From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

The Alien universe numbered "One Five";

「One Five」 The human colonial stronghold of Lethe Moon has been successfully transformed into a solid outpost of the Human Empire through the joint efforts of Gary "Cockroach" Sanderson's joint reconnaissance force and the 14th Company of Space Wolves.

However, the aliens lurking deep in the dense primeval rainforest still pose a huge threat to this planet with four million colonists.

Before the mechanical army and biological weapons complete the clearing, the local colonists can only temporarily hide in towns guarded by auxiliary troops and wild wolves to ensure their own safety.

According to the current speed of advancement of the mechanical army and biological weapons, it will take about three to four Earth months to complete the complete clearing of the original rainforest.

After all, they don't know what fatigue is.

Two Earth months have passed since the space gate was opened in the moon of Wangchuan.

Although the Joint Reconnaissance Force and the 14th Company of Space Wolves chose to "rise up" quickly when the aliens were rampant, effectively controlling the situation and blocking communications throughout the colony, the "One Five" Earth still noticed something strange about the Lethe Moon.

As a giant military-industrial complex, Weyland Tangu Company is obviously more concerned about the situation and conditions on the Moon of Forgotten River than the Colonial Marines.

Because it was their scientific research team that used the remains of ancient civilization discovered on the moon of Lethe to successfully extract a large number of facehugger eggs in a "hibernating" state.

At the same time, they were also conducting experiments on humans and aliens in company buildings and underground facilities within the town, which undoubtedly laid the hidden danger of an insect plague outbreak.

In order to cover up the truth of the experiment and to have an organization that could take the blame for their company if any accidents occurred, Weyland Tangu deliberately controlled a local cult.

And Weyland Tangu also bribed the cult's high-level officials and deceived the believers with lies, claiming that the aliens, face huggers and other horrible-looking creatures were actually "messengers of God", making them believe that once they were possessed by a face hugger, they would be recognized by God and could ascend to the "Kingdom of God".

This information spread quickly within the cult, and thousands of cult members went crazy and sacrificed their lives to provide Weyland Tangu with a large amount of experimental data.

However, in the scientific research team, there are actually very few people who firmly believe in the theory that "aliens are creations of God."

In the eyes of these extremists, aliens are not only perfect life forms that can adapt to various extreme environments, but their vigorous vitality makes them envious.

Although the average life expectancy of humans has been greatly extended and even most terminal illnesses have been overcome, there is still an insurmountable "chasm" between them and eternal life.

You know, Peter Weyland, the founder of Weyland before the merger of Weyland and Tangu, used all the company's technological means in pursuit of immortality, and only barely extended his lifespan to 105 years.

But in the end, Peter Weiland died at the hands of the engineer.

With a boss who pursues such goals, it is natural that his senior executives and researchers will also have a desire for immortality to varying degrees.

Moreover, they are extremely envious and jealous of the cyborgs created by the company.

The positioning and concept of Weyland Tangu's cyborgs are almost the same as those of Atlas's synthetic humans. Both are products that serve humanity wholeheartedly and responsibly.

It is also divided into military, civilian, and even "companion" series.

However, there is a world of difference between the two in terms of technological content.

The most important thing is that in the past few years from the research and development to the market launch of synths, and then to the dramatic increase in sales, there has not been a single case of "malfunction injuring people".

On the other hand, Weyland Tangu's cyborgs frequently injure people and cause malfunctions, causing considerable volatility to the company's stock price.

Fortunately, as a behemoth like the military-industrial complex, Weyland Tangu can use money to eliminate the crisis and use financial resources to eliminate the crisis;

If not possible, they will directly "physically resolve the issue privately" and cooperate with their own media to publicize it, or use other events to divert traffic and "cover" the issue, so as to achieve the purpose of diverting attention, so the overall impact on the company is minimal.

Although cyborgs have various defects and it is difficult for them to be called "perfect", the company's senior executives and researchers are still yearning for the "immortality" ability that cyborgs possess.

As the ready-made living alien samples were obtained, the top executives and researchers of the extreme companies in Wangchuan Moon gradually began to have different ideas.

The half-human, half-alien statues standing among the ruins of ancient civilizations further stimulated the fantasies of these extremists. They actually firmly believed that by controlling the power of aliens they would be able to transform themselves into "immortal gods."

(This relic did not originate from the Engineer civilization, and there are many "inferior" civilizations in the Alien universe)

However, as the extremists carried out more radical and inhumane live experiments, the soldier bees, worker bees and other adult aliens successfully found opportunities to escape.

This series of events eventually led to a full-scale outbreak of insect plague on the Wangchuan Moon.

Therefore, the headquarters of Weyland Tanggu Company maintained a clear understanding of the situation in Wangchuanyue from beginning to end.

But they not only knew that the research was out of control, but also secretly planned how to take advantage of this crisis in order to gain greater benefits and technological breakthroughs.

This was because the core senior executives and major shareholders at the headquarters did not contact the Colonial Marines directly, but instead used their connections to suppress the information.

For the core senior executives and major shareholders of Weyland Tanggu, Wangchuan Moon and its four million colonists are undoubtedly the best place to "raise insects" and provide four million experimental materials that can be consumed at will.

As long as the experimental materials are abundant, they can obtain a large amount of experimental data.

In this way, the development of alien-based biological weapons will bring huge profits to the company, and they also hope to take this opportunity to allow this group of privileged people to successfully break through the shackles of lifespan.

Therefore, Weyland Tangu only sent two private armed ships and more than 600 elite mercenaries, the company's task force, to Wangchuan Moon.

Two armed ships, plus 600 elite mercenaries

This scale and number may sound small, even smaller than the Atlas armed forces in the main universe at the end of the 20th century, but for the "Alien" universe, it can be regarded as an extremely powerful space armed force.

For example, in "Alien 2", the Colonial Marines were unable to obtain a quick supply of supplies and manpower due to years of fighting and assisting the colonies in dealing with high-risk creatures.

There were only a dozen Marines to rescue the survivors of the colony and deal with the invasion of unknown creatures.

If Atlas encountered a similar incident, it would definitely mobilize sufficient armed security forces, or send more professional emergency response (ABCS) or rapid response (ARS) forces to deal with it.

From this comparison, it can be seen that the Weiland Tanggu Company attaches great importance to Wangchuan Yue. These two armed ships and 600 elite mercenaries have sufficient firepower and combat capabilities to completely crush the Marine Corps combat company stationed in Wangchuan Yue.

In addition, Weyland Tangu also dispatched more professional core researchers and cyborgs to accompany him.

The mission objective of this private army is clear, which is to use the status of the company's senior executives to gain control of the Cerberus system (an unmanned space station equipped with a large number of nuclear bombs) in order to continue to implement a comprehensive blockade of the Forgotten Moon.

The task force's duty is to escort researchers and cyborgs to the surface of the Moon of Lethe in Cheyenne landing craft to observe up close the aliens' massacre of colonists and marines, and how the aliens will develop and evolve after becoming the masters of a planet.

However, in the "Alien" universe, human space vehicles, whether military or civilian models, need to travel in months or even years.

If you go to distant colonized galaxies or planets that have not yet been colonized on a large scale but have scarce resources, the round trip may take more than ten years.

Therefore, this is why the ships in the "Alien" universe, and even the lifeboats, are equipped with cold storage.

Astronauts must enter a "hibernation" state in order to travel across different galaxies and planets.

By the time the two armed ships and more than 600 task force members were ready, it had taken more than fifty days from the time they left the moon to the time they arrived at the Moon of Oblivion.

During these long fifty days, the combined reconnaissance force and the 14th Company of Space Wolves had already transformed the Moon of Lethe into an important outpost for the Empire in the "One Five" Universe, responsible for the integration of all matters.

The aliens are no longer a threat, and the colonists begin to return to normal life.

Moreover, the Cerberus system also came under the control of the Human Empire, and the fleet of the 14th Company of Space Wolves also completed its deployment during this time.

The main force of the 14th Fleet is composed of four Paris-class frigates, eight Feddes-class frigates, and four supply ships converted from Selune.

These ships have outstanding performance in technology and performance, and their maneuverability, defense and carrying capacity are also guaranteed, and they are also equipped with a small amount of Forerunner technology.

As for the flagship, it is a Late Autumn-class heavy cruiser.

The Late Autumn class is actually the next generation main cruiser of the UNSC, but before it could be fully mass-produced and officially put into service, all the information, files, and facilities of the UNSC and UEG were owned by the Human Empire.

The Late Autumn class naturally became one of the main warships of the Human Empire.

Its design goal is not limited to front-line breakthroughs and ocean escort, but it can also serve as the flagship of a small fleet and has high strategic flexibility.

Compared to the Valiant-class super-heavy cruiser, the Late Autumn-class is nearly three times cheaper, and this advantage makes it very popular among various legions.

Especially for those legion companies that are ranked lower or have just been established, like the 14th Wild Wolf Company, they have a special liking for the Late Autumn-class flagship.

The Late Autumn class ships are 1.5 kilometers long, and are approximately 450 meters wide and high.

It is equipped with a conventional nuclear fusion engine and a jump engine that has been upgraded and improved by the engineering department. It can lead the entire fleet to travel in the jump space at a speed of 24 light years every 1200 hours.

The hull armor still uses high-strength titanium alloy, but the Late Autumn class is also equipped with an energy shield generator based on Forerunner technology.

Theoretically, it can withstand the main gun attack that accelerates a 20-ton needle-shaped tungsten steel bullet to 0.3% of the speed of light and has an "electromagnetic acceleration tube" about two kilometers long.

In terms of firepower configuration, the Late Autumn class is equipped with a variety of advanced weapon systems, including electromagnetic main guns, Gauss guns and plasma secondary guns, as well as a large number of tactical and strategic missile silos.

Its powerful firepower configuration, superior mobility, and defensive capabilities that can be described as "cockroach-like" vitality enable it to become a core force on the battlefield.

Therefore, when the two 600-meter-long armed ships dispatched by Weiland Tanggu Company "wobbled" from the outer reaches of the galaxy to the near-Earth orbit of Wangchuan Moon,

The more than 600 members of the advance team, accompanying researchers and cyborgs who had just awakened from the cold storage were facing an organized and large-scale real space fleet.

The moment they left the cold storage and saw the data and real-time images provided by the various instruments, everyone under Willand Tanggu felt a chill in their hearts, as if they had fallen into an ice cellar in an instant.

They're going to fight an entire fleet?

What's the trouble? ?

Faced with the Colonial Marines of the same specifications and number, they have absolute confidence in their crushing victory.

But when they read the data on the panel: "Enemy ship length: about 1500 meters", how could they have the courage to fight against it?

Even the regular army did not have many ships more than one kilometer long, but such a huge warship suddenly appeared before their eyes, and there were many more warships around it, with their artillery guns pointed at them.

And inside the two armed ships, shrill alarms echoed, as if urging them to make a decision.

In the end, both the major of the task force who was in charge of the operation and the research director who secretly controlled the real power reached a unified consensus -

That is surrender!!

What is to obtain more research data, or what is to break the shackles of eternal life.

Before they can complete the tasks assigned by the company and gain eternal life, they must first ensure that they do not die at this moment.

As for the original mission, they had long since "forgotten" it completely.

Then, the Wild Wolf 14th Fleet dispatched two Thunder Raid Boats carrying auxiliary troops, which boarded Willand Tangu's two armed ships respectively.

Afterwards, the more than 14 members of the advance team, researchers, and cyborgs all became prisoners of the th Company, representing their military merits.

At the same time, the opponent's actions also made the captain of the 14th Company, Logan Sigurd, realize that the Moon of Oblivion was about to be exposed to the official organization of the "One Five" humans.

So Logan decided to do something drastic, and ordered two Paris-class ships and four Fides-class ships to stay on Lethe Moon. He personally led the main fleet to the "15" Earth in the Alien universe.