631: Chapter 631 Preparing for the Mars Base

February 11, 2057, 9:00 AM.

A small-scale aerial combat exercise was underway in the Wulan Gumu region.

One side consisted of new recruits from the base, while the other was a special operations team led by Zhang Yuankui.

Both sides went back and forth, creating a lively spectacle.

At the same time, a special spacecraft quietly ascended, flying towards outer space.

Half an hour later, the ground-to-spacecraft docked with the Space Station, and Oriental Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The most dangerous step had been completed.

The material transfer robots in the Space Station quickly unloaded the light crystal plates and zhen crystals, directly distributing them to the nuclear-powered transport spacecraft in the secondary annular cabin.

In addition, the centralized control station produced in the primary annular cabin was also ready and could be loaded onto the ships at this time.

Now that there were enough robots working in concert, loading and unloading these materials was no problem at all.

Within 2 hours, all 18,000 micro space transport spacecraft were fully loaded.

"Mr. Dongfang, the materials are ready; we can depart," Xiao Lin reported.

This was a historic moment; even Monga watched without blinking.

"Good, depart!" Oriental Chen said solemnly.

"Command issued."

On the screen, from the Space Station's secondary annular cabin, a group of micro transport spacecraft flew out from their parking spaces one by one, then formed a queue outside the Space Station.

This scene was like a swarm of bees flying out of a beehive.

They were not large in size and were all equipped with warp drives. Under the powerful output of micro nuclear power batteries, they could achieve extreme acceleration.

Due to the low stability and high failure rate of electrical equipment, the designed speed of this micro nuclear-powered transport spacecraft could only reach 500,000 kilometers per hour.

At this flight speed, it would take 10 days to reach a near-solar orbit.

After all, it was only for temporary use, and he could completely accept this time frame.

The spacecraft quickly flew out of Blue Star's orbit and headed towards the sun.

Now, all he had to do was wait.

After the first batch of light-absorbing units were deployed, he did not plan to produce subsequent light crystal plates on the ground. The risk of transportation back and forth was too high and not worth the gamble.

Now, he was pondering how to establish a light crystal plate production base on another planet.

To establish a base on another planet, the first priority would be to establish communication.

Currently, the Space Station could only communicate with Blue Star; other planets could not be monitored.

To establish communication, it would be necessary to set up a geosynchronous orbit satellite in that planet's orbit and build a Supercomputing Center on the ground for data processing.

Could the Supercomputing Center be directly established on the satellite?

Of course, that was also possible, but firstly, reliability would decrease, and secondly, expansion would be inconvenient.

In the short term, separate construction would still be the most efficient and convenient to use.

The most suitable planet for establishing a production base right now was Mars.

Furthermore, now that the conditions were met, it was time to consider putting all one's eggs in different baskets.

Currently, all Nata Civilization data was stored in the Space Station; if it were to be destroyed, it would be catastrophic.

So, since he was going to set up a base on Mars, it was best to do it in one go.

"Xiao Lin, I plan to establish a new base on Mars and back up all core data there. Please draw up a plan, trying to shorten the project time as much as possible."

"Understood, Commander. Should we consider setting up a human living area at the Mars Base?" Xiao Lin asked.

"Not for now."

"Understood, analyzing."

"Commander, analysis complete. It will take a minimum of one month," Xiao Lin quickly provided the result.

"Oh? How exactly will that work?" This time was much shorter than expected.

"Producing a Mars geosynchronous orbit communication satellite will take 2 days. Using the current micro nuclear-powered transport spacecraft, transporting the satellite, Bee Queen, and zhen crystals to Mars will take 8 days."

"After the Bee Queen is deployed on Mars, it will take about 20 more days to build the Supercomputing Center," Xiao Lin briefly reported.

"So, this plan can only be initiated after the charged zhen crystals are sent back?" Oriental Chen asked.

"Yes," Xiao Lin replied.

At the current charging speed, one zhen crystal could be fully charged in 10 days.

But to get that zhen crystal, it would take about 40 days.

Because the transport spacecraft would take 20 days for a round trip, building the charging station would take 10 days, and charging would take 10 days.

"Alright. Then how will the data backup be achieved?" Oriental Chen asked.

"Both the communication satellite and the Mars Supercomputing Center will use quantum communication. Once the base is established, data can be silently synchronized in the background. This way, the backup process won't require additional calculation time," Xiao Lin explained.

"Okay, let's do it that way. For now, let's produce the satellite and the Bee Queen. Once the zhen crystals are transported back, we'll depart immediately," Oriental Chen instructed.