Voyage of the Stars

After everyone put on their spacesuits, and under the system's voice prompts, the transport boat began to remove the air from the boat, lowering it to 0.02 standard atmosphere.

The small and medium-sized transport equipment of the transport boat is different from the Hope. Considering the rapid mass production and loading capacity, they are not equipped with a separate airlock cabin. Instead, they use the method of extracting the air inside as a whole. When the personnel return, the air is stored again. The tank replenishes the air.

The value of 0.02 standard atmosphere pressure varies depending on the planet where it is landed. The atmospheric pressure of the Ross154-4 that has landed now is 0.02 standard atmosphere pressure. Therefore, of course, the internal and external air pressure must be consistent before leaving the cabin, otherwise the transport ship will open as soon as it opens. People inside will be squeezed out by the strong air pressure. Anyone who has studied a little bit of physics knows this truth.

It is a matter of human habit. Just like the current use of Earth time on the Hope, it is a human habit.

In order to facilitate the preliminary work, the landing time was chosen to be in the morning time of this planet, which is also three o'clock in the afternoon on Earth. If expressed in the time of this planet, it would be seven o'clock in the morning.

The planet's rotation period is about 66 hours, so counting from the moment the star appears in the morning, its daytime is about 33 hours.

Because various parameters of the planet have been written into the program in advance, after the personnel land on the planet, the electronic clocks in their hands will also display two times, one is the earth time, and the other is the Ross 154-4 planet. time.

This is not the first time that humans have landed on extraterrestrial planets, so these are routine operations. They have been doing this since they landed on Mars and Callisto.

The main components of Ross154-4's atmosphere are nitrogen and carbon monoxide, accounting for approximately 61.4% and 36% respectively, and the rest are some carbon dioxide and inert gases.

It is a planet completely unfit for human breathing.

Of course, this is normal in the universe. If you really want to discover a planet, and then the oxygen content on this planet is close to 21%, there is water, you can breathe directly, and the gravity environment is just suitable for human habitation, then you will see it. Ghost.

If human beings really encountered such a planet all at once, they would definitely be scared out of their wits.

This is just like activating the portable system immediately after traveling through time. If there are no ghosts, who would believe it?

This is the saying that if something goes wrong, it must be a monster.

The place where the transport boat landed was a flat plain. The leader of the security team, Qin Xiansheng, was the first to put his feet on the ground, and then a group of people filed out.

Ross154-4 The sun is rising, and the silhouettes of people are stretched out.

They had never set foot on the earth for thousands of years, and they felt very familiar with this. At this moment, they all looked through the glass on their helmets in the direction of the rising stars. The red light was hanging on the horizon.

"This is the first time in a thousand years that we can truly step on the ground and bathe in the sun." A soldier said with emotion on the internal communication channel.

Because the atmosphere is extremely thin and there are no blue sky and white clouds in the sky, the slowly rising red dwarf star is like a red ball of light hanging on a black curtain, which does not make people feel a trace of warmth.

The light emitted from it is not real sunlight, but humans are still used to saying that it is sunlight, and they still think this scenery is beautiful.

"It's time to get to work!"

Tan Xiansheng's roar on the channel woke up everyone who was admiring the beautiful scenery.

Assembling solar panels, erecting communication base stations, and placing detection radars, everyone began to cooperate with each other, and slowly built the foundation of the base based on the transport boat.

After a while, subsequent equipment transport boats also arrived one after another and landed on the ground not far from everyone. Immediately afterwards, a number of engineering vehicles of various types such as forklifts, excavators, cranes, and gun trucks came to the ground one after another, and then began to get busy with their respective tasks.

Some auxiliary intelligent robots also climbed out of the transport boats that landed one after another, and then participated in the construction of the base.

Human beings must first dig out a two thousand square meter basement on the ground, and then build a small base in the basement. After completion, this small base will serve as the command center for subsequent departments and factories.

Then other types of factories will take this as the center and radiate out to the surrounding areas.

An orbital mass accelerator is also planned.

Because humans not only have to mine and process on the planet, but also transport those mountains of metal to space to replenish various resources for the Hope.

Humans have previously discovered that there is a rock formation seven kilometers away from here that contains rich thorium minerals. People will use thorium as the raw material for this nuclear power plant.

The raw materials that can undergo nuclear fission are not only uranium, plutonium and their isotopes, but also thorium. Humanity's nuclear fission technology is already very mature, and building a thorium-based molten salt reactor is out of the question. It can be said that with current human nuclear fission technology, any element whose atomic nucleus can fission can be used as energy.

Compared with uranium and plutonium reactors, thorium-based molten salt reactor power generation has three advantages: first, it consumes less water, second, it is highly efficient, and third, because it is an atmospheric pressure reactor, it is safer. Of course, for today's humans, all fission reactors are safe.

As for the fluoride salt required for the thorium-based molten salt reactor, human chemical factories can also produce it.

With electricity and various mineral resources, humans can produce oxygen, hydrogen, water, carbon dioxide, and starch. Any need for life or industry can be produced.

Driven by a fairly advanced level of automation, it can be predicted that after the base is completed, mankind will usher in an era of abundant supplies.

Human beings have strong infrastructure capabilities. With sufficient engineering equipment and the assistance of intelligent robots, the basement was dug in just two days on earth.

After the excavation is completed, the fully automatic pile driver comes on stage.

Amidst the sound of banging and banging, a foundation pile was driven into the ground where the holes were turned, and then the concrete was poured to follow. At this time, the reinforced grid protective wall was also placed into the foundation.

A very energetic look.

The buzz of mechanical motors is endless day and night, and the power of industry is gradually changing the landscape of this land.

Since there is no oxygen in the atmosphere, heavy industrial equipment cannot use fuel. Of course, human beings' current mechanical equipment was previously used on Callisto, and basically there is no fuel anymore. It is all electric energy.

Although the red dwarf star Ross 154 is small, it is very close to the planet where humans are currently located, only 0.2 astronomical units. With human’s current solar energy technology, the electricity converted is enough to be used by various engineering vehicles in the early stage.

"At this rate, in ten days, the base frame will be completely built. In half a month of detailed decoration and supporting equipment installation, the new base will be completed." said a chief engineer who was inspecting the initial construction progress. murmured.

After completing this new base, a new batch of landing personnel will come down.

"Xiao Wang, you go back and upload the project progress to the computer. The engineering department wants to see it." The chief engineer turned back and said to his assistant Xiao Wang.

But after he finished speaking, Xiao Wang seemed not to have heard him and kept looking at the construction site.

"Xiao Wang?! Xiao Wang!!!"

The chief engineer shouted twice more, but there was still no reaction from Xiao Wang.

Could it be that the communicator is broken? he thinks.

Then he shouted twice more, but the same thing happened. As a last resort, he stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Xiao Wang, "Xiao Wang!"

Xiao Wang:? ? ?

"Mr. Mu, what's the matter?" Xiao Wang replied in confusion.

Chief Engineer Mu: "???"

He only saw Xiao Wang's mouth moving, but didn't hear any sound.

what happened? Is the communicator really broken? It shouldn't be. The quality of this product is very good and there have been almost no problems.