the lunar surface. Let’s put it this way, the attitude control machine is installed on both sides of the ball, and the main pusher is on the buttocks of the ball!”

"...are you going to take Terra's moons away?"

"This is just a plan verification machine. This is the only one that has been built so far, and there is no guarantee that it will be pushed away." Command said calmly, "But the transformation of natural celestial bodies into giant spacecrafts, as well as the construction and use of giant spacecrafts , the People's Federation is also considered an expert. From the working medium propulsion of heavy nuclear fusion reactors to the assistance of inertial damping systems to the promotion of 'stacked tidal gravity generators', our solutions are rich and experienced. The largest Red Star NO.30 Space Fortress has a diameter of four Twelve hundred kilometers, a satellite is nothing.”

The Stormbird was passing over the test machine, and Comand continued to introduce: "This stretching for hundreds of kilometers is actually mainly a buffer wall. These continuous giant cubes are connected in series by a shock-absorbing structure and are rigidly connected to the tower satellite body; the front is engine body.

"Of course, the main body of the engine is not small. It is 25 kilometers in width, 400 kilometers in depth, and [-] kilometers in height. As you can see, it is embedded in the wall of the crater. The depth of the crater is [-] kilometers. A thousand and four hundred meters were dug into the wall to make room for the engine."

Tracys didn't answer, it's not that he wasn't surprised and shocked, but that his heart was numb under extreme shock and trembling.

"The reason why Pagoda is used as the rear base for working on Terra is because there are complete relics of pre-civilization on this satellite. You also know this, too many things come from the 'ancestors'. However, we Not your 'ancestors'. And it's still in the development and exploration phase for Palladium. One of our main entities, where-"

Stormbird happened to be flipping its fuselage, so the portholes showed a view of the moon hovering over the back of Palladium.

A small part of the Space Fleet of the 113th Division of the Extraterrestrial Armed Production and Construction Corps of the Human Future Community Alliance is sleeping quietly, like a continuous steel mountain.The largest main peak in the center of this mountain range is a whole dodecagonal continent.

Tracy's first reaction was "Continent."

"The ten-round star castle 'Tomorrow's Ark', with a diameter of 120 kilometers, is the current star castle of our 113th Division as the administrative and living center."

"...You mean, there's more than one of these things?"

"That's right, most of the fleet and other small and medium-sized star castles with specialized functions have gone to other planets for development and construction."

"..."

Chapter 59 Tracys in Space 2

vitality......

This was Tracys' first impression of the interior of the "Tomorrow's Ark".

The main structure of each ten-wheel star castle can be equipped with ten giant modules. The maximum size of these modules can reach 150 kilometers in diameter and [-] kilometers in height, which is equivalent to the sum of the volumes of the largest mobile cities.This makes it look like a regular dodecagonal steel plate with ten screws screwed in each corner at first glance, and its main thruster array occupies two corners and one side.

The location where the Storm Bird carrying him flew into was the barracks module.

This barracks is part of the ten-round Star Fort of the "Ark of Tomorrow". According to the relevant regulations of the People's Federation of Armed Forces, the defense force of the Star Fort itself must be stationed in the main part.The rest of the troops will be stationed in the giant functional modules connected to the backbone of the Star Fort. The "Tomorrow's Ark" barracks module contains an entire Red Scythe Space Marine Assault Regiment and various other bloodline Space Marines, as well as Space Marine Auxiliary units and mortal-based Defense Force units.Here are their residences and training facilities.

When Tracy stepped out of the Storm Eagle, he saw an entire hangar of hundreds of Space Marine fighters, bombers, and gunboats.

He followed Comand in silence, shuttling through this vast sea of ​​technical equipment, and listened to Commande's slightly smug introduction:

"There are 113 Space Marines in the 270th Division. Most of them are commanders and fighters of the assault regiment, and some are in research, administrative, management and command positions. Even so, the assault regiment has more than [-] Space Marine commanders and fighters. , and has twice the strength of the commanders and fighters of the auxiliary army."

Tracy's voice trembled a little: "Space fighters... [-]?"

Comand turned back, gave him a look of almost pity, and then walked towards the door not far away.Tracy followed behind, and the two of them shuttled through the long corridor and the up and down stairs, and then when another door opened, they were greeted with loud noises.

Nearby is a square adjacent to a large road.This dome is 40 meters high. Under it are space warriors, mortal infantry in power armor, and various moving and stationary light vehicles standing or running in formation. There are also strange technical sergeants and technical sergeants who are followed by a large number of servitors and iron men. Mechanicus.An officer was shouting to the entire row of soldiers in front of him: "Repeat it for the last time! See the Mechanic Priest——"

The soldiers answered in unison: "Praise Omnissia!"

"See Sister Red Armband!"

"In the name of the Emperor, sister!"

"See the tech sergeant with the new guy on his back!"

"Bypass immediately, Comrade Lieutenant!"

"Very well, all there, run--go!"

In the distance, although the ceiling height is still 40 meters, the ground has gradually changed from a solid composite floor to a gravel plain covering tens of square kilometers.Under the dense visible light and ultraviolet light tubes, there are large stretches of camps and training grounds.There are support columns with a diameter of tens of meters between the barracks, the repair shop, the modular houses and the tents.The gravel on the plain has been crushed into sand.On a flat training ground that people can see, dozens of super heavy tanks, battle tanks and armored vehicles are undergoing driving and formation training.

Teresi stared wide-eyed at the barracks, and suddenly heard a low rumble coming from the road.

He turned his head and looked with a horrified expression at the high-speed rail transportation system that is divided into five layers above the highway. The people's coalition forces, or the whole regiment of tanks and armored vehicles and other various military vehicles.These hundreds of transport carriages fly past people's heads at a speed of 150 kilometers per hour, bringing a gust of wind.

"This ring road is located between the main body of the Star Fort and the surrounding modules, and is the main transportation artery of the Star Fort. It undertakes the most important task of internal traffic, so if you want to understand the overall structure and functional distribution of the Star Fort, It is the most appropriate way to take a turn on this comprehensive main road with a total length of [-] kilometers."

So Tracy followed Comand in a dazed look on a light anti-gravity floating boat driven by a space soldier, and then continued his grandma Liu's public-funded tour of the Grand View Garden.

Every ten-round star castle is a valuable property of the People's Federation, and of course there must be 24-hour uninterrupted internal patrols.This series of missions covers all parts of the Star Castle, almost no corners are spared.Patroling on the main road is the most comfortable patrolling task. You don't have to fumble in small and dark spaces, but it's quite interesting.Because although the 120-kilometer-diameter ten-wheel class is a medium-sized star castle, it is also large enough to have a complete set of tracks and road internal transportation systems to support it to operate effectively.And this wide road is constantly flowing day and night, and there are always countless vehicles and people. It is a new scene for the first time seeing people.

All kinds of military and civilian vehicles, such as tanks, armored vehicles, transport vehicles and off-road vehicles with relatively normal size, are driving on standard roads; those giant transport vehicles, which are tens of meters long and 20 meters high, are full of various goods and travel at high speed on their dedicated routes. March; heavily armed military and police patrols walk on sidewalks or drive on roads.

People watched friendlyly the people and coalition soldiers appearing on the road, just avoiding the technical sergeants and mechanical priests as much as possible-who knows if they will carry experimental products that may suddenly explode; The suppression insulation material "black iron" is the frame of the carriage, and the chassis comes directly from the super transporter of the super heavy tank; the most comfortable transporter is modified from the Land Raider, and they are responsible for transporting students from various schools on Star Fort They - there are universities on every star castle, and these vehicles also have the highest priority to pass the level.

There are also the state church priests who are forced to be secularized in the tide of change, and the fighting nuns who are decoupled from the church and exist as fanatic fighters-the state church organization eventually became an auxiliary agency of the grassroots government, and the fighting nuns rely on the death-consciousness Style became the gendarmerie, picket and traffic police.

On a ten-wheel star castle, there are two companies just for the command and control unit in the road traffic. Under the guidance of the combat nuns, a large number of people are alive or hobbling like huge worms Arching between the giant gates, there is an energetic and somewhat rigid atmosphere.

The camouflage of the army, the professional attire of administrative personnel, the dark blue of workers, the dark color of police... The various and uniform uniforms are the part that impressed Tracy the most among the many distinctive features of Renlianju.The uniforms of various colors make this hundreds of kilometers long road look like a slideshow of constantly changing colors.

"Your first visit goal is the industrial block!"

Without Comand's introduction, Tracy, who was looking around, could see exactly where they were about to pass: as far as he could see, the trucks on the road were all transporting ore.Whether it is road or rail transit, groups of vehicles and wagons drive into the huge entrance with a width of hundreds of meters one by one; and various products are continuously spit out from the exit.

All kinds of robots, big and small, are flexible or clumsy on the square, walking on various transport vehicles by themselves; all kinds of new vehicles that have not yet been painted - from super heavy tanks, knight mechs, From the Stormbird and the Thunderhawk gunboat to the off-road vehicles that can only seat two people, they either drive on their own power or are pulled out on a flatbed vehicle; the above-mentioned things are only a small part of the output, and the main force of transportation is still above the main road The traffic track, where the trains are like an infinitely long snake, pouring out of the block without stopping.

Every ten-wheel class must be equipped with at least one industrial module combination, which means all industrial production capabilities from mining to finished products.In this block, everything from screws to knight mechs can be produced, which is enough to support the land warfare battlefield of an entire planetary system.

Under the operation of industrial production and the roar of its products, the ceiling of this section of the main road around Star Fort was blackened by various exhaust gases, and a giant ventilation fan with a diameter of ten meters was constantly rotating.Although this is a military and industrial center, it is not a comfortable place.

But here's what shocked Tracy the most on the trip—