Chapter Twenty-Seven: Stepping into an Interstellar Civilization

"According to calculations under the relativity system, the fuel has been replenished to the standard value of 1.154 tons, and the exhaust gas is expected to be ejected at 7% of the speed of light in a vacuum, and the Titan is expected to reach 1% of the speed of light, and then the official speed measurement phase will be carried out." ”

Compared with the nuclear energy engine used by the Titan before, the current electromagnetic confinement controllable nuclear fusion engine is equivalent to turning the Titan into a non-working spacecraft, that is, the fusion product is directly ejected, as long as the speed of the ejection, the faster the Titan will fly.

If the solar sailing spacecraft flies with the help of the sun's radiation, then the non-working fluid propulsion is to bring the "little sun" with it.

In Ruan Lin's plans, the implementation of the working fluid spacecraft program was never thought of. Because he wants to cross the river system and complete a crazy plan that all mankind has never imagined.

As long as there is no error in this speed measurement, then humanity has officially become an interstellar civilization.

Nguyen Lam can rely on a controlled fusion engine to cross every star system, even the great river system.

This would completely free himself from the confines of his own galaxy, and he set his next voyage to the Centauri α galaxy, 4.2 light-years away from the solar system, which is the closest star system to the solar system.

Ruan Lin was sitting in the captain's seat in the main control room at this moment, looking up at the starry sky outside the Titan. At this moment, he was also a little uneasy, and he was repeatedly praying in his heart that this speed test would be safe and successful.

Ruan Lin interlocked his fingers and said, "WIT, turn on the engine ignition!" Enter the controlled nuclear fusion reaction stage, and start ignition and take-off after reaching the reaction standard time! ”

It was a torturous 500 seconds, and it was the 500 seconds he looked forward to.

wit started the report:

"The hovering device has been turned on, and the controlled nuclear fusion reaction has reached the standard time, ready for ignition."

From the perspective of a nearby robot, the tail of the Titan began to erupt a stream of white plasma fire tens of meters long, and the heat it generated instantly melted the ice below.

"Start accelerating, climbing, taking off."

The tail of the Titan began to spew out the exhaust gas of the fusion product at the speed of light at 7% of the speed of light in a vacuum, and the Titan began to accelerate under the reaction force.

The body began to feel a great overload. Ruan Lin wanted to find out the Titan's overload limit.

"Warning, at the moment the Titan has reached the overload limit, and the current speed of the Titan has reached 1,300 kilometers per second! Continuing to accelerate will lead to the disintegration of the Titan"

In just these 130 seconds, the Titan has almost climbed 100,000 kilometers upward, and if you remove Europa's atmospheric deceleration and other factors, the flight speed of 1,300 kilometers per second is the peak that the Titan can currently carry.

The maximum acceleration is 78,000 meters per square second, and once the full speed is exceeded, the Titan will be directly torn apart and disintegrated.

Fuel usage also didn't cause much concern for Nguyen Lin, with only 0.32 tons of fuel currently used out of 1.154 tons, proving that the engine did not have any design issues.

Ruan Lin knew that 1% of the speed of light in a vacuum was just an expectation, and it was simply not enough for the Titan's external materials. Thanks to the association's modification of the exterior materials, the Titan's overload resistance can withstand such speeds.

Ruan Lin was already very excited at this time: "It's not in vain that I spent so much energy, although I had expected it in my heart, but I didn't expect it to be so fast!" The earth civilization can be regarded as officially stepping into the interstellar civilization. ”

"Start slowing down, wit. Return to the original surface of the Titan! If there is any abnormality in the fuel consumed by the deceleration, report it to me immediately! ”

At this time, the Titan broke through Europa's weak atmosphere again, and after 70 seconds of deceleration, it now reached a speed of 30 kilometers per second, which also caused a significant reduction in fuel.

Ruan Lin continued: "Frequent acceleration and deceleration will make the Titan consume fuel too quickly, which is almost a multiplier. We must later set the speed of the Titan at a standard 1000 kilometers per second, and do not change the speed at will unless there is an unexpected situation. ”

"Okay, Dr. Nguyen. Follow your advice. ”

The Titan was soon about to descend to the surface, and the thrust reversers on both sides were activated again. The Titan's speed test this time ended perfectly.

Ruan Lin once again looked at the two short-range jump engines that were a huge headache for him, and the main goal was to build two ships that matched them.

According to the classification of naval ships on the earth, Ruan Lin classified the ships that could be built in the future according to their tonnage. It is mainly divided into: meteor level, comet level, planetary level, stellar level, galaxy level, and river level.

At the same time, according to the combat effectiveness, it is subdivided into destroyers, cruisers, battleships, capital ships, and flagships.

The Titan, on the other hand, can be classified as a Meteor-class destroyer with an Electronic Pulse Bomb.

Ruan Lin's next goal was to build two comet-class destroyers.

As for weapons, it is even more of a headache for Ruan Lin, and the current hydrogen bomb can only hit hostile civilizations that are weaker than him, but if he encounters a hostile civilization that has taken a few more steps in terms of weapons, he has no other way but to escape.

Judging from the previous videos of the Titan civilization, energy weapons accounted for a large proportion of the interstellar war. But the research on kinetic weapons cannot be put down here, and Ruan Lin wants to achieve a balance between the two.

Ruan Lin thought of the video playback device in the triangular building again, and he also needed to take the time to watch them one by one, maybe there was knowledge about weapon technology in it.

Kinetic energy and energy weapons may be the most basic weapons, and it can be seen from the space singularity bombs used by the Titan civilization that they have a wide variety of weapons in their hands, and they still have a long way to go.

Ruan Lin thought of the next step and said, "Wit, first install the launcher of the electromagnetic pulse bomb on the Titan. Then we needed to add a one-time trap to Titan, which I call the Asteroid Redirection Program.

The first thing we need to do is build an asteroid capsule, which must be able to accommodate an asteroid with a radius of 111km, and our goal this time is Psi! Our raw materials are close to deficit, and the main components of the Psyche are iron, nickel and some rare metals, which will replenish our raw material inventory. ”

Ruan Lin paused for a moment and continued: "At the same time, we need to make a 100-meter connector to connect the asteroid capture module to Titan, and place the Spirit Star hundreds of meters behind us for dragging, and then the Titan will reach a speed of at least 1,000 kilometers per second, and it will weigh 272 million trillion tons. What a crazy plan! But in order to replenish our available raw materials, this is what we have to do, just as we did when we landed on Marriage. ”

Wit responded, "Okay, Dr. Nguyen, then please draw the engineering drawings and leave the production to me." This time we will succeed again. ”