"We should go back" Yuri, the first mate of the Star Sky spacecraft, said with a serious expression.
Five of the 11 astronauts on the Star Sky spacecraft agreed with him, including the inspector Vasily and the navigator Nikolai, as well as the crew members Andrei and Semyon. . , "I object."
Vice Captain Peter immediately retorted: "Why should we go back?
You didn't see the Americans continuing to move forward and you actually said the words to go back at this time.
Have you forgotten your responsibilities?
Yuri, we are all soldiers, This is also a battlefield.”
"The battlefield is a targetless battlefield."
Yuri asked coldly: "Excuse me, who is our enemy?
Is it the Hades in front?
Is the purpose of our pursuit of the Hades to destroy our opponent Peter?
Do you think you are We lived in the Age of Discovery, drove cruisers, set up cannons, and fought with pirates.
We are now in space.
In space, do you understand?”
Speaking of this, Yuri looked a little excited.
He turned around and said to the gathered astronauts: "Yes, we are all soldiers, but the problem is that this is not a war.
As astronauts, we should all know our Duty, but more importantly, keep your sanity.
The Star spacecraft is our treasure of Russia, and also of humanity, and now we have been in space for 33 days, Mars has been crossed and Jupiter is under our feet. , it can be said that we have made history, isn’t this enough?”
"Of course not enough, Yuri, don't forget that the Americans are moving forward.
As Russians, we will never allow ourselves to lose to the Americans," Peter retorted.
"What is a loss and what is a win?"
Yuri asked coldly: "We all know the technological gap between the Starry Sky and the Hades.
They have an artificial gravity system.
Do we have it?
They have a complete ecological balance circle.
We have Not to mention that one of our controllable thermonuclear fusion engines has been scrapped.
Now that we have activated the backup engine, it is not clear whether we can persist.
Do you want everyone to continue to take such useless risks for an illusory goal?
value risk” Yuri's words hit Peter's heart.
What he said is absolutely correct.
Compared with Hades, which is technologically advanced and complete, the Starry Sky spacecraft has no other advantages except that it is larger.
Without artificial gravity, space navigation can only be carried out in weightlessness.
There is no perfect ecological balance circle, and it can only rely on simple ecological cycles and the consumption of reserve materials to maintain it.
More importantly, the Starry Sky had just faced a crisis a few days ago.
A controllable thermonuclear fusion engine suddenly failed.
The Starry Sky could only start the backup engine when it could not be repaired.
Although the crisis was eventually overcome, this incident cast a shadow on the hearts of all astronauts.
"But we still have four controllable thermonuclear fusion devices, which is enough for us to continue."
Peter retorted with a blushing face.
The Starry Sky has a total of five controllable thermonuclear fusion devices.
If necessary, these five devices can be used at any time.
Converted to provide energy for the spacecraft's power engine.
That is to say.
The broken platform was not a big deal to the entire Starry Sky spacecraft.
In Peter's opinion, the remaining four devices were completely enough.
"Do you really think so?
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
Do you plan to let all the crew members accompany you to take this risk?"
Yuri asked tit for tat.
Although they still don't know where the real target of Hades is, the information from the earth can be , as well as the Americans’ every move analysis, the other party’s real target is likely to be Pluto.
And now, judging from the flight path they were chasing the Hades, this possibility was also very high.
Calculated according to the current flight speed, it is still a very long journey to reach Pluto.
If all goes well, it will take about a year.
No one can guarantee what else we will encounter in the unknown space for such a long time.
But one thing is certain, and that is that after only one month of flight, Starry Sky's controllable thermonuclear fusion engine had problems.
Forced to start the backup engine, who can guarantee that such a situation will not happen again in the future?
Once all the controllable thermonuclear fusion devices are damaged, the Star Sky will become a meteor in the universe and will It keeps moving in one direction at extremely high speeds until it is hit by an asteroid or other space body.
Eventually it breaks into fragments and becomes part of space dust.
The two views are at a stalemate.
Peter is the deputy captain and Yuri is the first mate.
Their military ranks are the same, and they each have supporters on the Starry Sky.
Whether it is Peter or Yuri, they all represent one of the views: should they continue the flight, even join the Americans in landing on Pluto, or should they return for absolute safety?
There were 5 people holding two views each, and they were in a 5:5 stalemate with each other.
When neither could convince the other side, they simultaneously turned their attention to the captain Ivan, who had never spoken.
"Gentlemen, let me tell you one thing before we discuss the problem."
Ivan knew that he had to make a decision.
He said.
When everyone focused their attention on him, Ivan raised his hand to the back, that is, Pointing to the location of the Earth: "Some people may already know this, and some may not know it yet, so I will tell you now that shortly after the Starry Sky and the American Hades left the Earth, the Chinese also launched the Cosmos spaceships, and they're coming to us."
"What time did this happen?"
"Why do the Chinese have spaceships?"
"Is today April Fools' Day?
Oh my god, this is incredible."
Several astronauts present showed extremely surprised expressions.
Except for the first officer Peter, the first officer Yuri, and Gregory who was in charge of communications, it was the first time for everyone to hear this.
Russia and the United States are building the Starry Sky and Hades in low-Earth orbit in space.
This is something that both sides know very well, but they never imagined that a third country also has spacecraft technology, which makes it even more frustrating.
What shocked them was that the Chinese actually launched the spacecraft directly from the earth, instead of building it in low-Earth orbit like Russia and the United States, but after the ground construction was completed.
What does this mean for astronauts?
Everyone knows that this means that the Chinese have mastered space and aerospace technology that is far more advanced than Russia and even the United States.
Looking at each other, most of the astronauts had always thought that Russia was the largest aerospace power after the United States, but no one expected that the Chinese, who had always been unknown, had surpassed them and even got ahead of the Americans.
If losing to the Americans is understandable, but losing to the Chinese, the Russians, who have always harbored great-power chauvinism, cannot accept it under any circumstances. s: The second update is here today, please continue asking for monthly votes and recommendations. aa2705221: