Homo sapiens.

The two Levi's rings in the powertrain quickly enter fusion operation.

When the soldier in charge of controlling the thruster pressed the start button, the thruster began to spit out aluminum ions that were ionized into plasma.

The aluminum ions accelerated to 15% of the speed of light left a cutting track on the runway, and the blocking plate set up behind also appeared densely packed with potholes.

If it is aimed at other spaceships, it can tear a hole in the spaceship in an instant.

Soon, driven by the manic plasma, the Qinglong class moved forward slowly, and the speed became faster and faster.

In less than 100 seconds, the battleship flew to the universe along the ramp runway. The moon with low gravity and no atmosphere is very convenient for taking off large spaceships.

It was just that as the Qinglong-class ship flew into the universe, the staff of the spaceport also controlled the robot to conduct a careful inspection of the runway.

The results are not optimistic.

The runway was cut with a very obvious crack by the plasma, the crack reached a depth of 4 to 6 centimeters and a width of 15 meters.

This situation basically means that the runway has been abolished.

The person in charge of the spaceport quickly reported the situation.

But there is no way above, after all, the destruction of the runway by ultra-high-speed plasma thrusters is basically unsolvable.

Existing spaceport runways are all made of six-claw silicon steel or bio-silicate polymers. No matter how good these materials are, they cannot withstand the impact of dense particles.

The high-speed plasma thruster is a necessary condition for realizing the high-speed navigation of the spacecraft, which is indispensable.

After discussions, the Development Research Departments of several departments came up with some proposals.

For example, reduce the landing of spacecraft equipped with high-speed plasma thrusters, and use special handover spacecraft to be responsible for the transportation between spacecraft, planets, and space stations.

Those spaceports that need to land are specially equipped with exclusive runways. This kind of runway has several requirements. The first is cheap, the second is disposable, and the third is convenient and quick maintenance.

After all, it is impossible not to land all the time. Homo sapiens' spacecraft needs to be overhauled once a year.

Of course, the company can also choose another option, which is to use the space dock, and arrange the annual maintenance work of the spacecraft in the space dock.

But now Homo sapiens owns a very large number of spaceships, including 758 military warships and 9673 civilian spaceships.

And this scale is still increasing every year.

However, Homo sapiens has only three space shipyards, and the remaining space shipyards and maintenance plants are all set up on the moons of the moon, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter.

Now we have to make two preparations. On the one hand, we need to increase the size of the space dock, and on the other hand, we need to transform a number of special ground spaceports to facilitate the landing of the upgraded spacecraft.

Chapter 636: Advance by leaps and bounds

The Qinglong-class space battleship flying to Mars reached a speed of 20 kilometers per second after 200 hours of continuous acceleration.

At this time, it is 1.6 million kilometers away from Mars.

At a speed of 200 kilometers per second, it only takes 222 hours to travel to Mars.

Of course, considering the deceleration and acceleration time, it is estimated that it will take 237 hours to reach Mars.

In less than 10 days, you can fly from Earth to Mars, which is already very fast.

Captain Yin Siyong and several pilots are staring at the star area monitoring system in the cockpit.

The speed of the battleship is extremely fast, but the risks involved also increase.

At the speed of the Qinglong class at this time, once it hits an asteroid, the consequences will be shipwreck and death. Although Yin Siyong and others are serving with synchronous robots, the cost of a Qinglong class is quite a lot.

Therefore, they must keep an eye on the monitoring data of the star area, and all asteroids with a diameter of more than 1 centimeter must be monitored.

"Report, an asteroid with a diameter of 14783 meters was detected 3.4 kilometers ahead."

"Report……"

Yin Siyong looked at the densely packed asteroids on the star map of the monitoring holographic projection, with a very cautious face.

Although there are very few large asteroids, there are not a few asteroids with a few centimeters to a few meters between the orbits of the Earth and Mars.

And these asteroids are a deadly threat to high-speed spacecraft.

Sailing too fast is also an annoyance.

First officer Michelle thought for a while, then turned his head and suggested: "Captain, if a new power system is equipped on a large scale in the future, the speed of the spacecraft will be very fast, and the asteroids on the route must be cleaned up."

"Well, I will propose to the headquarters." Of course Yin Siyong knew that the asteroid on the route was a problem that must be taken seriously.

Not paying attention now, the company will have more and more spacecraft in the future, which is a huge hidden danger.

During the flight, the warship constantly adjusted its flight direction.

Fortunately, the battleship has already entered the state of inertial flight at this time, and does not need additional power to continue to accelerate, but the auxiliary thrusters that change the direction of navigation, and the internal power system of the battleship do not use nuclear fusion to generate electricity, but nuclear fission reactors.

The reason why nuclear fission reactors are used is to use good steel on the cutting edge for cost-effectiveness.

The nuclear fusion power system is mainly used in the power supply of the main propeller and weaponry, while the electric energy of the nuclear fission reactor is used in the auxiliary propulsion and internal power consumption.

As such.

For this voyage, the nuclear fusion power system will start after 20 hours of acceleration and 20 hours of deceleration.

It was only powered on for 40 hours before and after, and only two of the Levi's rings were activated, which greatly improved the service time of the lithium carbon nanolayer of the nuclear fusion power system.

In this way, the nuclear fusion power system of this Qinglong class can fly back and forth from the earth to Mars 150 to 180 times before the lithium carbon nanolayer of the nuclear fusion power system needs to be replaced.

210 hours later.

At this point the battleship was very close to Mars.

Yin Siyong immediately ordered: "Start slowing down!"

Next to the main propeller at the back of the battleship, there are six secondary propellers. The nozzles of these secondary propellers are all slanted forward and outward, just in the opposite direction from the main propeller.

The function of these six secondary propellers is exactly to decelerate.

As the two Levi's rings of the fusion power system are activated again, the six secondary thrusters begin to spew dense, high-speed plasma.

The speed of the battleship decreased accordingly.

It is estimated that after 20 hours, the speed of the warship will drop to about 6 kilometers per second. At that time, the warship will just be captured by the gravity of Mars and become a "satellite" of Mars.

And the rotation orbit of Mars.

Phobos and Deimos have completely turned into the shape of Homo sapiens, and the surface of the stars is densely covered with various artificial facilities.

Among them, Phobos is the location of the first Mars shipyard, and it is also the spaceport where the Qinglong-class warship plans to berth.

20 hours later.

This Qinglong-class space battleship slowly docked not far from Phobos, and the distance between the two sides was less than 150 kilometers.

About half an hour later, a maintenance spacecraft came to the side of the Qinglong class.

A large number of maintenance personnel boarded the Qinglong class and began to conduct a comprehensive overhaul of the battleship, especially the nuclear fusion power system that was boarded for the first time, which was the focus of the overhaul.

In addition, the maintenance of the spacecraft also brings a large amount of water resources. These water resources are the nuclear fuel of the nuclear fusion power system. Water is ionized, of which hydrogen is used as the fuel for nuclear fusion, and oxygen is used as the working fluid of the plasma propulsion.

Water is the best fuel for spacecraft to sail in the inner solar system. After all, pure hydrogen is very troublesome to store. Water can kill two birds with one stone. Hydrogen is used as nuclear fuel, and oxygen is used as the working fluid of plasma propulsion, and the storage of water is very simple.

Yin Siyong and others saw that the overhaul still needed about 50 hours, so they took off the synchronization robot of the battleship, and then temporarily launched the synchronization robot of Zhurong City on Mars, and came here for a tour.

Mars Zhurong City.

Not on Mars, but in a synchronous orbit of Mars.

This is a huge spiral-armed space city with a length of 15 kilometers. In order to build this space city, Homo sapiens hollowed out more than a dozen iron-nickel asteroids in the asteroid belt.

The end of the huge spiral arm is the standard gravity living area.

Eight spiral arms are connected in ring-shaped cabins one by one.

Yin Siyong came to the standard gravity zone through the synchronous robot, where the pseudo-gravity is similar to the gravity of the earth.

The ring chamber is also very huge, with a diameter of 300 meters.

There are 2793 new humans living here.

Standing on the ground of the ring-shaped cabin, it seems to be on the surface of the earth. There are special villas on the ground, and there are a lot of flowers and trees.

Yin Siyong even saw some dragonflies and bees.

"It seems that this quasi-gravity can already replace the earth's gravity."

"Probably not yet!" First officer Michelle squatted next to a field of tulips, and he could smell the strong fragrance of tulips.

That's right, the new generation of synchronous robots can smell and give the same taste back to the body.

Yin Siyong shook his head: "Actually, there is a way for Mars to become Earth."

"Could you mean the additive plan? This project is too risky, and the headquarters probably won't agree." Michelle stood up with a look of surprise.

The so-called additive plan is one of Homo sapiens' backup plans for transforming Mars.

Its core principle is to fill Mars with these minerals by transporting asteroids in the asteroid belt and excavating some of Jupiter’s satellite minerals.

As long as Mars has the same mass as Earth, then Mars has the same gravity as Earth.

This solution can solve the gravity problem of Mars once and for all, but the risk of doing so is very high, and the plan is currently shelved.

Chapter 637

The annular cabin is a cabin every 500 meters.

These cabins are divided into "living cabin", "working cabin", "entertainment cabin", "service cabin", "medical cabin" and the like according to their functions.

In addition, there is an emergency escape spaceship at the bottom of each cabin. In case of emergency, you can take the escape spaceship to leave Zhurong City.

Yin Siyong and his party came to the entertainment cabin.

There are facilities such as cinemas, sports fields, chess and card rooms, gymnasiums, and libraries.

The new humans living in Zhurong City knew that they were synchronous robots when they saw Yin Siyong and others with human-faced robot bodies.

Since they are in the state of robots, they don’t need to enter gyms and sports fields. After all, it’s useless if the robot body is in motion. As for using the robot body to compete with others, it’s just looking for a fight.

Yin Siyong looked at the beautiful girls in the swimming pool, spread his hands and joked to the first mate Michelle: "We are watching here, it is simply nonsense!"

Michelle, who has a Chinese level 8, has a smirk on her face: "It's not bad if you can see it, after all, there are robot bodies inside the battleship."

"Yes! Our space fleet is really miserable. Although there are female soldiers, all of them have robot bodies. They can only watch but not move. It's too bad." Yin Siyong couldn't help complaining.

Of course, the two just talked about it, even if it is a space battleship on the body, the management mechanism between female soldiers and male soldiers is very strict, and it is basically impossible to mess around.

Homo sapiens company's management in this area is much stricter than that of Free World. After all, during the warship period, it is on-duty service. In this case, it is not allowed to talk about love.

It's a holiday, the company won't interfere too much in how to fall in love, but it is not allowed during work, even talking about it.

Homo sapiens company has a lot of holidays, which does not affect employees' romantic relationships, so romantic relationships are strictly prohibited during working hours.

For example, Yin Siyong, he has a total of 157 days of vacation a year, plus he only works 6 hours a day. If he really wants to fall in love, he has plenty of time.

The so-called hard life on the battleship is actually just a psychological problem caused by the fact that the battleship is full of robot bodies and the space is empty.

This kind of mental illness is more or less common in the crew of space battleships and spaceships.

Homo Sapiens' solution is very simple, that is, to take more vacations to dilute this psychological problem.

For example, Yin Siyong and others came to visit Zhurong City at this time, because the artificial ecological circle inside Zhurong City can make people feel the scene of living on the earth, thereby reducing inner anxiety and depression.

With no way to go to the sports field and gym, Yin Siyong and his party went to watch movies and play cards.

Inside the movie theater.

A new movie, "The Fall of Civilization," which has just been filmed, is playing.

This movie is about the six-claw civilization, mainly based on the genetic inheritance technology and job solidification of the six-claw civilization.

Relying on the large amount of information analyzed by Homo sapiens, this movie was shot very well. Through this movie, people can quickly understand how the six-claw civilization has fallen into itself.

In fact, Homo sapiens has shot a lot of movies and TV shows related to the Six-Claw Civilization.

This also let the employees of Homo sapiens company, as well as other forces on the earth, know the situation of the six-claw civilization.

But other forces on the earth are just watching for fun. Now they can hardly maintain the moon base and the space station in low earth orbit, let alone guard against the six-claw civilization and other alien civilizations.

If the self-castration of the six-claw civilization is a kind of self-willing depravity.

The unrepentant death of the free world is not a kind of self-willing depravity.

It is only the branch of human civilization and the Homo sapiens company that makes human civilization seem to be developing at an astonishing speed, and there is a kind of vitality that all things are competing for.