Earth Invasion

Chapter 262 The Incomparable Revolver

A bluish white beam shone along the edge of the asteroid.Even if there is no direct medium for temperature transmission in vacuum, just the radiation of light will turn the edge of the asteroid into a viscous dark red.Like a wound grazed by a sharp blade, the soft tissues on both sides rolled up.

And the people watching the excitement hundreds of kilometers away couldn't help opening their mouths in surprise, because the end point of this deadly beam turned out to be a gyrator-class mining ship!
Could it be that the Chinese have screwed up their broken star mining this time, and it is impossible to take a gyratory class?

Of course, this is what ordinary people think, and those who have been lucky enough to see the Star Fragmentation operation know exactly what will happen next.

A white-blue beam of light like Zeus' thunder hit the bow of the Revolver.Strangely, however, the Revolver was not directly penetrated as one would expect.The part of its bow that was emitting an abnormal twist was like a big mouth, swallowing the entire beam of light!

The Revolver, which was still completely black just now, looked like a glowing fish in the deep sea, starting from the bow, it lit up section by section.It also seems that the parade floats at the carnival began to bloom with dazzling colors.

Before the star-shattering operation, all the superconducting battery stacks on the Gyro have been emptied, and then the entire satellite has been powered off. Except for the central control center and the deflection electric field generating device at the bow, the Gyro is pitch black. The entire Starshatter mining ship has become a power release well.

Behind the bow deflection electric field, the electromagnetic conversion field composed of a nearly ten-kilometer-long magnetic field generator converts the torrent of energy into electricity again. In a short period of time, the power supply of the Revolver was restored, and then The superconducting battery stack, which is the largest release well, has also begun to store electricity visible to the naked eye.

The main gun of the Star Destroyer is actually a heavy particle fusion cutter used for star breaking operations.This thing is actually a heavy particle cannon capable of continuous irradiation.It's just that the heavy particle cannons on ordinary battleships work in pulses, but this one is irradiated continuously.

However, even with twelve fusion furnaces, this kind of firepower that can cut through asteroids is not easy to last.It is difficult for the heavy particle cannon on a general battleship to continue to irradiate even at the millisecond level, not to mention that the Star Destroyer has to last up to 1 minute of irradiation when cutting an asteroid.

After the heavy particle cannon penetrates the asteroid, if it is normal, the remaining radiation and ultra-high-speed plasma will rush to the universe, and then dissipate naturally in a long enough distance.But this is a colossal waste.In order to be able to sustain the irradiation cut, this energy must be recovered.

Therefore, the only thing capable of this task is a spinner class with sufficient volume.

"Main battery stack reaches maximum voltage!"

"Energy transmission begins!"

The reflection profiles of a dozen free electron transport systems on the surface of the gyratory glowed together, and on Rigel, the plasma batteries it carried were already stretched to their maximum like cascading petals.

The brilliant light shone on the battery array of the Star Destroyer like the sun.The light of the hot melt cutter seems to be brighter and thinner.

At the same time, the vector propulsion array at the bottom of Rigel was fully activated, and the entire Star Destroyer began to move in a circle around the Revolver at a seemingly slow but actually very fast speed.And the middle of the two behemoths is connected together by the light of the heavy particle fusion cutter.

The extremely powerful beam of light is like a huge table knife, and it is scorching hot.The asteroid, whose diameter is calculated in kilometers, was quickly and neatly cut open like a baked cheese potato.

The Star Destroyer Rigel continued to move, and the Revolver also began to adjust its bow pointing.On the cross section of the asteroid, the silicate directly melted by the hot melt cannon turned into bright yellow flowing magma, just like the cream flowing from this delicious cheese potato.

Soon, the asteroid became a neat two.And the star destroyer's heavy particle melta cannon also ended the irradiation just right.

"The first stage is completed, Rigel successfully completed the cutting task, the heavy particle hot-melt cutter at the bow of the ship began to enter the cooling process, the deflection electric field in the front hemisphere recovered, and now the ship enters the escort patrol state."

After finishing the work of the saw blade, Ji Jianzhang finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although he seemed to complete this task with ease and ease when an outsider opened the fence, only he knew that he was sweating a lot.This kind of star-like power puts him in a state of fear most of the time. After all, the energy consumed by this kind of continuous irradiation and the quality of the projection are not of the same order of magnitude. There is no way to achieve dynamic balance with the recovery and feedback... well, there is no way to achieve dynamic balance, it is just that the cutting operation takes longer, and then wastes a little more.But if the gyrator doesn't catch it.

Ji Jianzhang quickly shook his head, throwing away this terrifying thought.

Taking a closer look on the bridge, the Gyro has adjusted its attitude and distance. The two half-drawn asteroids that are flying in different directions happen to be half in the front hemisphere of the Gyro.

The several kilometers long, three-lobed "big mouth" of the Cyclone class opened, like some deep-sea monster.

Then, the mouth clicked, biting into half of the potato that had just been cut open.

The deflection electric field generator on the inner wall of the big mouth began to operate at full power, and the huge energy stored in the heavy ion melta cannon just swallowed began to be released.In front of the strong eddy current deflecting the electric field, the half of the asteroid began to disintegrate comprehensively within the mouth.

The surface of the asteroid is scraped off layer by layer by the eddy current of the deflecting electric field like a huge file, and becomes fragments ranging from a few meters to tens of centimeters in diameter, and then these fragments are completely destroyed by the directional magnetic field. Pushing deep into the mouth, it was as if a monster was grinding the thing with its teeth and swallowing it.As the mouth slowly closed, the disintegration speed of the asteroid also began to accelerate, and its volume gradually shrank.

Inside the Revolver, more than a dozen fully automatic crushing operation belts are running at full speed, and the remote working terminals patrolling back and forth are patrolling back and forth under the operation of the workers in the central control room.The crushing of an asteroid with a diameter of one kilometer can yield tens of millions of cubic ores.Before carrying out the star breaking operation, the workship attached to the Revolver has cleaned the surface dust of the entire asteroid, and heated and evaporated the dust to obtain dozens of grams of helium third-class light fusion fuel.Although little is better than nothing, the SCO has always adhered to the principle that even a small mosquito is meat.

After the star breaking operation is completed, these ores will be directly crushed by the advanced automatic crushing device, and the water washing and screening device on the gyratory will perform the first rough treatment on these crushed ores, and those that can be dissolved Substances separated from water.These dissolved particles are then screened out in reverse osmosis water purification equipment.Things that can react with water are directly precipitated and become chemical raw materials.

There is no gravity in space, and the flotation and gravity separation methods used in ground mineral processing cannot be used in space. On the Cyclone, electric separation and magnetic separation are generally used.

After all these steps are completed.These ore powders that have been sorted and processed will be divided into two parts.Part of it will be loaded into standard containers, and will be launched back to Earth by the electromagnetic accelerator on the gyratory, and the other part will be completely dissolved and refined by the huge energy generated by the central fusion furnace and solar panels on the gyratory, and become metal. finished product.

According to the refining capacity of the Revolver, after a star fragmentation, almost a quarter of the ore does not need to be sent back to Earth, and these ore powders are directly turned into metal ingots in space.

This is also one of the reasons why the space circle and NATO have all kinds of envy and hatred for this mobile space industrial island.

It took a long time to swallow half of the asteroid, and the entire disintegration, smashing, and storage operations took the Revolver almost forty hours.During this event, the other half of the asteroid that was cut off has been bolted on with huge expansion bolts.Dozens of giant planetary mobile devices were fixed on the cut huge plane.Moreover, after the asteroid was cut open, it had already moved quite a distance. The Revolver was digesting in situ, and the Star Destroyer Rigel could not be too far away. Several escorting cruisers and destroyers left the formation, Slowly following behind, watching a cruiser painted with a space ring number and a nebula pattern command a large group of industrial ships to circle the half of the asteroid like a swarm of bees.

According to the agreement reached before the star-breaking operation, the split asteroid was purchased by a mining company in the space circle, and this cruiser was here to tow this thing away.

Working on this flat working profile is much more comfortable than drilling holes in the pristine rough surface.And for D who makes his home in space. S. As far as A is concerned, these silicate frames are also useful things.

A traffic boat broke away from the cruiser, drew a graceful arc, and flew towards the Star Destroyer Rigel.

"D.S.A traffic boat requests to enter the dock."

"Agreed." Ji Jianzhang straightened his collar button, took off his military uniform, and put on a suit.

The Star Destroyer is also known as a 111-class industrial ship. Of course, the command authority in wartime is in the center, but in normal times, this command authority will be partly taken by the space industry department.Therefore, the captain of this ship is not destined to have a single identity.For example, when selling cut asteroids, Ji Jianzhang has to dress like a dog and sign a contract with them.

This is also his most annoying thing.

And wait for the SCO's Revolver and the escort fleet to digest the asteroid and move on to the next target with satisfaction.The impatient space miners who had been waiting in the outer circle immediately rushed towards the Broken Star area like a group of sardines.They chased each other, so lively.

Eating a cookie yields crumbs, and eating an asteroid produces crumbs.An asteroid whose diameter is calculated in kilometers has a volume of hundreds of millions of cubic meters, and the debris produced is also amazing.These leftover materials were intentionally or unintentionally thrown aside by SCO.And those small miners, like vultures, waited for the SCO ship to go away, and then rushed to grab these residues, and they did not hesitate to fight.

Some people made malicious comments, just like those who feed fish by the pond, sprinkle a handful of fish food and watch a group of fish scramble like crazy.And a small miner said that if he went to explore by himself, he would probably lose all his money, but if he competed here, he could at least maintain his own livelihood, which is life.From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with being a fish scrambling for fish food.

　Continue to cut stars, why don't you give tickets
　　
　
(End of this chapter)