Chapter 321: The Nair Space Elevator

In fact, the probe that arrived first had already photographed the distribution of various facilities of the Nair civilization in the orbit of the Pot Cover Mangmang Star and sent them to the Tianqin. However, the equipment on the probe is not as advanced as that of the Tianqin after all. Now looking at these facilities from the perspective of the Tianqin, the feeling is really different.

It's like the difference between a myopic person wearing glasses and not wearing glasses.

Of course, it is impossible to compare with the detection equipment carried by the Tianqin just by looking through the porthole with the naked eye. Therefore, after satisfying the curiosity of naked eye observation, Yue Yuan returned to the command center of the Tianqin.

The reason why the appearance design of the Lake-class battleship of the Nair civilization can be clearly seen is also because of the detection equipment of the Tianqin.

At this moment, while others are still discussing the battleships of the Nair civilization, Yue Yuan casts his eyes on other pictures.

At this moment, the transport fleet led by the Tianqin has arrived in the far-Earth orbit of the Pot Cover Planet No. 5, so the facilities of the Nair civilization in the near-Earth orbit are also clear to humans.

It seems that the Nair civilization has no intention of deliberately hiding.

"Well, it seems that the Nair civilization also uses an orbital mass accelerator. Perhaps the technology of the second-level civilization cannot produce the materials required for the space elevator." Yue Yuan murmured, and it was obvious that he noticed the ground-to-space transportation method of the Nair civilization.

To be honest, Yue Yuan was a little disappointed. He thought that the Nair civilization was more advanced than humans in ground-to-space transportation, but he didn't expect that it also used an orbital mass accelerator.

Yue Yuan saw a number of vehicles launched from the ground into space through the detection equipment of the Tianqin. They were some kind of vehicles that were easy to disassemble, not spacecrafts, and there were gushing flames at the end.

He was very familiar with these things. They must be some materials launched into space from the orbital mass accelerator.

A little disappointed, but it was reasonable to think about it.

In fact, Yue Yuan didn't have much hope for this so-called exchange and trade. When he first came into contact, he just said it casually. After learning that the Nair civilization agreed and seemed very enthusiastic, he also had the hope of exchanging some of their special technologies from the Nair civilization.

However, looking at the current situation, the technology of the Nair civilization seems to be slightly inferior to that of humans. Just from the way the warships are equipped with three main guns in a triple-barrel, it can be seen that its material technology is far inferior to that of humans.

And the most difficult part of realizing a space elevator is precisely material technology. Even humans cannot make cables with enough strength and toughness, let alone the Nair civilization.

Thinking of this, Yue Yuan was relieved.

However, just as he turned around and was about to walk towards the door of the command center, a cry suddenly sounded in his ears: "This is... General, look, it's incredible!"

What the hell? Such a loud voice!

Startled, what did you see and said it out loud!

Yue Yuan complained in his heart, but still looked in the direction of the sound.

I saw Liu Miyan, who was a few steps to his right, holding his hand and pointing at the big screen in the command center, as if he saw something extraordinary.

Yue Yuan looked in the direction he pointed, and when he saw what appeared on the big screen, his originally frowned brows immediately changed, and a touch of surprise surged into his heart.

"Hey! Is this possible?"

Muttering, Yue Yuan immediately shouted to the operator on the right: "Xiao Huang, zoom in on screen No. 9."

Screen No. 9 was what Liu Miyan pointed to and what he was staring at now.

In the screen, Yue Yuan saw a space station that was much larger than other space stations. At first glance, it looked like a space fortress.

What surprised him was that under this large space station, there was something with flames rising from bottom to top, from fast to slow, and slowly sank into it.

He could see that the flames should be a spacecraft, but if it was the tail flame of a spacecraft, according to his understanding, it should not enter the space station in this way.

The answer was revealed after the screen was enlarged.

"Huh! This is... a space elevator!!!"

The detection equipment of the Tianqin was quite powerful, and it could still be clearly photographed at such a long distance. When the screen was enlarged, Yue Yuan quickly recognized what this so-called large space station was.

At this moment, the screen no longer shows a large space station that occupies the entire screen, but the details of this ‘large space station’.

Due to Yue Yuan’s instructions, the operator consciously adjusted the large screen to a whole block, and the content that was originally only on the 9th screen was now enlarged on the large screen.

So everyone in the command center saw the partial details of this large space station. Oh no, it should be called a space elevator now.

The first thing that came into view was a huge circular platform, which was made up of strips coated with shiny metal. These metal strips surrounded the main structure of the platform in three layers inside and outside.

The center of the main structure was spherical, surrounded by three circles of metal structures outside the sphere, and then outside, there were steel structures like tentacles.

It looked like three tires of different sizes were put on a basketball, and the three tires were connected from the inside to the outside by long strips.

Above the main structure, there was a long column. And below it, like the lower end of a funnel, it was tilted and reduced, and then there was a structure composed of circles and some equipment.

If you look at the overall structure, the space part of the space elevator of the Nair civilization looks like a wooden gyroscope.

When the camera moves down, people can see straight steel cables. Countless steel cables form a circle, which are distributed in a very symmetrical manner on the circular circles. Every certain distance, there is an obvious circle to fix these steel cables.

If you look closely, it is not difficult to find that these circles are not thin circles, and they are not short. There are also lumps of things on them that look like some kind of equipment. Such an arrangement, from the overall view, looks like a string passing through the wall of an iron barrel.

At this moment, humans can see bright spots going up and down. These are probably the elevator cars of the space elevator.

It is a little different from what people usually imagine. The elevator car of the space elevator is not square, but barrel-shaped, with a little point on the top. The tail flame gushing out from the bottom should be the booster device of the elevator car.

The overall shape of the car is columnar, and the sharp structure at the top is probably considered to take into account the resistance problem of the atmospheric environment inside the planet.

Seeing this structure, Yue Yuan was a little surprised, because in his understanding, Pot Cover Planet No. 5 should be a planet without atmosphere, so there is no need to design the car like this.

This is a bit puzzling. Could it be that the Nair civilization has transformed Pot Cover Planet No. 5 into a planet with atmosphere?