Jupiter looks very close, but it's actually very far away.
At least if you're just wearing power armor, you definitely won't be able to fly.
Putting aside the fuel, the oxygen it can carry is not enough.
So Lin Xu first got on an aerospace fighter plane and arrived at the space station in low-Earth orbit.
Then at the space station, he transferred to the space shuttle and headed towards Jupiter at an extremely fast speed.
At this time, 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 factories on major planets to deliver planetary engine components 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 official departure of the Earth, the factories that produce planetary engine components on all major planets have also stopped working.
All kinds of space transport ships have all shrunk 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 the earth.
Part of it combines by itself to form a huge entity that is either a sphere, a cube, or a triangle, and it is also docked in low-Earth orbit.
Another part landed on the earth, and also combined itself to form a huge entity that was either a sphere, a cube, or a triangle, and was quietly hidden deep underground or under the frozen ocean ice.
Lin Xu was sitting on 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 to get a ship or something like that in the future, even if it was a transport ship modified into one.
Otherwise, sitting on this shuttle would be too frustrating.
As for taking the transport ship directly, Lin Xu also considered it just now. The problem is that the transport ship lacks power and the speed is too slow.
It can only be used to transport goods.
And it cannot land on the planet, it 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.
And these space transport ships simply do not have enough power devices to push the transport ships to escape the gravity of the planet and rise into space again.
From the beginning of their design, their role was not to travel between the ground and space, but to transport cargo in the universe.
Of course, Lin Xu can also add enough power to these transport ships, but from a cost-effective perspective, it is not necessary at all.
As long as they can complete the role of transportation between the universe.
For example, right now, Lin Xu was admiring the scenery outside the window through the shuttle.
You can see the densely packed space transport ships docked in low-Earth orbit above the earth.
Each of these space transport ships is larger than an aircraft carrier, with hundreds of ships in groups docked at an airport.
On the airport, there is a cable that connects the sky and the earth, which is the sky-to-sky cable.
It extends all the way to the ground.
It is also because of this aerial cable that the space transport ships docked at each airport can drag the airport and these space transport ships along with the earth when the earth is propelled by the planetary engine.
Otherwise, these space transport ships would have been thrown away by the earth.
In addition to the space transport ships, there are also various autonomous mechanical aggregates docked in the countless airports that rely on aerial cables to anchor the ground.
It is a huge entity that is either spherical, cube or triangular, made up of countless autonomous machines.
They also docked at the airport.
Until the space shuttle Lin Xu was riding passed a certain airport, the autonomous mechanical aggregate parked on it suddenly began to change.
The surface of the huge spherical entity that was originally as large as an aircraft carrier suddenly began to rhythmically move.
Accompanied by the mechanical sound of clicking, clicking, the huge spherical entity instantly disintegrated into countless various autonomous machines.
Some of them are as big as a building, and some are as small as a matchbox.
After these autonomous machines disintegrated, they immediately came back together.
It's just that they have changed their appearance and are no longer the spherical shape they were before.
Instead, it turned into a cone whose surface was densely covered with laser cannons, plasma cannons, electromagnetic cannons and other weapons.
At the same time, a huge beam of light was ejected from behind the cone.
Caught up with Lin Xu's space shuttle.
There are a dozen of these cones, each the size of an aircraft carrier.
Surrounding and guarding Lin Xu's space shuttle, which was only the size of a car, headed towards Jupiter.
They are not battleships, or they are more accurately described as weapons aggregates.
Weapons, weapons, only weapons.
Unreasonably gathering countless weapons together is like installing thirty cannons on a tank.
If it weren't for the self-disciplined machinery that can engage and release the clutch at any time, there would be no such monster.
And these self-disciplined 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 nothing if I didn't build a ship.
What ship can compare to an autonomous mechanical escort?
No wonder humans ten thousand years ago did not have any armament such as space battleships, and at most they only had some transport ships.
With autonomous machinery, why do we need space battleships?
Whatever weapons you want, you can assemble them at any time.
You can fight when necessary, and you can still build in peacetime.
It's as outrageous as the Production and Construction Corps.
It can be said that these self-disciplined machines are the greatest invention of human civilization in the 23rd century. It is also because of self-disciplined machines that mankind can build a long-distance spacecraft that is enough for all mankind in the 23rd century.
I don’t know how human beings develop such a heaven-defying thing as an autonomous machine.
It can only be attributed to another technological explosion of mankind.
Under the escort of more than a dozen aircraft carrier-sized weapons aggregates, Lin Xu took a space shuttle and arrived at Jupiter in about half a day.
As Jupiter got closer and closer, the pressure brought by the huge celestial body that blocked the entire field of vision also made Lin Xu couldn't help but become slightly nervous.
Soon, the shuttle arrived at Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter.
It is also home to the Jupiter Museum.
There is no need to wear a spacesuit, Lin Xu's clothes are directly converted into power armor.
Just like that, he took Miss Qiu directly out of the cabin of the shuttle.
Of course, Lin Xu brought extra things.
In order to prevent the compressed oxygen in the power armor from being insufficient, 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, there is actually no difference from before.
