Chapter 184: 4500 Kilometers Per Second
Crisis Year 45.
In deep space, a spaceship completely emerald green dragged a long tail flame and sped past.
“Boss, current speed 1500 kilometers per second, stress tolerance at 30% upper limit, inertia influence 30%.”
“Continue.”
In the cabin, Fan Ren’s face was flushed red. This Peregrine Falcon used for testing was the same size as before, with no major changes, except the tail had increased from two nuclear fusion engines to three.
The original design of Peregrine Falcon had acceleration within the range humans could withstand, about 6-10 G of gravity acceleration.
But now, after the entire ship body was replaced with silver-like super metal, the ship structure became more sturdy, and the upper limit for stress tolerance was also higher.
But this brought the problem of a greatly increased maximum acceleration. Fan Ren had even started to experience dizziness at the beginning.
This was still after A’dai timely reduced the thrust, allowing Fan Ren to maintain a state without passing out.
From zero to the current 1500 kilometers per second, because Fan Ren could only withstand a maximum of 9 G gravity acceleration, this process took 4 hours and 42 minutes.
A’dai detected through equipment that Fan Ren was currently suffering from huge gravity, already showing brief breathing difficulty, and then continued to reduce thrust.
“Boss, let’s adapt to 7 G standard acceleration. Not everyone has your freak physique.”
Yes, although Fan Ren currently looked like he was about to explode, being able to withstand nearly 5 hours of 9 G gravity acceleration allowed for a very confident announcement that Fan Ren was the number one person in the world.
No one except Fan Ren could do it.
Although even it didn’t know why Fan Ren had such super strong physique, A’dai smartly didn’t ask in detail.
As the acceleration decreased, Fan Ren’s complexion gradually improved. At this moment, he even felt that 7 G acceleration seemed something his body had already adapted to very well, without exaggerated symptoms like rapid heartbeat.
“Okay, do as you say. The program is still set by you.”
Feeling the ease transmitted from his body, Fan Ren shook his head slightly and sighed, “It seems we need to hurry the research and development of that nano buffer on Conqueror. Otherwise, even if we have a spaceship that can reach 10% speed of light in the future, just one acceleration process would take over 120 hours. On a potential future battlefield, this is an extremely fatal flaw.”
“Yes, Boss. That spaceship coming from Alpha Centauri accelerated from zero to 30,000 kilometers per second in only about 5 minutes.”
Fan Ren nodded. The gap was still very large, but no problem. At least now the material for building spaceships was confirmed.
Next was to step by step research and develop the processing method for this material. This time might be long, but anyway, they were now on the right path.
Six hours later, Peregrine Falcon’s speed reached 3000 kilometers per second.
“Boss, inertia influence 60%”
“Continue.”
Twelve hours later.
“4500 kilometers per second, inertia influence 90%, shut down engine thrust.”
Fan Ren didn’t speak, eyes closed tightly, feeling the current state of Peregrine Falcon.
As the acceleration disappeared, the stress on the entire spaceship instantly dropped to near zero.
But the spaceship wasn’t without other forces acting on it; inertia would also act on the spaceship.
Fan Ren couldn’t help but open his eyes, gazing deeply into the pitch-black outer space ahead. The direction he was facing now was exactly the Alpha Centauri galaxy, where an alien spaceship was speeding toward Blue Star at 10% speed of light.
“Boss, inertia has reached the upper limit. Our current material technology can only make this spaceship reach this speed at most.”
“Okay, decelerate and return.”
Hearing this, Fan Ren felt the spaceship do a 360-degree turn, then huge reverse thrust pressed him dead onto the seat again.
The spaceship began the deceleration process.
This would also be an extremely long process, and due to the reaction force, the gravity his body withstood would exceed the previous 7 G, but Fan Ren didn’t speak to stop it. He was trying hard to adapt to this process.
Three days later, Moon IV Qiming Base.
The emerald green Peregrine Falcon slowly stopped at the vast spaceship landing field.
In a few years, Great Xia’s terrifying mobilization ability had successfully developed this base into a super base no smaller than Mars Utopia City.
Qiming Base had functions such as silver-like super metal collection, livestock breeding, grain planting, water resources replenishment, personnel training, and more, making it a permanent functional base.
Fan Ren vaguely remembered the day the base was officially put into operation. Li Jian, as the first person in charge, had said something inexplicable to him.
‘We already have the ability for preliminary colonization of Earth-like planets.’
Guanghan Palace, Utopia City, plus the massive scale of today’s Qiming Base—after Fan Ren got off the spaceship, the first thing he thought of was what Boss said.
“Second Brother, how come you have time to come here?”
Seeing the visitor, Fan Ren put away the inexplicable emotion from earlier and hurried over.
Although Li Jian was greeting Fan Ren, his gaze was fixed dead on Peregrine Falcon behind him.
Fan Ren smiled and said, “This one won’t do. This is a high-speed verification ship. After returning, we still need to collect various data to provide ideas for the next mass production of new warships.”
Hearing this, Li Jian suddenly looked at him.
Fan Ren knew what he meant and didn’t answer directly, just nodded slightly.
Excitement uncontrollably appeared on Li Jian’s angular face.
The pioneering and construction of Qiming Base was now completely finished and put into use. His continuing to stay here had little meaning.
Deep down, he still wanted more to pilot spaceships and lead the Space Force to roam in space.
Fan Ren patted Boss’s shoulder. The two didn’t speak and walked silently into the base.
In the base cafeteria, Li Jian arranged a sumptuous welcoming meal for Fan Ren. Unfortunately, Liu Jun wasn’t there, so there were no alcoholic beverages.
“Second Brother, you mean accelerating to 4500 kilometers takes 165 hours?”
Watching Fan Ren eat big bites of beef bred at Qiming Base, Li Jian was reluctant to interrupt but still frowned and raised the question.
“Boss Li, it’s like this. Going further, the spaceship can’t withstand high-speed navigation due to its own inertia.”
Li Jian nodded, then puzzled, “But that spaceship has 10% speed of light?”
Hearing this, Fan Ren put down his bowl and chopsticks, chewed the food in his mouth, and smiled, “Boss, before this, Peregrine Falcon built with tri-titanium alloy could only reach a maximum speed of 500 kilometers per second. Now it’s improved tenfold.”
He picked up the soup beside him, drank a delicious mouthful, then put it down, his expression slightly serious.
“I’m here this time to tell you about this.”
Li Jian nodded and sat up straight, instantly entering work state.
