Space Travel
The warship graveyard of the Endaro Star Region was on a planet called ACG21. This planet was where all the scrapped ships in the Endaro Star Region were decommissioned and destroyed.
There was no direct flight from Earth to ACG21, so Xia Fei had no choice but to first fly to the metropolis planet Brolin before taking a detour to the warship graveyard.
Because the Earth Federation had just joined the Pan-Human Alliance, and its civilization level was relatively low, there were only two flights passing through Earth, both of which were from the edge of the star region to the capital planet Brolin.
The federal interstellar airport was built on the outskirts of the southern part of Denver, Delaware. There was a vast uninhabited area here, and the climate was rather suitable, so it was a good choice to build an interstellar airport.
Xia Fei stood on the terminal building of the airport and looked around through the large floor-to-ceiling windows. His surroundings were empty, and he could clearly see the end of the horizon.
Spaceships all took off and landed vertically, so the airport did not have a runway. There was only a large concrete apron that covered an area of several dozen square kilometers.
Further away, an even larger and more luxurious main terminal building was still under construction. It would cover an area of more than two million square meters, and it could transport up to a million passengers every day.
There were also four large aprons built around the main terminal building, which would allow battleship spaceships to take off and land at ease once they were completed.
This was truly ironic. The Earth Federation did not receive more than ten thousand passengers every year, yet they spent a huge sum of money to build a spaceship that could transport up to a million passengers every day. Xia Fei felt that the federal government did this not to save face, but because they were blindly optimistic about the future.
Mr. Xia Fei, would you like some champagne? A captivating female voice came from behind Xia Fei.
There was a row of uniformed flight attendants standing behind him. Because Xia Fei was the only passenger on this flight, all the staff of the spaceship were surrounding him.
Xia Fei smiled awkwardly and rejected the good intentions of these flight attendants.
Xia Fei was not used to the overly enthusiastic reception, and he felt like he was being watched.
After a while, a small spaceship flew closer and closer in the sky. The warp engine let out a thunderous roar, and the blue flames it spewed were like a ray of light, very beautiful.
Xia Fei picked up his backpack and walked down the terminal building. He boarded the small spaceship under the escort of a dozen or so staff members.
This spaceship was specially used to pick up and drop off passengers. The space was very narrow and only had a dozen or so seats. The real large space liner was anchored in space.
Xia Fei found a seat near the porthole and sat down, placing his backpack on his lap.
There was a crew member in a blue uniform in the cabin. He was very young and looked to be in his twenties.
Welcome to Tongda Airlines. Please show me your ticket. The young staff smiled as he approached Xia Feis side.
Xia Fei took out the ticket from his pocket and handed it over. The young man took a look at it before returning it to Xia Fei. He then pressed a button in the cabin, telling the pilot in the cockpit that they could take off.
Mr. Xia Fei, are you going to report to the Adjudicator Union? The young man sat next to Xia Fei and tried to get close to him.
Xia Fei asked in surprise, "You know me?"
The young man chuckled and said politely, "Of course. Everyone in the Star Field has seen your battle with Chen Dong. To be honest, when I saw your name on the passenger list, I really couldn't believe it."
Xia Fei thought about it. "Is it easy to recognize me with my appearance?"
The staff looked at Xia Fei's extremely ordinary clothes and lightly shook his head. "I didn't expect you to be such a low-key person, either."
Xia Fei was finally a little relieved. It was actually a good thing that he was not easily recognized. He did not like being stared at by people wherever he went.
Soon, the small spaceship left the atmosphere and entered space.
In the distance, a huge spaceship was parked outside Earth's orbit. It was about a dozen kilometers long, and its densely packed portholes were flashing with white lights.
"This spaceship sure is big. It can hold quite a lot of passengers, right?" Xia Fei asked as he looked at the spaceship.
"This is a medium-sized long-range spaceship, Dragonfly. It can hold 176,100 passengers and 8,322 crew members. It also comes with twenty-five smaller spaceships for picking up and dropping off passengers."
"The ship has 162 restaurants, 37 nightclubs, 14 casinos, swimming pools, gyms, and all sorts of facilities. I can guarantee that you'll fall in love with this luxury liner." The staff introduced the Dragonfly to Xia Fei as if he was reciting from a book.
There was an open hatch at the back of the Dragonfly, and the small spaceship flew into the liner under the guidance of the automated system, landing steadily on a parking apron.
After the hatch was closed, the sound of air pressure could be heard. It was obvious that the spaceship was rapidly filling the berthing bay with air.
Several minutes later, a green indicator light lit up, indicating that the berthing bay was filled with air and could be freely breathed.
The staff opened the hatch and led Xia Fei down the spaceship, down a narrow corridor, and into an elevator.
A few moments later, Xia Fei appeared in the 17F residential area of the spaceship.
The staff opened the door for Xia Fei. "This is your cabin. If there's anything you need, you can contact the crew through the communicator in the cabin. It'll take us another forty-seven hours to reach Bu Luo Lin, so get some rest."
Xia Fei nodded and walked into his cabin.
The area of the cabin was only about twenty square meters. There was a bed, a table, a chair, and a rectangular porthole that allowed one to look out into space. It was very simple.
Xia Fei threw his backpack on the bed and moved a chair to sit by the window. He lit a cigarette and smoked as he looked out at the starry sky.
The cost of space travel was not cheap. A mere forty-seven hours of travel would cost ninety-two thousand star coins.
Xia Fei had booked an A-class cabin that allowed him to look out into space. Aside from being able to admire the beautiful scenery of space, there was no difference from a cabin that cost 60,000 star coins.
Although it was a little expensive, Xia Fei still felt that it was worth it. It would be a pity if he could not see space during space travel.
"The universe sure is beautiful," Xia Fei muttered to himself as he stared at the starry sky outside the window.
"That's what everyone says when they first enter space. Once you spend some time in space, you'll know that staring at the dark space isn't fun at all. You'll vomit if you look at it for too long," Phantom said disapprovingly.
Xia Fei smiled and ignored Phantom. He sat alone by the window and admired the mysterious beauty of the universe.
His previous trip to Blue Ocean Star was very short, and he had taken a small, cramped, and worn-out spaceship. Those small spaceships had very small portholes, so he could not see the scenery outside at all.
Moreover, traveling and being imprisoned were two completely different emotions. This was actually Xia Fei's first time traveling in space.
The warp engine pushed the huge spaceship forward slowly and clumsily. The warp engine of a spaceship consisted of two units: the thruster unit and the warp unit.
The thruster unit could push the spaceship forward in space, but it could not allow the spaceship to surpass the speed of light. If one wanted to go further, they would have to rely on warp technology.
To put it simply, warp technology was to create an artificial wormhole in space, connecting two faraway locations through the wormhole. A spaceship only needed to pass through the wormhole to reach its desired destination, so there was no need to spend a long time traveling in space.
It was like drawing a circle on both sides of a piece of white paper. The distance between the two circles was 20 centimeters, but if this piece of white paper was folded, the distance between them would no longer be 20 centimeters, but only the thickness of a piece of paper.
This theory was called space folding theory, and the design of the warp engine was based on this theory.
At present, the furthest distance that the warp engine could create an artificial wormhole was fifty thousand lightyears. Based on the spaceship's maximum speed, which was close to the speed of light, it would take at least fifty thousand years to travel fifty thousand lightyears. With such a long time, by the time they reached their destination, their grandson's grandson's grandson would have already died of old age.
The emergence of the warp engine had completely changed this situation. A journey of fifty thousand years had been shortened to less than ten minutes. Even long-distance travel of millions or even tens of millions of lightyears had become very easy. The distance between planets had become very close, and this was how the current universal society was formed.
However, every warp consumed a large amount of energy, so after each warp, it would take several minutes to several hours to recharge the thruster. The amount of time needed to recharge was determined by the size of the spaceship and the grade of the reactor.
Under normal circumstances, each warp would take about an hour to recharge.
Just as Xia Fei was thinking, the Dragonfly entered the wormhole and began its warp. The moment it entered the wormhole, the surrounding space suddenly disappeared without a trace, and tens of thousands of meteors appeared outside the window.
These colorful meteors dragged long tails as they quickly disappeared from the windows one after another. It was like a super large meteor shower flying in front of them. It was incomparably gorgeous and dazzling.
This scene lasted for a full ten minutes before the spaceship passed through the brilliant wormhole and entered a brand new space.
There was a fiery red nebula in this space, and specks of starlight were surrounded by this indescribably large nebula. The fiery red color made the entire cabin look like it was about to ignite.
Xia Fei's two eyes were shining brightly. He stood up from his chair and placed both hands on the window, his nose pressed against the cold surface of the reinforced glass. "Beautiful! This fiery red nebula is too beautiful! "
Xia Fei suddenly felt that his vocabulary was very lacking, unable to find the right words to describe this incomparably shocking miracle.
Phantom pursed his lips and disapprovingly said, "What's so nice about a red nebula? You really don't see much of it."
From Earth to Bu Luo Lin, then from Bu Luo Lin to ACG21, Xia Fei had barely slept a wink. He was in a highly excited state the entire time, sitting by the window and admiring the indescribable magical scene one after another.
"Attention all passengers, we will arrive at planet ACG21 in thirty minutes. All passengers who wish to head to the planet are to head to the landing pod immediately," the spaceship's broadcast system said coldly.
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