An Unscientific Mechanic

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

From these points of view, my think tank and I believe that your Consolidation 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 looked at the exhibition teams that were cautiously approaching each other on the field.

"Why?"

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

It is impossible for us to let a civilization that has just walked out of the parent star system with a foreign-trade superluminal engine fight against a swarm of hundreds of thousands of bugs. 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 the superluminal engine, and the coordinate modification engine has been built. You ignore me and I can't make any kind of superluminal engine. "

"Whether there is a superluminal engine, does it affect us?"

"Joining the Ministry of Consolidation will have an impact, and if you don't join, it will have no impact. Your civilization is so special, and your productivity is so developed that most interstellar countries are willing to bow down. If you are not a member of the "Superlight Club", just follow It looks like a giant rat mixed with a bunch of No. 1 tanks." Ian pondered for a while about the strength division of the current integration department.

Eleven, including the World of Great Sword and the World of Killing Reincarnation, did not leave their home planet, and were still receiving assistance from other civilizations to climb the technology tree under the banner of the Ministry of Consolidation.

The rest are large interstellar countries with multiple colonial stars.

If the group of non-superluminal club members mixes with this empire...

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 issue of privilege, or in other words, the issue of special affairs.

Prior to this, the diplomatic system of the Ministry of Consolidation was simply classified according to the three levels of uncivilized - not yet leaving the parent star - not yet pointing out the superluminal technology. Faster-than-light technology, but its productivity and combat effectiveness are comparable to the civilizations of interstellar countries. "

"So it's a problem that was left when the policy was formulated?"

"That's right, my foreign minister told me that if you who have not yet developed superluminal technology are placed at the same level as members of the superluminal club, there is a high probability that planets with low technological levels will cause trouble and pursue the same power as you. I can't understand why you can't do special things. Your strength is there, and there is no problem with being on an equal footing with the members of the FTL club. It should only be a matter of time before you point out the FTL technology."

"Yes, I was told so."

"Inform? Wait... You just said that the civilizations of the Ministry of Consolidation are equal."

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

For example, the Ministry of Consolidation has a rule that we will do our best to ensure the long-term stability of each civilization circle.

When encountering a swarm attack, there is only a single planet's civilization circle, and it can't even provide much population.

In the last time against the swarm, the loss of the crew of the Consolidation Department was close to 100 million. How many people do you think a non-interstellar country needs to provide so many professional soldiers?

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Consolidation, generally speaking, a non-interstellar country with a normal economic structure can support an army of about 1% of the total population in a peaceful state, and the limit state should be squeezed to one-fiftieth. If the wartime system is activated, maybe one-twentieth of the army can be squeezed out, but this situation is very extreme. Only by squeezing all the old, weak, sick and disabled as machines can the country's industrial operation be guaranteed.

In other words, nearly 100 million soldiers died in that war, equivalent to almost draining the war potential of a civilization with a population of 10 billion within a month.

And how many tens of billions of people can a civilization that has not left its parent star to go to the universe have to reserve for this kind of consumption? "

"I think I understand that when we become a special case, they want to expand this special case into a common one, but they don't have the ability to fulfill the responsibility of Big Brother. In the end, no matter what, the rioters and the onlooker civilization will leave unpleasant seeds in their hearts. Right. But why do you care about their opinions, isn't it good to just accept them as vassals?"

"I care about their possibilities."

"possibility?"

"It is possible for them to grow freely into a super civilization. Each civilization has its own characteristics in the development process, which leads to their own characteristics in the later stage of development. Just like the FTL technology used by the Consolidation Department now has as many as Seven types, some of which are similar in principle and some 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 summarizes almost all technologies, we have benefited a lot.

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

Honestly, the average clone trooper in COCO isn't even worth as much as your dress. "

"Clone?"

"That's right, clones. Concord's regular fleet consists of clones and battle droids. Battle droids cost a little more, but maintenance costs a little less. Clone troops cost a little less, but follow-up maintenance costs a little more. On average Both are about the same."

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

"Of course not, it's because of convenience... Customizing a clone army is much cheaper than hiring and incorporating natural human troops... And using clones and combat robot troops is more suitable for forming the first wave of initial legions than recruiting, and you don't have to worry about rebellion. It's all good. The army itself won't have geopolitical inclinations because of their background." Ian shrugged.

When the Ministry of Consolidation was first established, there was no territory, no colonies, etc. Where did the army come from? Those who were poor and useless could only build their own...

During the opening ceremony exhibition match, Ian and the general also talked about a lot of basic cooperation matters. After the general direction is grasped, the specific content is free for the people under him...

At night, when Ian was about to go back to the Yamato, the Halo Research Base sent a report.

The Halo World Advance Base has been built, and the timeline comparison has been completed.

UNSC Standard Time, January 3, 2531. The Ring incident twenty years ago.

"2531..." The Master Chief also received this information as a person related to this world. "The Harvest Star hasn't fallen yet."

"...January 3rd" Dr. Anderson also saw this document. "Fergie is alive...and Serena is alive..."

"Okay, gentlemen, we are going to carry out a rescue operation, again. Our mission is to stop the continuation of the war, control the ring and the ark, and destroy the flood." Ian handed over the body of the Yamato Give Sharon control, and focus on the flood's response.

"According to Cortana's information, February 2531 is the final stage of the Harvest Star Battle. General Preston Cole will lead his fleet to fight the Covenant fleet in the Harvest Star System and win for the first time. In addition According to Professor Anderson's recollection, on February 4, the UNSC starship she was on, the Spirit of Fire, will arrive at Harvest Star to participate in the final land battle of the Harvest Star Battle.

On February 9, the Spirit of Fire would arrive at the Arcadia colony and be captured by the Covenant.

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

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

On February 25, the Spirit of Fire detonated the Shield World and escaped, starting a 28-year drifting journey.

In view of the fact that the UC world has discovered a 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 a lot of ground operations in this operation, so the troops dispatched by the headquarters of the Consolidation Department include Denisa's Hellsong Squad, Rita's Phoenix Squad, and the Guards Squad that I am directly under.

The 31st to 35th Fleets of the Standing Fleet are on standby in the Pandora galaxy, ready to enter at any time.

By the way, I remember seeing a technological anomalous planet in the previous report? I remember there were reports that the world found space folding devices and rigid shields for individual soldiers? "Ian looked at Misato.

"The one with the explosion of abnormal technology and the transformation of society into a society dominated by women? That's right, the flying individual armor called Infinite Stratos is indeed equipped with extremely advanced individual rigid shields." Misato nodded.

"The Flood can't infect units with shields. Let your intelligence department team enter the field, find the inventor of the IS, and get that shield technology. If possible, absorb her into the technology department."

"Understood, I'll go over there and watch."

"Padmé, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also sent people to follow. We need to negotiate with both sides of the Star Alliance UNSC at the same time. The active diplomatic battle group also sent a few able-bodied diplomatic teams to join the Star Alliance. It is not ruled out that the Star Alliance needs to rely on fists. say."

"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, and she didn't come over in person.

"Any questions?"

"What about the armies of other civilizations?"

"It's all voluntary. The minimum requirement for troops participating in ground combat is to be equipped with full-coverage power armor. My hunch tells me that we need land troops more than the fleet this time. Let the fleet replenish the supply of combat robots in advance, and the technical department will also Start researching effective weapons against the Flood based on the samples of the Flood."

"Understood, but judging from the current information, ordinary individual weapons and equipment can cause enough damage to the Flood, and small infected bodies can cause critical damage with a flamethrower from World War II." Linda flipped through the pages. Recent Research Information. "I don't know if it's because of the loss of the Gravemind. Except for the small infected body, all the Flood Demons in the City of Fraternity have lost their activity. We can't get other types of infected bodies in Cortana's records and in the game. necessary data."

"It has been proposed to use white board clones for infection experiments, but observations show that the Flood does not infect such mindless white board clones. We believe that their infection targets are "intelligence" rather than organisms. Organisms The infection is just an addition. The principle is now being studied by our team." Ritsuko supplemented Linda's words. "The idea of ​​using intelligent organisms is very repulsive to the members of the team, so they did not use intelligent organisms for infection experiments."

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

"learn."

"Then, let's disband, complete the assembly at the advanced 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 Star Alliance."

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

"Is everyone here?"

"Everyone is here, and the research and experiment ship of Dr. Ritsuko Akagi from the Technology Department and the diplomatic ship of the Active Diplomatic Corps have also arrived. The "guests" have arrived in the reception room." The captain of the Enterprise replied. "A total of fifteen observation ships from other civilizations have also arrived, echoing the team's request."

"Very well, let the Titans build a temporary stargate, and we will go there."

Hundreds of warships lighted up their propellers and accelerated slowly, and the output of the space-time stable position generator inside the ships rose.

"Understood, the world coordinates are entered, the cross-world navigation signal is identified, and the wormhole is unfolding."

The cross-world engines of the three titan ships increased their output, and an artificial wormhole with a diameter of tens of kilometers was launched behind the hull.

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

"Fleet, go through the hole."

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"The entire fleet has arrived, and there is no abnormality in the entire ship system."

"Read the navigation signal of the advancing base, the fleet is advancing."

"Very well, after a short rest, the Enterprise and the first battle group of the Guards Fleet headed to Harvest Planet, and the marine troops of the Hellsong and Phoenix Chapters transferred to the Enterprise, remember to bring enough landing ships. "

"Dinisha understands, start preparing for the transfer."

"Rita Brataski understands, start transfer preparations."

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

"Commander, there are still fifteen minutes to arrive in the Harvest Star System." At 16:35 on February 1st in the 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, stood up from the sofa, opened the door, and walked towards the bridge.

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

"The Song of Hell Squad and the Phoenix Squad, prepare to land and fight."

"The Grand Commander has arrived at the bridge!"

"Go ahead." Ian walked to the captain's side. "How's it going?"

"Hyperspace detection shows that there are a large number of high-energy reactions near the end point of the original transition, and the end point of the transition has been fine-tuned. It is inferred that the space battle part of the Harvest Star Campaign has begun." The captain brought Yi'an to the holographic commander. "There is a large mass response here, which is suspected to be the enemy's flagship."

"There are still 15 seconds to arrive."

"Communicator in the ship, the countdown to the broadcast of the whole ship has begun, and the impact alarm is sounded."

The seventeen ships were in the high orbit of the Fengrao star in sequence, and the periphery of the battlefield left the hyperspace.

What came into view was an extremely tragic fleet battle. The UNSC's losses were far greater than the Covenant's losses. Almost every Covenant warship destroyed would cost three UNSC warships.

The wreckage has covered the entire high orbit of Harvest Star.

"First combat configuration, contact UNSC, CIC to scan planetary surface combat situation."