Chapter 58: New Intersection Plot Point
On February 2, 71 CE, just before the Gundam SEED plane, the Archangel who fled in a hurry destroyed the fortress of Artemis in the Eurasian Federation. On the PLANT side, the Yinfeng, a literary ship specially dispatched to comfort the front-line orbital propulsion troops, was suddenly attacked by the Blue Boju faction, and an emergency escape pod was launched into the gravel belt area. The fate of this plane continues to unleash a certain tenacious inertial force! And bring new troubles and opportunities to Wang Bu!
On the other side, everyone on the Archangel who escaped danger again was sighing and worrying about the new question, "But... Our problem is not solved at all......"
Maliu's expression turned melancholy. In the end, they still didn't get supplies at Artimis. The Moon is far away from their current position across the Earth, and the hastily brought up supplies from "Heliopolis" cannot hold it that far. Not to mention that they may face the war at any time!
"In terms of food, there is also emergency food available on board...... The problem is in terms of ammunition and water. Captain Marlu said with a sad face
"Water......" Captain Mu asked
"Anyway, let's think of a plan first. We need to conserve as much water as possible...... Please help us with the refugees. Second Lieutenant Natal said impatiently. In this case, they can only reach the moon as soon as possible. A simulation diagram of the intended route of the voyage pops up on the screen.
"I'd love to go faster, though. If the orbit gets closer to the Earth, it will run into the gravel belt. Malu smiled bitterly and said,
"It would be much faster if I could get through the gravel belt." Neumann also responded with a wry smile to a cold joke, in the eyes of people who know the common sense of astronautics, rashly breaking into such a dangerous zone at high speed is simply the same kind of self-defeating madness as deliberately driving a ship into the reef belt in the previous era of great discovery!
But there has been no shortage of fierce people with bold and unconventional thinking in this industry since ancient times, and Captain Mu, as a fighter pilot who has always danced on the tip of a knife, has never lacked bold and unconventional thinking reactions in a sense. He was bold in an instant, and he had a leaping thinking strategy - "Wait a minute, gravel...... a smug smile appeared on his upright face, and he looked at Maliu.
The debris belt was not originally a natural celestial product of the Earth's orbital circle, but a by-product of human scientific and technological exploration into the space age: with the continuous increase of products after human beings entered the space industrial age, the area where space waste attracted by the Earth eventually drifted. After human beings enter the space field, they always throw discarded artificial satellites or various wastes generated during space development into space. The space waste floats at a distance under the gravitational pull of the Earth, and it looks like a graveyard of garbage. But on the other hand, with the increase in the waste of a large number of warships and even colonial satellites after the start of the Great War, it is also a very hidden treasure trove of resources. With this in mind, the Archangel began to carefully adjust its course, trying to escape enemy tracking and gain a fast track as a risky way to harvest supplies!
It's just that some people seem to have missed an element, what if the 'supplies' they expected have already been occupied or favored by some people?!
Just on the intended trajectory of the Archangel's channel, a new round of 'harvesting operations' is underway in a certain area - "It's a destroyer, probably the engine has been broken......" said Nalko, a worker who originally belonged to the scrap recycling union. But due to various reasons, he was expelled not long ago, but when he left this industry, he would not do other technical business, and it happened that a new group was privately recruiting experienced space waste recycling engineering technicians, and he gritted his teeth and joined the gang! I didn't expect the conditions here to be really good. Not only does it have an independent and complete space station base and a complete engineering operation boat, but it also has a very powerful resource recovery system in the orbital station, and provides quite generous food and even daily necessities services, which is undoubtedly quite attractive in space during the war years.
Although some things are still a little strange, the space station is obviously often strangely moving in the rubble belt with unfamiliar mobility, and a considerable part of the large amount of waste resources that have been recovered has not been dismantled on the spot, but has been unknowingly transferred somewhere. Some newcomers whisper that they don't understand how many of the recycled resources are 'transported'.
But Nalco chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and it is better to inquire less about some things in this business! Knowing some secrets is self-inflicted and dangerous. As a wage earner, he still honestly chooses to do his job well, save more wages, and leave early! For example, the wreckage of a combined-system battleship in front of you. The wreckage floating in the rubble zone is mostly of a relatively early type.
"It's not too much damage, there should be some ammunition or something...... "Nalco chattered and couldn't help but think of doing private work, it's normal to fish in troubled waters! Only by handing over the main resources, no one cares about the specific bits and pieces as long as they are not strictly checked. But the transport ship tugboat behind quickly followed, and the time was not enough to conceal it. Or do a good job of dragging and dropping the program honestly, and a bonus is indispensable. It is said that he has been searching for a long time, and the company is secretly salvaging and repairing old-fashioned munitions and selling them on the black market, but as long as there is money, it is none of his business. But at this moment, he unintentionally swept something in his vision~~ A drifting warehouse? Driven by curiosity, he chased after him in his work bag to see—
In 20 minutes, Wang Bu, who had just rushed back to the SEED plane, would be watching a picture of a newly rescued person in the monitoring room of the No. 0 resource recovery station in this gravel belt with Aso: a girl with conspicuous long pink hair and a golden feather-like headdress pinned to her head! There was no hint of sharpness or stiffness in her appearance and figure. The long wavy hair was dyed a soft red, lightly draped, setting off her snow-white skin more clearly; With big watery eyes, a little dreamy eyes, and full cheeks, it seems that he is always smiling. Even in the strange and cold space waste recycling station, he still waited calmly, with a calm expression on his face, and everyone was beautiful. Counting the obviously three-dimensional spherical face machine doll in it, it shows a certain innocence and childishness! There is more pure beauty~~ But it is a big trouble and headache for Wang Bu
"Lux. Klein, Speaker Klein's beloved daughter, the number one singer of "Plant"; How did this guy get to my turf! Could it be that the plane inhibition force is deliberately giving me a problem?! Wang Bu sneered self-deprecatingly: "And Asla, that kid should also catch up with the journey to get his fiancée!" "What a tricky 'cargo'!