User:Cesrate/The New Future/Laythe ascend

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After a bath, I walk to the window. The room temperature is comfortable. Quark City, the first colony on Laythe. Rather than calling it "city", it's more like a village. The majority of the building is made of concrete and bricks with thermal coating inside. There're also a geothermal station and several bases landed from orbit, like the Picker Base B-5 landed there just a few minutes before the C-2's landing (C-2's place is about 18 kilometers eastward) yesterday, aiming for nuclear fuels.

The Picker B-5 is the "artificial gravity partner" of Picker C-2. During the past 150 days B-5 and C-2 was attached to the VASIMR stage by fifty-meter-long ropes, and as C-2 is a little heavier than B-5, the rope for C-2 is a few meters short. C-2 and B-5 were rotating during the travel like binary stars to simulate gravity, and their barycenter is VASIMR stage, the thrust provider. Quiet neat.

As B-5 is mentioned... From the news, there was a breathtaking interlude when it was executing the final descend. After the deployment of parachutes, one out of the six airlocks of heat shield was failed to unlock. In such an emergency, the commander promptly ordered to fire the descending engines to maximum rate. The heat shield turned over with the effect of engine exhaust and the failed airlock was twisted, but the shiled was still hanging there. Then when approaching the Quark City, the airlock suddenly broke and the shield dived fast and heavily hit the ground. The residents were pretty scared although it didn't hit the Quark City.