Callisto

Yue Yuan was also going to Mars, but this time he wouldn't disembark there. Instead, he would wait at the Yinghuo Orbital Station for the other two talents being transferred to Callisto.

Of course, one of the reasons was the need to transfer to a large Transport Boat in Mars' orbit.

As the engine ejected a dazzling light, Yue Yuan and his party went from four to five people, disappearing from the sight of the personnel at the Queqiao Transfer Station and plunging into the vast Deep Space.

Yinghuo is the ancient name for Mars, and the Zhonghua Family has romantically given this culturally rich name to the Base here.

This is the sedimentation of history, the inheritance of culture, and even more so, the carrier of technology.

Only science and technology can pass on the names condensed into culture from history or mythology, generation after generation, into the future.

As for Callisto, anyone with a little astronomical knowledge, who recited Mercury, Gold, Earth, Fire, Wood, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in school, knows that it refers to Jupiter's fourth Satellite.

But if you say the transliterated name Callisto, then basically everyone will draw a blank and not know what it means.

The superiority of semantic expression is obvious.

Therefore, in this era, all Space Stations or extraterrestrial Bases built by the Zhonghua Family are basically named in Chinese.

Saying goodbye to the red Planet Mars, after a long journey, the Transport Boat carrying Yue Yuan and his party finally entered the range captured by Jupiter's Gravity.

Having made preparations for reverse Deceleration in advance, the Transport Boat slowly sailed towards the Callisto docking station, which is located at the Gravity balance point between Callisto and Jupiter, also known as the Lagrange Point.

Callisto has a diameter of 4,821 kilometers, larger than the Moon, 0.378 times that of Earth. It is the third largest Satellite in the Solar System, the largest being Ganymede, and the second largest being Titan, also known as Titan. Looking down from orbit, Callisto appears yellowish-brown, and the overall color seems to be dotted with bright white spots, which are the ice layers of cooled volcanoes.

Its albedo is very low, so it is dark, giving the impression that it is a lifeless Planet.

The surface Gravity acceleration is 1.24m/s2, which means that the Gravity received by the same object on Callisto is about one-eighth of that on Earth. From this, it can be seen that although it is large, its density and mass are not as large as the Moon's.

It has no global Magnetic Field, and its frozen surface is covered with various shapes and sizes of Meteorite craters, including bowl-shaped craters and craters with multiple circular rings, as well as rare, narrow, elongated Canyon depressions.

The Callisto Base is located within one of these narrow, elongated Canyon depressions facing Jupiter.

Because it is Tidally Locked by Jupiter, the people at the Base only need to go outside and look up to see the huge Jupiter, which is full of oppressive force.

The entire Callisto Base has a gray appearance because its building materials are all locally sourced, dug up from Callisto, screened, and then 3D printed.

In fact, not only the Callisto Base, but also the Guanghan Palace and Yinghuo Base are built with materials sourced locally and produced using 3D printing technology.

In this way, bricks with Mortise and Tenon Structure are prepared, and then constructed by remote teleoperated Engineering Machinery. The ancient Huaxia Mortise and Tenon Structure is once again used in Space.

It must be said that sometimes the Wisdom of the ancestors is still very powerful.

Unlike Guanghan Palace and Yinghuo Base, more than half of the Callisto Base is underground. The above-ground parts are connected together, covering half of the narrow, elongated valley, and the lowest underground level is connected to the entrance of that damaged Alien Spaceship.

Due to the existence of the damaged Spaceship, this Base has received unprecedented attention. Both the scientific research investment and the construction scale are far greater than those of Guanghan Palace and Yinghuo Base. It can be said that it is the most advanced and complete Base in terms of various facilities among the extraterrestrial Bases.

After all, it won't work if it's not complete. You can't just get a part of an Alien Spaceship and then transport it back to Earth for research, right? It's not only a big risk of exposure, but also a waste of Time.

In fact, the higher-ups also know that as Time goes by, traditional space powers such as the United States will eventually discover it. It is said that they are already planning their own Callisto Base. Once they come, it is likely that it will not be able to be concealed.

Before that, they must desperately research it to death.

Therefore, in such an environment, many excellent Research Personnel and Scientists have been sent to the Callisto Base. In addition, due to the needs of Base construction, a large number of engineers and various craftsmen have come here to work.

Of course, not traditional bricklayers, but high-tech workers. After all, the construction of this extraterrestrial Base basically uses machinery. Workers operate indoors, and machinery works in the external environment.

With more people, there are more demands, such as basic necessities like food and clothing. You can't always transport them from Earth every Time. Under such circumstances, the Callisto Base has gradually become a small city with a population of more than 80,000 people.

Back at Callisto Base, Yue Yuan first arranged Yi Kai's work, and then hurriedly called Zhu Pete to his office to start dealing with the recent backlog of matters.

Yue Yuan's primary concern was the affairs related to the Alien Spaceship. After taking the documents and reading them for a while, he sighed and tossed them aside.

There was no good news.

The interior of the spaceship had been almost completely searched, and the red substance had not been found. In that case, subsequent research could only be done through the serum, which was not a pleasant prospect.

Another piece of bad news was that the head of the spaceship was completely damaged, and the cockpit, which had not been found, was likely filled with rocks. Experts estimated that the equipment inside should be scrapped.

According to the report, experts analyzed that this was caused by the impact of the spaceship crash. As for the age of the spaceship, scientists have initially inferred, based on the surrounding rock layers and the way the spaceship is embedded in the strata, that it should be more than 20,000 years old, but the specific time cannot yet be determined.

Yue Yuan didn't really care about the age of the spaceship. He only knew that aliens really existed. Humanity was not alone in this universe.

He didn't know if this was good news or bad news.

Yes, loneliness was the most terrible thing. From this point of view, humanity should be happy, should be grateful, grateful that humanity was not the only intelligent life in the universe.

Because the statement that humanity is the only intelligent life in the universe is so terrible.

However, humanity really knows nothing about the universe, doesn't know what cosmic civilizations are like, doesn't know what the relationship between cosmic civilizations is like, and doesn't know where those civilizations are, whether they are benevolent or malicious.

Knowing that alien civilizations exist, this state of ignorance is extremely dangerous. Therefore, the most important task of Callisto Base is to try to find some clues about alien civilizations through the research of this damaged alien spaceship.

If it is possible to find these clues, and then infer the relationship between the various civilizations in the universe from this little bit of information.

This is an unprecedented study, and because it is socially oriented, scientists in this field call it Cosmic Sociology.

However, due to confidentiality, this discipline is still only being quietly studied by some internal sociologists through the limited information discovered by Callisto Base.

So, despite the large number of people at Callisto, not many actually know about the existence of the alien spaceship, and one thing is certain: before the secret of the alien spaceship is made public, those who know the secret cannot leave the base at will.

From Yue Yuan's point of view, this was a matter of course and beyond doubt.

After returning to Callisto, Yue Yuan's life became as busy and regular as usual. If nothing unexpected happened, he would probably stay here for another twenty years, and then he would change to another position.

Either return to Earth, or continue to the next stop to develop a new Space Base.

However, if he could choose, according to Yue Yuan's personality, he would definitely choose to develop a new Space Base until he was no longer adapted to Space life.

However, just as Yue Yuan's seventh Earth month back at Callisto Base arrived, an accident occurred.