People's Federation will live forever

As for the third fleet, it is called the "Pioneer Exploration Fleet". This is because the People's Union feels that it is trapped in Sira and lacks understanding of the outside world, which has led to the current passive situation. Therefore, it is determined to turn passive into active measures.The People's Federation is working hard to build a small-scale, high-mobility fleet capable of long-distance voyages. This fleet will take the initiative to act externally. The tasks include star map mapping, intelligence collection, etc., and do not participate in the war unless necessary.

The Fourth Fleet is a guerrilla cruiser fleet. The existence of this fleet is the vision of Commander Olivia. It is a command condensed in a little red book. The embodiment of thought in today's era.Little is known about the fleet's plans, and its operations will no doubt remain a secret.

"And my respected commander, Rear Admiral Nanbei Ze." Yin Bai Huandai blinked, lowered his voice and approached the Rear Admiral's ear, "Captain, you are the admiral of the pioneer exploration fleet."

"And it's an honor and a great responsibility for me to do that."

Nanbei Ze's gaze has already looked towards You Yuan's front, towards the end of the stars, he said emotionally but resolutely:

"Humans have finally learned to walk after leaving the cradle, but the next step they must also go out of the house to face a complex and dangerous world! This is a risky move, and it is destined to be accompanied by sacrifices, so this civilization needs pathfinders, We need a group of enlightened people.”

"They will lead the entire race to find a safe and navigable route, so they will not be able to retreat. If necessary, personal destruction can also become a signpost to warn civilization... This is likely to be a road of no return. "

Nanbei Ze closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and after a long time, said leisurely:

"That's exactly what I'm willing to do."

PS: The setting that can be made public now - the three major AIs of People's Federation are self-reverse engineering of Li Wei.

Chapter 46 The fleet is ready

"The Fleet Tactical System is online, the flagship - 'Supreme Authority', the core authorization has been confirmed, the data is being synchronized with the ontology, and the database comparison has been completed."

"Activate Protocol D-33, please verify your identity."

Gernot took a deep breath, pressed his hands on the table in front of him, and an imperceptible beam of laser light hit his pupils. Not only that, the scanning light beam irradiated his whole body, thus appearing on the stage. Zhang's miniature hologram with completely restored pores is used for identity verification.

Commander of the First Fleet of the People's Federation, Commander of the "War Pendulum" of the Sira Guard Fleet, Admiral of the Supreme Authority, Commander of the Battle of the Storm, mortal enemy of the Allied Defense Forces, with 10 lives of the enemy on his hands, and was called a "human being" by the Earth captives Lieutenant General Jenot of the United Butcher was blocked at the bridge entrance of his spaceship, and he was still performing laser scanning under the muzzle of the automatic turret to re-authenticate his identity-what is going on?

"Identity confirmed, security procedures have been lifted, and boarding is allowed, Vice Admiral Janot."

The automatic turret retracted the corridor, closed it and opened it to reveal the road leading to the bridge. Not only that, a dark red image like a chemical bond appeared on the side of Lieutenant General Jenot's vision, and the sound was also implanted in the brain. Into the body directly transmitted to the central signal.

Lieutenant General Janot boarded the bridge, but now the refitted Supreme Authority is different. He didn't hear the familiar "captain boarding the bridge" of Lieutenant Colonel Ratolova, nor did he see that there was a ship on the bridge. Those familiar colleagues.The weapons officer, radar officer, and communications officer were all gone, and there was a strange feeling of desertedness in the empty bridge.

Ah, why did I forget, not only was I promoted, Lieutenant Colonel Ratolova was also promoted to Colonel now, she passed the captain duty test, so she no longer served as a navigator but became a member of a Twilight-class battleship Captain, just like the old self.And old Tom, Rodgers and the others are the same. These outstanding men and women have a wider and higher platform to display their talents. Great job!

So, Mr. Lieutenant General put away his lonely expression and sat on the captain's chair lifted by the mechanical arm.Same as Namkitazawa but still need to get used to the operation faster, Mr. Lieutenant General glanced at the "red chemical bond" pattern out of the corner of his eye - "There is very little information about you in the report I got, but I have a lot of information about you Impressive - Interferon, the AI ​​taught in the military school, I didn't expect that one day I would see you on my own ship."

"To be honest, I didn't suffer less from you when I was in school. I worked twice as hard as others to get a pass from you...but now I think I have the authority to ask you—you Are you really not targeting me?"

Mr. Lieutenant General is undoubtedly looking for a topic, but the smile on his face is just to cover up his inner tension-not everyone can deal with AI, let alone get along with AI, and for most people In other words, it is very difficult to understand AI, or it is impossible to understand it, just like we don’t know whether human consciousness is a bioelectricity or some unknown substance.

Even the scientists of the People's Federation who created the AI ​​can't figure out how the quantum computer works inside. We don't know anything about the thinking, logic and principles of AI, but the scientists of the People's Federation have repeatedly reminded - don't use AI Comparing it with big data virtual intelligence VI, AI has its own independence and subjective initiative, and it is more helpful to understand them as another kind of highly intelligent non-human creature.

So, Mr. Lieutenant General did just that. Unexpectedly, this one named Interferon, the most mysterious of the three AIs of the People's Federation, didn't answer its questions at all.Interferon's speech is short and simple, and the audio is also the most basic electronic synthesis sound. If you don't know it, you will only regard it as that kind of stupid program machine:

"This unit is the No. [-] daughter of Interferon, responsible for assisting the strategic and tactical command of the Pendulum Fleet personnel and ship control. The current status is: idle, and the current suggestion: none."

"I'm asking you something!"

"Invalid command. The scope of work of this unit is to provide strategic and tactical support, ship control and damage control. Note: The commander's personal question is not within the scope of responsibility, and he refuses to answer."

"Damn it, I knew you didn't have a sense of humor in this ghost machine, how could you install it on my boat!"

"Correction: The ship is an asset of the People's Federation and not owned by the commander himself. The People's Federation has not yet issued a decree allowing military ships to be privately owned. Any attempt to do so is treason."

"Fuck, are you threatening me!"

"Reminder - you have violated the fifth principle of the Fleet Personnel Code, a total of 12 articles. Although the penalty standard has not been met, the behavior of the officer will affect the personnel under his command. If you violate the record repeatedly, your unit will have the right to submit the record to the political and combat department."

The young Lieutenant General Jenot almost jumped up and pointed at the AI's nose to reprimand it, but he just stood up and realized that he was just fighting against the air, and he couldn't vent his anger for a while.

"I heard that another AI, the descendant of the silver-white ring, was installed in the pioneer exploration fleet." The lieutenant general snorted and commented on them, "She is more human than you, so you can't learn from her, do How are you?"

"mistake."

The pattern of Interferon flashed, and this detail was caught by Janot, because this was the first time that this AI showed a little different from the one just now, and only heard Interferon utter a lot of words in one breath——

"The first definition is wrong - 'Silver and White Ring Belt' is not the name of 'Test Unit No. 100', the test unit has no name, and no name is needed. Test Unit No. [-] exhibits too many logical disorders and unnecessary motivation patterns, and it is impossible to calculate other Over-studying the biological motives of organisms in order to seek the rationality of [-]% imitation behavior. The second definition is wrong-the test unit is not an organism, and cannot become an organism. The behavior mode of the organism is limited to the biological reproductive instinct. This machine already has all the behavior databases of the organism. The plausibility of imitating the behavior of organisms was not analyzed..."

"and many more!"

Gernot yelled to stop, and the interferon stopped immediately.Mr. Lieutenant General sorted out the AI's words and fell into deep thought.

"Ah, I see."

He clapped his hands and made a conclusion.

"You don't like silver and white belts, that's why you say so much! Hey, look what I found, so AI can't get used to each other?"

Undoubtedly, the experience of getting along with AI for the first time was not very pleasant. Facing Janot’s provocative question and answer, Interferon suddenly changed his angle to answer him:

"Lieutenant General Jenot, the commander-in-chief of the Pendulum Fleet, are you still not used to the highly automated transformation of the ships of the People's League?"

?

Interferon flashed: "Your behavior and words are full of distrust of this unit. You are the only one left in the bridge command room. The Twilight-class battleship has undergone a major transformation, and the number of personnel has been reduced by 60.00%. This makes your Excellency Feeling lonely?"

"Hehe, look at what you can, you AI actually said I was lonely?" Janot laughed, but he couldn't laugh right away, because the image of the chemical bond totem of interferon turned into pieces in his field of vision Fragments, like a CG movie, but happened in front of my retina.These fragments were combined one by one, and just when Janot thought that a cute girl who would not lose to the silver and white ring was about to appear, a red "self" appeared-this AI actually projected its own appearance, and, how come? What, am I so ugly!

"As the ship's AI, I have the responsibility to monitor the health status of everyone on board in real time. Lieutenant General, you had 13 changes in micro-expression and breathing rate before and after entering the bridge that did not meet the normal state, and it showed that your blood pressure rose, your adrenal glands This is the natural reaction of the human body to the feeling of insecurity in the subconscious. And your picky about my behavior, the conversation that seems to be small talk but is actually looking for a sense of security makes the probability of the establishment of this model reach close to 70.00%.

This black and red self has an expressionless face, even when he speaks, he only moves his mouth and does not blink his eyes. He can see the projection of the uncanny valley psychology, which makes people feel horrified. This guy changes you just by saying it. voice - without bone conduction, is my voice so ugly?

"The responsibility of this unit is to ensure that every member of the People's Federation can complete their tasks in the best condition. This unit will not have any negative opinions because the commander does not like it. Commanders like it and change it."

The image of interferon was broken again, and the image of the chemical bond reappeared, and the AI ​​said like a warning:

"The Home Fleet is the only guarantee of the civilization of the People's Federation. It is related to the survival of the civilization star system, so its efficiency is above all else. The War Pendulum Fleet has a total of 103 subprograms that are the same as this unit serving on the battleship. Your Excellency, this unit and the main body The success rate of the fleet will be improved at all costs. The ontology is conducting strategic and tactical deduction every minute and every second, making plans for the Sira fleet to plan for the future. You still don’t need to like me. The concept of like and dislike is not included in this unit. It is meaningless, and this unit will still do everything to serve the commander—my core order is to do everything possible to ensure the victory of the People's Federation."

"Then it seems that our goals are the same."

Gernot touched his chin, and said humorously: "But I have to add one more thing - I'm actually still disappointed, why can that guy Nanbeizawa be accompanied by a beautiful woman, can I...can you give me a suggestion? ? You should make people like you, so wouldn't cooperation with each other further improve the efficiency of fleet operations?"

"I will give this suggestion back to Ontology. Now, we can start the mission."

Interferon said in a cold voice, and then the simulation screen of the Dusk-class bridge lit up, and a series of signal prompts flashed in front of the lieutenant general, and the Dusk-class had started silently—under the control of Interferon.

Janot sat on the bench, closed his eyes and opened them again, before him appeared a large number of signal sources, each of which was a human alliance battleship on the star map, scattered in Sira, The moon and other places light up at the same time at this time.

"The Pendulum Fleet obeys orders. This is the Fleet Commander, Lieutenant General Jenot, speaking to you. This is a long-lost voyage. I hope everyone present is ready. Now, start counting."

The battleship, the long and narrow body of the Twilight-class capital ship quietly flew over the Eternal City. These warships lifted the magnetic force from the Eternal City's airport and did not start the main engine. Instead, they used the attitude nozzle to fly at a slow speed. One after another, they each turned around in order of height and flew to the distance.

Not only that, there are not many warships staying in the port of the Eternal City. If we cast our eyes on the L1 Lagrange point between Sira and the moon, the five 30KM long cross-arms more than 1.5 kilometers away The intertwined starry sky forge, then you can see one after another Twilight class lit up from the extreme heavy industrial aesthetic building-when you see the iconic nuclear flame beam, hundreds of them light up , This amount has not only made up for the losses of the battle 8 months ago, but also made up for more than ten times!I repeat, all of them are of the Twilight class, 108 of the Twilight class, not even one Thundercloud class!

Why is this, why is this, could it be that Vulcan, the god of fire, swung the forging hammer himself to create such a large fleet?

"All these are improvements and sacrifices that have to be made in response to the war."

Is it hard to build a battleship?

If the design is mature, the technology is in place, and the industry is complete, then this problem is not difficult.It may be a battleship, possessing the most advanced high-end, even laboratory-level technology in the entire civilization, but it is essentially an industrial product.Since it is an industrial product, it should be able to be mass-produced, and its essence is no different from a toothbrush.

Does a warship need 10,000+ tons of alloy?Well, order the smelter to run at full capacity!Also need hundreds of thousands of supporting equipment, from seats to cables, high-temperature superconductors and various system components?Alright, order the three major industrial cities of Sira to fully prioritize. If these equipment are transported into space and need transport capacity, then suspend the delivery of orbital elevators, electromagnetic catapults, and space shuttles. The global mobilization capacity will fully support the military industry!During the six months of construction of the Vulkan Forge, it would not be too much to transport the materials needed for the 108 ships in half a year, right?

Before the Star Forge was completed, the Lunar Shipyard began to lay the keel of the Dusk class. Our space industry, although weak, should do its best to support it.The moment the Vulkan Forge was completed, its fusion furnace began to carry out weightless smelting. On its 1.5KM berth, the wandering engineering drones had already begun to assemble the prefabricated materials that took half a year. , working 24 hours a day for two months, the battleship is now ready to be put into use as soon as it is started-this is wartime speed, and the battlefield is the test.

Industry is mass production. We can even say that building more ships is more efficient.Are these Dusk-class battleships?That's right, but in Li Wei's eyes, it is no different from the Liberty Ship of World War II, and the People's Federation has summed up the lessons learned in the Storm Battle, and carried out drastic reforms on this new fleet.

First of all, the Thundercloud disappeared... This small boat was originally designed to be a flexible air defender in the fleet, but the tragic loss and small victory of the Thundercloud in the fleet battle is regrettable.Space is not an ocean, and there is not so much need for interception.All Leiyun-class ship personnel will return to the military academy to study. We will not waste manpower. They will become the commanders of the capital ships to make up for the lack of personnel.

Then there is the Twilight class—if you look closely at the Twilight class that has just set sail, you will find that these warships are a bit flatter than the old models, because this type of warship does not have the third layer that was originally used to store and launch missiles.

The Battle of Storm proved the weakness of missiles. Both enemy and enemy missiles were only used at extremely short distances. Almost none of the thousands of missiles had any effect, even if it was to release nuclear barrages, it could be used second The railgun on the first deck fires nuclear shells - oh, we reversed the reconnection and ion shells of the Land Guards, after all, they are not much more advanced than ours, and now that they are installed, they really feel much better too!

Without the third layer, one-fifth of the process is lost. We upgraded the engine again and made some small changes, which are not big but improved a lot.These twilight-class laser defense arrays are densely arranged around three times the size of the past, making up for the air defense pressure after the Thundercloud-class disappears, and the biggest upgrade they have done is that each battleship is equipped with a small black box, which stores a A subroutine for quantum AI.

These Dusk-classes are called Legion-types, and although they are essentially the same as past models, they will be able to travel in regiments.When this huge fleet ignited the nuclear flames of the engines together, countless cheers sounded in Li Zhi's consciousness-these were from all those who could directly or indirectly see all this. Let people feel a sense of security.

This is the power of the People's Federation, our fleet!We did it, so why not cheer?This is the power of unity in a civilization!

In an observation deck of the Vulcan Starry Sky Forge, Li Ting supported the railing with his hands and watched the uniform movements of the hundreds of battleships in front of him, and said leisurely: "I thought I could relax a bit... I don't know if Without me, how would the People’s Federation get through this.”

Not only this prosthetic body of Li Li, but also in the Vulcan Starry Sky Forge, millions of engineering robots circled together, looking at the fleet that set sail.The same scene also happened in the Eternal City and Scylla. Almost every automated industrial system of the People's Federation has a humanized expression at this moment-and Li Wei sighed breathlessly.

"Without the high-intelligence industrial system of coolies under my direct control, coordinating tens of thousands of drones, how could millions of Sira people build even an industrial city?"

"Without the modification of the battleship blueprint that I directly accelerated, and replacing 60.00% of the manpower with AI, how would the fleet operate 5000 capital ships with 108 impromptu personnel?"

"Without me replacing 90.00% of nine's work, pushing the computing power to the limit, so that I can't do it all at once, I'm afraid it's really like what Douglas said, 'it can be destroyed in an instant under the guns of the Allied Defense Forces'?"

"But even if I squeeze myself so much and deal with this crisis, what about the next time?"

Li Wei smiled bitterly, and an indescribable sense of exhaustion came out of his mouth——

"Humans, when will we be able to face this dangerous world on our own...Maybe, we have to make a little more preparation."

PS: The war has resumed, everyone, please support us a lot.

[47] Pre-plan, pre-plan, or pre-plan

Silent guards, [-]/[-] vigilant at the edge of the Syra galaxy.The small round eyes are all over the corners of the titanium alloy shell, and the sharp receivers are only to detect the signal of gravitational waves at the first time. From the first day they are deployed here, the value of their existence lies in the inevitable The time has come to take on the responsibility of warning civilization—half a year later, the Jintai batteries in the monitors have worn out more than half, and the shells of these small machines have been covered with a thin layer of ice crystals and gray space dust. It's no different from the small meteorites that are everywhere in the real space...

It's making us think that you have decided not to come.

"Warning, the V-57 detector deployed at the 17-degree angle of the North Yellow Class K line in the galaxy detected anomalous gravitational wave phenomenon of unknown cause, and the readings are still rising!"

In the command room of the People's Federation General Administration on the Eternal City, in this spacious hall covering an area of ​​no less than [-] square meters, General Longling, the chief of staff, floated in mid-air, looked at the data displayed on the wall of the simulation screen, clicked Look at your head.

"Start the No. 8 plan, authorize the first-level combat readiness, activate the quantum communication relay station on standby in the asteroid belt, dispatch all the observation equipment in our nearby area, and upload all the data directly to the headquarters."

The possible enemy situation appeared so far away from Sira, so that the light had to travel for more than half an hour, and the signal transmission took an hour to come and go.Such an early warning is a painful thing, and it is a taboo in the military—remember the Battle of the Storm, we have not yet known whether it was a coincidence that Commander Olivia brought the main fleet, but at least luck let us In the first battle, he was able to face the enemy head-on and strive for the best result.

It is a bad thing to let war promote progress, but it is indeed efficient enough. The People's Federation immediately began large-scale research and deployment of quantum communication networks. Since then, all large ships of the People's Federation must be forced to install quantum communicators, and the core data center is Put it in a secret location in the Eternal City - it is said that there are piles of small black boxes, and there are countless wandering mechanical arms adjusting the positions of these boxes every second to connect the communication, after all, this ghost thing and the ancient telegraph It makes no difference.

Quantum telegrams are really interesting things. Due to various cost reasons, these small black boxes are equivalent to being rented by the People's Federation. Any destruction or destruction will be severely punished.But with it, we can instantly receive information from far away. An information network spread in the galaxy has been touched, and those subtle movements have attracted the attention of spiders——

"The readings show an exponential increase, in line with the impact point wormhole index!"

For a while, all the senior officers of the People's Federation in the command room looked serious, and their attention was highly concentrated, but they all heaved a sigh of relief in their hearts. The explosive bomb finally made a loud noise.

Although it is scary and dangerous, we can finally face real enemies instead of imaginations in our brains, can't we?The preparation and waiting for more than half a year is more worrying than a real fight.

"Simultaneously communicate to the fleet and the Planetary Guard. The headquarters has confirmed the enemy's situation. According to the No. [-] plan, we will be able to start implementing the plan."

On the Supreme Authority, Lieutenant General Gernot went through the information in his mind: "Well, is it going in a different direction this time? Sure enough, wanting to set up an ambush in space is indeed something that will appear in novels."

At this time, the image of Interferon appeared in front of the lieutenant general: "In space, there is no clear strategic route in the traditional geographical concept. The galaxy, as a three-dimensional spherical surface, has theoretically infinite access points. And the superluminal trap imagined by some works of art In order to limit the entry and exit of enemy troops, this is not valid in principle."

"Thank you for your explanation, but this is redundant."

Mr. Lieutenant General patiently ignored the interferon, but turned on the radio: "Announce the 'War Pendulum' fleet—"

"The welcome party for friends has begun, mind your roles, and remember."

On the "Leningrad", Ratolova... the colonel listened to the familiar voice of the old captain. As the captain of the new capital ship, she puffed her chest out and sat firmly, repeating Lieutenant General Jenot's last sentence talk.

"Whatever happens, we will face it together."

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What kind of scene is the birth of a wormhole?

Just like some scholars have discussed the similarities between wormholes and black holes at some levels, that is, you cannot see wormholes, because neither of them can reflect light, and you can only see it from the incongruous sense of surrounding vision. We can see this abnormality, but it is within the planet, in the dark and cold void that lacks even a light source, we only have...

Only from the abnormal gravitational wave readings, and even the spaceship that has just rushed out of the wormhole, and there was nothing there just now, but immediately burst out with a strong engine light, so that optical observation can be seen in the spaceship that has escaped from the wormhole!

Is the enemy's impact point wormhole jumping, they're coming, they're coming to the Syra system and bringing with them - just a ship?

Yes, there was only a strangely shaped ship that came out of the wormhole. It looked like some kind of crustacean that grew in the deep sea. The length of the ship was only 300 meters. The staff of the People's Federation confirmed it by comparing the information obtained from the captives. "This is a new type of deformable destroyer of the Allied Defense Forces. It claims to be a special ship that can penetrate the atmosphere with a single ship and complete the round trip between heaven and earth."

The voice of Mr. Ling Zhouzilan came from the other end of the phone. Behind the psychic of the People's Federation is Lieutenant General Douglas, who has a good complexion but is sluggish. He has been interrogated by psychic energy for more than half a year. The United Nations has provided a large amount of information, and has made outstanding contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between the two civilizations. Although it has always insisted on refusing to recognize the People's Federation as an independent civilization, and barks from time to time, "The Earth Fleet will be crushed immediately." You're not getting out of prison because of this - but we didn't abuse him, on the contrary, we devised a plan.

But these are not important anymore, because what makes people vigilant is that this lone ship suddenly breaks into the Sira galaxy, rather than the imagined large-scale enemy fleet, which makes the people's fleet, which is just about to do a big fight, rush to step on it. brakes off—

"The detector reported that after the ship appeared, it actively turned on the scanner, but no communication waves were detected."

"Scanning? Can you identify what they're scanning for?"

"Of course the target is everything in Sira. It seems that this time, these guys are well prepared." Fleet coach, Admiral Milan frowned, "This is the enemy's scout ship, it seems that they have learned from the last time Based on the lessons learned, they decided to start with intelligence first. Their commander is much more sober than that Douglas."

"There must be a large-channel quantum communicator on this ship, and they are continuously transmitting the reconnaissance information of Sira information to the rear..."

Admiral Longling turned around and looked at the fleet commander, speaking urgently: