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AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 189

ARES 3 solar day 188

Transcript – Hydraulic Telegraph Switch – ESA Maltimore Center ＜-＞ ESA spacecraft AMICITAS

AMICITAS: Amicitas calls Maltimore, uses primary life support system to reply, completed.

ESA: Maltimore calls Amicitas, over.

AMICITAS: Starlight—have all entered the cave, preparing to cast the sealing spell. Standby, start and finish after ordering.

ESA: Twilight - Tracking spell activated, sealing spell allowed, completed.

AMICITAS: Begin the spell, complete.

AMICITAS: The spell is cast, and you didn't mention it making this sound. But at least no crystals fell, over.

ESA: Can you cast the spell again? complete.

ESA: Maltimore calls Amicitas, can the spell be recast? complete.

AMICITAS: Dragonfly--Maltimore, the horse is resting, please stand by, over.

ESA: Who? what reason? complete.

AMICITAS: Dragonfly - Starlight, still running out of magic energy, waiting for the flying fire check, on standby. complete.

ESA: Received. Please let me know when you can cast the spell again, over.

AMICITAS: Berry--we have nine batteries that are less than 10 percent used. We have a unicorn down on the ground right now and Spitfire is checking on it. The cave we should have sealed has also been sealed. So what should be casted, what should be used to cast the spell, and who should cast the spell? complete.

ESA: We detected the spell signal, but it was very weak, and it ended before we could complete the tracking. A spell with stronger energy and longer duration is needed to determine your location, over.

AMICITAS: Dragonfly--Maltimore, don't even think about it this week. Spitfire said that no more magic is allowed today. We need to recharge the battery and wait for the starlight to return to normal. Then we will be busy making new batteries. complete.

ESA:Sh

AMICITAS: Amicitas calls Maltimo, communication check, please reply if received?

ESA: Amicitas, Maltimore received. It seems that Cocoon's Angel No. 8 has been found, it's over.

AMICITAS: I didn’t understand the last sentence. What is Angel Number 8? complete.

ESA: Interdimensional Exploration Vehicle. Let Mark and his people choose a frequency, preferably between 110 and 130 megahertz, to carry a beacon that can be received within tens of millions of kilometers of their world. A single tone signal is sufficient. If our detector can receive the signal, it means we have found your location, over.

AMICITAS: Amicitas received. How long will it take to find us? complete.

ESA: It may take a long time. The detectors may not work, but unless you can cast the spell again, there's not much we can do. Please inform us of the specific frequency after the beacon is set up. complete.

AMICITAS: Got it. It's time to go back to base, communication is over.

Mission Log – Solar Day 188

Cave sealing completed.

Starlight used up all the old batteries for this, and she barely succeeded after counting a few new batteries she just made, but it seems that she is finally done.

This spell is also a classic case of magical logic. Apparently the ponies have tried their best to expand the crystals or turn them into some kind of continuous substance, but they still hit a wall because of excessive energy consumption. But obviously, magic can directly eliminate those pores in the crystal. You heard it right - the holes formed due to the lack of matter can be treated as a kind of substance and just thrown away.

So the question is: when the holes are thrown away, where are they thrown?

Leaving aside this point, Starlight also mentioned that she used some kind of deep terrain tracking spell to outline the specific outline of the giant geode, and then when casting the sealing spell, she ensured that the six inches or so inside and outside the cave boundary were effectively covered. Clear out any pores that exist. The spell creates a continuous layer of solid single crystals of pure silica below the boundary, and above the boundary is a layer of mixed materials, sourced locally from the top of the geode - the main material is weathered basalt, so this "Concrete" can achieve extremely high strength without the need for reinforcement with prestressed steel bars.

But what the rest of us noticed was a fantastic light show that seemed to come from Tron - not like a remake or a sequel, but the prehistoric CGI style of the original. Everyone knows it, a classic old movie. Some kind of grid-like light emitted from the starlight corner penetrated into the crystal, illuminating the entire farm in the cave and even several adjacent chambers. The laser beams made us trance for a while. Immediately afterwards, magic energy spurted out from the starlight corner, shaking the entire cave... Well, just saying "rumbling" may not be accurate. Although the loud noise really startled us, it couldn't be said to be like a landslide, but more like distant thunder, just like the thunderstorms that can sometimes be heard rolling in from the bay in Houston. Like a cloud, or like the sound your uncle makes four hours after eating an enchilada. But I still have to mention that the loud noise echoed in the cave and took a long time to gradually dissipate.

At that time, Cherry Berry and Spitfire were standing outside the cave. They later told me that Area E (it’s been so long, why are they still using this ghost name?). There was a little dust sliding off the hillside when Starlight cast the spell, but other than that There is no other impact other than that. After Starlight cast the spell this time, she lay down as usual, and we waited impatiently for Berry and Sparkle to pass through the airlock for a few minutes to make sure that everything was normal with the cave pony captain. She is indeed fine, but she will have to stay in bed again tomorrow. It’s all the same old routine.

At the cost of a tired unicorn, we can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The more NASA worries about cave explosions, the more suspicious we become. The ponies didn't want to deal with this trouble at all at first, but after Sleipnir's accident, they decided to face the difficulty and deal with it properly.

Hence the current initiative. If it weren't for the trouble of moving all our belongings into the cave at this time, we could all live in the cave. After all, this is definitely the safest place on Mars now.

For this reason, we ended work early today to celebrate. The ponies told me the story of the Royal Wedding in Canterlot. (At the same time, Tingting was still enthusiastically explaining the other side of the Battle of Central City, and she didn’t seem to be ashamed or regretful at all. She was really a cute little war criminal.) After that, we read three more Chapters of Order of the Phoenix - I'm about to read the key plot, and this section is of high quality. Then it was time for dinner, so we spent the whole night watching some 70s TV soap operas! The Cops, Barney Miller and the Threesome are now on...

...and we also have to watch Korchak the Night Walker before going to bed.

Although it is not as scary as the Glue Factory, I think we still need a bit of daily horror; now that the thriller "Harvest Day Cave Leak Mass Death Incident" has been withdrawn, don't run out of luck early.

Mission Log – Solar Day 188 (2)

Today Hermes sent this message just before the communication window closed in the evening:

[19:41] HERMES: Here's the advice: Richie Purnell is a tough guy.

This makes me very curious: What happened to TM?

He was sitting in front of the computer, with "Our Children" still on the screen.

Strictly speaking, tomorrow is the final moment of decision, but he doesn't think the situation will change much by then.

JPL is busy dealing with problems with Sleipnir IV's maneuvering thrusters. These maneuverable thrusters are mainly used for course correction during the cruise to Mars. However, it was discovered that some solder joints failed during the test, which means that the failed thrusters will be almost completely disassembled and rebuilt. Therefore, the detection The manufacturing progress of the device had to be delayed for several days. The news coming from the Deva plasticized habitation module canvas production line is still not optimistic; the manufacturing schedule of the aircraft landing system buffer airbag is being delayed day by day, and the final launch date is getting closer and closer, every day for 84 days Time passes, swallowing up Watney and his friends' chances of survival.

Of course, the launch booster for Sleipnir 4 has not yet been secured. In fact, even the prospect of refueling Sleipnir 3 into Mars orbit is unclear. The bloodthirsty Congress is hot on its heels; Teddy’s original strategy of exploiting the sympathy of voters was seized upon by the anti-general army of the opposition congressmen, and now he is proudly waving public support for SpaceX’s move of those cute aliens. An angry letter of extreme dissatisfaction about a person being placed in a dangerous situation. Two members of the majority of the House subcommittee defected to the minority. The chairman is still trying to find ways to regain their trust. However, in the meantime, SpaceX has to remain suspended and wait for the minority members who are now in charge of life and death to step down from the chairmanship. No more and no less than eleven names were selected from the list of celebrities provided.

He opened his email client, clicked on the fake email he had saved before, and attached a document.

Yet he still hesitated. These difficulties are merely setbacks, far from catastrophic. It is true that Watney does not have reserves of supplies now, but he will naturally have them when Sleipnir II arrives. The report he sent today showed that they had successfully sealed and reinforced the roof of the cave and the surrounding stone walls. This should be the only good news all week. Perhaps JPL can solve the previous problems in time before launch; and once the committee is settled and begins to take over the investigation, the minority leader will no longer have the ability to prevent SpaceX from resuming work. Although the current time is very tight, Sleipnir 4 is far from being completely hopeless for launching as scheduled.

But he is determined: the events of the past few days have proven that strange and unheard-of accidents can come out at any time and disrupt your entire plan. The sooner Watney and his friends get to Earth, the less threatening and less lethal the moves that old bastard Murphy can use on them.

Is it worth sacrificing his own career, and even the careers of the five current crew members on Hermes, in exchange for the safety of Watney and the others? Yes, the conclusion is obvious...

His phone rang.

Before he answered the call, he leaned over and picked up the pair of headphones usually used to monitor real-time conditions in Mission Control, put them on his head, and turned up the volume.

"...Does anyone know who this damn Richie Purnell is?!"

What came from the earphones was the voice of Brendan Hatch, the flight control supervisor of the big night flight. what's the situation? !

So he picked up the phone: "Henderson here, please speak."

"Sir, something happened to Hermes. The aircraft has deviated from its course and is still accelerating. The specific cause is not yet clear, but we believe it was done intentionally. We are now trying to enable the computer override mode."

"Do you have any clues in the situation analysis?" He immediately asked, "Have you contacted the crew?"

"They only sent a text message," a somewhat confused reply came from the other end of the phone. "They said something about Richie Purnell being a tough missile man. I don't know what that means."

"I'll be there in a few minutes." He said and hung up the phone in a hurry.

The unsent email was still reflected on the screen in front of me.

He deleted the draft of the email, along with the "Our Children" copy. He then emptied the Recycle Bin on his desktop.

The computer was shutting down, but his brain was racing: So I didn't send it. Not from me! ! How is that possible? How can it be? ?

who is it? ? ?