Chapter Ninety-Three: A Difficult Move
Hearing the little girl's words, Zhou Xin could only give up the idea of letting the engine continue to be strengthened. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info In this way, the Voyager stopped again after advancing less than a hundred meters, and the situation was once again at an impasse.
"Hurry up, if we continue like this, we're going to be trapped on this planet." At this moment, someone in the command cabin suddenly lost his mouth and shouted. However, at this time, not many people were able to calm down and think about a solution, and with the sound of this voice, many people present became even more flustered. Compared to the previous attempts to escape from the spherical battleship, although that situation was more dangerous, at least they still had the ability to escape on their own. Even because they were so busy running away that there was no way for everyone to sit idle and think about other issues. Unlike now, everyone can only watch the Voyager passively withstand enemy attacks, and then gradually go to its demise. This kind of finalization, which can only slowly lead to death, is obviously even more desperate.
found that many people around him were in a desperate mood, and at this time, Zhou Xin had to comfort everyone while thinking about ways to escape from the predicament. Fortunately, apart from him, there were no other people in the command cabin who were still calm, and with the help of these people, most of them quickly returned to normal temporarily. But this is not something to be happy about, because no one has come up with a solution to the situation.
Just when Zhou Xin was able to calm down and think about it after calming everyone down, the critical situation happened again. Maybe it was because of the flaws in the previous attacks, or maybe it was because of the continuous attacks. After one of the more violent explosions, another large piece of structure began to detach around the area where a large piece of structure had just fallen during the attack not long ago. Although it has not completely detached, some parts have clearly fallen off, and only about one-third of it is connected to the main body of the ship. It is easy to see without anyone's explanation, and the part that has fallen off is obviously about to die.
As the large chunk of the structure began to partially fall off, the attacking Norzans apparently noticed it, and soon a portion of the fire was concentrated on the area. Under the watchful eye of the other party, the partially detached structure did not last long before leaving the Voyager with a loud metal cracking sound. As the debris the size of several houses fell, smoke and dust rose from the ground dozens of meters high, and at the same time, the spaceship, which had just been somewhat stable, began to vibrate violently again.
Just as everyone was subconsciously resisting the sudden shock, Atlas's voice with surprise and surprise sounded in the command cabin, "Brother Captain, our spaceship has started moving forward again." ”
"What's going on?" Hearing this, Zhou Xin subconsciously looked at the screen in front of him while holding on to the handrail beside him. At the first moment, he looked at the thrust data of the main engine. But unfortunately, when Zhou Xin finally saw the thrust value in the shaking, he found that the thrust had not changed at all compared with just now.
In confusion, Zhou Xin turned his gaze to the outside picture. At first, he thought that Atlas's observations had gone wrong in the midst of violent tremors. But after careful observation, Zhou Xin found that although the thrust of the engine did not change at all, the spacecraft was indeed moving forward slowly.
"What's going on?" Zhou Xin subconsciously asked this question for the second time, "What did we do just now?" How did the Voyager start moving? ”
However, at this time, most of the people were still struggling with the sudden violent tremors, and they did not bother to answer the question. Even if a few people noticed, they couldn't answer because they didn't understand why.
While everyone was puzzled, after a brief analysis, Atara gave a laughable result with a hesitant tone, "Brother Captain, the reason for the ship's movement seems to have something to do with the attack of the Norsans. ”
"How is that possible? It can't be the blast wave of the explosion that is pushing the ship forward. Hearing Atlas's conclusion, Dart said in disbelief. Not only him, but everyone who heard this, including Zhou Xin, showed a surprised expression.
"Of course not." Atlas explained, "Captain, you should know that the reason the Voyager stopped moving earlier was because the thrust of the engines could not exceed the resistance. If you want to keep the ship going, you have to find a way to increase thrust or reduce drag. The Norsan's attack had the effect of reducing resistance. Seeing that everyone still didn't understand what they meant, the little girl had no choice but to continue, "Everyone should know that in this situation, the main obstacle that blocks the Voyager's progress is the gravity of the spacecraft. If you can find a way to reduce gravity, the drag on the ship will be reduced, and the attack from the outside will have this effect. Norsanian attacks have been destroying the outer structure of the ship, causing the overall mass of the Voyager to gradually decrease, and the large structure that has just fallen has significantly reduced the mass of the ship, allowing the thrust of the engines to exceed the drag. ”
"Doesn't that mean that the other side's attack is helping us take off?" Zhou Xin smiled bitterly.
"In that case, wouldn't it be easier for us to take off if we stayed here to withstand more attacks and reduce the mass of the ship a little more?" Dart continued.
"It's not as simple as you think." Zhou Xin shook his head, "The reduction in mass also means that the Voyager will suffer more serious damage, what if the mass of the spacecraft is reduced enough to take off, but the damage to its structure is not able to support the take-off of the spacecraft." We can't put our hopes in the other side's attacks. ”
"Brother Captain is right." Atlas agreed, "We just happened to reach the tipping point where the balance of thrust and drag was reached, so the ship just lost some mass and started moving forward." If we were to rely on this method alone to get Voyager off, we would have to suffer terrible damage to our spacecraft to succeed. We'll have to think of another way as soon as possible, or we'll soon stop again as the soil from the ship's movement keeps accumulating......"