Chapter 49: Jupiter ascends
The landing plane landed on a landing pad in the spaceport, and the fuselage shook slightly, and Xin Xiao immediately sensed that gravity had returned, and it was similar in size to Earth. This is the artificial gravity system on the spaceport at work, the Federation adopts the earth's gravity as the standard, and all the spaceports, spaceships and warships in the country have the same gravity as the earth.
Walking out of the cabin, Xin Lin looked around, and everywhere he could see was a huge man-made structure, shimmering with a faint metallic luster.
This is one of the floors of the spaceport, about 100 meters high, thousands of take-off and landing pads spelled together into a wide square, the outside of the square is the cold space, there is no closed wall, only a layer of invisible magnetic field to block air leakage, through the gap in the cylinder wall of the spaceport, 36,000 kilometers away the earth is clearly visible, is slowly rotating.
Looking at a spaceport on Earth and looking at Earth at a spaceport are two very different feelings.
Xin Lone's gaze couldn't help but stay on this blue planet, after all, this is the origin planet of mankind, and it occupies an irreplaceable and important position in the hearts of every earth human being!
Lian Chengbi waited patiently on the side, not disturbing his lonely thoughts.
At this time, people come and go in the take-off and landing square, and there are non-stop landing planes landing and taking off, bringing or taking away batches of passengers, which is busy.
The role of the spaceport is not only to provide a platform for the take-off and landing of spacecraft, but also to be a metropolis where a large number of citizens live in living quarters, in addition to the spaceport staff. Shops, schools, factories, hotels, companies, prisons...... Whatever is on the ground, the spaceport has everything, which is equivalent to a small space city.
"Sorry for the delay." Xin Lin came back to his senses and said a little apologetically.
"It's okay, it's understandable, get in the car." When Lian Chengbi was watching the earth in silence, he called an unmanned car.
Xin Lin hurriedly got into the car, and the flying car shuttled through the various floors of the spaceport, and after ten minutes, it arrived at the spaceport's spaceship dock.
The route between Earth and Jupiter is very high, with millions of citizens traveling between the two planets every day, so the spaceport has set up a special double star route, with a spacecraft going to Jupiter every half hour, 24 hours a day.
In the middle of the spaceport, a space dock dozens of kilometers long stretches in front of you, and hundreds of spaceships from the same interstellar airline are lined up in front of you.
The flying car stopped not far from the spaceship, Xin Lin visually inspected, the length of this spacecraft is about 500 meters, more than 100 meters high, 80 meters wide, the whole body is light gray, it is a typical shuttle-shaped spaceship, can carry about 15,000 passengers. There is a row of security checks at the bottom of the spaceship, and nearly 1,000 passengers are queuing at the entrance, waiting to cross the gate and board the ship.
"Follow me." Lian Chengbi didn't go to the queue, and walked to the unmanned VIP channel with Xin Lone.
The two security personnel immediately greeted each other with a smile, and Lian Chengbi showed his identity information and ferry ticket, and then went to the detector to scan it and passed. Xin Lin followed her, learned a lot, and successfully passed the security check.
"The treatment of first class is just different." Xin sighed to himself, he had never seen the security personnel at the spaceport so enthusiastic, in other words, it was good that they didn't show the passengers' faces in the past.
Walking into the spaceship, a spaceship flight attendant greeted her in time, she drove an open-top electric car, invited the two of them to take a seat, and then drove into the special passage all the way to the upper cabin where the first-class cabin was located. The decoration in the first class cabin is also extremely luxurious, like a small suite, with a living room and two bedrooms, as well as a separate bathroom, and all kinds of drinks and snacks are provided free of charge, which is very intimate.
It was the first time for Xin Lin to take the first class cabin of the spaceship, his eyes looked around, and then he sat down on the soft sofa and said, "Miss Lian, this first-class ticket is not cheap, right?" ”
Lian Chengbi has long been accustomed to this, nodded and said: "You get what you pay for, what kind of price to enjoy what kind of service, the voyage from Earth to Jupiter is nearly twenty hours, and you can't be squeezed in economy class for so long, after all, you are a distinguished guest, and the tickets for this round trip to Jupiter are all reimbursed by our Hongqiao Sports, you just have to enjoy it." ”
"Well, thank you very much." Xin Lonely was not pretentious, and turned on the TV with peace of mind, there happened to be a live broadcast of the Super Star Wars League, which could pass the time.
Lian Chengbi entered the bedroom, closed the door, and didn't know what he was doing inside.
Although Xin Lin could telepathically see the scene in the bedroom, he didn't bother to do such a thing, and watched his game intently.
Soon after, the announcement from inside the spacecraft sounded, and a sweet female voice informed the ship that it was about to set sail, and all passengers were asked to pay attention.
The broadcast was played several times in a row, but it was really just a formality.
All the interstellar ships and warships of the Federation are equipped with inertial suppression fields, and even if the spacecraft suddenly accelerates, the people inside will not feel anything, let alone be harmed by inertia and acceleration. So there is nothing for the passengers to pay attention to, what to do or what to do, business as usual.
Xin Silence summoned the holographic interface, and with a few operations on it, the wall opposite the sofa turned into a large screen, showing the outside of the spaceship, like a transparent porthole, just in time to see the side of the spaceship connected to the spaceport.
At this time, there were no passengers on board, and several entrance passages were incorporated into the spaceship, and then, the connection connecting the spaceship to the spaceport was slowly released, and the main and auxiliary engines of the spacecraft were started at the same time, and a blue plasma flame stream was sprayed from the tail, pushing the spacecraft to slowly fly out from one end of the spaceport.
A few minutes after leaving the spaceport, the navigator calculated the route of the flight, the spacecraft adjusted its direction, and then began to accelerate at full speed, flying towards Jupiter.
In the process of speeding up, even though Xin Shi's senses were extremely sharp, he could not feel the vibration of the spaceship at all, and the drinks on the table did not fluctuate even a millimeter, which was the result of the dual action of inertial suppression field and artificial gravity.
Since both the Earth and Jupiter revolve around the Sun, the distance between the two is not fixed, and the maximum distance is more than 930 million kilometers, which is called the opposition. More recently, it is slightly less than 600 million kilometers and is called the conjunction. The time of the Earth-Jupiter voyage is determined by the relative distance between the two, ranging from 18 hours to nearly 30 hours.
At the moment, the Earth and Jupiter orbit on the same side of the Sun, which is exactly the shortest window between the two, about 680 million kilometers, and the journey takes about 19 hours!
The distance of more than 600 million kilometers can't be closer in interstellar navigation, as if under the nose, the whole journey is in the inner solar system, and you don't even need to fly faster than light, you just need to accelerate straight flight with all your strength.
Xin Lin was very comfortable in the first-class cabin while drinking drinks and watching the Star Wars game. In an unknown private environment, he was always cultivating the Force, using his heart for multiple purposes, taking turns to strengthen and strengthen the nine nodes, and increasing his strength every minute and every second.
Just after the halfway point of this Star Wars game, Lian Chengbi suddenly came out of the bedroom and sat on the sofa next to him.
Lian Chengbi glanced at the game on the screen and asked out loud, "This is the match between the Earth Valkyrie Team and the Centaur Star Pegasus Team?" ”
"Yes." Xin lonely didn't look back.
Lian Chengbi also seemed to be interested, looked at it for a few minutes, shook his head and said, "This Martial God Team is lost." ”
Xin Lin couldn't help but turn his head to look at her and asked, "What do you say?" ”
"The Pegasus team has risen rapidly in recent seasons, relying on the huge market of centaur stars to sign two star-level members in a row, with a balanced roster and few weaknesses. Their record this season has improved significantly, finishing fourth in the league and already a team to win the title. ”
Lian Chengbi talked eloquently and continued: "In contrast, although the Martial God Team is one of the oldest teams in the Star Wars League, with a deep heritage, there are a total of five super teams on the earth today, and the Martial God Team has not made the playoffs for hundreds of years, their competitiveness is not as good as before, and the strength of the team members is mediocre, especially the candidate for the position of the soul commander on the field is not clear, and almost every season has to change a commander, which leads to discouragement, and last season was almost dropped, this season is slightly better, Safely out of the relegation zone, but still unable to make the playoffs. ”
"Look at the current situation on the field, the Pegasus team is fierce, but the Valkyrie team has been passively defending, just over half of the game, the nine team members have almost died once, the personnel have shrunk to the last line of defense, barely resisting, I estimate that they can't hold out for ten minutes, and the base will be blown up!"
Listening to this comment, Xin Lian nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "It turns out that Miss Lian knows so much about the Star Wars League, admire!" He felt a little surprised in his heart, judging from the previous contact, Lian Chengbi has a cold personality and usually doesn't talk much, why did she suddenly say so many things today, is she an avid fan of the Star Wars League?
Lian Chengbi said lightly: "Don't brag about me, the game situation is clear at a glance, and you know it if I don't say it." ”
"Okay." Xin Lin laughed, and asked curiously, "Miss Lian often watches the Star Wars League?" ”
"It's not very common, but we are a sporting goods company, and we must be familiar with the Star Wars League, and the spokesperson of Hongqiao Sports is a Star Wars samurai, but his popularity is average, the endorsement fee is very high, but the endorsement effect is not good." Lian Chengbi explained.
"I see." Xin Lin nodded, didn't speak again, and continued to watch the game.
The two fell silent, although Xin Lone's eyes were focused on the game, but he sensed through telepathy that Lian Chengbi's mind was not on the game at all, and she glanced at herself from time to time, as if she was secretly observing herself.
However, until the end of the game, even Chengbi did not speak again.