Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 15 Location
After Chen Ming washed briefly, he sat on the chair in the captain's cabin.

He looked at the planet named Ramu not far from the spacecraft.

Its overall color is blue, green and purple.

Although I once worked on a space station orbiting the planet, I am still not sure what is on the planet.

I only know that the blue one is the ocean, and the remaining green and purple colors are the land. They have two similar but somewhat different natural environments.

Oh, by the way, there is a creature that Chen Ming already knows about.

There is a delicious local product in the planet's ocean, a blue lobster-like arthropod that Chen Ming was lucky enough to eat after entering the space station.

Because the output is small and difficult to preserve, it has basically no export value. It is often used as a supplement for space station staff.

Although it was just a memory for Chen Ming, the identical faces of the maintenance man Chen Ming and the time traveler Chen Ming, as well as their similar life trajectories, allowed Chen Ming to relate to them many times.

Chen Ming does not reject this situation and feeling, because it allows him to better integrate into the world.

In general, although Chen Ming didn't know much, it wasn't important.

Because there are several books on the terminals of myself and the doctor with a brief introduction to this planet.

You can take a look before landing and use this information to analyze what happens next.

But not right away.

Because at this time the spacecraft is about to enter the dense area of ​​​​the asteroid and start today's mineral collection.

Chen Ming drew his attention back from Ramu and began to control the two machine cannons to protect his spacecraft.

Just as soon as Chen Ming entered this area, he noticed something was wrong.

The concentration of asteroids here is a little too high.

After flying for a while, an asteroid entered a dangerous distance on the port side and directly under the hull at almost the same time.

And once Chen Ming takes the initiative to destroy an asteroid, the fragments of the asteroid are likely to touch several other nearby asteroids that have not affected the spacecraft.

Then the asteroid continued to affect the surrounding asteroids, and a series of chain reactions made Chen Ming quite tired to deal with it.

If it weren't for Chen Ming's method of controlling the spacecraft, it would be almost equivalent to his brain controlling his body, and it would move extremely smoothly.

Otherwise, the Iron Mine that just entered this area may have to be knocked out of several pits.

Under Chen Ming's control, most of the asteroids that hit the spacecraft were dodged.

Those that couldn't dodge were basically all smashed into pieces, trying to only let the spacecraft suffer the minimum damage.

But even so.

After ten hours passed.

The Iron Ore ran out of the asteroid-dense area of ​​the asteroid belt with its body covered in craters.

The durability of the entire hull armor has dropped by 20% to 30%, which directly caused the spacecraft that Chen Ming specially repaired yesterday to return to its original appearance, even worse.

But luckily it's all worth it.

With the modified Type II mining laser, in the high-density asteroid belt that Chen Ming actively selected, Chen Ming successfully spent a day collecting enough materials to repair the ups and downs of the spacecraft, and there was even a lot left.

However, Chen Ming was not in a hurry to start repairing it at this time.

Because he wanted to stay in the best condition to go to Ruimu, and repairing the spacecraft was obviously an act that would put him in a bad state.

So even if it is repaired today, Chen Ming will not be in a hurry to go down.

It is better to go to bed early and repair before going to bed to ensure that you have enough energy to deal with everything that may happen the next day.

And I have other things to do now.

Determine where the spacecraft will land.

At this time, both the spacecraft and the space station are on the sunny side of the planet. Most of the planet below is illuminated by the light of stars. The general topography of the planet can be easily seen from space.

Chen Ming opened his personal terminal and called up content related to Rui Mu Xing.

At the same time, I recalled the knowledge I learned in high school geography.

Although I have almost forgotten it, I still remember some common sense or important content.

For example, the deflection angle of Rui Jupiter is similar to that of the Earth, but slightly larger.

Therefore, a location close to the equator is likely to have a tropical or subtropical climate similar to that of the Earth.

This area should be more suitable for you to find the crops you need.The most likely place for crops to grow is naturally in plain areas where rivers exist.

Chen Ming happened to look at the terminal, which was displaying the overall topographic map of the planet.

After simple thinking and searching for information, I determined the subtle differences between the climate and terrain of Ramu and Earth.

Chen Ming determined the preferred landing location.

It's about 30 degrees north latitude on the planet.

The color of this area seen from space is green, which is more pleasing to Chen Ming's eyes.

The overall terrain is a coastal plain surrounded by hills near the interior, with a subtropical climate.

Simply the perfect location for growing crops.

And now at this time and place, it happens to be the autumn of Ruimu.

The wind and sunshine are beautiful, and a large number of plants are mature, waiting for Chen Ming to find them.

There is also better news for Chen Ming.

The orbital period of Jupiter is much shorter than that of the Earth, which means that its seasons change very quickly and the duration of each season is also very short.

This also results in the growth cycle of many plants on the planet being very short.

Chen Ming needs such crops.

After determining the landing position.

Chen Ming looked at the book about other terrains and regions on the planet.

I spent some time picking out a few alternative landing locations in case something unexpected happened after landing and I was forced to start looking for a suitable place to land again.

Rather than being in a hurry then, it is better to prepare in advance now.

It was approaching rest time after Chen Ming decided on several alternative locations.

So Chen Ming lay on the bed in the living cabin.

The image of the engine room appeared in his eyes.

There is a narrow maintenance channel in the engine room that leads to the bottom of the spacecraft.

Here are placed the circuits, heat pipes, and landing modules that connect the entire spacecraft.

Although Chen Ming really wanted to try it himself, before his personal safety was completely guaranteed, it was better to rely on a stable panel to repair it.

Chen Ming continued to connect the camera in the maintenance channel and opened the panel of the landing module.

Several different metallic liquids flow out of the storage chamber after the repair button is pressed.

It covered the inside and outside of the spacecraft and was covered with damaged landing modules.

The buffer module with the most damage in the entire landing system was repaired first.

Then comes the positioning module, landing gear module and finally the overall circuit connections.

After a period of time that was slightly dull compared to the previous intrusion into the dense asteroid belt.

The landing module is back online.

The original "Damaged" on the panel also changed to "Running".

Chen Ming closed his eyes with satisfaction and fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning, at least to Chen Ming, it was early morning.

Chen Ming sat in the captain's cabin early.

Looking out the porthole at the planet that was gradually occupying the entire field of view of the spacecraft, my heartbeat was speeding up for some reason.

This should be the result of a mixture of fear and excitement in facing the unknown.

As the spacecraft completely locked the landing position scheduled for yesterday.

Chen Ming knew the time had come.

He took a deep breath and controlled the spacecraft to fly towards the distant planet.

(End of this chapter)