The "Mission Exploration" plan will form a huge interstellar fleet consisting of 40 new interstellar battleships, interstellar spacecraft, more than 50 detection and support ships of various types, and more than 200 armed escort spacecraft, with nearly 10 million members.
In order to build this fleet of unprecedented scale, all human, material and superior resources of mankind will be given priority to it, and the wartime mechanism will also be activated.
To this end, humans have established more than 200 factories in Oceania and Mars colonies, and construction of these factories started almost at the same time.
In order to solve the problem of shortage of various metal minerals required for construction, the Crisis Plan has also established a mineral search fleet to capture various asteroids rich in titanium, cobalt, nickel and other metals throughout the solar system.
This mineral search fleet lived up to expectations. In just three months, it successively captured a large number of urgently needed metal deposits from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, including some rubidium and vanadium. , tantalum and other rare metals.
The rich metal mineral deposits greatly accelerated the construction plan, and the originally expected three-year construction period was shortened to two years and three months.
In the construction of various types of interstellar ships, humans have adopted a model of building, testing, and cruising while entering the fleet. The reason for this is that they have no choice but to do so.
While various types of ships are being built, the recruitment and training of various types of crews is also carried out at the same time.
Although humanity lost 224 starships and nearly 10 million well-trained interstellar officers and soldiers in the war with the Tiberians, humanity currently has more than 300,000 space vehicle pilots who survived the last war. There are also a large number of land, sea and air pilots from each member country.
Based on these personnel, a group of interstellar officers and soldiers with the ability to travel into space can be recruited and trained in a short period of time. These personnel will become the backbone of the "Mission Exploration" plan.
Once the Crisis Plan's recruitment order was issued, young people of appropriate age in major cities in Oceania responded actively, and even young people as far away as the Mars colony actively signed up to join the army.
In just half a month, nearly 300 million young people of the right age flocked to various recruitment offices to report. Among them, more than 2 million young people who settled in the Dark River Company moved to Oceania in order to contribute to the future and future of mankind. In the future, dedicate your light and heat.
In the face of crisis, human society has shown unprecedented unity and a rare cohesion.
As the captain of the 6th Space Transportation Squadron, Zhou Yun was naturally included in the "Mission Exploration" plan.
As a lieutenant colonel of the escort armed escort spacecraft formation, she will command an escort squadron composed of 18 armed escort spacecraft. Together with the other 4 escort squadrons, she will provide security and vigilance for the entire fleet. .
Although this fleet possesses the largest and most advanced weapon system in mankind, it is mainly for self-protection. The vast universe is full of unknowns and unpredictability. Different cosmic civilizations have different understandings of the definition of the laws of the universe, and they are also certain to the extent that their behavior deviates.
The Tiberians are one example, and the Darkbodies are another.
Traveling in the vast deep space of the universe, it is difficult to say that you will not encounter civilizations represented by the above two races. If you encounter a more ferocious civilization, if they enjoy hunting other civilizations, then self-defense is very necessary. of.
The main purpose of this fleet executing the "Mission Exploration" plan is to find a planet suitable for human habitation in space.
Its planetary atmospheric environment detection spacecraft, planetary geomagnetic analysis aircraft and other technical ships are responsible for very important tasks, and their non-military significance is far greater than its military significance.
Therefore, they are the top priority of this plan.
How to command these ships became an issue that the Crisis Planning Agency had to carefully consider. After intense debate and careful screening, it was finally decided that Liu Hanyang would serve as the commander-in-chief of the technical interstellar ships.
But the commander-in-chief of the entire fleet hung in the balance.
The reason is that there are not many qualified candidates, but the number of competitors is so large that it is difficult for the Crisis Plan to make a decision.
From the moment he received the appointment notice, Liu Hanyang devoted himself to intense work and training. Feeling that he had a heavy responsibility, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to it.
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During this period, he almost lived and ate in training camps or on various ships, and became completely integrated with the captains of various technical starships. He was either involved in the planning of specific routes, or immersed in the vast sea of smoke. Miao's training data, or galloping around the solar system commanding various types of technological interstellar ships to conduct adaptive cruises.
More than two months have passed in a flash.
In his spare time, he also looked up at the stars, looked at the bright and vast Milky Way, and fell into meditation...
Where in the vast universe and vast sky can there be a livable planet that is the same size as the earth and has similar environmental indicators?
This was the most common question in his heart.
Questions are questions, and everything still has to be down-to-earth and start from the beginning.
Occasionally, his eyes would be cast in the direction of Antarctica, where there was Li Sujia, whom he had always dreamed of. All the past seemed to be vivid in his mind, but it ended up in the sea and never returned.
Sometimes, he would ask himself, did his love for her come from the gratitude she said? Or is it a true expression of emotion?
Maybe it's the former as she said, or maybe it's the former that arouses good feelings and leads to feelings.
He didn't know.
But no matter what, he once loved her, and she also loved herself. However, the changes in her body made it impossible for her to face this cruel reality, let alone love herself with a normal mentality.
He could see that the fearlessness she showed when facing the transformation of her body from human to machine was actually an illusion, something she endured alone with forbearance.
She has a resolute personality, but behind her faint smile are lonely days and nights filled with tears.
For a person who has lost all female physical characteristics, no one can feel her inner pain and hesitation, and no one can understand her fear and confusion about the future.
That's exactly why she rejected him.
Maybe at this moment, she was sitting on the snowy ice field, staring in his direction in the miserable cold wind, staring at him silently, blessing him, praying for him...
All this can only be buried deep in the heart and held back, which may be a relief and a responsible attitude for both parties.
His guess was correct. At this moment, Li Sujia was standing in the wind and snow, staring in the direction of Oceania. Since her father Li Mosen was killed by the Taibo Stars, she had no relatives in this direction. The only way to go The only one who entered her heart was Liu Hanyang.
But it is no longer possible between them.
Although love fades, love lasts forever.
Staring at the love you once had and watching over the affection that will never dissipate is a kind of happiness.
After a long time, she slowly withdrew her eyes from staring and watching, and looked towards the clean night sky...
In the dark blue sky, the dazzling Milky Way is like an endless strip of light stretching across the twinkling stars. It is so beautiful, so profound, fascinating and daydreamful.
Since she was stationed here, she has had the habit of gazing at the Milky Way. There is nothing else on the white and empty ice field. Only by looking up at the sky can she discover different beauty and experience the extraordinary tranquility and vastness.
This is a different world, which can make people endlessly daydream, and let people get deeply intoxicated in it, forget about the world, and return to nature.
To this end, in her spare time, she used the star navigation equipment and scanning equipment in the crashed spacecraft to build a radio telescope with an aperture of 3 meters.
Observing galaxies through radio telescopes became her greatest hobby.
Today will be no exception.
She took one last look at the distance shrouded in snow and white mist, then took a step towards the direction of the radio telescope...
She left a long and deep trail of snow behind her, but it was quickly buried by the raging wind and snow.
Five minutes later, she came to a hill that was frozen by ice and snow. The top of the hill was completely flattened, and there was a simple room built from the remains of an aircraft, with a radio telescope placed inside.
She walked into the room and put her eyes on the lens of the radio telescope. Wherever she looked, the entire starry sky turned into a colorful and strange world. Galaxies, large and small, were like blooming fireworks, gorgeous and dazzling.
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Some are in a radial shape, radiating outward from a point in the middle, and the colorful light is mapped to the entire interstellar space, making it colorful and beautiful.
Some are spiral-shaped, and the colorful spiral arms are dotted with bright lights, like giant arms reflecting the entire vast starry sky, making people endlessly reverie and nostalgic.
Suddenly, a bright light burst out among the stars. It suddenly lit up like fireworks high in the sky, and then disappeared in an instant.
She quickly pointed the camera at this area, but after the bright light there was nothing else. What was displayed in front of her was the gorgeous galaxy and the vast starry sky.
"Maybe it was a supernova explosion," she thought to herself.
Just when she was about to get up and leave, suddenly, there was a "tick-tick" sound, a rapid and buzzing sound, coming from the feed cabin of the radio telescope.
"Did I discover a new alien civilization, or a distress signal from other races in the universe?"
With an uneasy feeling, she extracted the sound signal from the feed cabin and transmitted it to a nearby computer.
Soon, the sound signal was translated: We have been attacked by unknown creatures, please do not go to this area, the fleet exists here... Boom!
After a sustained explosion, everything fell silent.
Li Sujia repeatedly played back the sound signal just now. According to the characteristics and frequency analysis of the sound wave, it has obvious physical characteristics of quantum transmission. This is a quantum transmission mode commonly used between human aircraft before the Taibo aliens invaded the earth on a large scale. .
She firmly believes that this is not a distress signal sent by an alien civilization, but from people on earth!
Based on the location of this sound signal, she quickly determined the specific direction from which it was sent—the direction of Nanmen 2a, which is about 2.6 light years away from Nanmen 2a.
It is about 1.7 light-years from the solar system.
If this sound signal was sent by people on Earth, then how could it appear 1.7 light-years away?
Who could be sending this audio signal?
Suddenly, the shadow of the fleeing starship formation appeared in Li Sujia's mind.
In order to avoid the edge of the Tiber aliens and to preserve the fire and hope of human navigation in the universe, this formation of 24 interstellar ships fled to the outer reaches of the solar system---the Kuiper Belt.
It has been missing for 3 years!
Based on the time and speed of the fleet, it is very likely to appear 1.7 light-years away from the solar system.
Then the above sound signal must be sent by them!
Li Sujia quickly sent the news to Li Jianfeng through a new type of quantum encrypted communication.
Li Jianfeng was greatly surprised after receiving the news. He quickly mobilized five newly completed armed escort spacecraft and prepared to go to the direction of Nanmen 2a, about 1.7 light-years away from the solar system, to search for the fugitive fleet whose whereabouts are still unknown.
However, the five armed escort spacecraft have not yet completed the installation of life support systems. If physical humans are allowed to pilot the spacecraft, it will be difficult for them to complete the search mission in the harsh environment of interstellar space.
In the end, Li Jianfeng decided to send Li Sujia to carry out this mission. She would lead 1,000 modified heavily-equipped flying combat mechas and drive 5 armed escort spacecraft to search and rescue the fugitive fleet 1.7 light-years away.
This modified mecha unit adopts a nested structure, that is, a small mecha and a large mecha are integrated into each other. The control unit and nerve center of the mecha are all integrated into the small mecha, and all heavy weapon systems are integrated into the small mecha. Concentrated in the big mecha.
The small mecha has humanoid characteristics, and it controls the actions of the entire mecha. The two can be integrated and separated during wartime. After the separation, except for the inferior weapon system, the small mecha is a shrunken flying combat robot.
The reason for this is to allow the mecha troops to better adapt to the armed escort spacecraft and space environment.
Five days later, Li Sujia took Mecha No. 9 off Antarctica and flew to the high-altitude orbit of the Earth, where five armed escort spacecraft carrying 1,000 heavily equipped flying combat mechs were waiting for them.
Soon, the two sides merged, and the five armed escort spacecrafts sprayed out hot tail flames, flying like streaks of lightning toward the interstellar space 1.7 light-years away.
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