Chapter 52: The Voyage
Because Eddie saved half of the family this time, the credit is simply too great. The Kander society has always admired the reward of gratitude and gratitude, and the Xiaofeng family, after the discussion of the clan members, was proposed by the patriarch to give Eddie the most precious treasure of the family's assets.
On the day of the award......
Add's small hangar was almost filled with that prize. This object, which glows with glazed luster on the surface, is actually a spaceship with a unique shape and huge volume!
Since he was a child, Eddie has been fond of spaceships, and he has studied almost all the entire range of spaceships built by the Kande, and can tell the model and characteristics of the spaceship just by looking at the pictures. Of course, this knowledge that I had acquired a long time ago came largely from my father's teachings.
But when he saw the ship, even he couldn't tell where it came from.
His father didn't tell him what the patriarch had awarded him before he brought him to see his prize, so when he saw the Sailing, Eddie's eyes couldn't take his eyes off.
His eyes widened, and the two antennae above his head stood straight with excitement, and he slowly approached the ship, gently stroking it with his hands, and carefully examining every inch of it.
The outer layer of the 'Sailing's surface is covered with blocks of exotic metals, which are rectangular, dull and golden, and have the same shape and size.
In fact, the outermost layer of the ship appears to be made up of these lumpy pieces of metal.
When Eddie gets closer, it looks even more strange when he looks closer. Among these lumpy metals, there are strange textures that look exactly the same at first glance, but are actually different. The textures are fine or messy, some are round, some are flowing lines, and some are strangely radial.
Add suddenly woke up and remembered that he had seen such a pattern before. This unique texture of metal was the same as what he had seen on the remains of the Ascended One.
The walls of the Ascended Relics and any remaining objects are made of this metal, and it is only this unique metal that allows the relics of eon-millions of years of civilization to live forever.
On the planet Vesta, there are more than a dozen relics left by the 'Ascendants', and there is one in the inland jungle not far from the Xiaofeng family on the Mansa Dalai continent.
Eddie had been to it with his father as a child, and it was a semi-circular room made of this strange metal, and all but the walls of the room had been wiped out by the erosion of time.
Crafting a spaceship out of mysterious prehistoric metal? But didn't my father say that this metal could not be copied and transferred? Thinking of this, Eddie couldn't help but break free from his emotions and looked at his father with questions.
"I know what you're trying to ask, Add." Father made a strange face. "But this is indeed a fake 'Ascender' spaceship, once one of the most sensational archaeological discoveries in the Mansa Dalai Continent, and it has been a family treasure of the Xiaofeng family for some time."
"How come I've never heard you talk about it?" Eddie immediately began to inspect the ship's mechanical engines.
"In addition to the shell and transmission part, the power and energy absorption units are the technology of today's Kande." Father explained to him.
"Because these components weren't originally made of this metal, they've long since turned into powder." Add said he understood.
"Let's go inside the cabin, I think you'll like it." Father walked to the side of the ship and flipped the switch on the bulkhead, only to see a hatch quickly slash to the side, and then a delicate ladder stretched out from under the hatch, which was about to land at Eddie's feet.
......
The cockpit alone had already made Add fall in love with the Voyage.
In the core area of this spaceship, which can accommodate four crew members, not only does the interior meet all Kander aesthetics, but it is also functionally comparable to any state-of-the-art Kander traveling ship, and it can be seen that the family has spared no expense in the transformation of the ship.
The latest M&G version of the engine console, the Blooming version of the autopilot, the Aurora Supreme navigation module, and the Xinlan integrated computing unit...... Eddie turned on the master control module and watched the beautiful lights on the console shine one after another, and he was very happy.
"These are flight mods that have just been released." Add sat in the main driver's seat, excitedly playing with the main steering stick, his palm touched a certain part of the clubhead, and a blue panel jumped out of the corner of the bridge, which described the various data of the spacecraft and the various computing elements in the current state.
"Holographic imaging technology for humans!" Add was amazed.
"The ship has undergone a comprehensive upgrade before, and it is currently in the best condition." Father explained to him.
Add had left the cockpit and was taking a look at the other ship's cabins.
The spacecraft looks small, but it is fully equipped, it is divided into three layers, two main and auxiliary pressure cabins are at the two entrances of the spacecraft, which are fixed with several spacecraft suits of different sizes, behind the pressure hatch is the spacecraft aisle, the long passage connects the main cockpit and the emergency control room, and on both sides are two experimental cabins, an equipment cabin, a medical cabin and two multi-purpose cabins.
The six living cell compartments are evenly spaced over the upper and lower floors of the ship, and they are connected to the main passage by a suspension ladder and a small elevator.
Each living pod contains an escape pill pod, a life-saving tool that can keep its creatures asleep in the universe for ten Kand months, and has saved many shipwrecked Kanders, and they also have four in the lower part of the cockpit.
At the end of the passage, there is a large cabin, connected to two food handling cabins, one large and one small, a large storage room and a condensing room for the main computing module.
"It's spacious enough to play Bomenmaki [an outdoor sport for the Kande]." Eddie concluded excitedly.
"It can also be used as a standard traveling ship." His father looked at him with a smile.
"Wait, father, the patriarch rewarded me with this set sail so that I could travel on it?" Add seemed to be only now coming to his senses.
"But as I said, I still have doubts about it...... I haven't made up my mind yet. "Eddie never hides his thoughts from his family.
"I've heard the wind say that the patriarch of a certain family in the Inland Jungle has never left the Misop Dashin system." He said to his father.
"The Patriarch of the Saint Lan Forest Family, he is indeed a very wise elder." Father nodded at him.
"I've also heard that every year there are many male Kander people who end up choosing not to travel, and that they also make a huge contribution to Kander society...... Eddie said.
"Yes." The father nodded in acknowledgement, and there was no other explanation.
"My sisters don't want me to travel......" Eddie and his two younger sisters were born on the same day and grew up together, and the siblings have a deep affection.
Over the years, with the growth of the Silver Alliance, driven by profits, there have been more and more unscrupulous merchants and outlaws in the galaxy, and the probability of danger in the Kande's traveling team has also increased year by year, so both sisters have a deep prejudice against their brother's adult travels.
"Hehe, your two younger sisters have been enlightened early, and they have more ideas than me, exactly the same as their mothers." Father smiled.
"It's time to talk about it." In the ship's large center cabin, his father gestured to the comfy couch and sat Eddie down.
"I thought there was still time to wait, but time doesn't stop, and you're almost old enough to travel." In the ship's hub lounge, Father and Add each sat on two couches, facing each other, and the older Kander couldn't help but begin to meditate quietly, as if recalling scenes from the past that resemble the present.
Eddie noticed his father's abnormality and knew that what was going to happen was going to be an important conversation between father and son, so he gathered his mind and listened silently.
"What to say about the Kande's yearning for the outside world, our allies think it is entirely natural." Father's hands were on the table, his tiny fingers crossed and clasped together.
"Maybe they're not wrong, curiosity is especially strong among our race, and this desire is far greater than any other race in this system. As a result, the Barekas call us 'troublemakers', the Daisies call us 'treasure hunters' behind our backs, and the Marsh simply call us 'Star Sea Hunters'. ”
Father couldn't help but laugh when he said this, and Eddie laughed along.
"But as a Kande, perhaps you should know that our people did not travel a thousand years ago. In that distant era, there were no moon elevators and traveling airships, and there were no silver alliances and human merchant ships, we lived a prosperous and peaceful life, and simply thought that the Kander world was the center of the universe and the only civilization, but after that, a small invention by chance completely changed the fate of our race......" The father spoke in a gentle tone, telling his son about a journey of the Kander people's travel culture.