Apocalypse: The Stronghold System
Chapter 109: Rocket Launch
The Defense Robots were successfully built with a total circumference of 1,500 meters surrounding the tall buildings where they are currently located, and wait for the arrival of the mutant beasts that were at least 21 kilometers to the northwest of where they were currently.
This made it easier for Fan Chen as there was no need to go there which took too much time, then he thought of something else to get information about the human survivors and how to save them.
Launching 118 SkyNet Satellites!
[Blue Printing Headquarters Level 06] [Supervisory Tower ×100, Main Hall Expansion, Tracker Tower Upgrade, Guard Tower ×100, Farm ×25, Laser Tower ×25, Railgun ×15, Plasma ×5, Laser Tower <TAG1>25, Floating Base ×1]
[Price: 750.000©]
[550 Tons Wood, 931 Tons Rock, 848 Tons Iron, 330 Tons Copper, 500 Tons Gold, 120 Tons Titanium, 118 Satellites SkyNet, Securing Dongguan, Building Sub-Base in Guangzhou, Guangzhou, Building Underwater Ports, Heavy Controlled Nuclear Fusion 2]
[Time: 30 Days]
"Securing Dongguan." Fan Chen sighed, the requirement to rise to Level 06 was quite difficult.
The current area of Mingyue Defense is only 25 square kilometers, but Dongguan is 2,465 square kilometers. If Dongguan was a square box, then to surround Dongguan City, it would spend 830,000© just to build its walls alone.
But fortunately it only secures Dongguan, not Guanzhou which has an area of 7,434 square kilometers (1,427,600©) or Guangdong Province of 177,900 square kilometers (7,005,200©).
"Xiaochu, Basel, are you there?"
““We are here, Master.””
"I gave you a great mission, and try to complete it in three months' time. Xiaochu, I want you to deploy the working robots to build the giant wall that surrounds Dongguan City which is 100 meters high and 50 meters thick. The metal thickness used is only 3 meters, but inside this metal wall must have a full range of facilities. We can call it a city within a wall, and inside it must be equipped with a wide variety of conventional weapons in large sizes ..."
Xiaochu did a short calculation, then nodded his head. “Xiaochu will carry out the task!”
Fan Chen nodded, then he again said, "Basel, I gave you a mission to kill all the mutant beasts and zombies in Dongguan City, save the survivors and bring them home, he said, take all the cropped up in the city, and escort the robot workers to build the wall. I'll give you 10,000 robots to control."
Basel raised his hand, saluting the military. “Basel ready to perform tasks!”
Fan Chen nodded, then he again saw the conditions to upgrade the Refuge to Level 06. Looking at the list he got, he began to understand, Level 01 — 05 is just the basis, Level 06 and above is the true meaning of Stronghold System.
Later, although the closest distance between Guangzhou and Dongguan border with Dalingshan was only 29 kilometers, but according to the mission, he had to build a Sub-headquarters in the center of Guanzhou City, a distance of 73 kilometers from Dongguan City, he had to build a Sub-headquarters in the center of Guanzhou City, a distance of 73 kilometers from Dongguan City, or 84 kilometers from Dalingshan.
"Xiaochu, build more robots, clean the central area of Guangzhou and look for a strategic and safe place there to build the Heavy Controlled Nuclear Fusion Site 2."
"Then, hook me up with all the rocket launch staff. I want in five minutes, everyone has gathered, I want to launch a satellite right now. As well, I want the Underwater Port to be completed sooner."
Xiaochu did not delay at all, he directly contacted the related personnel, as well as set Fan Chen's gaze, so Fan Chen was as if he was in the Rocket Launch Monitoring Room.
Fan Chen saw that his vision had changed, he was in a dim room with a wide variety of virtual screens floating in the air.
Rocket Scientist Gerald and Aerospace Scientist Habibie are standing face to face, but in fact are not staring at each other, but rather looking at a virtual screen to read the data and calculate the changes every second, predict what changes will occur in the next minutes.
"Sorry, I'm late!" Zhao Yansu, the Mathematical Engineer came in with gasps.
Later Astronomy Scientist, Yu Sun and Astrology Scientist, Zhang Junda came in the form of a hologram.
"You all should know why I accelerated the launch, it's related to Mingyue Defense."
The four people did not ask anything, only nodding their heads.
"Can we launch a rocket right now?"
Zhang Junda nodded his head and said, "There's no problem at all, we're up here already firing shots to clear the clouds above the Rocket Launch Site."
Zhao Yansu pressed the virtual keyboard at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye, then finished getting the data and started formulating the program with the help of Xiaochu. "The trajectory has been calculated according to the appropriate data, and it is certain the launch is safe without constraints."
Fan Chen nodded, he observed the view of the Rocket Launch Site from the sky guarded by an army of humanoid robots.
The Rocket Launching Site here was different from the one in the Imperial City, here it did not use water to cool the surrounding engines, because after all to ride off the land using Ion Pushing Machine and Anti-Gravity Machine.
The size of the rocket is also larger than the size of a normal rocket. It has a height of 150 meters, a diameter of 50 meters and a mass of 120 tons.
"Enable the Anti-Gravity Machine."
“Activating Anti-Gravity Machine ..”
“Anti-Gravity Machine successfully activated.”
"Enable Ion Drive Machine." Fan Chen gave the order again.
The three Ion Propulsion Engines under the rocket were activated, emitting a blue-colored flame with an extremely strong pressure, this pressure exerting a thrust force that began to lift the rocket.
These four Scientists and Engineers observe changes in data that change every second.
Fan Chen did not understand too much, he just observed the P1-A6 SN Rocket that continued to rise at a speed that continued to increase every second.
Until P1-A6 SN reached an altitude of 10,000 meters above sea level, the bottom-most First Level pushed the Second Level in its center.
The module in the center is active, it uses a raptor engine with liquid hydrogen chemical fuel that is heated and burned.
The rocket's speed continued to increase until it reached 28,440 km/h.
The Scanning Drone could no longer capture the P1-A6 SN, so the Mothership took over monitoring.
“First Level (Push Module) successfully release Second Level. The Pusher module starts to drop at a speed of 100 m/s and is expected to land in 100 seconds.”
Yep! Because it uses Ion Pushing Machine, the Pusher Module can be used many times so it is more cost-effective.
“P1-A6 SN already entered Low Earth Orbit, shut off raptor machine.”
“Raptor machine successfully shut down. Storage module start open, release 39 Satellites SkyNet.”
“39 SkyNet satellite successfully released, start activation Satellite to orbit in Low Earth Orbit.”
Xiaochu continuously reported the state of the rocket.
All SkyNet Satellites sent to Low Earth Orbit open slowly, exposing hidden solar panels. Then the Ion Propulsion Engine on the rear starts to be activated at a speed of 8 km/s to ensure 39 SkyNet Satellites do not leave Low Earth Orbit.
“Satellite No. 01 is already at the set point.”
“Satellite No. 23 is already at the set point.”
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“Satellite No. 39 is difficult to be at the set point.”
“Starting connection of each satellite... 23% ... 67% ... 98% ... 100%.”
“39 Satellite SkyNet successfully connected.”
At that time, 39 screens began to appear in the air with images of land and sea taken from Low Earth Orbit. The images taken are very clear, to the point where you can see strands of zombie hair hanging around out there.
Fan Chen clenched his hands, then he again said, "Xiaochu, connect all the electronic devices around the world. Scan how many humans are still alive, as well as observe if there are abnormal situations in the tissues."
“Start connecting all electronic devices worldwide by force!”
“Successfully connect all electronic devices. Active electronic devices worldwide totaled 1,325,278,892.”
“Didn't find anything abnormal.”
Fan Chen nodded his head, he was not surprised at all by the number of active electronic devices, and this data alone could not be a benchmark for knowing the number of humans living out there, either, because not all humans have electronic devices, especially in the shortage of electrical power sources.
"Design P1-A6 SN 02 to launch 40 SkyNet Satellites in Earth's Intermediate Orbit!”
“Receive command! Sending 500 robots to assemble P1-A6 SN 02 and expected to be completed in 16 hours.”
Fan Chen nodded his head, he looked at everyone here and said, "I've been gone for too long, the Fifth level Mutant Beasts have already come. I'll go first."
Without waiting for a reply from Yu Sun, Zhang Junda, Gerald and Habibie, Fan Chen immediately left the Rocket Launch Monitoring Room.
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