The first volume sets sail Chapter 8 Autonomous Machinery
Jupiter appears to be very close, but it is actually still far away.
At least he can't fly while wearing power armor.
Not to mention the fuel, there is not enough oxygen that can be carried.
So Lin Xu first boarded a space fighter and arrived at a space station in low-Earth orbit.
Then he changed to a space shuttle at the space station and headed towards Jupiter at an extremely fast speed.
The outer space of the earth is no longer as busy as it was ten years ago.
At that time, the planetary engine was still under construction, so various space transport ships traveled between the Earth and the factories on the major planets to deliver components of the planetary engine to the Earth.
The entire solar system is filled with space transport ships and autonomous machines that are constantly shuttling back and forth.
And now, with the Earth's official launch, the factories on major planets that produce planetary engine parts have also stopped operations.
All kinds of space transport ships were retracted back to the earth and docked in low-Earth orbit.
Even the autonomous machines that were originally spread throughout the solar system have all shrunk back to Earth.
Some of them combine themselves into huge entities in the shape of spheres, cubes, or triangles, which also stay in low-Earth orbit.
Another part of them landed on the earth, and also combined themselves into huge entities that were either spheres, cubes, or triangles, quietly hiding deep underground or under the frozen ocean ice.
Lin Xu was sitting in the seat of the space shuttle, and sitting behind him was Miss Qiu.
The space shuttle is not big, not much bigger than a car, and can only seat a few people.
This made Lin Xu wonder whether he should build a flagship in the future, even if it was just a modified transport ship.
Otherwise, it would be too cramped to sit in this shuttle.
As for taking the transport ship directly, Lin Xu had considered it just now. The problem was that the transport ship was underpowered and the speed was too slow.
It can only be used to transport goods.
And it cannot land on a planet and can only dock in space.
That's right, a space transport ship cannot land on the ground.
If they enter the atmosphere, they will be captured by the planet's gravity.
However, these space transport ships do not have sufficient power devices to propel them out of the planet's gravity and rise back into space.
When they were first designed, their purpose was not to travel between the ground and space, but to transport cargo in space.
Of course, Lin Xu can also add enough power to these transport ships, but from the perspective of cost-effectiveness, it is not necessary .
All they have to do is to complete the task of transporting people across the universe.
For example, now, Lin Xu is looking at the scenery outside the window through the shuttle.
You can see the densely packed space transport ships parked in the low-Earth orbit above the Earth.
Each of these space transport ships is larger than an aircraft carrier, and hundreds of them are docked at an airport in a group.
And at the airport, there is a cable connecting heaven and earth, which is called the air-to-space cable.
Extending all the way to the ground.
It is also relying on this aerospace cable that the space transport ships docked at each airport can drag the airport and these space transport ships and move along with the Earth when the Earth is propelled by planetary engines.
Otherwise, these space transport ships would have been left behind by the Earth long ago.
And above the countless airports that are anchored to the ground by space-to-air cables, in addition to space transport ships, there are also various autonomous mechanical aggregates docked.
It is a huge entity composed of countless autonomous machines, in the shape of a sphere, a cube or a triangle.
They also docked at the airport.
It was not until the space shuttle that Lin Xu was riding on passed through a certain airport that the autonomous mechanical aggregate parked on it suddenly began to change.
The huge spherical entity, which was originally as big as an aircraft carrier, suddenly began to move in a regular rhythm.
Accompanied by the sound of mechanical clicking, the huge spherical entity instantly disintegrated into countless various autonomous machines.
Some of them are as big as buildings, and some are as small as matchboxes.
After these autonomous machines disintegrated, they immediately reassembled together.
But they have changed their appearance and are no longer the spherical shape as before.
Instead, it turned into a cone with its surface densely covered with various weapons such as laser cannons, plasma cannons, electromagnetic cannons, etc.
At the same time, a huge beam of light shot out from the back of the cone.
Caught up with Lin Xu's space shuttle.
There are a dozen such cones in total, each the size of an aircraft carrier.
Circling and protecting Lin Xu's car-sized space shuttle, it headed towards Jupiter.
They are not battleships, or it would be more appropriate to describe them as weapon clusters.
Weapons, weapons, and only weapons.
It is unreasonable to gather so many weapons together, just like installing thirty cannons on a tank.
If it weren't for the fact that autonomous machines can gather and separate at any time, such freaks would not exist.
These autonomous machines, which are like weapon aggregates, also bring a great sense of security to Lin Xu in the space shuttle.
Suddenly I felt that it would be useless if I didn't have a battleship.
What kind of ship can compare to the autonomous mechanical escort?
No wonder humans ten thousand years ago did not have any weapons such as space battleships, and at most had some transport ships.
Why do we need space battleships when we have autonomous machines?
Whatever weapon you want, you can assemble it at any time.
It can fight when necessary and carry out construction in normal times.
It's just as incredible as the Production and Construction Corps.
It can be said that these autonomous machines are the greatest invention of human civilization in the 23rd century. It is also because of autonomous machines that humans can build enough long-distance spacecraft for all mankind in the 23rd century.
I don’t know how humans were able to develop such a miraculous thing as autonomous machines.
It can only be attributed to another technological explosion of mankind.
Under the protection of more than a dozen aircraft carrier-sized weapon clusters, Lin Xu took a space shuttle and arrived at Jupiter in about half a day.
As they got closer to Jupiter, Lin Xu couldn't help but feel a little nervous because of the oppressive feeling brought by the huge celestial body that blocked his entire vision.
Soon, the shuttle arrived at Europa, an ice-covered satellite of Jupiter.
It is also home to the Jupiter Museum.
There is no need to wear a space suit, the clothes on Lin Xu can be directly converted into power armor.
So he took Miss Qiu and walked out of the shuttle cabin.
Of course, Lin Xu still brought some extra things.
In order to prevent the compressed oxygen in the power armor from being insufficiently practical, Lin Xu controlled the power armor and incorporated an additional oxygen backpack into the armor.
This makes the back of the power armor look a little bloated.
But if you don't look closely, it's actually no different from before.
