After ending the call, Bai Yixuan reached out and pressed several keys on the console before him, then leaned back in his chair again.
The Holographic Image interface on the console changed silently.
[Starship entering orbit...]
A faint sensation of deceleration followed.
Under their onboard computers' control, all ten Stingray Starships simultaneously began their orbital insertion procedures.
Bai Yixuan quietly gazed at the bands of color slowly "flowing" across Jupiter's surface-the immense storms that raged endlessly there.
He closed his eyes and mentally reviewed every step of the collection project.
The team's communications channel was silent as well.
Every Starship pilot was quietly going over the upcoming procedures in his own way.
Although Zero could remotely monitor and control every operation that followed, none of the pilots present wanted that to happen.
The reason was simple: computing power, once again.
At present, Zero had ample computing power, enough to control large numbers of Stingray Starships collecting Helium-3 without pilots, but only because so many factories had been shut down.
Once the Helium-3 collection project succeeded, humanity would inevitably resume large-scale Starship production alongside large-scale Helium-3 extraction.
When that happened, unless there was a breakthrough in Photon Computer Technology, almost all computing resources would be allocated to the various factories.
Then, none of their operations would have Zero backing them up!
A mistake could cause minor losses at best, or destroy the ship and kill everyone aboard at worst!
That was why they had to make the most of this one chance to "save and load" their way through the operation.
(SL: save/load, meaning saving progress and loading a save.)
"Ding."
As a soft notification sounded in the cockpit, the Holographic Image interface on the console changed slightly again.
``` [Stingray has entered orbit]
[Pilots, please begin collecting Helium-3]