Annihilation of the solar system

The operating officer decisively pressed the button marked "Launch", just before his finger was about to touch the button. A short alarm sounded, and a red flashing subtitle appeared on the screen:

"Target lost, target lost!"

The staff members all looked stunned, and the officers in front of the operation desk were even more at a loss. Chai Shizheng glanced at the screen on the search radar screen and raised his voice:

"Don't panic! Check if the radar system is malfunctioning immediately!"

The operations officer quickly replied:

"Report! The radar is working normally, and other spacecraft within the search range can be detected normally. It just lost the target!"

Chai Shizheng gritted his teeth as he looked at the big screen with only a few stars left.

At the same moment, all the optical telescopes of the ground observatories lost their tracking targets. The Astronomical Observation Center of the EDA Science Committee was the first to react. They immediately mobilized all infrared band telescopes in orbit to search the target area, and quickly located

The infrared band discovered 'Oumuamua, which is still hot.

At this time, 'Oumuamua had turned into a fuzzy orange dot compared to the previous plasma fireball that was hundreds of kilometers long. The picture was quickly transmitted to the EDA scientific research platform and the Space Force Command Center.

"This is the true size of 'Oumuamua! It's still there, but it seems invisible to radar waves!" a staff officer exclaimed.

The corners of Chai Shizheng's eyes twitched slightly:

"No, this is its true appearance. The core components of Oumuamua have always been invisible to the radar band. What we captured before were the radar waves reflected by its plasma fireball."

"Without the fire control radar, we can't lock the target! The missile can't find the target at all!" the staff officer said anxiously.

"Where is the current orbital position of the target?" Chai Shizheng asked.

"Report! It is about 40,000 kilometers away from the ground. According to orbit data analysis, the target will next enter a geosynchronous orbit with an altitude of 36,000 kilometers."

Chai Shizheng calmly issued the order:

"Immediately predict the next orbital position of Oumuamua based on its current orbital parameters, and establish a data link with the space station and combat spacecraft. Change the first half of the missile's journey from wave-riding guidance to inertial guidance. After the missile approaches the target, predict the orbital position.

, using the infrared imager on the combat spacecraft and visual guidance, remotely control the missile close to the target through the data link, and manually detonating the nuclear warhead. The launch base is changed from three to 12. When commanding the combat spacecraft, the nuclear warhead detonates, a certain

Make sure the killing sector faces outer space!"

Chai Shizheng's order is very clear. This is currently the only possible way to intercept Oumuamua. However, the execution of this order is not simple. The command center needs to edit a very complex data command chain and quickly modify the missile's launch parameters.

What is more important is the last command. Under the shock wave of the nuclear explosion, the working medium alloy steel ball of the nuclear bomb warhead will form a 140-degree killing sector in the direction of the missile at a speed of several hundred kilometers per second.

In space without resistance, as long as they don't hit anything, these high-energy super alloy steel balls will keep flying like this. If the killing fan is facing the direction of the earth, then spacecraft in low-Earth orbit within the killing fan will even be responsible for

The combat spacecraft guided at the end may be sieved by these steel balls.

After a period of intense operations, all departments were once again ready for battle. Just when Chai Shizheng was about to issue the launch order, the orange-red fuzzy dot representing Oumuamua's thermal radiation signal on the large screen of the command center changed again. It suddenly

Split into four smaller pieces that are slightly darker in color.

"This!...Did it disintegrate on its own?" the staff officer exclaimed.

The sudden situation caught the staff of the EDA Astronomical Observation Center off guard, and the thermal imaging space telescope responsible for tracking also lost its target. But soon, they mobilized more equipment to track the four split targets. The combat command center

Four similar-looking pictures also appeared on the big screen.

"They are uniform in size and have the same temperature. They should split on their own, not disintegrate." Chai Shizheng said.

"Report! According to the data provided by the Astronomical Observation Center, the four targets have now been parked in the geostationary orbit. The parking positions are 0 degrees, 90 degrees, 180 degrees and 270 degrees of longitude respectively." The staff reported.

When he was transferred from the Navy to the Space Force as Chief of Operations, Chai Shizheng received systematic training in astronomy and obtained a relevant master's degree. He clearly guided the staff on the meaning of "geostationary orbit" and the four longitude positions.

That means that the four fragments of 'Oumuamua were evenly dispersed 36,000 kilometers above the four points of the Earth's equator, and will remain there, maintaining the same rotation angular speed as the Earth. Before the crisis era, these orbital positions were also

The most common orbital position of spy satellites. This is because it can monitor the entire earth in all directions without blind spots.

"Report! The temperatures of the four 'Oumuamua fragments are decreasing!" reported the officer in charge of fire control guidance on the console.

Chai Shizheng looked at the four thermal imaging pictures on the screen that had changed from orange to yellow and asked:

"What is the cooling rate?"

"About 8.5k/s. At this rate, the target temperature will drop to the background temperature of the universe in about 20 minutes. By then, we will no longer be able to track their position through thermal imaging."

The staff report also means that if thermal imaging cannot track the target, then existing human detection methods will no longer be able to find the location of the four 'Oumuamua fragments, even if we know that they are staying in geostationary orbit and staring at us.

look.

Chai Shizheng immediately issued the order:

"Activate all the 'Dome Armor' systems in low-Earth orbit, and order the combat spacecraft at the corresponding position to approach the four geostationary orbit positions. According to the plan just now, launch interceptor missiles against the 'Oumuamua fragments immediately!"

The small armed space station in low-Earth orbit immediately followed the order and launched twelve interceptor missiles with a 200,000-ton TNT nuclear warhead from the missile launcher. They were connected in a string, dragging a long tail of fire.

To the geostationary orbit position 36,000 kilometers away.

On the ground with good atmospheric permeability, people can even see groups of interceptor missiles flying in space like meteors streaking through the sky. However, real meteors will become brighter and brighter over time, while they are just the opposite.

lower and lower.

Accompanying the interceptor missile swarm toward low-Earth orbit are combat spacecraft responsible for terminal guidance. Their acceleration is slightly slower than that of the missiles, so they are separated from the missile swarm by a certain distance.

Two countdowns were displayed on the screen of the Space Force command center - 18 minutes and 37 seconds and 19 minutes and 07 seconds. The former is the time it takes for the interceptor missile to reach the target position. The latter is based on the cooling rate to calculate the impact of the Oumuamua debris.

Time to completely disappear from the thermal imager.

If all goes well, the missile group will reach the interception position before the residual heat of the 'Oumuamua fragments disappears, and use 200,000 tons of TNT and hundreds of kilograms of explosive refrigerant to blow the target into pieces. Everyone in the Space Force Combat Command Center is staring at a few

The constantly beating data and ever-changing pictures on the screen made everyone's hearts rise in their throats.

This is the first time that human civilization has launched a head-on challenge to alien civilization!

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