After listening to the explanations of the Voyager and Atlas, Zhou Xin looked helpless, he thought about it, and asked the question he was most concerned about. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"How big is the impact of this interference? How long does it take for a probe to be permanently damaged when it is active on the planet's surface? Will it affect our future resource collection? ”

"Since there were no previous examples, we can't estimate how much damage the planet's magnetic field will cause to the probe, but we can only deduce that such a problem may occur based on the current situation of the probe." Voyager replied.

Zhou Xin frowned, "Can't you estimate the specific time of damage?" That's a bit tricky. Although the surface of this planet is very rich in resources, he is worried in his heart that if the engineering robot sent to the surface of the planet to collect resources is damaged in a short period of time. If the resources collected by then are not enough to recreate the consumption of robots, then he will have to carefully consider whether to collect resources on this planet, and he is even worried about whether there will be problems with the engineering ship that lands on the surface of the planet at that time.

"Brother Captain, you don't have to worry about this." Atlas seemed to hear Zhou's thoughts, and she comforted after the Voyager finished speaking, "I just checked the structure of your detector, and although the protection of some delicate parts is not as good as our robot, it is still very effective. With the current environment on the surface of the planet, it will not be a big problem for the probe to stay on it for two or three days, but it is difficult to say if it is more than five days. ”

"It's only been two or three days?" Zhou Xin still frowned, "This time is a little short, I don't know if we can collect enough resources on this planet." ”

As soon as Zhou Xin's words fell, Atlas added: "There are more precision parts on the detector, so it will be affected by the magnetic field. If you collect resources, you should use a model called an engineering robot, which has a slightly less precision part inside, so it can last in this environment for a longer period of time. ”

"Can we last a little longer?" Zhou Xin's expression softened slightly, "Voyager, with our current situation, how long will it take to collect enough resources on this planet and repair the spaceship?" ”

It took three or four minutes for Voyager to come to the conclusion that "it will take at least a year or more, and only if there are enough robots on the planet to collect non-stop, otherwise it will take much longer." ”

"How long is it going to take?" Zhou Xin weighed the situation in his heart, and said to himself, "It didn't take so long to collect resources before. ”

"That's because in the past, it wasn't necessary to do such large-scale repairs at the same time when resources were being gathered." The Voyager didn't hear Zhou Xin talking to himself, and it replied earnestly.

"No matter how long it takes, we have to carry out repairs on the ship, otherwise we simply won't be able to move on." Spred said from the side.

"I understand." Zhou Xin frowned, "But this is indeed too long, and with the current environment of this planet, we have to take turns to send robots to the surface of the planet to ensure that the robots do not have major problems." At the same time, it is necessary to carry out a detailed overhaul of the robots that have returned, and a year is definitely not enough. Although most of the resources in the ship are recyclable, there will still be some loss, especially water resources, which are not enough on several planets in the system. I'm worried that if it takes so long, there will be other problems when the ship is repaired. ”

"What else can I do?" Spred continued, "Don't you want to fix the ship?" ”

"That's not what I meant." Zhou Xin thought about it for a long time, "Voyager, what if the whole ship is not repaired?" How long it took to repair the ship's hull and the ship's main compartments. ”

This time it only took a minute for Voyager to conclude, "About four months." ”

Hearing this conclusion, Zhou Xin nodded, "This time is acceptable, Voyager, let's do it first, first repair the outer shell and main compartment of the spacecraft." ”

"Understood." Voyager replied, "Do you want to send engineering robots to the planet's surface now?" ”

"Send a bunch of robots to the surface of the planet to try it out and see how long it lasts." Zhou Xin thought for a moment and commanded. At this time, the probe, which had been silent for a long time, finally sent back the answer to the question that Zhou Xin had asked before.

"After analyzing the radioactive isotopes in the soil, the oldest rock found by the probe on the surface of the planet is about 2.4 billion years old." Voyager reported, "Preliminary estimates put the age of the planet at around 2.5 billion years, with an error of less than 100 million years. ”

Hearing this conclusion, some of the people in the command cabin were slightly surprised, but not particularly surprised, while some of the rest showed confused expressions. "Was it created at the same time as that silicon star? This is to be expected. Zhou Xin understood this very well, he nodded and said.

"Yes, it's strange if the planets in the same orbit have a very different time to spawn." Atlas then explained, "The planet that spawns first will sweep away the rest of the matter in its orbit, so that the second planet will not be formed." After listening to Atlas's explanation, the doubtful people in the command cabin suddenly understood, and they showed a look of sudden realization.

After that, Zhou Xin did not speak, but quietly waited for the result of the second question reported by the Voyager, but this time the Voyager did not answer immediately, but was silent for a long time.

Since the Voyager and Atlas share the same main engine, the information obtained by the Voyager Atlas can also be seen, and after a minute, it was Atlas who came to the results first, and his surprised voice came out first.

"Huh! It's strange how the results of the comparison can be the same. ”

Hearing Atlas's exclamation, Zhou Xin chuckled, and then came the belated report of the Voyager.

"After detailed comparison, the machine found that the quartz on this planet has a very high similarity with the quartz on the silicon star in terms of morphological structure and composition, with a similarity of more than 99%, and even the proportion of radioisotopes with very small content is extremely similar, and it is preliminarily determined that there is homology between the two planets."

Zhou Xin was very surprised to see that his whimsical idea at the beginning had been confirmed, and the other people in the command cabin also showed surprised expressions after hearing this result.

"It's not strange that two planets orbit in the same orbit, so it's not strange that there is homology." Dart didn't believe Zhou Xin's previous thoughts and spoke.

"That's too similar." Zhou Xin opened his mouth and said, "It's just that some ingredients are similar, how can all the ingredients be so similar." ”

"It's really weird." Atlas's explanation is more detailed, "Even if the two planets are formed by the same part of matter, there will definitely be differences between the two planets in the process of formation, not to mention the others, the gravity and magnetic fields of the two planets are much different." If you say that the composition is similar in terms of composition alone, it is still in the past, but even the morphological structure is almost the same, which is very strange. I've just calculated that the form of quartz will be very different in the different environments of the two planets. If the gravity is small, there will be a distinct layered structure when viewed under the microscope, but if the gravity is high, this structure will not appear, and now the quartz on both planets is the kind of structure that only appears when the gravity is high. ”

Hearing Atlas's explanation in such detail, Zhou Xin asked, "Then can you analyze why the quartz on these two planets has such a similarity?" ”

"Captain, wait a minute, I'm going to see what kind of analysis the other probes will send back. If this report is just similar, it may be a coincidence. ”

"But didn't you say that the quartz of both planets was generated in high gravity? Doesn't this mean that the silicon star was in a state of high gravity in the early days of its formation? Spred had a key question in mind.

Atlas didn't answer, because by this time, more detectors had begun to send back analysis reports one after another, and she was busy comparing the results.

After a while, her surprised voice came out again, "It's really exactly the same, although the quartz in other parts of the planet is different from the composition report sent back by the first probe, but you can always find the corresponding sample on the silicon star!" ”

"What about the distribution of different quartz? Isn't it the same? Hearing the results of Atlas's comparison, Zhou Xin was surprised again.

"No, there is still a big difference between the two planets in the location and range of the same type of quartz, and it is not a one-to-one correspondence." Atlas's conclusion was not surprising. If the two planets were very similar even in the distribution of the same quartz, Zhou Xin would have to start wondering if the formation of these two planets was the result of the influence of civilization. However, this result alone has surprised everyone.

"Can you draw any conclusions this time? What is the relationship between these two planets? In fact, after listening to Atlas's report, he already had his own thoughts in his heart, but he was not sure yet, and he still wanted to confirm his thoughts from Atlas.

This time, Atarsa's analysis also seemed to have encountered difficulties, Zhou Xin saw the little girl on the screen frown, showing a thoughtful look, and then Zhou Xin They also heard her muttering, "It can't really be like this, but only this result is the most likely, but is this result really possible?" After a while, the little girl showed a tangled look and said, "According to the analysis of the information obtained now, the two planets may have been together originally. But it's also strange, these two planets don't have the same ingredients except for quartz, what's going on? The little girl had a puzzled expression.

Atlas's conclusion coincided with what Zhou Xin thought, but Zhou Xin didn't think of the doubts that Atlas added later, so he then asked, "You don't know the reason for this situation?" ”

"There's still not enough clues." "I can't even deduce how these two planets separated, and how they came together before," Atlas said. But it is certain that they were at least close to each other a long time ago, and only then could there be a material exchange between the two planets. ”

Hearing that Atlas couldn't come to a more specific conclusion, Zhou Xin couldn't help it, he thought about it, and had to order, "The probe continues to explore this planet, hoping to find evidence to prove the relationship between these two planets." After a pause, he said to himself, "I always feel that something major has happened in this galaxy, otherwise how could two or three planets have anomalies." He thought for a moment, then asked the Voyager, "Did the first engineering robots go out to mine on the planet?" ”

"Ten minutes ago, this ship had already sent an engineering ship to the surface of the planet." Voyager replied, "They will establish a semi-permanent base on the surface of this planet for the collection and preliminary processing of surface resources. ”

"Well, I'll leave the task of resource gathering to you." Zhou Xin nodded, and then he instructed, "You must always pay attention to the degree to which the engineering robot is affected by the surface environment of the planet, and try to avoid the condition that the robot is completely damaged and cannot be repaired." It would be useful to look in detail at what exactly extent the robot will be damaged on a daily basis over time. ”

"Understood."

=Dividing line of time=

Over the next ten days, the robot tried to collect resources on the planet's surface, and sure enough, as Atlas had expected, some of the first probes to land began to show significant damage on the fourth day of their arrival on the planet. The first to break was the probe's positioning, then the recording device began to be visibly affected, then even the communication devices began to have problems, and by the fifth day, most of the probes had stopped working completely. But the investigation of this planet has not yet been completed, and in desperation, Zhou Xin had to send another batch of probes to the surface of the planet.

At the same time, in the past ten days, the situation of engineering robots is not very optimistic, in the process of resource collection, they found that the strong magnetic field and high gravity have a certain impact on these engineering robots, but it is not the most important. What has a greater impact on them are the minerals that the robots collect on the planet.

On this day, Zhou Xin was sitting in the command cabin, his face was not very good, and in front of him was a report on the conclusion that the Voyager had just reached......