Finally, Voyager was able to get a complete overhaul on this not-so-satisfactory planet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

More than a month passed, during which the resource gathering on the magnetar and the maintenance of the Voyager were well underway. In the process of resource collection, the engineering robot found that the minerals on this planet are not only rich, but also the content of impurities is very small. Moreover, the content of rare elements in these minerals is very high, which greatly replenishes the inventory of rare elements on the Voyager, which Zhou Xin is very satisfied with in his heart, and his dissatisfaction with the environment of this planet has also decreased slightly at the beginning.

Just a month and a half after Atlas discovered the planet, Voyager finally discovered that the engineering robots were beginning to show visible damage.

"How's the damage?" Zhou Xin still had a little hope at first, "Can those stopped engineering robots still be repaired?" ”

However, the Voyager's words shattered his ruthless illusions, "I'm sorry, Your Excellency, although it is protected by a special coating, the joints of each robot have suffered serious wear and tear, and the inside of the robot has also begun to appear magnetic dust intrusion, the internal magnetic dust accumulation has caused a large number of circuits inside the engineering robot short circuit, and at the same time, the disordered magnetic field caused by the magnetic dust inside has also seriously damaged the originally sealed parts. Although it is theoretically possible to repair these damaged robots, it does not take as long to repair them as it does to build a new one. Then the Voyager added, "In addition, the core module of the engineering robot has also been irreparably damaged by the interference of strong magnetic fields and internal magnetic dust, and it is now unable to respond to the normal commands of the ship, and sometimes even reports a large number of erroneous commands." ”

"Is the damage so bad?" Zhou Xin muttered to himself.

"Yes, basically there are no intact parts of the entire engineering robot." The Voyager replied, but then it comforted, "Fortunately, this was predicted in advance, so not only did we create new spare robots in the base, but the ship also made every engineering robot on the surface of the planet back up the core data every day, so even if the robot was damaged, we only lost the data of this robot that day." Moreover, on the previous silicon star, this ship collected a large amount of high-purity silicon for the manufacture of cores, so there is no shortage of materials for making various cores. ”

"So is it a stroke of genius to collect resources on the silicon star in advance?" Zhou Xin was a little helpless, "Okay, since there is no way to repair it, let's directly replace the damaged engineering robot." By the way, what about other equipment other than engineering robots? What about the damage? ”

"Mining equipment is highly consuming and wears out faster on the outside than on the inside, so it doesn't make much difference if it's not affected by magnetic dust. As for the transportation equipment and melting equipment, although there is some wear and tear, it is still within the acceptable range and does not need to be replaced for the time being. ”

"Good." After listening to the loss report of the Voyager, Zhou Xin was very satisfied, and then he was about to learn about the maintenance of the spaceship, when Atlas's excited voice sounded in the command cabin, "Brother Captain!" I see! I see! As he spoke, a little girl appeared on the big screen,

As soon as he heard Atlas's voice, Zhou Xin didn't react for a while, and in the previous month, Atlas, who has always been lively and likes to play tricks on people, was rarely quiet, and even appeared rarely in everyone's field of vision. Every time Zhou Xin asked her what she had been doing lately, her answer was always: "People should study how these two planets were formed." Then he disappeared again, for her answer, Zhou Xin was a little unimpressed, although he also wanted to know what kind of relationship between magnetar and silicon star, but more important was the maintenance work of the Voyager, and other things were not as important to him as this matter. And he felt in his heart that Atlas's performance might just be a whim of artificial intelligence, and after a while, this curiosity would naturally fade. But it seems that this time Atlas is serious, she actually applied to Zhou Xin to launch a drilling equipment used on the silicon star on the surface of the planet more than ten days ago, the reason is naturally to study the formation process of this planet, at first Zhou Xin did not agree very much in his heart, but it can't withstand Atlas's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and it doesn't seem to hurt to set up a set of drilling equipment on the surface of the planet, so Zhou Xin finally agreed to Atlas's request.

Along with the drilling equipment to the surface of the magnetar, there is also the robot that Zhou Xin gave to Atlas before, that robot has been transformed by Atlas several times in the previous period of time, and now it is no longer the same as when Zhou Xin gave it to Atlas. He is now equipped with a lot of strange equipment, if these devices are placed in front of Zhou Xin one by one, Zhou Xin can still recognize what kind of equipment they are, but when they are assembled on a robot, Zhou Xin is completely incomprehensible, and it is difficult for him to imagine how Atlas gathered so many seemingly unrelated devices into a robot. But even so, Atlas still complained that the robot was a little uncomfortable to use, and Zhou Xin felt a little helpless about this, he knew in his heart that this was a gap in the level of technology, so whenever Atlas complained, Zhou Xin always tried to find various excuses to comfort her. Now that Atlas has sent such a robot that has been painstakingly modified to suit herself to the surface of the planet, it seems that she is serious about studying these two planets.

By the time Zhou Xin reacted, the little girl had been standing on the big screen for a long time, and now she was excited, as if she had gotten a fun toy, and her mouth kept shouting: "I know!" Brother Captain! I finally knew! ”

Zhou Xin's attention was immediately attracted by her shout, so he temporarily stopped what he wanted to know about the spaceship from the Voyager, and turned to Atlas and asked, "Don't be so excited, what do you know?" ”

At this time, Atlas finally stopped shouting, and instead showed a mysterious expression, "People finally know how those two planets were formed, Brother Captain, you will never imagine what these two planets were like before." ”

"Oh? Can't think of it? Zhou Xin asked with interest, and everyone in the command cabin was immediately interested by Atlas's words.

"You can't imagine it." Atlas said with a hint of playfulness, "Even I've been studying it for so long." ”

"yes, then Atlas will tell me how these two planets were formed." Zhou Xin asked with interest.

"Won't you come and guess?" At this time, Atlas, who was in a particularly happy mood, actually began to sell Guanzi, "The result is really unexpected." ”

"Could it be that these two planets formed at the same time?" Dart, who was next to him, was the first to say the speculation that had been raised at the beginning.

"Hmph, if it's that simple, will it take me so long to find out?" The little girl made a gesture of looking up at the sky, with a hint of disdain in her tone.

"One of the planets was in this orbit, and the other was from somewhere else, and they formed the current orbit after a violent impact?" Spred then came up with an idea.

"Not really." The little girl shook her head vigorously.

The crowd then put forward their own conjectures about the cause of the formation of the two planets, but Atlas did not move other than shake his head vigorously.

"Two planets were originally twin stars orbiting each other? And then there was a collision for unknown reasons, and then it became what it is now? Zhou Xin also followed the crowd and said his previous conjectures.

Hearing Zhou Xin's thoughts, Atlas nodded slightly, "Brother Captain's idea is a bit close to the truth, but it's still a little different." Seeing that there were no new ideas for the rest of the group, Atlas began to explain, "You can't even imagine what these two planets are like. Then she whetted everyone's appetite again, and then said the results of her research, "These two planets are originally together. ”

"In other words, as I said, these two planets were originally twin stars orbiting each other?" Zhou Xin showed a thoughtful expression, "Then how did the two of them separate." ”

"No, no, no." The little girl shook her finger, "I mean it literally, it's not the kind of double stars that revolve around each other, these two planets turned out to be combined, and their predecessors were one planet." ”

When Atlas said the conclusion of his research, everyone in the command cabin was shocked, and Zhou Xin couldn't help but blurt out, "A planet?!" How is this possible! Are you mistaken. The others were shocked and didn't quite believe it.

"How could it be." The little girl jumped up excitedly, "This is the result of more than a month of investigation, although people were surprised when they came to this result at first, but this is the most likely result." ”

"Uh, sorry sorry, that's not what I meant." Seeing that Atlas seemed to be showing signs of madness, Zhou Xin hurriedly comforted, "It's just that I can't accept such an unbelievable conclusion for a while, since it's the result of your research, then you can talk about it in detail." ”

"Hmph, that's pretty much it." The little girl's face on the screen slowed slightly, and then her expression became serious, and then she asked a question, "Didn't you all have any ideas when you first discovered that the content of various metal elements of magnetars was so high?" ”

"Isn't it a special environment that creates such a planet? What other ideas could there have? Zhou Xin looked puzzled.

"Of course not." Saying that the little girl's hand moved, a table appeared on the big screen, Zhou Xin looked at it, it was an analysis report of the probe's magnetar composition a long time ago, the little girl conjured a stick from her hand, he pointed to the top of the iron and nickel content and asked, "Such a high content ratio, don't you all think of anything?" ”

Under Atlas's reminder, everyone in the command cabin showed a contemplative expression, even Zhou Xin was no exception. Watching Atlas holding the rod and repeatedly beating between the content of iron and nickel elements, and then thinking of the situation of a planet, a place suddenly popped up in Zhou Xin's heart, "You mean the core of the planet?" He hesitated to say what he thought.

"That's right." Atlas gave a high-five, "When people first saw this form, they thought it was strange, it seemed that this ingredient had been seen somewhere. After repeated comparisons, people remembered that this is not the proportion of core elements that every rocky planet has. ”

"But isn't the probe investigating the surface of the planet?" Spred questioned.

"Yes, people were also wondering why the surface of this planet has the elemental proportions of the planet's core." Atlas continued, "So then people were a little curious about the core of the magnetar and wanted to see what was going on inside the planet, and you know what I found?" At this point, Atlas sold another pass, and then she continued, "I found that although the interior of this planet is a normal planet's three-layer structure, the composition of the planet's crust and mantle is completely indistinguishable. In the end, it was discovered that the crust of the planet was fundamentally regenerated. ”

While everyone was still surprised, Atlas continued: "The interior of the planet has been analyzed, and then there is a large and outrageous core inside the planet, which occupies a quarter of the volume of the entire planet, and this core does not have a more detailed hierarchy. After a pause, Atlas stated his conclusion, "Based on the clues found earlier, the conclusion is that this planet is most likely not a complete planet at all, it may have been just the core of a larger planet. ”

Just after Zhou Xin guessed Atlas's hint before, he faintly had a similar idea in his heart, but when Atlas said the final result, he was still very surprised, so he asked.

"How reliable is this conclusion ......?"