76: Beyond Ursa Major

The effect of the speech was unexpectedly good.

Norma personally transcribed the content of Xi Hai's speech, bound it into a booklet, and required everyone in the insurgent army to read it—

Yes, after having their souls infused by Xi Hai's speech, these guys could finally be called insurgents.

Although it was crude, the spark had already been buried in their hearts; although it was abstract, they already had a direction in their eyes.

As for the rest, he didn't expect it to happen overnight; time would provide the answer.

Now, he was struggling with another matter—the issue of shipbuilding.

After some hesitation, he chose to deploy the base ship on the spot and immediately build an engineering ship to go mining.

As for transport, it wouldn't be like in the game where the engineering ship had to fly back. He would build a few AC721s as dedicated transport ships. The mining ship would mine 24 hours a day without interruption, while the 721s would be responsible for shuttling between the base and the resources. This way, the efficiency of the engineering ship could be maximized.

With his mind made up, Xi Hai acted immediately. He used the night lamp to send an deployment command to the base ship.

The exit of the Void Channel on the outskirts of Ursa Major V12.23.

Due to the automatic locking of the star marker, the main force of the Cloud Consortium's Cosmic Army was forced to land here.

The flagship of this fleet, the "Grace," was a "Loyalty" class Battleship built during the fourth era. She had a 2400-meter-long hull, was equipped with a large number of missiles, torpedoes, and ion cannons, and was the absolute main force for firepower projection on the battlefield—

"Report!" "According to calculations of the star marker data," "this Void Turbulence will take a full 43 hours to pass."

At this moment, on the Bridge of the "Grace," the Chief of Staff was reporting to the commander-in-chief of this operation—Lieutenant General Gould.

That's right—he was the father of the captain of the "lucky," Lieutenant Colonel Gulake.

Hearing the jarring 43 hours, Gould frowned, his sharp eyes fixed on the Chief of Staff beside him.

"Is there no faster way?"

His only son was still there in the Defense Force, trying to build up his credentials! If something were to happen to him...

Lieutenant General Gould felt exceptionally irritable.

The Chief of Staff also appeared to have a massive headache. He waved his hand helplessly and said:

"The fastest Void Channel still requires us to wait for this Void Turbulence to end," "otherwise, we can only fly across using the Gravity Conduit." "If we do that, we'll have to fly for a full six days." "Therefore, in our current situation, it's only suitable to stay and wait for the Void Channel to open." "Sigh—"

Sighing, Gould changed the subject to distract himself. He asked the Chief of Staff:

"Forget it, let's wait." "Has the Lacray Empire replied to the diplomatic note we sent?"

The Chief of Staff immediately pulled out a flexible tablet, unfolded it angrily, and cursed:

"Those robbers!" "They completely denied all of our accusations against them," "and even proposed: 'If the Cloud Consortium no longer has the capability to solve the problems that have arisen in this star system, out of consideration for the Empire's national security, the Empire will dispatch its Cosmic Army to conduct a joint resolution'."

"Furthermore, their Cosmic Army Warships have ignored our protests," "and have almost already—"

Suddenly, a white light flashed at the exit of the Void Channel, and a fleet that was incredibly eyesore to Gould appeared there.

"...arrived here."

Looking at the annoying Lacray Empire livery and insignia, Gould cursed fiercely in his heart: "Meddlers."