Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 63 Landing

When the beautiful wind blows towards the Hope, the social atmosphere also quietly changes.

The harmony of yin and yang has gradually transformed from an obscure culture into a science that can be openly and seriously explored. Anyone who is an adult has the legal right to explore the mysteries of postures.

However, the change of atmosphere does not mean debauchery and depravity, but a shift from obscurity to the public. The social moral bottom line should still be adhered to.

Yue Yuan doesn't know whether the future will be good or bad, but because he chose a softer plan, human beings currently need this kind of atmosphere.

Of course, in the coming time, not all humans on the Hope will do this. Respecting science is still the mainstream of human society, and scientific research, scientific research, and technological development have always been the focus of human beings' current and future work.

In this way, the time came a month later.

Today, Master Bu came to Yue Yuan's office with a red face and brought him good news.

"Chief Commander, the Ross 154-4 planetary ground sampling exploration has been completed. A total of more than 300 caves have been discovered. We have sampled 3 through remote detection, and all soil samples have been analyzed. We combine soil analysis, picture observation, and geological exploration Through multiple methods, it can now be confirmed that those caves have existed for at least more than [-] years, and there is no sign of any living animal activity."

"Very good, we can finally get the mine. Professor Bu has worked hard these past few months. Now that the situation has been ascertained, the personnel landing stage will officially enter. Professor Bu can rest for a while." Yue Yuan looked at this A geologist in his thirties first encouraged him.

It's about getting ore, not mining.

During this period of time, in addition to geological sampling of the Ross 154-4 planet, humans have also carried out various unmanned explorations. The number of artificial satellites in the planet's orbit has increased from two to twenty, a full ten times. .

Transport boats carrying unmanned ground detectors are also constantly traveling between the sky and the sky.

With the cooperation of multiple detection methods, metal mountains on the planet are increasingly being detected by humans.

In addition to the first few discovered, humans have successively discovered copper, silver, aluminum, platinum and other metals with relatively stable chemical properties. They are all piled up on the surface of the planet just like the previously discovered mountains of gold and silver. A mound.

As long as humans arrive on the planet, they can get it without any effort at all. This is great news for humans who come from afar.

"For the sake of mankind, this is all a matter of duty, no hard work." Trainer Bu sat on the sofa aside, paused and said: "Chief, although the situation has been confirmed now, the investigation of the Ross 154-4 planet has not been completed. It’s just the beginning. If we want to develop on the ground, we still need further scientific research, so I want to apply to join the first batch of landing teams.”

"Not urgent,"

Yue Yuan shook his head: "The work of the first batch of landing personnel is to build the preliminary station on the ground. If you follow them to land, you can't start the work immediately. You should wait first. When the initial facilities and equipment are completed, you can really play your role. when."

"This" Trainer Bu was silent for a moment and seemed to have no reason to refute. She couldn't say that she wanted to be with Tan Xiansheng, so she nodded and said, "Okay then."

"By the way, Professor Bu, has the depth of the cave been found?" Yue Yuan suddenly remembered this matter.

"Those are all rock caves leading to the mineral-rich areas of the original planet. Most of them have collapsed because they were too old. Our ground-based unmanned detectors do not have the ability to dig on a large scale. To dig them out, you need at least large-scale excavation equipment. , but because the cave is too small, if you use large equipment to dig, you have to widen it from the entrance of the ground. I really don’t know how those aliens dug such a small hole tens of thousands of years ago." Bu Lianshi replied.Compared with large-scale human excavation equipment, those caves are really small. The large ones can basically accommodate three people in parallel. The approximate radius of the small caves is less than two meters.

Yue Yuan believed it if he said it was a mine dug by the Lilliputian Kingdom.

It stands to reason that when humans discover that there are many caves on this planet, they can leave immediately and go to other planets to collect resources.But firstly, there is not much energy left on the Hope. Secondly, human beings have been running around for thousands of years and are very eager to have a planet for development. Thirdly, there are mountains of metal elements piled up on the Ross 154-4 planet. The temptation is really too great.

With these mountains of metal readily available, humans can save at least ten years of mining time.Although some chemically active elements still need to be mined by humans, they are already good.

After the landing order is officially issued.

A landing craft carrying 28 soldiers and 120 engineering and technical personnel also slowly separated from the Hope and began to land on Ross 154-4.

Along with this landing craft, there were more than a dozen unmanned landing craft sent out, which transported various living supplies and the first batch of construction robots.

They are the first batch of landing personnel. Behind them, the second and third batches are also being prepared.

"Brothers, we have two main goals for this mission. One is to provide protection for technical personnel, and the other is to cooperate with the Hope to build stable land-based network nodes on the ground." In the landing craft, as the leader of this operation team Tan Xiansheng reiterated the mission objectives to his team members.

"Now check your belongings, firearms, ammunition, space suits, and the most important calcium tablets. If you don't want to turn into a soft-footed shrimp when you return to the Hope, just swallow all the calcium tablets and tighten your grip. of chrysanthemums, hold them all in the small intestine and absorb them completely.”

The gravitational acceleration of the Ross154-4 planet is 7.2m/s, which is much lower than that set on the Hope. In order to slow down the loss of calcium, calcium tablets are a necessity for human landing on the gravity planet.

"Tell me, team leader, haven't we already found out that this is a desolate planet? Why is there still mission one? Is it possible that I still have to keep an eye on those experts to prevent them from falling down while walking?"

"How come there is so much nonsense? The order is written like this. It really cheers me up!"

In the midst of relaxed conversations, the transport ship circled the orbit, used its strong power to adjust the circular orbit to an elliptical orbit, and then when it reached low-Earth orbit for the second time, it dropped to the predetermined location. .

All this is done by the intelligent control system on the transport boat.

During the landing process, the transport boat's intelligent control system will make error adjustments and correct time deviations based on the transport boat's orbital position.

"Attention to all members of the ship, the transport boat will enter the deceleration phase and is ready for landing. The vector thrusters are ready."

"The landing buffer system has been started, the vector thrusters are working normally, the deflection angle is 4‰, the vector is being corrected. The correction is completed, and the landing countdown is 10 seconds."

This transport boat, which is the size of a large passenger aircraft, slowly approaches the ground under the action of three vector thrusters, then stretches out its shock-absorbing support frame and stops steadily on the surface of the planet.

(End of this chapter)