<h4>Chapter 1091: SS Heavenly Temple</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>_Min_ <strong>Editor: </strong>Caron_


    Wang Qiang took a deep breath; he calmed the excitement and anxiousness pumping in his chest. He peaked outside the window at the red-stainednd.


    The n was to spend the rest of his life on this new.


    “Stop gasping or we’ll be out of oxygen soon.” The man sitting across from him joked.


    There was a friendlyugh in the chamber, and the nervous atmosphere dissipated.


    More than 80 million kilometers away, the blue was no longer visible here. Although the moment they set foot on the colonization ship, they were ready to dedicate this life to the aerospace industry. But when they recalled life on Earth, the twenty colonists couldn’t stop reminiscing about life on the homnd.


    No one knew what would be waiting for them.


    They weren’t only the pioneers to colonize Mars, but they were also the first to set foot on thisnd. No matter how many space agencies conducted observations on this before, no one dared to dere they knew 100% of the before a human set his footprint on this foreignnd.


    However, the thought of colonizing newnd for human civilization brought them somefort.


    The colonization ship entered the synchronous orbit and stopped directly above thending point. The captain could ordernding sequence with an order from themand center.


    Wang Qian rxed and sank into the cushion of the seat. He closed his eyes and nned to take a nap.


    However, an hour passed after he opened his eyes again.


    “All personnel, themand center has issued anding order, and the colonial chamber will be separated from the colonization ship in ten seconds. Enter thending stage. Countdown, 10, 9, 8…”


    “So fast.”


    When Wang Qiang opened his eyes, he heard the countdown. Without being mentally prepared, he felt anxious. But the colonization ship didn’t give him a chance to be flustered as the countdown quickly reached to zero.


    With a slight jitter, the SS Heavenly Temple was divided into two, and the 200-meter-long chamber began to separate from the hull.


    Looking from far away, the entire colonial chamber resembled a t cuboid. Under the traction of six ion engines, it fell toward the red-stainednd.


    Mars’s orbit was only 17,000 kilometers in distance, while its gravity was only four-ninth of that on Earth. The density of the atmosphere was thin. Thending difficulty was slightly higher than on the Moon, but it was much easier than the Earth.


    While the chamber maintained a downward sloping posture, the moment it came in contact with the atmosphere, six engines ignited with powerful propulsion rays. They dragged the chamber and stopped the eleration of the fall.


    The high-temperature ions surrounded the chamber tightly. From a distance, it looked like a blue meteor.


    In the air, there was an arc. The two-hundred-meter-long t cuboid, like a giant foot, descended from the sky and made an imprint on thend.


    BOOM!


    With a muffled sound, the red sand was send into the air by the collision.


    The thick thigh-sized steel needle popped from the bottom of the chamber and nailed into the red sand directly into the rock formation tens of meters deep. They firmly pinned the chamber onto the desert and acted as the “foundation”.


    After deployment onnd waspleted, deployment still continued.


    The colonization ship with its chamber detached was still orbiting in the synchronous orbit. In the next ten years, it would serve as a satellite to providemunication, meteorological observation and crisis warning for the colony.


    At this point, the chamber deployment process was finallypleted.


    The vibration outside stopped, and the lights in the cabin lit up.


    When light returned to his field of vision, Wang Qiang frantically looked around and breathlessly looked at the captain sitting on the left-hand side across from him. He was thrilled.


    “Did we seed?”


    The expression on the captain’s face was the same. Even if he wasn’t an animated person, he was moved by the excitement and sense of glory from the bottom of his heart.


    Not just the captain, but all twenty colonists felt the same glory.


    They received training for nearly a year, and they practiced day and night for this very day.


    “Yes, we seeded!” With a deep breath, the captain controlled his overflowing excitement and ordered in his trembling voice, “All personnel pay attention. Release the security lock. Sacro, go check the oxygen system. Lu Yang, go to the power room and turn on our nuclear fusion generator; we don’t have much energy in the battery.”


    “Yes!”


    “Understood!”


    After the two men unlocked the safety lock, they leaped down from their seats and walked quickly outside the room.


    The security lock was also unlocked. The captain stood in the middle of the buffer cabin and moved his sore arms. He looked at the colonists who had already lined up and ordered: “Yang Yuhan, deploy the exploration drone and conduct a detailed investigation of the geological conditions within a ten-mile radius. Liu Rui, Wang Qiang, prepare for patrol. Chris, you and I will go to the main control room. The rest of the personnel, immediately enter your positions. Time is tight and it is necessary toplete deployment of the nting unit within four hours. This is critical to address our food problem!”


    “Yes!”


    The colonists shouted in unison and acted immediately.


    After all the orders were executed, the captain didn’t leave the buffer cabin immediately. Instead, he reached out to the holographic screen and switched themunication channel to Earth tens of millions of kilometers away. With his fingers trembling, he sent back news of sess to his previous home.


    “Calling the groundmand center, we seeded!”


    …


    “…we seeded!”


    When the voice was transmitted back to Celestial City more than 80 million kilometers away, the entiremand center erupted in cheers, celebrating the moment in joy. People whistled, threw their arms in the air, hugged together, and celebrated this great moment.


    Looking at the colony in the center of the screen, Jiang Chen was more excited than anyone.


    If the Moon was an energy base, then Mars was the arsenal of the future “Earth Federation.” Mars was arge iron ore and the endless desert wasn’t silica on Earth but iron oxide!


    To be more direct, if they took a shovel to any ce on Mars and tossed the sand in a st furnace, a pound of steel could be produced.


    If they wanted to build a gctic shiprger than SS Seagull, they would need a million tons of steel.?The minerals on Earth and asteroids would just barely be enough. But if they wanted to build an “invincible fleet”, it wouldn’t be impossible with the Mars colony for steel production.


    As an important part of Jiang Chen’s space program, the future “Mars Industrial Park” would bear more than 80% of the shipbuilding capacity of the Earth Federation.


    The Earth would finally gain a fighting chance against the imminent invasion.


    In order to celebrate this historic moment, Jiang Chen announced in the heat of the moment: “All employees involved in the Mars Colonization Program will be rewarded 500,000 Xin New dors per person regardless of their position! This money wille out of my pocket!”


    The big red envelope pushed the cheering in themand center to a new peak…