Chapter 43 Ship Modification

After crossing the space jump point, the Blue Rose has entered normal driving status. Before reaching the next jump point, the fleet will travel through nebulae, dust, asteroids, and boulders at the fourth cosmic speed of 120 kilometers per second.

Obstacle area with complex gravity and radiation environment.

Only by passing through the obstacle area and reaching the safe jump channel marked in the navigator database can the spacecraft start the gravity jump and carry out jump navigation. However, using gravity acceleration to make a high-speed jump in the obstacle area or unknown airspace channel usually results in the ship being destroyed and everyone killed.

And even sailing on the jump channel and sailing in the public star field is different from the regular interstellar channel where the channel is regularly cleaned, interstellar routes are mapped and navigation data is updated.

Here, no one monitors the waterway, and no one tells you which comet or other things are blocking your waterway in this constantly moving universe. No one is going to clean up these threats and formulate new policies.

A safer and more reasonable interstellar navigation route. Everything can only be relied on yourself.

However, with modern interstellar navigation technology, as long as we do not encounter a newly generated black hole or encounter extreme threats such as planetary collisions or explosions at close range, most small obstacles can rely on the ship's radar, interstellar jump channel map and unmanned pathfinder.

, is completely avoidable.

Thirty hours after entering the first jump, the fleet passed through three obstacle areas in succession. After passing through two jump channels, it finally arrived at the jump point from the public galaxy numbered bq-2011 to the next public galaxy. After several more

After days of trekking, the fleet reached the entrance to the jump point of the third public galaxy.

The fleet has to pass through eleven such jumping points.

For many people, interstellar navigation trapped on a ship for a long time is undoubtedly boring. However, for Tian Xingjian, it seems to be full of interest.

Especially in the first few days, Fatty found that he was the brightest star on the ship. The students who were sent for exchanges at the same time and the officers and soldiers on the ship made no secret of their excitement when they saw their idol.

Fatty was also excited. He turned out to be an idol?! This is so amazing! Fatty, whose vanity is endlessly satisfied, diligently signed autographs for everyone every day and his hands became weak.

In addition to signing autographs for people, Fatty's favorite thing to do every day is to hang around in front of people and accept compliments. Even at night, he will ask Karl, who lives in the same cabin, to sing his praises several times.

After enjoying themselves like this for several days, when people's enthusiasm began to fade, especially when the fat man forced the big-headed Karl to flatter him continuously, causing Karl to vomit, feel sick and foam at the mouth several times, he himself began to get bored.

The boring sailing seemed to swallow up everyone's spirit. As time went by, most people on the ship seemed a little depressed and uninterested in anything. But Fatty was different. He was born in such an environment.

He wanted to find something interesting for himself. As soon as he turned around, he became obsessed with the new destroyer he was riding on.

Although Fatty has ridden on warships in the past, they were just old-fashioned ships with little research value. Moreover, they were usually installed in transport cabins and airdropped here and there. The time was also very short.

This time, being able to get close contact with a new destroyer during this nearly month-long journey was an excellent learning opportunity for Fatty, who was studying Casper's work log.

If there is anything that can represent the space age, it is undoubtedly these ships sailing in the vast universe.

In the era of great exploration, humans used various space ships to leap out of the Milky Way and extend the footprints of human civilization into the depths of the universe.

During that great history, explorers drove spaceships into one interstellar jumping point with an uncertain future. Some of them succeeded, and they returned with scarred spaceships, brought back their discoveries, and became rich overnight.

They became famous all over the world, and some of them, together with their ships, stayed in the vast universe forever and became part of the celestial bodies of the universe.

Until now, in many remote public galaxies, you can still encounter some spacecraft wreckage by chance. Some of these wreckage are floating there quietly. They have become a symbol, receiving the gaze of spacecraft passing by the waterway. Some are wandering around in the universe.

.It has become a legendary ghost ship. Every few years or decades, people can see them appear briefly and then disappear into the depths of the universe.

Becoming a battleship captain who travels across the universe is the ideal of many people in this era since childhood. For curious humans, the deep universe, the vast space, and the legends of famous explorers in history are always full of temptations.

As far as this war era is concerned, the ridiculously beautiful uniforms of the Space Force, the huge ships gliding silently in the universe, the dazzling volleys of main guns in battle, and the elite teams strictly selected and cultivated are status and glory.

symbol of.

Fatty actually wanted to apply for the Space Fleet at first. It was because of the awesome uniforms and the treatment that was much higher than that of the Army. For this reason, he memorized almost all the warships and civilian ships he could see in the mechanical training camp.

Structural diagram. He has a thorough understanding of the structure, power, weapons, radar and other systems of the ship.

However, in the end, he did not board the ship, but was thrown to the 5th Armored Division of the Air Marine Corps. The reason was that this guy's size was not suitable for squeezing into a small escape hatch in an emergency.

It hurts people's self-esteem so much.

With the resentment of being expelled from the fleet before, and the need to study Casper's work log, I hung up two Purple Emblem Medals of Freedom and wandered around in every cabin on the destroyer.

Of course, even for federal heroes, such behavior is not welcome on a battleship.

"Hey! What is this?" Fatty asked curiously, standing in the almost spotless power cabin, looking at the huge four-link gravity acceleration engine in the middle of the cabin.

"This is a new type of four-link gravity acceleration engine. Colonel." A second lieutenant on duty in the power cabin replied expressionlessly.

The power compartment is the core area of ​​the cruiser. Without special permission, not to mention the passengers on the battleship, even the active officers and soldiers on the ship, cannot enter casually. However, this fat man broke in with two Purple Emblem Medals of Freedom pinned to his chest.

.Looking here and there, he looked like a curious baby.

There was no other way, so the second lieutenant could only send someone to notify the captain. At the same time, he followed the fat man step by step, blocking his curious eyes and random steps without leaving any trace.

"Hey, what is this?" The fat man took a few steps and asked.

The second lieutenant was stunned: "What?"

"That's it, that's the big guy." The fat man gestured.

The second lieutenant walked up to the fat man and looked at his hand: "Colonel, this is the quadruple gravity acceleration engine!"

"Oh!" The fat man scratched his head in confusion and looked at the engine from another angle. "Looking at it this way, is it still a four-link gravity acceleration engine?"

The second lieutenant collapsed. What's wrong with this fat man? If you look at it from a different angle, it's not the same engine.

"Hey, it's different this time, right? Don't tell me this is still a quadruple gravity acceleration engine!"

"..."

When Captain Chekov hurried over after receiving the report, the fat man had already left. Only a dull-looking second lieutenant was left in the power cabin.

Although he successfully stopped the fat man from looking around, the price was too high. He was curiously asked a hundred and eighty times by the officer who looked at the same thing from different angles and had to answer. This was simply a nightmare. He was in a trance.

The second lieutenant doubted that if the fat man asked him a few more times, he would rush into the kitchen, pick up the kitchen knife and come out crying and chopping.

From that day on, Fatty started his research work. Every day, he either drilled in the walls of the line pipes or squatted next to the return pipe network of the energy system, holding his chin in a daze. Otherwise, he surrounded the main

The engine was spinning, changing angles, and looking at the second lieutenant on duty.

With Fatty's efforts, the originally quiet and boring voyage of more than 500 officers and soldiers on the entire battleship and more than 40 students who went to Chakna for exchange and study suddenly became extremely lively. The students were

Watching the excitement, the officers and soldiers on the ship were all on tenterhooks.

I heard that this fat man has driven several people crazy!

Just watching it a few days ago, the destroyer soldiers didn't think anything of it. Who knew that later, something even more devastating would happen.

The fat man actually took action. He put an automatic repair arm on his arm and started to catch and dismantle something. He took it apart to see clearly and then reinstalled it.

Radar, fire control, energy turret, main gun, torpedo room, missile launcher, engine nozzle, control system. Everything has not escaped the clutches of this fat man! He often looks at a certain piece of equipment for a long time, rolls up his sleeves, and

Open up!

This is not a toy. It is actually a new destroyer that is sailing! Can it be taken apart and played with?

It just so happens that this fat man is a hero of the Federation and cannot be beaten or scolded. Even the captain's ban has no effect on him. With his two Purple Emblem Medals of Freedom, not to mention the cabin of a small destroyer, even the confidential archives of the high command,

He can also access the strategic conference room and command room smoothly.

If you insist on blocking him, then you must be mentally prepared to be teased by him. This fat guy has endless tricks. Asking the same thing a hundred or eighty times is just a trivial matter. He will take naked photos of you when you are not paying attention, and he will win you by cheating at cards.

No matter how much money threatens you, spreads rumors about your sexual orientation, or even steals female soldiers' underwear to frame you, this hero can do it!

Is this really a federal hero?

Many people were kept in the dark. At least, the first thing the person who was driven crazy did to do was to tear off the fat man's signature!

The one who has the biggest headache is Colonel Chekov, the captain of the destroyer USS Blue Rose.

As a veteran of many battles, he was promoted from a fire observer on the cruiser Tranquility Shark of the Fourth Mixed Fleet of the Federation to gunner, gunner, fire control officer, and battle commander. He devoted half of his life to the destroyer captain of space and battleships.

, how could Chekov endure receiving dozens of reports a day, all about the fat man entering the power cabin, the radar room, the energy shield generating cabin, and the women's locker room.

It was just a matter of looking at it and not listening to his own prohibition. What made Chekov crazy was that this fat man dared to dismantle the equipment with his nose in his face! He asked him to talk to him, and he even called it an attack on the battleship.

Advanced makeover.

If it weren't for the fact that every time this guy finished, the damage control team checked the equipment normally and found no damage, and the ship's central computer failure system didn't report any abnormalities, Chekov would have arrested this fat guy as a saboteur!

For Chekov, battleships are his life. To use a more vivid metaphor, this new destroyer that many space fleet captains are envious of is his wife!

You can imagine how Chekov felt when he heard reports that his wife had been touched dozens of times every day, and that her whole body was looked at and touched.

No matter what kind of hero the fat man was, Chekov disliked him anyway! For several days, Chekov was waiting for an opportunity, waiting for the fat man to break some part, and charge him with sabotage of military equipment.

Lock him up and release him when he reaches Chakna!

"Report to Captain, Colonel Tian Xingjian has entered the power cabin again." The chief engineer ran to Chekov and reported: "He is disassembling the power output lead inverter."

"What?" Chekov was startled. The power output lead inverter is a key part of the battleship's power system to adjust the power of the main jet at the tail, control the speed and perform emergency evasion in battle. How can this thing be touched casually?

?

"It's a backup system." The chief engineer explained.

"Oh." Chekov breathed a long sigh of relief involuntarily, and then said with a livid face: "Can't this idiot stop for a while? ... Ask the maintenance department to send someone to watch. Don't let him damage the backup system. That's a big deal.

It’s our life-saving thing!”

"Screamed..." The chief engineer lowered his head: "The people from the maintenance department were kicked out by him."

"Kicked out?! In my battleship, he kicked my people out?!" Chekov could no longer control his emotions and roared: "What on earth does this fat man want to do?!"

"Colonel Tian said..." The chief engineer looked at Chekov cautiously and said, "He is doing high-tech work, and we cannot let people learn skills secretly."

Chekov felt like his head was going to explode: "He's tearing apart our things everywhere. And he won't let us see it, so that we can't steal his skills?!... The most ridiculous thing is that you just let him bombard you."
To be continued...