Annihilation of the solar system

Chai Shizheng frowned:

"Activate the lunar laser system immediately and try to destroy them before they enter low-Earth orbit!"

The technical officers immediately returned to the operating console, but soon received a discouraging news:

"The command here has been transferred to the underground backup command center. It will take a few minutes to return the command. This is not the biggest problem. The power supply reactor of the lunar high-energy laser system has been adjusted to standby power self-test. Restart preheating

It also takes time.

According to our orbit calculations, the irradiation window of the lunar laser system after it re-enters combat status is very narrow. And now that a large number of combat spacecraft and shuttles are moving in low-Earth orbit, the risk of laser irradiation close to the earth is very high."

Chai Shizheng, who had always been decisive, hesitated. If a high-energy laser beam that could easily melt through the Arctic ice cap swept across an orbiting spacecraft in space or hit a place where people on the ground were concentrated, the consequences would be devastating.

"Can the Space Force combat spacecraft in low-Earth orbit be used to intercept?" the staff officer made a suggestion.

Xia Lan immediately simulated it on the computer, and the result was also not optimistic:

"This small ice belt enters low-Earth orbit very quickly, and the closest to their entry point is the 38th Space Army. They will have a very short contact window, but the contact time is very short, and the relative speed difference is very large.

The interception effect will not be ideal."

"Can the combat spaceship be able to chase them?" the staff officer asked.

Xia Lan took her hands off the keyboard and leaned back on the chair:

"The combat spaceships are modified from small spaceships, and I am very familiar with the performance data. If they are forced to accelerate and use the gravitational slingshot effect of the earth to chase the small ice belt, they should catch up with them at 3/4 of the Earth-moon transfer orbit.

.And there is enough time to initiate an interception, but this will bring a very serious consequence."

"What are the consequences?" the staff officer asked.

Xia Lan replied with a heavy face:

"The combat spaceships are small in size and are not equipped with polynuclear ion engines. If they want to reach this speed, the combat spacecraft must accelerate at full power for a long time, which will exhaust their chemical fuel.

This means that even if they complete the interception mission, they will not be able to slow down. By then, they will neither be able to return, nor will the moon's gravity catch them, and they will disappear into deep space forever."

All eyes are on Chai Shizheng. He needs to make a quick decision between the lives of 100,000 people on the moon base and thousands of people in the space force. But this is not a simple comparison of numbers. Every decision is made because of his decision.

The lives that were destined to be lost were an unbearable burden for this general.

Just when Chai Shizheng's lips were slightly opened, the intercom beep sounded again, and the image of the Commander of the Thirty Space Army appeared on the main screen again.

"General Chai! We have a way to intercept them!" The commander's tone was still as excited as before, but his expression was much calmer.

"It's impossible to predict what kind of effect the interception will achieve. I can't just order all of you to die!" Chai Shizheng's voice was not loud, but the sadness and helplessness in his words penetrated the heart and lungs.

"No one will die, we have a solution! In fact, one of our combatants thought of it!" the commander said confidently.

"What?" Chai Shizheng asked, and the sad atmosphere in the command center was instantly dispelled by the commander's words.

The picture on the screen changed to Lu Yan. Her picture was a little shaken and she looked like she was holding a handheld camera.

"We know that the fuel loaded on one spacecraft cannot allow us to return safely or enter the lunar orbit after completing the interception. But, two spacecrafts will do!"

Just when no one understood what she meant, the screen turned to the porthole of Lu Yan's spaceship. In the space, the entire echelon of combat spacecraft of the 38th Space Army was still neatly parked. It seemed that they did not immediately follow Chai Shizheng's order.

Start evacuation towards Lagrange point 12.

She pointed to the blunt cone-shaped head of the spacecraft closest to her and said:

"The combat spaceships we drive are all modified from previous small spaceships, and there are docking ports on the heads of the spacecrafts. We can dock the two spacecrafts together and use all the power of one spacecraft to accelerate.

After the fuel of the accelerating spacecraft is exhausted, it docks and separates. Then the spacecraft responsible for the battle uses its own fuel to accelerate to the interception speed, so that we have enough fuel to slow down after completing the interception!"

When Lu Yan was describing her plan, Xia Lan had already started making calculations. As soon as Lu Yan finished speaking, Xia Lan reported like Chai Shizhenghui:

"According to calculations, Captain Lu Yan's plan is feasible. The space and life cycle system of the spacecraft can fully accommodate two astronauts to complete the entire interception process. Although the remaining fuel of the spacecraft is still not enough to support their return to Earth, it is completely enough to slow down

to the speed of being captured by the moon’s gravity.”

Chai Shizheng decisively issued the order as soon as he almost finished listening to Xia Lan's report:

"Execute immediately!"

Just when Lu Yan was about to hang up the video call, Chai Shizheng suddenly stopped her.

"Lu Yan, don't be reckless!"

"Don't worry!" When she answered, her face finally had the bright smile that a girl in her twenties should have. And this smile should not have appeared in the cold space and before the cruel battle began.

In low-Earth orbit, the combat spacecraft echelons of the 38th Space Army immediately docked together in pairs. The combat spacecraft responsible for relay propulsion removed all missiles and weapons from the hull pylons in order to reduce weight and maximize the effectiveness of the coalition.

of acceleration.

Can be seen from half of the area on the ground, the slender strip of light emerging from the shrinking rainbow clouds, falling with a long blue light from the sky dome, and then falling below the horizon.

Just when the blue halo it left had not completely dissipated from the flowing clouds on the horizon, a long string of dense orange-red light spots streaked low across the gray skyline from the other end of the horizon.

The trail that closely followed the blue light band also disappeared below the horizon.

...

Red and blue police lights were shining everywhere among the tall buildings of Guanghan Palace Moon City. Although no sound could be heard in the vacuum of the city, the tense atmosphere and night shrouded this steel city together.

In the medical center, Ye Wanqing was taking out the bulky extravehicular spacesuits from the trunk in the clinic room and putting them on with difficulty.

The light space suit she is wearing now can also withstand the extreme environment of the lunar surface, but it cannot last too long. The heavy extravehicular space suit and huge life support backpack can allow her to stay outdoors in extreme conditions for a longer period of time.

environment.

The first-level alarm that had just been sounded in the entire Guanghan Palace Moon City caused all the staff in the entire city to do the same thing as her.

After putting on the heavy extravehicular spacesuit, Ye Wanqing jumped into the corridor. This outfit required her to turn off the electromagnetic gravity simulation system in order to move normally. The corridor was full of people dressed in the same way as her, all in a hurry.

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Even if they knew each other, they would only exchange glances and would not stop. Because they all had to follow the regulations and go to the location prompted by their respective computers to gather.

The hall on the ground floor of the medical center was already crowded with people, and the flashing alarms made people's white spacesuits shine red and blue. However, there was no sign of panic in the flow of people, and people all went to their assembly points in an orderly manner.

Ye Wanqing followed the prompts from the computer on her arm and came to the emergency medical passage. Most of the people gathered here were her colleagues who were engaged in medical care at the medical center. Everyone lined up in an orderly manner and passed through the airlock to the outside.

Compared to indoors, the scene outside is even more tense. Shuttles are constantly passing by in the sky, and all the close-in defense cannons on the roofs of high-rise buildings are pointed at the dark space. Police lights are flashing all around, and there are six huge off-road tires.

The lunar rover quickly travels on the road between buildings.

There was also a long row of lunar rovers parked on the roadside at the exit, and she and her colleagues were pedaling in an orderly manner.

She saw that most of them craned their necks to look at the dust stirred up and floating in the air by the moon wheels on the road, but it was invisible from the ground, and the entire moon city was being evacuated in an orderly manner.