Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 319 The Nair Space Elevator
  In fact, the previous probe that arrived first had already photographed the distribution of the various facilities of the Nair civilization in the orbit of the Bodhisattva Star for Lyra. However, the equipment on the detector is not as advanced as the Tianqin after all. Now seeing these facilities from the perspective of the Tianqin, it feels really different.

It's like the difference between a myopic person wearing glasses and a person without glasses.

Of course, it is impossible to compare the detection equipment carried by the Tianqin with the naked eye through the portholes. Therefore, after satisfying the curiosity of naked eye observation, Yue Yuan returned to the command center of the Tianqin.

The reason why we can clearly see the appearance design of the Nair Civilization Lake-class battleship is also because of the Lyra's detection equipment.

At this moment, while others were still discussing the warships of the Nair civilization, Yue Yuan turned his attention to other pictures.

At this moment, the transport fleet led by the Tianqin has arrived in the far-Earth orbit of the Guogai No. [-] planet, so the facilities of the Nair civilization in the low-Earth orbit are clearly visible to humans.

It seems that Nair Civilization has no intention of hiding it.

"Well, it seems that the Nair civilization also uses an orbital mass accelerator. Perhaps the second-level civilization level technology cannot produce the materials required for the space elevator." Yue Yuan murmured, obviously he noticed that the Nair civilization ground-to-space transportation.

To be honest, Yue Yuan was a little disappointed. He thought that the Nair civilization was more advanced than humans in ground-space transportation, but he did not expect that it also used an orbital mass accelerator.

Yue Yuan saw through the Tianqin's detection equipment that vehicles were launched into space one after another from the ground. They were some kind of vehicles that could be easily disassembled rather than spaceships, and there were flames gushing out from the end.

He was familiar with these things. They must be some materials launched into space from the Orbital Mass Accelerator.

A little disappointed, but it makes sense when you think about it.

Having said that, Yue Yuan actually didn't have much hope for this so-called exchange and trade. When he first came into contact, he just said it casually. After learning that Nair Civilization agreed and seemed to be very enthusiastic, he also had high expectations. It is possible to exchange some of their characteristic technologies from the Nel civilization.

However, looking at the current situation, the technology of the Nair civilization seems to be slightly inferior to that of humans. It can be seen from the way that the warships triple-mount three main guns. Its material technology is far inferior to humans.

The most difficult part of realizing a space elevator is precisely material technology. Not even humans can create cables that are strong and tough enough, let alone the Nel civilization.

Thinking about it this way, Yue Yuan felt relieved.

However, just when he turned around and was about to walk towards the gate of the command center, an exclamation suddenly sounded in his ears: "This is... Chief, look at it, it's incredible!"

What the hell? Such a loud voice!
  I was so startled that I opened my mouth to say something when I saw something!
  Yue Yuan cursed, but he still followed the words.

Liu Miyan, who was a few steps away to his right, was raising his hand and pointing at the big screen in the command center, as if he had seen something extraordinary.

Yue Yuan followed what he expected. When he saw what appeared on the big screen, his frown immediately changed, and a touch of surprise came to his heart.

"Hey! Is this possible?"

After muttering something, Yue Yuan immediately shouted to the operators in the row on the right: "Xiao Huang, zoom in on screen No. 9 for me."

Picture No. 9 is what Liu Miyan is referring to and the picture he is staring at now. In the picture, Yue Yuan saw a space station that was much larger than other space stations. At a glance, it seemed like a space fortress.

What made him utter a sound of surprise was that underneath this large space station, there was a flaming thing rising from the bottom up, slowly sinking into it from fast to slow.

He could tell that the fire should be from a certain spacecraft, but if it was the tail flame of the spacecraft, according to his understanding, it should not have entered the space station in this way.

The answer is revealed after the screen is zoomed in.

"Phew! This is the space elevator!!!"

The detection equipment of Tianqin is quite powerful, and it can still take pictures clearly at such a long distance. When the picture was enlarged, Yue Yuan quickly recognized what this so-called large space station was.

What is displayed on the screen at this moment is no longer a large space station that occupies the entire screen, but the details of this 'large space station'.

Due to Yue Yuan's instructions, the operator consciously adjusted the big screen into a whole piece, and the content that was originally only on screen No. 9 was now enlarged on the big screen.

So everyone in the command center saw the partial details of this large space station. Oh no, it should be called a space elevator now.

The first thing that catches the eye is a huge circular platform. The platform is composed of shiny metal coatings. These metal bars surround the main structure of the platform with three inner and outer layers.

The center of the main structure is spherical, and the spherical shape is surrounded by three rings of metal structures. Outside, there are rigid structures like tentacles.

It looked like three tires of different sizes on a basketball, and the three tires were connected by long strips from the inside to the outside.

Above the main structure, a long pillar stands. Below it, like the lower end of a funnel, it is tilted and narrowed, followed by a structure composed of circles and some equipment.

If you look at it as a whole, the space structure of the space elevator of the Nair civilization looks like a wooden top.

When the camera moves down, people can see the straight steel cables jumping one after another. Countless steel cables form a circle and are distributed in a very symmetrical pattern on each circular circle. At regular intervals, there is an obvious circle that holds these steel cables in place.

If you look carefully, it is not difficult to find that these circles are not thin circles, nor are they short in length. There are also lumps of things that look like some kind of equipment distributed on them. This arrangement, as a whole, looks like tethers passing through the wall of the iron barrel.

At this moment, humans saw bright spots rising up and down. These are presumably the elevator cars of the space elevator.

A little different from what people usually imagine, the space elevator's elevator car is not boxy, but a barrel, with a sharp top. The tail flame spurting out from the bottom should be the booster device of the elevator car.

The car is in the shape of a column as a whole, and the sharp structure at the upper end presumably takes into account the resistance of the atmospheric environment on the planet.

Seeing this structure, Yue Yuan was not only a little stunned, because in his understanding, Guogai No. [-] planet should be a planet without an atmosphere, so there was no need to design the car like this at all.

This is a bit puzzling. Could it be that the Nair civilization has transformed the planet Guogai No. [-] into a planet with an atmosphere?
  (End of this chapter)