For a whole month, Lu Yuan drove his dilapidated spaceship, loaded with junk merchandise as a disguise, from Eden to Novilia, then to the Arcturus Space Station, and then returned to Earth, and then tracked down Gaga. Lin Space Station... suffered a net loss of 14,000 stars!
In one month, he traveled tens of thousands of light years, and the results he found were equally jaw-dropping. 【Read full text】
In a room at the "Gagarin" space station, Lu Yuan and Li Yunchen met face to face again. "Say yes first~ Regardless of whether things work out or not, the travel expenses must be reimbursed to me first!" Lu Yuan said first after handing over the summary of the investigation results and the encryption chip.
"Hey, man, what do you want to do!?" However, during this meeting, the relationship between the two people has changed from a student stealing school supplies and a businessman selling stolen goods to a relationship between a spy and an agent. At this time, Li Yunchen, who had read the intelligence summary, was yelling and screaming. He even kicked the table hard. "Do you know what you are doing? Oh my god... 12 members, if you are going to make a list of the Star Federation Council, why don't you just go to Arcturus and copy a list on the wall?!"
The "Gagarin" space station was built outside the orbit of Pluto and was the largest deep space space station built by mankind at that time. Originally used as the starting point for human beings to enter the outer solar system, it was called the "jumping point". Unfortunately, humans soon discovered the Prothean ruins on Mars. Everyone began to use black technology and discovered the "Charon" repeater, completely throwing the space station aside.
A large number of investors went bankrupt and committed suicide, and finally the space station was sold to Starlink for a fraction of the price. Since then, because of its silence and remoteness, it has been used by Star Alliance as a place to conduct certain dangerous experiments. However, it was precisely because of the remoteness here that it became the place where the two met for the first time. But obviously... this meeting was not very pleasant.
"Ha~ am I the one who issued this mission?" Lu Yuan retorted with a sneer, raising his legs on the table. Smoking with head tilted back. Although they had only been separated for two months, Lu Yuan's youthfulness as a student soldier had completely faded away, and he looked like an old mercenary. Li Yunchen looked at him with suspicion. He also corrected his attitude.
"You are afraid of these people just after digging them out... What about the future? The current list is full of dissatisfied congressmen, and there is not a single high-ranking official with real power! Let me tell you. This shows that what we are fishing for now is just shrimps. The fish is still behind!”
"Yes, Big Fish is behind you, you are awesome! You are Bond! But can you take care of me a little bit?" Lao Li squatted beside him depressedly and took out a cigarette. "I'm just a petty naval officer, a rich second-generation prodigal son... Any one of these congressmen can easily crush us... not because we discovered anything, just because we dare to investigate them! Or are you really Do you think that the Naval Intelligence Agency can have no scruples and be omnipotent?! Don’t be stupid! If I knew that you could really find out. I... I would... ugh~!"
"Naval Intelligence Agency? Our superior?" Lu Yuan found a word that interested him and immediately asked.
"Yes, but you shouldn't know this... That's confidential... And to be precise, it's just my superior! You are the mercenary I contacted... But now, we are completely tied together! This list As long as we hand it in, both of us will definitely die and no one can escape." Li Yunchen said in frustration. When General Hackett assigned this task to the newcomer Lu Yuan through him, he thought it was a joke. …
"Contact General Hackett. The general should make the decision!" Lu Yuan slid the list down the table to Li Yunchen, lit another cigarette and stopped talking. Li Yunchen's hand holding the list trembled. After hesitating for a long time, he crushed the cigarette with his teeth and walked out! Part of this space station is allocated to the Navy, and it happens to be under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Fleet. It is relatively safe to contact General Hackett here.
After Li Yunchen left, Lu Yuan sighed deeply, showing a tired look.
He had not originally planned to dig so deep, but just to verify something, Lu Yuan was persistent, even if he used some magical means. I also persisted in pursuing it! As a result, he became increasingly angry and disappointed!
Someone once said. A successful politician, in addition to having a wide range of supporters. You also need to have a determined opponent. Therefore, don’t think that the congressmen involved are marginal figures. If you observe carefully, you will find that several of them have gained a certain reputation because they "specialize in blackmailing" a certain big shot - in fact, he is probably the agent of that big shot...
From the "selection" to the bidding company, from the bidding company to the parliamentarian's bill... If a few thousand stars can buy a luxury product and a comfortable trip to "Elysium" - then how much is involved? With military purchases worth billions or billions of stars, the only product you can buy is politics! Earthlings, Asaris, Turians... This time for the Earth represents the "selection" of massive arms purchases. Twelve giant arms companies and hundreds of agents are running around during this period, using all means. Extremely.
The most typical one is a transaction that Lu Yuan caught the clue and thoroughly investigated. It is the base security system solution provided by "Elkoss United" company - this involves the security solutions of hundreds of human military bases and colonies, but it is about to fall into the hands of "Elkoss United", a Waller company!
Do you know who the Waller people are? This is Goblin in space! They are a subsidiary race of the Turians. The Wallers themselves are only good at business. The galaxy's star financial system was established by the Wallers. The Wallers' own safety depends on the protection of the Turians, and they themselves are not good at most things related to military affairs.
The most famous product strategy of "elkoss United" is to produce simplified versions of high-end products produced in mountainous areas... This is the product that will be obtained in this billion-star purchase case. Compared with the best overall choice, All I can say is...it's not bad.
In fact, the real private exchange is the coordinates of two habitable planets and a series of operations surrounding these two planets.
Once the deal is completed, these two habitable planets will be "happily" discovered by an expedition supported by a big figure in the Star Alliance. Afterwards, the media will tout that humans will launch a new round of colonization craze - this is the first step; the famous Milky Way The rogue race Battery claimed that they were the first to discover these two planets (the Wallers sold the coordinates again. In order to compete for human living space, the big shots brazenly announced that they would "fight at all costs"! Showing their hawkish demeanor - this is The second step; just when the war was about to break out, the big shots strategized and finally succeeded in persuading the members of the Citadel Council at the last moment! The results of the Citadel arbitration brought the two planets to the Star Alliance - this is the third step!
What an inspiring process! What a classic operation! Far-sighted, iron-fisted, with strong personal charisma - this is how a perfect political image is established!
During the whole process, the big shots earned enough political prestige. The Volers made enough stars through several transactions and manipulation of colonial stocks. The Citadel Council showed who is the boss. After the big guys took office, they could ensure that the Volers Le Ren's deal went smoothly and was even further expanded.
Those two planets were actually discovered by the Turians, the overlord of the Wallers, very early on. Because of their poor location and lack of special resources, further development was abandoned. Throwing it to humans will just lead the development direction of mankind to the chaotic World God Galaxy, and become a buffer zone between the Citadel Council and the World God Galaxy... It's that simple!
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Lu Yuan silently called up the universal tool, crossed out the name "Star Alliance" from his big plan, thought about it, and replaced it with the Cerberus organization.
Strengthening the human fleet, preparing for war as early as possible, improving human technology, and enhancing the overall strength of human beings - as long as these people are still leading, these are all unrealistic!
The Star Alliance Parliament is not the unified government of mankind that was born after the Global Unification War - it is a coalition government formed by the earth in response to the pan-galactic era - so the Star Alliance Parliament also inherited the decadent style of the earth country, and everything in it He is a senior politician! These people only show off, but don't know how to do anything... No wonder, later on, the Reaper warships broke through the Big Horn Space Station and reached the Earth! The men of the Star Alliance Council still don’t believe that the Reapers really exist!
Just like the Parliament of the Citadel, as long as the Star Alliance Parliament closes their eyes, they will not believe it no matter how much evidence Lu Yuan presents!
Even if they believe it, if you propose to build more dreadnoughts, they are thinking of the "Farrickson Treaty Restricting Dreadnoughts"; if you propose to mobilize the fleet to deploy in advance, they are considering affecting the interstellar situation; if you propose to strengthen the autonomous operations of the squadron, capabilities, what they are worried about is that the army is out of control... These are normal people's reactions - don't mention those dirty private things.
If humanity is really wiped out by the Reapers, half of the people in the Council can be killed as Reaper spies, even if they have never been mind-controlled.
Within the Star Alliance, apart from the Star Alliance Navy who had participated in the "First Contact War" (Hackett, Anderson... almost all the generals who later fought with the Reapers had participated in the "First Contact War"), That leaves the Cerberus Organization.
Although Cerberus goes to extremes, conducts human experiments, engages in terrorism, and takes advantage of others... after all, they are the first organization among humans to know and acknowledge the existence of the Reapers, and they are also the organization most actively preparing. When the end of the galaxy is still ten years away, covering the eyes of the people and doing nothing is a greater sin.
According to the plot of Mass Effect, it can be seen that the government and society composed of tens of billions of humans have to be saved by Shepard in the end... The success of individual heroism is precisely the failure of the entire society...
Unable to drag the paralyzed giant to dance, Lu Yuan finally had no choice but to bypass the Star Alliance Council.
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