Three more standard Earth days and seventy-two hours later, the Hope, a huge interstellar colonial spacecraft, has gradually approached the mysterious planet they numbered JNO.3.
This khaki planet revolves around a star in the planetary system with a revolution period of about 500 Earth days and a rotation period of 30 Earth standard hours. It also has a gravity environment that is 1.3 times that of the standard Earth, covering There are more than 80% of the highly acidic ocean on the ground and the same corrosive atmospheric vapor...
No matter from which aspect, it seems to be very unfriendly to humans coming from afar!
Now, the reason why the Hope is here, on this planet that is full of malice towards humans, is because, on this planet, there are precious energy materials that the Hope is in urgent need of: high-energy gas and high-energy crystal mines!
This is the only planet among the twenty best planets recently detected by Hope that has a large amount of these two rare energy minerals, while the other planets detected do not have any at all!
This cannot but be said to be the luck of the Hope?
Otherwise, they can only find a suitable planet within the navigable distance, and then start to colonize life with difficulty. Without energy, the Hope will probably be reduced to a large one. fortress city and landed on the surface of the planet in frustration, right?
After there is no advanced energy for interstellar navigation, we can only rely on the irradiation energy of stars and nuclear energy for navigation within the galaxy, right?
Looking through the high-strength space glass window in the bridge of the Hope, looking at the huge planet in front of her surrounded by layers of earthy-yellow atmosphere, and the brown ocean above it that occupies more than 80% of the area, Leo Captain Na couldn't help but frown slightly.
I don’t know why, but she doesn’t like this planet!
Because she seemed to be able to feel some kind of faint hostility coming from above? This gave her the urge to order the Hope to change direction into warp speed and jump away...
If this planet hadn't contained the energy minerals that their Hope urgently needed... they would certainly not have given it a second glance, right? Then let alone come here.
Compared to this sinister earth-yellow planet, Leona prefers their original earth.
It was a beautiful and livable planet suitable for human habitation. Until now, Captain Leona still clearly remembers that when the earth was seen from outer space: it was a planet with beautiful white clouds, brown continents and islands. , and the blue, gem-like ocean...
If she looked at the Earth from further outer space, she could even see: The Earth is actually a charming blue planet as a whole. Nearly 78% of its surface is covered by oceans, and there are A thick layer of blue atmosphere…
It's a pity that these people they hope will never be able to return to their former homes in their lifetime, right?
That was a long distance that they had traveled at warp speed for more than a hundred years...
I'm afraid, after several generations of reproduction, no one on the earth now remembers the so-called "criminals" who were expelled like the Hope, right?
And, more importantly: now, they don’t even have the coordinates of the earth...
In the vast universe, in the infinite sea of stars, where should they go to find that little earth?
It’s all those damn New Earth United Governments, those UPL bureaucrats, those damn bastards, ugly dictators! Leona felt that all of them should go to hell!
"Captain Leona! The Hope has now begun to enter the synchronous orbit of the JNO.3 planet. It is expected to be completed in ten minutes. Please give instructions!"
While Captain Leona was wandering around the world, still missing the distant and beautiful Earth, and cursing the bureaucrats of the new Earth United Government UPL, the navigator on the bridge of the Hope began to report to her loudly. .
"Very good, maintain the synchronous orbit and be alert! We don't need to land, just stay here."
Captain Leona came to her senses, nodded, and then gave direct instructions to the navigator.
Once again frowning at the huge earth-yellow planet outside Hyun's window, Leona exhaled and began to turn around and look at the first mate Doug standing next to her.
"Doug, how is the preparation of the colonial command center?"
Captain Leona attaches great importance to this command center!
You know, there are only two colonial command centers in total on their huge No. 5 interstellar colony ship, the Hope.
This kind of command center that can land on the planet to carry out production and colonization activities is an extremely precious non-renewable resource for their current Hope!
Judging from the current energy and material reserves of the Hope, once it is lost, it is absolutely impossible to recreate it! Therefore, when it comes to landing on this planet, we must be cautious and cautious, and there is no room for any mistakes!
The Colonial Command Center is an extremely important service unit for all human outposts, mining areas or colonial bases on Earth.
Initially, it was a resource reclaimer designed to patrol federal mining areas. It could retract foundation piles and move them to new high-energy crystals or high-energy gas springs. Of course, if the energy and materials are sufficient, they come with their own The interstellar industrial mother machine also has the ability to manufacture SCVs, receive and reserve resources, and build other buildings.
To put it simply, as long as it has enough materials and energy, plus enough manpower, it can build a mining base on its own!
After all, that was how it was designed from the beginning.
But later, due to its heavy armor and gravity engine flight capabilities, coupled with its reliable development and resource recovery and smelting functions, it gradually became a military advance base or colony for all humans. One of the most important buildings!
Whether it is an army or a colonial starship, they usually carry this important strategic resource in the fleet and rely on it to gain a foothold on a strange or dangerous planet.
"Report Captain! The command center is ready. It is equipped with five T-280 SCV space engineering vehicles. The YS001 heavy armored transport ship has also carried all members of the Cobra team and can follow the command center to land in JNO. Planet 3 and provide it with the necessary protection!”
The SCV space engineering vehicle is one of the standard equipment of the command center. It is an engineering machine that can adapt to multiple operating environments.
Because it can perform a variety of tasks, whether it is building new buildings, collecting and transporting energy minerals, or even operating directly in space, it has demonstrated extremely strong adaptability and reliability.
Therefore, they have gradually become the main force in colonial construction. Sometimes, they even have to go to the battlefield with the army to build outpost military attack positions, contributing an extremely important role to the colonization of space by humans on earth. They are the key to human colonization of outer space. An indispensable and important component of the star.
Now, the Hope is preparing to land on the planet and carry out the task of producing and collecting resources. What they rely on is a command center fortress and five SCV engineers who are initially going to carry out construction. There are also ten people responsible for protecting and reconnaissance of the surrounding terrain. of a Cobra Marine squad.
Under normal circumstances, the only ones who need to work outdoors are SCV engineering vehicles and marines. The commanders in the command center and the engineers responsible for manufacturing various standard units will definitely not leave the fortress easily. of building protection.
"How is the recruitment of new troops and new engineers going now?"
Then, this is the second thing that Captain Leona is more concerned about.
Later, after they put the command center and marine team on the surface of the planet, the five SCV engineering vehicles will only be responsible for building a basic small base and initially collecting some energy crystals. Later, they will need a steady stream of Hope. Locally dispatch various personnel to the ground base below to complete various follow-up tasks.
Whether it is a large number of SCV engineering vehicles or the follow-up Marines, the Hope needs to spare no effort to support!
After all, there are wreckage of alien battleships near this star field, as evidenced by the rescue capsule of the little girl Annie who was rescued!
After orbit calculation, they also preliminary calculated the approximate location of the alien battleship wreckage. It seems that it is not far from here? Therefore, no one dares to be optimistic about this planet with a lot of energy.
Who knows if there are aliens on this planet?
Therefore, the necessary armaments for the ground base are absolutely indispensable!
They, the Hope, must use the fastest speed to launch a small colonial production base on this planet. After collecting enough energy and producing enough warships, they will quickly leave this seemingly dangerous place!
In this regard, Captain Leona gave a deadline of about one hundred standard Earth days. Within this time limit, the colonial base on the planet JNO.3 must mine enough energy for her and collect various energy sources. Plant other mineral resources, and of course, the battlecruiser fleet she had planned for a long time!
Leona no longer wants a colonial ship as huge as the Hope to run naked in space. She must have enough defense power.
Whether it is transport ships of various sizes, fighter planes of various types, space aircraft carriers carrying fighter planes, and at least ten large battlecruisers, she, Leona, wants them all!
She wants to use the abundant energy here on JNO.3 planet, Li Yong, to build a small defense fleet in the shortest possible time.
If we were in the old earth era, trying to complete so many arduous tasks in such a short period of time would be simply wishful thinking and an impossible task.
Just like the important unit in the universe: the battlecruiser! If we were in the old earth era, it wouldn't take ten or eight years to build such a battleship. That would be unthinkable!
However, it is different in this interstellar era!
Now, everything is modular and standardized production! As long as the star port is successfully built and all resources are sufficient, it will be very easy to produce a medium-sized space battlecruiser in ten and a half months!
And if you go all out and build a sufficient number of star ports, and each star port independently completes a certain part of the battleship, and the whole is produced in an assembly line, it will not be a problem to build a battlecruiser for you in three to five days!
Of course, the various operating personnel and logistical supplies on the battlecruiser need to be dealt with by the Hope itself. Their starport can only produce empty shells one by one. After all, no matter how good the weapons are, But they all need to be manipulated by people.
If you want to ask how long it takes to build a star port, then the head of the engineering department can tell you very responsibly: allocate hundreds of SCV engineering vehicles to him, plus enough resources, it will take three to five days. If you build a huge star port, it won’t be a problem at all, just fine!
This is efficiency in this era of StarCraft!
Whether it is construction or production, everything is trending towards efficient automation and module standardization, which reduces the time required for production and construction to a minimum.
"Report to Captain! The recruitment work is already in full swing, and the citizens of the Hope are very cooperative!"
First Officer Doug quickly gave a set of data. At present, whether it is new marines or a large number of SCV engineering vehicle operators, training is already underway in an orderly manner.
"Doug, if I asked you to serve as the commander-in-chief of this command center and ground base, would you be qualified?"
After thinking for a while, considering the difficulty of this task, Captain Leona asked her first mate.
Now, I'm afraid that among the entire Hope, the only one who is more capable and can coordinate a ground base is perhaps his first mate, right?
As for the others...
They are all a bunch of new recruits, she really can't expect too much...
"Promise to complete the mission!"
After hearing the captain's words, Doug's eyes lit up, he put his feet together, raised his chest and performed a standard military salute of standing at attention.
Being able to serve as the commander-in-chief of a ground base was a sign of the captain's trust in her and recognition of her abilities. She, Doug, certainly had no reason to refuse.
Besides, Doug had seen the future development blueprint of the Hope specified by Captain Leona. If it can be realized one by one by then, it will be of unparalleled importance to her future development if she takes up this important position now.
Now to participate in the first development operation of this Hope and serve as the commander, this is a valuable qualification!
"Very good, you can get ready now! It's still dark here on this planet. You still have three hours to prepare. Then, when the light of the star shines here, you can start setting off!"
Captain Leona's finger touched a point on the equator of the planet on the 3D holographic map. Here is a large island, located on high ground, with its back to the sea. Not only is it easy to defend and difficult to attack in terms of terrain, but it is also nearby. There are a lot of high-energy crystals and high-grade gas resources, making it an ideal place to build a colony.
Among the dozens of locations that have been detected before, although this one does not have the most minerals, it does seem to be the most suitable and safe!
If everything goes well, they only need to stay at this location for more than a hundred Earth days. By then, they will be able to get everything the Hope needs from this planet!
"As you command, Captain!"
After giving another military salute, Doug, the first officer of the Hope, turned around and walked to the second officer on the other side.
Doug didn't care about the other party's eyes full of envy and jealousy, and directly used her terminal to transfer authority to the other party's, then turned around and left resolutely.
Now, she, Doug, has to pack her luggage and prepare to go to the JNO.3 planet below to serve as the commander-in-chief of the base. Naturally, the authority of the first officer of the Hope and some unfinished tasks need to be handed over to the second officer. deal with.
"..."
Good luck, Doug…
Watching the other party leave the bridge and disappear behind the automatically closed hatch, Captain Leona began to pray silently to the other party in her heart.
For some reason, when she turned around again and looked at the huge earth-yellow planet in front of her, she always felt like she was facing a huge beast from the wild. She had an inexplicable heart palpitation?
It seems that there is some huge danger waiting for them below?
I hope...this is just her illusion, right?
However, Leona's brows furrowed even deeper when she thought about the destroyed alien warship calculated in this star field before.
What kind of existence caused a seemingly powerful alien battleship to be destroyed here? Are they passing by? Or was it destroyed by the native forces here?
There's no way that alien warship couldn't discover this planet with its huge energy reserves, right?
So, do they want to collect supplies on the ground of this planet just like me? Then... after discovering the danger, he ran away in a hurry? But in the end, they were still destroyed by the enemy?
Thinking of this possibility, Captain Leona couldn't help feeling a wave of fear in her heart.
If they had no choice, she would never approach this strange star field, let alone stay in the synchronous orbit of this planet!
However, they really have no other way now. Even if they don't risk landing on this planet, the little bit of energy they have left won't be able to get out of this star field, right?
Therefore, we can only take a risk!
This is why she only gave Doug only a hundred days of collection and production time!
This is already the time limit that she has compressed to the lowest possible limit!
If she hadn't sensed that there was some vague danger in this star field, she would have collected all the planet's energy and built a huge fleet before she would start space navigation again and search for A livable planet suitable for human survival on earth.
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"Wow! Where are you going? Are you going to fight?"
Little Annie was wandering around the military area of the Hope. When she walked to the Marine Corps' combat readiness area, she saw Galen's big Cobra team wearing their power armor combat uniforms and testing various equipment with the help of intelligent machines. When planting weapons and equipment, little Annie's big green eyes immediately lit up, and then she hurried forward.
She thought, looking at this situation, they must have something fun going on, right? Well, the all-powerful Queen Anne doesn’t want to miss it!
Besides, fighting and stuff like that is what she's best at!
"Go, go, find a place to play by yourself! I'm warning you, little Annie, you must not come and cause trouble! We are preparing to land on JNO.3 planet and carry out more than a hundred days of operations on the ground. Mission, this is not a fun thing, it’s none of your business, just stay on board the Hope!”
Captain Galen, who had put on his armor, checked his 8mm spiked electromagnetic rifle and waved little Annie to leave and stop causing trouble for him.
After several days of getting along with each other, Galen and the other marines have come to understand the nature of Anne, the little devil. Sometimes, this little girl's temperament can be very bad!
After testing his weapon and confirming that there were no problems, Galen nodded slightly.
Regardless of whether there is any danger on the ground of JNO.3, it is still necessary to do this urgent basic work of inspecting weapons and equipment. This is a basic combat procedure and cannot be sloppy at all.
Now their equipment is working well and their weapons are performing well. Everything is ready. When the time comes, they will board the transport spacecraft to land on the planet for a hundred-day combat mission.
Galen only hopes that there won't be too much danger on the ground of this planet, right?
Presumably...it shouldn't be possible, right?
In Galen's view, it is unlikely that living things could survive on a planet with such a harsh environment.
The early detection aircraft and satellites also proved his conjecture. However, since the captain has designated this mission as a second-level dangerous mission, he must be extremely careful!
This level of danger is not far from the level of war. It is said that level 2 alert is only available at frontline bases where there is no fighting? So, are there some invisible dangers on the planet below?
"Landing on the planet? Is it that big yellow planet outside? How can I not be part of such a fun thing? No! I must go!"
As soon as she heard that she was going to land on the planet she saw outside, little Annie's eyes brightened even more.
This was landing on a strange planet. How could she be missing from something that was so interesting just to hear about it?
No matter what, she wanted to have fun, even if she didn't want to go!
"Go away, go away, stay out of the way!"
Seeing that little Annie blocked him regardless, Galen impatiently used his mechanical armor arm to gently push her away.
"We are going to a war! We are not going to play, so how could we bring you with us?"
This time, it's not a simulated confrontation, this is a battlefield mission with real swords and guns!
How could he bring a little girl with him? Besides, he, Galen, was just a captain of a small Marine Corps with the rank of second lieutenant. How could he have the authority to bring a little girl with him? On the Hope, he basically had no say!
Moreover, even if Galen had this authority, he wouldn't want to take a little girl with him to the battlefield. How dangerous would that be?
"When it comes to fighting, I'm much better than you! Twenty of you couldn't beat me in three simulated confrontations. How dare you not admit it?"
When it comes to fighting, little Annie is even less timid!
Has she fought too few battles? Whether it's the dangerous world of Azeroth or the ordinary and mysterious Caribbean, how many people, monsters and undead has she killed? It's just that they didn't believe her when she said it!
Besides, several simulated confrontations in the past few days have fully demonstrated the great Her Majesty Anne's single-soldier combat capabilities. Even without the use of magic, she can completely explode with the ability of ghost equipment. These useless Marine Corps uncles and elder sisters!
(Ahem, to be honest, Master Anne, if you hadn't used me to cheat, you wouldn't have won so easily, uh... - Tibbers finally couldn't help but vomited on the side, every time there was a confrontation , she has to cheat to watch the holographic map, coupled with her strong physique and stealth ability, so she can win her opponent every time.)
Shut up! Tibbers!
Little Annie took Tibbs, who was carrying her left hand, into her arms, and then tightened his neck with both hands.
"Okay, okay! My little ancestor, my Lady Anne! Can you stop bringing this up? We have already given in. What else do you want?"
Captain Galen couldn't hide his face when he mentioned this.
Twenty of their most elite marines on the Hope were all killed at the hands of a little girl. This kind of thing must have spread to more than 100,000 people on the Hope, right?
well……
Think about it, after they lost to Little Annie for the first time that day, they still naively thought that she was just taking advantage of the confrontation between the two sides to benefit?
Therefore, later on, during the second three-party confrontation, Galen and Deliles shamelessly did not take action or lay mines, but directly joined forces to round up little Annie all over the map.
But what's the result? Little Annie still easily won the final victory in the second Triwizard Tournament after harvesting twenty heads!
Then, it was the third game...
This time, in order to hunt down that abominable ghost, they once again shamelessly asked the referee to reduce the area of the island, but in the end... the ending was still a disastrous defeat...
Is it precisely because of this that these twenty marines have become the laughing stock of the entire Hope?
Even if they tried their best to protest and try to prove to others: how powerful and cunning this little devil Anne is! But in the end, it still didn't change the fact that twenty of their adult warriors lost to a little girl.
The reality is so cruel, the lost face may never be regained.
"I don't want to do anything! As long as you take me to play on the planet below, that's fine!"
Although little Annie can teleport to the planet below without their consent.
However, the magic power in this universe is too thin, and the recovery of magic power is relatively slow. It is difficult to replenish the power she has consumed from nature. Therefore, she does not want to take it easy without knowing how long she will stay here. Just waste your magic power.
Tibbers the Bear had told her many times about this matter: Use as little magic as possible as long as it is not necessary.
After wandering through so many worlds together, Annie felt that her little bear's advice was sometimes quite reliable. Therefore, she decided to use as little magic as possible in this world until a solution was found unless necessary.
"This is absolutely not possible! The planet below is very dangerous! Besides, we don't have a power armor combat suit suitable for you, let alone a ghost suit. The environment on the planet below is not like the environment on the Hope. If you wear armor, it will kill people!"
Other conditions might be fine, but Galen would never agree to this request.
This time they go down, but they have to carry out a difficult combat mission. Where can they take a little girl to play?
This is not playing house, nor is it some simulated competition. Without even thinking about it, Galen believes that neither the captain nor Commander Doug of this mission will agree to little Annie going to cause trouble!
"I have to go!"
Little Annie puffed her cheeks and glared at Galen.
Even though the other person had put on the glass mask and armor plate and could no longer see the other person's hateful face, she still glared at him angrily.
"Annie, if you really want to go, I can take you with me!"
While Little Annie was confronting Galen, First Officer Doug Jones, the commander-in-chief of this mission, was carrying one of her sci-fi-shaped bags into the Marine Corps' readiness room.
After a while, she will go to the command center from here to officially launch the landing operation.
Therefore, when she heard little Annie clamoring to go to the planet, she remembered Annie's record in the past few competitions, and then thought about Suguang Intelligent Brain's assessment of the little girl's safety level in the past few days. Whether it was the Marine Corps’ opinion or the evaluation of the Hope Intelligence Brain, their reports both showed that this girl had no ill intentions towards the Hope.
Therefore, after thinking about it, First Officer Doug directly agreed to the other party's request.
Presumably, this is what Captain Leona wants to see, right?
Otherwise, the captain wouldn't have ordered the equipment production department to work overtime to tailor a smaller version of the ghost suit for little Annie, right?
Even the weapons are tailor-made according to the special physique of this little alien girl?
Thinking of the custom-made and powerful large-caliber sniper electromagnetic rifle, Doug felt ashamed... If he didn't have good physical fitness, I'm afraid most people really wouldn't be able to use that thing, right?
"But, First Officer Doug, little Annie doesn't have any armor. It would be too dangerous to go down to the environment below! In this case, even if she goes down, she can only stay in the command center. That's not the same as What’s the difference if we go down?”
Seeing that First Officer Doug actually agreed to Little Annie's request, Galen became a little anxious.
After spending so many days together, they all like this little alien girl.
Although she was a little naughty and mischievous, it was still not too much. Therefore, for safety reasons, he still suggested not to take little Annie to the dangerous planet below.
"Uh...who said Annie doesn't have suitable armor?"
Doug smiled mysteriously at Galen. Of course she also knew that this mission was very difficult. It was precisely because of this that she wanted to take this little alien girl with her.
After all, the opponent's combat effectiveness is obvious to everyone on the Hope!
In a head-on confrontation, a little girl could actually destroy twenty marines? With such terrifying individual combat capabilities, there is probably no one on the current Hope that can be more powerful than her, right?
"Come on, Laughing Annie, come here, I will take you to put on your exclusive set of ghost agent armor now."
After carefully placing his salute, Doug smiled and waved to little Annie.
She now plans to take the other party to the special equipment area on the other side of the military zone to get the set of precious little gifts that were specially produced on an emergency basis and designed specifically for the other party.
"Huh? The Ghost Agent's armor? Is it really for me?!"
Does he actually have his own armor? Is it like the ghost suit in the simulation combat game?
Hearing this, little Annie was a little surprised. Can she really have ghost armor? It seems like it's fun?
So, she hurried forward and followed behind this big sister Doug.
Anne has now secretly decided: for the sake of the kindness of this big sister Doug, from now on, she will no longer call her aunt in person. At most... just secretly call her aunt a few times in private?
That’s right, that’s the happy decision!
