Chapter 12: The Expedition of Thirty Light Years

It was a long voyage, and it took a full 40 days to fly at 266 times the speed of light of a night-class destroyer. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Through simple calculations, Feng Yu knew that they had flown a full 30 light years.

After meeting Zhou Fatzi, Feng Yu fell in love with reasoning, and after forty days, he even deduced that the destination of this trip was in the enemy-occupied area, because the DT3 where the expeditionary force airport was located was only 25 light years away from the Tianjing Star Field, and if it did not pass through DT3 and chose to fly directly to the front line of the war between the two countries, DT2 was only 28 light years. In this way, the only place that can keep the MGAS-01 flying for 40 days in a row is the enemy-occupied area.

Although Feng Yu didn't have enough knowledge to deduce the specific star field from this distance, there was no doubt that he had already guessed the truth.

The 40-day continuous flight is very monotonous and painful for the ship's personnel, and people can easily become manic and depressed, and some non-essential personnel have entered a longer period of forced sleep, but the relevant personnel of the power group, logistics group and command group can only stay up.

Feng Yu enjoyed it, and he arranged two hours a day to enter the simulation chamber to familiarize himself with and strengthen his control of Maii. After a month of practice, he was able to use this new machine to support himself in Ace Mode for a short period of time, and was able to hold out for a few rounds under the hands of those ace pilots who had exclusive custom bodies, and finally lost due to the difference in the performance of the machine, but the disadvantage was no longer as obvious as before.

In addition, at the end of training every day, he will go to the medical cabin to chat with Li Xingyan and relieve each other's loneliness. I also feel that 40 days have passed like a flick of a finger, and I don't know it.

When the battleship exited from the curvature flight, they saw a completely unfamiliar star field in front of them. Tens of light-seconds away in front of the MGAS-01 ship, a Jupiter-like planet reflected a strong blue light, which was still dazzling to everyone after being weakened by optical sensors and the bridge screen.

Obviously, this is a stellar domain of a blue giant. Blue giants are the brightest main-sequence stars in space, the brightest of young stars, and are 500 times brighter than the Sun. There are no brighter stars, but they are all exploding supernovae or exploding pulsars, and such stellar domains are simply not accessible to human aircraft.

At present, the exploration of the universe by human science and technology is still limited to main-sequence stars, and other red giants, white dwarfs, supernovae, and pulsars outside the main-sequence zone are all forbidden areas of life. The blue giant star, which is located in the upper left corner of the main sequence zone, has the brightest and largest blue giant, and its stellar domain is also not suitable for human survival. 10 times the volume of the Sun and 500 times the brightness of the Sun, so that all the planets in the field are in a state of vaporization, and their adjacent Lagrange points will be affected by high temperatures, high heat and stellar radiation, which is not suitable for building a space city.

Seeing this scene, Feng Yu, who had a good score in astronomy in middle school, immediately knew what kind of place this was-BH Star Field. As an unsuitable star field, the reason why the BH star field is still included in the human activity area is because it has a very important resource in the space age, helium-3.

As the main raw material for controlled nuclear fusion, helium-3 is currently the most demanded resource in various countries, and is an indispensable fuel in the power furnaces of all warships and civilian spacecraft, with an annual demand of 100,000 tons.

What is the concept of 100,000 tons? To put it simply, the Moon of the Solar System was thought to have abundant helium-3 resources in the old era, with a total reserve of 1 million tons, which is only enough for ten years in this era.

Moreover, the moon's helium-3 also needs to be extracted from the lunar soil, which is very troublesome and expensive. In the BH star field illuminated by the blue giant, all the major planets are gaseous, and the extraction and collection of helium-3 has become extremely easy, so it has become the most famous helium-3 source of the new Asian galaxy.

The BH star field was originally part of the territory of the New Asian Republic, but fell to the UAC in SC0081, which was then called the New American Federation. The BH star field is 12.7 light years away from the DT3 star field, and there is a BN star field belonging to the UAC occupation zone in the middle, which is heavily guarded by UAC troops.

The MGAS-01 ship used a concealed channel this time, avoiding the two sensitive areas of DT3 and BN, and directly infiltrated the BH star field alone.

The first thing to do after entering BH was a meeting of officers convened by Colonel Zhu Nan to announce the specific content of the operation.

Although humanity has entered the space age, war is still as brutal and brutal as ever. The strategic thinking that has not changed for thousands of years is, first of all, a direct confrontation of military forces, and secondly, a strike at the enemy's important facilities.

At present, New Asia does not have the strength to win a frontal battle, so it can only retreat to the next best thing, fight mobile warfare, guerrilla warfare, and attack the opponent's important facilities, such as the helium-3 collection base in the BH star field.

However, to be precise, the helium-3 collection base is a civilian facility, and a military strike against it is contrary to the Centaur A-Star C Agreement.

As a pure soldier, Colonel Junan could not convince himself to attack civilian facilities even after the recent Lantaman Deonos L4 incident, so he finally made the choice of attacking the UAC military transport ship. As a result, the MGAS-01 ship will naturally face a greater danger than attacking civilian facilities.

This decision is not understandable to everyone, such as the first mate, Lieutenant Commander Junichi Nakajima, and some of the junior officers on the ship. It would seem unwise to let the entire crew of the entire battleship take greater risks for the sake of so-called humanity.

In the end, it was Feng Yu who helped Zhu Nan solve this contradiction, as the leader of the mobile team, as the family of the victims of the L4 of Lanthanum Deono, his refusal to do anything to civilian facilities left others with nothing to say.

"The military does not exist to massacre unarmed civilians! No matter who did it to the Space City, it was not an innocent civilian. There is no justification in itself for holding the miners at the BH helium-3 mining base accountable for this terrorism! If we do this, what's the difference between that and those inhuman guys attacking my loved ones? Create more unjust souls? Deepening senseless contradictions? Let the war between the two countries escalate indefinitely, and the real mastermind behind it for nothing? ”

"Why do you think there is another culprit behind this incident?" No one would have imagined that it would be the female medical officer Li Xingyan who asked such a question. She rarely attended officer meetings before, and even when she did, she mostly sat silently in the back row without saying a word. Today's uncharacteristically questioning makes people wonder what kind of changes have taken place in the relationship between her and Fengyu.

But for Colonel Zhu Nan and other high-ranking officials on the ship, it is not strange that Li Xingyan spoke like this.

Although Feng Yu didn't expect that it would be Li Xingyan who asked the question, he already had a draft for this question, and immediately took this opportunity to express some of his opinions, "When I was in Lanthanum Guardians L4, I joined the military investigation team and found some suspicious points. First of all, no country has ever heard of a pilot or pilot carrying poison with him in order to commit suicide. If the UAC Federation is afraid that people will know that they did it, why use the standard BU. Similarly, both pilots are retired UAC federal pilots, which is an easy fact to find, so why don't they carry battlefield recorders, what are they trying to hide? Don't you think it's weird? Because all the evidence points to the UAC, these deliberately obscured things become a bit of a consequence, unless there is another secret behind these people. ”

Li Xingyan nodded when she heard this, and accepted his argument. Even the other officers were deep in thought, apparently they had never been exposed to these things before, and needed some time to digest them.

But today, Colonel Zhu Nan's decision not to fire at civilian facilities is no longer objected. After all, attacking civilian facilities is not as easy as they say, and they need to face huge psychological pressure to do this kind of thing, in case this matter is big, the military department can't bear the pressure, and needs to launch a group of scapegoats, and the high-level officers of the MGAS-01 ship headed by Colonel Zhu Nan may become war criminals.

Major General Pank gave verbal instructions without any written documents, which were said to have been instructed by the military department, but in consideration of the sensitivity of such matters, they were all verbally communicated, and the battlefield recorders were silenced. In other words, this task performed by the MGAS-01 ship today is not officially authorized without any official authorization, and all the consequences must be borne by itself.

Perhaps this approach was very unfair to Colonel Zhu Nan, but whoever called him a soldier of the Special Mobile Unit of the Mobile Army would have to face such a situation. But it is precisely because of this that he himself has greater autonomy to decide on the specific ways and means of action. As long as he grasps the scale of every action and hands over a brilliant report card, he will soon have the opportunity to accumulate military merits and be promoted to brigadier general.

Before him, as a junior officer, the MGA01 squad rose quickly, and except for Feng Yu, the other four were also promoted to second lieutenant. As long as there is a good performance and enough crashes in the BH star field, it is only a matter of time before he is promoted to lieutenant.

Once the tone was set, the MGAS-01 ship was ready to go into action. In the unfamiliar BH star field, which is not as good as the K star field in the rear, they seriously lack intelligence support, and the only thing that can be determined is the star map provided by the military department, and everything else can only rely on themselves, which will be a difficult battle.