Chapter 1582 - Geocentric Mine (1/2)
Project Trench was officially initiated.
Two Seagull-class transport ships set off from Celestial City, passed through the Star Gate hovering in the Earth-Moon system, and sailed towards Mars.
The two starships carried officers from the Earth Defense Alliance, senior space technology engineers who graduated from the School of Aerospace Technology at Coro University, and more than a dozen scientific researchers. Although their identities were different, all of them were there for the same purpose.
Their mission was to build a “trench” between the orbit of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt to defend against Harmony.
On this issue that determined the life and death of everyone, representatives from different countries finally gave up the endless debate.
About three days ago, Resolution 101 of the Earth Defense Alliance was finalized with the relevant details of Project Trench. This included the weapon configuration of this space fortress, the roles of each country in the project, and the obligations they should undertake.
Based on the plan formulated by Resolution 101, the entire project would be divided into three steps and would span twenty years.
The first step was to find a suitable asteroid in the Kuiper Belt, then tow it between the Kuiper Belt and the orbit of Pluto, and use it as the main structure of this space fortress. All functional facilities such as fortifications and living units, carrier spacecraft hangars, and so on would be built on this asteroid.
Just like this, the two Seagull-class transport ships embarked on a new journey.
However, in addition to those related to Project Trench, there were two special passengers on the two starships that headed to the synchronous orbit of Mars.
Unlike the others, their final destination was not the Kuiper Belt, but Heavenly Palace City…
“Have you been to Mars before?”
“No.”
As Jiang Chen saw Lilith was looking at him in confusion, he cast a strange look at her, “Is there any problem with this?”
“Obviously, it is your city, but you have never been to it?”
“What’s so strange about this?” Jiang Chen laughed, “The leader of any country will not necessarily have traveled to all the cities under their control.”
“I see.”
Lilith nodded while she stared at the unchanging starry sky outside the window. She did not say anything more.
The two stood in front of the window in the corridor at the moment.
As for why they were here, it had to do with the conversation between Jiang Chen and Golovin I the other day.
When Golovin I told Jiang Chen that they had found the geocentric mine of the Gaia civilization, he was stunned. He then looked at Golovin I, who said this seriously, and as if he heard some funny joke, he started to laugh
“Are you kidding, a mine that existed for billions of years? Or a mine that is going straight to the center of the planet? You mean, in the past three billion years, there has never been a geological tectonic movement on Mars?”
Tectonic movement occurred more or less on any planet. Even if the tectonic movement of Mars was not active and no plate drift similar to that on Earth happened, but on the time scale of billions of years, even without active tectonic movement, the planet could still experience drastic changes.
The mine that drilled down to the center of the core was just like a 3,400 kilometers-long toothpick, it could be broken into two pieces with just a little force.
“There is no way to use the time scale to measure how advanced their technology is compared to ours. In our ‘hometown’, the geocentric mine of Gaia civilization is controlled by NATO. We only know that it is similar to a vertical mine with a transmission mechanism. No matter which direction the geological movement comes from, it can deform the mine, but it will never collapse.”
Transmission mechanism?