Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 804: The Escaped Engineering Ship
Of course, an important reason for the successful signing of the Antarctic Treaty is the successful development of space-based kinetic weapons. This "kinetic cannon" deployed in low-Earth orbit is terrifyingly powerful and extremely difficult to intercept. Any occupation of ground targets will lose its meaning in the face of a space-based kinetic weapon shell. The war between major ZZ entities has gradually transformed from a fight for various surface fortresses to an offensive and defensive battle around space-based kinetic weapon satellites.
It’s a bit ridiculous to say that in that era, human civilization had not even left the solar system, but had already entered the era of "space war".
The form of war is always the fastest developing and progressing in all areas.
As for the outbreak of the solar crisis and the various ZZ entities putting aside their prejudices and coming together to start the Ark construction plan, that was already a very later event.
While killing and devouring the zombies that rushed into the space barrier, Ke Lan continued to supplement and improve this memory fragment.
He was now basically certain that this was a spaceship built by human civilization - not because the appearance of the spaceship was similar to that of human civilization's spaceships, but because the hull number of the spaceship was printed in English letters and Arabic numerals on the right side of the bow.
"GCY0906"
The "GCY" at the front is not an abbreviation of English but Chinese pinyin, which means "engineering use" - this shows that this is an engineering ship rather than a warship.
The hull of this engineering ship is about 150 meters long, and there is no emblem of any faction on its surface. This was a very rare thing in the old era: during the energy war, the warring parties deployed a large number of information jammers in low-Earth orbit. Especially in some war zones where the contention was more intense, radio communications were almost completely unusable. The only means of communication was laser communication. However, the biggest problem with laser communication has been mentioned many times. There must be no obstructions between the laser transmitter and the receiver. In the low-Earth orbit with a complex environment and filled with space debris, the limitations are actually very large.
Often, the space forces of the various warring parties have to rely on visual inspection to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and radar has become a decoration. Reconnaissance work relies more on high-speed space fighters and drones... Technology is constantly developing, but the mode of war seems to have returned to the European naval battles of the 18th century...
In this case, it is very necessary to have identification emblems painted on the surface of spacecraft or warships - the main warships and combat vehicles of each participating party are actually not very different in appearance . When the battle situation is tense, the enemy warships are captured and slightly modified before being put into the battlefield. No matter which side it is, there are a large number of warships built by other forces in the fleet. If there are no paint or emblems to identify the enemy, even if they are operating in our safe zone, they may be intercepted or even attacked by friendly forces.
An engineering spacecraft with no identifiable paint or emblems... then there is only one possibility: this spacecraft was built in the "Age of Ark".
In this era, the hostilities between the major ZZ entities on Earth have basically been resolved. Except for some minor frictions in individual areas, all technologies and resources have been tilted towards the construction of the Ark... This is an unprecedented period of unity in human history. During this period, it doesn't matter if the spacecraft does not have the identification emblem of the force to which it belongs.
The only ones who would obstruct the construction of the Ark are those so-called "resistance forces", but the influence of the "resistance forces" is limited to the earth. All channels leading to space are firmly controlled by major ZZ entities. It is difficult for the resistance forces to go to space, and it is also difficult for them to get ships or fighter planes that can launch terrorist attacks in space.
Could it be that this spaceship once participated in the construction of Noah's Ark?
Ke Lan remembered very clearly that after the Ark set sail, a large number of people who stayed behind were unwilling to be buried with the Earth, so they drove the ships used to build the Ark and escaped from the solar system by using the residual energy from the accelerating star gate... Could this engineering ship be one of the many ships that escaped from the solar system?
No wonder even the lighting facilities in the ship were turned off... In this kind of voyage with almost no end in sight, every bit of energy is extremely precious, especially after getting far away from the sun. It is almost impossible to obtain energy in the dark and cold space.
Could it be that these zombies were once fugitives from this engineering ship?
That's not right... Logically speaking, the possibility of these ships escaping from the solar system surviving the space voyage is basically zero. Even if they can find a place near the solar system that has not been discovered by humans and the Ark, with the structural strength of these ships, they will not be able to withstand the space storm when passing through the wormhole.
Even if one ship is extremely lucky and relies on inertia to drift all the way to the star field where Alpha is located...but at this time, it is impossible for there to be any living people on this ship. Even if the last group of crew members decide to freeze the human embryos, the freezing chamber will stop working due to lack of energy during the long journey.
What's more, these zombies were wearing the uniforms of the Field Corps.
But why...what I absorbed from these zombies were the memories of this escaped engineering ship?
Is there something wrong, or is the trial procedure of this Tower of Babel intentional?
Ke Lan had no idea, he could only choose to absorb more zombies to complete this memory.
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It seemed like a long time had passed, and the engineering ship sailing in space became more and more dilapidated. A large number of dents and holes caused by meteorite impacts appeared on the originally flat hull, and the thruster nozzles of several main engines also had traces of explosions and fires... Obviously, during the period of memory loss, this engineering ship should have encountered many unexpected situations... But at least, the entire ship has not disintegrated, and the survivors on the ship have not had to face the cold, dark, oxygen-free, and deadly radiation-filled space environment directly.
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Another period of time passed, and the survivors on the engineering ship were lucky. They found an asteroid rich in mineral resources. The entire engineering ship docked directly on the asteroid with a diameter of less than one kilometer. Autonomous resource collection robots were sent out to excavate a large number of mines on the surface of the asteroid.
There seemed to be a metallurgical engineer among the survivors. A simple smelting factory made up of several metal containers was built on the asteroid. The ore mined by the robots was transported to the factory, and the smelted metal was used to repair the damaged hull.
The light of stars came from the distant star field. Although it was very weak, it at least solved the urgent problem of energy shortage. The foldable photovoltaic panels almost covered half of the asteroid - in the desperate situation, it seemed that a glimmer of hope was ignited.
But what puzzled Ke Lan was that no human figure appeared in the images in the memory fragments from beginning to end - whether it was during the voyage of the spacecraft, or when it was docked on an asteroid, mining minerals and smelting metals, not even a single figure appeared in the picture.
Ke Lan even had an illusion: it seemed that those autonomous resource-gathering robots that mined minerals were the only "living things" on this engineering ship.
