95: Your fleet is currently engaged in battle.

(Updated)

(Military training is ending)

(Still owe 10 chapters)

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Inside Ursa Major V12.23, within the entrance and exit of the Void Channel.

Two fleets converged here.

One was the Cosmic Army fleet from the Cloud Consortium, and the other was the joint investigation fleet from the Lacray Empire.

Tens of thousands of Warships lay silently in the air, engines off, lights dimmed.

Like hunters lurking in the deep sea.

Suddenly, in the Bridge of The Consortium flagship, "favor", came the communicator's surprised voice:

"Report!"

"The intensity of the Void Channel is about to drop below the safety threshold!"

"The channel to Ursa Major V12.22 will be open for passage in thirty minutes!"

Gould, who had been resting with his eyes closed, opened his eyes instantly.

He looked at the Void fluctuation monitor installed on the Warship; the fluctuation values on it were constantly dropping.

He nodded and muttered to himself:

"Almost there, it's time."

Instantly, commands were issued from his mouth, transmitted to the entire fleet through the command channel —

"Wake up all off-duty personnel!"

"Everyone enter Level 2 combat readiness!"

"Marine Corps start wearing tactical gear!"

"Mechanic perform final tests and troubleshooting on all systems!"

"Load ammunition into all weapon systems!"

"Preheat engines!"

"..."

After speaking, Gould looked at the fleet supervisor; the man with the big-brimmed hat exchanged a brief look with him and nodded.

Subsequently, the man opened the dedicated channel for Political Commissar and ordered:

"Attention all levels of Political Commissar! Begin the final combat mobilization!"

"Keep a close eye on the soldiers' psychological state and be ready to hand over command at any time!"

At the same time, on the other side, on the Imperial Warship, Kelaifu, the second minister of the Imperial Military Department, watched The Consortium fleet gradually becoming restless outside the window and also issued an order for combat readiness.

However, because they believed in the lord of ten thousand changes and the god of wisdom - Bru Bulder, the Empire's preparation process was very different from The Consortium —

A large number of Imperial Religion Followers and priests on the ships gathered the soldiers together to start prayers and blessings; the soldiers' tactical gear and weapons were painted with eye-like patterns using blue paint, symbolizing the god's gaze and protection.

And in the engine power rooms of the Warships, various turrets, torpedo bays... in short, everywhere with mechanical structures, members of the Imperial Religion holding incense burners waved scepters embedded with blue double-headed eagles at the top, swinging the incense burners in their hands, praying to the machinery:

In the scriptures of the Lacray Empire's Imperial Religion, all technological creations were the gifts of the lord of ten thousand changes —

He wanted change, so He bestowed wisdom upon humans, allowing His Followers to invent and use these creations.

The incense made of century-old ebony emitted clear blue smoke, and pious prayers came from the mouths of the Followers clad in large blue robes —

"The only thing in the world that does not change is change itself —"

"There is no eternal truth, there is no eternal glory —"

"Knowledge comes from change, change creates new knowledge —"

"Oh, supreme lord of wisdom! Please, with the appearance of all changes in the world, bestow upon us new knowledge among the thousand stars!"

"Praise wisdom! Praise the lord of ten thousand changes!"

"In the name of Bru Bulder —"

"Ignite the creation of wisdom!"

"..."

As the last prayer fell, the exquisitely carved switch was flipped, the output power of the power room increased sharply, the engines began to preheat, and the Warship began to move slowly under a tiny thrust.

Moreover, seemingly intentionally trying to outdo The Consortium, the Imperial crew deliberately drove their flagship above the "favor" Battleship —

The Imperial flagship was a "Redemption-class" Battleship. Although it came from the fourth era like "favor", the hull was a full 500 meters longer than "favor".

In sharp contrast, no matter how one looked at it, The Consortium's flagship looked like a little brother.

"Damn Imperial bastards,"

"They're just showing off their junk here."

"Making it seem like we don't have bigger Warships."

On the Bridge of "favor", Gould listened to the conversation of the two communicators behind him, his face becoming uglier and uglier.

He turned his head and interrupted them directly:

"Don't be the same as that bunch of religious lunatics from the Empire!"

"This is all the spirit they have."

"If we really face them, those guys who pray even when turning on the machine will only be blown to pieces by us."

Tens of thousands of Warships floated silently, the faint light from the engine preheating flickering, connecting into a piece in mid-air, just looking at it was daunting.

...

...

Ursa Major V12.22, inside the Node Space Station.

"Research progress + 20%"

Looking at the unfinished research data bar on night lamp's research panel, Xi Hai felt his fist harden — his fist hardened.

A story that must be told between setting players and the research progress bar that never ends?

"Pathfinder, the sample you gave me belongs to an experimental product among semi-finished products, a semi-finished product among experimental products."

"Many parts inside it use elements with short half-lives, and it's already mostly broken now."

"Being able to reverse-engineer twenty percent also includes my calculations and speculations on it."

Regarding Xi Hai's doubts, night lamp answered in a mechanical voice.

"Fine,"

Originally he wanted to create this thing to detect the fluctuations of the void.

Xi Hai closed night lamp with a speechless expression, and he turned his attention to the state of the base.

External communication was still disconnected;

White Shark's code of conduct had been written, marking many taboos and basic disciplines on the battlefield, as well as several high-sounding but nonsensical quotes marked for the sake of face;

Gunnar's recruitment work was almost completed; those guys who knew how to shout WAAAAAGH seemed very satisfied with his very WAAAAAGH battlefield style, and over five thousand people were directly taken away.

And in terms of industry,

Under the full operation of the six Pathfinder base, the completed and off-line fighters already included 1000 sets of vesta a021 (three per set) and 1000 sets of Misrat (4 per set), totaling 7000 aircraft;

Five eternal storm and three new constantine the great also completed their ship fitting and lay quietly in the harbor area.

Among them, two eternal storm were built by night lamp's own base.

Originally, Xi Hai wanted to let those Clones crew members teach the crew he found at the space station, but after several attempts, he was forced to give up — most of those Clones couldn't even speak clearly, just like human-machines.

As for other Warships, due to the lack of resources and time, only 60 CAS066, 200 lancer, and 1200 kalilein were built.

As for the norma m470 heavy landing ship and the Yunhai light landing ship, Xi Hai only test-built two.

The poor firepower and highly directional siege drones made Xi Hai unable to think of any use for them at the moment.

But coincidentally, Gunnar, who was passing by the harbor with a group of new recruits he had scammed, saw these two Warships and expressed that he didn't think a landing ship should look like that.

Then, with Xi Hai's permission, he took a large group of guys who were previously responsible for mechanical maintenance and dragged those two landing ships away for modification...

Suddenly, night lamp popped out again and said something that could cause countless setting players who forgot to run the ship and had no outpost to have cardiac arrest —

"Pathfinder, your fleet is in battle."

"????"