Chapter 1,092 Tiangong No.
Taking a deep breath to calm down the excitement and anxiety in his chest, Wang Qiang cast his gaze out the window at the flaming red land.
If nothing else happens, he will spend the rest of his life in this new continent.
"Stop breathing, don't wait until you are starved of oxygen." The man sitting opposite him smiled and said jokingly.
Friendly laughter rang out in the colony cabin, and the tense atmosphere relaxed a lot.
At a distance of more than 80 million kilometers, the blue planet can no longer be seen from here. Although they were ready to dedicate their lives to the aerospace industry the moment they stepped onto the colony ship, recalling the various events on Earth, the twenty colonists sitting here could not help but feel a sense of nostalgia for their homeland. of remembrance.
No one knows what awaits them.
Not only were they the first pioneers to colonize Mars, they were also the first people to set foot on this land. No matter how many space agencies have conducted observations on this planet before, no one dares to claim that they understand it 100% before human footprints are left on this land.
However, the thought that they were opening up territories for human civilization gave them some comfort.
The colony ship has entered a synchronous orbit and is stationary above the landing site. Next, it only needs to wait for the order from the command center before the captain can order an air landing.
Relaxing his whole body on the cushion of the cushioned seat, Wang Qiang closed his eyes and prepared to take a nap.
However, as soon as I closed my eyes, the next time I opened them, it was already an hour later.
"Attention all personnel, the command has issued a landing order. The colony module will separate from the colony ship in ten seconds and enter the landing phase. The countdown begins now, 10, 9, 8..."
"Why so fast?"
As soon as Wang Qiang opened his eyes, he heard the electronic sound of countdown. He couldn't help but panic before he had time to prepare himself mentally. However, the colonial ship did not give him that time to panic, and the countdown quickly reached zero.
With a slight tremor, the entire Tiangong split into two, and the approximately 200-meter-long belly compartment began to separate from the hull.
From a distance, the entire colony cabin looked like a flat rectangular body, falling towards the fiery red land under the pull of six plasma engines.
Mars' synchronous orbit is only 17,000 kilometers, and its gravity is only four-ninths of Earth's.
The density of the atmosphere is thin. Although the difficulty of landing is slightly greater than that of the moon, it is much less difficult than that of the earth.
When the colony cabin maintained its downward tilt, the moment it came into contact with the atmosphere, the six engines turned around and ejected more intense arcs of light, dragging the colony cabin along and steadily stopping its accelerating fall in the reverse jet.
The high-temperature ions sprayed downwards tightly wrapped a layer around the colony cabin. From a distance, it looked like a blue meteor.
Drawing an arc in the air, the two hundred-meter-long flat rectangular body, like a huge foot, fell from the sky and imprinted on the land.
Long——!
With a deafening muffled sound, the red sand was blown around, swinging hundreds of meters away.
Steel needles as thick as thighs popped out from the bottom of the colony, nailed into the red sand, and penetrated directly into the rock formations tens of meters below, firmly fixing the colony capsule to the desert and serving as the "foundation" of the entire colony. .
The deployment on the ground has been completed, and the action in the sky has not stopped.
The colony ship, which has an inverted "concave" shape due to the loss of its belly compartment, is still floating in a synchronous orbit. In the next ten years, it will continue to exert its waste heat as a synchronous orbit satellite to provide communications, meteorological observations, and crisis warnings for the Mars colony. Waiting for service.
At this point, the deployment process of the colony module is finally completed.
The shaking outside finally stopped, and the lights inside the cabin came on one after another.
When the light returned to his field of vision, Wang Qiang looked around, breathing heavily, and looked at the captain sitting opposite him on his left, and asked excitedly.
"We succeeded?"
The expression on the captain's face was the same. Even the most rigid person could not help but be infected by the excitement and glory from the bottom of his heart at this moment.
Not just the captain, but all twenty colonists felt the same at this moment.
They have been training for nearly a year, practicing day and night for the same thing, isn't it just for this day?
"Yes, we succeeded!" Taking a deep breath, the captain controlled the overflowing excitement and ordered in a trembling voice, "Attention, all personnel, release the safety lock. Sakoren, go check the working condition of the oxygen system. . Lu Yang, go to the power room and turn on our nuclear fusion generator. There is not much energy left in the battery."
"yes!"
"clear!"
After the two men unlocked the safety lock, they lightly jumped down from the cushioned seats and walked quickly out of the room.
The captain also unlocked the safety lock, stood in the center of the buffer cabin, moved his sore arms, looked at the colonists who had lined up waiting for orders, and ordered in a deep voice.
"Yang Yuhan, go and release the exploration drone and conduct a detailed survey of the geological conditions within a ten-mile radius. Liu Rui and Wang Qiang, you two put on your spacesuits and prepare to go on duty. Karis, you and I will take control. cabin. The remaining personnel immediately entered their work stations. Time is tight and the deployment of the planting units must be completed within four hours. This is related to the future food problem of the colony!"
"yes!"
The colonists arrived in unison and immediately took action.
After arranging all this, the captain did not leave the buffer cabin immediately. Instead, he stretched out his hand and clicked on the holographic screen. With trembling fingertips, he switched the communication channel to the earth tens of millions of kilometers away and sent it back to his former home. Good news.
"Call the ground command center, we succeeded!"
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"...We succeeded!"
When this voice was transmitted back to Star Ring City, which is more than 80 million kilometers away, the entire command center was already cheering. People whistled, raised their arms, hugged each other, and celebrated this great moment.
Looking at the colony in the center of the screen, Jiang Chen was more excited than anyone present.
If the moon is an energy base, then Mars is the arsenal of the future "Earth Federation". The entire Mars is a large iron mine, and the endless desert is not made of silica like the Earth, but iron oxide!
To put it bluntly, if you find a dry place on Mars, just shovel a shovelful of sand and throw it into a blast furnace, you can produce half a pound of iron.
If you want to build an interstellar giant ship hundreds of times larger than the Seagull, you need at least tens of millions of tons of steel. It is still a bit reluctant to rely solely on minerals on the earth and asteroid mining. And if you want to build an "Invincible Fleet" in the interstellar age of exploration without the steel industry base of a Mars colony, then you don't even have to think about it!
As an important part of Jiang Chen's space plan, the future "Mars Industrial Park" will be responsible for more than 80% of the Earth Alliance's shipbuilding capacity.
In this way, the earth will not be able to fight against the coming invasion.
To celebrate this exciting moment, Jiang Chen announced while the iron was hot.
"I announce that all employees involved in the Mars colonization project, regardless of their position, will receive a reward of S$500,000! This money will be paid by me personally!"
Such a generous red envelope pushed the cheers in the command center to a new climax... (To be continued.) New website launched