Just a few days after Yang Tianyi had a pleasant talk with Lieutenant General Anya, a certain habitable planet was located in the disputed star belt between the Human Federation and the Qien Empire.
Under the cover of the mountains, a small transport ship carrying thousands of Allied pioneers and equipment needed for various colonies slowly landed over a jungle that thrives due to the tropical climate. Countless leaves followed the propellers. The strong wind pressure brought by the nozzle spreads in all directions.
The strong wind shook the mountains and forests, but it could not move Joseph Magellan, an officer of the People's Federation who greeted the pioneers here. Except for the slightly narrowed eyes and the crazy twisting of the clothes, you can hardly tell that the strong wind he is facing now is enough to make an adult human stand unsteady.
After brushing away a few fallen leaves that had drifted to his body, Joseph, who was wearing a colonial defense uniform, walked slowly under the transport ship where the fixed bracket had been put down. He held the leather armed belt around his waist with both hands, looking very majestic.
Facing the slowly opening hatch and countless expectant and determined eyes behind it, he raised his hands and opened his arms to send his welcome and blessings.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Tianxixing! Oh my God! As soon as I see your energetic look, it reminds me of what the Generalissimo once said."
"Seeing that you are so energetic makes me look forward to the future of the Federation even more!"
There was not much pleasantries, and the pioneers who arrived at their destination knew their responsibilities clearly. So not long after, in addition to the high-level leaders responsible for directing the work of the pioneers who were still meeting to discuss some issues, thousands of young men and women who had been assigned jobs picked up their tools and equipment and drove the projects brought by the transport ship. Machinery was added to the construction of colonial strongholds.
I believe that with their efforts, an area suitable for human habitation will soon be opened up among the vast mountains that have not yet been officially named. Barracks and various functional colonial buildings for living will also be built there. It rises from the flat land.
But the problem is that since they are not the only colonists with official backgrounds on Tianxi Star, the possibility of establishing a stable colony before forming a town is very slim for them.
Because this planet is an unowned planet that was discovered by the scientific expedition team to have a giant Bessarian stone mine.
The Human Federation, which arrived first, called her Tianxixing, while the outer-ring colonists of the Qien Empire who followed closely called her "Krohoka," which means "brand new treasure."
With the attention of the entire galaxy focused on this, the consequences of anything that happens on this planet, no matter how small, will be infinitely magnified. At this time, the People's Federation continued to send new transport ships to build colonial strongholds and military bases, obviously not wanting to let this dangerous powder keg continue to exist.
Instead of worrying about it every day and guarding against it, it is better to detonate the powder keg proactively and use the fleet and army to decide the final ownership of this planet.
War, the highest form and most violent means of conflict between political groups, may reappear in the galaxy that has spent decades in peace.
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"Captain Ernst-Rachel, is that right?"
Joseph, who had arranged the work for the pioneers, walked into the simple conference room of the transport ship and saw Captain Ernst, who had been waiting for a long time. The latter's upright posture made Joseph couldn't help but laugh: "This is not a United Star, Captain Rachel doesn't have to So formal.”
As he said that, he handed over the cup with tea in his hand and joked: "I can tell from the look of you that this is your first time leaving the United Stars. Did your teacher at the military school tell you about coming to work in the colony? What should I pay attention to?"
Facing the chief's question, Ernst suddenly became nervous. After thinking hard for a while, he finally came up with a few things to pay attention to, which made Joseph, who was sitting in front of him, burst into laughter.
"Hahaha, Ernst, if I can call you that." Seeing the other party nodding, Joseph smiled and explained: "There is nothing to pay attention to in the colony, whether it is Tianxixing or other places. in this way."
"The Grand Marshal has given us the power to develop and use the resources of these planets to build colonies. Just like a mother gives life to her child, each colony is a new beginning for the pioneers. If even a newborn baby is required With those troublesome rules and regulations imposed on them, if they were wise, they probably wouldn’t be willing to come to this world, right?”
Joseph's profound remarks immediately made Ernst stand up. After giving a military salute to the former, he stood up straight and loudly stated that he would never live up to the expectations of the generalissimo. Under the leadership of Major Joseph Magellan, he established the Tianxi Colony. The National Defense Forces took up their first posts.
"It's okay, it's okay. Just saying nice things won't work."
Pulling Ernst by the sleeve of his military uniform and pulling him back to his seat, Joseph's eyes, which had always been full of smiles, became serious.
He connected a data hard drive to the holographic projector in the center of the conference table, and immediately a spherical three-dimensional projection appeared in front of the two of them, with the equator as the boundary, and many large and small objects clearly distributed on it. Yellow dots and green dots.
There is an arrow inserted into one of the small green dots near the equator, which represents their current position.
Obviously, the projection shows the current distribution of forces on the entire Tianxi Star. The yellow ones are the bases established by the Qien Empire, while the green dots are the colonial strongholds established by their human federation.
"Ernst, you see, we are less than a few hundred kilometers away from Tianxi City, the capital of the colony, and similarly, the nearest military stronghold established by those Stink Lizards is not far from us."
Looking at the densely packed small colonial strongholds and military bases on the planet projection, Ernst was a little puzzled and said: "Why do we build so many strongholds on the planet? Although I have never been to other colonies, but generally not all Build a city around a large colonial ship, and then slowly spread out to form a city cluster with the capital as the center?”
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, a typical greenhouse flower. Apart from the dogma in books, he knows nothing about the truly useful knowledge among the stars."
Major Joseph took a sip of tea and smacked his lips. He looked at Ernst who turned sideways and pretended to be humbly asking for advice, and slowly explained.
According to his guess, after Generalissimo Beauclare learned that there was a Bessarian stone mine on the Tianxi Star, his first thought should not be war but trying to resolve the matter peacefully, and the Qien Empire should be the same.
According to the latest version of the Galactic Colonization Act signed and passed by all member states in the Senate of the Star Ocean Community, the above provisions clearly stipulate how to solve the issue of the ownership of the highest colonial power on unowned planets.
Among them, planets that are jointly colonized by multiple civilization empires will be calculated based on the number and quality of colonies established by each country. After the mediation team sent by the Star Sea Community uses professional formulas to calculate, whoever scores higher on the planet will be colonized. In whose hands the power belongs.
Quantity is easy to understand as the number of colonial strongholds on the planet, but quality is not so easy to solve.
As a professional team sent by the Xinghai Community, they can tell at a glance whether the establishment time and development level of the colony are normal. A giant city built by piling up a large amount of resources in a short period of time will actually lose points for the empire participating in the colonial competition. Conducive to the final competition.
But here’s the problem. As a newly discovered planet, the Qin Empire and the Human Federation simply don’t have the time and opportunity to slowly pile up the established facts of mass composition. Therefore, they can only increase the number of colonial strongholds in a short period of time through this crazy method. Gain a scoring advantage.
The provisions in the Colonial Act were originally formulated to prevent old colonies established by weak empires from being seized by other empires. They did not address the issue of competition between colonies discovered by multiple empires at the same time and of equal size. Clearly defined.
This has also led to the fact that the current colonial competition between the Qin Empire and the Human Federation, in which they kill a thousand enemies and lose a thousand themselves, will never come to fruition.
As a civilization capable of traveling across galaxies, even if the foundation of the Human Federation is somewhat inferior, it is still compared to the established empire, the Qien Empire. If it were other empires in the galaxy, there is a high probability that they would not dare to compete with the overflowing Human Alliance for the colonial power of Tianxi Star.
Judging by the speed with which the Qien Empire established a stronghold and the resources invested, Major Joseph believed that the Generalissimo had given up on the plan for a peaceful settlement. Because even if the entire planet is covered by a steel jungle in the end, the scores between the Human Federation and the Qien Empire will probably be tied.
And until the colonists and legions of the Qien Empire are completely driven away, the development of the Besserian Stone Mine is even more out of the question.
Captain Ernst, who was already confused by Joseph's "really useful knowledge", took advantage of the major's drinking tea to soothe his throat and quickly raised his hand to signal and asked: "Sir, I probably understand all these bills and everything. If war is really unavoidable, then please just tell us what we should do now!"
Joseph smiled slightly when he heard what Ernst said, and made a proposal that almost made the other party jump from his seat in shock.
"Now the two countries are just one excuse away from going to war. Instead of sitting here and wasting time, we might as well create an 'accident' to help the Emperor and Generalissimo of the Stink Lizard make up their minds."
"This, this is treason! If the truth is exposed, sir, you and I will both be hanged..."
Ernst, who gradually lowered his voice as he spoke, finally fell silent - as a professional soldier, it was true that he was not quick-thinking, but after Joseph's explanation, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the outbreak of war was just Sooner or later it's a matter of time.
It is recognized throughout the galaxy that the foundation of the Qien Empire is stronger than that of the Federation. The later the war breaks out, the more prepared the Qien people will be, and the smaller the chances of the Federation will win.
When Ernst, who had spent a few minutes persuading himself, looked up again, Joseph smiled, because he saw the same desire for war in the young man's eyes, just like his younger self.
"When I was a child, my father once told me that Magellan was a great surname. In that era when ships still needed to be driven by sails, a man with the same surname as me led a fleet to launch mankind's first voyage on earth. Sailing around the world.”
"Even though he unfortunately died on the way, the crew of the fleet still inherited his legacy and chose to continue on the road that was temporarily unknown but ultimately successful. From that time on, I knew that in my life Destined to do some earth-shattering things.”
"So believe me, Ernst, we must fight this battle!"
