DipNovel Chapter 85: The Heavenly Gate Project
Chapter 85: The Heavenly Gate Project
After the meeting, no one, including the top leader, left the Alashan launch matrix immediately, but stayed there for three days.
During this period, Guo Yi, along with Liao Haizhou and his fellow MS pilots, completed three rounds of attacks on all the mech companies stationed in the five war zones, at a rate of one round per day.
It's not hand-to-hand combat, but a virtual mech battle with full armor.
As for their record, unsurprisingly, it was 0-15; Guo Yi and his team hadn't won a single game.
However, it wasn't that Guo Yi and his team were too weak, but rather that the battle conditions were somewhat unfavorable to them: the battlefield was limited in size, and the enemy knew they were there; Guo Yi and his 11-person team had to fight a full-strength mech company of 150; and they were using the mechs' motion recognition system, not the MS's mental link system.
Under these three restrictions, if Guo Yi and his team still win, to put it bluntly, the mech companies of the five war zones can be disbanded and reorganized on the spot, and the leaders of Qilin and his team will be severely reprimanded by the Supreme Commander.
After all, the mech pilots stationed here, even if they are not the best in their respective war zones, are still in the top tier of the best.
Although they might be outmatched by Liao Haizhou and his group in individual strength, given the three restrictions and the same level of equipment, they shouldn't have lost to Liao Haizhou and his group due to their numerical advantage.
Moreover, Liao Haizhou and his group had another burden: Guo Yi.
In the 15 matches, Guo Yi's most glorious moment was when he used his face to check the bushes, making an outstanding contribution to Liao Haizhou's five-kill streak and surviving.
Unfortunately, although Guo Yi's stats showed he was at the captain level, his combat experience was practically nonexistent, which meant he could only perform as an elite cannon fodder in battle.
"You've finally arrived."
Three days later, in the Alashan launch matrix control room, the chief saw Guo Yi yawning and looking like he hadn't slept enough as he walked in. He said with a mix of helplessness and concern, "Although you are still young, you must take good care of your health and not stay up late so often."
"It's okay, the medical team gives me regular checkups, and..."
At this point, Guo Yi quickly slammed on the brakes and changed the subject: "How's the situation?"
"Everyone is waiting for you. How can we start if you don't come?"
"All right."
Guo Yi rubbed his face to clear his head, then gestured to the chief, "I'm more alert now."
"Um."
The chief responded, then glanced at the person in charge of the launch matrix who was curiously observing Guo Yi's identity out of the corner of his eye, and ordered, "Start the Sky Gate Project."
The Tianguan Project is a classified project that will be announced in as little as 15 days, or as long as unknown, so it will not be broadcast live.
The reason it can be completed in as little as 15 days is that, if everything goes smoothly, the first phase of the Tianguan Project, namely the construction of Tianguan No. 1, can be completed in just 15 days.
If things don't go smoothly, even Guo Yi isn't sure when Tianguan No. 1 will be completed.
Because Tianguan-1 has so many firsts and firsts.
First of all, Tianguan-1 is the first super-large near-space military infrastructure project in human history to be completely assembled by unmanned intelligent systems and remotely monitored and operated by ground personnel.
Second: Tianguan-1 is the first and only building in human history to integrate five core functions on the main Earth-Moon route: cargo throughput, fleet berthing, route control, airspace defense, and strategic blockade.
Third: Tianguan-1 is humanity's first space military fortress.
Fourth: Tianguan-1 is the first spacecraft ever deployed in a controlled, steady-state orbit north of the Earth-Moon L1 (first Lagrange point).
Space coordinates do not have an east-west orientation on the Earth's surface. The Earth-Moon system only distinguishes the north-south vertical axis according to the orbital disk. Therefore, the L1 point only has two orbital forms: a north halo and a south halo. There is no such thing as an east-west orbit.
Furthermore, L1 is merely a mathematical gravitational equilibrium point, belonging to a dynamically unstable point. It lacks a fixed airspace and cannot sustain a spacecraft for extended periods. A spacecraft must rely on a halo orbit to form a three-dimensional periodic closed trajectory to have the basic conditions for long-term on-orbit operation.
The so-called halo orbit refers to a three-dimensional circular periodic orbit that runs around the Lagrange equilibrium point (L1/L2). Its trajectory is like a halo surrounding a point of light, hence the name "halo orbit".
As for the controlled steady state, it refers to the orbit being located in the critical gravitational region between the Earth and the Moon, about 32.6 kilometers from the Earth and about 5.4 kilometers from the Moon. It naturally exhibits a quasi-periodic drift of 14 to 18 days and has the characteristics of Lyapunov index instability. It cannot be stabilized naturally by celestial gravity. It is necessary to continuously, with high precision and micro-dose artificial correction of the spacecraft orbit to counteract the natural drift of the orbit and force the dynamically unstable halo orbit into a long-term fixed-point, fixed-attitude, and unchanging engineered steady-state orbit.
Otherwise, within just a few weeks, the spacecraft would completely deviate from its intended airspace, either flying off into the unknown or crashing on the moon.
It is precisely because of its extremely high difficulty in docking, huge operation and maintenance costs, and stringent orbit control requirements that no country can currently deploy a permanent spacecraft here.
The reason why Tianguan-1 must be stationed in this orbit is not because Guo Yi and his team want to challenge and prove themselves, but because this orbit protrudes outward from the Earth-Moon orbital disk, allowing Tianguan-1 to monitor the Earth's launch channel and the entire Earth-Moon main orbit 24 hours a day without Earth occlusion or lunar obscuration, truly achieving all-time, all-area, and no-blind-spot monitoring.
Simply put, whoever occupies the Earth-Moon L1 airspace controls the opening and closing of the main Earth-Moon airspace and holds the power of life and death.
Because spaceflight is different from driving on the ground; you can't just fly wherever you want.
Every time supplies or ships are launched from Earth to the Moon, or return from the Moon to the Earth-Moon system from deep space, all spacecraft are bound by celestial gravity to automatically converge to the same optimal transfer trajectory in order to save fuel, shorten the time, and minimize losses.
This core airspace, which converges all the best flight paths, is known as the Earth-Moon main airway.
The Earth-Moon L1 airspace is the only core turning point, essential node, and gravitational valve of the entire Earth-Moon main channel!
Therefore, Tianguan-1 must be stationed in a controlled steady-state orbit in the northern halo of the Earth-Moon L1.
This is why Guo Yi and his group stayed in the launch matrix for three days: the Tianguan Project is a strategic location for controlling access to and from the universe, and they could only feel at ease after witnessing the successful launch of the Tianguan Project.
Therefore, when the person in charge of the transmission matrix heard that the project could be started, he excitedly shouted to the people below: "Attention all units, the Sky Gate Project has officially started! Activate all Sky Gate communication equipment immediately!"
As soon as the order was given, the once quiet control room instantly became lively.