After the turn of the 22nd century.
The United States felt immense pressure.
Although many democratic countries in the world still follow her lead, the rise of the giant from the East has instilled a deep sense of fear in her.
No matter how much force she uses to suppress her opponent, the opponent will always rebound even faster.
What's even more infuriating is that, despite having twice the GDP of hers, the other side still considers itself a "developing country" and uses "per capita" to express its humility in all international occasions.
However, this humble nation has already excluded its influence from the western Pacific, turning the area within the second island chain into an "inland sea" that it cannot reach.
This is something she cannot tolerate.
A world that is not led by the United States has no reason to exist!
The newly elected US president decided to launch Project Apollo as soon as he took office.
Apollo is the sun god in ancient Greek mythology. In legend, this sun god drove a chariot drawn by celestial horses across the sky.
The Apollo moon landing program was once the pride of the United States. To commemorate this great achievement, the United States named its Mars orbiting nuclear strike force "Helios".
On this planet Earth today, the United States' nuclear arsenal can no longer fully guarantee its safety.
Although she still possesses the world's largest nuclear arsenal, the other side has the most advanced CNMD national missile defense system.
The Center for Strategic and Security Studies in the United States has conducted simulations suggesting that, in a full-scale war, the United States' nuclear forces could be destroyed on the ground.
Nuclear weapons are most vulnerable during the launch phase, and CNMD has the capability to intercept US nuclear weapons in US airspace, forcing them to suffer the consequences.
This is unacceptable to the United States.
Since the vulnerability of the nuclear missile launch phase is unavoidable, let's place the launch phase in a place that CNMD cannot reach.
This is the core significance of the "Sun God Project".
However, completing this plan was extremely costly, and even the United States could not afford it alone. Therefore, the United States brought in Ross, who was mired in disappointment, thus beginning a 10-year "Mi-Ross honeymoon period".
The first step of the plan is to turn the "Peace Station" Mars base into a secret base for the two countries of Mir and Roma, excluding other allies and prohibiting the international community from entering the base for investigation.
As a result, the two countries of Milos orchestrated an "accident" 10 years ago, which led to the "Peace Station" being "abandoned" for 10 years.
The second step of the plan is to build a space station, because international exploration missions in Mars orbit are so frequent that they are hard to ignore. Phobos became a good choice.
After all, Phobos is the closest moon to its host star in the solar system.
The third step of the plan is to deliver nuclear weapons to Phobos's orbit.
However, sending a nuclear bomb into space is a highly sensitive operation, and given the bomb's massive size, it would easily attract attention. Therefore, the warheads and bodies of the 10 heavy nuclear fusion interplanetary cruise missiles were disassembled into several sections and sent to Mars under the guise of "weather rockets" and "probe satellites." After being assembled at Mir Station, they were transported to Phobos by the Apollo spacecraft.
A key moment in the "Helios Project" was when astronauts inserted a chip into the main computer of the "Helios" space station.
In the few minutes between the chip being inserted into the main computer and the astronaut leaving the orbital station, the astronaut will hold the fate of the world in his hands.
It is no exaggeration to say that if this astronaut had a subconscious problem, or suddenly lost his mind, he could use a single finger to bring about the annihilation of humanity on Earth within those few minutes.
Therefore, the astronauts who would complete the "final mission" had to be highly trustworthy individuals, and ultimately, both Milos and Romania sent their own representatives.
U.S. President Washington sent astronaut Ivanka Washington.
Russian Prime Minister Medve Gagarin sent astronaut Katerina Gagarin.
Originally, the two of them were supposed to go to Phobos together to complete the "final mission," but in the end, only Ivanka went to Phobos to complete the mission.
The "Helios" system thus entered a fully enclosed, self-operating state, providing a permanent nuclear umbrella for both Milorad and Romania.
At this time, only one atomic clock and receiving unit were working on the "Helios" space station; all other components were dormant.
The atomic clock is set to time in seconds, minutes, 720 hours, and 30 days.
Atomic clocks count down from the second.
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The receiving unit is constantly listening to the sounds from the universe.
After the atomic clock has been running for three days, when the countdown reaches its end, the receiving unit receives a long sequence of numbers consisting of 0s and 1s from the outside world.
The chip in the receiving unit calculated this long sequence of numbers according to a certain formula, and compared the result with a number stored in the chip.
The comparison passed.
The atomic clock's countdown has been reset, resuming the countdown from seconds:
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Nothing will happen.
Until one day.
When the atomic clock counted down, the receiving unit failed to receive the long sequence of 0s and 1s.
The atomic clock countdown begins for the first time below.
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If the receiving unit receives that long sequence of numbers at any time, the atomic clock's countdown will be reset.
The receiving unit listened quietly to the sounds coming from 60 million kilometers away.
Blue Star fell silent.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
0.
A warm current instantly spread throughout the massive body of the "Helios" space station.
The first thing "Sun God" did after being awakened was to extract a set of numbers from the chip. The numbers were then imported into its global positioning system and converted into latitude and longitude coordinates of the blue planet 60 million kilometers away, becoming 100 small dots on a world map.
The 100 small points were divided into 10 groups of data and transmitted to the flight trajectory computer. The computer worked at high speed to generate 10 flight trajectory parameters, and the 10 groups of parameters were transmitted to the bomb bay in the belly of the orbital station.
Ten Helios II heavy nuclear fusion interplanetary cruise missiles received these ten sets of parameters and wrote them into their flight control computers.
Each Helios II heavy nuclear fusion interplanetary cruise missile is 18.26 meters long and 1.67 meters in diameter. It carries 10 warheads and can attack 10 different targets simultaneously. Each warhead has a yield of 4 megatons.
The hatches of the orbital module opened to both sides, and for the first time, 10 Helios II heavy nuclear fusion interplanetary cruise missiles were bathed in Martian sunlight.
Click—
The launch pad safety was released, and the missile was ejected into space by the pressure valve.
Ten seconds later, the engine ignited, and the "Helios II" heavy nuclear fusion interplanetary cruise missile activated its full inertial guidance system, shut down all receiving units, completed electromagnetic shielding, and stopped listening to any sounds from outside the missile body, roaring towards deep space...
This was a thunderclap from the distant universe. When the thunder reached Earth, humanity was like an orphan awakened in a storm, helplessly covering their ears with blankets and shivering in bed...
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