Resurrection Empire

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After the lead fleet left, many relatives and friends left behind by the defectors took the initiative to find the managers on the ships and hand in the paper letters left by these people before they left.

The reason why they did not leave electronic files through the "net" is probably because the habit formed by Ren Zhong because he was afraid of revealing his secrets under the eyes of the "net" was spread unknowingly.

Many people said that they didn't really want to leave the Origin Star Fleet, they just felt that someone had to go outside to develop, get in touch with people and things outside, follow up with the development of science and technology, accumulate contacts and resources, and facilitate the expansion of the Origin Star forces and needs. There is a bridgehead to communicate with other forces in the star cluster.

It has to be said that the considerations of these people do have some truth.

As a result, the perception of these "traitors" by the top fleet has secretly improved a lot.

But new doubts arose in the minds of the senior management.

Since even the best of the low-level staff are aware of this problem, why didn't the earl, who was exhaustive, make arrangements for this in advance.

At the meeting, Ren Zhong answered this question.

It's not that he hasn't thought about it, but since there are professions like Psychic Masters on Yuanxing, he doesn't think that he can easily take the initiative to plant spies when his side is at a technical disadvantage.

Instead of doing it deliberately, it is better to let nature take its course. He even hopes that those who take the initiative to leave a "crime record" will not worry about the source star fleet at all in the future, but will serve the new owner and create value in a down-to-earth manner.

As long as he can successfully establish a foothold in the Nanxiang Star Cluster with the Origin Star Fleet, and his strength will become stronger and stronger, the descendants and families left by those who left the fleet today will always be able to wait for the opportunity to activate the bridgehead identity without any worries. Instead of becoming an activated spy now, and then putting yourself in danger and falling into a precarious situation.

Ren Zhong said: "It's one thing to get more help than others. But the empire is actually the same as Yuan Xing at the beginning. It implements the same jungle law of the jungle. When we are still weak, we can't create value by placing spies outside. , On the contrary, it will only lead to fire and troubles in life. Instead of pondering heresy, it is better to concentrate on developing ourselves. As long as we are strong enough, these people who choose to leave the fleet today will naturally become the bridgehead when many external forces try to contact us, which is the so-called diplomats."

"In the final analysis, strength has the final say. I know what they are thinking. They are worried that the human beings on the source star will be completely blocked in the Nanxiang star cluster and will be forced to close the country. But in fact, this is too much to worry about. The technology sharing of the Imperial Academy of Sciences At best, they can only block us in terms of resources, but technological blockade is not realistic. The only thing that will limit our technology is my title."

With Ren Zhong's statement, everyone immediately understood and relaxed a lot.

Next, at the meeting, everyone first analyzed the internal situation of the South Nine Galaxy from a diplomatic perspective.

According to the basic positioning of the empire, the range of fiefdoms that can be obtained by different titles is different.

Earls can control fiefdoms ranging from dozens to hundreds of planetary systems.

The viscount fief cannot exceed ten adjacent planetary systems at most.

As for the baron's fiefdom, it suddenly fell to the range of a continent at least, and a planet at most.

The huge empire has built a unique civilization feature. Unlike the civilization on the surface of the planet that lives in a corner, no matter what you do in the empire, it will always be very slow and consume a lot of resources.

For example, if a scientific research activity is carried out on Yuanxing, there will only be millions of people participating at the same time if the scale is extremely large. The time from project establishment to achievement can be as short as several years or as long as decades, and rarely spans a hundred years. .

But in the empire, when the level of science and technology has developed to an astonishing height, if you want to make breakthroughs in some key areas and promote a core project at the level of basic science, you often need dozens of planetary systems, as many as Thousands of planetary systems are linked together, and the time to promote the project is often in units of a hundred years. It is not uncommon for an ultra-long period of 10 years or even [-] years.

This is not an exaggeration.

As far as some public knowledge obtained by the earl with heavy responsibilities is concerned, although the researchers and scholars in the Origin Star Fleet are working very hard, they still can only digest the ready-made knowledge.

No one can go one step further than existing knowledge. .

Even if it is just to verify the principle that has been completed, the resources and time required are beyond imagination.

These are not problems that can be solved by individual wisdom. They need a huge civilization to be supported by historical precipitation.

In terms of political and economic systems, the huge empire looks a bit like a loose but tight federation.

Interspersed in the royal family's territory, different nobles divide land boundaries according to title and strength in different regions.

Most of the ultra-long-distance trade across star clusters and star fields is mostly established on the communication platform established by the Ministry of Commerce of the Empire.

Relying on ultra-long-distance stargates and warping subspace channels, long-distance trade across thousands of light-years has become a feasible thing.

In terms of military, the ruling method of the machine empire is somewhat similar to the aristocratic private army system in medieval Europe on ancient earth.

Nobles with titles are obliged to recruit their own troops and form fleets to defend their fiefdoms.

Due to the war pressure between the four star countries, the machine empire does not restrict the nobles' independent development of military power at all.

As long as you can afford it, even a Viscount can own a star cluster fleet.On the contrary, the imperial royal family has stipulated the minimum combat power of different titles. If an earl only owns a planetary system-level fleet, and still fails to complete the expansion of troops after the grace period ends, the title will even be reduced.

Thanks to the convenient communication brought by the information flow technology, the fast movement ability brought by the stargate technology and the warp technology, and the natural hostile relationship between the empire's humans and the other three classification branches, even though the empire has a vast territory , the royal family is not worried about the rebellion of the nobles below.

Once it enters a period of large-scale war, the Imperial Royal Family will use Stargate technology to dispatch the powerful fleet directly under the Imperial Army to the front line, and simultaneously requisition the private fleets of nobles at all levels.

This kind of expropriation is not free. The royal family will give substantial rewards to the nobles who provide the army with military exploits, contribution points, technology, resources, fiefs, and so on.

At the same time, in each region, there are still fleets directly under the direct control of the Imperial Military Department.For example, the fleet under the military and political hub of the Nanxiang Star Group is not the private soldier of Bo Liu An of Nanxiang, but the command authority belongs to an official appointed by the empire, but this official happens to be Liu An himself.The situation in the South Nine galaxy is similar.

At that time, the nine managers of the Origin Star civilization were barons for life. If they could complete the task of tracing and colonizing, they would be able to advance to hereditary barons.

According to the original plan, after returning to the empire, the nine hereditary barons will jointly manage a large planetary system with nine habitable planets, each with one star.

Of course, this is all a fantasy now.

In terms of personal power, the biggest power in the South Nine galaxy is naturally the Viscount Augustus family that has been entrenched here for many years, and there are also three hereditary baron families.But these three baronial families were also branches of the Augustus family.

In terms of administrative power, the institution in power in the South Nine Galaxy is the Military and Political Department.The chief of the military and political department is Southgate Augustus, who is in charge of all military and political power in the galaxy.

In terms of strong control over their own territory, Southgate Augustus and Liu An are somewhat similar.

Zheng Tian made a very good summary at the meeting, "So, in the first 100 years, that is, during the [-]-year review period of Lord Earl, our main enemy was the Augustus family. It is different from the past, although Augustus The Stu family has chosen a hostile relationship, but they are unlikely to use troops directly against us. Therefore, the form of the next war will change, from military warfare to trade war and resource warfare. This is not my specialty. But I Think we can't just let Nanshan go."

"Now we have an army of nearly [-] million people, and more than [-] armed warships, as well as a larger number of small and medium-sized warships such as eye scout ships, shuttle ships, and Veyron fighters. I propose that in South Nine c's remote orbit will be reorganized, and at the same time, new technologies will be used to carry out technical transformation of all ships, so that the performance of warships can catch up with or even exceed the performance of space pirates. Technical transformation should focus on improving the speed, detection and concealment capabilities of ships. Then This fleet should act immediately to conquer the many space pirate bases located in the Broken Star Ring, so as to snatch various resources that are urgently needed for development, and at the same time maintain and continuously enhance the combat effectiveness of the fleet."

Zheng Tian's proposal was immediately approved by most people.

But the consideration of heavy responsibility is more comprehensive.

He said: "Preliminarily agreed. However, the resources and energy in the current fleet inventory are not enough to complete the transformation of all warships and small and medium-sized warships. According to the calculations of 'Net', only half of the warships and small and medium-sized warships can be dismantled for use. Fully strengthen the performance of the other half of the warships and individual equipment. Preliminary estimates can increase the cruising speed of armed warships to 0.2 times the speed of light, which is consistent with the regular army of the Empire and stronger than the ships of space pirates."

"As for the reconnaissance equipment, the space pirates, the regular army of the Empire, and our ultra-long-range reconnaissance devices all rely heavily on information flow technology. The regular army of the Empire has learned a lesson from the previous fiasco with the Ascendant, completed a rapid iteration, and is a generation ahead of us. We and space Pirates are all on the same starting line. But we have some unique features at the level of photoelectric radar and gravitational wave radar, which can be strengthened. With the indiscriminate information flow jamming technology, we can obtain information transmission in the confrontation with pirates And the advantages of the two levels of investigation."

"In addition, the fleet's ultra-long-range missiles can also be equipped with detection equipment and radio transmission equipment after modification. This is the unique skill of the Yuanxing Fleet. As for the concealment capability..."

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on Ren Zhong's face, and he said: "Our decades of research on the fourth-class mother ship has come to fruition."

After the Battle of the Mother Royal Ship, the fleet not only collected the most important ovarian giant cells, but also collected a large number of corpses of other secondary arms including critical stingers.

After decades of deciphering research, before handing over the giant germ cells, the Genstar Fleet had already completed the translation of the fourth-class queen's giant germ cell gene pool and stored it in the database.

Of course, figuring out the genes is one aspect, and it is still completely unrealistic to mass-produce them like the Queen Mother Ship through artificial synthesis.On the one hand, there are not enough resources and energy.On the other hand, the technology is still not up to the mark. Knowing all the genetic information of a person is two different things from making a person by accumulating atoms. What's more, with the biological science research and development strength inside the fleet, even the ability to detect the inside of the giant colony cell It is temporarily impossible to carry out reasonable segmental interception of the huge genetic information of different proliferating arms to determine the specific composition of genetic information.

However, the Origin Star Fleet has always gained something.The biggest achievement so far is to collect the horny layer on the surface of the critical stinger body that can completely absorb the flow of information, and then synthesize and dilute it with the structural parts of other sublimator proliferating daughters to make a kind of paint.

Applying this kind of paint to the surface of the ship in a very thin way can increase the ship's ability to absorb and diffuse information flow by more than 5%.

Although this seemingly minor improvement is completely incomparable with the body of the critical stinger, when the distance is far enough, the ships of the source star fleet can already have a considerable degree of invisibility on the information flow radar of space pirates.In relatively close combat, it can also effectively confuse the opponent's detection methods, such as making the information flow projection surface of a large ship look like a medium-sized ship.

"To sum up, the transformation of the army can be carried out as scheduled. The number of combat ships and individual equipment will be reduced by half. The number of combat personnel who can join the fleet will also be reduced by half. But the other [-] million soldiers are not useless Landing, they will be transferred to engineering arms and put into the landing project. In the harsh environment on South Nine C, the early landing will be full of danger. It is necessary for the ship crew to have better driving skills and psychological quality. Seeker The manufacturing facility inside the spacecraft is also producing small and medium-sized engineering spacecraft that is improved for the atmospheric environment of South Nine C at the fastest speed. In any case, we have to establish a foothold on South Nine C first. Alright, the meeting is coming Here it is. I hope that all departments will work together, and the time for us to take root on Nanjiu C will be faster than expected. The meeting will be adjourned."

Through the online conference room, Ren Zhong watched the changes of everyone in the venue.

After everyone's avatar projections disappeared, he began to read the planning reports submitted by each department in person.

Four hours later, after reading all the reports, he had a rare stretch.

He hadn't been this relaxed in a long time.

In more than [-] years of deep space voyages, the Origin Star Fleet has never stopped advancing as a nomadic civilization, and the people in the fleet have never stopped learning and growing.

Up to now, there have been more and more useful talents appearing in various departments.

He finally didn't need to pay attention to everything in detail like he used to.

He finally no longer needs to use his life to reset time in order to break through a certain technology, and steal technological achievements from the turbulence of time and space.

Of course, he couldn't even think about it now.

A large number of professional scientific researchers in the Academy of Fleet Science have used the early exploration report of Yuanxing Commercial Transport to quickly compile a complete set of huge and sophisticated landing plans, which are interlocking and seamless, and have considered various possibilities in every possible way.

Perhaps Nanxiang Bo and Nanjiu Viscount both thought that it would take at least 100 years for the fleet to take root on Nanjiu c, but these people have lived in the pampered empire for too long, formed a mindset, and made serious mistakes in judgment.

According to the timetable in Ren Zhong's hand, the next step is to implement it step by step, and see what happens to the harsh environment on Nanjiu C. The fleet only needs 18 years of struggle to take root, and then within 20 years Complete the full-scale landing of the entire civilization.

The people of the heavy responsibility are completely different from those in the Nanxiang star cluster who have been enslaved by the imperial nobles for generations, have been tampered with genes, injected with congenitally distorted personalities, and given birth to hopeless people named civilians, but they are actually slaves.

In a sense, even if you look at the entire machine empire, you can't find a better people than the people who are responsible.

Today, these people, together with the distant source star and the ability to predict, constitute the three major trump cards of the heavy responsibility.

Just when Ren Zhong was full of ambitions for the future, he arrived at the command ship of Yuanxing Commercial Transport in Nanjiu c ahead of schedule. The general manager of Yuanxing Commercial Transport named Chen Yinghua was rushed into the atmosphere by the exploration ship. His face turned pale with shock.

Chen Yinghua originally wanted to use this regular planetary exploration operation to present a certificate of honor to the new owner, and also to complete some basic work for those colleagues who are about to meet, but he did not expect that the last time he ordered the exploration ship to venture into the atmosphere. The research came back with such bad news.

On this planet that was about to become the new home of the Origin Star civilization, he saw a creature that had never existed before, which proved that the ecological environment of Nanjiu C was completely different from what he had imagined before.

Judging by basic logic, Chen Yinghua speculated that the time for this ant-like creature to appear on Nanjiu C should be very short, not even more than ten years.

Because, with the reproduction and terrifying food intake of this kind of ants, they can completely pulverize the entire planet within a hundred years.

In just ten years, they can completely change the geological environment and even the external form of the planet.

In addition, he couldn't imagine any technical means that could completely eliminate these tiny monsters that could proliferate at an extremely fast rate in harsh environments without destroying the planet.

With trembling hands, Chen Yinghua marked the exploration report as urgent and submitted it upwards.

Two seconds later, Ren Zhong received two reports at the same time.

One is from Chen Yinghua, and the other is from Sun Ai, a planetary transformation plan full of genius-like imagination submitted by the Yuanxing Academy of Sciences, which is seven light-years away.

Chapter 501 New idea, new crisis

After a little thought, Ren Zhong decided to click on the report of Kaiyuan Academy of Sciences first.

In fact, Ren Zhong was already very satisfied with the landing plan submitted by the Fleet Headquarters Academy of Sciences before receiving this plan from Yuan Xing.

The Fleet Headquarters Academy of Sciences used geological data to conduct accurate simulation calculations on the evolution of ice edges on Nanjiu C, and found several important locations on the high-latitude circular belt on the light-facing surface with suitable temperatures.

These locations have less than a 20 percent chance of being impacted by an ice edge within the next [-] years.

The landing force will first build additional reinforced domes in these areas, which are sufficient to withstand the impact of ice edges that may appear unexpectedly.

Afterwards, the landing troops will use these domes as bases to dig down first, initially creating a dungeon that can accommodate a million people.

According to preliminary estimates, the fleet will be able to build a total of eight dungeons within a year.

The development planning of the underground city will focus on industrial production capacity.

Immediately afterwards, these eight dungeons will use large shield machines to expand the superalloy pipes in both directions up and down along the livable temperature ring belt, and finally rely on these underground alloy pipes to connect the livable temperature ring belts in series Get up and form an underground circular passage.

Then the people of Yuanxing can finally rely on the transportation capacity of the subway in the alloy pipeline to build a series of underground cities like candied haws.

This avoids the impact of the cold and terrifying wind.

When the first batch of residents take root, they will be able to rely on these underground cities to slowly expand to the ground, and build a ground city that can withstand the wind and ice edges.

During this process, I am afraid that some battleships with enhanced performance must remain active in the atmosphere of Nanjiu C, ready to use three-phase fusion bombs to blow up the huge ice ridges that may bring danger to the city.

The main energy demand has to be solved by light energy capture sails in space, and an energy collection fleet will forcibly approach Nanjiu Star under the pressure of Nanjiu Viscount to collect star light energy.

As for the gap in materials, it will be handed over to the source star business that will inevitably expand and the bandit suppression fleet that will be led by Zheng Tian.

Theoretically, according to this plan, the fleet can indeed land on time, but the living environment will appear very crowded, and it will be difficult to fully develop its own resources on South Nine C immediately.

Next, it will take about a hundred years to slowly change the surface landform environment and the atmospheric environment.

In the end, in the foreseeable future, exactly 100 years later, after five generations of hard work, the human beings on Yuanxing have the opportunity to make the natural environment of Nanjiu c gradually approach that of an ordinary solid planet, and gradually release the tidal locking state by continuously changing the shape of the planet. Let it spin itself.

Of course, starting the planet's rotation will inevitably bring about a huge geological evolution, and the underground city will be greatly damaged, but the repair is always faster than the complete reconstruction.

At that time, what kind of evaluation the Earl, who has a heavy responsibility, can get in the assessment, can only depend on fate, after all, the objective conditions are like this.

But the plan sent by Yuanxing Academy of Sciences took a different approach, completely breaking Ren Zhong's conventional cognition.

Because Yuanxing was taken away with too many resources and spare energy sources, in the more than sixty years after the fleet left, Yuanxing Academy of Sciences not only completed the scientific research tasks distributed by Sun Ai using his connection with the pseudo-net clone, but also A lot of technological advancement has been carried out out of its own needs, especially in the flexible use of silicon chip technology and nuclear fusion technology.

Combined with the data sent back synchronously by the exploration ships of the commercial fleet, Yuanxing Academy of Sciences proposed that changing the shape of the planet as soon as possible is the primary task before landing.

They put the planet transformation work before landing, thinking that sharpening a knife is not a mistake to chop wood.

After a series of precise calculations, they believe that the chain explosion of the super-large-yield three-phase fusion bomb can create a violent chain of crustal movement evolution in the planet's crust, which can change the planetary form of Nanjiu c in a short time, making it It transforms from a flatbread into a relatively regular spherical shape.

Then the tidal locking will be released naturally, the planet will start to rotate, and the never-ending [-]th-level gale and ice edges will naturally disappear in the evolution within a few years.

The preparations for detonating the planet will take about ten years, because a huge amount of nuclear fusion material must be prepared.

After the complete explosion, it will take nearly ten years for the surface of the planet to complete all the geological and climate evolutions. The high temperature must be allowed to dissipate by itself, the dust generated by the explosion will slowly settle, and the violently moving crust will be reconnected.

Of course, for the sake of safety, Yuanxing Academy of Sciences does not recommend building a ground city in a short period of time. Instead, it proposes to modify all spaceships, enhance the performance of anti-gravity devices, and rely on existing spaceships to build floating cities first. In order to avoid being disturbed by the crustal movement that will continue for many years.

After the [-]th-level hurricane ceases, the interstellar voyage ships, including the annual ring ship, can theoretically stay safely in the atmosphere.

In short, no later than 40 years later, the humans on Yuanxing will get a perfect new home that is larger in size and weight than Yuanxing, and has greater potential.

Ren Zhong rubbed his chin, without much hesitation, he had already made a decision in his heart.