Chapter 236 Starship No. 2 Test Flight
Texas has been largely deserted due to two world-class crises.
There are only a few signs of human activity in the area near the Umbrella space rocket launch base.
And today, fifteen minutes before the test flight of Starship Two.
In the command room of the space base building.
Technicians with serious expressions sat in front of the computer screen, staring closely at the real-time parameters of Starship 2.
Karl took Wanda and the three girls and appeared outside the command room door via teleportation.
Elon Musk, who received the notice in advance, as the person in charge of the starship project, was waiting outside the command room early.
Seeing Boss appear with three confidantes, he immediately bowed and said hello: "Good afternoon, welcome Boss, and three beautiful ladies are here to inspect."
"There are still fifteen minutes before the launch of Starship 2. Please follow me into the command room to observe this Starship test flight in real time."
Karl nodded casually and followed Musk into the command room with the three women.
In the command room, everyone was focused on their work. Karl glanced at Starship Two projected on the holographic screen.
"How confident are you about this test flight?"
Musk, as the person in charge of the entire space and rocket base, did not make a guarantee immediately.
"Sorry, Boss, it's hard for me to give you too much guarantee, although we have repeatedly checked the condition of Starship Two."
"But if an extremely complex spacecraft like Starship cannot truly fly out of space and withstand the test of the vacuum environment of the universe, no one can guarantee that it will succeed."
Looking at the holographic screen, a starship spacecraft with a silver-white outer shell, green lines on the surface of the ship's body that seemed to be flowing, and full of science fiction was parked on the flight runway of the launch site.
Wanda was a little curious and asked: "What are the green lines on the surface of this spaceship?"
Musk immediately used his professional knowledge to explain: "Madam has a very keen eye. In fact, that is the energy shield activating device of the starship spacecraft."
"The flowing liquid inside the green lines on the surface of the ship is Y-12 molecules, a rare substance."
"It has two special properties: room-temperature superconductivity and energy field excited state."
"This rare substance Y-12, which can only be artificially synthesized in the laboratory, can stimulate the energy field state of Y-12 as long as enough energy is injected."
"For example, each molecule of this special substance can use ultra-high-intensity energy to transform the molecular structure into a defensive energy field in a special quantum state."
"The benefit of this technology is that when a starship encounters an enemy laser or energy attack in space, it will automatically stimulate the defensive energy field of the Y-12 liquid."
"This is equivalent to the fact that starships are immune to laser and energy attacks to a certain extent!"
Musk spoke a bunch of professional terms, but Wanda only understood the last sentence and said with surprise:
"Then isn't this starship invincible? It's actually immune to the enemy's energy attacks?"
Musk shook his head seriously and said: "To be more precise, if the starship is attacked by an energy that exceeds the safety threshold, it will be destroyed."
"The offensive and defensive battle between spears and shields has lasted for thousands of years in human history. Even in the universe, this offensive and defensive battle will continue."
"It just depends on whether the enemy's energy attack is stronger or our protective shield technology is more advanced."
Karl remained silent and stood quietly with an indifferent expression.
This energy shield technology is what Umbrella scientists have learned from other civilizations in the universe, as well as Wakanda and Atlantis.
Combining its advantages and improving its shortcomings, thousands of scientists spent half a year to finally develop the Y-12 energy shield technology.
For earth civilization, it is extremely advanced, but for Karl, the defensive performance is still a bit poor.
After all, his strength lies here, not to mention the Y-12 energy shield, even one of the most terrifying celestial bodies in the universe, a neutron star.
He can use his atomic manipulation ability to break it down into atomic dust.
Therefore, what Carl values about the Y-12 energy shield technology is that this technology can automatically defend against enemy energy attacks.
The requirements for defensive performance are not high.
If you want better defense performance, Karl thinks that only the degenerate matter of neutron stars or the strong force materials that make water droplets can barely enter the eyes.
At this time, Musk raised his voice and reminded, "Please note that there are still 30 seconds before the test flight."
Hearing this, the three girls, Karl and Wanda, all turned their gazes to the holographic screen and quietly stopped on Starship Two at the launch site.
[Attention everyone, there are still 10 seconds left before Starship 2 takes off! 】
Emergency broadcasts carried the words throughout the rocket launch site.
【10,9,8】
[Nuclear fusion reactor power increased to 10%]
[Starship Two's auxiliary engine is starting.]
[Anti-gravity engine started successfully]
Two streams of ultra-high-temperature blue air shot out from the tail nozzle of Starship Two.
【3,2,1】
【Starship Two is taking off.】
The entire ship is 100 meters long, 60 meters high, flat and looks like a flying saucer, and weighs 7,000 tons!
If it weren't for the activation of the anti-gravity engine that offset most of the gravity, the airflow ejected by the turbojet engine would not be enough to propel the starship to slowly take off vertically.
Of course, this is also because the anti-gravity technology of the umbrella is not mature at this stage, otherwise the turbojet engine technology used by fighter jets would not be used at all.
At this time, after Starship No. 2 took off vertically to an altitude of 100 meters, it began to fly forward and accelerate continuously.
[The nuclear fusion reactor is in good operating condition, the flight attitude is normal, and it enters the automatic flight mode. ]
Looking at Starship No. 2 on the holographic screen, it continued to accelerate after taking off, and lost its vision in less than three seconds.
Knowing that it was just a smooth takeoff, not a success, Carl turned his head to look at Musk and ordered:
"I will observe Starship No. 2 at a close distance. If there is a problem, I will recover it. Be careful not to treat me as an enemy."
Musk replied blankly: "Understood." Out of loyalty, he carefully reminded:
"But Boss, if the nuclear fusion reactor of the starship fails, it may cause a terrifying fusion explosion. You must be careful."
Carl said nonchalantly, "Do your job well and don't worry about me." Then he teleported and disappeared directly.
Wanda, who was standing by, saw this and didn't worry about her man. Instead, she whispered to her sisters Skye and Gwen.
"Looking at this, the test flight should have been successful. Skye, are you ready to travel in space?"
"Travel? That's you and Gwen. I guess I'm going to be a laborer. If the base wasn't too boring, I wouldn't want to do space mining."
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"Oh, when the time comes, you can seize the opportunity, hold his handle, and act cute. Will he really let you work as a space miner?"
"It's hard to say. That bastard doesn't seem to be buying it recently."
Carl didn't know the private conversations between Wanda and her three girlfriends.
He is now following Starship II, rushing into space at a speed of Mach 20.
[Starship No. 2 breaks through the atmosphere, officially enters the outer space, and begins to self-check all functions of the starship.]
[Test Item 1: Nuclear Fusion Reactor Restart]
[Test Item 2: Quantum Communication System]
[Test Item.]
In the vast space, watch the sci-fi appearance of Starship No. 2 up close, and then match the cradle of human civilization, the aqua-blue earth background behind.
Carl couldn't help but feel a strong sense of pride in his heart.
The Umbrella can develop smoothly all the way to breaking out of the earth, all thanks to his careful protection over the years.
"Tsk tsk. I'm so great!"
After secretly reveling in his own great achievements for a while, Carl did not forget that there was one more thing on this trip.
While waiting for the window period for Starship No. 2 to complete its self-check, he began to fly in other directions.
Following the simulated flight trajectory given by Red Queen, looking for Starship No. 1 that had lost contact.
Of course, he did not forget to divide his mind and pay attention to the status of Starship No. 2 at all times.
Half an hour later.
Carl finally found Starship One, which had lost power and had been flying around the earth for nearly half a month along a fixed space orbit.
Starship One is larger, more than 150 meters long and more than 90 meters high. Its appearance is similar to Starship Two, both of which are flat flying saucers.
At this time, Starship One was flying around the earth at a speed of 9.6 kilometers per second. After Carl enveloped the entire spacecraft with his telekinesis, he began to reduce the speed carefully.
The whole process took ten minutes, mainly because he was worried that too violent deceleration would cause Starship One, which had already lost contact due to a malfunction, to disintegrate.
After finally reducing the speed to zero, Carl used space teleportation to take Starship One and disappeared into space in an instant.
In a blink of an eye, he took Starship One back to the launch site runway of the Umbrella Space Rocket Base.
Carl was suspended in the air, and below him was the entire huge Starship One spacecraft.
The engineers who had been waiting for a long time immediately surrounded him with a dozen technicians and began to repair the faulty spacecraft.
Compared with the huge Starship No. 1, the human figures are just a dozen small black dots, so tiny.
But it is these ant-like humans who have created such a spaceship with mechanical beauty!
It can be said that Starship No. 1 is the highest technological crystallization of human civilization.
After sighing for a while, Carl teleported back to space again, cooperating with the ground aerospace base, waiting for the self-inspection of Starship No. 2 to complete.
Occasionally, Starship No. 2 will have some minor problems, such as loose precision parts or extremely complex circuits.
Carl will use his ability to repair them as much as possible under the guidance of the engineers of Umbrella Corporation.
Some of them cannot be repaired, such as some circuits have problems since the beginning of the design, and it is too troublesome to modify them. Carl has no choice but to leave it alone.
Anyway, this Starship No. 2 is just an experimental spacecraft, as long as the important functions are not problematic.
Two hours later.
Starship No. 2 completed its self-inspection.
[Self-check procedure completed, Starship II detected 31 repairable vulnerabilities]
[27 vulnerabilities have been manually repaired, skipping the repair procedure, executing the scheduled plan, and merging with the space capsule]
