From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

This is the vertical take-off and landing apron of the "14" front-line base;

Hundreds of various attack boats, transport boats, or large aerial gunboats like the Vulture are parked on the helipads in different areas.

Ground crew members wearing engineering mechanical skeletons and the engineering-derivative T-800 Terminator are inspecting the various parked vehicles.

Since the size and specifications of the space gate were expanded by Sui Yang, the transfer efficiency of ground and air vehicles has been greatly improved.

Even the 100-meter-long Swift Shadow can pass through the space gate directly without the need for the previous disassembly and assembly steps.

However, space vessels cannot pass through directly and still need to be disassembled and then assembled for transfer.

However, it is much more convenient than the previous 14 x 14 meter space door size.

Large-scale deployment or dispatch of more than 10,000 people can be completed in the shortest time.

As for the T-800 Terminator, which was clearly "specially designed to terminate targets", after Atlas took full control of Skynet, it became the "best practical tool" second only to Hextech robots.

After all, the T-800 is suitable for mass production, has a relatively simple structure, and can undertake a variety of tasks.

The most important thing is that the T-800 is very "cheap" and "affordable".

The resources, manpower and time cost of cultivating a new type of clone soldier can be used to mass-produce two or three basic models of T-800.

Moreover, the T-800 does not need to replenish calories and nutrition to maintain daily work and combat missions like clone soldiers.

A metal hydrogen battery optimized by the Atlas Research Department can keep the T-800 working and fighting day and night for at least 160 years.

What makes the T-800 superior to similar Hextech robots is that if the T-800 detects that a part of itself is damaged, it will repair itself.

Look at the Clone Troopers.

Although the original intention of the Biological Department to cultivate them was to use them as "cannon fodder" war machines, the clone soldiers will also try to save themselves after the combat state ends to ensure that they can quickly engage in the next battle.

Of course, the T-800 at the current stage cannot completely replace clone soldiers.

Because the infiltration model of T-800, that is, the T-800 with "living skin", is much more expensive than a clone soldier.

Therefore, when it comes to carrying out one-off special missions such as infiltration, assassination, or secret sabotage, clone soldiers are obviously more cost-effective.

The T-800 infiltration type can be used to perform more complex infiltration tasks.

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A group of recruits wearing the uniforms of the United Citizens Federation, carrying their luggage, stepped off the maglev train built above the ground.

Then, four Warthogs that had been waiting outside the station carried the recruits across the helipad of the front-line base.

However, during the journey, a Warthog nearly overturned when turning.

This is a simple pick-up and drop-off mission. Although the Imperial Guards responsible for driving the Warthog are far less experienced than the Legion Auxiliary Forces in combat, they are also "old drivers" with many years of experience and theoretically will not make mistakes.

Fortunately, the guard driver steadied the ship and stabilized it, thus avoiding an unexpected disaster.

Soon, everyone arrived behind a Luna transport boat that had completed routine inspections and had its engine started.

Seeing that the Warthog had arrived at their destination, the recruits jumped off the vehicle one after another, continued to carry their own luggage, stepped into the opened hatch and entered Luna's cabin.

One of the "new recruits" has a handsome face and a blond side-parted hairstyle.

In addition, the Warthog that this "new recruit" was riding in was the one that nearly lost control. So all these features combined together, we can know that he is the elite investigator who has been "in the limelight" recently -

Leon S. Kennedy.

In addition to Lyon, Maggie Shaw, who wore a ponytail, was also among the group of people dressed as new recruits.

In fact, these twenty-odd recruits are elite investigators from the Investigation Department of the Human Empire.

Ada Wang will lead more investigators and the special operations team of the Investigation Department to stay at the "14" front-line base for the time being, and serve as the commander-in-chief responsible for disintegrating and splitting the United Citizens Federation from within.

Lyon served as the commander-in-chief of the operation.

He, Maggie, and more than 20 other elite investigators will board local civilian ships and head to Earth, the human home planet in the Star Fleet universe.

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at this time.

After Leon, Maggie and others entered the cargo hold on the first floor, they walked around the large equipment boxes placed in the cargo hold and used the built-in elevator to reach the troop transport cabin on the second floor.

After choosing their seats and fastening their seat belts, the pilots took them into the air and headed straight for the "oasis" a hundred kilometers away.

The people in the troop transport cabin didn't seem to react much to the previous "near rollover" accident.

It's like... I'm used to it.

Because whenever Leon is present, vehicle tire blowouts or near-rollovers are the most common and normal minor accidents.

Once, Leon, Mike, and several elite investigators completed the most common infiltration and reconnaissance mission and returned home together on the Black Falcon assault boat.

The Black Falcon assault boat encountered an emergency situation where its engine stopped while flying over the rainforest.

Fortunately, the engine only stopped for a few seconds before returning to normal.

Otherwise, it would be a pity if the elite soldiers did not die heroically in the fierce battle but died in a plane crash.

From then on, Lyon completely established himself as the "vehicle destroyer".

Fortunately, none of Leon's colleagues who were carrying out missions with him had actually died in plane crashes or rollovers, so there were still people willing to team up with Leon and accept his command.

The initial goal of their trip was to board the civilian spacecraft of "Oasis Town" and then join the federal army as "recruits."

Not long ago.

After the orbital drone discovered that an oasis town about 100 kilometers away from the "14" front-line base was attacked by the Arach Zerg, the Ghost in charge of the "14" front-line base, while leading his troops to rescue the local humans, also brought it under the jurisdiction of the Human Empire.

When Ghost led his troops to rescue, the orbital drone also released electronic pulses, completely shielding and isolating this Earth-like planet, which the local colonists called "New Hope", from the outside world.

Even the raid by the Arachi Zerg was not known to the outside world.

This was not an intentional manipulation by the "14" front base, but rather the result of the local residents of New Hope, most of whom were colonists who opposed the rule of the United Citizens Federation.

Therefore, when the oasis town was attacked by the Arach Zerg, the only violent agencies that could resist it were the local sheriff and militia.

As for the federal symbolic recruitment point set up here

Including civilian staff, there are only about forty people in total. How can they possibly assist the local colonists and turn the tide of the insect tide?

Therefore, when the local top leaders found that the situation was out of control and were ready to "put aside their pride" and ask the federal army for help, the communications of the entire planet had already been blocked by the Human Empire.

Moreover, the New Hope planet is located at the border of the Federation and the Zerg territory.

In addition, the local colonists have strong resistance to the Federation. Even if the top leaders send out a request for help in a timely manner, it will be difficult for the federal fleet to come to the rescue.

After understanding the local situation and obtaining detailed information about Starship Fleet from the Intelligence Department, Ghost prepared to "do something" within the Federation.

After all, the "14" front-line base is preparing to completely occupy the colony planet "New Hope", and then use the joint assistance of smart and stupid AI to arrange a group of elite investigators to infiltrate the federal army.

The Intelligence Department also provided detailed "time nodes".

In other words, the Intelligence Department provides information about major events that will occur in the "14" universe in the next few years.

In the Starship Troopers universe numbered "2296", the current time is September 9, 3.

The detailed information provided by the Intelligence Department to Ghost, Aida and the Investigation Department clearly stated that the Arach Zerg will launch a meteorite attack on Buenos Aires on Earth "2297" in .

By then, the number of casualties on Earth "14" will exceed tens of millions.

In the same year, the Federation Army officially launched Operation Revenge and dispatched a fleet directly to the home planet of the Arachi Zerg.

However, the Federation's high-ranking officials were too arrogant and looked down upon the Arach Zerg, which resulted in the loss of more than 100,000 lives within just a few hours of landing on the Zerg home planet.

The number of injured people reached millions.

Afterwards, humans and the Zerg launched an unprecedented interstellar war.

The two sides are similar in overall strength, and neither has an absolute advantage.

But human casualties continue to surge.

From 2297 to 2320, the "One Four" humans paid the price of at least 40 billion lives.

But for the Arachi Zerg, even though the number of casualties was dozens or even hundreds of times that of humans, they still felt “not hurt at all”.

Because the Zerg's reproduction ability is extremely strong, as long as one Zerg egg reaches a suitable planet, it won't take long for a Zerg tide of "billions" to appear on the suitable planet.

The bugs at the bottom level are no different from cheap cannon fodder.

The Arachi Zerg cultivates a "warrior" responsible for fighting, and the process from egg to adult takes only five to seven days.

But it takes humans at least eighteen years to train a qualified soldier.

The detailed information provided by the Intelligence Department also pointed out that in the first year of the all-out war between the Federation and the Arach Zerg, due to a shortage of manpower, they began recruiting teenagers aged 14 to 18.

This directly shows that humans in the "One-Four" universe have been at a relative disadvantage since the very beginning of the war.

Humanity cannot afford to sustain continuous massive casualties.

Each human being is an independent, single individual, and the Federation is a huge organization composed of these individuals.

Internally, the party is often mired in protests and rebellions due to issues of power transition and interest distribution.

Looking at Arachi's side, whether it is the low level, middle level, or high level, they all have completely unified ideas.

They even have some kind of telepathic ability to achieve "delay-free" communication across galaxies, and can even use this telepathic ability to instigate the "interstellar marshals" of the federal army to rebel.

The reason why the Intelligence Department knows so much about "Starship Fleet" is because the Emperor of the Human Empire, Sui Yang, was one of the loyal fans of "Starship Fleet" before crossing over.

By the way, Sui Yang seems to have a deep understanding of works such as science fiction, interstellar, and war.

As for the time node mentioned by the Intelligence Department, the key year of 2297 is exactly the "background setting" of the first "Star Trek" movie.

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However, Lyon, who was sitting close to the cockpit and reading relevant files on a hard-light screen, did not dwell on how the Intelligence Department was able to "predict the future."

He was thinking about what he could do before the Arach Zerg dropped meteorites on Buenos Aires.

It can not only save his compatriots, but also enhance his and his colleagues' voice in the federal army.

"This is the front-line base."

Suddenly, Ada's voice sounded on the communication:

"All investigators involved in the infiltration plan, please note that once you board the civilian ship of the New Hope Colony and head to Earth 14, you will be completely cut off from the front-line base.

Although the human technology of Universe 1 and 4 cannot be compared with that of our empire, we cannot guarantee the security of quantum communications 100%.

Therefore, for the sake of confidentiality and security, before the Empire formally unifies the 14th universe and the Empire needs your help, you will be "native" 14th humans, understand?"

"learn."

"Yes."

Responses from everyone including Leon and Maggie were heard on the communication channel.

"Very good." And Ada continued:

“According to the intelligence department’s reminder, among the humans in Universe 1 and 4, there are also telepaths similar to psychics.

If you are exposed, please be sure to notify the front-line base immediately. The Blood Angels' company fleet will go straight to your location and rescue you.

You know, we in Atlas and the human empire will never abandon any of our compatriots easily.

Finally, I wish you all good luck. "

After saying that, Ada ended the communication directly.

At the same time, the Luna transport boat carrying Leon, Maggie and others began to lower its altitude and landed smoothly at the star port of Oasis Town.

Leave the cabin.

Return to the ground.

The group did not stay for too long and directly transferred to a civilian ship that had been repaired by the engineering team.

If you look down from the air, this town with a total population of about 200,000 has also been completely rebuilt and renovated by the engineering team.

Order gradually returned to the streets and blocks, and there was no more chaos.

But the people responsible for maintaining order are no longer the local sheriff, but the 1st Company of the Blood Angels.

Legion auxiliary soldiers wearing full-coverage mechanical skeletons or MacP power armor can be seen everywhere.

The tall Blood Angels were also scattered among the streets and blocks of the town.

It didn't take long.

Leon, Maggie and others boarded a civilian ship only a hundred meters long and, under the guidance of a pilot from the advance team, successfully entered the golden orbit of New Hope.

Then, the pilot activated the "warp engine", turning the civilian ship into a "beam of light" and heading straight for Earth 14, nearly 10,000 light years away.