Chapter 1091 - SS Heavenly Temple (1/2)

Translator: _Min_  Editor: Caron_

Wang Qiang took a deep breath; he calmed the excitement and anxiousness pumping in his chest. He peaked outside the window at the red-stained land.

The plan was to spend the rest of his life on this new planet.

“Stop gasping or we’ll be out of oxygen soon.” The man sitting across from him joked.

There was a friendly laugh in the chamber, and the nervous atmosphere dissipated.

More than 80 million kilometers away, the blue planet was no longer visible here. Although the moment they set foot on the colonization ship, they were ready to dedicate this life to the aerospace industry. But when they recalled life on Earth, the twenty colonists couldn’t stop reminiscing about life on the homeland.

No one knew what would be waiting for them.

They weren’t only the pioneers to colonize Mars, but they were also the first to set foot on this land. No matter how many space agencies conducted observations on this planet before, no one dared to declare they knew 100% of the planet before a human set his footprint on this foreign land.

However, the thought of colonizing new land for human civilization brought them some comfort.

The colonization ship entered the synchronous orbit and stopped directly above the landing point. The captain could order landing sequence with an order from the command center.

Wang Qian relaxed and sank into the cushion of the seat. He closed his eyes and planned to take a nap.

However, an hour passed after he opened his eyes again.

“All personnel, the command center has issued a landing order, and the colonial chamber will be separated from the colonization ship in ten seconds. Enter the landing stage. Countdown, 10, 9, 8…”

“So fast.”

When Wang Qiang opened his eyes, he heard the countdown. Without being mentally prepared, he felt anxious. But the colonization ship didn’t give him a chance to be flustered as the countdown quickly reached to zero.

With a slight jitter, the SS Heavenly Temple was divided into two, and the 200-meter-long chamber began to separate from the hull.

Looking from far away, the entire colonial chamber resembled a flat cuboid. Under the traction of six ion engines, it fell toward the red-stained land.

Mars’s orbit was only 17,000 kilometers in distance, while its gravity was only four-ninth of that on Earth. The density of the atmosphere was thin. The landing difficulty was slightly higher than on the Moon, but it was much easier than the Earth.

While the chamber maintained a downward sloping posture, the moment it came in contact with the atmosphere, six engines ignited with powerful propulsion rays. They dragged the chamber and stopped the acceleration of the fall.

The high-temperature ions surrounded the chamber tightly. From a distance, it looked like a blue meteor.

In the air, there was an arc. The two-hundred-meter-long flat cuboid, like a giant foot, descended from the sky and made an imprint on the land.

BOOM!

With a muffled sound, the red sand was send into the air by the collision.

The thick thigh-sized steel needle popped from the bottom of the chamber and nailed into the red sand directly into the rock formation tens of meters deep. They firmly pinned the chamber onto the desert and acted as the “foundation”.

After deployment on land was completed, deployment still continued.

The colonization ship with its chamber detached was still orbiting in the synchronous orbit. In the next ten years, it would serve as a satellite to provide communication, meteorological observation and crisis warning for the colony.

At this point, the chamber deployment process was finally completed.