Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Voyager Delayed in Taking Off
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As soon as the Voyager's words fell, everyone in the command cabin heard a faint explosion, accompanied by a continuous slight vibration. Moreover, the sound was not sent back by the detector, but directly into the ears of everyone. This means that the Norsanian attack has passed through the outermost part of the ship and is beginning to affect the inner chambers.
"Will the ship hold up?" At the same time as he heard the noise, Dart suddenly became nervous.
"No problem." The Voyager replied calmly, "Because some areas of the outer compartment were already more severely damaged, it was even more severely damaged by the attack of the other side than the others. Although the damage is severe, it is not enough to affect the core area. The ship has dispatched engineering robots to the severely damaged area for emergency treatment. ”
At the same time, Atlas also spoke to comfort, "Don't worry, everyone, people are also monitoring the situation of the spaceship." As the little sister said, there are no problems with the structure of the core area now, but the vibration is stronger because of the continuous explosions. ”
As soon as the little girl's words were finished, a relatively obvious explosion suddenly appeared in the dense explosion, and with this explosion, everyone sitting in the seats felt that the entire command cabin shook from side to side very obviously. At the same time, Zhou Xin saw a violent explosion in the picture near the front of the Voyager, and the smoke and dust blown by the explosion even formed a small mushroom cloud on the surface of the spaceship.
"Fifteen seconds left before the main engine is fully charged." "The opponent's attack hit the peripheral energy pipeline." Two voices rang out almost at the same time.
At this juncture, the people in the command cabin had no choice, and even if they came up with a solution at this time, they didn't have time to implement it. Everyone could only watch the Voyager in the camera passively withstand the fierce attack of the Noshans, and a feeling of powerlessness suddenly emerged from Zhou's confidence.
Although there are only a dozen seconds left, everyone feels as if they are living like a year. Many people are silently urging in their hearts, hoping that the next second will be to complete the charge report. But the Voyager was counting down the seconds as if it were against everyone. Many people are so worried that they don't want to see what is on the screen, but they have to focus on the screen in front of them because of their duties.
"Ten." The countdown to the Voyager has reached single digits, "Remove temporary protection from the main engine vents." "Although the Norsan's attack was still as fierce as before, it had to do so just as it was about to take off. This completely exposed the main engine's nozzle to enemy attacks, and hearing this report, Zhou Xin and the others couldn't help but start worrying about the condition of the engine's nozzle.
"Five." Fortunately, the attack from the Norzans did not enter the main engine vent for the time being, but only exploded on the periphery. But because of the smoke, Zhou Xin and they couldn't know the current situation of the main engine from the picture.
"Four...... Three...... Two...... One ......" In the countdown one after another, everyone finally waited for a report like heaven, "The main engine is fully charged, and it is ready to start at any time." ”
"Start the main engine." Before the Voyager's words were finished, Zhou Xin's order had already sounded in the command cabin.
"The main engine is starting and the thrust is increasing." The Voyager reported without any emotion.
With this report, the thick smoke that shrouded the tail of the spacecraft in the footage suddenly sprayed backwards at high speed. Then, driven by the flames ejected from the main engine, the smoke in the tail quickly dissipated, and everyone finally saw the familiar light blue flames. In just a dozen seconds, the flame of the engine grew rapidly from a few meters to tens of meters. In the process, explosions continued to occur around the flames, because the "missiles" fired by the Norzans in the direction of the engine were ignited by the engine's flames, which gave the original pure blue flame a different color.
Of course, the start of the main engine does not mean that the Voyager will be able to leave the place immediately. Because the thrust of the engine cannot be increased to the point where it can take off in an instant, even if the engine itself can do it, Zhou Xin cannot let it do so, and the result of doing so will only cause the engine to be ripped off the Voyager.
However, this is just that it will take some more time, but it is not what Zhou Xin is most worried about. He was even more concerned that although at the beginning of the design, the designers took into account some extreme situations and gave the Voyager the theoretical ability to take off from the ground independently without relying on external forces, but this ability was not tested. You know, even including the assembly, the Voyager was done in orbit. After all, if nothing else, who would let such a huge ship take off directly from the ground. So, for Voyager, which took off from the ground for the first time, there was even more uncertainty. Although Zhou Xin had already considered this before this and made some preparations for it, what they didn't expect was the sudden attack of the Norshans, which made the take-off process, which could have been carried out slowly, only rush to the way.
Not long after the main engine started, the boosters that lined the edges of the ship began to shoot flames downward. Of course, Zhou Xin didn't expect the thrust of the boosters alone to make the Voyager enough to defy the planet's gravity, he just hoped that these boosters would relieve some of the pressure on the main engines when the spacecraft took off.
"The thrust of the main engine has reached 50 percent." Soon after Zhou Xin's order, the Voyager reported.
"It's strange why the ship hasn't moved yet." Zhou Xin muttered to himself worriedly. According to Atlas's previous simulations, the Voyager should at least move forward when the thrust of the main engine reaches half, but Zhou Xin does not feel any signs of the ship moving forward now.
"The thrust has reached 60 percent." Soon, the Voyager reported again. At this time, the flames at the tail of the spacecraft in the picture were already nearly 100 meters, and the whistling sound of the supersonic tail flame spray could be clearly heard in the explosion, but the spacecraft at this time was still as immobile as if it was nailed to the ground. Seeing this situation, not only Zhou Xin, but many other people also began to worry.
"Why haven't you moved yet?" When the thrust reached sixty-five percent, Spred finally couldn't help but ask out loud......