Chapter 1091 - SS Heavenly Temple (2/2)
The vibration outside stopped, and the lights in the cabin lit up.
When light returned to his field of vision, Wang Qiang frantically looked around and breathlessly looked at the captain sitting on the left-hand side across from him. He was thrilled.
“Did we succeed?”
The expression on the captain’s face was the same. Even if he wasn’t an animated person, he was moved by the excitement and sense of glory from the bottom of his heart.
Not just the captain, but all twenty colonists felt the same glory.
They received training for nearly a year, and they practiced day and night for this very day.
“Yes, we succeeded!” With a deep breath, the captain controlled his overflowing excitement and ordered in his trembling voice, “All personnel pay attention. Release the security lock. Sacro, go check the oxygen system. Lu Yang, go to the power room and turn on our nuclear fusion generator; we don’t have much energy in the battery.”
“Yes!”
“Understood!”
After the two men unlocked the safety lock, they leaped down from their seats and walked quickly outside the room.
The security lock was also unlocked. The captain stood in the middle of the buffer cabin and moved his sore arms. He looked at the colonists who had already lined up and ordered: “Yang Yuhan, deploy the exploration drone and conduct a detailed investigation of the geological conditions within a ten-mile radius. Liu Rui, Wang Qiang, prepare for patrol. Chris, you and I will go to the main control room. The rest of the personnel, immediately enter your positions. Time is tight and it is necessary to complete deployment of the planting unit within four hours. This is critical to address our food problem!”
“Yes!”
The colonists shouted in unison and acted immediately.
After all the orders were executed, the captain didn’t leave the buffer cabin immediately. Instead, he reached out to the holographic screen and switched the communication channel to Earth tens of millions of kilometers away. With his fingers trembling, he sent back news of success to his previous home.
“Calling the ground command center, we succeeded!”
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“…we succeeded!”
When the voice was transmitted back to Celestial City more than 80 million kilometers away, the entire command center erupted in cheers, celebrating the moment in joy. People whistled, threw their arms in the air, hugged together, and celebrated this great moment.
Looking at the colony in the center of the screen, Jiang Chen was more excited than anyone.
If the Moon was an energy base, then Mars was the arsenal of the future “Earth Federation.” Mars was a large iron ore and the endless desert wasn’t silica on Earth but iron oxide!
To be more direct, if they took a shovel to any place on Mars and tossed the sand in a blast furnace, a pound of steel could be produced.
If they wanted to build a galactic ship larger than SS Seagull, they would need a million tons of steel. The minerals on Earth and asteroids would just barely be enough. But if they wanted to build an “invincible fleet”, it wouldn’t be impossible with the Mars colony for steel production.
As an important part of Jiang Chen’s space program, the future “Mars Industrial Park” would bear more than 80% of the shipbuilding capacity of the Earth Federation.
The Earth would finally gain a fighting chance against the imminent invasion.
In order to celebrate this historic moment, Jiang Chen announced in the heat of the moment: “All employees involved in the Mars Colonization Program will be rewarded 500,000 Xin New dollars per person regardless of their position! This money will come out of my pocket!”
The big red envelope pushed the cheering in the command center to a new peak…