Earth Invasion

Chapter 261 Broken Star
In the solar system, with the current technology, the inner ring planets are actually a bit tasteless.The Mars route that was once hyped is now almost no one cares about it. Even if it is a satellite of Mars, countries around the world have only put some probes on it.As for landing on the surface of Mars, well, basically no one wants to go to Mars anymore except to show off.

This is actually very simple. The position of Mars and its mass are really uninteresting.

First of all, Mars has an atmosphere, although it is a thin layer, which also blocks the nuclear fusion fuel thrown by the sun, such as helium III.If energy is needed, human beings are more willing to go to the moon and the large satellites in the asteroid belt to find it, or directly think of Jupiter like SCO.In terms of mineral resources, the mass of Mars is much greater than that of the asteroid belt, but because of this, the gravitational well of Mars is much larger than that of the moon.In this way, mineral mining must be carried out under the same gravity conditions as on the earth, and the gravity of Mars is different from that of the earth, and the mining equipment under these gravity conditions has to be redesigned.

What's more terrible is the cost of climbing the gravity well.Human beings who have been fed up by the gravity-free mining method in the asteroid belt have not even bothered to climb the gravity well of the moon.Unless there are a large number of high-grade heavy and rare metal deposits like on Assyria, otherwise, it is most interesting to dig an asteroid into cheese in the asteroid belt.

Although there is nothing on Mars that is of interest to humans, Mars itself is still very useful in the eyes of these spaceflighters, for example, when a gravitational slingshot makes a spacecraft flying to the asteroid belt faster, or makes it easier to fly through an accelerator. The accelerating spacecraft uses the gravitational pull of Mars' rotation to steer.And the spacecraft flying back from the wormhole is slowing down near the orbit of Mars.

In short, Mars is still very competent as a relay station for a journey.

According to the early navigation regulations, the spacecraft cannot be unattended when it enters the planetary orbit, and then in the later development, the captain must be on the bridge when entering the planetary orbit.Although the spaceship loaded with the on-board control personality can complete the series of actions from entering orbit to detaching by itself, the rule that the captain must be on the bridge has become a convention, something close to superstition.

The reddish-brown planet has already come into view. In order to obtain faster gravitational acceleration, Glide [-] continued to adjust its altitude to the surface of Mars, and soon entered the synchronous orbit of Mars.

Comparing the star map, Glider-[-] continued to lower the altitude. The sun seen from the direction of the celestial sphere just now fell into the shadow of Mars quickly, and then the speed of the spacecraft continued to increase. According to this speed, I am afraid that after a while, the sun will It will rise again.This kind of running after the sun was very exciting when humans had not left the earth, but now it is just commonplace.

A reminder of "You have new news" jumped out from the public information channel. Liuli has already filtered this message to confirm that there is no attack virus or anything.Thanks to those hard-working telecom operators, there are more than 700 high-power relay stations distributed in the universe between the earth and the asteroid belt. Although there will be some time delay, it is still in the communication network of the earth , so as not to bore those on the go to death.

And some idle and annoying characters also joined in because of these high-power forwarding stations.For example, Dongfang Hao received this message.

"Welcome to Mars, the red planet is Earth's brother, so please develop Mars. - Thrive Mars team."

"This cheating NGO is still alive?" Dongfang Hao was surprised that the organization that had been tirelessly sending this so-called big-character poster of developing Mars to people passing by near Mars decades ago still existed.You must know that because of the heavy-duty mass accelerator, many manned ships no longer take the Mars route, and many of the accelerated and decelerated ships near Mars are unmanned standard containers.And people coming back from planet Assyria will not be interested in Mars either.

"I know, there are always weird people these days, and there are always boring people." Sophie searched for the nearby gravitational data, and at the same time inquired about the specific azimuth coordinates and orbit of the target on the official website of the Asteroid Committee. .Although it is known that it is in the Sili family, but the Sili family has grown up, and it is necessary to find the revolution orbits of those asteroids stored in the committee database.

But even with the orbital data, it is not easy to find a specific asteroid, because this kind of asteroid that has been mined for a long time will have an orbital shift due to a large change in mass.So even if there is stored orbit data, it is only a reference of the approximate position.At that time, it still depends on the various detection equipment on the battleship.

"By the way, Captain. I have a suggestion." Sophie raised her head after searching the target data.

"Say." Dongfang Hao was a little listless.Rei Nakajima fiddled with those virtual control devices in the position of the military controller, and Dongfang Hao was somewhat surprised by the psychological quality of this petite and cute spy.After all, according to Dongfang Hao's estimation, this woman has already found out that she is abnormal due to her deliberate exposure.

"I suggest that we go to the Flora Star Clan first." Sophie didn't pay much attention to whether Rei Nakajima was different from usual.As for sleeping with the captain, the life in L1 and space is very boring and boring, and it is common for men and women to go to bed after seeing each other.Except for the stubborn person Xia Jia, everyone else on the boat had a chaotic private life.

"Go there?" Dongfang Hao pondered for a moment, "How much fresh food and uncirculated water do we have?"

"It still looks like two-thirds." When the cook was away, Sophie took over the inventory and records of logistics supplies, and the things Dongfang Hao asked were in her mind.

"Well, that's fine, let's go to the Flora Star Clan to replenish fresh food and water, and at the same time go to the Hilton Hotel to relax."

"Where are you still going?" Sophie's face was not very good. "That big hotel seems to be a disaster for us. We went there twice and didn't encounter any good things."

"Don't be superstitious, we've been wandering in space for so long, of course we're going to the Hilton Hotel to relax."

"Okay, okay." Sophie shrugged desperately, "One more thing."

"Can you finish it all at once?"

"Be careful next time." Sophie replied without sincerity, "The Star Destroyer Betelgeuse in the SCO asteroid belt has issued an area closure announcement. The Revolver is going to conduct a star fragmentation operation recently. I'll forget it." For a moment, it will be shortly after we arrive at the Flora Star Clan. Shall we visit this rare scene?"

"Broken Star?" Dongfang Hao curled his lips, "It's just crushing a big rock, what's so interesting about that."

Although Dongfang Hao called the star-breaking operation of the Gyro-class star-breaking mining ship "cracking a big rock".But this is just a joking statement by Dongfang Hao.The real star breaking operation is much more complicated than what he said.

Even this kind of star-breaking operation itself has become a sightseeing project, so that people can remember what is the biggest project that human technology can accomplish for the time being.

When Glide [-] entered the Huahuashen Star Clan, it was just in time for the Star Destroyer Rigel to issue a partial flight closure notice.This time Gliding No. [-] will honestly stay in the Flora Star Clan and wait to watch a broken star operation.

Revolver-class star-breaking mining ship, this thing with a length of more than 30 kilometers is more of a spaceship than a moving industrial satellite.This thing itself is built using the frame of the asteroid, which is an irregular long strip.At the stern of the spaceship, a ring-shaped area for habitation attached to the tail was shining with silver light, and at this time, the ring had already been separated from the gyrator, and the main part of the gyrator was heading towards the broken star. The target of the operation - an asteroid with a diameter of one kilometer.

From the perspective of the SCO mining team, this kind of asteroid is very tasteless.It's not big enough to scoop cheese out of it and leave a full silicate or carbonate framework to make something else.And it has enough quality, it is really difficult for ordinary mining ships to completely disassemble this thing.

And the broken star function of the spinner class is just right for it.

On the tail of the broken star mining ship, a plasma battery array like layers of petals has been opened.The propulsion system at the tail was also dimmed, and the thrust generated was only used to fix this big guy with a length of more than 30 kilometers.

And across the asteroid, on the opposite side of the Gyro, the Star Destroyer Rigel has also stabilized its relative position to the Gyro.On the bridge of Rigel, Ji Jianzhang was nervously synchronizing with the time of the Revolver.

"Spinner, spinner, Rigel calls, Rigel calls."

"Returners received, please tell."

"Spinner, Rigel has entered the T0 state, please increase the power of the deflection electric field, and the directional magnetic field is ready to create a funnel!"

"The gyrator understands, now send the remote sensing detection data of the target asteroid, please adjust the mass of the heavy particles of the hot melt cutter according to its internal density!"

"Betelgeuse understands that I have locked the total mass of the heavy particles at 75 kilograms according to the thickness of the rock formation and the mixing density, and the speed remains unchanged. After cutting, the residual amount of heavy particles is within the tolerance range of the gyratory."

"The spinner understands, the parameters are approved! Enter the T1 state!"

In the eyes of the onlookers, an abnormal distortion suddenly appeared on the front end of the Cyclone.And on the bow of the Star Destroyer on the opposite side, a white light like a small sun began to appear.

“111级工程舰参宿七号，No.11次碎星作业开始！重粒子热熔切割器准备就绪！核定功率70.00%三点九，照射时间27秒！工作质量75千克！照射开始！”

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