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Europa VII, the first settlement.

Look?

Because there is a mature process for the expansion of the Star Alliance and the construction of the colony star, there are not many things that Lechtm needs to deal with as a governor, but it should not be so bad that he can hang out at will.

Kaos's doubts were answered before he left the colonial ship, when Zhou was paddling and clicking on two different data panels on the bridge, and when he saw Kaos look over, he gave him a meaningful gaze.

All right...... Kaos felt sorry for the lieutenant for three seconds, buckled up his semi-masked helmet with small armor, and followed Lechtem to the hangar.

Compared with the combat ships loaded with fighters and drones, the hangar of this migrant ship is more low-altitude shuttles, infantry vehicles, and huge engineering mechs, but at this time, due to the needs of ground engineering, most of the mechs have been driven out by the pilots, and it seems a little empty.

Since it is said that it is said to go out to "see", it should be a low-altitude cruise on a shuttle, right? After all, there is really nothing to see in the construction of settlements...... Belch...... Kaos was dumbfounded as he watched Lechtem walk towards an infantry vehicle.

This kind of vehicle with six huge wheels and more like a container than a traditional combat vehicle is the current main ground vehicle of Starlink, the "Graytip Shark" multi-functional infantry fighting vehicle.

It has quite thick armor and a Mass Effect shield, with 360 degrees of conventional firepower, and the Mass Effect main gun is as powerful as a frigate, and it can climb a steep slope of nearly 70 degrees under normal driving, and it can also "lie down" and "jump", which makes people wonder if the designer intends to make an acrobatic car.

And its main duty in the Star Alliance Marine Corps is to patrol and clear low-intensity ground threats, and sure enough, Lechterm will not leave his official duties behind, but just take the initiative to carry out some tasks that are not tricky but quite troublesome - tricky? If it's tricky, how can you bring yourself with a helpless little boy?

"Sir." "Sir." Two Starlink soldiers in black combat armor waiting next to the chariot saluted Lechtem.

Aren't they the "Jack Harper" and the trucker "Eva Kuhl" picked out by Lechtem? Jack had already seen it, and this Eva, she had short orange ear-length hair, relatively soft facial features and face, a pair of eyes quite smart, and probably an active mind.

Cultivating the team starts with fighting together? It's very Claude.

"Take a break," Rechtem replied, "Today's mission is to inspect the fourteen mineral deposits near the settlement, the details have been sent to your universal tools, do you have any questions?" ”

"Report sir," Eva raised her hand again, "Can I pinch your son's face?" ”

"......" Lechtem was visibly stunned for a moment, and then turned his head to look at Kaos: "This is to ask this little gentleman himself." ”

"Nope." Kaos decisively refused, just kidding, can the old face be pinched casually?

"That's a shame." Eva lowered her hand and shrugged.

"Get on the bus, go." “Aye，Aye！”

Lechtem probably didn't want Eva to say anything strange anymore and gave the order decisively.

Kaos was sure that the female driver had taken the driver's seat and looked at him several times with pity.

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As the infantry vehicle exited the migrant ship's hangar, Kaos saw a barely lively scene outside through the window.

The first thing that can be noticed at a glance is the hemispherical shape of the "Mass Effect Shield", which is centered on the migrant ship and envelopes a large area around the surrounding area.

Although each galaxy where the "Mass Effect Repeater" is located must have a "Gaia Planet" that is completely adapted to human ecology, the Star Federation has not relaxed its vigilance, generally speaking, each immigrant ship will be tested by the scientific research ship for about a week after landing, during this period, the engineering mecha will build the first settlement around, and after the first settlement is basically perfected, the second and third settlements will continue to be developed according to the detected planetary resources and environment, and they will have different emphases, such as housing, industry and agriculture, if the conditions are right, scientific research and tourism are not impossible.

And under this shield, there are immigrants who can't bear the loneliness, put on spacesuits and walk outside, and engineering mechs that are working on various constructions.

Engineering mechs are roughly divided into two things, the "Mass Effect Shield Generator" that needs to be buried half of the volume deep underground, and the "Mass Effect Housing Component", the former is to replace the Mass Effect Shield that will inevitably be lifted in the end of the immigration ship, and the latter, as the name suggests, is a special product of the interstellar colonization era, they look like huge white containers on the outside, but in fact they are all basically well-equipped, safe and secure housing, factories and farms, After all, the appearance of these places is a fairly low priority, and I am afraid that it is only after the entire planet has been running smoothly for many years that the chief executive will consider building some houses that meet the aesthetics of the occupants.

For now, though, even the first colonies, Eden, Zion, and Xanadu, as the name suggests, surprised humanity when they discovered these habitable planets, were just on the agenda.

Call~

The infantry fighting vehicle pierced the Colonial Ship's Mass Effect shield and sped through the lilac land of Europa VII.

[Outside the car: T3. With the sound of the car VI, the color of one of the lights on the window turned from yellow to green.

T3 is an evaluation that can only be obtained after the three criteria of "normal air pressure, suitable temperature, and atmospheric composition for humans to breathe freely", for example, the environmental assessment of the moon is T0, and the earth is T3, but this evaluation does not determine whether there are disease-causing microorganisms, but for the heavily armed Starlink soldiers, it is enough to know this.

"Our most recent resource is an 'alien natural gas,'" Eva reported as she drove "a route has been planned to use it as a starting point to inspect fourteen resource points...... Sir? ”

"Yes." Lechtem looked at the projected line and nodded his head in no objection.

Kaos looked at the route and the mineral icons along the route, blinking.

Of course, these resource points were detected by the research ship that arrived with the colonization ship, but the research ship could only scan the approximate location of the resource, and it was impossible to know the specific direction of the vein and whether there were any dangerous local organisms nearby.

Originally, this was within the scope of the work of the engineering ship, but at the moment, the engineering ship was mining minerals in the asteroid belt of the galaxy, and it was naturally much more efficient to directly use the mass effect cannon to smash the asteroids and meteorites containing ore deposits and then store them in the warehouse than the ground resources that needed to be slowly excavated by the mine.

"If you encounter a hostile object, you are allowed to attack on the premise of your own safety." Lechtem suddenly said to Kaos, who was looking at the map.

Ability research starts now?