Moon BaseStar Map Draftsman I: Federation War

“Passengers, we are about to enter lunar orbit, for your safety, please do not move around the cabin, and please fasten your seat belts.” The gentle female voice came over the radio, Dawn Lucius opened his eyes, his eyelids felt as heavy as lead, he could barely open his eyes, a soreness came out from the back of his eyes, piling up a stinging sensation at the corners of his eyes, Dawn Lucius rubbed the top of his eye contour hard, his vision gradually returned. Dawn Lucius turned his face to look at the position of Rodney Cruise and Kenny Jr. Clooney, who was still sleeping, and Rodney Cruise, who was staring at the screen device in his hand, looking at something. The screen device in his hand to see things, face calm to the sea without waves.

Dawn Lucius raised her left hand to her eyes, and the flexible screen that encircled her hand automatically lit up, displaying the glowing numbers 2 and 5 on a silver-gray literary background, the temperature inside the ship, which didn’t feel overly cold or hot even with only a short sleeve on her body, like one of those drowsy afternoons when the two seasons are forgotten away during the summer and fall on Earth. The bottom of the screen also shows a row of small letters with a minus sign followed by 270, which is the temperature in outer space, and no carbon-based life can survive in such an environment.

Dawn Lucius raised his wrist, and when the screen tilted to the left, he slid out of the second screen from right to left. The photo showed him with a big smile, and at that time, the moon base construction was officially launched, and he designed the lunar orbit, which was one of the most proud medals of his life. A month before the launch, Dawn Lucius was the most famous person in the whole network, he took the opportunity to invite his father to go to the ceremony, his father told Dawn Lucius that the moon was too far away, he did not want to go to a place without water, Dawn Lucius described to the old man the magnificent beauty of the moon orbit, the old man stared at the book in his hand and said “quite good, go. Come on.” Dawn Lucius knew he wasn’t reading the sentence from the book, he was just giving a perfunctory response like he always did. Dawn Lucius still remembers the day of the launch ceremony, he was laughing and crying, he felt like a bee with a broken wing, in the old man’s garden, he could not fly up.

Dawn Lucius flattened his wrist and tilted to the left, the screen was covered with a smiling face, smiling gums are all exposed, his name is Stacean Lucius, he likes to look in the mirror, likes blue toys, likes to put shoes neatly before going to bed, also likes doughnuts, the kind covered with a layer of chocolate outside, he also likes to introduce himself, especially with Dawn Lucius also likes to introduce himself, especially when he goes out with Dawn Lucius, he says “My name is Stacean Lucius, means made of stars and oceans, do you want to make friends with me?” Dawn Lucius is a friend. When he left home during the day, Dawn Lucius and his wife kissed him goodbye, and Stacean Lucius stood quietly at the door waiting for his dad, clutching the model rocket in his hand and staring at the floor tiles, as if he had learned something since his last birthday. Dawn Lucius walks up to him and squats down to hug him, smelling his hair above his ears, his skin smelling slightly of sweat, Stacean Lucius strangles his dad’s neck, his fleshy little palms anxiously gripping back and forth. He deflated and asked, “Daddy, why are you going there?”

“How did you say goodbye to him?”

“Me?”

“How you said goodbye to him.” Rodney Cruise pointed to Dawn Lucius’ left hand.

“Ha, I told him about my mission.” Dawn Lucius glanced at the smiling face on the screen again.

“Mission?”

“Right.”

“You told him you were going to the Kuiper Belt?” Rodney Cruise asked, amazed.

“No, I told him I was going to pick a star for him, that the star was far away and needed to go in a spaceship, and I told him the star was blue, and he happily let me go.”

“That simple?”

“So simple!” Dawn Lucius turned her wrist outward and the screen went off automatically.

The seats began to fine-tune backwards, shuttle boats flying diagonally into the intended orbit, centrifugal force pulled the passengers to the left, half of their bodies clinging to the seats, Dawn Lucius looked out the window, the lunar orbit was busy like a morning food court, delivery trolleys in and out, at this time the busy trolleys in lunar orbit were U2shuttle boats, melon type The overall height of five stories, specifically for transporting supplies, U2shuttle boats are unmanned, they are loading supplies to another ship as high as two hundred stories, this is the Knight - the ship’s predecessor is a bullet shape, borrowed from the design of the Harmony train on Earth; the main warehouse in the middle of the hull The main warehouse in the middle of the ship bulged outward and could carry two thousand tons of supplies; there were three engines of the same parameters at the stern of the ship, which, when ignited, could accelerate the Knight to four hundred kilometers per second at the fastest.

The shuttle boats continue to orbit the Moon with their passengers, the AI is reducing its orbital diameter and they fly into the orbit of the Lunar Communication Satellite Group, an orbit with over a thousand artificial satellites floating around the Moon, they are always in the same position for the Lunar Base to ensure smooth communication. dawn Lucius Feeling the squeeze of the chair on the left side of the body is becoming smaller, shuttle boats in the visible change in slowing down, passengers above the head, the specific point is the upper right corner of the place, is floating a lonely ship, the hull is as high as fifty stories, triangular bow over the rectangular hull, and the stern, is composed of eight different sizes of engine matrix, when the eight round and rectangular engines spouting blue tails, this ship can fly at a speed of 10,000 kilometers per second. This is the Home ship, there are still a lot of internal equipment needs technical testing and perfection, see the moon base briefing said, dormant warehouse has been successfully tested, Home ship’s mission is to go to the Centaur system to find a new home, the Centaur system is the closest to the solar system than the neighboring galaxy, the journey is at least 4.22 light years.

shuttle boats continue to fly forward, its radius of revolution around the moon continues to shrink, hundreds of millions of years ago the meteorite in the moon shows smashed craters clearly visible, as if the flour with water drops out of the crater as sharp, shuttle boats are about to fly out of the dark side of the moon, sunlight wrapped in a large number of radiation ions, the moon’s outline burned into a silver color, the closer to the edge of the place, the brighter the silver color. As the shuttle boats flew forward, a white spacecraft floated into the passengers’ eyes, its head resembling a round hat, its hull a fifty-story cylinder pierced by a doughnut-shaped combination capsule, its stern a slightly thicker rectangle with three horizontal rows of circular engines, and the combination capsule just a third of the way to the stern. This is the Dawn ship, the maximum flight speed is three hundred kilometers per second, according to everyone’s guess, shuttle boats passengers will be in the near future on board the Dawn ship, they will be the ship’s first pilots. The passengers sitting in the aisle stood up slightly, eyes protruding forward, eager to take this ship to see a detailed look.

“Passengers, due to the upcoming ignition test of the Dawn ship, we are delaying our entry into near-moon orbit to avoid a collision.”

As the female voice on the radio finished her announcement, the passengers could feel the pressure on the left side of their bodies lessen, proving that the SHUTTLE BOATS’ orbit did not continue to shrink, but remained at its current altitude for the orbit, and no one spoke up about their discovery, and no one refrained from focusing their attention out the window and on the Dawn ship. “It’s moving, it’s moving.” Someone shouted, the first thing that Dawn ship moved was the combination capsule, that donut-shaped combination capsule was fixed to the ship by three cylinders, and at that moment, the donut was slowly turning. Then, one of the engines in the middle emitted a white mist, just like the water vapor from the spout of a kettle when boiling water in winter, the difference was that the water vapor from the kettle on Earth would emit a bared sound, while the sound from the Dawn ship’s engines could not reach the passengers’ ears, something the passengers did not wonder about because there was no medium for sound transmission in space.

“Commander Cruise, what’s that rotating part for?” Someone among the passengers asked.

“Artificial gravity.” Rodney Cruise glanced at Dawn Lucius, whose original aerospace graduation design was this idea.

“Artificial gravity?”

“Yes, we all know that the main reason the earth has gravity is that it rotates, and the combination pod wants to have gravity, it needs to have a certain speed of rotation to produce centrifugal force, which is equivalent to throwing people outward, and throwing them out in the direction of the floor, so that it has the effect of artificial gravity.” Kenny Jr. Clooney proudly explained.

“What? Just generate gravity?” Another voice came from the passenger.

“It’s not generating gravity, it’s simulating gravity.” Dawn Lucius added.

“Man-made equipment can not affect the Earth as gravity, but we can simulate gravity. This combination of the cabin, the most critical, is not the part of the rotation, but the design of the balance system inside.” Kenny Jr. Clooney said this when he looked at Dawn Lucius, he may not have noticed his voice raised, Dawn Lucius’ side of the passengers were taken aback.

“Oh, I see, so what’s the use of this device?”

“The medical team at the moon base has a reliable report on the changes in humans in prolonged weightlessness, and two of the conclusions are important. One is that prolonged weightlessness causes humans to have reduced judgment and negative emotions arise seventeen times more often than in an Earth environment. Another conclusion is that in long-term weightlessness, the proportion of humans suffering from heart disease rose by twenty-two percent, so humans can not be active in weightlessness for a long time.” Kenny Jr. Clooney went on to explain.

“What is the balance system?”

“Quite simply, let’s say you’re inside a spinning washing machine, and the balancing system is there to keep you from feeling like you’re inside a spinning washing machine.” Kenny Jr. Clooney may be an understatement, but Rodney Cruise knows how much Kenny Jr. Clooney’s balancing system has impacted aerospace engineering.

“Look, Dawn ship .......” The passenger from earlier shouted up.

The white water vapor began to turn blue, and the Dawn ship then moved slowly forward. “Long live the Dawn ship.” “Long live the Dawn ship.” “Long live the Dawn ship.” Some of the passengers in the shuttle boats clapped their hands and some shed tears. This was a big milestone event for the moon base, at least, the front page of the news in the solar system for the next two weeks was all about the Dawn ship. After moving some distance, the blue haze of the engines slowly disappeared, the reverse deceleration engines at the other end of the engine array began to fire, the white haze grew, and the Dawn ship was stationary in lunar orbit. The strength of the chair squeezing the left side of the body gradually increased, shuttle boats in accelerating the slide to near-moon orbit, and the moon base is becoming clearer and clearer, while the sunlight can not reach here, this is the back side of the moon, that is, the dark moon surface.

The structure of the moon base is well understood, its overall is a sphere, half buried in the moon rock, half exposed on the ground, in order to avoid the inhabitants here long-term exposure to the radiation-filled outer space, so only to repair the living space under the ground, and the hemisphere exposed on the ground, the outer layer is a circular light network, tens of thousands of palm lights glowing blue, illuminating the entire moon base. Under the light network there are several large launch towers, used to fix the propulsion of large objects to the moon orbit. Take the Dawn ship, its hull is forged in one piece, fifty-story high hull and took almost six years to complete.

The artificial intelligence of the shuttle boats turned on the direction adjuster on the bow of the ship, the shuttle boats engine aimed at the ground, and continued to hover downward, to the designated location above, the engine jet power began to reduce, shuttle boats in the role of the moon’s gravity began to fall, close to the ground, the engine reverse propulsion power increased, passengers The passengers first felt a burst of overweight, followed by a slight weightlessness. When the PA system went off, the passengers knew that they had successfully landed.

shuttle boats stopped, the artificial intelligence did not immediately open the hatch, in the moon on shuttle boats, and not as simple as the Earth on the plane, shuttle boats landing area is still exposed inside outer space, if humans do not wear engineering suits exposed outside, within a minute, super low temperature will be able to freeze every cell. What’s more, the deadly space radiation can dismember the genetic chain in a minute. A lunar rover came from the open space, carrying the disembarkation channel towards shuttle boats, after a sound of metal crashing and buckling outside the cabin, the announcement system prompted the passengers to go to the disembarkation door, when the door opened, the passengers lined up to walk into the lower oxygen concentration channel inside. The moon’s gravity is only one-sixth that of Earth’s, and Dawn Lucius’ steps were slow. When he tried to go a little faster, he felt like a puppet on a string, shaking wildly in the air.

The terminal lobby is not like Earth, where there are no glass vaults, and the terminal is forged of carbon-based steel to avoid the impact of meteorite particles. As you walk out of the passageway, you are greeted by plants in the terminal lobby that look like Earth’s scattered anemones, lyre-leaved ficus, money trees, and turtleback bamboo, but are as tall as a thirty-year-old white birch tree. When plants survive on a planet with weak gravity, they are free to grow upward free from gravity. These plants are expensive to maintain, and artificial intelligence monitors their growth and regulates the plants’ moisture and temperature. Passengers continued to follow the blue strip of lights with indication arrows, there are several pools on the hard concrete, the water is as clean as the warm current of the Atlantic Ocean, colorful tropical fish swimming and playing in the blue, they did not find themselves changing planets.

“Haha, these fish are fake, the whole pool is a hologram.” There was a newcomer in the passenger seat, a space cadet selected for internship after graduation, chubby, who stepped on the screen with his foot and spoke excitedly.

“In order to relieve the people working in the base miss the Earth, in the design of a lot of restoration of the Earth’s environment, but here to keep animals, or impractical.” Kenny Jr. Clooney said to himself.

“Where are we going now?” The fat passenger asked.

“Go to the living quarters.” Kenny Jr. Clooney points to the gate a short distance away, consisting of two heavy metal doors that require pre-registered visitor privileges to open.

“Why is the base built here?” The fat passenger quickly caught up with Kenny Jr. Clooney and continued to ask. “I mean, is there any basis for the location of the base?”

“Because there is raw material here.”

“Raw materials?”

“Well, the main materials used to build the ship weren’t shipped from Earth, they were forged here.” Kenny Jr. Clooney explained enthusiastically.

“Is the base built on top of a pile of iron?” The fat passenger grew his mouth, happy as a child. “Did I guess right?”

“Haha, that’s pretty much it.” Kenny Jr. Clooney was infected by him, and there was a burst of laughter from the passengers.

“And what exactly does that mean?” The fat passenger asked after him.

“We explored the largest crater at the south pole of the moon back in 2015, and it had a piece of metal buried underneath that was at least as big as three hangar, and later when we built a base on the moon, we chose this crater, which is the lunar base where we are now.” Kenny Jr. Clooney spoke with his index finger pointing upward, drawing a circle in the air.

When the group arrived at the gate, the panda on the wall to the left of the door frame spoke. “Welcome to the moon base, the system is verifying your login information.” It was a robot with a pre-programmed bio-login system, and after it spoke this sentence there was no other action, the door did not open, the fat passenger looked around, what he did not know was that the system had already done a check of several of their bio-information in the database, and after the information met the login requirements, the door slowly slid open to both sides. The fat passenger poked his head out and found that the back of the door was not what he thought it would be. He sank his face and followed the others into the white box, following the voice prompts, each passenger stood in the designated position, and after the login camera scanned the information of the crowd, the door on the wall opened and the passengers walked into their own separate room, where they needed to take off all the clothes on their bodies first, and the disinfection system would disinfect the whole body, and then put on Brand new work clothes, out of the room, the crowd came to the entrance to the living area of the moon base.

Moon base living area is circular, the middle of the square is the entertainment project concentration area, any of the commercial complex on Earth have here, aroma of coffee, added vanilla ice cream, floating cilantro beef ramen, hot soup dumplings, delicious things can be bought at any time, twenty-four hours without closing, robot chef is always waiting for his customers in the back kitchen. But the round square does not sell clothes, the moon base according to the different jobs assigned to have different work clothes, everyone needs to wear work clothes except for sleeping time, activities, and, the moon base still drinking high alcohol, the Spring Festival New Year’s Eve dinner and a major ceremony, the base each person has the right to receive a glass of low alcohol, but these wines are prohibited from changing hands, the person receiving the rights can choose to give up, if If someone is found to trade alcohol, he or she will be disciplined with a demerit.

It was close to 12:00 p.m. when the passengers entered the Rotunda, and the living quarters switched to Earth’s night mode, as quiet as the street scene when you walk out of a movie theater at night. Rodney Cruise led Dawn Lucius and Kenny Jr. Clooney, who boarded a four-seat tour bus that crossed the plaza, drove out of the entertainment district, and after a short drive in the residential area, drove into a dark tunnel. Lucius hated the darkness, he kept looking at the time on his wrist screen, after five long minutes, the tour bus stopped in front of the door of the conference room with blue lights, the sign on the door shows that the conference room is in use at this time, the most suspicious thing about this trip to the moon is the content of the mission, what is the mission, and who arranged the mission, late at night in the conference room, who is waiting for them?