Based on the cargo ship's own accident report, it is easy to reconstruct the entire incident.
Five minutes before the accident, a large-scale abnormal power surge occurred in the central circuit of the cargo ship's engine room area.
This directly caused the host to enter overload protection.
During the two minutes when the main engine is restarting, the entire ship will be forced to lose power and lock the gates.
But cargo holds are excluded.
There is an independent backup power supply here, which will be connected the moment a power outage occurs. Therefore, even if the main engine and reactor of the spacecraft stop working, the key equipment can continue to operate.
But for some reason, the cargo ship's backup power supply also malfunctioned at the same time as the power outage occurred.
This directly caused the magnetic confinement of the container to fail, and the gold seeds wrapped in more than 1 million cubic meters of zero-mass matter came into direct contact with the inner wall of the spacecraft container.
The value-added reaction occurs at the moment of contact.
The alloy that makes up the warehouse wall is broken down at the microscopic level and continuously converted into zero-mass matter, and the newly added zero-mass powder will further react with the remaining alloy.
It's like a ping-pong ball on a smooth surface.
As long as the motion state of one of them changes, the chain reaction triggered will change the state of the entire cluster in a very short time.
But so far things are still under control.
The cargo hold for transporting zero mass is specially made, with a carbon nano-layer sandwiched between two layers of composite metal.
This is a brittle material made by pressing layers of carbon atoms together, with certain gaps between each layer.
The mechanical properties of this carbon nanolayer are not good, but it is a material that can effectively resist zero-mass erosion.
Although they cannot prevent the occurrence of incremental reactions, they can effectively slow down the reaction speed and buy valuable reaction time for the crew.
Each ship is equipped with a large number of mass neutralizers. These small handheld devices can destroy the properties of zero mass, making zero mass matter within a certain range inactivated and turned into a pile of common elements.
For the shipping company that owns the cargo ship, it is completely acceptable to sacrifice some of the crew in exchange for shipping safety in an emergency.
Under normal circumstances, the volume of zero-mass that each container can accommodate is 35% of the total container volume.
That is, a standard 10*10*10 meter thousand-cubic-meter container, ignoring the volume of the central gold seed, can carry approximately 350 cubic meters of zero-mass powder.
Under the constraints of the magnetic field formed by the superconducting container inside the gold seed, these powders will be distributed along the direction of the magnetic flux lines into an apple-shaped sphere with a diameter of about 9 meters, with two protruding poles in the middle and concave inward.
There is a 50 cm gap between the sphere and the walls on all four sides as a buffer.
In such a layout.
Even if the sphere falls and makes direct contact, the initial reaction cross section is only a small point where the sphere contacts the inner wall, and the reaction speed can be controlled within a very low range.
However, this time, as if it had been planned in advance, the superconducting container inside the golden seed also stopped discharging at the same moment.
The gold, having lost its electrical power, could no longer maintain the shape of the external dust. The entire zero-mass sphere quickly disintegrated, greatly expanding the reaction cross section.
After understanding the general situation, Bai Yi felt that things were not as simple as he had initially thought, so he raised the level of this incident from yellow to orange.
He added this matter to his memo so that he could be notified immediately whenever there was any new development in the incident.
After the two-minute reboot, the Obelisk's mainframe immediately issued a leak alert.
However, since the Golden Seed had lost its power supply at this time, all 3,500 containers suffered varying degrees of corrosion.
Several cargo containers were completely corroded, and the leaked gray zero-matter powder fell onto the cargo deck, continued to penetrate downwards, and directly cut off the communication cable between the cargo hold and the spacecraft cabin.
The people in the cab could only watch as the cargo hold was engulfed by more and more gray powder.
Some workers in the loading and unloading area wanted to manually restart the power supply to the containers and golden seeds, but they found in despair that the control panel had been locked and no one knew the unlocking password.
Fifteen minutes after the accident, the zero-mass powder had formed an unstoppable gray torrent in the cabin. It moved through the spacecraft along with the artificial gravity and ventilation system, and contaminated the surface of all objects it could touch along the way.
Assimilate them into your companions.
With nearly 40% of the interior space eroded, the captain of the Obelisk was forced to give the order to abandon ship.
The surviving crew members were transferred to other nearby spacecraft in escape pods.
Looking from space, the huge spacecraft looks like butter thrown into a furnace, melting little by little starting from the tail.
During this process, blue arcs of electricity and explosions continuously broke through the barrier of the outer zero-mass shell that flowed like water.
But it is only for a moment. After the moment of their greatest power is over, they will be swallowed up again in the gray ocean.
By the time the rescue team arrived, the gray zero mass had already penetrated the ship's core reactor. With a violent flash of light, the remaining half of the ship was destroyed in the explosion caused by the reactor's imbalance.
The enormous energy of the runaway reaction in the antimatter pile annihilated a considerable portion of the zero mass, but hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of dust were still scattered along the waterway.
They were scattered by the impact of the explosion, and then slowed down under the effect of their own spatial stagnation, and finally stayed near the channel.
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