Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 51 The Sword of Time
It will last for thousands of years without any leakage.

Time can make everything become obsolete, and time can make everything vicissitudes of life.

As people age, their bodies will inevitably suffer from various diseases.The Hope, this human technological creation, is not immune to the erosion of time.

When Yue Yuan woke up for the first time, he learned from the technicians that there was an air leak in No. 3-145 of the Hope.

Then he looked through the voyage diary and found that during his hibernation, various malfunctions occurred in other parts of the Hope, such as the thermal cycle booster boiler burned out, eighteen plantation power supply line failures, and three sets of exterior cameras scrapped. , No. 777 pipeline air compressor failure, No. 64 surveillance camera circuit failure and a series of minor problems.

During this period, the nuclear reactor was also refueled once and is currently using a backup reactor.

They were all minor issues, and the staff on duty took care of them all.

When he woke up for the second time, there were more trouble spots, dealing with various mechanical failures, as well as the first control system failure.

When he woke up for the third time, the mechanical failure rate was much higher and more frequent, and there were also casualties.

Yue Yuan discovered that in this case, the crew on duty chose to replace the spare parts with new ones from the warehouse, and at the same time threw all the old parts that were completely damaged and could not be reused out of the spacecraft.

This kind of handling method is not the initiative of the rotation personnel, but has long been written in the Hope No. maintenance charter.Hope has been doing this behavior of throwing garbage into space while rushing along.

All the garbage that cannot be reused is disposed of in this way in order to reduce the mass of the Nozomi as much as possible.Of course, gradually reducing the mass of the spacecraft in this way is indeed pitiful, but a little less counts.

He woke up five times, and the hibernation cabin was damaged due to old age. If it were not for the emergency wake-up system, these people would all be dead.

When they woke up for the sixth time, the hibernation cabin was damaged too much, causing problems with replenishment, and it seemed that 380 people had to stay awake all the time.In order to prevent these people from dying of old age, the duty leaders planned to temporarily wake up some people, shorten their hibernation time, and then allocate the time to these people.

However, people who had to stay awake due to hibernation cabin malfunctions were very dedicated. They dedicated the rest of their lives to others, took the initiative to work in the hibernation cabin production workshop, and made their own contributions to the subsequent replenishment of hibernation cabins.

100年、200年、300年、400年、500年、600年人类就这么艰难前进着。

Wherever the number of hope is broken, it will be repaired, and wherever it is leaking, it will be patched.

On this star road, time, transformed into the beast of time, is the greatest enemy of mankind.

The Hope was scarred by this beast. In the eight years since it set sail, its hull has been covered with various repair marks, just like an old man in his dying years.

In 9 years, the Hope has completely turned into a ragged beggar. The various parts are extremely old and the electrical circuits are full of faults. They cannot be repaired. However, the main components can still operate and will not be directly paralyzed. That’s all.

At this time, the number of people lost due to problems with the hibernating cabin due to old electrical appliances or problems with parts replenishment has reached 770.The number of people who died due to leaving the warehouse for repairs on the Hope also reached 78.

A total of 320 people died due to air leaks caused by old components, collapse and fall of the living cabin, or cascading failures caused by bulkhead breakdown caused by the upper floor falling.

But relying on people's persistence, the Hope is still staggering toward its goal.

There is only the last section of the road, but this section of the road is the most difficult.

It is said in "Warring States Policy and Qin Policy Five" that half of those who travel a hundred miles are ninety.This is the end of the road.

Walking a hundred miles to ninety miles is only half the journey.

This old saying is still timeless when applied to Nozomi.The relationship between the humans on the Hope and this ancient culture is of the same origin, so the leadership on the Hope is well aware of the difficulties and obstacles in this final stretch.Of course, there are corresponding countermeasures, that is, the further back you go, the more staff will be arranged on duty.

As the supreme leader, Yue Yuan also woke up from his last hibernation one year before the spacecraft entered the deceleration stage.

From the deceleration stage until the Hope arrives at its destination, Yue Yuan will no longer hibernate. He will always sit in the command center and complete the final stretch of the journey with the Hope.

After waking up, Yue Yuan adapted for more than a month, and then worked with the staff on duty for several months to prepare for the Hope to enter the deceleration stage.

After this, the Hope's preset deceleration time finally arrived.

On this day, Yue Yuan came to the control center as usual, then waited for time to jump to the calculated moment, and then directly announced: "Let's start!"

"Hope, the steering engine is ready, countdown to 30 seconds, 30, 29, 28"

"Hope, the auxiliary thrusters are ready, the propeller vector nozzle parameters are normal, the data has been connected to the special engine control system, the collaborative linkage system has been docked, and the auxiliary steering is ready."

"The gyroscope is working normally, the exterior camera is turned on, the telemetry radar is turned on, the signal is normal, and it is accessing the home screen"

"Energy unit report: The self-inspection of the No. 7 main thruster is completed, the self-inspection of the No. 7 main thruster is completed, the self-inspection of the No. [-] main thruster is completed, fault point [-] has been eliminated, and the ignition procedure is ready."

As the voices of staff at various positions rang out, the Hope finally entered the deceleration stage.

The steering engines located at the head and tail of the Hope were turned on, and the vector nozzles, under the auxiliary control of the intelligent AI 'Light of the Tianhe', began to spit out tongues of flame in various preset directions. The auxiliary thrusters in the linkage control state also joined this process. .

The Hope slowly changed its attitude.

The original tail slowly rotates forward, and the head rotates backward.

Of course, since there is only one real object in the entire space, the Hope, if you just look at the Hope from the outside from God's perspective, you won't know whether it is rotating at all, because there is no reference object.

And because the U-turn is very slow and the spacecraft is moving at a constant speed, the people on the spacecraft can hardly feel the U-turn.

But flying a spaceship doesn't rely on feeling or seeing with the naked eye.

Through instruments such as gyroscopes and the pulsar positioning method, the staff can know the number of degrees the spacecraft turns every second from the equipment feedback.

After being processed by human intelligence AI, these data are now switched into intuitive image output, which allows many administrative staff who cannot see the parameters to intuitively understand the real-time status of the spacecraft from the large screen.

Yue Yuan is now staring at the animation display on the big screen.

Fifteen minutes later, the Hope completed its turn.

The next moment, the people on the spacecraft suddenly felt a shaking, followed by a slight pushing sensation from their seats.

　Thanks to Nuan Songyan and Evil Shang for the reward.And everyone’s popular comments!

　　
　
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