An Unscientific Mechanic

What to do with us? From the current point of view, you as a whole are in a rational and orderly state, and there are multiple civilizations with different technical levels living in peace.

From these points of view, my think tank and I believe that your integration department tends to use peaceful means to deal with our civilization, so what are your plans? "

"First...synchronize your technical database first. We need to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of you." Ian watched the exhibition teams cautiously approaching each other on the field.

"why?"

"In order to more objectively evaluate the technical level and productivity level of your civilization. In principle, all civilizations are equal, but the greater the power, the greater the responsibility.

It is impossible for a civilization that has just walked out of the mother galaxy with a foreign trade superluminal engine to fight against a swarm of hundreds of thousands of insects. Similarly, it is impossible for a civilization that is still using a rocket engine to fight near a neutron star. .

In addition, I personally want to know the progress of your civilization's research and development of super-light engines. The coordinate modification engines are all made by you. I can't make any kind of super-light engines if you ignore it. "

"Is there a super-light engine, does it affect us?"

"Joining the Integration Department will have an impact. If you don't join, there will be no impact. Your civilization is so special. The productivity has reached the point where most interstellar countries are willing to betray you. If you are not a member of the "Superlight Club", follow A bunch of No. 1 tanks are mixed with a giant mouse." Ian thought for a moment about the strength division of the Integration Department.

Eleven including the Great Sword World and the Slaughter Reincarnation World have not left their home planets, and are still receiving assistance from other civilizations in climbing the technological tree under the banner of the Integration Department.

The rest are large interstellar nations with multiple colonial stars.

If this empire is mixed into the group of non-superluminal club members...

The style of painting is too strange.

"Is there any problem? Or is it just because of your psychological factors." The general frowned.

"Because of the privilege issue, or rather, the issue of special affairs.

Prior to this, the Ministry of Integration’s diplomatic system was simply classified according to the three levels of uncivilized-not leaving the parent star-and not yet pointed out the superluminal technology. I never thought that there are still you who have not left the star system and did not point out. Faster than light technology, but productivity and combat effectiveness are comparable to the civilization of interstellar nations. "

"So it was a question left when the policy was made?"

"Yes, my Minister of Foreign Affairs told me that if you, who have not yet developed superluminal technology, are placed on the same level as members of the superluminal club, there is a high probability that there will be disturbances on the planet with low technological level, pursuing the same power as you. I can't understand why we can't do special things. Your strength is there, and there is no problem on par with the members of the Superlight Club. It should only be a matter of time before you point out Superlight Technology."

"Yes, I was told that."

"Tell me? Wait... You just said that the Civilization of the Integration Department is equal."

"Rights are equal, but strength is not. Inequality in strength leads to inequality in obligations and responsibilities.

For example, the Integration Department has a rule that we will do our best to ensure the long-term stability of all civilized circles.

When encountering an insect swarm attack, there is only a civilization circle of a single planet, which can't even provide much population.

In the last time against the Swarm, the number of crew lost in the Integration Department approached 100 million. How many people do you think a non-interstellar country needs to provide so many professional soldiers?

According to statistics from the Ministry of Integration and Integration, generally speaking, a non-interstellar country with a normal economic structure can support about one percent of its total population in a peaceful state, and the limit state should be squeezed to one-fifth. If the wartime system is activated, it may be possible to squeeze out one-twentieth of the army, but in this case, it is very extreme. It is to squeeze everything including the old, weak, sick and disabled as machines to ensure the country’s industrial operation.

In other words, nearly 100 million soldiers died in that war, which is equivalent to squeezing the war potential of a civilization with a population of 10 billion in one month.

And how many ten billion people can a civilization that has not left its home planet and headed toward the universe to reserve for such consumption? "

"I think I understand. When we become a special case, they want to expand this special case to popularize, but they don't have the ability to fulfill the responsibilities of Big Brother. In the end, no matter what, troublemakers and onlookers will leave unhappy seeds in their hearts. Right. But why should you care about their opinions, wouldn't it be good to accept them directly as vassals?"

"What I care about is their possibilities."

"possibility?"

"They have the possibility of freely growing into super civilizations. Each civilization has its own characteristics in the development process, which leads to their own characteristics in the later development of their technology. Just like the FTL technology used by the Ministry of Integration and Development Seven kinds of them, some of them are similar to some of the principles are completely different, and even some of the principles are the same but the means of implementation are different. This is a wonderful thing. As our integration department that finally aggregates almost all the technologies, we have benefited a lot.

Once a civilization grows up on its own, the benefits in this process are far greater than the war gains of taking them as vassals.

To be honest, the general clone soldier of the Integration Department is not even as expensive as your dress. "

"Clone?"

"Yes, clones. The members of the regular fleet of the Integration Department are clones and combat robots. The cost of combat robots is slightly higher, but the maintenance cost is lower. The cost of cloned troops is lower, but the follow-up maintenance cost is higher. On average. The two are almost the same."

"This is really... different from what I thought." The general shook his head. "Did you choose to use the clone force to maintain this possibility?"

"Of course not, it's because of convenience... Customized clone army is much cheaper than hiring and incorporating natural person army... And using clones and combat robot army is more suitable than recruiting to form the first wave of initial army, and there is no need to worry about rebellion, quality All thief is good. The army itself will not have a regional political tendency because of their origin." Ian shrugged.

When the Integration Department was just established, there was no territory, no colonies or anything else. Where did the army come from, the only poor and white people could only make it by themselves...

During the opening ceremony exhibition game, Ian and the general also talked about a lot of basic cooperation matters. After grasping the general direction, the specific content allowed the people under his hands to play freely...

In the evening, when Ian was about to return to the Yamato, the Halo Research Base sent a report.

The construction of the Halo World Advance Base is completed, and the timeline comparison is completed.

UNSC standard time, January 3, 2531. The Ring Belt event twenty years ago.

"In 2531..." The Chief Sergeant, as a related person in this world, also received this information. "The Abundant Star has not fallen yet."

"...January 3" Dr. Anderson also saw this information. "Fuji is still alive... Serena is also alive..."

"Well, gentlemen, we are going to perform a rescue operation, again. Our task is to prevent the continuation of the war, control the ring and the ark, and destroy the flood." Ian handed over the Yamato body. Sharan was given control, and his attention was focused on the correspondence of the Flood Demon.

"According to Cortana, February 2531 is the final stage of the Battle of the Fortune Stars. General Preston Cole will lead his fleet to battle the Covenant fleet in the Fortune Star System and win the first victory. In addition, According to Professor Anderson’s memories, on February 4, the UNSC starship she was on board, the Fire Spirit, will arrive at Plenty Star and participate in the final land battle phase of the Battle of Plenty Star.

On February 9th, the Spirit of Fire will arrive in the Acadia colony and will be captured by the Star Covenant.

On February 22nd, Dr. Anderson arrived at Shield World 0459.

On February 23, the Fire Spirit arrived and engaged the Star Covenant.

On February 25, the Spirit of Fire detonated the shield world and fled, starting a 28-year drifting journey.

In view of the fact that UC World has discovered the parallel world of its own world, this world is regarded as Halo World 03 after Dr. Anderson’s Halo World 01 and Spartan 117’s Halo World 02.

There will be more ground operations in this operation, so the troops dispatched by the Headquarters of the Integration Department include Dinesha’s Hellsong battle group, Rita's Phoenix battle group, and my direct frigate group.

The 31st to 35th Fleet of the Standing Fleet is on standby in the Pandora system, ready to enter the arena at any time.

By the way, I remember seeing a technologically anomalous planet in the previous report? I remember there was a report that the world found space folding equipment and rigid shields used by individual soldiers? "Ian looked at Misato.

"The one with the explosion of abnormal technology and the transformation of society to a strong female society? That's right, the flying individual armor named InfiniteStratos is indeed equipped with an extremely advanced individual rigid shield." Miri nodded.

"The Flood cannot infect units with shields. Let your intelligence department enter the battlefield, find the inventor of IS, and obtain the shield technology. If possible, incorporate her into the technical department."

"Understood, I will go there and stare."

"Padme, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also sends people to follow. We need to negotiate with both sides of the Star Alliance UNSC at the same time. The active diplomatic team also sends several diplomatic teams that can participate in the Star Alliance. It does not rule out that the Star Alliance needs to rely on fists. speak."

"Understood, I will arrange it." Padmé's holographic image nodded. Her body was taking care of Luke and Leia in the bedroom of the Enterprise number, but did not come in person.

"Any questions?"

"What about other civilized armies?"

"It's all voluntary. The troops participating in ground combat have the minimum requirement to be equipped with full coverage power armor. The hunch tells me that this time we need more marine troops than the fleet. Let the fleet replenish the supply of combat robots in advance. Begin to study the use of high-efficiency weapons against the Flood based on the samples of the Flood."

"I understand, but based on the current information, ordinary individual weapons and equipment can cause enough damage to the Flood, and small infected bodies can cause critical damage with the flamethrower of World War II." Linda turned to look. Recent research materials. "I don’t know if it’s because of the loss of the corpse brain beast. The flood demons in the city of fraternity have lost their activity except for small infections. For the other types of infections in the Cortana record and in the game, we cannot obtain them here. Necessary data."

"Someone has proposed using whiteboards to clone humans for infection experiments, but the observations show that the floods will not infect such white clones with no thought activity. We believe that their target of infection is "wisdom" rather than organisms. Organisms The infection is only additional. The principle is currently being studied by our team." Ritsuko added Linda's words. "The members of the team who use intelligent creatures are very repulsive, so they did not use intelligent creatures to carry out infection experiments."

"The bottom line is better not to break through. The Shield World has samples for your research." Ian is still a bit disgusted with the biological experiments of intelligent creatures. "The fleet that received the battle order is ready to set sail and call our guests. Let them come to the Enterprise, and we will take them home."

"To understanding."

"Then, disband, and complete the assembly at the forward base of Halo World 03 before January 10, UNSC time, and arrive at Harvest Star on February 1 to participate in the battle against the Covenant."

Three days later, the three fleets completed their battle assembly and temporarily assembled near the Yamato World Halo Research Station.

"Everyone is here?"

"All members are here, and the research and experimental ship of Dr. Ritsuko Akagi of the Ministry of Technology and the diplomatic ship of the active diplomatic team have also arrived. The "guest" has arrived in the reception room." The captain of the Enterprise replied. "Other civilizations, a total of fifteen observation ships have also arrived, in accordance with the requirements of the team."

"Very well, let Titan build a temporary star gate, and we will pass."

Hundreds of warships lit their propellers, slowly accelerating, and the output of the space-time stable position generator inside the ship rose.

"Understand, enter the world coordinates, recognize cross-world navigation signals, and the wormhole is unfolding."

The trans-world engines of the three Titans have increased their power, and an artificial wormhole with a diameter of tens of kilometers has been unfolded behind the hull.

"The wormhole signal is confirmed, and the whole ship has sounded the jump alarm."

"Fleet, go through the hole."

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"The entire fleet arrived, and the entire ship system is normal."

"Read the navigation signal of the forward base, the fleet is moving forward."

"Very well. After a short break, the Enterprise and the first battle group of the Guards will go to the Star of Harvest, the Marine Corps of the Hellsong and the Phoenixes will transfer to the Enterprise. Remember to bring enough landing ships. "

"Dinisa understands ~www.novelmtl.com~ and begins to prepare for the transfer."

"Rita Brataski understands and begins to prepare for the transfer."

Half a day later, the Enterprise and the first battle group began a long-distance leap. Seventeen starships turned into streamers and disappeared from the space near the forward base.

"Commander, we have fifteen minutes to reach the fertile galaxy." At 16:35 on February 1st in UNSC World, the shipboard AI of the Enterprise woke up Ian who was taking a nap.

"I see, wake up the guests and take them to the bridge." Ian opened his eyes, got up from the sofa, opened the door, and walked towards the bridge.

"The second combat configuration of the entire ship, fully armed online, communication team, ready to contact the UNSC fleet."

"The Hellsong Wars and the Phoenix Wars are ready to land."

"The commander arrived at the bridge!"

"You continue." Ian walked to the captain's side. "How's it going?"

"Hyperspace exploration showed that there were a lot of high-energy reactions near the end of the original transition, and the end of the transition has been fine-tuned. It is inferred that the cosmic warfare part of the Battle of Rich Star has begun." The captain took Ian to the holographic director. "There is a massive response here, which is suspected to be the enemy's flagship."

"There are still 15 seconds to arrive."

"The ship's correspondent, the countdown to the broadcast of the whole ship has begun, and the alarm is sounded for the impact.

Seventeen ships in sequence in the high orbit of the fertile star, leaving the hyperspace on the periphery of the battlefield.

What greeted us was the extremely tragic fleet battle. The loss of UNSC was far greater than the loss of the Covenant. It would cost three UNSC warships for almost every Covenant warship destroyed.

The wreckage has covered the entire fertile star's high orbit.

"The first combat configuration, contact UNSC, and CIC will scan the planet's surface battles."