Citadel. [No pop-up novel website]
In his hidden room, the main god "Catalyst" sat a little lonely in front of the big screen, and the content displayed on the screen was flashing at an extremely fast speed. Constantly switching between real-life pictures of major star fields in the Milky Way without missing any corner. The Citadel Space Station has a complete detection system and can monitor 96% of the relay star fields in the entire galaxy and 72% of the star fields that civilizations are temporarily unable to set foot in.
The Catalyst's consciousness can cover almost all the dark star fields that cannot be detected by the Citadel. But he never saw the expected target appear, and the Dawn... disappeared completely!
This is different from the last time Lu Yuan disappeared from the online world - Lu Yuanwan. It just means that Catalyst can no longer grasp Lu Yuan's whereabouts and loses points in intelligence collection. But this time, a spaceship as huge as the Dawn can actually disappear? Unless she leaves the galaxy!
Dawn's withdrawal from the Spear Galaxy was not beyond Catalyst's expectations. After all, when one of the twin blue giants suddenly increases its brightness by two magnitudes and becomes one of the brightest stars in the entire galaxy; while the other blue giant suddenly disappears - this astronomical phenomenon will definitely cause The interest of all civilizations in the Milky Way - both major professional observation centers and amateurs - have turned their telescopes to this star field.
In the news right now, the most popular topics are "The Citadel was attacked by Jace's fleet" and "The mystery of the disappearance of the double blue giants", occupying major pages respectively. In addition to the overwhelming news about the Citadel appearing on every media terminal, the strange white vortex photo of the Spear Star Territory now also occupies every corner of the media terminals. As long as you live in the Milky Way, it is impossible not to know. Even the catalyst is polluted by all kinds of news all day long, and ordinary people have nowhere to hide.
Therefore, both actively and passively, when all creatures in the galaxy are attracted by the Spear Galaxy, it becomes inevitable for Dawn to evacuate the Spear Galaxy...if they do not want to be exposed to the entire galaxy. But now their whereabouts are suddenly a mystery!
After searching for the hundredth time but failing to find any trace of Dawn, "Catalyst" finally anxiously grabbed something and threw it at the big screen!
"Xing Yan, you..." Catalyst stopped mid-sentence.
Because he remembered that Xing Yan also left. He is alone now...
After a moment of silence, "Catalyst" switched the screen to another part and began to carefully watch other information-human beings became normal, and there was an open and secret fight around the parliamentary seats; Shepard saved the Citadel. Becoming a hero heavily publicized in the news; Cerberus was jointly declared persona non grata by Turians and Salarians due to unauthorized research on Krogan virus genes... But these intelligences that he was once very concerned about cannot attract him now. the slightest interest...
Catalyst turned off the big screen and all the lights in the room, and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows. A few days ago, the most intense war in the entire galaxy broke out here. Reapers, residents of the Citadel, Star Alliance Fifth Fleet, Black Jays, Quarian Immigration Fleet, Cerberus... countless forces are fighting here risking their lives! At that moment, the Citadel bloomed with a light that no one could match. Now that the war is over, only the endless city lights that stretch into the distance remain under the night.
Looking down at the bustling scene, in the empty room, the shadow of the catalyst looks extremely lonely.
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Let’s not talk about the “catalyst” that finally understood the importance of good gay friends in the face of a boring world.
First, let’s turn the time scale back slightly to the moment just after the battle on the Dawn.
Although the war had just ended, after giving the crew 8 hours of rest, the huge Dawn Mothership was activated again. She sailed away from the defunct Lagrange point and headed towards the battlefield. Various small aircraft, heavy armors (with the ability to operate in outer space...even unfinished mechas with only cockpits, etc.), all equipment that can enter outer space swarmed out of the Dawn. Be the first to do so. Flying towards the wreckage-strewn battlefield.
Facing the wreckage of the battleships whose internal fusion reactions had not yet ended, they dropped freezing bombs on the still burning hulls to cool down urgently, and then dragged the large pieces of metal towards the Dawn Mothership. The subsequent disassembly and processing work will be handed over to the maintenance spider sea. Whether it is the corpse of an overlord-level Reaper or a thigh of a heavy-duty mecha, they are all objects collected by the crew - the Dawn is really frightened by the lack of resources, and now as long as the wreckage exceeds one cubit, it will not Let it go!
As for the debris below an elbow, it will be collected through a large-scale electromagnetic field. In short, this time the ground will be wiped out three feet, and apart from the battleships that crashed in the blue giant star, no trace of the wreckage will be spared!
In the blink of an eye. The entire star field is full of scenes like ants moving.
Dawn's repeater activated again. The starry sky flickered, and as the transmission ended, "Matrix" transport ships 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 returned to the Dawn. These transport ships are exactly the same size as the Matrix-I ships. They are all huge ships with a length of 15 kilometers, a width of 4 kilometers, and a height of 2.5 kilometers - these transport ships have tens of thousands of intelligent warehouses inside, and can transport materials for rebuilding several Dawn Motherships at one time!
They are battlefield cleaning storage ships that Dawn has prepared in advance.
After leaving the Spear Star Territory, these spacecraft did not go too far and parked near a forgotten secondary relay near the Star Territory. As soon as the war is over, these ships will pass through the channel established by the secondary relay to the Dawn. Return as quickly as possible and clean up the battlefield. In other words, Dawn has formulated a complete plan to clean up the battlefield from the beginning, and the Dawn Regiment has never worried about failure...
The shapes of the "Matrix" are all regular rectangles to ensure a large volume and facilitate "stacking" when necessary, but their internal structures are different. The sweeper can open all six doors, and even split the door left and right in the middle to ensure smooth transportation. As the ship arrived, they released millions of maintenance spiders, which also flocked to the wreckage of the battleship piled near the Dawn.
The first to be broken down were the fragments of the Lightning Strike Fleet and the heavy mecha, because the materials they used were consistent with the Dawn's general materials. After being decomposed, more mechanical spiders were created, and the number soon exceeded the 10 billion mark. Then these mechanical spiders began to flock to those "harder-to-gnaw" synthetic material warships...
The Dawn Mothership sits in the center and widely opens the "defense negative energy" barrier to protect the crew working outside the ship from the energy of the Netherworld Sea. Then the Dawn began to "light up" in a flash - it was a zero-ring magic created by Lu Yuan.
Do you still remember what Lu Yuan did when he saved the "Courage" cargo ship in the Spear Galaxy? He used a little magic to restrain the Element Zero scattered in space. These element zeros were then used to form a weight-reducing array, and even a huge relay was sent back to the Dawn.
Now after the war, a huge amount of Element Zero is scattered in the cemetery where 22,000 Reaper warships were buried! Fortunately for the wreckage, the adhesiveness of metal means that most of them will stay together even if they are torn apart. Debris can also be easily collected through electromagnetic and gravitational fields. But Element Zero is different. They are very stable and can still exist as a single element at the extremely high temperatures when the battleship core explodes. But when the confinement field outside the core of Mass Effect collapses, Element Zero will tend to spread out evenly.
Now the Dawn is wrapping these zero elements floating in the dark universe one by one into "light balls", and then being picked off by special mechanical spiders...
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"War is the chorus of roaring cannons, war is the jingling of gold coins..." Yakumo Lan hummed and ran across the bridge. She was holding a large pile of electronic boards and was jumping up and down as she walked. Anyone can see how happy the fox shikigami's heart is from her swaying nine big tails.
The song she sang was a song composed by Misaka girls - "Zhu Jun, I like war!" ", it is said that it has been widely circulated and has the tendency to become the military song of the new generation.
"Why is she so happy?" Minami Rika, who had just been caught by Zhao Min, was very puzzled when she saw the way Yakumo Lan almost rushed into Yakumo Purple's office. In order to adjust the "conflict" between Nan Lixiang, Busujima Saeko and Lao Jia, Zhao Min had to temporarily assign these strikers to her direct command, and Nan Lixiang and Saezi became her temporary subordinates. assistant.
"Because the harvest is huge!" Zhao Min was also beaming with joy. She casually pulled a virtual screen over to show Nan Lixiang and the others. But the large series of constantly changing numbers displayed above would only make them dizzy. Seeing that the eyes of the two people were about to turn into mosquito coils, Zhao Min smiled and explained, "This is our reserve of element zero... We have collected 140 million units of element zero so far! You guys Do you know how much that is?”
Minami Rika and Busujima shook their heads together.
"It's the combined amount of element zero held by the three major races in the parliament! And this is just the beginning... God knows how many element zero those reapers have snatched!" When Zhao Min said this data, he felt like drinking in the dog days of summer. Mung bean soup is refreshing and makes you feel happy from the bottom of your heart! This war was really worth fighting! As long as this harvest can be ensured, Dawn will have unilateral war potential for the first time!
"By the way, hasn't Yakumo Blue always disliked the Dawn? Why is she still so happy?" Saeko suddenly remembered that Yakumo Blue was famous on the ship for turning her head and making a disdainful look at everything she saw. .
"She is a fox girl." Nan Lixiang complained, "Aren't all fox girls arrogant?" (To be continued.)
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