Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Although Mars is nearby, it is too early to begin celebrating victory now.

Soon after, at a moment of contact with the Mars gravitational field, the Xu Fu came to its toughest test since its departure.

Unlike other small and luxurious spacecraft, this large, complex colonial ship is not an easy task, either to accelerate or decelerate.

Especially slowing down.

Not fast enough to possibly catch up with Mars, too fast and possibly going straight through the gravitational field of Mars, leaving the window period for the deceleration of the Xufu very brief, and they have to reduce the speed to a size that can be captured by the gravitational forces of Mars in a relatively short time.

Mars, in particular, does not yet have an atmosphere, and the method of jumping to frog deceleration at the edge of the atmosphere, as it did on Earth, does not work here either. They can only achieve spacecraft deceleration by backjetting the thrusters.

Fortunately, this is not a very difficult thing for Starry Sky Technology's electric propulsion technology.

The portable controllable fusion reactor core is activated and the temperature in the heating chamber begins to rise in a straight line, which will feed the propulsion mass into the heating chamber, instantaneously vaporizing and ionizing into an active plasma.

The temperature in the reaction chamber and heating chamber is getting higher and higher, like a microscopic sun.

As the power of the reactor continues to increase, at last, at the moment of breaking through a critical point, the accumulated plasma engine suddenly ejects a super blue arc, lighting up the entire ring area number two at the end of the Xufu!

Pushed by the blue arc, Xu Fu briefly accelerated a short distance forward.

However, this did not last long. Soon, as the rectifier unfolded, the plasma ejected out of the chamber under the regulation of the magnetic field began to turn, gradually tilting forward from the original straight rear angle, like a sprung reducer umbrella, dragging the Xufu towards Mars to begin to decelerate.

After more than a dozen hours of waiting, after several orbital changes, Xu Fu finally slowed down and was successfully captured by Mars gravitational forces when he last entered the Mars gravitational field range.

At the same time, a clear broadcast was heard sitting on top of everyone in the cabin.

“Xu Fu has successfully entered the Mars system and the auxiliary landing mode will be activated in half an hour, asking the colonizers to put on their in-cabin space suits and go to the ring area 1 for standby. ”

Unbuckle the seat belt on the space chair and stand up from the seat with the beam of the space suit in the cabin.

Looking back at the teammates who stood up with him, he said in a serious tone.

“It's all ready. ”

Answering him was a neat and uniform voice.

“Ready! ”

Praised the place nodded, and Liang ordered aloud.

“Everybody, let's go! ”

The journey has reached its final stage.

Previously deployed probes on Mars had scanned basic landscapes into the Golden Ring Space Launch Center database, and landing sites had been determined long before they left.

Xu Fu will not stay in orbit for too long, and colonial proceedings will be initiated as soon as he reaches the target area.

The main structure of the Circle II and the spacecraft, including the propulsion system, will remain in the Mars orbit as a temporary space station and communications relay satellite, while the Circle I will be separated from the spacecraft and will fall towards the Mars atmosphere as planned.

A pedestrian crossed the narrow corridor, along the corridor on the outside of the ship, from the cabin at the front end of the ship to the annular zone No. 1.

This is the most central part of the entire colonial ship.

It's also their future home on Mars.

Looking at the hatch that slowly fell behind him, the beam silently lifted its right arm to give another military salute.

And after doing all that, he turned around and took the other four astronauts to the buffer room on the outer edge of Ring One.

This is the import and export of the colony, with the sturdiest enclosure and most complete tools in the entire colony compartment, and at the same time it is where they are waiting to land in space.

“Sit nearby and connect the life insurance system to the suit. ”

“Raise your hand after making sure the device is working correctly and let me know that you will survive. ”

The noise of fun eased the tension in the cabin a little, and a few people's tight eyebrows soothed a little smile.

Looking at the four raised right hands, the beam nodded, which pulled the moving seat against the wall and sat on it, then connected the seatbelt and the life guard in an orderly fashion to its own cabin.

The previous deceleration, if any, was a test of the Xu Fu.

So their test, it's coming soon.

Waiting for 10 minutes in a quiet atmosphere, the beams that adjusted the breathing rhythm were successful and even heard their heartbeat.

Finally, a series of slight tremors came from the seats, and the astronauts sitting in the buffer room, the spirit of all, was vibrated.

Put your hands on the armrest of the seat and Fan Tong said nervously.

“Captain, aren't we almost there? ”

Trying to make himself look less nervous, Liang smiled and said with ease.

“What's the rush? We've just separated from the ship. Freedom falls soon...”

Halfway through, the familiar radio interrupted his words.

“Separation proceedings are under way, the colonial compartment will be separated from the Xufu colonial ship within one minute, and the landing proceedings will be initiated one minute after the end of the separation proceedings…”

“Have a nice trip. ”

As soon as the voice drops, the shaking under the seat becomes more intense.

With a click coming along the alloy walls, the connection between the colonial compartment of the ring structure and the Xufu completely lifted the last insurance.

At the same time, four small chemical thrusters mounted on the exterior walls of the annular structure ejected flames, pushing the colonial chamber away from the Xufu with faint power and sending it to a turbid and thin atmosphere.

Just like an infant with a broken umbilical cord, a colonial compartment detached from its mother sprayed a flame as it slowed down towards that flaming red planet.

Soon, the hardest part came.

That bump felt like a jump pole, and the astronauts sitting in the buffer room, nerves tightened to the extreme.

Staring straight at the constantly cloudy atmosphere outside the starboard window, the beam grabbed the armrest of the seat with death, although it did not make him more stable, but at least gave him a little comfort.

The periphery of the atmosphere has been breached, and the power of the engine ejection has risen steeply by a step!

For such a brief moment, the beam was successful and even felt that the memorable gravity of the Earth seemed to return to itself.

But that familiar feeling, it's just a brief moment.

Soon it slowed down with declining altitudes, eventually leaving less than half the original level.

It was like something hit the sand, and with the last violent tremor, all the discomfort went away in an instant.

Looking out the starboard window at the flying yellow sand and the outline of the horizon buried in the shadows, Liang suddenly wanted to cry a little.

An unspeakable excitement filled every corner of his chest.

Mars!

This is Mars!

They're finally here!