New routeStar Map Draftsman I: Federation War

The head of the spacesuit is no longer Rodney Cruise, he and the spacesuit together, became a monster.

Dawn Lucius used all his strength to get up, he staggered towards Rodney Cruise, he kicked and punched the white spacesuit, but Rodney Cruise was unmoved, two large hammers continued to whack Kenny Jr. Clooney’s head, Kenny Jr. Clooney had lost consciousness, drinking water took each of the E landing bay The drinking water took over every corner of the E sector landing bay and didn’t reach past Dawn Lucius’ feet. He held Rodney Cruise’s helmet and dragged it backwards as hard as he could, finally getting Rodney Cruise’s attention. He picked up things on the floor and slammed them into Dawn Lucius, slamming his hatred of the system and the rules, of not knowing where to find his wife and kids, as Dawn Lucius crawled backwards as he crawled into another room - the storage room.

Rodney Cruise wasn’t about to give up, he said nothing, kicking and punching at Dawn Lucius all the way. Dawn Lucius crawled through the door and turned to look at Kenny Jr. Clooney, who was no longer moving. dawn Lucius rolled over and propped himself up on his hands, blood tasting fishy in the corner of his mouth, he had one eye no longer able to see, the other eye mixed with sweat and tears, he felt the stinging pain. dawn Lucius riveted and shouted, “I’m the one who stole your position, if you want to get me killed, give me a hard time, use the blade in the water purifier ......” Dawn Lucius pointed to the other end of the room, Rodney Cruise froze for a few seconds, he dropped the cabinet door in his hand and walked straight and fast towards the water purifier.

Indeed, the water purifier has a fan blade inside, there are two pieces like oversized watermelon knife long twisted blade, Rodney Cruise dumped the water inside, observed the installation principle of the fan blade, he found that the fan blade is fixed by the bottom of the screw, unarmed can not be unscrewed, but he can go to the landing bay to find the equipment to screw. Rodney Cruise went to the landing bay, he was in the toolbox a rummage, Dawn Lucius heart to the throat, he was afraid that Rodney Cruise chose the toolbox screwdriver or saw to result in him and Kenny Jr. He walked up to Dawn Lucius, lifted the wrench and gestured at his head, then went around behind Dawn Lucius, using the wrench as a golf club and Dawn Lucius’ head as a golf ball for a while, and he tried to swing the club, but the result was probably not what he wanted. The wrench unscrewed the screw.

Rodney Cruise had loosened the screw, he was a little pleased with himself, when he looked up at the two prey on the floor, he saw Dawn Lucius crawling out, Rodney Cruise was not having it, he scrambled out of the water purifier and charged at Dawn Lucius with a wrench, the silver wrench glowed cold, like the reflection on a sharp knife. Lucius struggled to crawl, his arm breaking the splash, the sweet taste of berries splashing into his mouth, mixed with the taste of blood, mixed with the fear of the wrench, the moment Dawn Lucius crossed the door frame, he tumbled to the floor in a smooth motion and clicked the door close button in the flexible device.

But, the door didn’t close, and Dawn Lucius poked the screen so quickly that she nearly stuck her finger through the screen and into the flesh.

“Chang’E, lock D zone.” Dawn Lucius shouted as she tore.

Rodney Cruise dragged the wrench behind him, dropped his weight, and both legs had finished building up strength, and he intended to scrape the wrench across Dawn Lucius’ body while rushing over without disengaging the magnetic shoes on his feet.

Fortunately, Chang’E closed the door.

“Chang’E.”

“I am.”

“If the captain orders a certain area to be cleared of oxygen and the engineer inside dies from lack of oxygen, is the captain guilty of murder?” Dawn Lucius asked in a low voice as he crawled toward Kenny Jr. Clooney.

“Count.”

“How much oxygen is left in the Rodney Cruise spacesuit?”

“Seven minutes.”

“Chang’E.”

“I am.”

“In seven minutes, please clear the D-zone for oxygen.”

“Commander Lucius, please confirm whether to execute this command.”

“Confirm.”

“Voyage log CX0306, execute Commander Lucius command, clear D-zone oxygen in six point three minutes, execute.”

The sound of a wrench striking a metal door came from behind the door, and the sound was full of anger.

“Kenny Jr. Clooney, wake up.” Dawn Lucius crawled to Kenny Jr. Clooney’s head and cradled his head in his arms. He used his arms to shield the wound on the back of Kenny Jr. Clooney’s head, but the blood still soaked Dawn Lucius’s shirt and pants like a flood that broke the bank.

“Brother, I ...... can’t.” Kenny Jr. Clooney opened his eyes slightly.

“No, hold on, in ten minutes.” Dawn Lucius swallowed and continued. “I’ll be able to cross the D and get you to the medical area to patch you up, just hang on for ten minutes, okay?”

“Brother, my father ......,” Kenny Jr. Clooney said as his face went white and his body began to twitch as he forced himself to hold back. “And ...... say ...... what?”

“Uncle said that you designed the antenna and he was proud.” Dawn Lucius remembered the correspondence, the regret, the two-year-long misunderstanding with her brother. “Uncle knew the outcome, but he was going to finish installing the antenna you designed ......”

“Brother, I’m sorry.” Kenny Jr. Clooney’s breathing was already weak, and tears streamed down the corners of his eyes, past his nose and rested above his smiling lips, letting Dawn Lucius call out to him, but he didn’t respond.

Dawn Lucius put his face on Kenny Jr. Clooney’s forehead, as he did when he was a child. At that time, uncle is a strong man, aunt’s family is the system, the marriage between the two ruined the mutual admiration when they first met, at the beginning, even if the aunt’s family says uncle has no success, aunt is on the side of uncle. Later, people’s words can be fearful, speaking of more people, aunt also began to dislike uncle, Dawn Lucius, five years old, they used a paper divorce to let each other free, but such a result, no doubt Kenny Jr. Clooney dragged into another vortex. The aunt forbade Qian Hua to visit Kenny Jr. Clooney, and even told Kenny Jr. Clooney that his father was a no-good man, and every time Kenny Jr. Clooney said he didn’t believe it, he would get a sneer and even a slap from his aunt.

Kenny Jr. Clooney and Dawn Lucius in the same school, Kenny Jr. Clooney often goes to Dawn Lucius’ home to spend the night, five years old, miss Dad, he lay in the arms of his eleven-year-old cousin, asked his cousin what kind of person Dad was, why not come to see him, Dawn Lucius told Kenny Jr. Clooney, Dad loves him, but love is not always accompanied by the side to do, Dad in the sky for Kenny Jr. Clooney to find the stars, find a good-looking Dad will bring the stars back to him, then, ah, they can hang the stars on the ceiling, once you open your eyes can see.

Kenny Jr. Clooney said he couldn’t wait, he also wanted to go to his father, the two brothers vowed to go to the Space Academy together, as engineers, Dawn Lucius put his face on Kenny Jr. Clooney’s forehead, telling him not to be afraid, brother will accompany him to find his father in the sky. Clooney’s forehead, and his nose, Kenny Jr. Clooney closed his eyes, feeling like the hot fog of the engine jet he saw in his dream, and his cousin flew to the sky together, flew to his father’s side. At that time, Kenny Jr. Clooney is also with such a smile to sleep.

“Brother, I’m sorry, wake up.” Dawn Lucius shook Kenny Jr. Clooney, he kissed Kenny Jr. Clooney’s forehead, he ruffled Kenny Jr. Clooney’s hair neatly, but, all this, Kenny Jr. Clooney would not answer him again.

Dawn Lucius had a long dream, he floated alone in space, he saw Stacean Lucius in a grassland, Stacean Lucius was chasing the horse laughing, Dawn Lucius wanted to hug him, but he ran everywhere, Dawn Lucius wanted to shout at him to stop, Stacean Lucius seems to be deaf to the look, continue to laugh and run away. I don’t know how long he slept, but Dawn Lucius felt cold all over, and he woke up in the silent sky, lifeless, as if he was in an iron box, and the box was running around in hell.

Dawn Lucius raised his hand, woke up the two cleaning robots in the landing bay, they began to busy cleaning up the mixture on the ground, the water sucked into their stomachs, dumped into the special recycling water sewer, and then the items mixed in the water compressed and packaged, put into a metal box full of storage trash. After a flurry of activity, the ground was clean as before, except that Kenny Jr. Clooney’s body was still seeping blood, and Dawn Lucius dragged him into the storage room and put him in the cooler. Dawn Lucius took off his spacesuit, lack of oxygen death caused his body to appear large bruises, Dawn Lucius put him in another cooler, if one day, the people of Earth in deep space found Dawn ship, at least have the opportunity to bring them back to Earth, bring them back home.

Dawn Lucius opened the door to the medical room, he did not let the robot in to clean up, after tidying up the physical strength, Dawn Lucius first did not break the packaging put away, not soaked by the water of those pills, he re-collected what he knew, nothing can be salvaged after, Dawn Lucius arranged for the robot to come in to clean the floor. Dawn Lucius crouched at the root of the wall, he felt a heavy head, coupled with the Rodney Cruise injury, the two mixed together, fermented into a body full of fatigue, Dawn Lucius lying on the ground, drifting off to sleep.

The Dawn ship’s data remained as it was when it arrived at the command center of the moon base after a long journey. General Quentin was the first to make the assessment that the Dawn ship was no longer fit for the mission, having lost two engineers and leaving one engineer wounded, both physically and psychologically, not to mention that the food and medical supplies The damage was not enough to last Dawn Lucius until the Kuiper Belt. Even if there is still enough food, there are still months of travel to the Kuiper Belt, and he will inevitably have a mental breakdown along the way. The thing to do now is to return to the lunar base when the ship enters Jupiter’s orbit and gains slingshot gravity. The command center shoots orders into space to run in the direction of the Dawn ship, and among those electronic signals is an instruction to modify Chang’E’s mission, Chang’E needs to return to the moon in Jupiter orbit.

The engineering suit was still wet on Dawn Lucius, water was oozing out near where he was lying, the sweeper kept bumping against his body as it recycled the water, Dawn Lucius woke up, the flex device on his arm suggested he was hypothermic and his pulse was weak. He knew what to do. Dawn Lucius walked to the room with artificial gravity, rinsed himself off and changed back into a clean engineering suit. Back in the storage room, Dawn Lucius re-counted his food, and in general, there was not much food left. The water was fine, and the recycling system would re-purify the contaminated water before pumping it back inside the water storage facility.

“Should the mission continue?” Dawn Lucius is asking himself these days, he is not sure, if this time to return to Earth, no one will say that he failed in his duty, and may still arrange a long vacation for him. But what about the engineers on the lunar base if they don’t continue the mission? Many people have given ten years of effort to this mission, due to long hours of work in a low-gravity environment, half of the engineers have low bone density and 80 or 90 years old, they do not have the next ten years.

“Let’s draw lots.” Dawn Lucius threw half a peanut into the air. “Listen, the peanut stops, if the back is facing up, then we continue the mission, if not, then go back to Earth.”

Each time he said this, he threw the peanut countless times, the same peanut, the same force, possibly the same time, and not once did the peanut turn backwards. He thought, “Forget it, it’s not fair to rely on throwing peanuts in zero gravity to determine the task.” At least not fair to the peanut, it does not have the obligation to take the burden of deciding whether to carry out the task or not. Well, “so, you can find two peanuts, one large, one small, while throwing into the air, I closed my eyes to catch, catch the big one to continue the task.”

“Commander Lucius, we are about to enter a low Jupiter orbit, the gravity of Jupiter captures the Dawn ship and half way around we accelerate to escape, the speed of the Dawn ship is expected to rise to five hundred and twenty kilometers per second.”

“Got it.” Dawn Lucius lay on the floor of the watchtower, the protective cover of the porthole slowly descending, the huge planet Jupiter just ahead, super-sized tornadoes tearing inside Jupiter, making the indication of the gaseous planet look like a lollipop.Dawn Lucius remembered when Stacean Lucius first started kindergarten, he didn’t think it was fun, and every night he would give Dawn Lucius explained why he didn’t want to go, and Dawn Lucius encouraged him to discover interesting places and not to focus on things that weren’t interesting, all to no avail. Until one day, Stacean Lucius suddenly became interested in making lollipops.

“Daddy?” Father and son asked as they walked down the street holding hands, Stacean Lucius holding a chocolate milk flavored lollipop in his hand as he looked up.

“What’s wrong?” Dawn Lucius looked at him with a smirk.

“Daddy, I want to know how to make a lollipop.” Stacean Lucius stopped and he showed the lollipop in his hand to Dawn Lucius. The round ball looked like many layers stacked together, white milk, brown chocolate, and at first glance, it looked like the Jupiter Dawn Lucius sees now. At that time, Dawn Lucius told Stacean Lucius, go to kindergarten to learn knowledge to know how to make lollipops, do not go to school to learn, from then on, Stacean Lucius no longer hates kindergarten.

“Baby, I’m flying over your favorite lollipop.” Dawn Lucius raises her hand, and on the screen of the flexible device is the smiling face of Stacean Lucius.

Dawn Lucius sat up from the ground, remembering that when he left he told Stacean Lucius that his dad was going to pick him a star in the sky, and since he had promised him that he should keep his promise. Engineers after years of training, most of the time are used to learn aerospace engineering, and a small part of the medical skills, but with little training they meet the internal crisis of how to do it, the space agency too believes in the system and the system. But then again, the space agency taught the engineers how to re-plan their goals, or, how to re-formulate a new plan to complete the mission, originally, the competition on Earth is already fierce enough, if this time Sane ship’s knowledge by competitors to get, then the Earth could be knocked back to a more primitive era. The rival means is relatively simple, is to suppress us, let our economy collapse, newborn babies do not have vaccines, no clean delivery environment, older children do not have access to education, after a generation or two, Eurasia will be left with a bunch of manual laborers, Dawn Lucius does not want to see such a result, he promised Stacean Lucius, to go together to travel the stars What about the sea, the son has a dream, as a father, has the obligation to guard his dream.

The Dawn ship’s trajectory was predicted in advance on Earth, and the next time the command center saw the Dawn ship, it was heading toward the Moon after breaking out of Jupiter’s low altitude orbit, and the Moon base would replan the Dawn ship’s mission as originally planned to carry two hundred astronauts. The Dawn ship flew to the other side of Jupiter and was no longer visible to the telescope, but what they did not expect was that the Dawn ship showed no signs of flying backwards, but accelerated towards Saturn’s next rendezvous point. The command center thought at first that the ship had made a mistake, but when they analyzed the data again, they understood that it was not their fault and that Dawn ship was indeed continuing its mission.

The violent shaking, the pain of overweight squeezing back, alone together, Dawn Lucius’s eyes unconsciously tears, he covered his mouth, stayed in the chair until Dawn ship out of Jupiter’s gravity, the ship’s current speed is five hundred and seventy kilometers per second. He also has a crisis, that is, there is no longer enough food, even if only once a day, food is only enough for him to eat for about ten days, it seems, have to re-plan the mission.

“Chang’E.”

“I am.”

“I only have enough food for ten days, plus the chlorella from the garden, and some non-toxic leaves, I can last up to thirty days, so if we want to get to Sane ship in thirty days, how blocky do we have to adjust the flight speed to be able to do that?”

After Dawn Lucius asked, Chang’E did not answer in time, it is now like a small woman with a mind.

“Chang’E?” re-called Dawn Lucius.

“I am.”

“Answer the last question.”

“Twelve hundred kilometers per second.” The female voice is still sweet.

“Can you do it?”

“No, the Dawn ship’s reactor won’t allow it, and the insulation only supports a maximum of one thousand kilometers per second.”

“Okay, I’ll think about it.” Dawn Lucius lay on the floor, he used the ceiling as a backdrop on which to re-plan the flight path of the Dawn ship, he thought of another option, the risk was high, but his risk of not taking the new option was higher now, Dawn Lucius stood up from the floor.

“Chang’E.”

“I am.”

“The original flight path planned for the Dawn ship was to use Jupiter and Saturn to accelerate and finally Neptune to slow down, right?”

“Right.”

“In that case we can only get two accelerations, but if, this time, we include Uranus, use Uranus to get a third acceleration, and finally continue to use Neptune’s gravity to brake, would that be enough to get to where the Sane ship is in thirty days?” Dawn Lucius was even a little excited, what a simple and effective solution.

“Theoretically, yes, but the Dawn ship’s reactor could be damaged at any time.” The sweet female voice was not sad.

What does damage mean? Why didn’t the damn AI just say that the mission would fail or that Dawn Lucius would be blown up, was it afraid of mission failure too?

“Chang’E.,” Dawn Lucius spoke after a period of silence.

“I am.”

“Modify the sailing route.”

“Voyage log L20591227-K6, Captain Dawn Lucius modified the log, the ship will accelerate to one thousand kilometers per second and modify the original voyage route, the final decision, Dawn ship will use Saturn, Uranus to obtain a second and third acceleration, confirm the execution.”

“Confirm.”

“Commander Lucius, Dawn ship will pick up speed again in ten seconds, please fasten your seat belts.”

The compensating rods in the reactor were pumped out by the robotic arm, the number of neutrons soared, higher temperatures were generated in the insulation, Chang’E adjusted the amount of hydrogen peroxide injected, the blue flame in the tail of the Dawn ship was bright like the lights of adult fireflies in the summer night in the space of the HoH. Dawn Lucius was in the chair with the pressure from the acceleration, at first, he felt the pressure from the acceleration of his body and the ship in the opposite direction was blocked by the chair. This squeeze became another kind of unpleasantness in his chest, his trachea almost deformed, his ribs struggling on the verge of breaking, his liver squeezed, blood started gushing out of Dawn Lucius’ mouth and he almost choked to death on his own blood. dawn Lucius’ vision blurred and It was like an old wine had been knocked over in his head, making him drowsy. The numbers on the screen slowed down, the squeeze became less intense, the windpipe slowly changed back to its original shape, air mixed with blood poured in, and he started coughing, at first, Dawn Lucius coughed on his knees, and by the time he was almost done coughing up blood, he had no strength to support himself, and Dawn Lucius was lying on his back in a bright red, unable to move.

After an unknown amount of time, Dawn Lucius’ consciousness returned, but his body, like waking up from a hangover, was uncomfortable. He knelt on the floor and tried to stand up to clean it, and after several failed efforts, he summoned a sweeping robot. Dawn Lucius drew a line on the screen from his current location to the medical room, holding the robot, standing up and lying on the robot’s cylinder lid, clicking the start button on the flexible device, and the robot carried him to the medical room. Fortunately, there were still a number of painkillers that had not been damaged, and Dawn Lucius took three times the prescribed amount. He sat on the floor for a few moments to rest and felt what seemed to be better, and he squeezed a small amount of food into the water and, after a few hard shakes, plopped down on the robot and started swallowing.

“Change your clothes or the wound will get infected.” Dawn Lucius reminded herself in a low voice.

The robot was re-routed to pack him into the room with artificial gravity. He sat limply in the bathroom as the warm water began to rinse off, he was too tired to get clean clothes on anymore. Dawn Lucius climbed out of the bathroom and crawled toward the bed. He pulled the covers off the bed, half on the floor and half over his body. He had never been so sleepy, he couldn’t wait to close his eyes and drifted off to sleep.