The AI responsible for alert also determined this and issued three routine warnings but received no response.
After all human means of communication fell through, artificial intelligence decisively opened fire to prevent the target from hitting the main body of the spacecraft.
The energy cannon naturally hit the shuttle-shaped object, but after the dazzling white light, a large area of space in front of the spacecraft was covered by black unknown matter.
The shuttle-shaped object had long disappeared, and a large hole appeared within the range of the energy cannon's power. The light blue sea and gray-yellow land on the target planet could still be seen.
But it was as if a hole was torn in the curtain. Outside the range of the energy cannon, the black substance filled the entire space and formed a dense net.
At this time, the spacecraft was walking into a trap.
The shuttle-shaped object was like an unstable product of some substance being extremely compressed. After receiving external stimulation, it completely lost its balance and released all its contents.
Wen Cheng thought of a lot of things in an instant. He first felt that there was a problem with the response of artificial intelligence, and they should try to capture the shuttle-shaped object.
But the target was moving too fast, and its flying direction was almost completely opposite to that of the spacecraft, so there was no way to capture it. Moreover, if it automatically unfolded after being captured, releasing its contents, then everything would be over.
Taking all factors into consideration, the AI's firing without receiving a response is the most correct option.
The video was still playing. The spacecraft hit the dense net. The thinner main body passed through the holes, but the ring-shaped part behind it was not so lucky.
A large amount of black matter continued to adhere to the ring-shaped part of the spacecraft. The huge resistance tore the connection between the main body and the ring, and also tore the ring structure itself.
Wrapped up in the black matter, the spacecraft fragments fell towards the planet below.
Wencheng just watched this scene happen, but there was nothing he could do to save it.
He could even see hibernation pods scattered in space due to the tearing of the spacecraft, but the current spacecraft was powerless to save them.
Vladimir, who had absolute wartime command, almost had his eyes torn apart. He held the railing in front of him tightly and gritted his teeth as he gave the order:
"The crisis has been resolved for now. Everyone, enter the hibernation capsule and prepare for the impact of the landing."
Amid the violent vibrations caused by friction with the atmosphere, the damaged parts of the spacecraft's main body are slowly disintegrating.
This undoubtedly caused the spacecraft to lose some mass, but it didn't matter. As long as there was no problem with the thrust, there would be no problems with the landing.
In the center of the spherical command room, Vladimir and Wencheng had already taken measures to resist the impact.
They looked at the approaching ground, and even though they knew it was a projection, they still couldn't help but feel a little panic.
In an impact that almost shattered people, the spacecraft successfully completed a "soft" landing.
Feeling the gravity generated by the planet itself, Wen Cheng discovered that the spacecraft seemed to be inserted into the surface of the planet at an inclined angle, as solid as a javelin inserted into the grass.
Outside the spacecraft, the debris produced during the disintegration fell like heavy rain, filling the area around the spacecraft with metal debris.
"Reporting on the integrity of the ship."
"The ring-shaped secondary body is completely disconnected, the integrity of the main body of the spacecraft is 75%, all the crew members of the main body are alive, the breeding greenhouse is normal, the database is normal, and the energy system is normal..."
Wencheng didn't want to hear anything else.
The moment he heard that the ring-shaped replica had lost contact, his heart sank.
The Dandelion Project is indeed a very appropriate name. The seeds that drift around in the wind always have a small bunch of white flocs above them, just like the secondary body of a spacecraft to the main body.
The losses caused by the loss of contact with the secondary body are difficult to calculate. Even if there are no casualties on the main body of the spacecraft, the days to come will definitely not be easy.
A large amount of resources, samples and dormant humans were stored in the secondary body, but fortunately, the most important crew members, frozen embryos and some of the most critical technologies were placed in the hard main body of the spacecraft.
In fact, the secondary body is the part that needs to be abandoned in dangerous situations. However, in this one-way journey, abandoning the secondary body will not bring hope, but only slow death.
The collision of debris and spacecraft continued for a while, and then there were some aftershocks from the forced landing.
After everything stabilized, Wencheng and Vladimir received the message to gather in the captain's room.
The two men were released from the forced landing state, and went to the captain's room, enduring the interference of the crooked ground and walls on their vision and vestibule.
There were more than a dozen crew members standing in the captain's room, a total of twenty people including Vladimir and Wencheng who rushed over after hearing the news.
These twenty people cover most of the important systems on the ship, and they are all humans who will wake up periodically during the journey.
This is the biggest difference between them and those who have not yet awakened. If those people are considered passengers on the ship, then they are real crew members.
"Now that everyone is here, let's talk briefly."
The captain was a man with a brown beard and deep-set eyes, and he had a calm and convincing temperament.
"First of all, congratulations on surviving. I just checked the mailbox of the spaceship and found that more than a dozen spaceships have crashed or lost contact in the past few hundred years. From this perspective, we are lucky.
"But there will be no new news. Our communication device is completely broken. There is no way to repair it before we find the parts in the replica.
"There are 500 people in hibernation on the main body of the spacecraft, and there are only three AIs that can go online. In addition to the 20 of us, there are 10 million frozen embryos. This is all we have at the moment.
“Before we wake them up, we must come up with an effective short-term plan, otherwise the outcome will be even more tragic than dying in space.
"That's all I have to say. Let's discuss it."
The captain said as he sat down on a chair and looked at everyone present.
The crew thought for a moment and roughly understood what the captain meant.
How much preparation is needed to colonize a planet?
In fact, this depends on one's understanding of the word "colonization".
If one simply considers being able to survive on another planet as colonization, and even if one degenerates back into a beast, then the minimum level of preparation required is actually very low.
But if they want to continue the glory of their mother planet seven hundred years ago, then what they have now is obviously far from it.
The captain's meaning was simple. What they needed next was a unified plan that covered all current problems.
For example, should the crew be awakened? Should the camp be established? Should the embryos be thawed? And most importantly... should the replicas be recovered as much as possible?
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